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President Bio Participates in National Cleaning Exercise
His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has on Saturday 2nd June, participated in the National Cleaning Exercise which he instituted in April as part of Executive Directives from the office of the President.
On the maiden National Cleaning Exercise last month the President was out of the country on an international trip but with the second National Cleaning Exercise, the President was very determined to lead by example and thanked Sierra Leoneans across the country who have supported the National Cleaning Exercise.
The first stop of the President was at the Lumley market where he spoke to traders and many enthusiastic young people who had come out to clean. President Bio thanked them for participating in the National Cleaning Exercise, adding that, the willingness of the people has shown that people are prepared for change.
From Lumley, President was driven through Congo Cross, St John, Sanders Street, Siaka Stevens Street to East End Police. At each area where he met people cleaning, he thanked them for participating in the exercise especially in the rain. At Siaka Stevens Street, President Bio met one of the garbage collection trucks, wore his gloves and took a shovel to clear the garbage.
The most populated area was at East End Police where the President was received by the Mayor of Freetown and several Ministers who were supervising the cleaning. Continuing to lead by example, President Bio also wore gloves, took a shovel and helped in the process of clearing the garbage. From East End Police, President Bio walked through Abacha Street thanking traders and the young people who came out in huge numbers.
Many people were very delighted and praised the President for showing exemplary leadership by coming on the streets to participate in the exercise. Also impressive was the huge number of military personnel participating in the cleaning process to provide supervision. Despite the rain, the President was very determined to show that if the ordinary people could come out to clean in the rain, then he would be with them.
During the cleaning exercise, the President was accompanied by the First Lady, Mrs. Fatima Bio, the Chief Minister, Professor David Francis, Mrs. Melrose Kargbo, Deputy Minister of Works and Public Assets and the Inspector General of Police, Dr. Richard Moigbe.
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WGSA Exemplary Service Award
The WGSA Award for Exemplary Service is presented by the Western Group on Student Affairs (WGSA) to a current or former WGSA representative who has demonstrated exemplary service to the WGSA. "Exemplary service" is defined as significant and sustained leadership, expertise, and/or creativity in addressing an issue or issues of importance to the WGSA. Nominees for this award shall have demonstrated, in activities appropriate to membership in the WGSA, an extraordinary record of accomplishment, collaborative leadership, resourcefulness, dedication, mentoring of WGSA colleagues, and commitment to the mission of the WGSA. This service can be as a medical school faculty or staff member; a GSA Institutional Representative or GSA Individual Member; the chair or a member of a GSA national committee or section (Admissions, Student Diversity Affairs, Student Affairs, Student Financial Assistance, Student Records); a GSA representative to an AAMC advisory committee (AMCAS, ERAS, VSAS, CiM, MCAT, and others); or a GSA national or regional officer.
This award may be presented at a WGSA regional business meeting.
A call for nominations shall be announced annually at the WGSA regional business meeting at the fall AAMC Annual Meeting and via email by the WGSA listserv. Any WGSA representative may submit a nomination to the WGSA Past-chair. No self-nominations will be considered. Nominations will be submitted to the WGSA Steering Committee Chair with the nominee's name, title, school and a statement of support indicating the nominees service and commitment to the WGSA.
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Marlene Ballejos, PhD, MPA
University of New Mexico, School of Medicine
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David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Donna Elliott, MD, MSEd, EdD
Maureen Garrity, PhD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Michael D. Prislin, MD
University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
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The "Travel Channel" has voted Siesta Key Beach the best beach in Florida for the past several years, as well as second best in the nation. The sparkling white sand comes from pure quartz and has a silken powdery texture that sets this quaint island paradise apart from all others.
Recently remodeled and updated beach facilities include volleyball and tennis courts, concession stands and picnic tables, as well as expanded parking facilities. The southern end of the island offers the quiet and secluded Turtle Beach. Although the sand is not as fine as the main beach, the shore is strewn with beautiful shells and driftwood, a collector's delight! Siesta Key's 50 miles of canals and waterways, along with the Gulf and surrounding bay, are havens for boaters, divers, parasailors, and fans of all types of water sports. Many of the waterfront condominiums, homes and eateries have their own boat docks and there are regular boat tours from which you can watch dolphins play in the surf or lounge lazily and admire the view of the shore or one of Siesta Key's unforgettable sunsets.
While activities involving Siesta Key's famous beaches and waterways are the center of this island's society, there is no shortage of other amusements on and around the island. From expansive libraries to immaculate golf courses, waterside fitness gyms to tropical garden-themed dog parks, old-fashioned ice cream stands to grand theaters, eclectic thrift stores to contemporary fashion boutiques, from raw nature to modern conveniences and everything in between, each day spent on the island can include equal parts fun and relaxation.
With monthly temperatures averaging 72 balmy degrees and rich foliage or white sandy beaches everywhere you look, the relaxed atmosphere of Siesta Key makes it the perfect choice for your new home or vacation retreat.


The term fall is part of a traditional way of classifying certain sign placements of planets. A planet is said to be in its dignity when it is in the sign it rules (e.g., Mars in Aries, the Sun in Leo). There are also certain placements said to be especially favorable for a planet that are traditionally termed exaltations (to continue with the same examples, Mars in Capricorn, the Sun in Aries). When a planet is placed in the sign opposite its dignity, it is said to be in its detriment (Mars in Libra, the Sun in Aquarius). A planet is in its fall when it is placed in the sign opposite the sign of its exaltation (Mars in Cancer, the Sun in Libra). For example, because the Moon is exalted in Taurus, it is in its fall when placed in the sign Scorpio; as the name implies, this is regarded as an unfortunate placement. A planet in its fall is traditionally regarded as being out of harmony with the sign and consequently weakened (in a position of debility).
