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Air Force names Vandenberg Space Force Base a candidate for STARCOM HQ
By: Torstein Rehn
The Department of the Air Force announced Tuesday that Vandenberg Space Force Base is among the six candidates for the permanent home of STARCOM headquarters.
STARCOM stands for Space Training and Readiness Command and is currently located temporarily at Peterson Space Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
STARCOM is one of three Space Force command centers.
The new headquarters would be responsible for training space professionals, developing space warfighting doctrine and the testing of Space Force systems.
Rep. Salud Carbajal issued support for Vandenberg Space Force Base's bid to become the permanent STARCOM headquarters.
"In the search for a permanent location for Space Training and Readiness Command, Vandenberg has already demonstrated its ability to train space operators and serve a critical testing site," he said in a press release. "And in addition, its proximity to some of our country's finest research institutions and aerospace industry make it the best candidate for STARCOM."
In 2020, Carbajal cosigned a letter supporting VSFB becoming the STARCOM headquarters with then-Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
In addition to the political support, a growing group of local organizations have pushed for the base to become the new headquarters.
The Regional Economic Action Coalition (REACH), a local economic advocacy organization, has campaigned for VSFB to become the STARCOM headquarters since the search first began.
Melissa James, the president/CEO of REACH, said in a statement Tuesday that the organization is eager to show off what the Central Coast has to offer.
"The region has really come together around growing commercial space, and hosting this high-profile Space Force field command would create a new center of gravity in the Central Coast space ecosystem and catalyst for public and private investment," James said.
No timeline has been set by the Department of the Air Force for the official decision, but site surveys for the six candidates will begin in late April or early May.
The surveys will assess each site's ability to meet a number of requirements related to mission, cost, infrastructure capacity, community support and environmental considerations.
The other bases under consideration are Los Angeles Air Force Base in California, Buckley SFB in Colorado, Schriever SFB in Colorado, Peterson SFB in Colorado, and Patrick SFB in Florida.


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Green light for Tigg & Coll's south London scheme
By Tom Lowe2020-12-03T07:00:00+00:00
Tulse Hill flats to be built next to station and busy junction
The scheme will provide 43 homes with 17 affordable
Tigg & Coll has been given the green light for a 43-home scheme on a busy junction in south London.
Lambeth council gave the thumbs up to the scheme which will include 17 affordable homes and will be built on a corner plot close to Tulse Hill station for developer Holland Park Estates.
It will be built next to a busy crossroads close to Tulse Hill station
The site comes with its challenges, with the architect admitting that "careful consideration" has been needed to limit the impact of traffic noise and pollution at the important crossroads after a noise impact assessment found the site to have a "medium to high risk".
The scheme will require the demolition of two un-listed houses, one of which contains a commercial unit on the ground floor with a car wash. Both houses are in a "very poor condition" according to the practice.
Two existing houses will be demolished to make way for the scheme
The brick-clad development consists of two linked blocks split across one to seven storeys, and will include solar panels installed on the roofs.
It will include floor to ceiling windows in all units, although the windows on the rear facades have been covered with fritting and perforated metal screens to prevent overlooking.
Rear windows have been covered with perforated metal screens to reduce overlooking
The practice was shortlisted for Building Design's 2019 Young Architect of the Year Award.
Tigg & Coll submits plans to replace industrial estate with flats
Scheme aims to reconnect site with surrounding area
Architect hopes appointment won't be flash in the pan
Tigg Coll designs homes to replace combined substation and toilet block
AYA shortlists announced today
All the finalists for BD's Architect of the Year Awards revealed

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Press Release -- March 14th, 2013
Source: geo-networks
Geo Networks adds BBC Studios and Post Production to its growing media customer list
Geo connects BBC Studios and Post Production's sites in Elstree using fibre run through the Victorian sewer network
LONDON, 14 March 2013: BBC Studios and Post Production is the latest media company to commission a private fibre network from leading provider of bespoke fibre networks Geo Networks Ltd ("Geo"). The network will be part of the infrastructure that supports BBC Studios and Post Production's relocation from the iconic BBC Television Centre in West London, whilst the new site is being redeveloped.
The company will return to Television Centre to run three HD studios (including Studio One, the flagship 10,000 sq ft studio) when the site is reopened in 2015. In the meantime it is offering a mix of fully equipped high-definition television spaces at the BBC Elstree and Elstree Film Studios sites.
To support the new set up, BBC Studios and Post Production required a two-year dark fibre connection between the two sites to send uncompressed HD video, audio, IT and other data between them.
Danny Popkin, Technical Development Manager, BBC Studios and Post Production said: "We work with a range of production companies, making live and recorded TV shows across a variety of genres for numerous broadcasters. This requires us to transfer enormous amounts of data, including uncompressed video, between our Elstree sites. We wanted to have full control of the network management and this solution provided us with that."
Geo utilised its unique relationship with Thames Water to provide dark fibre between the two sites, using the sewer network. Requiring just a short dig for the point-to-point connectivity, the fibre is clipped at shoulder height within the sewers, making it impervious to street disruption.
"Media companies are increasingly aware that the traditional managed services model no longer fits their business plan," said Geo's Media Sales Director, Will Pitt. "Our private network business model gives them control both financially and operationally, along with unprecedented scalability, and we're delighted to be expanding our customer base."
At the end of 2012, Geo announced three major milestones in its Media and Broadcast sector; 12 new media hubs added to its network, a 50% increase year on year of contracts won and new customers including SIS LIVE and TVCatchUp.
About Geo Networks
Geo is the only company in the UK to focus solely on the design, build and operate of bespoke dedicated fibre network solutions. Geo's revolutionary and flexible approach means that for the first time, organisations can own and control their networks, ensuring that security, high bandwidth and resilience are guaranteed. By allowing its customers to directly own and control the underlying optical fibre that is at the heart of their data network, Geo is the only truly open access network provider in the UK. It provides an extensive range of solutions including fully managed networks, dark fibre and co-location services. Geo enables network solutions in the London area and throughout the UK with onward connectivity to Ireland through the newest diverse optical fibre subsea system, the East-West Ring. Customers include media companies, service providers, major banks, carriers, data centres and gaming organisations. Geo won 'IT Vendor of the Year' in the 2012 eGR B2B Awards, was a finalist in the 2011 UK Customer Experience Awards, listed in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list for 2011 and Geo was also shortlisted for the 2010 Sunday Times Tech Track 100: Barclays Corporate Performance Excellence Award. Visit www.geo-uk.net or follow @geonetworks for more information.
Caroline Beer
geoPRteam@metia.com.
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Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County will be at Bella Terra this weekend, bringing nourishment and hope to 335,000 hungry people through the OC. Together we can #EndHungerinOC.
We will have barrels located at various points of the property: near REI, Whole Foods and the Bella Terra Amphitheater near Century Theaters.
Stop by and donate! Click here for more information.


Crisis, Fear, Heartbreak… and Peace of Mind?
I know enough about migraine to know this is not an unusual aura (so I wasn't worried I was having a stroke), but the sudden, dramatic change was scary. More terrifying were the thoughts that this would become my new normal, that the life I knew six months ago will never again be mine, that yet another treatment I tried would worsen my symptoms permanently, that I will never again feel like my migraines are manageable.
With the second aura, Sunday morning, I started methysergide, a migraine preventive my doctor prescribed for me to start after the infusions. Like DHE, methysergide is an ergot. Also like DHE, methysergide cannot be taken with triptans or Midrin. A 24-hour buffer between an ergot and triptans or Midrin is required. I had that because of the DHE infusions, so it seemed like a good time to start.
Things just got worse. I was still testing to see what my food reactions were, so I was eating more than the usual twice a day. Sunday, I had three auras, each with worse mood symptoms than the previous one. Those words are ridiculously insufficient to describe what I felt. The last aura left me sobbing, heartbroken and terrified. I was in some of the most intense grief I have ever endured. I felt like someone dear to me had died. I felt like my life was ending. This was the migraine talking and I knew it, but that didn't stop the fear. Hart found me crumpled in a heap on the bedroom floor, wailing and keening. He held me until I calmed down enough to fall into an exhausted sleep.
It is Monday afternoon. After some reading, I have cobbled together a biological explanation for the new-to-me aura and mood changes. This has soothed my mind somewhat, but is based primarily on conjecture. I have a call into my doctor. I have an appointment with him in July. I swallowed the last methysergide I will ever take at 10 p.m. last night. I ate for the first time today an hour ago and the aura symptoms seem to be taking longer to develop than yesterday. If a migraine/aura hijacks my mood again, I will listen to podcasts and follow a guided meditation on fear. Tomorrow, I will return to two meals a day followed by Amerge and Midrin. I have a plan.
I am still scared, but am no longer frantic. Loss of the life I've come to know no longer feels imminent. I have steps in place to reduce the frequency of migraine attacks that I believe will also reduce their severity. It may or may not work. Instead of worrying, I'm trying to stay with what is, not what might be. While panicking last night, I tried to remind myself that I only know this moment and cannot know the future. This has been a useful practice the last few months, but wasn't comforting last night. Today it is. To say I am calm is a lie, but I'm experiencing some peace of mind. I am focused, determined, resolute, committed, resilient, present.
Whatever "this" turns out to be.


