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15th Century History, Medieval history, The Commons in the Wars of the Roses
'How much ancient divisions survive': unnatural alliances and the battle of Barnet, 14 April 1471
On 14 April 1471 a crucial battle of the Wars of the Roses was fought. Just outside the town of Barnet, Edward IV's Yorkist force faced off against the Lancastrians, led by his former ally the earl of Warwick. In today's blog Dr Simon Payling from our Commons 1461-1504 project examines the events of the battle and the impact of alliances… The period between June … Continue reading 'How much ancient divisions survive': unnatural alliances and the battle of Barnet, 14 April 1471
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The battle of Towton and the Parliament of 1461
On 29 March 1461 the battle of Towton took place. A notoriously violent encounter, the battle is the topic of a previous History of Parliament blog. But today Dr Charles Moreton, from our Commons 1461-1504, project explores Towton's longer impact on the planned Parliament of 1461… Today marks the 560th anniversary of by far the largest battle of the Wars of the Roses. It was … Continue reading The battle of Towton and the Parliament of 1461
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15th Century History, History of Parliament Trust, Medieval history, The Commons in the Wars of the Roses
A New Dawn? The accession of Edward IV on 4 March 1461
On 4 March 1461 Edward duke of York was proclaimed King in Westminster Hall. But the authority of this new regime was not universally accepted. Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of our Commons 1461-1504 project, continues our look at what some call the 'first' war of the roses, 1459-1461 and the parliamentary rulings behind it… On 4 March 1461 a piece of political theatre was played … Continue reading A New Dawn? The accession of Edward IV on 4 March 1461
conniejeffery March 4, 2021 February 26, 2021 2 Comments
Medieval history, The Commons in the Wars of the Roses
Was the battle of Towton as bloody as all that?
Today is the anniversary of the battle of Towton, a violent battle in 1461 which resulted in Edward IV claiming the throne from Henry VI. The battle is often thought to be the bloodiest ever fought on British soil, but is this really the case? Dr Simon Payling, Senior Research Fellow in our Commons 1461-1504 section explores… The battle of Towton on 29 March 1461 … Continue reading Was the battle of Towton as bloody as all that?
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History of Parliament Trust, Medieval history, Prorogation, The Commons in the Wars of the Roses
Yorkist Parliaments, but not at York
At the beginning of this week, the government sparked debate by announcing the possibility of relocating the House of Lords away from Westminster to the city of York. But this is not the first time that the city has been considered as a parliamentary host, as Dr Hannes Kleineke, editor of our Commons 1461-1504 section, explains… In the light of suggestions that the House of … Continue reading Yorkist Parliaments, but not at York


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Jennifer Lawrence Describes Her "Degrading" Experiences in Hollywood
The actress recounts being ordered to lose weight by the producers of an unnamed project.
By Emma Dibdin
Oct 17 2017, 10:33 am EDT
Jennifer Lawrence has spoken out about her "degrading and humiliating" experiences in Hollywood. During her speech at ELLE's Women in Hollywood event on Monday night, Lawrence addressed the "harrowing" allegations surrounding Harvey Weinstein, and shared a distressing story of her own.
During the production of an unnamed film, Lawrence recalled that producers had asked her to lose weight. "One girl before me had already been fired for not losing enough weight fast enough," Lawrence said. "And, during this time, a female producer had me do a nude lineup with about five women who were much, much thinner than me. And we all stood side-by-side with only paste-ons covering our privates. After that degrading and humiliating lineup, the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet."
When Lawrence asked to speak to a producer about the unrealistic diet regime she had been asked to follow, she said "he responded by telling me he didn't know why everyone thought I was so fat, he thought I was perfectly 'fuckable.'" Lawrence said she felt trapped by her lack of power in this situation, and unable to speak up for fear of "being called difficult—which they did call me, but I believe the word they used was "nightmare."
Lawrence concluded her speech by expressing support of Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy's call for a Hollywood commission against harassment, and vowing to "lend my ear. I will lend my voice to any boy, girl, man, or woman who does not feel like they can protect themselves."
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Litton Property Group have concluded the sale of Brunswick Park Industrial Estate, Newcastle
The property is a nine-unit industrial warehouse development of 71,700 sq.ft. and is located around five miles north of Newcastle City Centre. Litton acquired the property in 2003 from the administrators of Brunswick Shoe Warehouse and undertook a major refurbishment splitting the property into individual units ranging in size from 3,800 sq.ft. to 19,480 sq.ft. The property was 90% occupied with a further three acres of land available for development. Litton recently let a 19,186 sq.ft. unit to Alliance Healthcare, the medical and healthcare distributor. Following this the decision was taken to put the property on the market and take advantage of the strong current demand for industrial investments.
Litton's decision to sell the property was also prompted by Brunswick Park's location which is outside the group's core geographical area and also to provide funds for reinvestment in its current development pipeline. Litton believes it can achieve a higher return on the cash released by recycling it into its current development projects.
Litton is shortly planning to commence construction of a Premier Inn hotel at Riverside Business Park in Derbyshire which will be the next phase of a £25m regeneration scheme. The company also has an application running for 65,000 sq.ft. of offices over three buildings adjoining East Midlands Airport which it wishes to build out and retain.
A spokesman for Litton commented 'We do not generally trade our income portfolio and are long term investor-managers. However, we are very pleased to have concluded this sale as it releases funds for re-investment in other projects we are working on where we believe we can achieve higher returns. The property was also not in our core market area and it therefore made sense for us to exit at the right point.'
Gosschalks Solicitors and Naylors Chartered Surveyors acted on behalf of Litton Property Group. Freeths and Koopmans advised Changerygate and JR Capital.
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Shania Twain Charity Work, Events and Causes
Shania Twain is a Canadian country pop artist whose album Come on Over is the best-selling album of all time by a female musician and the best-selling album in the history of country music.
She started Shania Kids Can to give underprivileged children the chance to play music or take lessons their families could not otherwise afford. Shania intends to be closely involved, visiting schools and finding out how to make a difference in children's lives.
"I can personally relate to the effects of growing up with difficulties at home and understand the problems kids can face while trying to fit in with the other students who are not experiencing the same disadvantages in their personal lives," she said. "The Shania Kids Can program aims to help educators identify children in this situation and provide a safe, productive, confidence-building environment where the kids are coached in good and appropriate behavior, taught practical life skills, assisted with homework, given an ear to just simply listen when they need it. The space provides healthy socializing and a chance to fit in without feeling judged for how they dress, what their grades are, who their parents are or how much money they have, but more for who they are on the inside."
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Marshall Health has purchased the former Patriot Coal corporate headquarters building in Scott Depot with plans to begin offering expanded services in Putnam County by early 2017.
SCOTT DEPOT, W.Va. — Marshall Health has purchased the former Patriot Coal corporate headquarters building in Scott Depot with plans to begin offering expanded services in Putnam County by early 2017.
Marshall Health, the faculty practice plan of the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, expects to begin the process of converting the 51,000-square-foot, three-story office building located at 300 Corporate Center Dr. into medical offices this summer.
The purchase will allow Marshall Health to merge its existing Hurricane offices under one roof and begin offering more specialty services in the Teays Valley area, while also increasing the medical school's capacity for medical students and residents to train in an outpatient setting.
Marshall Health first began offering medical services in Putnam County in the early 1990s. Currently, more than a dozen Marshall Health physicians see patients exclusively or on a rotating basis in one of its Hurricane offices.
Preliminary plans for the new Marshall Health facility call for expanded primary care and specialty services under one roof, including general internal medicine, pediatrics, women's health, gastroenterology, cardiology, orthopaedics and more.
The facility, which is on a 2.48-acre lot, was built in 2006 as the headquarters for International Coal Group Inc. and most recently served as the headquarters for Patriot Coal. It is conveniently located adjacent to Interstate 64, between the Teays Valley and Crooked Creek exits, and offers ample parking.
http://aimmedianetwork.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/2016/04/web1_BP1_2539.jpgMarshall Health has purchased the former Patriot Coal corporate headquarters building in Scott Depot with plans to begin offering expanded services in Putnam County by early 2017.