For the most part, contemporary astrological research has tended to disconfirm that a planet in its traditional fall is weakened. However, it is sometimes the case that planets in fall have unfortunate effects. In the example cited, the Moon, as the planet of receptivity and sensitivity, is not well placed (especially in a natal chart) in Scorpio, a sign noted for possessiveness, obsessiveness, and intense emotions. There are, nevertheless, certain obvious problems with this tradition. The Sun, for example, is exalted in Aries, the sign opposite Libra. This means that the one person out of 12 in the world born with a Libra sun sign has her or his sun in its fall. This particular placement of the Sun, however, is not normally regarded as being unfortunate, making the traditional ascription appear inapplicable, at least in this case. Generally, all the traditional falls should be taken with a grain of salt when found in a natal chart.
The situation is different in horary astrology, where the classical dignities and falls have a definite bearing on the question being asked. In Vedic astrology, a planet that is placed in the sign of its fall is regarded as being unfavorably placed and weak by virtue of this placement. In fact, in contrast to Western astrology, Vedic astrology has elaborate systems for determining the strength of a planet, even assigning numerical values and ranking the strengths of the traditional planets. Sign placement is only one factor in this system, so that, in the final analysis, even a "fallen" planet may end up being a strong planet in the chart.
DeVore, Nicholas. Encyclopedia of Astrology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1947.
Of a spacecraft or spatial body, to drop toward a spatial body under the influence of its gravity.
The minimum slope that is required to facilitate proper drainage of liquid inside a pipe.
The rope or chain of a hoisting tackle.
A mass of rock, coal, or ore which has fallen from the roof or side in any subterranean working or gallery.
The slope of a pipe, conduit, or channel usually expressed in inches per foot (or centimeters per meter) or in percent.
For its regular App Store on iTunes, Apple has pages of submission guidelines and is known for summarily refusing apps that fall afoul of them.
It is further apt to note that this makes Pearl approximately the one-billionth coach at a major-conference program to fall afoul of NCAA guidelines.
In the United States, most systemic regulatory solutions are likely to fall afoul of the Gordian Knot of overlapping and conflicting interests of existing Congressional committees, lobbyists, bureaucracies, and industry segments.


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Island life takes a variety of forms, none of them involve rushing. In the Cook Islands, hushing is a more common practice and "expressway" refers to the shortest stroll from the villa to the ocean. Here, there are no tolls, only atolls.
Rarely talked about, even less frequently visited, the Cook Islands bring to life all the stereotypes of a South Pacific paradise—or at least a Broadway musical set in one. But thankfully, they also take visitors beyond cliché into a thoroughly rewarding vacation. The big, blue ocean dominates life now as it has for centuries, only instead of the local economy being based on what can be taken out of the water (delicious seafood and valuable pearls) it now depends mainly on what can be put into it (fortunate travelers).
Situated between Samoa and Tahiti, the Cooks constitute a sovereign country in free association with New Zealand, which means the locals have the best of two worlds. All Cook Islanders are citizens of New Zealand, sharing that country's ethos of honesty and integrity in daily life as well as its English language and briskly dry sense of "humour." Cook Islanders are engagingly hospitable people doing a good job of moving forward into the 21st century while not forgetting the traditions of past eras with regard to culture, language and business practices. Foremost among the latter is the islanders' respect for the world around them; this is a place where nature and humans exist as allies rather than adversaries.
The Aitutaki Lagoon
Gorgeous both above and below the water, the arrowhead-shaped Aitutaki lagoon is the Cook Islands' top attraction. A picture-perfect lagoon encircled by 15 islets varying in size from small to minuscule, Aitutaki is the classic postcard of a South Pacific paradise right down to the refreshing absence of tourists beyond a number that can be counted on two hands. The largest of the small is the island that gives the lagoon its name; others have such charmingly appealing monikers as One Foot Island and Honeymoon Island, and their shallow waters and swift breezes serve as catnip to kite surfers. Of course most visitors to the Cook Islands do not choose to soar above the whitecaps strapped to a gigantic kite, but these reasonable folks are always able to amuse themselves by diving, snorkeling, fishing or just relaxing beside the beautiful turquoise water.
Complementing Aitutaki's marine attractions are their terrestrial counterparts. Even non-denominational visitors will enjoy Sunday morning services at Cook Islands Christian Church, where the congregation's euphonious singing resonates throughout the structure (built in 1828, CICC is the oldest church in the islands). Local historian and preservationist Ngaa Kitai Taria, owner of Aitutaki Culture Punarei Tours, offers insightful excursions into local Cook Islands' Maori culture. Singlehandedly redressing a prevailing inattention to local history, Mr. Taria explains life as it existed before the havoc wrought by 19th century missionaries, who took it upon themselves to change, forbid or otherwise discourage local customs to suit their own goals. Mr. Taria—in the Cook Islands it is rude to refer to someone by name without it being preceded by a polite form of address—is helping islanders rediscover the common sense of their ancestors in maintaining a balance with the island's fragile ecosystem. It is in large part due to his dedication to the preservation of the past that visitors nowadays can see Maori sacred grounds, the marae, which were previously lost to the forest.
A morning tour begins with a thorough explanation of Cook Islands Maori life and an anecdote about how the stone monuments, now easily visited, were unknown for decades to local adults even while they remained a favorite place for childhood games. Mr. Taria came to know of their existence as a wee-one bounding over what seemed to be vine-covered boulders. He returned as an adult and spent several years helping to uncover the marae by hand to avoid damaging the overgrown artifacts. The cultural tour ends with an umu lunch cooked in traditional earth ovens covered by hibiscus leaves that impart their own nutty flavor into the food.
From Eating To Dining
Though the cultures of the South Pacific are not generally renowned for their culinary expertise, the Cook Islands lives up to its name nowhere more than at Café Tupuna's, a small and highly personal restaurant where food is exquisitely prepared by owner Tupuna and her staff. The casual atmosphere of the open-air dining room and lush garden belie the sophistication of flavor combinations emanating from the kitchen. Utilizing the fresh ingredients that form the basis of local cuisine, Miss Tupuna is most famous for her curries and chili-lime fish, but an array of other tempting dishes is regularly featured on the rotating menu. The overall experience here is not as earthy as an umu lunch, where large banana leaves are used as plates, but it is still fun to see the faces of other patrons as they take the first bite of what is to many of them a flurry of new food sensations.