Open-Source Audio Production at IT Conversations. Our open-source production model I announced last week here at IT Conversations seems to be working. Not perfectly, mind you, but we're learning by doing, and we're managing to get over most of the confusion and other obstacles fairly well. We've published two shows by Team ITC so far, and I expect we'll have 2-3 more each week, and ramp up our production from there.
I think we can now take on another audio-engineering volunteer, so if you're interested, take a look at the wiki page. Two things we've learned so far are (1) you'd better be very comfortable with your audio tools, and (2) you should have a good idea of the difference between peak and RMS normalization. If you know what I'm talking about and are interested, let me know. Yes, we can take on more producer/editors, too, but at the moment some of the current writers are waiting for audio folks to work with.
Tips for the Team. Remember, 100% of your donations to the IT Conversations Tip Jar goes to the members of Team ITC who are now producing an ever-increasing portion of IT Conversations in their spare time. So please donate to Team ITC to keep the audio flowing.
Jim Buckmaster & Craig Newmark – Nerd Values (rated 2.5 by our listeners). Nerd Values: Doing well by doing good, or the benefits of sticking with Web 0.0 principles in a Web 2.0 world. Jim is the president and CEO and Craig is the founder of Craig's List. From the Web 2.0 Conference.
Media is a Platform – Web 2.0 (2.9). Under Web 1.0, eyeballs were king and old media was dead. But we're learning that things are a bit more complicated, and media is evolving into new forms and formats. How can powerful brands like the New York Times thrive in an age where content is understood to be free? What happens when the web is capable of distributing massive video files effortlessly and without significant economic impact? What are the new publishing models emerging on the web, and how can media be used as a platform to leverage them.
Suzi Leather on Tech Nation (3.1). On Tech Nation, Moira speaks with Suzi Leather, the head of Great Britain's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Find out how this nation which permits stem cell research, actually exerts far more government controls than the US.
Bill Gurley – The Breakout Business of MMORPG (3.5). Bill Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark Capital, says that massively multi-player online roleplaying games (MMORPGs) are an "insanely profitable business." Hear about a game in China that has 9 million active users, and how players are so fanatical in Korea, that the police have had to investigate the theft of in-world characters. Bill says MMORPGs are a business opportunity far beyond EverQuest. From the Web 2.0 Conference.
Oded Shenkar on Tech Nation (3.9). On Tech Nation, Moira Gunn speaks with professor Oded Shenkar about the rise of China, the lessons of history — as well as what's happening today — to find out just why he calls this "The Chinese Century."
Clay Shirky – Ontology is Overrated (4.2). We launch the IT Conversations coverage of the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference with another brilliant presentation by Clay Shirky. Ontology, far from being an ideal high-order tool, is a 300-year-old hack, now nearing the end of its useful life. The problem ontology solves is not how to organize ideas but how to organize things.
Will Wright – Sculpting Possibility Space (4.3). From the creator of The Sims and Sim City at Accelerating Change 2004: Games and simulations allow us to experience hypothetical situations in fun and intuitive ways. From the designers' perspective we need to architect these "possibility landscapes" which players will later explore. Will discusses some of the informal methods, concepts and tools that he uses to approach this design task.
Philip Greenspun – Software Engineering. Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing, was an inspiration to many programmers writing server-side code on Unix/Linux platforms. In this interview Philip describes the evolution of his attitudes towards software engineering and his latest book, Software Engineering for Internet Applications, for a course at MIT where "the goal of the course is that the student finishes knowing how to build Amazon.com by him or herself." Don't miss the story of how the venture capitalists to whom Philip relinquished control of this $20 million profitable company, Ars Digita, ran it into the ground. There are lessons there for any budding (or experienced) entrepreneur.


Before you prepare your pumpkin as a dinner, dessert or decoration remember to save the seeds. If you just compost and scoop out your pumpkin or squash seeds you might be throwing out a heap of healthy nutrients and their inherent plant based benefits.
Pumpkin seeds are either an excellent or very good source of all of these important phytonutrients: manganese, magnesium, iron, copper, tryptophan, zinc and phosphorus. There are many other minerals, nutrients and vitamins present in pumpkin seeds, which are not listed here.
It helps fight depression since it is converted in thy body into niacin and serotonin, known as feel good hormones.
This flavor or taste enhancer is needed to create GABA- an anti stress neuro chemical, which helps relieve anxiety and other stress related conditions.
This mineral boosts immune system and fights osteoporosis.
They reduce LDL cholesterol or the bad one and raise HDL- the good one. Phytosterols may be also effective in the prevention of various cancers.
Pumpkin seeds have a various range of antioxidants. These include and are not limited to vitamins, minerals and phenolic antioxidants. Pumpkin seeds contain vitamin E in a variety of forms like α tocomonoenol, -ð tocopherol, α tocopherol, ý tocopherol and ý tocomonoenol. Having so many forms of Vitamin E in 1 food is beneficial because some of the forms of Vitamin E are more frequent than others. Pumpkin seeds also contain mineral antioxidants like manganese and zinc. Pumpkin seeds include phenolic antioxidants like the following ones: ferulic, protocatechuic, caffeic, hydroxybenzoiccoumaric, vanillic, sinapic and syringic acid. Other antioxidant phytonutrients that pumpkin seeds contain are: beneficial lignans, lignans pinoresinol, medioresinol and lariciresinol.
According to experts, pumpkin seeds, seed oil and seed extracts have long been known for their anti microbial benefits, including their anti viral and anti fungal properties. Research points to the role of unique proteins in pumpkin seeds as the source of these antimicrobial benefits. The lignans in pumpkin seeds including lariciresinol, medioresinol, and pinoresinol have also been shown to have antimicrobial and especially anti-viral properties. Eating pumpkin seeds will expel worms from the body. Chew pumpkin seeds and you will never get worms.
Several studies have suggested that pumpkin seed extracts, ground pumpkin seeds and pumpkin seed oil might improve insulin regulation and help protect the kidneys of people with diabetes.
Because pumpkin seeds are rich antioxidant source, and thus they have potential to reduce oxidative stress, they can help decrease the risk of cancer. Many studies have focused specifically on the lignans in pumpkin seeds and their ability to reduce the risk of breast and prostate cancers.
Pumpkin seed oils and extracts are used in the treatment of a not cancer enlargement of the prostate gland. Various studies have shown a beneficial link between nutrients in pumpkin seeds (pumpkin seed oil extract), and treating benign prostatic hyperplasia .These nutrients include lignans, phytosterols and zinc, among other ones.
Along with all the beneficial antioxidants and phytonutrients in pumpkin seeds, they are also a great source of protein. An ounce of pumpkin seeds contains 9.40 grams of protein.