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VIDEO: Watch Sierra Boggess Takeover Our Instagram!
Sierra's virtual concert premieres tonight!
Sierra Boggess took over our Instagram story yesterday leading up to her Birdland concert tonight! Missed all the fun? No worries-- check out highlights from her takeover below!
Broadway leading lady Sierra Boggess will be in the spotlight in a very special concert taped in the Birdland Theater premiering tonight, November 13 at 7pm ET.
Ms. Boggess says, "Join me as I sing onstage for the first time since quarantine, reunited with my sister Summer Boggess on cello and my music director and arranger, Brian Hertz! Come hear stories from my time in Colorado, climbing fourteeners and listening to rivers. Listen to us play music together from the comfort of your homes, and come be reminded that we are all in this together and no one is alone! This show is dedicated to anyone who needs a little rejuvenating from the strangeness of the times, who wants a little reminder that life can still be beautiful and full of music, and that love is always the answer!" Songs will include "Come to My Garden," "Think of Me," "Beyond My Wildest Dreams," "Love Never Dies."
Sierra Boggess is an Olivier nominated actress, best known world-wide not only for re-inventing the coveted role of 'Christine Daae' in Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, but for Lord Webber himself going on record to say that "she's the best, the best Christine certainly." Boggess portrayed the role in the Broadway, West End, and the televised 25th Anniversary concert productions of Phantom.
Sierra made her Broadway debut as Ariel in Disney's The Little Mermaid, receiving Drama Desk and Drama League Nominations, as well as the Broadway.com Audience Award for Favorite Female Breakthrough Performance. Her additional Broadway credits include Master Class, It Shoulda Been You, The Phantom of The Opera, and School of Rock. Boggess' Off-Broadway credits include Love, Loss, and What I Wore and Music in the Air, alongside Kristin Chenoweth, for New York City Center's Encores! Series. In the West End, Boggess has appeared as Fantine in Les Miserables and originated the role of Christine Daae in Love Never Dies, the critically acclaimed sequel to The Phantom of the Opera, receiving an Olivier Award Nomination for her performance.
Sierra starred as Cinderella in the highly anticipated Hollywood Bowl production of Into the Woods where the Los Angeles Times raved of her "crystalline singing and gameness for comedy... Boggess' Cinderella was enchanting." Prior to that she starred as Danielle DeBarbarac in the new musical, Ever After at the Alliance Theatre as well as starring in the world premiere of the new play The Age of Innocence at Hartford Stage for which she received a nomination for a Connecticut Critics Circle Award for her portrayal of Countess Ellen Olenska.
Sierra's concert appearances include multiple engagements with BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall, Lincoln Center's American Songbook Series The Lyrics of David Zippel, The New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Broadway By The Year at Town Hall, Guys and Dolls at Carnegie Hall opposite Patrick Wilson, Megan Mullally and Nathan Lane, and The Secret Garden at Lincoln Center. She has toured with her cellist sister, Summer Boggess and musical director, Brian Hertz all over the United States as well as Japan and Australia with her concert show which has been preserved live and released on CD, Awakening: Live at 54 Below. Her recordings include School Of Rock, It Shoulda Been You, the 25th-anniversary concert of The Phantom of the Opera (also on DVD), the symphonic recording of Love Never Dies, The Little Mermaid, Andrew Lippa's A Little Princess, Rodgers & Hammerstein: A Night at the Movies with the John Wilson Orchestra, Where The Sky Ends: The songs of Michael Mott, A New York City Christmas: A benefit album for ASTEP and more.
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Q: Using on-demand instances to fill an unfulfilled spot fleet Let's say I set up a spot fleet with a desired count of 50 instances. Also, AWS is only able to fulfill 40 of them using spot instances, either because the spot pool is empty or because my bid price is too low. Is there something I can set up so that the other 10 get fulfilled using on-demand instances (without adding more spot pools)?
From what I understand the on_demand_base_capacity and on_demand_percentage_above_base_capacity settings for the spot fleet don't work for this, because those are not dependent on how many spot instances were actually fulfilled, only how many spot instances were requested.