Eating on Aitutaki is also fun on the beach at Pacific Resort, where feet enjoy the sand while mouths enjoy the sandwiches, fresh salads, ceviche and extraordinarily delicious coconut cake for dessert. As in other isolated destinations where contemporary travelers expect culinary nirvana, local efforts to take visitors' palates beyond boiled taro root are paying off. Previously the most common presentation of taro—a South Pacific staple—was a glutinous white purée. But these days taro is being dressed up in guises ranging from spiced chips to poultry stuffing and even sweet pudding.
Medicine In Bloom
Both in the kitchen and out, leaves, flowers and plants play important roles in local life. The Cook Islands' history of traditional medicine continues in modern-day society and now extends to more generic health products rather than just medical applications. The Secret Garden is a great place to gain insight into the importance and value, both cultural and economic, of plants in Cook Island culture. The Secret Garden is the work of Swiss Bill Tschan, a decades-long resident of Aitutaki who has cultivated a huge assortment of botanical specimens. Stringent regulation of the importation of plants obliged Mr. Tschan to grow every single plant and tree in The Secret Garden from seeds. An authority on the use of botanical remedies to combat illnesses, Mr. Tschan is a walking encyclopedia of knowledge. He suggests, for example, placing a few soursop leaves under the pillow as a cure for insomnia.
Sleeping In Style
It can be a revelation for some people to discover just how well they can sleep in the hush of silence (even without soursop leaves). Pacific Resort Aitutaki, a member of Small Luxury Hotels, offers sumptuous accommodations in a fine setting at the edge of the lagoon. Happily, the resort reaches the level of comfort and service expected by demanding travelers. Spacious villas with separate living and sleeping rooms suit the location admirably; showers are similarly large and built to be enjoyed à deux.
A favorite among titans of industry and entertainment, Rumours of Rarotonga is the place where artistic types from Hollywood and London come looking for peace and quiet. A small ensemble of individual villas set in their own gardens with pools, Rumours' discreet street presence gives little indication of the superb accommodations and exceptional service within.
Rumours' villas are private homes away from home, with two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a spacious central living room graced by an indoor waterwall, plus a fully equipped kitchen that need never be used by guests who prefer to employ the services of a private chef. In the Beachfront Platinum Villa, a smart design provides both sunny and shaded outdoor areas any time of the day. The garden's waterfall into the pool provides a relaxing sonic respite—the only sirens here emerge from the sea, even then only during a peaceful night's tropical dreaming. The Beachfront Platinum Villa's screening room makes for an enjoyable place to rest up between kayaking on the lagoon, taking in the views from the hammock or evaluating the quality of the locally produced Matutu beer.
Further relaxation comes at the Rumours spa, where sublime Vichy treatments wash away any cares that weren't already rubbed out by bodyscrubs and massages administered by expert therapists. Rumours is especially popular with a certain set of British visitors, being as far away from London's social scene as geographically and culturally possible. Some of the West End's most creative theatrical types come to the Cook Islands to trade the complexities of urban living for the simplicity of bare feet in the sand in order to free their minds from the congestion of Shaftsbury Avenue. Not that the Brits have the islands to themselves. Hollywood screenwriters have also discovered the quintessence of the South Pacific without sacrifice in cuisine or threadcount.
Shades Of Black
Larger than Aitutaki, Rarotonga is the country's main island and center of commerce and government. Rarotonga has its own picturesque lagoon, this one on the island's edge; in fact, most everything on Rarotonga is located along the island's perimeter, its middle being left to the dense vegetation of emerald mountains looming above an aquamarine coastline. All visitors to the Cook Islands arriving by plane land at Rarotonga International Airport, it makes sense to visit the main island before or after a stay on Aitutaki.
The Punanga Nui Market is worth a look around on a Saturday morning when it is at its most bustling. Amid a congenially raucous atmosphere, everything from succulent papayas to esteemed handicrafts, stone carvings, batik prints and shiny pearls vie for attention with an ensemble of traditional musicians and dancers performing on a small stage right in the middle of the action. Music and dance are integral to Cook Island culture and can be observed more comprehensively at Te Vara Nui Cultural Village, whose tour, dinner and show offer entertaining insight into Cook Islands history.
For shoppers, the most precious Cook Islands souvenirs are the beautiful black pearls cultivated in the waters of Manihiki Island. Connoisseurs admire the deep luster and exceptional surface quality of Cook Islands black pearls, which are among the world's rarest. Several companies create unique pieces to complement the strands of flawless specimens (they're actually more a hematite gray than black, with yellow, green or pink undertones). Artisan Tokerau Jim creates unique jewelry by carving designs onto the surface of the pearls using dental instruments. Mr. Jim said these tools, plus immense concentration, are required to carve his abstract South Pacific motifs.
Although their name conjures up images of fine cuisine, the name Cook Islands does not come from the kitchen. They were in fact named in honor of Captain James Cook, that roving British seaman who sailed around nearly the entire Pacific Ocean from Alaska to Australia. Deeming them unworthy of a stop, the captain bypassed the Cook Islands, merely acknowledging their existence in his log without stopping to investigate. Sophisticated travelers today do not make that same mistake.
The Glamorous Coral Route
One of the most evocative sights in the Aitutaki lagoon is a vestige of the old jetty on tiny Akaiami, used by the Tasman Empire Air Line (TEAL) when Solent flying boats flew The Coral Route from Auckland to Tahiti via Suva, Apia and Aitutaki. The Coral Route was considered one of the most glamorous air routes in the world. In an age when flying was still an exclusive experience, TEAL's Solents had only one class of service—First. On the plane's two decks, a maximum of 45 passengers enjoyed spacious seating areas and a dining room where meals were prepared by an onboard chef. The Solents flew only a few thousand feet above the water, thus providing stunning views of the South Pacific as the aerial adventure continued with afternoon tea, lavish dinners and sightseeing at each stop. Akaiami was a morning stop where breakfast was followed by a dip in the lagoon before continuing the journey.