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Men's Tennis Finishes Regular Season on the Road
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The Santa Clara men's tennis team will finish out the 2009 dual season in two road matches. This afternoon, the Broncos travel to take on West Coast Conference and Bay Area rival San Francisco at 2 p.m. On Apr. 13, the team will close out the season at No. 54 Pacific.
Today's match versus USF was originally scheduled for the first half of the dual season on Feb. 11, but was rescheduled due to inclement weather. Since then, the Dons have worked to earn a 5-10 record heading into today's match. In their last match versus WCC opponent LMU, San Francisco prevailed 4-3 thanks to junior Rainer Nachbauer's game clinching singles performance at the number three singles position.
Next Monday, SCU travels to Stockton, Calif. to face No. 54 Pacific. The last time Santa Clara faced Pacific was Apr. 6, 2005 when SCU overcame the Tigers in a thrilling 4-3 victory. A game clinching singles performance from then senior Eric Kochanski sealed the win for the Broncos. This season, Pacific has compiled an 11-5 record. In its last match, Pacific grabbed the Big West Conference title with a 7-0 win over UC Riverside. The Tigers will travel to San Francisco on Apr. 11 to take on the Dons before hosting the Broncos.
Next Monday's match marks the end of the regular season for Santa Clara. The post season begins on Apr. 17 with the first round of the West Coast Conference tournament in San Diego.
June 24, 2009 96 Santa Clara University Student-Athletes Make Commissioner's Honor Roll Lists
May 26, 2009 Santa Clara Men's Tennis Recruiting Class Ranked No. 15 Nationally
April 24, 2009 Men's Tennis 2009 Season Comes to an End
April 23, 2009 Three Broncos Named to All-WCC Men's Tennis Team
April 19, 2009 Broncos Fall in Final Two Rounds of WCC Tournament
April 17, 2009 Men's Tennis Drops First Round Match to Pepperdine
April 16, 2009 WCC Announces Seeding and Coverage for WCC Tennis Championships
April 15, 2009 Men's Tennis Prepares for WCC Tournament
April 14, 2009 Men's Tennis Falls In Final Regular Season Match
April 9, 2009 Broncos Fall to WCC Rival USF 6-1
April 8, 2009 Men's Tennis Finishes Regular Season on the Road
April 6, 2009 Men's Tennis Fights Hard But Comes Up Short Versus LMU
April 4, 2009 Men's Tennis Wins the First of Two Matches This Weekend
April 3, 2009 Men's Tennis Seniors Prepare for Their Final Home Matches
April 1, 2009 Broncos Fall to Sacramento State 6-1
March 30, 2009 SCU Men's Tennis has Final Three Home Matches
March 22, 2009 Men's Tennis Falls at Cal Poly
March 20, 2009 Men's Tennis Travels to Cal Poly Sunday
March 15, 2009 Men's Tennis Spilts this Weekend at Home
March 12, 2009 Tennis Moves Matches for Sunday vs. Northern Colorado
March 11, 2009 Broncos Edged Out By No. 61 Spartans
March 10, 2009 Men's Tennis hosts three matches this week
March 7, 2009 Broncos Fall to WCC Rival Saint Mary's 5-2
March 4, 2009 Broncos Fall to Top Ranked Stanford
March 2, 2009 Bronco's Men's Tennis to Face Two Local Rivals This Week
March 1, 2009 Men's Tennis Match vs. Gonzaga Cancelled Sunday
March 1, 2009 Santa Clara Dominated UC Davis 5-2
February 25, 2009 SCU to Host UC Davis and Gonzaga This Weekend
February 22, 2009 Santa Clara Falls to No. 48 Denver
February 21, 2009 Men's Tennis Falls at No. 65 BYU
February 18, 2009 Broncos Travel to Utah to Play Two of Nation's Top Teams
February 16, 2009 Men's Tennis Rained Out vs. UCSB
February 14, 2009 Men's Tennis vs. UC Davis Sunday Cancelled Due to Weather
February 13, 2009 Broncos to Face Two Top UC Teams
February 11, 2009 Men's Tennis vs. USF Postponed Due To Rain
February 9, 2009 Broncos Set to Take On USF in WCC Opener
January 31, 2009 Men's Tennis Starts Dual Season with a Decisive 6-1 Victory over UCSC
January 30, 2009 SCU Men's Tennis Bringing in one of the Top Recruiting Classes Nationally
January 29, 2009 Men's Tennis to Face UCSC in Dual Season Opener
January 23, 2009 Women's Tennis Reschedules Previously Postponed Match
January 22, 2009 Men's Tennis Postpones Weekend Home Opener Due to Rain
January 21, 2009 Men's Tennis to Take on UCSC and UCD in Season Opener
November 12, 2008 Men's Tennis Signs Two Players to National Letters of Intent
October 19, 2008 Men's Tennis Competes in ITA Regional Championships
October 6, 2008 Bronco Tennis Concludes Play at Bulldog Classic
September 2, 2008 Men's Tennis to Hold Walk-On Tryouts Sept. 22-23
August 7, 2008 Men's Tennis Welcomes Assistant Coach Jakub Cech


A theory that nominal interest rates in two or more countries should be equal to the required real rate of return to investors plus compensation for the expected amount of inflation in each country.
A theory stating that real interest rates are independent of monetary considerations. According to the Fisher effect, a currency's real interest rate is equal to its nominal interest rate less the inflation rate. Thus, if the inflation rate rises, the real interest rate eventually rises as well; likewise, if inflation falls, the real interest rate will fall. See also: International Fisher Effect.
The direct relationship between inflation and interest rates. Increasing inflationary expectations result in increasing interest rates.
where R = nominal interest rate, r = real interest rate and F = rate of annual inflation. For example, if inflation is 6% in one year and the real interest rate required by lenders is 4%, then the nominal interest rate will be 10%. The inflation premium of 6% incorporated in the nominal interest rate serves to compensate lenders for the reduced value of the currency loaned when it is returned by borrowers.
The Fisher effect suggests a direct relationship between inflation and nominal interest rates, changes in annual inflation rates leading to matching changes in nominal interest rates. See INTERNATIONAL FISHER EFFECT.
When the Fisher effect is applied to the stock returns/inflation relationship, it is suggested that stocks would move one-to-one with inflation, thus making stocks a hedge for inflation.
This Fisher effect is well known and is not likely to be disputed in macroeconomic circles.
The Fisher Effect maintains that the nominal interest rate is a function of the real interest rate and the inflation rate.
Studies by McDonald and Murphy (1989), Mishkin (1992), Wallace and Warner (1993), Phylaktis and Blake (1993), Evans and Lewis (1995), Lee (2007), and Hatemi-J (2009) supported the general view that changes in nominal long-bond interest rates reflect fluctuations in expected inflation, but not to the extent of the full one-to-one Fisher effect.
Empirical findings obtained from this approach are abundant but inconclusive thus far; see Cooray (2003) and Johnson (2006) who provide excellent overviews of the theoretical and empirical issues on the Fisher effect.
First, in terms of anticipated component of inflation, we find that the Fisher effect appears to hold at short horizons, where expected inflation has insignificant short-run impacts on real stock returns but not at longer horizons and where anticipated inflation is found to have negative long-run impacts on real stock returns.
Secondary issues examined include interest-rate changes in the economy overtime and the Fisher Effect.
Even if the Fisher relation does hold, it is unlikely that the Fisher effect will be one-for-one, as implied by defining the real interest rate from the simple Fisher equation.
The International Fisher Effect (IFE) theory is an important concept in the fields of economics and finance that links interest rates, inflation and exchange rates.
Their views are shared by Mankiw , explaining that the Fisher effect did not hold during the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries due to the gold standard monetary system.
Since inflationary expectations influence nominal interest rate, the Fisher effect has far-reaching implications for debtors and creditors as well as for the effectiveness of monetary policy and efficiency in banking sector.


So I laid Betty down a few months ago. It's been an impatient nine weeks getting her back on the road. Between getting parts in, paint and fiberglass done, and finding out my front wheel had a dent in it and my tire was cupping, it's been a heck of a time.
Now that I have a new front tire and the dent in the tire has been taken out, I'm trying to figure out if I'm a little mental or if the tire just needs to be replaced. I don't know if I'm just feeling every groove and imperfection in the road or if there's something mechanically wrong with the tire.
I guess I'll give it a little more time.


Planning a wedding all on your own can be an overwhelming task, so when Erin reached out to us and we started talking about everything on her plate, we were more than happy to jump on board. Erin and Seth had a long distance relationship, not a few hours apart but across seas. Both of them had demanding jobs and weren't able to devote a lot of time to planning their wedding but that didn't mean they weren't hands on with the details. Erin found meaning in the small things, no detail left to chance because her wedding and her marriage to Seth had incredible meaning.
When we sought out venues, we looked for locations that had history and substance as well as industrial or masculine aspects to represent Seth as well. When we found Miners Foundry, everything fell into place. Grass Valley and Nevada City are both considered small towns but there were no shortage of creative artists and wedding professionals to choose from!
Here we are a year later, and still just in awe of how magical their wedding day was. Life settles back in and a new chapter unfolds in your first year of marriage. In this case, Erin and Seth welcomed a beautiful baby boy into the world this spring and have many more amazing chapters to come. Here are some of our favorite shots from their wedding captured by Artpix Portrait Studio!
Erin & Seth's wedding weekend was romantic and so special, it was truly just about them as it should be. These two have had many miles between them for much of their relationship but as husband and wife they will never part.
Congratulations on your first year of marriage!