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Revisited: Deadly Grounds and Blood in the Bordello
Steve and Amy disclose new information about prior investigations of horrifying paranormal activity at a family home in Wabash, IN, and a bar in Columbus, OH.
Steve and Amy step in to investigate disturbing paranormal activity at a frightened family's home in hurricane-ravaged Florida City, FL.
When a terrified woman from St. Louis claims that something paranormal pushed her down the stairs, Steve and Amy step in to investigate.
Claims of unexplained violent attacks at a terrified woman's home in Hanover, Pa., are investigated and lead Steve to learn of a troubled man's obsession, while Amy comes to believe she's dealing with a powerful and grotesque entity.
Demon War
During their separate and harrowing investigations, Steve researches the corrupt, troubled history of a previous homeowner's life, while Amy's late-night walk through a family home in .. show full overview
During their separate and harrowing investigations, Steve researches the corrupt, troubled history of a previous homeowner's life, while Amy's late-night walk through a family home in Toledo, OH, brings her face to face with multiple opposing entities.
Satan's Revenge
Steve and Amy travel to Leslie, Mich., to look into a desperate family's claim that extreme paranormal activity is occurring in their home. Among their findings is information about two .. show full overview
Steve and Amy travel to Leslie, Mich., to look into a desperate family's claim that extreme paranormal activity is occurring in their home. Among their findings is information about two of the previous owners: a father who suffered a mental breakdown; and an adulterous lecher. Also: Amy's investigation turns up an enormous shadow creature and a dead man with an ax to grind.
The Dark One
Steve uncovers a history of tragedies surrounding the property's first settlers; and Amy comes to believe there is a group of dead people draining the life from the living. Abilene, Texas
Steve and Amy investigate reports of terrifying paranormal activity at a family-owned hotel in Santa Paula, CA. While Steve unearths the property's dreadful history as a bloody Native .. show full overview
Steve and Amy investigate reports of terrifying paranormal activity at a family-owned hotel in Santa Paula, CA. While Steve unearths the property's dreadful history as a bloody Native American warzone, Amy encounters a sinister shadow figure that finds pleasure from killing women.
Feeding Grounds
Hostile paranormal activity is reported at a family-owned bed-and-breakfast in Sumpter, Ore. Steve's investigation reveals the property's past as an infirmary for miners with horrendous .. show full overview
Hostile paranormal activity is reported at a family-owned bed-and-breakfast in Sumpter, Ore. Steve's investigation reveals the property's past as an infirmary for miners with horrendous injuries, plus he learns of a child's murder. Also: Amy encounters an enraged male entity and a group of desolate dead women.
The Cursed Path
Steve and Amy investigate a Roseburg, OR, woman's claims of violent paranormal activity. While Steve uncovers the turbulent past of the property, Amy confronts numerous powerful .. show full overview
Steve and Amy investigate a Roseburg, OR, woman's claims of violent paranormal activity. While Steve uncovers the turbulent past of the property, Amy confronts numerous powerful entities, and discovers unseen pathways that could possibly lead to other dimensions.
Steve and Amy travel to Ft. Barnwell, NC, to investigate reports of disturbing paranormal activity at a terrified family's home. Steve unearths the bloody history of the property, while .. show full overview
Steve and Amy travel to Ft. Barnwell, NC, to investigate reports of disturbing paranormal activity at a terrified family's home. Steve unearths the bloody history of the property, while Amy confronts multiple entities with mysterious intentions, including a cluster of dead women trapped together in the afterlife.
Living Nightmare
Steve and Amy travel to Flint, MI, when a frightened family claims something paranormal is attacking them in their sleep. Steve researches the dark history of the former landowners, while Amy confronts multiple entities inside and outside the home.
Eternal Hatred
In Chester Springs, Pa., Steve investigates a deadly case of domestic violence, while Amy explores whether the 100-year-old murder is connected to alleged paranormal activity.
Steve investigates a double homicide while Amy confronts what she believes to be a threatening male entity at a historic hotel with a horrific past in Warsaw, Ind.
Revisited: Never Alone and Spellbound
With shocking, never-before-seen footage, Steve and Amy reveal new information about previous investigations in Forester, MI, and Buchanan, VA.
Revisited: Tortured Souls and Evil Within
Steve and Amy revisit their investigation into a minister's house in Manchester, Conn.; and a woman in St. Clair Shores, Mich., who believed a serpent-like entity was trying to make her family ill, offers an update.
Revisited: Plagued and Lethal Waters
Updates on two investigations in Pennsylvania. Included: the story of a desperate veteran in Cressona; and a purportedly haunted riverfront hotel in Cambridge Springs.
Revisited: Dead End and Summoning Souls
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Revisited: Forever Scarred and Invaded
Revisited: Master of the Damned and Ghosts of Deadwood
Steve and Amy reveal new information about their previous investigations of paranormal encounters at a retired police detective's home in Potsdam, NY, and the historic Fairmont Hotel and Casino in Deadwood, SD.
Revisited: Innocent Blood & Fractured
A couple in Upstate New York perform several cleansing rituals in an attempt to reclaim their home from what they believe to be an evil presence; and sisters in St. Louis try to rid .. show full overview
A couple in Upstate New York perform several cleansing rituals in an attempt to reclaim their home from what they believe to be an evil presence; and sisters in St. Louis try to rid their abode of the aggressive entities they claim are lurking within.


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Q: Automate css browser vendors prefixes in meteor I'm trying to find out if it is possible to use autoprefixer (https://npmjs.org/package/autoprefixer) to automatically process the CSS with meteor.
I'm trying to enable the node package to work with meteor with meteor-npm but then I don't really get what to do or if it is at all possible.

A: My first choice would be to use stylus (see below), but based on your comments it looks like you are using less. It may be possible to create a local package which adds a source handler for all less files. See the less plugin and the stylus plugin.
Alternatively, you could use an external process to compile your files. I use a Cakefile to watch my .jade files and turn them into html. Maybe you could do something similar with autoprefixer.

$ meteor add stylus

The package comes with nib which solves the problem you are asking about. Here's an example:
example.styl
@import 'nib'

$bluestart = #0076b8
$bluestop = #005a8d

footer
  border-radius: 5px
  background: linear-gradient(top, $bluestart, $bluestop)

The compiled css will have all of the border radius and gradient prefixes expanded for you.

A: There are ever more meteor packages available! At the time of writing, there are three less+autoprefixer packages amongst the offerings:
https://atmospherejs.com/?q=autoprefix

A: You should just use seba:minifiers-autoprefixer package. For Meteor 1.3+:
meteor remove standard-minifier-css
meteor add seba:minifiers-autoprefixer

It will autoprefix all CSS processed by Meteor in production. It does not matter where CSS is coming from (SCSS, Stylus, raw, etc.).