Plane Facts
Air New Zealand offers full-service Business Class nonstop flights from Los Angeles To Rarotonga every Sunday. Domestic Air Rarotonga takes passengers onward to Aitutaki and other islands in the Cook group. Air Rarotonga also offers private flightseeing tours on demand. Rumours of Rarotonga can arrange a private jet for its guests from anywhere in the world.
photos courtesy of pacific resort hotel group, pacific resort aitutaki, rumours of rarotonga & cook island tourism
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Anne Delahaye graduated in classical and contemporary dance. Nicolas Leresche graduated at Scuola teatro Dimitri and Montreal national circus school.
Anne Delahaye and Nicolas Leresche created their first show "Magica Melodia" at La Bâtie festival in Genova in 2008. They were Jeunes Talents Cirque laureates with this piece in 2007-2008. Since then, they kept on developing their unique and transdisciplinary work and created "Le corps du trou" in 2011, a choreographic and theatre show presented as a performative installation.


Southern Culture and good food go together like peanut butter and jelly. Events from birth to death and everything in between have food associated with them in some way in the South. Whether for entertainment, comfort, or fueling the body, food traditions have been passed down from generation to generation.
These 16 Fantastic Southern Recipe Blogs illustrate, in both pictures and words, great ways to make the mainstays and emerging dishes of the South.
Cooking With K-With recipes like Sweet Potato Spoonbread and Pimento Cheese Deviled Eggs, you will love immersing yourself in the South.
Creole Contessa–Bringing the Creole front and center in Southern food.
Deep South Dish-Keeping homestyle Southern recipes alive and well.
Divas Can Cook-Soulful, Southern cooking by this talented "diva".
Homesick Texan-All the Southern goodness with a Texas flair.
Life, Love, And Good Food–Pull up a kitchen stool and get to browsin'. Lots of easily doable recipes here.
Melissa's Southern Style Kitchen-Photography that makes you want to dive right into the screen and take a bite.
Never Enough Thyme-Lana is great at making Southern food recipes simple to understand.
Southern Bite-Enjoy Stacey's excellent recipe video tutorials and much more.
Southern FATTY-A thoroughly modern take on Southern fare from a talent cook, food photographer, and research biologist.
Southern Souffle-Erika is a Southern soul food aficionado and native of the South.
Spicy Southern Kitchen-Christin knows how to kick the Southern flavor up a notch.
Syrup & Biscuits-Come here for vintage recipes as well as southern recipes with a modern twist.
The Country Cook-Your mouth and stomach are going to love Brandie's take on the South.
The Southern Lady Cooks-The spunkiness of this clever Southern cook shines throughout.
The Southern Plate– An inspiration-filled site with so easy to navigate recipe categories.
Here are some excellent cookbook picks from creators of the blogs above. All the images are clickable so you can get more details.


Hardware vendors are making updating drivers and related software a much more streamlined process these days, but certain installer packages such as ones by NVIDIA or AMD tend to leave file remnants behind after they finish running.
If have a GeForce card then you can look under "C:\NVIDIA" and "C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Installer2". The first directory has older revisions of the installer that are kept behind and each can take about ~200MB of space - these are entirely safe to delete. While the more hidden path contains installer files for each driver component that's installed and depending on how frequent you update your drivers, the files can amass to several gigabytes (GB).
For Radeon video cards, go under "C:\ATI" instead. A single update can contain about 250MB worth of files.
Clearing these files can be particularly helpful if you are on a SSD and/or strapped for space on your main drive.
Ever open the default Gallery app and find that there are several pictures coming from different sources? Original settings index all folders on the phone as well as your Google account (e.g.


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Sermons about Ecclesiastes
In Tune with the Truth
Eric Stapleton
Mosaic Spokane
What is the way to heaven? How can we be sure? Where is the proof? What are the options?
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Ecclesiastes, Part 11
Rik Maxedon
North Church
As we finish our series in Ecclesiastes, we listen to testimonies from people who have been changed by God's power in light of Solomon's wisdom.
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jeff@northchurchstl.com
Ecclesiastes is filled with reminders of the struggles of life. But chapters 8 and 9 offer hope and remind us of the simple joys of life.
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Ecclesiastes, Part 9
Dave Kuntz
Psalm 16:2 says, "You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you." We know pursuing righteousness is good, but too often we're actually pursuing righteousness for our own gain.
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What is wisdom? Is it just the ability to make good decisions? Maybe it's like cleaning the dirt off your glasses, allowing you to see things for what they really are - tools used by God to sanctify you and deepen your love for Christ.
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. Even in our darkest times, we find our peace simply from being in the presence of the Lord.
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While Ecclesiastes frequently talks about how meaningless life is, Solomon offers the antidote: fear God. But what does that mean? And how does it change our perspective?
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It's tempting to read Ecclesiastes and only see despair. Solomon says we are just like the beasts of the earth, "All are from the dust, and to dust all return." So why are we here? God provides our purpose in everything we do. And he didn't intend for us to navigate life alone, but in relationships and community.
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Ecclesiastes says plainly that there is a season for everything in life. But instead of this being a cause for pessimism, we see events and seasons in our life as ingredients God is using to create something beautiful, and something eternal.
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Q: Wording a regex with bash find and boolean match I'm not at all sure why this doesn't work. Other posts here suggest that it should. I just want a regex on find to locate all files that match ___orig.png and ___DIFF.png. This will find the first:
find . -type f -regex '.*_____orig\.png'

But this finds nothing:
find . -type f -regex '.*_____(orig|DIFF)\.png'

What is the correct way to phrase the regex to match both? (Yes I know I can use -or to have a much longer and less maintainable comamnd...)

A: You need to escape both parens and the pipe, use:
find . -type f -regex '.*_____\(orig\|DIFF\)\.png'

A: GNU find's -regex uses emacs flavour by default, which I'm not very familiar with.  You can change the regex used with -regextype. With -regextype posix-extended your current -regex should work.
