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Balsam Lake Provincial Park
A forested oasis in the Kawartha Lakes community, Balsam Lake Provincial Park offers outdoor recreation seekers the ideal escape. Set on the northern shore of Balsam Lake across the way from Indian Point, you can catch views across the water to Grand Island. The park provides numerous outdoor sports opportunities, including popular water activities like kayaking, canoeing, boating and fishing.
A large beach is the perfect spot for sunbathing and beachcombing, while the bulk of the park is forested with a handful of hiking and cycling trails. Because of its uber-natural environment, Balsam Lake Provincial Park also contributes to the excellent birding opportunities in the area. Those who wish to spend the night can set up a tent or park an RV at the campgrounds or opt to rent the lakeside cottage.
You'll find Balsam Lake Provincial Park in the Kawartha Lakes area, connected to the famous Trent-Severn Waterway. Not far from Toronto, Balsam Lake Provincial Park is just over an hours' drive north of Peterborough.
We recommend visiting Balsam Lake Provincial Park's website for up-to-date information and details on its facilities. For more information about the resort and other places of interest to explore nearby, keep scrolling to see what Destination Ontario recommends.
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More about Balsam Lake Provincial Park
Balsam Lake Provincial Park is nearly 450 hectares of forested land, with part of its property hugging the northern shore of Balsam Lake. Its location in Kawartha Lakes contributes to a vast natural and rural area well known for recreational opportunities.
As you may guess, the most popular activities at Balsam Lake Provincial Park include water sports. The park features a long sandy beach with protective buoys for swimming, and you can also rent paddle boats, kayaks and canoes. If you have a boat, you're welcome to bring it — there's plenty of trailer parking and a ramp into the water. The park also offers a free 2-hour educational program called 'Learn to Fish' where you can practice your fishing skills, regardless of ability. Afterward, try your luck catching some of the lake species, including Walleye, Muskellunge and Bass.
If you're more of an on-land person, there is still plenty to enjoy at Balsam Lake Provincial Park. Two main hiking trails take you through the forested areas of the property. The Lookout Trail is 2.6 km long and winds through 10,000-year-old eskers and kames (glacial channels and hills) to a panoramic viewpoint. The Plantation Trail is slightly longer at 4.2 km and sticks mostly to the forest. You can complete either in under two hours.
Paved roads throughout the park's campgrounds offer cycling routes. And if you're interested in birding, you'll find a long list of species that call Balsam Lake home, including hummingbirds, loons, hawks, osprey, woodpeckers, orioles and owls. Families can enjoy the playground and picnic areas, and kids can take advantage of a summer Discovery Program that offers various events and activities throughout the park. Other facilities include a convenience store, laundromat and pet area.
Watching the sunset at Balsam Lake is the perfect way to end a busy day boating on the water and trekking through the forest. If you wish to stay the night, the park has several campgrounds that accommodate different camping styles. Some allow group, car and RV camping with electricity. But to preserve the tranquillity of nature, some campsites are radio-free, dog-free or walk-in only. To ensure that you secure the campground you want, it's best to reserve sites in advance (up to five months).
The park also offers a four-bedroom cabin for nightly rentals. The cottage sleeps up to eight and includes a kitchen and restrooms. Much like the campgrounds, it's best to reserve the house as early as possible.
While here, explore more of the Kawartha Lakes region. Balsam Lake Provincial Park sits on one of the largest water bodies in the Kawartha Lakes. This area contains a string of other lakes and many smaller lagoons, ponds and marshes. If you feel like exploring the region outside of Balsam Lake, you'll find endless recreation opportunities and some historic townships.
For additional fishing and boating hotspots, check out some of the other lakes, such as Sturgeon Lake and Pigeon Lake. Although Balsam Lake features several bird species, the best area for birding is the expansive Carden Plain Important Bird Area near Kirkfield. And if you wish to go a bit further on your bike, there are longer trails that take you throughout the Kawartha Lakes area. Great cycling routes include The Ganaraska Trail, Kawartha Trans Canada Trail and Victoria Rail Trail Corridor. These trails are also pleasant walking and hiking pathways or cross-country skiing destinations in the winter.
If you're up for perusing some of the quaint villages, start in Fenelon Falls, which isn't too far from Balsam Lake Provincial Park. Explore a beautiful waterfall, fine-dining restaurants, art galleries and an expansive park overlooking Cameron Lake. History buffs and art lovers will enjoy Lindsay, which hosts a historic theatre and exciting architecture. Lindsay is a great place to start the self-guided Kawartha Lakes Arts and Heritage Trail, which stops at several art galleries, studios and shops in the region.
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"I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old." George Canning
I've written before about how cinephiles were turning to the past for their film-viewing experiences in 2020. But that isn't to say there wasn't new content worth seeing. The usual glut of tentpole titles was considerably lessened as major blockbusters were either continuously delayed or exclusively launched online. Independent films, particularly in the United States, provided a stark contrast to the big-budget spectacles whose underwhelming results ultimately made them look culturally irrelevant in a year where cries for change were voiced throughout the world with a ferocious immediacy not seen in a generation.The exceptional circumstances facing our planet are commensurate with transforming perceptions of history, environmental stewardship, and social justice. If perception is linked with spectatorship, then the film industry's complicity in sustaining a flawed cultural hegemony's popular imagery has thrust it into an uneasy position. The films which were released in 2020 spoke, in turn, to the tumult shaping that unease as democratic ideals were called into question and a vicious pandemic ravaged the planet, stripping bare the systemic inequities which have nowhere left to hide. These heterogeneous films all grappled, in one way or another, with the question of how we sustain and grow interpersonal connections in a world that has irrevocably transformed.
10. The Grand Bizarre
Jodie Mack's shorts have all, to varying degrees, dispelled the notion that avant-garde films cannot meld thematic depth with brevity. Like Don Hertzfeldt, her droll humor informs her formal experimentation, and The Grand Bizarre is arguably her most elaborate exploration of life within late-stage capitalism. It's certainly her longest; at just a hair over an hour, the film's cascading mosaic patterns provide jolts of rich color that alternate at varying speeds. Their geometric precision stems from an ancient tradition of mathematical inquiry, one Mack contemporizes through recurring images of travel via maps woven into the fabric. This transnational exchange of material goods, and its connection to practices of labor, is personalized in the way Mack vivifies the positively haptic quality of her patterns. The Grand Bizarre, then, is a meditative bout of sensory overload, one whose formal dexterity playfully celebrates the act of creation beyond consumption.
9. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets
The boozy limbo of Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets rides a wafting cloud of nostalgia for an imagined space. This peculiar sociological experiment from the Ross brothers observes the customers of a (fictional) bar on its closing day with plenty of disarming resonance. The indescribably poignant moment a group of people, practically strangers, suddenly stop what they're doing to drunkenly sway to the whispered crooning of Percy Sledge puts to music a yearning many of them can't fully articulate. While their environment is constructed, their regret and anger is anything but. The function of the film's setting for airing grievances and offering dire warnings of wasted potential gives credence to the notion that communities in modern America are forged as much by necessity as they are out of genuine kinship. "I'm not your family," a grizzled actor (Michael Martin) growls to a stoolie pouring his heart out. "I'm just somebody you drink with." It's an unsentimental, even grim summation of this generation's The Iceman Cometh.