Laser tag can make people hungry. When families spend the morning chasing each other through the flashing lights of the laser arena at Whirlydome, a family entertainment center in Orlando, Fla., they work up an appetite for pizza, burgers and wings, said Manager Nikita Patel.
At Triple Play Family Fun Park in Hayden, Idaho, the menu was recently streamlined to make ordering faster and more efficient.
But as at laser tag facilities everywhere, patrons are eager to grab a quick bite and get back to the fun. That's why pizza, burgers, wings, sandwiches and pretzels are on the menu at most family entertainment centers: The fast, inexpensive, no-fuss menu items allow people to take a break without spending a lot of time and money.
A photo from a WonderWorks laser tag arena. To satisfy hunger and keep the menu simple, the company offers classics such as chicken nuggets, hot dogs, pizzas, pretzels, nachos, popcorn, fries and chicken pitas.
An exterior view of WonderWorks, an Orlando-based family entertainment center with five locations. The Outta Control Magic Comedy Dinner Show, a family-oriented event, sells out nearly every night, according to the corporate sales and marketing coordinator for the chain.
At Triple Play Family Fun Park in Hayden, Idaho, Marketing and Sales Director Jennifer Ross said the menu was recently streamlined to make ordering faster and more efficient for patrons eager to get back to laser tag and the indoor water park. "We felt there were too many options, and people would just stand there and couldn't decide," said Ross. Triple Play still has a comparatively large menu: in addition to pizza, burgers, and pretzels, there's a gluten-free menu with flat bread sandwiches and gluten-free nachos. Healthy eaters can choose from salads, chicken wraps, pastas, and chicken strips prepared grilled instead of fried; patrons can also order side salads in lieu of fries and onion rings, Ross said.
However, as many have noted, healthy options are far less popular than fried and cheese-laden classics at laser tag arenas. Families out to have fun aren't in the mood to count calories, which is why at Triple Play, a 16-year-old facility with about 250,000 annual visitors, the most popular items are chicken strips, pizza and burgers, with French fries and pretzels rounding out the best-sellers. "You go to a theme park, you want a burger – they kind of go hand in hand," Ross said.
Rebecca Soy photographed in a kitchen at Triple Play Family Fun Park. Chicken strips, pizzas, burgers, French fries and pretzels are best-sellers for the park.
And while the menu was downsized, with the slow-selling fish and chips removed, Triple Play expanded the facility itself with a 9,000-square-foot addition last year that includes the new laser tag arena, a remodeled bumper car area, and plans for an overhauled arcade and party area. A new, three-story rope climbing course has proved especially popular with young adults, many of whom are newcomers to Triple Play – and who stay for the other attractions.
At WonderWorks, an Orlando-based family entertainment center with five locations, the meal is the attraction after dark. The Outta Control Magic Comedy Dinner Show, a family-oriented event, sells out nearly every night, according to Erica Lewis, corporate sales and marketing coordinator for the chain. While the regular café menu is the same across all five locations – including Myrtle Beach, Panama City Beach, Syracuse, and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee – the original Orlando location is the only one to boast the all-you-can-eat dinner show that features unlimited pizza, salad, beer, wine, soda and a recently upgraded dessert buffet. "I think that's a big reason why people come," said Lewis of the show – whose menu, if fairly basic, offers a complete dinner and a nice evening out for $29.99 ($19.99 for kids) plus tax.
"Mostly we're serving kids. They're here to grab a snack and go back to having fun," said the co-owner of Laser Kraze Family Fun Center, which has locations in Ohio and Kentucky.
During the day, however, WonderWorks puts the emphasis on hands-on science exhibits, a ropes course, a 6-D motion ride, a recently added forensic science exhibit, and of course, laser tag. "We're a family attraction – it's for all ages, but it's mostly families who do multiple things in one day," said Lewis. To satisfy hunger and keep the menu simple, WonderWorks offers the classics: chicken nuggets, hot dogs, pizza, pretzels, nachos, popcorn, fries and a chicken pita.
While most places keep the menu simple, some – including The Funplex in Mt. Laurel, N. J. – are upgrading and expanding menu options to attract wider audiences. Ayana Davis, a manager at The Funplex, said the attraction has added more sophisticated fare in a bid to become known as a destination for all ages, not just the kids' birthday parties for which they are famous. The colossal facility, which entertained more than 32,000 children last year just for birthday parties, attracts well over 100,000 visitors annually, Davis said, and will open a new outdoor water park by Memorial Day weekend this year.
Sam Harris, an employee at Triple Play Family Fun Park, photographed in a kitchen. The center even offers gluten-free items as part of its comparatively large menu.
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Maribel Lieberman has taken New York City by storm with her sweet, delicious and mouthwatering chocolate creations. The Honduras born confectioner began her love affair with chocolate at an early age. She grew up on a farm in the Cocoa fields of Honduras and says her inspiration comes from the experiences she had as a child. "Honduras to me is a huge influence," Maribel said to Latin Times. "I was lucky to have the farm and nature around me." Educated as a designer Maribel realized her passion was cooking and uses both skills to create some of the most unique chocolate morsels around.
When you walk into "MarieBelle" the SOHO boutique owned by Maribel Lieberman you feel an instant warmth and welcoming. The decor is elegant but is not in your face, the feeling is comfortable. When you look closely at the chocolates in the display cases you see the meticulous details that go into each of her creations. Maribel makes all of the chocolates herself. Her design school education is expressed in the one inch chocolate ganache treats. Each ganache flavor has its own design, like the cardamom flavored ganache has a mosaic tile design. The cinnamon ganache features a parachuting woman and the Dulce de Leche ganache has the image of a woman falling into the arms of her lover.
"We have about 30 designs for year round and then we have about 20 for Christmas we have 10 for Valentines, 10 for Easter and 10 for Mother's Day. So all together we have about 60 designs," Maribel said. "Every little drawing is an inspiration and imaginary thing. And then of course the flavors come from my travelling all over the world. I have flavors from all over the world and we influence from all over the world." Maribel likes to keep to keep her Latin American roots at the forefront of her creations.
MariaBell Chocolates only uses South American chocolate from Ecuador and Venezuela. "The Ecuadorian [chocolate] is very full flavored and I like that for my hot chocolate" Maribel told Latin Times. "The Venezuelan is more mellow but it is still fruity and that's why I like it for my ganache." The hot chocolate is the bestselling item on the MariaBell menu and it is easy to see why once you taste it. The hot chocolate is rich and smooth but not over powering. The taste is sublime the secret to its' success is the use of real chocolate in the mix.
"I make my hot chocolate with real chocolate, I don't really use cocoa powder," Maribel said. "I use the real chocolate so it tastes like a melted chocolate bar." When you read the menu at MarieBelle New York you'll notice the hot chocolate is referred to as Aztec Hot Chocolate. The reason for the special name has to do with the way the drink is made. According to Maribel the Aztecs would drink a mixture of real chocolate and water. Since real chocolate is the main ingredient in her signature drink it takes its' name from the ancient people.
Maribel Lieberman started out her career in food as a caterer working from inside her own home. Her skill as a chef became known among high end clienteles such as Bill Clinton and Richard Holbrooke. Five years after her business opened Maribel realized she needed to expand and opened a store with a friend. The goal of the store was to sell not only chocolates but things wrapped in beautiful packages. Beautiful packaging is another feature of Maribel's creations. Some items look too good to open.
The store Maribel and her friend opened could be described as unique. Maribel's friend was an eyeglass designer and the pair did not have enough money to open separate shops. In order to save they rented a space that sold beautiful chocolates in elegant packages and eyeglasses with unique designs. Maribel admitted to Latin Times that her packaging is what helped her become so popular. Adding new designs to her packages and some art to the chocolates seemed to really grab the public's attention. "People loved my packaging, then I also started putting designs on the chocolates. You know using some of my husband's art work and all this was very captivating for the public and that's how I became very popular with the chocolates."
MarieBelle Chocolates is a family business with Maribel's daughter helping out, her sister runs the SOHO shop and her husband stays in the back helping out with the advertisements. Advertising for MariaBell must have done better than expected because the confectioner's chocolates became a big hit in Japan. This fall Maribel will open her fourth Japanese store. MariaBell has two stores in Tokyo and another in Kyoto, where the fourth will open. Like many of her clients, Maribel believes it was the ascetics that brought her chocolates popularity in Japan.
"Japan has always been a huge customer of mine since I opened. I think all the ascetics that I had with my products, the artists, the natural ingredients, and the design was always very attractive to the Japanese clients," Maribel said.
Maribel has many goals for her stores and is hoping to branch out to other countries in the future. For now she is working on getting her products and stores successful in Japan. Maribel described the country as one of the toughest countries to break into. Many companies that attempt to sell their products in Japan will often fail because as Maribel says "the Japanese are very good at what they do. They are perfectionists." Often times a country will not go near Japan because of their high standards but Maribel saw the opportunity as a challenge to be overcome, and it worked in her favor.
MarieBelle New York is home to a talented artist. Maribel does not just make treats that are pleasing to the eye. Her chocolates are pleasing to taste as well. Latin Times was lucky enough to get to taste some of Maribel's delectable creations. A few favorites that LT highly recommends includes the spicy Aztec hot chocolate as well as many flavors of her signature chocolate morsels. Pineapple, passion fruit, saffron, wild berry, rosemary, ginger and vanilla are all delicious. Marie Bell New York has so many wonderful flavors to try you should head over to SOHO and grab a box of her signature chocolates.