The portable way is to use two -name operators.
find . -type f \( -name "*_____orig.png" -o -name "*_____DIFF.png" \) -print

Or, with bash 4.0 or newer, you can use globstar and extglob instead of find
shopt -s globstar extglob
for file in ./**/*_____@(orig|DIFF).png; do
    echo "$file"
done

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The Integer Group, one of Omnicom Group's global commerce agencies, has announced the expansion of its Digitail practice to Australia as Amazon opens for business locally.
Digitail is a suite of commerce marketing and findability solutions rooted in a deep understanding of the retailer environment, how shoppers shop online, and the role e-retailers play along the shopper journey.
Strategic, creative and operational core capabilities help clients win search, the 'buy box' and share of mind and wallet on and off-site – from organisational and operational readiness, to developing the perfect page for the digital shelf, to marketing, media and merchandising techniques that drive conversion and sales in an omni-channel world.
"Today, Amazon has opened in Australia, and with it comes change for both commerce and culture," Morgan McAlenney, Digitail executive vice president and global operation lead for The Integer Group, said.
"Integer's Digitail offering helps clients turn shoppers into buyers on Amazon and beyond. We are set up to help brands and retailers find success on platforms including Amazon including international platforms such as Walmart.com, Tesco, GPA, Carrefour and many more.
Integer's Digitail practice launched in 2008 to help clients establish strategies and go-to-market plans to both win in a complex ecosystem and scale to meet the needs of the full channel.
As a result, Integer has been recognised as one of very few Amazon 'Trusted Creative Partners'.
Integer's Digitail offering is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with significant regional hubs in Hamburg, Germany, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and now in Sydney, to service clients worldwide.
Wylie Fowler (pictured above), general manager of Integer Sydney (part of TBWA Group Australia, said: "The disruption Amazon represents could be seen as either a threat or an opportunity for local brands and retailers.
Paul Bradbury CEO, of TBWA Australia & New Zealand noted that Amazon is a sophisticated, data-rich operation, laser-focused on the customer experience.
"Vendors and brands need to understand Amazon's complexities and motivations to be successful," he said.


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Chelsea fans are expecting Gonzalo Higuain to be a Blues player before January turns into February with the Argentine on the verge of joining the club.
However, the 31-year-old goes into the weekend remaining an AC Milan player and as yet has not been released by Juventus to make the switch to west London.
Sarri said in his press conference today: "I don't know [what the latest is]. I want to be clear, because I cannot help you. I spoke with Marina two weeks ago, so Marina knows my opinion on how to improve the team. Then I decided to focus on the pitch, on matches and training.
"I am confident because I know Marina is working very hard, but I don't know the market at all. I want to be focused on the matches. So I don't call her every evening, otherwise I spend all my mental energy on the market.
"I think it's better if I spend all my mental energies on the pitch. So I can't help you. I don't know."
But why has the deal not gone through yet and why is Higuain not going to line up with the Blues against Arsenal tomorrow at the Emirates?
Chelsea's deal with Higuain is set to be a six month loan, but can be extended to another 12 months should he have certain credentials filled, eg. appearances, goals, etc.
Both loans have an option to buy in them, which is something Chelsea would definitely take up should the Argentine be at Stamford Bridge.
However, it isn't just that deal that needs to go through. Firstly, AC Milan, where Higuain is currently on loan, want a replacement in place before they let him leave his deal.
But it seems they have found their man with football.london understanding that Krzysztof Piatek is close to making the switch from Genoa.
When that deal goes through then Higuain will be free to move on, however there is one more stop that is preventing the move. Alvaro Morata remains at the Blues, but there is no way that Maurizio Sarri wants three strikers.
Morata has not even been in the matchday squads recently and Atletico Madrid are ready to end his 18 months with the Blues. However, it is a deal that needs to go through before the Blues will be ready to move on with Higuain.
As far as dealing with Higuain himself, it seems that is the easiest part of it. The striker is ready to move to the Premier League, which could be his last shot of playing in England.
The loan deal works out for all parties, while Olivier Giroud's contract with Chelsea runs out in the summer which means there could be a slot for Tammy Abraham to fill as the number two striker.
The Blues will be hoping to have Higuain in place by the Carabao Cup semi-final second leg at Stamford Bridge on Thursday night, should all three moves happen over the weekend.


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challenge: a call to place
call to place: the road trip to nowhere
wanderessence1025	August 22, 2019
I first got the idea to take a road trip through the Dakotas and Nebraska from a book called Moon: Road Trip USA: Cross-Country Adventures on America's Two-Lane Highways by Jamie Jensen. I was curious about the title of a road trip in the book – "The Road to Nowhere" – that cut right through the center of the U.S.A. on Route 83, a "must-do long-distance byway – transnavigating this broad, odd nation, without once grazing a conventional tourist destination." The road trip in the book goes from Canada to Old Mexico, cutting straight through North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
However, the more I read about this particular road trip, the more I wanted to deviate from it. I wanted to see some of the national parks in North and South Dakota. I wanted to explore parts of Nebraska and then dip into northern Colorado to visit my eldest son, who lives in Denver. I didn't want to travel all the way out west and miss many of the famous spots. So, I edited this trip and made it all about the three northernmost states: North Dakota, South Dakota and Nebraska. I'm still calling it the "Road Trip to Nowhere," because the places are usually places you see on the way to somewhere else.
I'll make my way to Omaha, go up the eastern side of Nebraska, South Dakota and North Dakota, then across the north, near the border with Canada, and then south on the western sides of all three states. I'll mostly miss the middle of the states because it is logistically challenging for the time I have. From The Washington Post Travel Section, I was also inspired to add Cheyenne, Wyoming to my itinerary: Cheyenne. From there, I can drop down to Colorado. Then I can drive back home across the width of Nebraska. On my way home, I can stop to visit my sister in southern Illinois.
After driving across Kansas on my way to the Four Corners last May and then walking across the Meseta on the Camino de Santiago in fall of 2018, I fell in love with dramatic skies and expansive fields of crops. This is what the Dakotas and Nebraska are supposedly like.