8. David Byrne's American Utopia
The collaboration between two artists as different as Spike Lee and David Byrne is something few could have anticipated. Yet while the latter's name appears in the title, the joyful surprise of David Byrne's American Utopia is that the creative and sociopolitical concerns of the two are wholly in sync with each other. Byrne's penchant for international musical influences intersects with Lee's chronicling of America's multicultural popular history and its myriad contradictions. How can the Broadway show Byrne mounts with a slew of talented musicians and performers truly emblematize democratic ideals when it's contingent upon the presence of its eponymous star? This quandary does little to diminish the way Lee emphasizes the liminal contours of the stage Byrne and his troupe prance around. While the rousing rendition of Road to Nowhere provides a direct connection with the audience, it's the cover of Talmbout, which features Lee's recognizably Brechtian insertion of real-life figures impacted by systemic racism and police violence, that remains the show's heart-stopping centerpiece. The presence of ordinary Americans within a theatrical simulacrum of their social schemas speaks directly both to Lee's cinema and the fury American Utopia transfigures into a stirring call for civic engagement.
7. To the Ends of the Earth
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's To the Ends of the Earth seems deceptively slight, at least for the director of modern Japanese Horror classics like Pulse and Cure. Kurosawa's scenario, of a young reporter (Atsuko Maeda) and her crew trying to shoot kitschy tourism footage in Tashkent, could have easily veered into sensational jingoism (one shudders to think what Eli Roth would've done with this material). Conversely, because the film was commissioned to commemorate twenty-five years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Uzbekistan, it could have been a patronizing puff piece. Instead, Kurosawa has made an altogether stranger, intensely interior character study of a young woman whose anxieties make her complicit in compounding patrimonial attitudes. The precise deployment of shadows Kurosawa has mastered push the film toward the periphery of horror. Yet the film's tenebrous motifs are used primarily to complement it's heroine's angst as she ingratiates herself within a foreign land that has its own complex historical relationship with Japan. What To the Ends of the Earth is about, then, is one woman attempting to reconcile her own shortcomings with her latent aspirations, and in the process reaching rhapsodic notes of swooning grace.
6. The Disciple
One of the most formally audacious narrative features this year, Chaitanya Tamhane's The Disciple is a film whose greatness reveals itself with methodical patience. Indeed, as a film about greatness, this musical bildungsroman about an ambitious classical musician (Aditya Modak) following in his father's footsteps risks courting generic familiarity. But Tamhane diverges from sequences of cutthroat competition to emphasize larger questions of legacy, both familial and cultural, and how those intersect with thorny roots of socially sanctioned discrimination. These areas of inquiry are nested within a carefully modulated rhythm whose repeating scenes of its hero riding his bike in slow motion transition from contemplative to restless. That tireless quest for transcendence doesn't yield a clear path, yet The Disciple does offer one possible route which allows Tamhane's sometimes abrasive protagonist to let go of what burdens his spirit. Only when he stops repeating the notes does he finally hear the music.
5. Lovers Rock
Steve McQueen's anthology series Small Axe maps out the struggle for dignity and justice waged by the West Indies communities of London in the second half of the twentieth century. The sorrow and fury which have shaped that struggle make the joy pervading Lovers Rock all the more palpable. Music courses throughout the series, but here it's practically the main character, guiding McQueen's camera through clusters of bodies clasped in slow dances and unsuppressed bursts of ecstasy. As human bodies merge and detach in rhythmic tandem, McQueen's mise-en-scène reinforces a duplexity of individual experience informing collective feelings of rapture. The film's ghost of a plot permits the audience to bask in a utopic realm McQueen and his co-writer Courttia Newland nevertheless understand is threatened by forces both external and internal. Yet Lovers Rock is not only a tribute to the labor which produces these sites of transgressive sensuality. It springs forth from its dominant locale to evoke the radicality of falling in love for the first time and feeling, for even the briefest of moments, that the world as it exists can change into the world as it should be.
4. Days (Rizi)
Narrative has been stripped down to its basic components in Days (Rizi). Tsai Ming-liang's gradual divergence away from traditional cinema toward the format of the art installation has blurred any distinction between the two mediums while almost certainly losing him several acolytes. Yet Days is an inescapably poignant film in 2020, one which strikes a chord in our newfound isolation from one another. The loneliness pervading the quotidian existence of Tsai's protagonist dulls even a tactile connection to the human body as Lee Kang-sheng's haggard mien suggests the barest register of the pain constantly racking his body. So when one night with a masseur (Anong Houngheuangsy) leads to a cathartic sexual release, Tsai doesn't treat the climactic moment as anything more or less than what it signifies: an aleatory encounter which provides a fleeting reprieve. Yet that's enough, Tsai seems to say, to help quell despair and provide the ephemeral clarity which gives Days' aching heart its bittersweet pulse.
3. Nomadland
American history has been shaped by those whose destinies have ultimately faded into obscurity. The cinema of Chloé Zhao embeds this truth into the very topography of the American heartland as her characters feed their dreams and stave off the indignity wrongly considered their defining attribute. While completely fictional, Nomadland's heroine Fern (Frances McDormand) not only encapsulates these traits but finds them mirrored in the people she meets, many of them playing lightly fictionalized versions of themselves. Zhao's brand of neorealism forgoes prosaic depictions of poverty to pinpoint the grace her Americans seek for themselves. Floating from Nevada to South Dakota, Nomadland deepens Zhao's knack for transforming the land into an extension of the mythic promise offered by a historical narrative, a narrative which nevertheless continues betraying the nation's most disenfranchised. The film's itinerant heroine seeks to fulfill that promise by engaging in a cultural practice synonymous with Lewis and Clark, Kerouac, and Steinbeck. But her journey is her own, her trajectory seemingly endless yet never hopeless.
2. First Cow
Kelly Reichardt's First Cow doesn't present a revised history as much as it revives the past into a malleable, organic entity. This achievement is remarkable since we know well in advance the morbid fate awaiting Cookie (John Magaro) and King-Lu (Orion Lee). An ironic portent, yet Reichardt is neither a mere ironist nor a twee fabulist. Her generosity of spirit is rooted in an abiding fascination with how Americans engage one another through their socially ordained roles. When her heroes attempt to stake their claim in a 19th century Oregon settlement as budding entrepreneurs, their product of fresh-baked scones provides respite for beleaguered trackers and privileged capitalists alike. The Chief Factor (Toby Jones) of the settlement, in a rare instance of tenderness, praises their pastry as reminiscent of his home in London, and it's the very question of what constitutes the word "home" that gives First Cow its gently political edge. While Cookie and King-Lu's homosocial idyll is fated to fall, Reichardt doesn't condemn their parting image to one of death. Rather, she leaves them in quiet repose, dreaming a bygone yet paradoxically, miraculously enduring vision of the future.
1. City Hall
Few movies about cities are as expansive, or as exacting, as Fredrick Wiseman's City Hall. At four-and-a-half hours, Wiseman's immense study of Boston parses the minutia of municipal politics. The conversations between government employees, grassroots activists, and public servants working to sustain the city's institutional services are presented with seemingly little omission. Yet the structure of Wiseman's epic utilizes discursive deliberation to fastidiously interlock various institutions, from community centers to small businesses, as sites where proposed policy directly impacts citizens along lines of class and race. Mayor Marty Walsh recurs as a figure endeavoring to uphold the democratic principles he professes to venerate, even as he is beholden to both neoliberal dictates and restrictions under the Trump administration. As a peerless purveyor of American institutions, Wiseman understands how social ideals are inherently flawed by America's contradictions. Yet he never discounts the pursuit toward realizing those aspirations. It's Wiseman's determination to holistically diagram interrelated societal bodies that imbues City Hall with hard-earned optimism. It forgoes simplistic discourses around cults of personality or partisanship to seriously interrogate how incremental change is made possible. In a year fraught with sociopolitical unrest, City Hall provides a clear-eyed, rejuvenating vision to usher a nation's people into reconnecting with one another. To my mind, it's one of the greatest repudiations of Fascism in all of American cinema.