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The property markets may be recovering, as investors start to get their confidence back
As the property investment markets in Melbourne and Sydney began to look uneasy in mid – 2017, Australian property investors were among the first to lose their confidence.
However, following the result of the Australian federal election — which killed off Labor's capital gains tax and negative gearing policies — this has given investors a renewed confidence.
The chairman of Property Investment Professionals of Australia, said there had been a strong uplift in buyer confidence, with price increases noticed in both Sydney and Melbourne.
The organisation has just released the results of a survey of its members, which found that 82 percent of investors believe it is now a good time to buy residential property again.
About 48 per cent of members surveyed plan to purchase in the next six to 6-12 months, the survey found.
This return of confidence, combined with increased activity from other buyers — especially first purchases — indicates that a market recovery is on it's way.
"Signs of recovery in the residential investment property market have been on the way for some months now with confidence turning around convincingly in May," ANZ Senior Economist Felicity Emmett said.
"Since then, auction clearance rates have improved significantly and property prices have been rising strongly in both Melbourne and Sydney, and housing finance is also starting to grow significantly."
Mr P. Koulizos, from Property Investment Professionals said that Labors policies during the election campaign united his members, with the results showing an overwhelming 75 percent of members voted against the party, purely based on their property policies.
Reflecting the uncertainty surrounding the May poll, the PIPA survey of its members found just 34 percent had purchased an investment property in the past 12 months.
One sector of the property market that is not firing is the construction sector, which has been in decline for over a year now.
However, Ms Emmett said that growth seen elsewhere in property markets would eventually flow through to the construction sector.
"The continued improvement in credit availability suggests that construction activity, and not just prices, should begin to pick up in the coming months," she said.
While investor outlook concerning the market is largely confident, there's considerable uncertainty about the state of the Australian economy, she said.
It was one of two issues of great concern for those surveyed, alongside difficulty accessing lending, she cited.
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It's time to say what we want from government IT.
Let's do this together. Let's say "wouldn't it be better if" about how tech affects transparency, costs and the quality of public services and how they affect our lives.
@ntouk and I have long since been fed up with what one senior Whitehall official yesterday called "this £trillion attempt to drag us into 1983". Many of us have had a go at the draft government IT strategy on the Opposition's makeITbetter site. Officials across Whitehall are now furiously revising it, so let's hope the final published version is better.
Meanwhile we can speak freely. We can look to the realities of the wider world, and we don't have to pretend that everything to date has been fine. Now it's time to find our voice and say what we want.
The Centre for Technology Policy Research and IdealGov are launching a six-week competition, which everyone wins. Everyone who contributes is invited to a party. And everyone can, like, bring stuff (as we did to mypublicservices).
Practicalities. Please add any comments of suggestions about the process to this post. The final crowd-sourced "White paper of Wibbi" will be created on an open wiki here. Please feel free to register and edit, or to add comments at the end.
Party: IdealGov and CTPR are chipping in £1000 to the launch party to which everyone who has contributed is invited. There will be prizes including signed photos of our very own tech mandarin Sir Bonar Neville-Kingdom.
This initiative is formally adopting the principles of #CMRD, the "courteous and mutually respectful dialogue" called for last week by Michael Wills and first practised at an Intellect/Identity and Passport Service event this week.
– and above all saving vast, vast amounts of money.
This is not a time to splash out. The country's broke. So first we need to spend less on IT, existing contracts notwithstanding. But then it's two orders of magnitude more important that our IT plans support far more efficient public services.
Suggesting we deploy hundreds of PA consultants (or Deloitte or whoever) to mooch around filling out timesheets and expense claims for absurd day rates is not going to get you invited to the party. But any suggestion that draws the best expertise available into the gift economy (and by no means are all consultants nitwits) is most welcome.
This project is not a platform for venting anger at wrong headedness or past mediocrity (whoops! did I just do it? Old habits…) Take that frustration but use it to say what you want in the spirit of the #CMRD. Please bring your beliefs, principles, and passion, but the IdealGov and CTPR moderators will give short shrift to anything actionable or which reeks of partisan preconceptions. Scepticism is justified, but cynicism not.
We may need a "babies and bathwater" section to set out for controversial systems such as CfH or the ID Scheme what must go but what also should be retained. We should give praise where due, eg for Power of Information work. And our suggestions must be practical enough to keep the lights on, ie to keep essential services running uninterrupted while new and better plans emerge.
Contributions from all stakeholders are welcome: officials, industry, front line staff, anyone who speaks from personal experience of public services. Pertinent Art is always welcome, because it can speak to our condition so powerfully.
We last did this in 2004, remember. Now its time to do it again.
Government IT needs to concentrate on small projects, quickly scoped, easy to accomplish, with measurable success and failure, and each based on close, non-top-down, non-multiple-choiced communication with front-line staff. If one member of staff is spending two hours a week copying and pasting into Excel to accomplish something a simple web tool will do in seconds, that's a two-week project for a good development team right there.
No project should take more than two weeks of developer-hours and should be completeable within a month. They should use existing technologies and agile management methods. Scoping should be tight and based on principles like MoSCoW to ensure that only the most important user requirements survive and don't get dragged down by pointless would-likes.
It basically needs to work less like government IT and more like mySociety projects. I wrote about this on my blog nearly two years ago now (see website link above) and what I wrote still feels relevant. The time of big IT projects is over, and they're now completely redundant when you can accomplish so much with progressive change rolled out the moment each smaller phase is ready.
OMG this is fantastic!!! More important than quantitative easing….more radical than Gandhi…with more implications for the future of humankind than Copenhagen.
May I make a suggestion? Before dealing in the minutiae – or perhaps, more realistically, *alongside* dealing with the minutiae – should we give some thought to MORAL PRINCIPLES?
Among them I number beauty – that is, elegance and lyricism of design architectures; truth – that is, appropriate, feasible and just legislative arrangements; probity – that is, the utter eschewing of vested interests, greed, personal gain; and above all a commitment to imagination – that is the willingness to embrace the full picture in its simplicity.
To reduce that to even shorter terms: we need good conduct, good laws and good design, in that order, and anyone working on this needs to do so in a spirit of service, not profit.
Art of course. Because despite its apparent utter dullness, government IT is actually going to be one of two things: either the cradle of the coming civilisation, or its nemesis.
And unless informed by the four points above, it hasn't a chance and we will founder in a welter of debt, decrepitude, turpitude and turpentine. Or near offer.