Big skies on Spain's Meseta
Another of my sources of inspiration came from a post Pit wrote in his blog: Pit's Fritztown News. The blog was about Sioux Falls, South Dakota: SolarEclipseRoadTrip – Day 9 [Sioux Falls/SD: Afternoon in Falls Park]. I was surprised to find such an attractive city in his post. After visiting the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site in Buffalo, NY, I fell in love with Teddy Roosevelt and then found many travelers raving about Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota. Then there is the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, carved with the faces of the presidents, including Teddy. Then my vision for the road trip expanded to many more parks and memorials in the area.
"The Lewis & Clark Experience" at the Frazier Museum in Louisville, KY ignited my curiosity about the Corps of Discovery, the specially-established unit of the United States Army that formed the nucleus of the Lewis and Clark Expedition from May 1804 to September 1806, and their attempt to find a waterway that connected the Missouri River with the Pacific Ocean.
President Thomas Jefferson asked Merriwether Lewis to head up the expedition, sending him to the American Philosophical Society so he could learn of the natural sciences as well as cultivating the arts. Lewis asked William Clark, age 33, to join; he became Second-Lieutenant but they shared the responsibilities of command. Like Jefferson and Lewis, Clark was from Virginia. Clark spent his youth on the family plantation and didn't have a formal education, but he had great wilderness skills, along with strong boating, map-making, leadership and communication skills.
York, the only black man in the party — slave and manservant to William Clark since they were young — developed many of the same wilderness skills as Clark, but his hunting and scouting abilities, along with his great strength, made him integral to the success of the mission. He was able to communicate with the Indian tribes because they had never seen a black man before and they believed he had great spiritual power. The Arikara called him "Great Medicine."
The keelboat was the most important purchase Lewis made; it could carry 12-14 tons of weight. Among the last of Lewis's purchases was, Seaman, a large Newfoundland dog, who made the entire journey with the Corps.
The Lewis & Clark Expedition
One of the places I plan to visit is Fort Mandan in modern-day North Dakota, where the Corps wintered beginning in October 1804. At that time, the Corps had traveled nearly 1,600 miles along the Missouri River at an average rate of 11 miles per day. They had to wait nearly six months to continue their journey.
The Mandan Indians helped them by trading with them and providing them with food for the winter; the tribe was central to the trade network along the Missouri River and even helped in peace talks with the rival Arikara tribe, which eventually failed.
While the Corps wintered, they wrote a long report of their journey, describing plants, animals, Indian relations, and predictions for the months ahead. They recorded temperatures of 40°F below zero at Fort Mandan. Clark, an experienced mapmaker, finished detailed drawings of the Missouri River and surrounds, while Lewis preserved, packed and detailed 108 plant specimens and 68 mineral samples, along with Indian objects like bows and clothing, animal skins and skeletons, for the American Philosophical Society. They even sent back a few live animals, including a prairie dog.
When the Corps set out again on April 7, 1805 they continued their westward journey while the keelboat headed back to St. Louis with the specimens, eventually making its way back to Thomas Jefferson. A Mandan chief drew maps for the unfamiliar territory ahead and told them they would need help from the Shosone, who had horses vital to mountain crossing.
Fort Mandan exhibit at the Frazier
Toussaint Charbonneau, a 45-year-old French Canadian fur trader, was living with the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians when the Corps arrived in late 1804. Charbonneau had two "wives" he'd purchased as slaves; one was the young Shoshone named Sacagawea. Lewis and Clark hired them as interpreters, seeing the value of the languages they spoke.
Sacagawea, who had been kidnapped from her Shoshone village by a Hidatsa war party, and then was sold to Charbonneau, who referred to her as his "wife," was only 16 years old and six months pregnant when the Corps first met her. Sacagawea, along with her newborn baby and husband, shared a tent with Lewis and Clark for most of the journey; her skills and resilience saved the mission more than once.
Charboneau and Sacajawea
At the Frazier Museum, I briefly encountered some of the legacy of George Armstrong Custer, who rose to fame during the Civil War. He led the U.S. Army Black Hills Expedition that set out on July 2, 1874 from modern day Bismarck, North Dakota, which was then Fort Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territory, with orders to travel to the previously uncharted Black Hills of South Dakota. Its mission was to look for suitable locations for a fort, find a route to the southwest, and to investigate the possibility of gold mining. The expedition set up camp at the site of the future town of Custer; a gold rush ensued which antagonized the Sioux Indians who had been promised protection of their sacred land through Treaties made by the U.S. government. It was in 1876 during the Indian wars, that Custer and many of his troops would meet their end at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana at the hands of the Lakota and Cheyenne.
Custer's uniform
I hope to see herds of buffalo through the Dakotas. The buffalo provided much to the Indian tribes besides meat. Bones provided tools, knives and arrowheads; hides provided clothing, moccasins and bags; horns provided cups, spoons, toys and powder horns; the bladder provided pouches and medicine bags; buffalo "chips," or scat, provided fuel for fire. The native tribes went to dangerous lengths to kill the buffalo including dressing in hides as decoys to lead herds to jump off cliffs, and, when buffalo were stranded on ice blocks that broke as they crossed in winter, jumping from ice block to ice block to retrieve or kill the dead or dying animals.
Custer State Park in South Dakota is home to nearly 1,500 head of North American bison. Commonly known as buffalo, these massive mammals can grow to six feet tall and weigh more than 2,000 pounds.
Buffalo skull
As the Dakotas are a harsh environment, where farming is difficult and populations are dwindling, I was recently captivated and further inspired by an exhibit about disappearing barns at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley in Winchester, Virginia. The exhibit, titled "Ghosts of a Forgotten Landscape" featured atmospheric paintings by Sally Veach. The artist explores the southern breadbasket of the Shenandoah Valley and the difficulty of sustaining traditional farms due to changes in food production and distribution. Because of technological advances in storing hay and grain used to feed livestock, traditional barns with their pitched roofs, cupolas and silos are no longer essential features on the farm. The artist wanted to deeply explore the disappearance and deterioration of barns in the Shenandoah Valley, and man's continuing struggle for survival, the hardships of taming a wild land, and the relationship between man and nature.