Finally, ten more highlights from 2020, in alphabetical order:
About Endlessness
The Assistant
Eyimofe (This is My Desire)
A House is Not a Home: Wright or Wrong
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
Shadow Country
The Woman Who Ran

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Zornio: The geographical privilege of denying COVID-19 vaccines – The Colorado Sun
For years Marc Bernier was a prominent conservative radio host. Based in Daytona, Florida, the self-appointed "Mr. Anti-Vax" regularly dedicated time on his show encouraging listeners to reject the COVID-19 vaccine.
A few weeks after publicly declaring "I'm not taking it," the station announced that their talk show personality had died of the very disease he refused to protect himself against.
Bernier is one of many Republican martyrs, frequently men, who have sacrificed their lives for the anti-vaccine movement. Despite having ample access to a variety of cutting-edge vaccines, his legacy of peddling dangerous misinformation survives him.
Trish Zornio (Photo by Holly Hursley Photography)
To this day, many followers still defy all logic, refusing the vaccine even after countless prominent deaths. In many ways, this paradox of refusal in the presence of abundance is a uniquely American experience; or, at least, unique to those in wealthier nations.
Since the prospect of developing vaccines for Sars-CoV-2 took hold, there have been concerns for equitable, global vaccine distribution. In April 2020, the World Health Organization joined forces with the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations and Gavi to found Covax. The mission was simple: Assist in the rapid development, manufacturing and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines with fair and equitable methods worldwide.
The effort held potential for success.
The U.S. has now pledged over one billion doses, and several other nations have joined in the efforts to subsidize vaccines for lower income nations. In theory, this ensures low-income nations do not suffer more than high-income nations — a pillar of human rights — and addresses the underlying reality of a pandemic; "no one is safe, unless everyone is safe."
Of course, human nature is rarely utopian.
READ: Colorado Sun opinion columnists.
Even as pledges poured in, wealthier nations independently pursued direct purchases with vaccine manufacturers. This effectively bypassed any possibility for equitable distribution, and Covax organizers say pledges are not the same as doses received. Even the doses that have been acquired were sent in small shipments near expiration, making them difficult or impossible to distribute.
Predictably this has resulted in the wealthiest nations having far more access to the vaccines than those with less in their piggy banks. Fifty countries are now reported to have missed the goal of at least 10% fully vaccinated by the end of September, according to the WHO.
Many of these nations are located in Africa, which has a 4.4% total population vaccination rate, with only 15 of 54 countries surpassing the 10%. Other nations reported to have missed the target include Vietnam, Taiwan, Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Iraq.
The discrepancy of vaccine equity among health care workers is particularly outrageous. Only two in five health care workers are estimated to be vaccinated globally, however this again masks wealth inequities. African regions hold an average of less than one in 10 health care workers receiving vaccines, while over 80% are vaccinated in high-income nations.
Given the sacrifice these workers face, and the millions of vials often tossed in the trash in places like America, the sheer ability to refuse life-saving care marks a distinct privilege of national wealth — not personal freedom — in being afforded the opportunity of choice at all.
Low-income countries have not been immune to vaccine hesitancy. The president of Tanzania, for example, decried vaccinations early on, stating, "Vaccinations are dangerous. If the white man was able to come up with vaccines, he should have found a vaccine for AIDS by now."
This sentiment was brief as the new president welcomed the technology earlier this year. Yet even with acceptance, few overall gains have been made. Residents today remain largely unable to access vaccines or basic testing, again highlighting the privilege in even having a choice to access.
TODAY'S UNDERWRITER
Stepping foot on foreign soil has a way of changing your perspective, particularly when it comes to politics. In absence of physical travel, there is international news and data.
While some stateside residents might suggest that we look out for our own first, our patriotic duty cannot be defined solely by the actions within our borders. Especially amid a global pandemic, our success is directly tied to the success of others.
In this light, Americans must reckon with the distinct privilege of national wealth that impedes gains abroad — particularly by those who refuse vaccination — and accept that our actions ultimately increase the likelihood of a vaccine-evading variant landing back on our shores.
Trish Zornio is a scientist, lecturer and writer who has worked at some of the nation's top universities and hospitals. She's an avid rock climber and was a 2020 candidate for the U.S. Senate in Colorado.
The Colorado Sun is a nonpartisan news organization, and the opinions of columnists and editorial writers do not reflect the opinions of the newsroom. Read our ethics policy for more on The Sun's opinion policy and submit columns, suggest writers or give feedback at opinion@coloradosun.com.
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The three founders of Moltin, a member of the 2015 Y Combinator winter class, like many fellow members birthed their company idea out of necessity, coming up with a way to solve an entrenched problem they were facing.
In this case, they were working for a design agency in England, and they found adding e-commerce functionality like a shopping cart to a website was too hard and often expensive.
They decided to simplify it by creating an API-based framework that would become Moltin. The idea behind the product is to make it easier for developers to add e-commerce functionality with a few lines of code, Adam Sturrock, CCO at Moltin explained.
"We have components and interactions in the e-commerce space that [we have converted] into basic calls," he said. Programmers can access the components by writing some code and linking to functionality like a shopping cart or check-out page.
And for those who aren't that technical such as bloggers who might want to add e-commerce components to a site, they have simplified it even more by creating HTML widgets that will make the call for you.
Today, they have 1600 developers on the platform, 5 or 6 live installations and 30 or so in development, Sturrock reports.
You can try the product for free with a small store and 30 free API calls, .20 GB of storage and one admin account. As you scale up, you pay a larger monthly fee based on the number of API calls and storage you use, starting at $49 per month for 300,000 API requests, 1 GB of storage and 3 admin accounts all the way up to $500 for 5M requests, 10 GB of storage and unlimited admin accounts.
And the team has devised a creative way to determine your pricing needs using a slider to drag and see what each pricing level gives you.
They started developing the company in England about 18 months ago where they joined an accelerator program called Ignite 100. They raised some money, added some functionality and moved to San Francisco a few months ago to be a part of the Y Combinator program.
In fact, they needed to apply for passports to travel to the US and get the interview to join YC.
Today as the program is coming to a close, Sturrock says it has been a great experience. This wasn't the team's first accelerator so they thought they knew what to expect going in, but Y Combinator worked a bit differently — in a good way.
He said the partners helped them develop key messaging to get across to developers what Moltin was about.
By the end of the first two weeks they had built out a website, and were getting people on board. They wrote a Getting Started Guide to get people going quickly and in general made it a more polished service.
He said, they've been experimenting with sales methods too. They tried working directly with agencies, but they tend to use more established products like Magento or Shopify.
They realized that developers want to try things, so they came up with the free version.
They found existing solutions were too complex or too expensive for many developers — and if they hacked their own solution, they were forced to maintain it.
Moltin provides the basic building blocks and tries to make it as easy possible for their users.


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Q: Fastest way to insert in parallel to a single table My company is cursed by a symbiotic partnership turned parasitic.  To get our data from the parasite, we have to use a painfully slow odbc connection.  I did notice recently though that I can get more throughput by running queries in parallel (even on the same table).
There is a particularly large table that I want to extract data from and move it into our local table.  Running queries in parallel I can get data faster, but I also imagine that this could cause issues with trying to write data from multiple queries into the same table at once.
What advice can you give me on how to best handle this situation so that I can take advantage of the increased speed of using queries in parallel?
EDIT:  I've gotten some great feedback here, but I think I wasn't completely clear on the fact that I'm pulling data via a linked server (which uses the odbc drivers).  In other words that means I can run normal INSERT statements and I believe that would provide better performance than either SqlBulkCopy or BULK INSERT (actually, I don't believe BULK INSERT would even be an option).