Thus so far. Put me on your lists. Bring me to the party. I will sing the heavenly muse of a technology that serves and empowers without imprisoning. It's high time.
Don't do IT for IT's sake. I hear about many Government IT projects, but pretty much every one is actually a business transformational project being sold as an IT project. That's an easy way to fail.
Work out what changes you want to make to your business first, then work out what IT you'll need (if it's needed at all). It's much easier to convince people to help a project if it's theirs, not 'something driven by IT'.
The most ridiculous web (and thus management and communication) thing is what many people in government IT circles have been trying to work through for YEARS.
And it is… but public sector projects are, apparently, not allowed to develop on spec, in advance, then "sell", support or supply to internal projects. They have to specify first, then develop – so generic platform building, however complex and thorough, is prohibited.
People have tried for YEARS to get enough small projects together to set up the first IT platform that all the rest could then jump onto – building up using DOIs and standard modules and standard taxonomies and links – which would help users enormously. Under current financial rules it can't be done. Change that, and you change everything.
I can't think of a single project that couldn't have spent less, contributed more, and avoided being vanity publishing for their budget owners.
the best way to address the Trillion Dollar Bonfire of unexpected cost and disappointment is to move forward from the redundant iT paradigm.
Things will not improve as long as we simply persist in seeking better ways of doing iT.
OK – we're off to a cracking start – thanks everyone.
It wd be great to have any artistic, design or creative expression or input. I think – especially in the light of Christina's comment above – that might be a decisive differentiator.
e-government is a huge new creation. Of course it should be beautiful!
Mature developers are required who understand meeting the needs of users. I've worked with small teams as Quality Manager and this one thing was my biggest bug bear – the young graduate developers will build what makes sense to them not realising they are not the users of the system.
They are the common denominator for all failed projects.
In an ideal world, there'd be a non-political IT department in Whitehall that would take the government's proposals and create a system specification that involved everyone affected by it with projected costings before actually starting work, with everything being open to public strutiny and free from political interference.
Government IT should restrict itself to defining standards for basic things like data files, compatibility, UI, login security, disaster recovery etc. Then if a small, or local (or both) product adheres to those standards it gets to be able to market itself as "suitable for government" etc. That puts the power in the hands of small outposts of government (eg a GP surgery), without allowing a forest of incompatible software.
I'm most interesting in having a strong focus on: \design that works for front line staff and users\. I did some work on the simple, practical barriers that front line staff face in engaging with online tools (http://www.practicalparticipation.co.uk/socialstrategy) and I'm sure many could be extended to cover other IT projects.
IT projects are about changing services, not just implementing new IT – and so it's key that any strategy recognizes that spending time on (a) user centered design and development; and (b) supporting the roll-out of new systems, with good quality training and capacity building; are just as important for success of systems as is the IT.
Particularly if a strategy encourages a move towards more agile IT, it needs to make sure it looks at building the capacity of front line services and users to respond to agile changes in the platforms and IT they are relying on (and it needs to be able to identify when, for the end user, sticking with something slightly sub-optimal is better than investing time and energy to adapt to new systems).
With a recognition that the key factor standing between the effective operation or failure of most big systems is user time and skill in operating them – we should check for every possible IT investment what the required parallel investment in staff resourcing will be – and also check if, such investment in staff resourcing could yeild the same social outcomes we want without the IT.
and method pass one another by.
eGovernment is not a software engineering problem. The methods of software engineering pass the problems of eGovernment by. Let's try to sort out the "conceptual confusion" of eGovernment before we waste any time on the mere methods.
"A Conservative council has signed a pioneering deal with IBM worth up to £5.4 billion to manage and provide public services in a new wave of privatisation supported by David Cameron.
This doesn't fly for me. The government are starting to realise how unpopular they are (I'm a left winger, I'll be voting Tory in the hope they get rid of ID cards) and they are undergoing a deathbed conversion. If they get back in power, they'll claim a mandate and it'll be busines as usual.
"courteous and mutually respectful dialogue" hey? So they're going to stop conflating opposition to totalitarian government with terrorism and paedophilia?
Sorry to be so negative, but I think the government and civil service need more virulent and better directed abuse, not respect and courtesy: we haven't got to where we are now by beeing nice to the government.
The most important thing to do now? Ensure that /all/ government (and local government) contracts are open to scrutiny by the electors and that civil servants and politicians are made liable for losses on lousy contracts.
WIBBI Gateway Reviews were peer-reviewed and published?
WIBBI the intended real-world outcomes had to be stated in a form that guaranteed that the success or failure could be measured, and that the proposal for an IT solution had to state all the alternative solutions that had been considered, and why they were rejected in favour of the proposed IT solution. WIBBI the project had to be defined as a business change project, not as an IT project, and if all the business costs had to be identified and justified and bid for, not just the technology costs?
WIBBI the proposed technical architecture had to be published for public review for one month before any implementation contracts could be signed, and if anyone could propose a manifestly better architecture in that period then it had to be evaluated before proceeding?
WIBBI if procurement was always two-stage, with the first stage involving a Systems Architect (SA) with a role analogous to that of an architect in designing a new building: the SA would help the customer to really understand and capture their business requirements, formalise the requirements and analyse them for consistency and completeness, evaluate alternative solutions, and prepare a high-level design proven to meet the specification, and then move to the customer's side of the table and help with procuring an implementation, using the formalised specifications and design as the contractual base.
This would eliminate almost all of the specification changes that cause cost escalation and overruns.
WIBBI systems that are designed to be in widespread use were prototyped in small areas first, so that users and staff could input their requirements after working with real examples of the systems?
WIBBI this had been expressed in plain English?
WIBBI all public data was licensed under Creative Commons?
WIBBI UK DP law implemented the letter and spirit of the European DP Directive, as it is interpreted by Germany, for example?
WIBBI there was a rapid and cheap way to enforce these laws in the UK?
WIBBI politics stopped being a career and became a period of public service? This could be done by limiting anyone to a maximum of 8 years in either House, or in local Government.
WIBBI the only permissable way to implement a national system was to incrementally increase the scope of a small system that was already working successfully.
WIBBI there were independent, constructive, published stage reviews of major projects, involving independent experts with international reputations.