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Family of Coalinga State Hospital Resident Says They Weren't Told He Died—Or That He Had COVID-19
Valley Public Radio | By Kerry Klein
Published January 8, 2021 at 4:07 PM PST
Department of State Hospitals
Coalinga State Hospital
In late December, Clementine Sanders called her son at Coalinga State Hospital to make sure he had received her Christmas card. That's when his bunkmates informed her that her son, 58-year-old Shannon Starr, had died three weeks earlier. "I was just totally shocked," she says. "Nobody called me."
Since then, she says, none of her messages to staff or reception have been returned. "I still wasn't notified and I still haven't heard from the [hospital]," she says.
When Sanders and her daughter instead sought out information from the Fresno County Coroner's Office, they learned that Starr's body had already been cremated and his ashes disposed of off the coast of San Luis Obispo County. "I'm just numb. I don't know what to do," Sanders says. "I'm upset. I don't know exactly who to be upset with, except for them, and I can't talk with them."
No one told Sanders that Starr had tested positive for COVID-19. According to the Fresno County Coroner's Office, Starr's official causes of death include cardiac arrest, a pulmonary embolism, and kidney failure, but he did test positive for the virus a month earlier. It's unclear if the virus played a role in his death.
Starr was one ofmore than 350 patients at Coalinga, or about a quarter of the hospital's population, to have contracted the virus. Nearly 80 of those cases were reported in just the last two weeks. Patients there complain of unsafe living conditions,including cramped living quarters and staff being allowed to float freely between quarantined and non-quarantined units, and at least one resident is so concerned for his health he's said he'drather be deported than remain at the facility. What's more, the full impact of the virus may be obscured by reports that the institution does not consistently inform families when their loved ones inside the hospital die.
Coalinga State Hospital is not a prison, but it's not a typical hospital either. It's astate-run facility that houses felons, most of whom are sexually violent predators. They've served their prison sentences, but a court has determined they're not yet fit for a life of freedom. Like many other patients and advocates, James Hydrick, who's been a patient at Coalinga for 14 years, calls it a shadow prison. "When patients die from Coalinga they die being handcuffed to a bed," he says. "They're not allowed to see their families, receive phone calls or anything."
At least twelve residents have died of COVID-19 since May. Hydrick, however, suspects the death toll is higher, claiming that many of the men who died in recent months were never tested for COVID-19. He also says that in a few cases, when he's reached out to the loved ones of those who've died, he's discovered the hospital had never informed them. "They simply feel that they have no obligation to notify family members of their loved ones' passing," he says.
In an email, Angela Bass, a public information officer with the Department of State Hospitals (DSH), says that when a patient dies, the hospital will make every effort to reach out to loved ones. "If they cannot be reached by phone, a letter is mailed to any address we have on file for the next of kin or emergency contact," she says. "If the information DSH was provided is either inaccurate or outdated, this may contribute to the delay or inability to contact the next of kin or emergency contact."
When asked why Shannon Starr's family had not been informed of his death, Bass says the department cannot legally comment on specific patients' cases.
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Kerry Klein is a radio and print reporter who's covered issues ranging from air and water quality to renewable energy and space exploration. After stints at KQED, the San Jose Mercury News, and NASA, she freelanced for outlets like The Atlantic, Science and Stanford Magazine. In 2015, she was awarded a grant from the Public Radio Exchange to report a national story on the health effects of noise pollution.
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Religion and fear of death
Religion and fear of death Why do people continue to believe stupid and false things even after you've demonstrated to them that their beliefs are stupid? https://rudd-o.com/archives/religion-and-fear-of-death https://rudd-o.com/@@site-logo/Rudd-O logo (white).svg
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Why do people continue to believe stupid and false things even after you've demonstrated to them that their beliefs are stupid?
People believe in gods and practice religions ultimately because of their fear of death.
I could write a treatise on the subject, a thousand-page book explaining why this is so. But I really don't need to do that -- all I need to do is observe one fact, and one fact only:
No religion that ever existed became popular without promising a form of life after death.
People who have been indoctrinated into believing that gods exist, all do so because they were terrorized into their beliefs when they were very young kids. This terror is deeply planted into kids' brains, which makes the belief associated to the terror extremely resistant to reason and evidence. Furthermore, this terror is usually associated with the worst kind of pain imaginable: eternal pain and suffering; the believer is literally terrified of doubting their belief, simply because he's been terrorized into believing that doubt will result in eternal pain and suffering.
In short: religion teaches kids that death is terrifyingly and eternally painful, then promises believers that believing in the dogmas of the religion will immunize them against this false, inflicted terror. It's no different a lie from the mafioso who sends someone to terrorize you, then demands that you pay him for "protection".
Fear suspends reason and logic. Primal fear even more so. Now you know why the believer is immune to logic and evidence.


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Decision to Tri: NO MORE GUILT!
SO- I've had BAD insomnia this week- chemical imbalance stuff, and the old me would do several things- I would have felt pitty and guilt and tried to self-soothe with food and feel badly that no one understood what I was going through.
BUT thanks to Jen-my emotional eating counselor's help and starting to believe the truth, I realize that I do have to miss a couple of workouts this week because of it and am just being more careful with my eating to compensate for that. The insomnia is just temporary and manageable- difficult YES, but manageable.
I LOVE this living without guilt cause really who even cared before enough about what I did that I should have felt guilt? Not my husband, or my kids. They all want me happy, healthy and free!


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Historical Analysis Shows #FoodPorn Predates the Instagram Era
by Christopher Hassiotis Aug 2, 2016
DeAgostini/Getty Images A circa-1590 painting by Francesco Codino depicted candies, lemon, crab, lemons, capers and more.
Flick through your Instagram feed and what do you find? Juicy cheeseburgers oozing with cheese. Massive steaks lathered with butter. Deep-fried candy bars atop mountains of ice cream. Towering Bloody Marys topped with bacon and corn dogs and pizza and ... enough already! Who actually eats all this? When's this crazy obsession with #craveworthy #foodporn #noms going to end? Well, if history's any guide — and it is — not any time soon.
A new study out of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab has found that at least since the 16th century C.E. Western painters have depicted food more luxurious, rare and indulgent than what people of the time actually ate from day to day.
"Our love affair with visually appealing, decadent, or status foods is nothing new," co-author Andrew Weislogel said in a press release. "It was already well-established 500 years ago."
Narrowed down from an initial group of 750 paintings, 140 Western European and American paintings depicted small, family meals. The paintings spanned 500 years and depicted a grand total of 104 different food types. Focusing on a time of change in European and American cuisines allowed the scientists to look at a context in which medieval dishes and cooking styles persisted, but innovative techniques and newly traded ingredients from around the globe were becoming more well-known.
To analyze changes over the years, the researchers grouped paintings into three categories according to year of creation: the Era of European Exploration and Colonization (1500 to 1650), the Era of Enlightenment (1651 to 1850) and the Industrial/Post-Industrial Era (1851 to 2000).
The researchers focused their examination because most paintings of feasts or banquets — think something like Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" — were hard to square with what's historically known about how real people ate from day to day.
And just as nobody today is Instagramming their microwave dinners or boring old plates of box pasta, painters of yore also avoided the humdrum of ham and chicken drumsticks. In fact, the most frequently eaten foods (which also included chicken, eggs, cheese, milk and squash) were the most infrequently painted.
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Here are some other interesting takeaways from the study: Italian paintings depicted sausages at more than twice the rate of other countries; more than half of the paintings from the Netherlands contained lemons, a nonindigenous fruit imported from the tropics; shellfish were most commonly painted in countries with the smallest coastlines, but its frequency dropped over time as shellfish became more prevalent in diets.
"Crazy meals involving less-than-healthy foods aren't a modern craving," said lead author Brian Wansink. "Paintings from what's sometimes called the Renaissance Period were loaded with the foods modern diets warn us about — salt, sausages, bread and more bread."
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British Veteran Stabbed in Bolton
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An unnamed 29-year-old veteran has been stabbed in Bolton. The veteran became homeless after years of service with the Duke of Lancaster Regiment.
The attack happened on Saturday at 11.30pm according to Chief Inspector Steph Parker. The veterans' liver has been damaged in the attack and he had to be given major surgery.
A few days ago he was also beaten up and had his possessions stolen including his passport.
Bolton Armed Forces Centre for Veterans have been in contact with the veteran
Bolton Armed Forces Centre for Veterans only made contact with the veteran a week ago. During that time he has already been attacked twice. The centre gave him a food parcel and gave him accommodation in a local hotel. They explained: "We have only just met him and really don't know anything about him, people who know him, those he served with, will have heard about what has happened because it is a close-knit community and we want them to get in touch."
Bolton Armed Forces Centre for Veterans have been supporting the man and will continue to help him as he recovers. They are waiting for him to recover from his operation before the police will work with both them and the veteran to find out what has happened and how they can help to look after the veteran.
If anyone has any information about the incident or think they may know this veteran please get in touch with The Bolton Armed Forces Centre.
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Matty Healy launches 'In Conversation' podcast series featuring Brian Eno, Stevie Nicks, Conor Oberst and more
The venture will debut later today
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The 1975's Matty Healy has announced a new 'In Conversation' podcast series in which he'll speak to "some of my friends and heroes".
Teaming up with The Face for the venture, the podcast will launch today (May 5) at 4PM on the magazine's website, with Healy's first guest being Brian Eno.
Healy has confirmed a number of special guests for his podcast, including Kim Gordon, Stevie Nicks, Bobby Gillespie and Conor Oberst.
I have done a podcast series. It will be live from 4pm today on @TheFaceMagazine website.
You can listen to me in conversation with some of my friends and heros. My guests include:
Mike Kinsella
Bobby Gillespie
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You can hear a snippet of Healy's conversation with Eno, in which the latter speaks about a bad review his 'Ambient 1: Music for Airports' album received back in 1978, below.
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Healy's band The 1975 are gearing up to release their latest album 'Notes On A Conditional Form' on May 22.
Speaking in an interview last week, Healy likened his lyric-writing method on 'Notes…' to the craft of stand-up comedy.
"The best comedians are the ones who express their biggest ideas in the fewest words, that's something I strive to do," Healy said.
"If the album isn't funny, it's deeply earnest or about my deepest fears and anxieties," he added, before saying that he thought that 'Playing On My Mind' and 'Roadkill' were "probably my funniest songs".
Later this week, The 1975 will host an online listening party for their album 'I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It'.