Harvest Ghost, 2018 by Sally Veach
Ascension 6, 2019 by Sally Veach
Omnipotence, April 2019 by Sally Veach
painting by Sally Veach
"Flow" by Sally Veach
"Piercing the Veil," March 2019 by Sally Veach
"Winter Ascension," January 2019 by Sally Veach
"Autumn Ascension," November 2018 by Sally Veach
I hope to see writer Willa Cather's home in Red Cloud, Nebraska, museums featuring western art, western towns such as Sioux Falls, Fargo, Rapid City and Bismarck, kitschy American places such as The Enchanted Highway, the Corn Palace, and Wall Drug, as well as natural places such as the Badlands, caves, the Black Hills, endless prairies and grasses.
From National Geographic:
Prairies are enormous stretched of flat grassland with moderate temperatures, moderate rainfall, and few trees.
When people talk about the prairie, they are usually referring to the golden, wheat-covered land in the middle of North America. The Great Plains, in the United States and Canada, has some of the world's most valuable prairies, which grow some of the world's most important crops. The U.S. states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan make up the Great Plains.
prairie in northern Spain
At first, I couldn't interest a single person in coming with me, so I planned to go it alone. However, my enthusiasm was so infectious that Mike, at the last minute, decided he'd fly out to Rapid City, South Dakota and travel with me to Denver, and then fly back from there. It may not sound that appealing to go on a road trip to NOWHERE, but I'm sure, whether alone or with Mike, I'll have a grand time. 🙂
"THE CALL TO PLACE" INVITATION: I invite you to write a post on your own blog about what enticed you to choose a particular destination. If you don't have a blog, I invite you to write in the comments. If your destination is a place you love and keep returning to, feel free to write about that. If you want to see the original post about the subject, you can check it out here: imaginings: the call to place.
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Aramak Tour
mesa verde finale: the aramak tour
wanderessence1025	June 20, 2019
Holly was our guide for the Aramak tour at Mesa Verde National Park from 8-12 a.m. Monday morning. The tour only covered Chapin Mesa. We headed straight for the Mesa Top Loop while she told us some of the history of Mesa Verde, which became a National Park in 1906. It became the first World Heritage Site in the U.S. in 1978. The park is not known for its beauty, she said, but for its cultural heritage, with the ancestral homes of 21 modern-day Pueblo groups that trace their ancestry back to these regions. Thus the park preserves a link from the past to the present.
The flute player clan of the Hopi tribe says they came from Mesa Verde. It is surmised that people left because of overpopulation, drought, or stress on the society. Or it is also likely that this just wasn't a good place to live anymore.
At the top of Chapin Mesa, we see burnt out skeletons of trees; Holly tells us a wildfire caused by lightning burnt 2,800 acres in 2002.
Our first stop was at the Pithouses and Pueblos (A.D. 700-950). The pitroom was used for ceremonies as well as cooking and sleeping. A hole in the roof allowed smoke to escape the pithouse. However, breathing may have still been difficult in these smoky, subterranean rooms.
Villages of this era had only one or two pitrooms. The slabs and floor cavities are typical of earlier pithouses; some villagers may have moved here in winter, finding the pitroom easier to heat than surface dwellings.
Pithouses
Holly told us about the vegetation on the mesa. She said the Utah junipers were infested by mistletoe, a parasite that kills the junipers. Juniper is absorbent and is used for bandages, diapers and John Wayne toilet paper, the packaging of which says "It's rough! It's tough! And it doesn't take crap off anyone!" Juniper berries flavor gin and game meat, and are used to make ghost beads to protect people from bad dreams.
The pinyon pines have a sticky sap used for sealant. They were used to seal baskets used for carrying water and for healing cream. Needles are used to make tea. Pine nuts from pinyon pines are expensive because they only come out every 4-7 years.
According to Holly, the broad leaf yucca is not a succulent. The fibers were used as paintbrushes to decorate pottery and pre-threaded sewing needles. They were weaved to make sandals and plaited together to make rope and baskets. The root could be used as soap.
The Gamble Oaks in the canyon are only ten feet tall. There are no cottonwoods in the canyon because they need more water than is available.
Broad leaf yucca
We saw an Anasazi kiva, or underground religious room. The small, circular hole in the floor is a sipapu, a symbolic entrance into the underworld – the Pueblo place of origin. The kiva had several functions: crafts workshop, social gathering place, and a chamber in which to plan or perform ceremonies.
Ceremonial chamber
We stood in the courtyard of an early pueblo village. By 850 A.D., most Mesa Verde people were living in surface dwellings instead of pithouses. Adjoining rooms may reflect a greater degree of cooperation required by an expanding population.
The walls were built by setting poles upright and weaving small sticks between them, then plastering the walls with mud – a technique called "wattle and daub."
Three distinct villages are here; for at least 150 years, a succession of Pueblo farmers occupied this same plot of ground. The mesa top was not the ideal place to live as it had poor drainage and was exposed to harsh weather, with earthen rooms chilled over the winter by deep snow.
village at Mesa Verde
We saw a view of Navajo Canyon from the bus, but we didn't get off.
Navajo Canyon view
We stopped at views for Cliff Canyon, Oak Tree House Cliff Dwelling, Fire Temple, Sun Temple and Cliff Palace. The cliff dwellings themselves were not built until the final 75-100 years of Mesa Verde's occupation. For over 600 years, the people lived mostly on the mesa tops.
Cliff Canyon
Oak Tree House Cliff Dwelling
Sun Temple atop the canyon
Fire Temple
Sadly, I was unable to visit Cliff Palace because it was closed until the following weekend. We were only able to view it from the overlook on the opposite side of the canyon.
We visited Sun Temple with its bread loaf stones. From above, the D-shaped symmetry of the temple is remarkable, especially its twin kivas. Such massive construction must have involved a community-wide effort. The structure was never completed; there is no evidence of a roof or roof timbers. Apparently construction stopped when the Anasazi people began to leave the area. Though the structure appears ceremonial, its exact function remains a mystery.
construction of Sun Temple
The natives here used hand and toe holds to carry corn in baskets from farms on the mesa top to the cliff dwellings. There was no evidence of death from falls. Residents here adapted to the environment.