A: If your looking to do this in code ie c# there is the option to use SqlBulkCopy (in the System.Data.SqlClient namespace) and as this article suggests its possible to do this in parallel.
http://www.adathedev.co.uk/2011/01/sqlbulkcopy-to-sql-server-in-parallel.html

A: If by any chance you've upgraded to SQL 2014, you can insert in parallel (compatibility level must be 110). See this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510411%28v=sql.120%29.aspx

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text: DJ & music producer of melodic progressive house, breaks, deep house, electronic tracks and mix tapes. Influences from early 90s breakbeat, melodic & progressive house scene. Initially started out as a DJ back in the 90s playing in many venues across the south/ west coast of England, including residencies at a number of clubs in Southampton & Bournemouth. Having recently rediscovered the passion for making music, Milesy has been working to blend some of those original influences with more current melodic & progressive house styles. This is very much the start of the journey back into music production and started with the releases of a remix of Ricardo Elgardo's Icebreaker (on Boomtic Records). Listen Out released in July 2021, which is the first personal release for Milesy. In Jan 2022, Milesy released his first Melodic Breaks EP on Boomtic Records called Floating Breaks. There are many more tracks in progress to look forward to. You can also catch Milesy on KL radio and follow his Mileage playlist and series of DJ mixes on mixcloud.


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Leonardo Academy and GAIN Clean Fuel Secure $1.2 Million Grant to Support Building CNG Stations in Pennsylvania
(Madison, June 9, 2015) - Leonardo Academy announced this week that the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development ACE Program has awarded two grants that Leonardo Academy submitted on behalf of GAIN Clean Fuel. The grant awards which total approximately $1.2 million, will support GAIN Clean Fuel 's construction of compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations in Fairless Hills, PA and Fredericksburg, PA. Both stations will be open to the public and are located near major Interstate highways.
Key partners in these grant proposals are the anchor customers for the two sites: Silvi Concrete is partnering with GAIN to build the CNG station in Fairless Hills and W.C. McQuaide, Inc. is partnering with GAIN to add CNG dispensers at a Pacific Pride station in Fredericksburg.
Leonardo Academy is working with GAIN Clean Fuel, a brand of U.S. Oil, to procure funding in multiple states in order to promote the use of CNG nationwide. The use of CNG, a much cleaner-burning fuel than conventional gasoline or diesel fuel, greatly reduces the output of particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, and carbon dioxide (the most prevalent greenhouse gas) from vehicular use. Converting America's diesel trucking fleet is a critical component of reducing these emissions due to the number of diesel-fueled trucks on America's highways. Before fleets will convert to using CNG, however, stations—such as those being built in Pennsylvania—must be available to meet fleets' refueling needs as they transport goods across the country.
Leonardo Academy's president Michael Arny stated, "Leonardo Academy is proud to assist GAIN Clean Fuel in its efforts to make CNG readily available and thus to improve our air quality and slow global warming. Securing grant funding for clean fueling stations is a key part of our efforts to achieve the sustainable transportation of people and goods throughout the country."
Arny also stated, "Leonardo Academy congratulates all the organizations that are making these two new stations possible: GAIN Clean Fuel, Silvi Concrete, and W.C. McQuaide, Inc., as well as the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development ACE Grant Program."
About GAIN
GAIN is the brand name for Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Clean Fueling stations developed by U.S. Oil, located in Appleton, Wisconsin. Introduced in 2011, GAIN CNG is quickly becoming one of the most sought after fuel alternatives, especially for American manufacturing companies with large transportation needs.
U.S Oil currently has 38 GAIN® Clean Fuel stations open or under construction across the country. GAIN is planning to construct more than 100 new sites nationwide over the next three years. The rapidly expanding national network of compressed natural gas stations offers regional and national carriers an environmentally-friendly, lower cost fueling option for fleets.
For more information about GAIN® Clean Fuel, visit www.gainfuel.com.
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Silvi Concrete is a division of The Silvi Group, which has been helping companies, contractors, and homeowners build a better future since 1947. Proudly serving New Jersey and Southeastern Pennsylvania, we provide a wide variety of vertically integrated products and services, including ready mix concrete, sand, stone, cement supplies, port facilities, and real estate options for construction industry businesses.
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W.C. McQuaide Inc. was founded in 1936 by William C. McQuaide in Apollo, PA. The company moved its offices to Johnstown, PA in 1951 and was incorporated in 1957. From its roots as a flatbed steel carrier, McQuaide has evolved into a full service logistics provider with van, TL and flatbed service as well as other logistic services including warehousing, dedicated service, expedited service, storage trailer rental, truck and auto repair, air charter, pipeline contractor services and computer services.
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The Alternative and Clean Energy Program (ACE) provides financial assistance in the form of grant and loan funds to be used by eligible applicants for the utilization, development and construction of alternative and clean energy projects in the state. The program is administered jointly by the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), under the direction of the Commonwealth Financing Authority (CFA).
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Three monarch butterflies tagged at San Antonio Festival recovered in Mexico
By Monika Maeckle|2020-08-06T13:24:42-05:00April 26th, 2019|#samonarchfest, Monarch Migration|5 Comments
Three of 690 commercially bred monarch butterflies tagged and released at San Antonio's 2018 Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival were recovered in Mexico, citizen science organization Monarch Watch announced this week.
Monarch Watch founder Chip Taylor, who oversees the citizen science tagging program based at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, called the recoveries "quite remarkable."
Chief Docent Drake White (in butterfly wings) led a team of 15 docents that tagged hundreds of monarch butterflies at the San Antonio Festival. Courtesy photo via Drake White
Each year volunteers tag tens of thousands of monarch butterflies. Photo by Monika Maeckle
Conventional monarch butterfly science has held that butterflies raised in captivity without natural cues don't have the Darwinian skill set to migrate. Yet the 2019 recoveries bring to eight the total number of butterflies that were reared at a Florida butterfly farm, shipped to Texas, tagged and released at the San Antonio Festival, and recovered on the forest floor in the Mexican mountains. Last spring, five butterflies tagged at the 2017 Festival were recovered.
The three tags constitute 0.41% of the total 727 tags recovered and reported back to Monarch Watch. Typically, 85,000-90,000 butterflies are tagged each year.
The news arrived via the DPLEX List, an email list managed by Monarch Watch and devoted to the tracking and conservation of the iconic orange-and-black insects.
Each fall, thousands of volunteers purchase tags from Monarch Watch, adhere the tiny stickers to migrating monarchs' wings, record the sex of the butterfly, and report the data back to Monarch Watch. Volunteer surrogates for the organization then visit the roosting sites in Mexico over the winter, seeking out locals to whom they pay $5 per recovered tag. Those recoveries are then returned to Monarch Watch and shared with the community.
Taylor suggested that the Festival recoveries are teaching us something new about monarchs.
"How can we reconcile the fact that these monarchs reached the overwintering sites in Mexico without being exposed to the conditions we understand are needed to induce diapause?" he asked in a heated discussion on the DPLEX. Monarch butterflies must be in reproductive diapause, a state in which they suspend sexual activities, in order to migrate; if they spend their energies on reproduction, they don't have the capacity to migrate.
The news was well received in San Antonio, the National Wildlife Federation's first Monarch Butterfly Champion City.
"Viva pollinators!" said Chief Marketing Officer Elizabeth Fauerso of the Pearl, which hosts the Festival. Festival Chief Docent Drake White sees the recoveries as "hopeful and inspiring." She added that the massive presence of monarch butterfly caterpillars this spring was another positive sign for 2019.
"The realization that a fragile little butterfly that I held in my hand literally flew all the way to Mexico just boggles my mind!" said Patti Merhige, who served on the docent team with Cheryl Theis to tag male monarch, ZCH854, which was recovered in Cerro Pelón. "And it makes the citizen efforts personal while showing that those efforts are worth it scientifically!!!"
Said Theis: "It's just really neat, kinda like winning a special lottery."
Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival 2018 from Rivard Report on Vimeo.