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Posted 6:32 am, April 23, 2019, by Tribune Media Wire Service
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – An Indiana community stepped up to help a man pay for an expensive surgery that saved his dog's life.
Veterinarians told local R&B singer Randy Etter that if his pooch, Gemini, didn't have the surgery, the dog would die that day, according to WXIN.
Etter says he was ready to sell his car to save his best friend. The car was online and offers were coming in, as he knew he didn't have the money for the medical treatment. He lost his day job while trying to drive around from vet to vet to save the pooch.
"I'm sitting here watching TV, and I'm literally thinking he was dying that night," Etter said of his helpless feeling. "I knew I didn't have the money for the surgery, but I knew in my mind that was what had to happen. I put my car up for sale for $1,000 less than what I was actually wanting to take for it."
With nowhere to go, a friend gave him $2,000, but it still wasn't enough. The S.O.A.R Initiative (Street Outreach Animal Response) for animals got him help from a surgeon in Fishers.
"I never thought I'd be one of those people to catch the miracle, you know what I'm saying?" Etter said with a smile.
The group also raised nearly $3,000 in donations after they posted his story on their Facebook page. The money came from total strangers who were moved by his willingness to do anything to keep the dog alive.
"I didn't even think anybody would even offer such a gesture," Etter said.
Gemini was suffering from intestinal blockage. Surgeons removed a sock and parts of a plastic baby bottle from the dog's insides. He is expected to make a full recovery. Etter said his home is now void of anything on the floor, just in case.
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American Jewry
The American Jewish Story through Cinema
"A keen eye and perspicacious insights" READ REVIEW: Hadassah Magazine
"An absorbing narrative" READ REVIEW: Jewish Book Council
"Goldman's remarkable edge as a writer and presenter..." READ REVIEW: Times of Israel
"Thoughtful and provocative" READ REVIEW: NY Jewish Week
"Goldman's work shines for many reasons." READ REVIEW EXCERPT: American Jewish History
"An instructive and enjoyable read." READ REVIEW EXCERPT: AJS Review
Publication Date: April 15, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-029274430-1
$55.00 Hardcover $25.00 Paperback
Available as an eBook!Publisher: University of Texas Press
Like the haggadah, the traditional "telling" of the story of the Israelites' exodus from Egypt that is read at the Passover seder, cinema offers a valuable text from which to gain an understanding of the social, political, and cultural realities of Jews in America. In an industry strongly influenced by Jewish filmmakers who made and continue to make the decisions as to which films are produced, the complex and evolving nature of the American Jewish condition has had considerable impact on American cinema and, in particular, on how Jews are reflected on the screen. This groundbreaking study analyzes select mainstream films from the beginning of the sound era to today to provide an understanding of the American Jewish experience over the last century.
In the first half of the twentieth century, Hollywood's movie moguls, most of whom were Jewish, shied away from asserting a Jewish image on the screen for fear that they might be too closely identified with that representation. Over the next two decades, Jewish moviemakers became more comfortable with the concept of a Jewish hero and with an overpowered, yet heroic, Israel. In time, the Holocaust assumed center stage as the single event with the greatest effect on American Jewish identity. Recently, as American Jewish screenwriters, directors, and producers have become increasingly comfortable with their heritage, we are seeing an unprecedented number of movies that spotlight Jewish protagonists, experiences, and challenges.
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Yiddish Film
Visions, Images & Dreams: Yiddish Film Past & Present
"Steeped in tradition, rich in culture, laden with emotion (are) the films Goldman treats in this admirable study."—Los Angeles Times
"A unique attempt to chronicle every picture produced in the Yiddish language...I applaud his filling a gap in the history of Jewish aesthetic pursuits." —Jerusalem Post
"No one interested in the nature and history of Yiddish cinema can afford to miss this book. Meticulously researched, written without gush." —London Jewish Chronicle
Publication Date: February 1, 2011 | ISBN-10: 0841914370 |
ISBN-13: 978-0841914377 | Edition: Revised & Expanded |
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
This is the history of the Yiddish cinema, and the people who shaped its development. The films were intended as entertainment but also acted to reinforce Jewish identity especially in the United States. The author traveled to fourteen countries, viewed dozens of films (some of them considered lost), and combed archives in Austria, Poland, Western Europe, the former Soviet Union and the United States to uncover details, facts, and background for this narrative.
Our story begins with the early Yiddish silent movies, largely films made of Yiddish stage productions in Poland and Russia, and moves on to the innovative film productions in 1920s Soviet Union made with government support, and then on to the Golden Age of this genre In Poland and the United States from 1936-1940. Even after the height of its popularity before the war, Yiddish movies continued to be made in the late 1940s. This newly revised edition includes films of the past fifteen years, as there has been a renaissance of interest in Yiddish- and along with it, Yiddish cinema. Another special feature of this edition are interviews with Jacob Ben-Ami, Ira Greene, Joseph Green and Molly Picon, some of the key figures in Yiddish movie-making.
Through Cinema's Lens
The American Jewish Experience through the Lens of Cinema
Free and Downloadable (research.policyarchive.org/13682.pdf)
Publisher: American Jewish Committee
American culture has been remarkably accepting of the Jewish Diaspora. But while Jewish images are prevalent in all types of media, there has not been a great deal of attention paid to the quality of the images. Often, the predominant narrative conveys a story of persecution of Jews rather than one of diverse and often positive Jewish experience. In this publication, Eric Goldman addresses questions of the fairness of Jewish images in media and the dominant messages that are being transmitted.
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Q: glassfish server serving xml instead of adf webpage I am running a glassfish 3.1.2 server with ADF essential libraries added to it. The server runs fines, deploys all my applications without any errors but serves up xml code instead of web pages. I have to say that the rich client faces demo runs fine. So there must be something wrong with my applications' EARs. I have tried taking the RCF demo's libraries to manually package them in my war inside my ear without success.
Does anyone have an idea of what could be wrong?
I have a unmodified straightforward glassfish 3.1.2 downloaded from Oracle and configured as per Oracle's instructions to run ADF applications (hence the demo works), adf essentials downloaded from Oracle as well. Versions of adf essentials match the version of jdeveloper (12.1.2) Here is the document declaration from the outputed xml code:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<f:view xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:af="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/rich"
    xmlns:dvt="http://xmlns.oracle.com/dss/adf/faces">