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In this course we will learn how to sew the most popular wedding dress design – classic dress with a full skirt and lace straps.
And we will learn how to make a perfect fitting dress to a client from a long distance, relying solely on the measurements.
Sewing a crinoline petticoat from A-Z.
How to make opaque a skirt made from thin tulle.
How to calculate skirt width so it will fit perfectly to the crinoline.
How to adjust the pattern for you client's size.
Peculiarities of long distance sewing.
How to make a "virtual" fit test.
How to use a mannequin for fit test.
What to do, when a mannequin won't fit your client's size.
This time I am sewing for a long distance client. I had a chance to take measurements off her when she was visiting but then she flew back home to another country. I have to sew the dress completely and the bride will only arrive for the last fitting when it is finished. The task is to sew this dress in such a way that only minor adjustments will have to be made at the end (and those within literally just one day).
The making of this dress is a great example of working long distance, and I am very glad I can introduce you to this side of the business. Long distance orders are very important for dressmakers who live in small towns with few local potential clients. You can expand your target audience considerably by accepting orders via own website or social networks from clients from other cities and even countries.
In long distance sewing, a lot depends on how you will present yourself to your potential clients. Needless to say that you cannot count on a high enough income if you present yourself as a prêt-à-porter wedding fashion online shop because women look for ready-made wedding dresses when they cannot afford a more expensive custom-made dress. And they are convinced that the fit of a ready-made dress will inevitably have to be improved at a local dressmaker's, which involves additional costs. Online shops (and especially those based in China) have a bad reputation for selling cheap poor quality garments. That is why you cannot expect high wages from an online shop. Your visitors will be those women looking for cheap dresses regardless of the quality!
But you can make a decent income if you present yourself as a highly qualified professional by describing all your qualifications and special skills, adding high quality pictures of your garments, and posting reviews from your clients (with a focus on long distance orders) on your social network page!
Do invest some time in studying similar websites. I, for example, really like Julina. I invite you to visit their page and study their prices. As for me, they are implementing a very well thought-out advertising policy which involves investing in quality pictures and videos. All garments are of high quality and good taste. And they have very many positive reviews. That being said, their prices are far from low! Let it be your motivation. You can do it too! Moreover, I am sure you can do even better than that! You are already experienced and skilled enough unless it is your first day at the Corset Academy and the first sewing course you have purchased from us.
I am sure that, regardless of the complicated economic situation in the world, you can make money by accepting online orders if you are serious about starting a wedding fashion business. It is something you can do even living in a small town.
The first thing that may get you puzzled about working long distance is taking measurements. I prefer to do it via Skype. Just have a video conversation with your client and ask her to tie cords around her body and take all necessary measurements before your eyes so you can control the process. It is best if she asks her sister, mum, or friend to help her. The results will be a lot more precise this way. As you can see, taking measurements off a long distance client is not a big problem today!
The main challenges begin when you stay all alone with a half-finished garment in a desperate need of an intermediate fitting to clear up all doubts. The only solution is a very good dress-form!
Let me explain what types of dress-forms are true must-haves and tell you about the ones I use. If you are familiar with my other sewing tutorials, then you know that I always recommend sewing a mock-up after the standard pattern included in the course, measuring it to obtain all standard pattern dimensions with account for your sewing habits, and analyzing the results. After doing so, you customize the pattern after your client's measurements and sew a new mock-up.
Even when I work on a garment for a new book in the regular (non distance) mode, I basically follow the same algorithm as if my client were somewhere far. I don't do any intermediate fittings but invite my models only to try on the finished garment! In other words, I always work "long distance" because I don't want to waste anyone's time. Instead, I stick to a very convenient algorithm of working with mock-ups.
The picture below shows a mock-up on a dress-form left after working on "Wedding Dresses with Sleeves."
What you see there is a regular display foam dress-form for US sizes 8-14 (Russian sizes 44-46). The packaging film protects it against glue stains during various handiwork.
This dress-form is very light and easy to work with! But it is not perfect for fittings and I need to adjust it every time to imitate a particular client's body shape. I sew a mock-up based on my client's measurements, put it on the dress-form, stuff all hollows with padding polyester or any other suitable stuffing material, and get a proper imitation of my client's figure.
The main disadvantage of my dress-form is its large size – most of my models are smaller than that. It is hardly possible to have dress-forms of all possible sizes in your atelier. There is no need in investing so much money in that, especially for a beginner! What I do instead is spread apart the two halves of the back of the garment by equal distance from the centre back line of the dress-form. You should always keep the central edges of the back strictly vertical.
The side seams must also be strictly vertical. Of course, they will get shifted toward the front of the garment if your mock-up is smaller than the dress-form, and yet they must still stay vertical!
This is how I imitate my client's figure. You can always double-check all dimensions. Practice makes perfect and with time you will develop a good understanding of peculiarities related to non-standard body types. After sewing several dresses, you will be experienced enough to notice peculiar features of your client's body via Skype.
The key challenge of sewing for a long distance client lies solely in choosing the right sewing technique. But then again, it is just as important when you work with someone in person. There are no doubts that seeing your client face to face helps you adjust the garment sooner because you will notice all flaws during an intermediate fitting. For this reason, I always recommend beginners should first practice sewing for clients whom they can meet with personally until they feel confident enough to accept long distance orders. Needless to say, there is absolutely nothing to be worried about when you work with well-proportioned women!
Now you have seen my regular display foam dress-form, perfect for handiwork, for imitating different figures, and for carrying out virtual fittings with a mock-up. You need to have at least two such dress-forms. As you can see in the picture, I have another one of just the same size. The fabric casing needs to be changed from time to time because it tends to get dirty. It can be sewn with any plain knit fabric.
And now let me show you my favourite beauty – a professional size-8 dress-form! Look what a wonderful shape! Nearly perfect!
Why do I love this dress-form? I love it for the vertical seams on the casing, for the central part with built-in cups which show where the seams should run, for the firmly fixed ribbon around the waist, and for its proper buttocks. A display dress-form always lacks fullness in the hips because it is hard to put a dress on a dress-form with proper shoulder and hip width.
With this dress-form I can squeeze the shoulders, put a garment on, and bring the shoulders back to their natural width.
A professional dress-form imitates the hips of a real woman, which makes it perfect for fitting skirts. Moreover, professional dress-forms have a cage bottom for draping the fabric and doing other similar handiwork. It is a serious advantage!
Its height adjustment mechanism is very easy to use and comes with a foot pedal. The base of the dress-form has wheels with locks.
Another great advantage of this particular dress-form is that it fully coincides with the measurements of the bride for whom I am sewing this time. It is a rare coincidence though, so I will still work with a mock-up.
- Its outer surface is too hard to stick pins in vertically, which makes it unsuitable for handiwork. The most you can do with this kind of a dress-form is form folds in certain areas of your garment. You can drape fabric by inserting pins horizontally. But, on the whole, this dress-form is only suitable for fittings.
I have to use a lightweight display dress-form which I can easily put on my lap for applying appliqué, rhinestones or other embellishments on the garment.
- It is very heavy. But it is also an advantage because the dress-form stands firmly and it is hard to knock it down by accident. This makes it perfect for working on full, heavy wedding dresses!
But the main disadvantage of a professional dress-form is its price! It will cost minimum 400 USD (I have compared prices from various online stores).
Professional dress-forms are available in a wide range of sizes: from 6 to 20. Of course, famous fashion houses and rich sewing ateliers are equipped with dress-forms of all possible sizes because they are a great help, and especially when you work with custom orders. Small private ateliers obviously cannot afford a full range of dress-forms, both financially and in terms of available work space. As for me, I bought a single professional size-8 dress-form – it is the most popular size, very easy to work with!
In conclusion, I would like to warn you against a big mistake made by basically all beginners (as follows from your E-mails and forum posts)!
They tend to start from the wrong thing: they buy expensive high quality equipment first and only then do they start searching for clients and buying various teaching materials.
Please understand that this is totally wrong!
Even the best and most up-to-date equipment will not help you if you cannot sew well enough and don't have your own client network.
I know lots of successful professionals who started their business with just a regular household sewing machine and a plain iron at hand! You don't have to buy the most expensive equipment and dress-forms straight away! My overall professional sewing experience in Russia and Israel is almost 30 years and it was not until recently that I got myself this super-expensive professional dress-form. And I was quite satisfied with regular display dress-forms and never experienced any particular problems before. Although sometimes I had to adapt to the situation, I always knew I could carry out intermediate fittings even with the help of those plain display dress-forms.
I won't deny that a professional dress-form is a real beauty worth a little envy!
But I would like to emphasize that a couple of plain foam dress-forms and inexpensive sewing equipment is enough for a start!