The three recovered tags–two from females and one from a male–were applied from 10AM – 2 PM October 21st at the Pearl near downtown San Antonio. Docents conducted more than 500 one-on-one tagging demos during the Festival. They explained the monarch butterfly migration in general, how to tag monarchs in particular, and recorded the data, later shared with Monarch Watch. See the database of recovered tags here.
For years, scientists have asserted that monarchs reared with infinite access to milkweed and protection from predators just don't have what it takes to brave the elements and complete the migration. While theories on how the sun's cues, a butterfly's geographic location, and ambient temperature affect a monarch's ability to migrate provoke ongoing scientific debate, a general consensus exists that butterflies raised at a butterfly farm in Florida, sent by UPS to Texas and released in San Antonio will never make it to Mexico.
Recovered tags from San Antonio's 2018 Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival.
Anurag Agrawal, author of Monarchs and Milkweed: A Migrating Butterfly, A Poisonous Plant and their Remarkable Story of Coevolution, agreed with Taylor that the commercially bred recoveries "are teaching us something new about the cues that are necessary versus sufficient to induce migration."
Other monarch scientists were not impressed.
"This was misguided," said Andy Davis, migration studies expert and research scientist in the University of Georgia Odum School of Ecology. Davis expressed concerns for the butterflies' health and a general disgust for commercial breeding. "From a moral argument, monarchs are not a commodity–something to be purchased and profited off of…..The fact that some of these monarchs made it to Mexico does not justify this practice. Nor should you celebrate it."
Karen Oberhauser, founder of monarch conservation organization Monarch Joint Venture and director of the Arboretum in Madison, Wisconsin, expressed similar concerns about the health of captive reared butterflies and the possibility of loading the gene pool with specific traits that could backfire.
"As a conservation biologist, I am a strong proponent of the precautionary principle," she said. "I think that there are risks with large-scale captive breeding, and for me, those risks outweigh the benefits (and I know that there are benefits). I do not claim to have a monopoly on the truth, and know that smart people disagree with me."
The butterflies purchased for the Festival were raised by Connie Hodsdon of Flutterby Gardens in Bradenton, Florida. Hodsdon counts several monarch scientists among her customers. Upon hearing the news that some of her butterfly charges made the marathon journey to Mexico for the second year in a row, Hodsdon said, "I go the extra mile for my butterflies. Apparently they do, to."
Hodsdon prides herself on a clean operation and teaches the course on raising disease free monarchs to members of the International Butterfly Breeders Association. Her rearing scheme includes constant vigilance, lots of latex gloves, and multiple dousings of bleach for every milkweed stalk that might be noshed by a monarch caterpillar. Such standard operating procedures limit germs and the transfer of the deadly spore-driven, monarch-centric disease, Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, commonly known as OE.
The San Antonio Festival tag recoveries are not the first time that commercially reared butterflies have been documented making it to Mexico. In 2017, WGX139 arrived in the Mexican mountains more than a thousand miles from the Grapevine Flutterby Festival in Grapevine, Texas where it was released. It took 138 days for the tag to be recovered in the El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Preserve in Michoacán. Hodsdon also provided that butterfly.
The three butterflies were recovered at Cerro Pelón and El Rosario sanctuaries, about 800+ miles from San Antonio.
The 2019 Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival will take place during peak monarch migration season in San Antonio, October 18 -20.
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Tom April 27, 2019 at 5:23 pm - Reply
Last winter, there were several strings of comments concerning late blooming Monarchs and whether or not they had time to outrun the approaching cold fronts. PBS has released a new video, "Sex, Lies, & Butterflies", which does a fantastic job of explaining the life of butterflies from egg to butterfly and how they can migrate hundreds of miles per day by riding upper atmospheric currents. If you haven't seen it on TV, below is a PBS link for the free video. The video is very well done, very educational, and will answer many questions.
https://www.pbs.org/video/sex-lies-and-butterflies-xayv7a/
Craig Oveson April 29, 2019 at 8:13 am - Reply
I guess it's up to me to chime in on this. I can't resist a softball like this, Monika. I let it get a little long but it's time to discuss this in depth and I hope others will chime in. Decision time is coming in 30 days.
Let's start with Andy, he said; "From a moral argument, monarchs are not a commodity–something to be purchased and profited off of…..The fact that some of these monarchs made it to Mexico does not justify this practice. Nor should you celebrate it.". My understanding is "Monarch Dr. Andy Davis" and his wife "Monarch Dr. Sonia Altizer ". have been making money raising monarch butterflies most of their adult lives?
Of course,as mentioned in the article above, some scientist (maybe Andy, Karen, and Sonia ?). support the breeders by purchasing monarchs from them.
These two are Also teaching others how to make money raising monarch butterflies at their lab in Georgia and they don't have to find a market for them. Of course, Andy and Sonia's business is "research" which brings me to "Monarch Dr. Karen Oberhauser"
Karen Oberhauser "was" Sonia's and Andy's teacher before this article. 🤔
She said. " As a conservation biologist, I am a strong proponent of the precautionary principle," she said. "I think that there are risks with large-scale captive breeding, and for me, those risks outweigh the benefits (and I know that there are benefits). I do not claim to have a monopoly on the truth, and know that smart peoptle disagree with me."
1) Let me see if I can translate; As a conservationist biologist she has to say what she said to attempt to save face with fellow scientists.
2) The precautionary principle is "invoked" after all the monarchs they've bought, and all the research they've been paid to do, they haven't got a clue what the truth is as to the negative and/or positive consequences of captive breeding from a scientific research standpoint are.
3) As a good scientist, it seems Karen feels like she has to invoke her "not" research supported "opinion" that the risks to the population outweigh the benefits
3) Here's the conflicted statement immediately following that opinion, in parentheses as if to hide it "(and I know there are benefits)"
4) and then the first statement of fact in the entire opinion. " I do not claim to have a monopoly on the truth, and know that smart people disagree with me" (Karen should run for office, she would make a great politician)
Karen is on the fence with facts on one side (captive bred monarchs made it to Mexico and increased the migration) and unproven fiction that invokes opinion on the other side (. It's risky to the population to captive breed monarchs).
Karen, being a thinking adult human being with a degree and years of researching monarchs seems to be realizing this rearing monarchs thing, especially under natural conditions, on live native plants, using a generational correct wild caught monarch, at a migrational correct location, could benefit the population and monarch migration.
Of course, this is one test and research none of them have conducted under managed and audited conditions.
I bet she got a call from Andy for being so sqishy 🤔
Karen, I want you to know, There's tens of thousands of us with our arms outstretched in case you fall on the side of facts. We'll catch you. Their's a lot on the other side who will let you hit the hard ground.
I promise it would hurt if you fell on our side. Remember, most of us believe in redemption and we all love monarchs and want the monarch population and migration to grow just like you.
Remember Karen, Grandpa Lincoln, the Grandad of all monarchs, before he left to spend eternity with all the past monarchs in monarch Heaven, said; Let the folks raise 100 a year, it won't hurt anything, and everyone else said; Amen.
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Beth Mahlo May 2, 2019 at 7:05 am - Reply
Craig Oveso, it has been so fun using your techniques to raise Monarch caterpillars to eclose into beautiful Monarchs. My grandchildren have really enjoyed this experience. It's wonderful to see your 'babies' making the trip to Mexico!
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Children's Book Review: "Star Wars: The Galaxy Needs You"
by Alex Reif | Jan 2, 2020 2:40 PM Pacific Time
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Kids need lots of praise and reassurance as they grow and learn. With that in mind, Lucasfilm Press has released a children's picture book that uses the Star Wars characters to remind them that they are special and unique. From Caitlin Kennedy and Eda Kaban, Star Wars: The Galaxy Needs You is a reminder that your child is the only person in the universe exactly like them.