I tried adding different libraries to the application deployment settings to no avail. I have tried none-to-all of them without success. (this took a long time to try)
Do you have any suggestions for me to check in order for the glassfish server to serve webpages instead of  brute xml?
Best regards
Marc.

A: I stumbled across the answer:
I needed to add /faces in front of the webpage. Thus the url looks like
http://is-marca-v:9090/HRSystem-ViewController-context-root/faces/DeptEmpPage.jsf

and not
http://is-marca-v:9090/HRSystem-ViewController-context-root/DeptEmpPage.jsf

Have a nice day to you all.


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Forest Landscape Ecology
Jeffery B. Cannon
Work in the landscape ecology lab centers around understanding how natural disturbances and forest management shape forest structure and function at multiple scales. Currently, our work emphasizes four major areas including quantifying forest hurricane risk, improving restoration outcomes, ecological management of longleaf pine, and interactions among forest disturbances.
Hurricane Risk
Improving Restoration Outcomes
Ecological Forestry (Silviculture of Fuels)
Disturbance Interactions
Soil saturation during tree winching experiment
Hurricanes are a common disturbance affecting southeastern forests, and together with frequent fire, they have shaped the characteristic open structure of longleaf pine systems. One of our newest projects involves understanding the factors that determine hurricane risk, and what management techniques can mitigate hurricane damage. Along with collaborators from the University of Georgia and Tall Timbers Research Station, we are developing several studies to test hypotheses about how factors at the scale of individual trees, forest stands, and entire regions can be used to improve understanding and prediction of hurricane impacts.
We are currently conducting tree winching studies, where individual trees are pulled over using a winch, which can provide information on some of the characteristics of stems and soils to predict the forces needed to topple individual trees. We are investigating how differences in tree stability vary with tree size for several southeastern species and are using irrigation studies to measure how much precipitation prior to windstorms affects tree vulnerability. Using data from light detection and ranging studies, we are examining what role tree crown architecture plays in determining wind risk. Future studies will combine wind damage models with our field winching data to help develop silvicultural strategies to protect both natural and planted forests.
Lidar analysis of tree crown properties. View animation
Experimental tree winching to study tree wind firmness.
Key Studies:
Peterson, C. J. et al. Critical wind speeds suggest wind could be an important disturbance agent in Amazonian forests. For. An Int. J. For. Res. 92, 444–459 (2019). [Link]
Cannon, J. B., Hepinstall-Cymerman, J., Godfrey, C. M. & Peterson, C. J. Landscape-scale characteristics of forest tornado damage in mountainous terrain. Landsc. Ecol. 31, 2097–2114 (2016). [pdf]
Ribeiro, G. H. P. M. G. et al. Mechanical vulnerability and resistance to snapping and uprooting for Central Amazon tree species. For. Ecol. Manage. 380, 1–10 (2016). [Link]
Peterson, C. J., Cannon, J. B. & Godfrey, C. M. First Steps Toward Defining the Wind Disturbance Regime in Central Hardwoods Forests. in Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation: Type, Frequency, Severity, and Post-disturbance Structure in Central Hardwood Forests, USA (eds. Greenberg, C. H. & Collins, B. S.) 89–122. [Link]
Cannon, J. B., Barrett, M. E. & Peterson, C. J. The effect of species, size, failure mode, and fire-scarring on tree stability. For. Ecol. Manage. 356, 196–203 (2015). [Link]
Bigelow, S. W., Cannon. J. B., Looney, C. Hurricane effects on climate-adaptive silviculture treatments to longleaf pine woodland in southwestern Georgia, USA. Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research. cpaa042 (2020). [Link]
From the fire-starved pine forests of the eastern. U.S. to the wildfire-prone forests of the west, pine forests across the U.S. have a growing need for conservation and restoration. Longleaf pine restoration typically means replanting or re-introducing prescribed fire into otherwise degraded forest systems. In ponderosa pine forests, restoration means reducing tree density and restoring the structural variability that once characterized these stands. Although restoration treatments to pine forests typically occur on the scale of a few hundred acres, restoration affects processes that occur at the scale of a few thousands of acres. Longleaf pine restoration treatments can improve water yields in surrounding watersheds in varying degrees depending on planting density, surrounding landscape use, and topography. Likewise, a ponderosa pine restoration treatment may be more or less effective at preventing soil loss after a fire depending on the fire hazard and soils, but also on the fire hazard and topography of the surrounding landscape. Thus, a puzzle arises: Given limited opportunities for restoration, how can projects be placed so that maximum ecological benefits can be gained?
Our lab is currently working with the Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Effectiveness Assessment Project and other partners to develop methods to evaluate the ecological impact of restoration activities on a variety of landscape-scale ecological processes to address this question. We use landscape-scale simulations of restoration coupled with existing ecological models to explore the impacts of restoration placement and prioritization on realizing ecological benefits. Early work in ponderosa pine forests of the Colorado Front Range (in review), is showing that incorporating historic reference conditions into restoration treatments provides benefits including reduction of wildfire hazard and post-fire erosion risk, as well as improving a number of landscape-scale structural metrics related to forest biodiversity. Beginning in 2021, we will begin to evaluate how to improve ecological outcomes in longleaf pine restoration. Ideally, restoration of longleaf pine forests results in stands with lower density, lower leaf area, and an understory dominated by C4 grasses—all properties that reduce losses through evapotranspiration and may result in greater water yield to nearby streams. Our upcoming work will examine how the type and placement of restoration activities affect water yields.
Landscape analysis to help prioritize restoration activities
Simulating forest management to aid in planning and prioritizing restoration
Cannon, J. B., Gannon, B. M., Feinstein, J. A., Padley, E. A. & Metz, L. J. Simulating spatial complexity in dry conifer forest restoration: Implications for conservation prioritization and scenario evaluation. (in review)
Cannon, J. B., Gannon, B. M., Feinstein, J. A. & Wolk, B. H. An Effects Assessment Framework for Dry Forest Conservation. Rangelands 41, 205–210 (2019). [Link]
Gannon, B. M. et al. Prioritizing fuels reduction for water supply protection. Int. J. Wildl. Fire (2019) doi: 10.1071/WF18182. [pdf]
Cannon, J. B. et al. Collaborative restoration treatments on forest structure in ponderosa pine forests of Colorado. For. Ecol. Manage. 424, 191–204 (2018). [Link]
Long before human influence, natural disturbances shaped forests in many ways, and many organisms depend on the legacies left from natural disturbances for persistence. For example, lightning-struck trees become a habitat for diverse insect communities. Hurricanes remove trees creating space for growing individuals beneath the canopy. Fire stimulates seed germination and removes competing plants. Ecological forestry (also called natural disturbance-based management) is a forest management approach that uses natural disturbances and ecological processes as a guide to developing silviculture prescriptions and the desired forest structure. Frequent fire is an important driver of many forests and woodlands, especially longleaf pine systems. In contrast to the evenly spaced rows of planted pine stands, forests shaped by natural disturbances and fire have a complex arrangement of individuals with a variety of ages, sizes, and spacings. How different are natural and planted pine stands from each other and how do these changes in structure affect the variety of ecological processes happening within them? And what can we learn about natural systems that may improve how we manage silvicultural stands?
In 2009, the Jones Center at Ichauway began a long-term experiment to answer these questions. Our lab is continuing this experiment by focusing on how changing forest structure can influence leaf litter and fuel beds, the behavior of fire, and ultimately, the effects on forest dynamics. To kick off this series of experiments, we will soon be using 10 years of data on leaf litter collection, stand stem maps, and neighborhood models to better understand how forest density and spatial structure can alter fuels. The lab has also developed a stand-scale forest simulation tool focused on maintaining spatial heterogeneity. This tool has previously been used to understand the effects of variable forest patterns on light environments, and future work from the lab will explore how changing spatial patterns impact the fuel environment.
Cannon, J., Tinkham, W. T., Deangelis, R. K., Hill, E. M. & Battaglia, M. A. Variability in Mixed Conifer Spatial Structure Changes Understory Light Environments. Forests 10, 1015 (2019). [pdf]
Bigelow, S. W. & Whelan, A. W. Longleaf pine proximity effects on air temperatures and hardwood top-kill from prescribed fire. Fire Ecol. 15, 1–14 (2019). [Link]
Mitchell, R. J., Hiers, J. K., O'Brien, J. J., Jack, S. B. & Engstrom, R. T. Silviculture that sustains: The nexus between silviculture, frequent prescribed fire, and conservation of biodiversity in longleaf pine forests of the southeastern United States. In Canadian Journal of Forest Research vol. 36 2724–2736 (2006). [pdf]
All ecosystems are continuously subjected to disturbances, which cause mortality of individuals and free up resources. Forest ecologists have long studied the effects and recovery from single disturbances such as hurricane damage, tree harvesting, and fire. However, many ecosystems are impacted by multiple disturbances occurring in short succession, which may lead to difficulties in predicting any individual effects. For example, it is well known that low-intensity frequent fire is important in the structure and function of longleaf pine systems. As a coastal forest, it is also frequently impacted by the effects of hurricane winds and tropical storms. Together these disturbances may interactively shape the characteristic structure of longleaf pine forests. One obvious example is that wind damage provides fuel for intense fires. But what other ways may wind and fire interact? And how does the combination of wind and fire differ from their individual effects?
Our lab has been involved with a range of studies involving tree winching experiments to experimentally create wind damage and measure the impacts of a subsequent prescribed fire. Overall, we have found that although wind damage can fuel intense fires, that is not the whole story. Wind and fire can interact in other non-intuitive and indirect ways. For example, wind damage can allow for the establishment of fire-promoting invasive species like cogongrass. Interestingly, windthrow can actually reduce the intensity of the fire in some cases by toppling large trees and disrupting the main source of leaf litter critical for maintaining continuous fuel beds. Wind and fire can interactively affect the recovery trajectory of pine forests. Some species like winged sumac (Rhus coppalinum) have fire-stimulated germination and clonal growth and show a growth explosion after both disturbances. Resprouting species like red maple (Acer rubrum) which are severely set back by fire can recover more quickly if they are in wind-disturbed gaps. Some of the lab's upcoming work involves further exploring the complex mechanisms that drive disturbance interactions.
Cannon, J. B., Henderson, S. K., Bailey, M. H. & Peterson, C. J. Interactions between wind and fire disturbance in forests: Competing amplifying and buffering effects. For. Ecol. Manage. 436, 117–128 (2019). [pdf]
Kim, Geonho, JB Cannon (2019). National analysis of interactions between compounded forest disturbances from tornado and fire over 30 years (1984-2014). 2019 Annual meeting of the US Chapter of the International Association for Landscape Ecology. Fort Collins, CO. [Poster presentation [pdf]
Cannon, J. B., Peterson, C. J., O'Brien, J. J. & Brewer, J. S. A review and classification of interactions between forest disturbance from wind and fire. For. Ecol. Manage. 406, 381–390 (2017). [pdf]
Cannon, J. B., O'Brien, J. J., Loudermilk, E. L. L., Dickinson, M. B. & Peterson, C. J. The influence of experimental wind disturbance on forest fuels and fire characteristics. For. Ecol. Manage. 330, 294–303 (2014). [pdf]