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I didn't intend to write about food again this week, but after I published a chess pie recipe last week, and mentioned my recipe for an apple pie with a coconut topping, I received requests for it. This one goes back to Ron's and my Hawaiian honeymoon in the mid 1970's. His Uncle Al, a boy from the dusty, dry, isolated town of Abilene, Texas went to Honolulu during the second world war, married a Japanese girl and settled down there where they raised four children in a small cottage in St Louis Heights. From their cottage one had a sweeping view down to the endless blue Pacific. One look at that view and I knew why Uncle Al never returned to the mainland. Abilene? Or Honolulu? Not a hard choice.
In a large bowl, combine all of the ingredients except the butter and toss gently so that all the apples slices are evenly coated. Add the mixture to the pie shell and then dot the butter evenly over the top.
Cut a circle of double thickness of aluminum foil large enough to cover the filling. Press this foil gently over the filling.
Combine 2 cups shredded sweetened coconut ( I use Baker's) with 1/2 cup granulated sugar, and 1 beaten egg.
After 30 minutes, take the pie from the oven and remove the foil. Spread the coconut topping evenly over the apple filling. Return to the oven, uncovered, for 15 minutes, or until the filling is bubbly and the coconut is slightly browned all over. Watch it so that it doesn't burn! If the edges of the pie crust start to get too brown, cover with strips of foil for the last few minutes of baking.
Cool on a wire rack for at least two hours before serving.
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Why Freedom Park?
Why Fort Schanskop?
Why the Voortrekker Monument?
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After the Jameson Raid in 1896, Pres Paul Kruger of the "Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek" decided to protect Pretoria by constructing forts in strategic places. Eight forts were to be built initially, but due to a shortage of funds, only four were completed.
Fort Schanskop was completed in 1897 and was built in such a way to avert possible attacks on Pretoria from the Johannesburg and Lourenco Marques railway line, as well as from the Johannesburg road. By mounting revolving artillery on the embankment of the fort, attacks from all directions could be warded off.
The Historical Monument Commission declared Schanskop a historical monument in 1938. It was decided to establish a military museum in Pretoria in 1962. Fort Klapperkop was selected for this purpose, but this museum was later expanded to include Schanskop.
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Deliberations covered in this episode: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, and Drama.
The opening for this episode is the OP for Angolmois called "Braver" by Straightener. The closing for this episode is the ED for Megalobox called "Kakatte Koi yo" by NakamuraEmi.
i say kill la kill is anime of the year!
fragoff wrote: i say kill la kill is anime of the year!
I'd legitimately never review something I've been badgered about. If you expect an unswayed review, at least.
Fullmetal-Senpai wrote: I'd legitimately never review something I've been badgered about. If you expect an unswayed review, at least.
Doesn't matter. The review is already done.
So y'all are just being annoying for funsies then?
No. We are having fun to annoy you.
This should have been titled as "Preview for the Fall 2018 Reviews" since I'm curious on why you say the things about the Fall 2018 shows you do especially Merc Storia since it was one and drop for me.
Planet With is totally an action show. It seems to me that Andrew doesn't like CG action for some reason.
I hate to say this but Full Metal Panic Invisible Victory is the fourth season of Full Metal Panic. It counts Fumoffu as the second season not a spinoff. If you look at the title card, you noticed that Invisible Victory is shortened as IV which is the Roman numeral for four.
I think there shouldn't be an episode limit for shows that have multiple seasons to exclude them for the year like with Seven Deadly Sins. I get that you don't want shows like Black Clover or want to focus on new IPs (I rather want you guys used this as an excuse) but saying that shows with multiple seasons shouldn't count even though they qualify for the year because of past episode counts is wrong. You guys can easily judge the new season of a show as its separate thing without the past ones.


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Is Patrick Mahomes' $500 million contract actually team-friendly? Answering eight questions on the Chiefs QB's deal
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While there's a huge total value on paper, the guarantees and the short-term cash flow of the deal don't blow away the competition. So much of what makes this deal truly staggering doesn't guarantee until 2026 or start arriving in Mahomes' bank account until 2027, and by then, it might not be a stratospheric deal.
Find out why he states this here…
The Black Mamba: Kobe Bryant and the Power of Focus
An excellent write up on Kobe Bryant's development into "The Black Mamba", and how he developed and applied the philosophy of "The Mamba Mentality" in his life. This philosophy inspired others to implement in their lives. Read more here:
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ICAP at IAS 2019: Connecting People to Care and Accelerating HIV Epidemic Control
Aug 15, 2019 | News
Improving linkage to care, reducing barriers, and accelerating HIV epidemic control were major themes for ICAP at the 10th International AIDS Society (IAS) Conference on HIV Science held from July 21-24 in Mexico City.
During the four-day conference, ICAP organized several satellite sessions and presented more than a dozen scientific posters highlighting ICAP's work around the world. One abstract, "Optimizing treatment models for people living with HIV in urban Zimbabwe," received the prestigious IAS/MSD Prize for operational and implementation research in differentiated service delivery.
ICAP organized two satellite sessions to showcase the work of the CQUIN Learning Network: one focused on how differentiated service delivery (DSD) could enhance the quality of care for patients with advanced HIV disease, and the other explored the use of DSD in support of tuberculosis (TB) preventive therapy. At the satellite on DSD for HIV/TB, CQUIN advisory committee member Cordelia Katureebe, MBChB, national coordinator for HIV care and treatment for the Uganda Ministry of Health, spoke about Uganda's efforts to integrate DSD into national guidelines and support for health care workers to improve TB preventive therapy (TPT) for people living with HIV.
"First, as a national program, we've instituted a Quality Improvement Collaborative to support frontline workers in starting people living with HIV on TPT," Katureebe said. "Secondly, we have just started a 100-day acceleration plan to initiate TPT among at least 50 percent of those eligible, which translates to around 300,000 recipients of care. This is quite ambitious, but in the last two weeks we saw over 50,000 people being put on TPT!"
At the satellite session on eliminating HIV-related stigma and discrimination, organized by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and facilitated by ICAP, ICAP project lead Cassia Wells, MD, MPH, MA, presented results from a stigma and discrimination survey completed by implementers from various U.S. government agencies funded by the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). In her opening remarks, Ambassador Birx thanked ICAP and CDC for assembling the data and noted the necessity of reducing stigma and discrimination as a major barrier to care, especially for key populations.
"If you look at improvement in HIV incidence or mortality, all the lines are going down except in regions that have key population epidemics—illustrating that our deepest problem still is access," Birx said.
A satellite session co-organized by ICAP and the University of California, San Francisco, provided an update on the TRACE (Tracking with Recency Assays to Control the Epidemic) project, a program funded by PEPFAR that provides technical assistance to support the roll-out of HIV recency testing and recency surveillance systems in selected countries, as part of a comprehensive response to the HIV epidemic.
"The new point-of-care recency test is very exciting because it provides an opportunity to improve the health of people living with HIV, and at the same time advance public health efforts towards epidemic control," said Jessica Justman, MD, ICAP's senior technical director and ICAP principal investigator of the TRACE project.
ICAP staff participated in a number of other satellite sessions, including a discussion of targets for the year 2025 in the global AIDS response, the first year of implementation following updated World Health Organization guidelines on first-line treatment for people living with HIV, the launch of the Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free report for 2019, and a session on "sticky linkage" to HIV care where ICAP highlighted its "I-Surge" approach to enhance linkage and ART initiation.
In addition to ICAP posters and presentations the IAS conference itself, ICAP's Andrea Howard, MD, MS, director of ICAP's clinical and training unit, presented on TB prevention in HIV-associated TB at the IAS TB/HIV pre-conference symposium on July 20. At the same meeting, Peter Preko, MBChB, MPH, CQUIN program director, presented on field experiences with DSD implementation at a session on scaling up TB preventive treatment among people living with HIV.
At the 11th International Workshop on HIV Pediatrics on July 19-20, for which ICAP's senior research director, Elaine J. Abrams, MD, serves on the organizing committee, ICAP's Suzue Saito, PhD, MIA, MA, project director for TRACE and lead strategic information advisor for the PHIA (Population-based HIV Impact Assessment) project, presented data from PHIA surveys on the overall burden of pediatric HIV and the progress toward the UNAIDS 90-90-90 targets for children living with HIV. ICAP also presented two posters on work in the Manzini Region of Eswatini and one on early infant diagnosis in Mozambique.
"The IAS Conference provided an opportunity to share experiences with others from around the world on ways to inform the design and implementation of interventions and programs to advance progress towards control of the HIV epidemic," said Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH, MPA, ICAP's global director.
The full listings for ICAP posters and presentations at IAS and the pediatrics workshop are online. IAS listings include links to session details on the IAS website, which may feature slides and audio or video recordings.
To find the latest ICAP research, click "Publications" on the Tools & Resources section of ICAP's website.
A global health leader since 2003, ICAP was founded at Columbia University with one overarching goal: to improve the health of families and communities. Together with its partners—ministries of health, large multilaterals, health care providers, and patients—ICAP strives for a world where health is available to all. To date, ICAP has addressed major public health challenges and the needs of local health systems through 6,000 sites across more than 30 countries. For more information about ICAP, visit: icap.columbia.edu


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dc.description National Newark and Essex Banking Company memorial resolution expressing appreciation for Felix Fuld, who died on January 20, 1929. Fuld was Louis Bamberger's business partner and the husband of Louis' sister, Caroline Bamberger Frank Fuld. Louis Bamberger and Felix Fuld worked together closely, so the loss of Fuld played a significant role in Bamberger's decision to sell the retail business. This hand-calligraphed, multi-page document reflecting on Fuld's character and providing specific details about his affiliation with this Company closes with a page of signatures by its Board of Directors.
dc.publisher Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, USA
dc.subject Fuld, Felix, 1868-1929
dc.subject National Newark & Essex Banking Company (N.J.)
dc.title Felix Fuld memorial resolution
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Have you noticed the lack of activity from the candidates?
The election is today (Saturday, December 15, 2018).
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People are giving up on local government. Read today's Times article about donations to the District 1 and 8 incumbents.
Yep, the folks who own the Council are not even shy about advertising that any longer. And of course most of the non-voters…or even the few voters…will not read or hear this news.
Ever notice how few people have the time to vote, but have plenty of time to complain on the internet?
If you didn't vote – SHUT UP!
Your opinion matters less than your vote.