Using illustrations from the Sequel Trilogy, Caitlin Kennedy's words provide messages of positive affirmation juxtaposed against Eda Kaban's illustrations that depict moments from the films in chronological order. There's not much of a story to speak of, establishing itself more along the lines of Dr. Seuss' Oh, the Places You'll Go. That book is a popular gift for high school and college graduates and Star Wars: The Galaxy Needs You could serve a similar purpose for a Star Wars fan starting the next phase of their life.
The final six pages depict scenes from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, but nothing in them could be considered spoiler territory. What I really love about books like this is that they introduce kids to Star Wars characters they see every day on t-shirts, backpacks, and toys in a way that is preschool friendly. Parents could easily tell their kids about Rey, Finn, Po, Kylo Ren, Luke, Leia, Chewbacca, Lando, R2-D2, C-3PO, and BB-8 while scrolling through these pages and seeing pictures of some of their adventures.
Eda Kaban's illustrations have a chalk-like texture to them. Edges are fuzzy, giving them a gritty look that feels at-home in the Star Wars universe. It works exceptionally well when depicting scenes of sand planets like Jakku. Edges get a little tighter for other scenes, like Rey working with Luke on Ahch-To, which is full of porgs in these pages.
Caitlin Kennedy is no stranger to writing Star Wars books for kids, particularly educational ones. Kids can learn the alphabet with ABC-3PO, learn their numbers with Obi-123, learn about their emotions in a poem book called Star Wars: Search Your Feelings, and learn about animals and opposites in a similar poem book called Star Wars: Creatures Big & Small. She has also published some early readers, like C-3PO Does Not Like Sand.
If you have younglings who are interested in Star Wars but not old enough to handle the saga films, Star Wars: The Galaxy Needs You is a great book for them. Through pictures of the Sequel Trilogy, parents can share elements of the most recent saga without getting into the dark and scary moments. With words of encouragement, they will feel unique and special and ready to take on any challenges life throws their way.
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'The Crowd & The Cloud' to feature CoCoRaHS citizen science
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Updated June 12, 2017: Rocky Mountain PBS will air "The Crowd and the Cloud." On Thursday, June 15, Episodes 1 and 2 will air back-to-back at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. Mountain Time. Episodes 3 and 4 will air Thursday, June 22 at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
A new, four-episode public television series, "The Crowd & The Cloud," will highlight the Colorado Climate Center's signature citizen science movement, the Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network – better known as CoCoRaHS. The Colorado Climate Center is part of Colorado State University.
"The Crowd & The Cloud" will air on public television's World Channel at 7 p.m. Mountain (9 p.m. Eastern), Thursday, April 6. Check the World channel website for local availability. Starting April 1, all episodes will be available online. CoCoRaHS will be featured in episode 1.
Hosted by Waleed Abdalati, director of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at University of Colorado-Boulder, the series explores and celebrates the revolutionary power of citizen science. Together, average citizens collecting data en masse can help efforts to combat flooding, drought, pollution and more. Watch a trailer.
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CoCoRaHS, a network of more than 20,000 precipitation spotters, was founded by the Colorado Climate Center in 1998 following a devastating flood in Fort Collins. To participate, citizens young and old use backyard rain gauges to report daily measurements on the CoCoRaHS website. The data collected by CoCoRaHS observers have been used by meteorologists, natural resource planners, farmers, fishermen, insurance adjusters, and many more.
"CoCoRaHS started as a local effort to help scientists study storms and precipitation patterns here in northern Colorado," says Nolan Doesken, Colorado State Climatologist and CoCoRaHS founder. "It has since expanded into an international program with thousands of passionate, dedicated citizens, and together we have had a real and profound effect on publicly available weather information and how we understand everything from floods to drought."
All "Cloud & Crowd" episodes will stream on the series website starting April 1, and the show's social media team will live-tweet during its April 6 premiere using #CrowdCloudLIVE. Join producer Geoff Haines-Stiles, series host Abdalati, Doesken and other CoCoRaHS staff on Facebook at 8 p.m. Mountain (10 p.m. Eastern) for a post-premiere roundtable discussion.
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Q: Basis of neighbourhoods on cofinite topology Let $(E,\tau)$ be a topological space where $\tau=\{ \emptyset \}\cup \{G\subset E, |E\setminus G|<\infty\}$
How I can write $W_x$ the basis of neighbourhoods  of $x \in E$?
Thank you

A: You can write $W_x=\{E \setminus A: A \subseteq E, |A|<\infty, x \notin A\}$. If $U$ is any open neighborhood $x$ then let $E \setminus U \subseteq B$ where $x \notin B$ and $|B|<\infty$ this implies $x \in E \setminus B \subseteq U$.

A: If $\mathcal{T}$ is a topology on a set $X$, the set $\mathcal{O}_x = \{O \in \mathcal{T}\mid x \in O\}$ is always a base for the topology at $x$, by definition. Of course, smaller bases at $x$ also exist, in general, but this is one you can always use.


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You've doubtless heard the term "attorney-client privilege" if you've ever watched any TV crime show. We'll probably never know what O. J. Simpson told his lawyer Johnnie Cochran (R.I.P) about the events in the wee hours of June 13, 1994. If O. J. confessed the murders to Mr. Cochran, that confession would have been considered privileged and confidential.
Can Tax Liabilities Be Erased in a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy?
As an Austin bankruptcy attorney I see many situations where my clients have accumulated tax obligations. There are some circumstances where relief can be obtained in a Chapter 7 filing, but the rules, like all bankruptcy matters, are very specific and fact based.
Bankers will tell you that loans are based on the 3C's – character, credit, and collateral. People who retain me as their Austin bankruptcy attorney are nearly always people of good character who have tried to maintain good credit, but, for one reason or another, they have fallen into difficultly in their financial lives. Their lenders at that point are looking to collateral, if any, as a source of repayment for a delinquent loan.
How Long Afterwards Will a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Affect Me?
The rule is pretty straightforward that you can't file a Chapter 7 bankruptcy if you have previously been discharged from a case filed within the previous eight years. Note that it's the filing date that is relevant, not the discharge date.
As your Austin bankruptcy attorney my goal is help you restart your financial life and look forward to better times ahead. But, part of the process that traps many people is what are called "lookback" periods. These are of varying lengths and apply to financial transactions you have made prior to your filing. Their purpose is to keep people from abusing the bankruptcy code by trying in advance to shuffle around or hide assets that rightfully should be made known to a Trustee and be available to your creditors. If you are entering a Chapter 7 and erasing all allowable debts, you are exposing all your assets beyond certain prescribed exemptions.
As your Austin Bankruptcy Attorney I generally see damaged credit scores as my clients have fallen into situations that require my services. A Chapter 7 filing won't help, and it remains on your credit report for ten years. But, normally within a year or less after discharge, your score will be higher than it was before you entered the process. I have written previously on this topic, but today I want to recommend an online service that can take some of the guesswork out of repairing your credit after you are discharged.
As an Austin bankruptcy attorney, I occasionally see cases where the debtor is the ultimate beneficiary of assets held by a trust. This can create complex issues, and it always is best to have professional guidance in resolving them. You do not want to expose assets to your creditors that you think are protected by a trust.
Someone may have set up for you what is called a "spendthrift" trust. For example, a family member with money to bequeath upon his or her death may make some of that available to you, but under the absolute control of an independent trustee. This instrument, for example, is often used to allow offspring to reach an age where they are deemed capable of managing their own affairs. ..
What Lifestyle Is Permissible after a Chapter 7?
As part of the process of filing a Chapter 7, I as your Austin bankruptcy attorney will help you determine the correct information to put on what are labeled as Schedules I and J. Read on for a bit of explanation of these forms.
As you can see from my website and my many favorable reviews, I try to give all my clients the best possible service in determining whether bankruptcy is the right course of action and, if so, in getting it accomplished efficiently.
A question I often hear as an Austin bankruptcy attorney is this: " What should I do about my car and its loan? I need a vehicle to commute to my job." Almost always my clients will have zero or negative equity in their vehicles.


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"Euphoria" brings the teen drama into the dark world of adulthood with almost every form of trauma imaginable. (Illustration by Amy Wells, Suffolk County Community College)
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'Euphoria' Takes the Typical Teen Drama Into Adulthood
HBO's latest series takes the traditional high school tale down a darker path.
By Caleb Dukes, Rice University
Based solely on the trailer, one might label "Euphoria" as just another teen drama. However, this would be a mistake. The HBO series might be based around the lives of high school students, but the first few episodes reveal that the creators are taking their stories in a much more adult direction.
It's almost as if the writers were on a mission to shove as many forms of trauma into one show as possible. Some dark material should be expected when considering that the show's main character is a drug addict; however, Zendaya's Rue is not the only one with problems. Each and every character seems to have their own unique source of trauma, leaving the show brilliantly dramatic, but in serious need of a trigger warning.
For example, the first episode almost immediately plays a clip of the second plane crashing into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. And this is just how Rue describes coming into the world. "I was born three days after 9/11," she states somberly after describing her birth as a lost battle against her mother's cervix.
The clip is not the only time the show casually throws around serious issues like they are nothing. As Rue continues to detail her childhood, audiences are faced with a kid dealing with numerous mental health problems, such as OCD, ADD, bipolar disorder and general anxiety, as well as body image issues, cyberbullying and the death of a parent from cancer. Her story is a strange cocktail of darkness that would be hard to surpass. However, that didn't stop the "Euphoria" creators from trying.
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Each character has their own source of deep-seated distress. Rue's best friend, Jules (Hunter Schafer), had to quickly move to a new town with her father after her parents' messy divorce. On one of her first nights, she experiences sexual violence during a hookup.
Kat (Barbie Ferreira) is pressured into having sex at a party and is filmed without her permission. Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) has a similar experience when a social media account full of her nude photos goes around, as well as a difficult mother-daughter relationship. Even Nate (Jacob Elordi), the definition of the ultra-masculine, violent jock that we all love to hate, has a porn-addicted, adulterous, emotionally-abusive father.
What really makes the show disturbing, however, is the images. The director does an amazing job of portraying these terrifying, beautiful pictures that have both a mesmerizing and sickening effect on viewers. Rue and Jules cry glitter while tripping on psychedelics. The hallway spins around Rue after she snorts cocaine, forcing her to crawl on the ceiling. Kat swigs liquor from a bottle in front of the blue glow of a fish tank. The show does an incredible job of recreating these intense (and usually substance-driven) moments with extreme detail, making viewers feel like they are there, like they're experiencing it, even if they themselves have never done drugs.
Perhaps the most intense image, though, is not one where the characters are on drugs. Within just the first few minutes, we watch in horror as Rue's little sister, Gia (Storm Reid), finds her twitching in a puddle of her own vomit after overdosing. It's one of the most terrifying situations one can be in, seeing a loved one near death as a child, and "Euphoria" presents it so casually, moving on almost immediately.
The shock value this adds to the show is what really takes "Euphoria" out of the realm of teen drama and into the realm of adulthood (plus the nudity, language, violence and drug use, of course). "Euphoria" knows its audience. It knows that the high school story has come into the mainstream and is no longer meant solely for 16-year-old girls painting their nails and gossiping their lives away.
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"Euphoria" is meant for young adults that like high school drama, but are aware that the real world isn't so picture-perfect. It acknowledges that even teen life can be full of adult struggles, but is sure to properly label its content as mature and warn viewers about what will be shown so that children too young to understand it won't be influenced negatively. To put it simply, "Euphoria" is an adult show set in a teenage world.
The level of darkness "Euphoria" brings to the table has led to comparisons with typical teen dramas like Netflix's "13 Reasons Why." However, there are two important aspects of "Euphoria" that make it better than "13 Reasons Why."
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First, while "13 Reasons Why" is directed at the average teenager, "Euphoria" knows its themes are too mature for a TV-14 rating. "Euphoria" does not target young people because it knows that it could have a bad influence on them. On the other side of things, "13 Reasons Why" romanticizes suicide in front of children with reckless abandon.
Second, "Euphoria" is written by Sam Levinson, who was an addict himself. Because of his personal experience, Levinson is able to craft an accurate, respectful retelling of the issues played out on the show. The novel "13 Reasons Why" is based on was written by Jay Asher, a middle-aged man who has never experienced what it's like to be a suicidal teenage girl. He does not have the same ability and authority as Levinson to accurately narrate the struggle his characters are going through.
Through the images it utilizes, the shock value it employs and the differences it has from typical teen dramas like "13 Reasons Why," "Euphoria" successfully pushes itself and the teen drama genre out of adolescence and into the harsh world of adulthood. No longer can anyone say a show centered around teens must be mundane or superficial, because "Euphoria" is there to prove them wrong. It is a stellar piece of cinematic work with phenomenal acting, creative writing and gorgeous directing that will help to push the growing medium of television into an even more compelling art form.
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Inspiring and educating San Francisco South Bay and Peninsula plant enthusiasts since 1963
WESTERN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
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FOUNDERS AWARD 2016: DICK & HELAINE DUNMIRE TRIBUTE
Dick was a founding member of Western Horticultural Society in 1963 and passed away in November 2014. An avid gardener, he shared plants from his garden at the monthly meetings and along with a few others was a "walking plant encyclopedia" at the meetings.
After completing his Master's in English and teaching at University of Kansas, the Dunmires returned to California in 1959. He worked at Montebello Nursery in Los Altos, which deepened his knowledge and passion for horticulture. Sunset editors would come into the nursery and after freelancing a number of articles for Sunset, they asked him to join as a staff writer and editor in 1963.
Dick's first assignment was editor of the massive 1967 Western Garden Book with the garden editor of the magazine. After the book, Dick continued on as a writer/editor and botanical/horticultural expert with the magazine until retiring in 1989, although he continued to work on all editions of the Sunset Western Garden Book through 2001. His wit, astounding recall and plant knowledge enlivened many a WHS meeting!
A Tribute from their Daughter, Annelise Krinsky
Like everyone, I always dreaded the loss of my parents; not only because they were good, caring, wonderful people but because it meant that at some point I would have to stand in front of a group of people and make a speech. As comfortable as my Dad was in front of a crowd, I'm the opposite.
My parents exemplified the notion that one can do well by doing good. They were aided by Bay Area property values and Prop. 13, but still . . . They worked at careers they loved where they could help people each in their own way. You know their many professional accomplishments as well as I do, and in my Dad's case, probably better. But I can tell you a bit about our family.
My parents were very lucky to have been as happily married as they were and for so long. No marriage of over 60 years is perfect and we all have our moments. My Mom's moments included making sure that no unmonitored bite of cheese made it past my Dad's lips after 1977. And while we all marveled at my Dad's encyclopedic knowledge and virtual total recall about everything -- literally, everything -- my Mom once commented that she thought it was possible that my Dad really was just an extremely high-functioning Asberger Syndrome case.
Her moments also related to one of the things that we all loved most about my Dad. His dry humor and wit could always break up a room. My Dad wasn't a gusher but he kept her laughing for almost 62 years. And while she MIGHT have wanted some gushing from time to time, she really appreciated the humor. Once at a horticultural meeting the participants introduced themselves and then introduced their wives, their help-mates, soul-mates and chroniclers of horticultural adventures from New Zealand to the Russian Steppes, and so on. The descriptions continued one more florid than the next until my Dad introduced himself and said, "and this is my paramour, Madame Pompadour."