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Amazon is currently running their best promotion ever for Amazon Music Unlimited. The offer gives you 4 months of music service for free with no purchase required and you don't even need to be a Prime member. The terms of the offer say it is only for new subscribers, but it turns out that that is not true. If you tried Amazon Music Unlimited in the past, but are not currently subscribed, you too can get in on this deal and get 4 months for free.
When I posted about this deal yesterday, I explained that it was only for new subscribers, as the terms of the offer stated, but several readers have commented that previous subscribers do qualify. It turns out that after a few months of not having an active subscription, you're considered a new subscriber once again and your account will again qualify for offers that are only available to new subscribers.
I tried it myself and, sure enough, it worked even though I was previously an Amazon Music Unlimited subscriber. Red text, saying that the offer was invalid, appeared on the offer page for me, but I proceeded anyway and signed up. I then checked my Amazon Music Subscription Settings. Even though it says "Free trial ends December 4, 2018" at the top, lower down on the page it says "On December 4, 2018, your Unlimited subscription will renew at $0.00/month. The following promotion applies after your free trial: 4 months free." which verifies that I did qualify for the offer.
Also it says $9.99 for individual plan for me but you have $7.99. Is it because you're Prime member?
Yes, the red "invalid" text was on the page that loads after clicking the "Try now" link. I continued and still got the 4 free months.
And yes, the $7.99 price is because I'm a Prime member.
Perfect. Thanks for the confirmation.
Nope it says promomdors not apply and wants to charge me. Need a better explanation.
Have you been previous Music Unlimited subscriber and if yes how long ago? There is certain period of time which needs to pass before you'll considered "new" subscriber again.
A commenter in the other post said that 5 months needs to pass. I wasn't able to verify that, so I didn't include that info in the post. For me, it has been over a year since I was a subscriber.
jp i have the same issue. Last year black friday i think 3 months for .99 Not working for me this time around.
Mine just says "The following promotion applies: Prime Day Promotion." So unsure of the length of the free trial, but it says I'm being charged $0.00 in December, so I'm fine until at least January. Thanks for the heads up!
Yep. Appears to have worked for me. I had the red ! warning but account says the full promo starts in Dec. I did have a free sub for about three weeks back in Feb. great deal. Thanks for heads up.
Well – the first link (posted in this article) will take you to the Promotion landing page. There you'll click on the blue "Try now >" link which will take you to the standard Amazon sign-in page (unless you're already signed in at your current browser session) and after that to normal Music Unlimited subscribe page. If the BIG orange button at the bottom page doesn't say "Start your 30-day free trial" then indeed you'll get charged. Otherwise you'll start at worst case normal 30 day trial and at best 3+1 months trial.
Same here last time they had a joke of a promo that was mentioned here. Call CS and demand a refund.
Its not uncommon with Amazon offers that they reset after a while, I usually visit the US once every 1-2 years and always qualify for free Prime trial.
When I click the Try Now link it brings up a page that includes the red invalid promotion text along with monthly subscriptions options. It has a blue join button and states I will be charged $7.99. Since it doesn't say start a 30 day free trial on the button, I am pretty sure it won't work. I had a sub last black Friday, but nothing since. I think you need to update the article to mention that the button has to say start your 30 day trial.
Yep. I got charged. Had to call Amazon for cancelation and CC refund.
Did that last time they had a joke of a promo and I got charged. Same with YT Red related but yes I was a current sub and it said I can get it for free a month but I was still charged.
Call support and demand a refund I got a refund on both joke of a service.
They need to stop with this new subscriber only crap when you buy a Echo or a expansive speaker current or past sub still should quality for the free months. A real scam as only Pandora (T-mobile one day deal) or Apple Music give you free months even if you are a an current or past sub. BTW I sub to both as they are honest.
Now, I'm a Prime member and an Echo Dot owner having bought one from Amazon about a year ago, and like others here, I think I signed up for my first Amazon Music trial during their special promotion about a year ago.
The text underneath the graphic also says the offer will expire at 11:59 pm Pacific time on November 7.
But when I clicked to actually take advantage of the promotion, it took me to a new page where it said in red, "The promotion is not valid." And the only other content on the page seemed to be an orange box to click and start a $7.99 per month subscription.
Ahh… now that I think about it, I also had an Amazon Music on Echo Dot only promotion a few months back, so that may have done me in.
Bunch or greedy liars. Don't do business with scam companies like Amazon and Google.
Did you read one of the early posts above? It is explained there.
Unsuccessful here. I have not had Amazon Music in the past year, so not sure why I did not qualify for this glitch (or perhaps they have corrected their error?).
CS issued a refund quickly and easily, though.
Well that did not work, no free 4 months and got charged 9.99. normal Amazon cra*.


IoT module featuring LoRa® technology is a small wireless transceiver module offers a very compelling mix of long range, low power consumption and secure data transmission.It is designed to facilitate developers to quickly deploy industrial level LoRa and IoT solutions. It helps users to turn the idea into a practical application and make the Internet of Things a reality. It is easy to program, create and connect your things everywhere.
The module's wireless part is based on SX1276/SX1278 which allows the user to send data and reach extremely long ranges at low data-rates.It provides ultra-long range spread spectrum communication and high interference immunity whilst minimising current consumption.It targets professional wireless sensor network applications such as irrigation systems, smart metering, smart cities, smartphone detection, building automation, and so on.
The module's MCU part use STM32l0x chip from ST, STML0x is the ultra-low-power STM32L072xx microcontrollers incorporate the connectivity power of the universal serial bus (USB 2.0 crystal-less) with the high-performance ARM® Cortex®-M0+ 32-bit RISC core operating at a 32 MHz frequency, a memory protection unit (MPU), high-speed embedded memories (192 Kbytes of Flash program memory, 6 Kbytes of data EEPa0 Kbytes of RAM) plus an extensive range of enhanced I/Os and peripherals via industrial standard M.2 (NGFF) pin interface.
Dragino IoT module featuring LoRa® technology is an open source product, it is based on the STM32Cube HAL drivers, with customer application examples, the user can program the IoT module via USART1, USART2 or STLINK. The factory firmware supports LoRaWAN 1.0.2 specification and the user can use AT Command to set up it and use for their project directly. The user can re-compile the firmware to support different LoRaWAN Frequency, includes: EU868, AS925, AU915, CN470, CN779, EU433, IN865, KR920, US915.


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Here is a copy of a recent email response to a customer that was asking questions about CCTV Camera Pros iDVR-E8 – 8 channel stand alone surveillance DVR.
8 channel video input – what connectors BNC or RCA?
The DVR used BNC connectors.
What NIC (10/100/1000) is supplied to connect to a LAN router for network viewing?
Is there provision to install a SATA/IDE DVDROM drive?
There is a USB port is you want to use an externa, DVD drive to export video.
What frame rate when recording ie 120pps/8 = 15pps per channel?
You are correct. All iDVRs support 120 frames per second recording. So for an 8 channel DVR, that is 15FPS per camera.
I have already an installed security camera system connected to a DVR H.264, can I replace my DVR with the iDVR-E8, by connecting all my existing cameras to it? My camera are not IP cameras. They are 1/3'Sony CCD IR cameras.
Yes, you can use your existing CCTV cameras as long as they use either a BNC or RCA type of connection.
Yes, we can ship to Australia.
Is software supplied for internet access and iPhone 3Gs viewing?
Yes the remote viewing software is supplied for both remote computer access as well as 3G mobile phone viewing.
As clarification: I do or don't need a computer connected to the DVR to view the cameras remotely? I am really looking for something to monitor on my smartphone and really don't want to leave a computer connected to the DVR.
That is correct. You do not need a computer connected to the DVR to view the cameras remotely. You only need a computer if you want to view from a computer. If you will access from mobile, then no PC is required.
More clarification: If I want to view the camera on a smartphone, I'm probably not going to get 512kbps. The system will adjust framerate and/or resolution to fit down a smaller datarate, right?
You are correct. The video streamed to mobile is much smaller than to a computer and requires less bandwidth. The frame rate that you get on your phone will be dependent on how fast your Internet connection from your phone is.
Is the pan-tilt-zoom control manipulatable via the blackberry interface?
PTZ controls are not yet supported for the mobile access of this DVR.
Are there any demo screen captures of what this looks like on a Blackberry or Windows Mobile?
One more question, will the iDVR-E8 support GV-iView for my iPhone 3GS access? Is the remote viewing software similar to Netviewer v. 1.2?
You can access the iDVR from the safari web browser on your iPhone. Here is a link to a video that shows how it works. Remote access will work with WIFI or 3G access from your iPhone.
The GV-iView iPhone app is used for Geovision surveillance camera systems, not our iDVR stand alone DVR system.


Today's featured video is from recent This Is Jazz Today recommendation, Jakob Davidsen's Kammerat Orkester performing live at the 2011 Copenhagen Jazz Festival.
Their new album Og Andre Dyr is a curious combination of introspective chamber music and effusive jazz improvisation. Good stuff. Go check it out.
Your video personnel: Jakob Davidsen (piano), Peter Fuglsang (clarinet), Jakob Munck (horns), John Ehde (cello), Lars Andreas Haug (tuba) and Francois Merville (drums).