He did gush in the form of original poems to my Mom, every Valentine's Day and most birthdays. He also always made dinner for her on Mother's Day and special occasions were always remembered with yellow roses and heather with which he had wooed her before their marriage. They honeymooned at the Pine Inn in Carmel and returned to it virtually every year for their anniversary.
He was fortunate to have worked at Sunset during it's golden years. In the way that Sunset was turning it's Menlo Park headquarters into a laboratory for gardening, cooking and defining "western living", our yard was his laboratory for growing; finding out what could grow, would grow or wouldn't stop growing in the case of bamboo. We grew up in Los Altos' golden years. My Dad gardened, my Mom canned. My brother and I rode our bikes and played out in the street with the neighborhood kids until everyone was called home to dinner.
My Dad spent most Saturdays out in the garden raking, hoeing, planting and finally, watering before coming in to clean-up and pour for my Mom and himself their one scotch and soda of the week to be enjoyed with increasingly lower-fat cheese and crackers.
My Mom always harangued him to show my brother and me how to do all these things but the old saw, "those who can: do, and those who can't: teach" was never less true than of my Dad. He figured out in his early years commuting between Stanford and the University of Kansas that he didn't want to teach and thus switched to his second love: gardening and horticulture. He was at Montebello Nursery in Los Altos for many years where Sunset editors met him and solicited free-lance articles. They soon hired him and the rest, as they say, is history. I once asked my Dad why he chose not to finish his dissertation and complete his Ph.D. He said he had simply come to the conclusion that there was nothing useful left to say about Thomas Hardy. My guess is, considering the source, that this was true but don't tell that to any Hardy scholars after 1959.
We all knew his dry sense of humor and sharp wit. But at home he was never happier than in the garden or buried in a book. And as much as he made other people laugh, he was sometimes impervious to laughter around him. When we first started going to Inverness, we rented Roxy Ferris' cabin. It was the beginning of the Scandinavian furniture trend and Roxy had a teak, slat-style couch that pulled out into a bed. Lovely and convenient but not so stable. This was the summer that my Mom read, "Portnoy's Complaint". Every 8 minutes she would laugh so hard that the couch started thumping. Forever after, this was known as a "couch thumper." Something could be funny but not everything rose to the occasion of a couch thumper. But if my Mom started, then that would set me off until tears were flowing. My Dad would look at us and ask what was so funny. So of course that would make us laugh harder. The night of Carol Burnett's spoof of Gone with the Wind, my Mom and I laughed along with millions of Americans while my Dad looked on. When Carol Burnett came down the stairs with the curtain rod across her shoulders we laughed until our sides hurt. While America enjoyed its longest sustained laugh in television history, my Mom and I went on even longer because my Dad kept asking, "what's so funny?"
Of course the irony won't be lost on any one here that I had to move to Maine to learn to speak Spanish and to love gardening. I understand the passion of Brits, for instance, and New Englanders for their gardens. There is so little time to enjoy the profusion of color, blooms, and to experiment with what will or won't grow.
We found lots of beautiful gardens to visit when my folks came to Maine as well as Surry Gardens, an excellent retail nursery less than a mile from our Inn. We spent many a happy hour wandering through the collection. Of course, he memorized seemingly immediately what they had and happily provided assistance to Surry Gardens' customers. The stoner employees stood by amazed when my Dad jumped in to answer questions about various plants. He would tell them "it might grow here but they don't have it", or, "they have it but don't bother trying to grow it here." Of course he could have told me all those adorable lewisii were never going to make it. And if your internationally recognized plant-expert father stands by while you purchase and plant four one-gallon cans of gooseneck lysimachia as if it's not going to eat the rest of your garden alive - Just Say No!
Of course we're never given a choice of who goes when and I always assumed that my Energizer Bunny Mom would live longer. But in it's way her having passed first gave me the opportunity to connect more with my Dad and gardening was the medium. My trips through Surry Gardens were undertaken with my Dad on the other end of a cell phone. And once I was planting I could tell him the angle of the sun at certain times of the day, was that going to be enough?, and what do they mean by moderate sun? The sun's the sun.
When he came to visit for a month in the fall of 2013 we had several trips to Surry Gardens. On one visit I asked about a particular plant. He told me the common name, the latin name and then, visibly stumped, he swore (a rare event), "oh damn!" I had a moment's panic. Is this the beginning of the end? Is the computer otherwise known as Dick Dunmire's brain beginning to lose memory? I inquired gingerly and he said "no, no, no." Now that plants are being reclassified through DNA, he couldn't remember the new class and it was driving him crazy. Phfwoo. This was at 93 years.
Though he was brilliant, he never boasted about his intelligence. He never quoted Ben Johnson or Alexander Pope to make other people feel that they were poorly read. It's just that in almost every situation, Johnson or Pope or Pepys, or whoever, will have had useful things to say. The only time that I knew him to comment on his own brain power is when I told him about a tee-shirt I saw. The shirt said, "I don't need Google, my wife knows everything." My Dad laughed and said that Sunset needed a similar one, "We don't need Google, we have Dick."
In the Herculean task of emptying my parents' home I tackled a metal filing cabinet in the garage. Not only did it bring a flood of memories, it also provided a glimpse back to things I would never have known otherwise. I found a hand-written note from Jim Wortham, chair of KU's literature department dated 1959 wishing my Dad good luck in California and expressing how much the department was losing by his departure. We stayed in touch with his wife, Mary, until close to 2005.
Also, a letter from the principle of Hillview Elementary School with a letter enclosed from Stanford Hospital. They were evaluating a child with emotional issues and they wanted a teacher who had experience with emotional and learning disorders to interact with the child while the doctors observed. The principle recommended my Mother. The letter was from Stanford complimenting my Mom for her empathy, objectivity, and ability to draw out this child. They felt she had made a significant contribution to this child's evaluation. The principle enclosed their letter in his own note to say how rare it is that our efforts are noticed and he wanted her to know how much he appreciated her work.
My parents were special people and always recognized as such. Through horticulture, education, family, and so on, they stayed in touch with people throughout the decades. Even my Mom's students called periodically over the years to update her on their progress.
My Dad's 95th birthday party was an excellent example. Friends going back five decades were present to share stories, too many Aggie jokes (where's Warren Roberts when we need him) and good company. As Gerry DiVecchio said in a condolence note to me, it was his final bow before exiting stage right.
So thank you to everyone here. You are among those people whom they loved and appreciated for so long. I owe more than a debt of gratitude to Nancy Schramm and Diane Chambers. It was like putting magic pellets into water and watching sisters grow before my eyes. They also lugged endless boxes of stuff and are providing loving foster care to family mementos that cannot, for the time being, be hauled off to Mexico.
In my parents' honor and in appreciation of Nancy and Diane, I present this donation to the Western Horticultural Society. I will replicate it in the years to come and hope that I can be an honorary member so as not to lose touch with you all.
2016 Dick & Helaine
Dunmire Tribute
2015 Pat & Colin Knight
2014 Nancy Schramm
2013 Leslie Dean
2012 Mary Kaye
2011 Bill Kurtz
2010 Sally Casey
2009 Barrie & Carol Coate
2008 Betsy Clebsch
2007 Barbara Worl
2006 Elizabeth Garbett
2005 John E. Coulter
2004 Dick Dunmire
Annual Members Picnic
50th Anniversary Memories


Pieces of Things: Happy New Year PoT!
And a Happy New Year to you and yours Faka!
And to all, from us all! Hope your new year is one hundred thousand times better than the past year, in terms of rolls, experience points, and treasure.
Stay tuned for a strange announcement, later this week!
So Pony, whats this strange announcement?