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Well, what a brilliant set of RAJAR results for commercial radio! The highest ever reach figures, strong year on year growth for the national commercial stations and networks, and record results for the UK's only national commercial speech station – talkSPORT.
There will no doubt be a few bottles of bubbly open over at Leicester Square today as the team over at Global celebrates strong results for both Heart London and Capital London. Capital have hit their highest reach in more than six years and the Johnny and Lisa breakfast show again rules the airwaves, even beating Radio 1's Chris Moyles (by 100,000).
In the digital world Jazz FM have achieved their highest ever figures of 495,000 and the Kiss Network (which includes the FM stations) has also performed well bringing in over 4 million listeners. As a whole Digital Radio listening has performed well, now achieving a 26.5% share and a 43.1% weekly reach. And, with 38% of people now claiming to have a DAB set at home Digital Radio UK will be hoping these figures will continue to grow.
Commercial Radio as a whole has performed well verses the BBC, now achieving a share of listening of 42.6% verses the BBC's 55%. It is on a local level that commercial radio delivers, with 27 million listeners compared to 10 million for the BBC's local and regional services. Across the board UK Radio has every right to be happy, as a new record of 91.6% of the population tune in to listen every week, delivering over 1,000 million hours.In the London marketplace Capital London has regained the number one spot after a strong set of figures that saw them reach 2,179,000, an increase of 11% on last quarter. Capital also improved on their listening hours to award them with the highest listening share in London, 6.1%. After four consecutive quarters as London's number one station Magic 105.4 has now come in at second place in terms of share with 5.3% (1,998,000 reach). LBC's consistently strong hours have helped them finish third in the London share table with 5.1%. Like Capital, Heart London also improved on their last quarter results increasing their reach by 19% to 2,107,000 and achieving a share of 4.9%, making them the fourth placed London station. Sticking with share Kiss 100 come in at fifth place with 4.7% (1.8 million listeners) a long way ahead of their next closest rival. Note, Classic FM in London delivered over 1.4 million listeners with a share of 5%.
The much talked about 'battle of the breakfast shows' has been won again by Johnny and Lisa on Capital Radio London.
The duo managed to bring in over 1.2 million listeners to their 6-10am breakfast show ensuring they keep a strong grip on their number one spot. Improved results from Jamie and Harriet on Heart London (6-9am) sees them climb up to second place with 860,000 listeners. Whilst Neil Fox's Magic FM breakfast show (5-9am) has dropped off slightly to third with 839,000 listeners. Kiss 100's Rickie, Melvin and Charlie (6-9am)have also seen a slight drop, now delivering 761,000 listeners leaving them in fourth position.
Briefly looking around the regions; in York, Minster FM reached 86,000 adults (28% of all available adults in their TSA – Total Survey Area). In Weston-Super-Mare the micro station Nova Radio delivered 19,000 listeners (14%). Broadcasting in Glasgow Clyde 1 FM, which is a part of the new Bauer Place Portfolio, pulled in 579,000 (31%) and in Blackpool Radio Wave 96.5 FMachieved 80,000 listeners (33%).
Focusing on the North East, the recently re-branded Capital North East has seen a drop in performance as it delivered a reach of 565,000 listeners, down from 604,000 last quarter (more on that rebrand later).
Metro Radio (366,000), Star North East (42,000) and the regional station Real Radio North East (347,000) have all increased their reach quarter on quarter. Whilst TFM and the third regional station, Smooth Radio North East have remained static with 191,000 and 374,000 respectively.
Classic FM remains the most listened to (single) commercial radio station in the UK with a reach of 6 million adults, showing a year on year increase of 10%. But when looking at the national stations it is the Sony Award winning UK station of the year talkSPORT that should take all the plaudits as they have again brought in record figures of 3.2 million listeners! The station has achieved a 37% year on year increase and was up on last quarter's record figures. Rumours persist about the possible sale of Absolute Radio and these latest figures, which show a slight overall improvement on last quarters, may make them more attractive to potential suitors. Total Absolute Radio have improved their reach slightly to almost 1.4 million and the Absolute Radio Network as a whole is up to 2.3 million thanks to the inclusion of Absolute Radio 00s which delivered 170,000. Their range of digital stations have had mixed results; Absolute Radio 90s is up and now reaches 317,000, Absolute Radio Classic Rock is also up (342,000), whilst Absolute Radio 80s dropped off slightly to 624,000.
Digital listening has grown slightly to account for a 26.5% share of all radio listening, with a weekly reach of 43.1% of people listening to digital radio, either through DAB; DTV; the internet or 'other'.
The latest RAJAR figures recorded 19.7 million adults (38%) as claiming to live in a household which has a DAB receiver. Bauer's digital stations continue to remain strong in the digital only UK market. The Hits and Smash Hits both achieved over 1 million listeners, making them the two most listened to commercial digital only stations. The independently owned Planet Rock takes third position achieving year on year growth of 14.8% and now reaching 797,000 listeners.
The UK's largest commercial radio group is Global Radio (19.6 million listeners), the owners of the Heart Network of stations which delivers 7.4 million listeners across the UK. This January saw Global Radio rebrand a number of their stations to Capital Radio, backed by a star studded TV commercial Capital are really going after the Radio 1 audience. This is the first set of RAJAR figures to measure the stations since the rebrand and surprisingly there has been little change with the results, as the stations still have a combined reach of 6.7 million (for more information on this rebrand please feel free to contact a member of the RadioWorks team). Bauer Radio is the second largest commercial group, with a 13.4 million reach. GMG Radio who recently launched Smooth on to the National DAB platform achieving a reach of 3 million, have seen their overall reach increase to 5.3 million. UTV Radio, including those impressive results from talkSPORT, delivers 4.4 million reach.
This is the first set of RAJAR results for a number of stations including Absolute Radio 00s (170,000), GEM 106 in the East Midlands (470,000) and all the newly rebranded Capital Radio stations.
Sunrise Radio, which broadcasts in London on analogue and across the UK via digital (online and DAB) has shown a year on year increase of 5.6% and now achieves a reach of 469,000. Colourful Radio delivered 27,000 listeners, while Buzz Asia and Premier Christian Radio (both in London) delivered 111,000 adults and 135,000 adults respectively.
Finally, listening to the radio via a mobile phone… 11% of adults and almost 29% of 15-24's claim to listen in this way. Many radio stations are now providing smartphone apps to enhance the mobile listening experience, and a recent RAJAR study has found that 20% of all Smartphone owners have a radio app. While podcasts are also proving very popular – Absolute Radio alone had 3.6 million podcasts downloaded in March 2011 (with Frank Skinner's show achieving 883,000).


lol at the Scandinavian one ... so true.
LOL Dane Devils sounds badass in english, it's not quite the same in Swedish.
The heart of a true romantic.
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YOU must desist from conflict-ridden and tribal remarks against medical personnel at Kalene Mission Hospital, Ikelenge District commissioner Victor Kayekesi has warned residents.
Mr Kayekesi called on residents to support new health personnel who have been deployed at the mission hospital.
This is aimed at addressing the human capital challenges that the health facility has been facing.
Mr Kayekesi told the residents during a public meeting that it was important that they embraced and supported the newly deployed staff at the health facility.
''It is my humble appeal to the people of Kalene which also covers Nyakaseya to embrace and give maximum support to the health personnel that have been deployed at the mission hospital to address the human capital challenge that the health facility has been grappling with for some time now,'' Mr Kayekesi said.
He said Government was committed to rolling out quality health care services to all parts of the country adding that no one should working to frustrate government's efforts aimed at achieving universal health coverage.
Meanwhile, Kalene health affiliate chairperson Christopher Kapinga thanked the government for superseding in the human resource crises at the health facility.
He assured the government that the committee would give full support to the health personnel that have been deployed at the facility.
Government has deployed four medical doctors at the hospital to cushion the shortage of medical personnel.


It's a Grab Bag Monday! I have a loose tradition to re-post this each January.
Which is your favorite month of the year? Of course, January is everyone's best-loved month, right?
Years ago January was last on my list. Back then I didn't like cold weather, and January just seemed like a bleak, blustery, colorless month that had to be endured. I wondered if a person could get in on the bears' hibernation deal.
What changed? Maybe it was when I got married in a January wedding. Suddenly there was a permanent bright spot on the calendar that time every year. Also around that time I launched into my transition from a hot-weather loving/cold-weather shunning girl into quite the opposite.
Whatever the reason, I now like the first month of the year. While not my absolute favorite, it does have its charms. Yes, after Christmas and New Year's, life resumes with the hustle and bustle of daily routines. …But overall, there seems to be a quiet simplicity that hushes the land. A brisk stillness that can be seen in bare tree branches and blankets of snow. It's as if nature has paused for a moment.
It's a welcome chance for me to pause as well, reminiscing with a smile about the holidays, being grateful for countless blessings, and feeling hopeful about the time ahead. Maybe that's also why I'm drinking hot chocolate more often–it's a chance to warm up and take a moment to stop and just think…often a rarity in our busy days.
What about you? Is there anything you like about January? What's your favorite month?