At the end of our tour, we stopped for one final view of Cliff Palace, the largest of Mesa Verde's cliff dwellings.
me with Cliff Palace in the background
Here are my other Mesa Verde posts:
mesa verde overlooks
the step house trail at mesa verde
balcony house at mesa verde
*Monday, May 21, 2018*
I challenge you to post no more than 20-25 photos and to write less than 1,500 words about any travel-related photography intention you set for yourself. Include the link in the comments below by Wednesday, July 3 at 1:00 p.m. EST. When I write my post in response to this challenge on Thursday, July 4, I'll include your links in that post.
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Jude, of life at the edge, captured some gorgeous sculptures in a serene and inviting setting at Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden in St. Ives.
Finding Magic
wanderessence1025	May 30, 2019
The Step House trail at Mesa Verde National Park is a self-guided walk. I did the walk on my first afternoon at Mesa Verde. It's a 0.8 mile paved loop trail descending into the alcove. Including several stairways, the elevation change is about 100 feet (30 m).
Step House sits in a shallow, northeast-facing alcove on Wetherill Mesa. It showcases architecture from two separate time periods of the Ancestral Pueblo people's occupation here: a reconstructed pithouse originally built around 620 A.D. alongside a small multi-story pueblo built centuries later.
Wetherill Mesa at the start of the Step House Trail
Step House Trail
Because of the beautifully crafted baskets found with their pithouses, the people who lived in this area from about A.D. 550 to 750 were called "Basketmakers" by early archeologists. The "Pueblo" period spans the years from about A.D. 750 to 1300. The people who lived here during these two periods are different generations of the same cultural group now known as Ancestral Pueblo people.
Pithouses served as standard housing for centuries in the southwest; they might have offered a comfortable home to a family of four or five. Because about six of these circular semi-subterranean structures were found here, it seems approximately 25-30 people may have lived in this alcove at that time. Charred beams and charcoal indicate these pithouses burned at some point. Enough intact wood remained to estimate construction between A.D. 616 and A.D. 627.
pithouse reconstruction
Although people lived in this alcove for many generations, it wasn't until about A.D. 1226 that they built the Step House pueblo. The rooms, up to two stories high, were built to fit beside, between, under and around the sandstone boulders and natural obstacles.
small multi-story pueblo
along the loop trail descending into canyon
Step House
It seems pithouses gradually developed architecturally into the circular underground rooms now called kivas, which were likely used for both social and religious functions.
kivas
The walls of the kiva were once fully plastered, a practice still followed in some Pueblo villages today. The kiva was once decorated with a painted panel of bighorn sheep bounding across the wall. The panel was removed in 1989 and placed in the park's curation facility to protect it.
For the 30-40 people who lived here, this large flat area provided space for daily chores. More than 1,600 corncobs were found in the floor debris here. Artifacts from Step House offer intriguing clues as to how the Pueblo people lived here: a bowl with browned cornmeal in the bottom; a corrugated jar containing seeds of ten native plants; five pairs of scallop-toed sandals; skin moccasins; willow baskets; yucca cord; reed bundles; feather and fur blankets; a turkey bone awl; a pumpkin container holding feathers, and many more personal objects tell the story of the people who lived here.
trees destroyed by forest fire
Like nearly everyone else in the entire northern San Juan region, the residents of Step House moved away by A.D. 1300.
All information above is from literature published by the U.S. Park Service.
*Sunday, May 20, 2018*
I challenge you to post no more than 20-25 photos and to write less than 1,500 words about any travel-related photography intention you set for yourself. Include the link in the comments below by Wednesday, June 5 at 1:00 p.m. EST. When I write my post in response to this challenge on Thursday, June 6, I'll include your links in that post.
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wanderessence1025	May 2, 2019
After driving from Telluride on the San Juan Skyway Scenic Byway, I arrived at the Mesa Verde National Park Visitor Center close to noon. The park was created in 1906 to preserve the archeological heritage of the Ancestral Pueblo people, who made their home here for over 700 years, from 550 to 1300, both atop the mesas and in the cliff dwellings below. The park includes over 4,500 archeological sites; only 600 are cliff dwellings, according to a brochure from the National Park Service.
Mesa Verde Visitor Center
View of the road up to Mancos Overlook
The first Spanish explorers called this area Mesa Verde, or "green table," for the lush mountain shrublands and pinyon-juniper forests. Geologically speaking, the area is not actually a mesa; it is a cuesta, which means it is tilted rather than flat. It dips toward the south at about a 7% grade. This slight tilt toward the sun created warmer conditions for growing corn and other crops. The growing season for the Ancestral Puebloans at Mesa Verde was up to 20 days longer than in the surrounding valleys.
I drove up switchbacks to Mancos Overlook, where I had a great panoramic view of the Mancos Valley. The town of Mancos historically served as the "Gateway to Mesa Verde."
Mancos Overlook
Further along, I arrived at the cold and blustery Montezuma Valley Overlook, where there is a short trail along The Knife Edge. The elevation is 8,290 feet (2,527 m).
Montezuma Valley, below the overlook, and Mesa Verde were once part of the Ancestral Puebloan homeland. Archeologists estimate that as many as 35,000 people lived in this region during the 1200s. At the start of the 21st century, Montezuma Valley had a population of only about 24,000 people.
In 1914, as tourists clamored to access Mesa Verde, a narrow dirt road was completed into the park. The few cars first entering the park, including Studebakers and Fords, made the journey to what is now the Park Headquarters in three hours. "Knife Edge" was an apt description for this precarious access into Mesa Verde.
Montezuma Valley Overlook
Montezuma Valley Overlook and The Knife Edge
Further along, I got out of the car at Fire Lookout, where I walked through a scarred landscape that was slowly rejuvenating. Wildfire has an important ecological influence on Mesa Verde's vegetation growth, change, and renewal. Historically, over 95% of all recorded wildfires within the park have been started by lightning, with only 5% caused by humans. Seventy percent of the park has been burned by wildfires since the park was established in 1906.
Each summer monsoon season often starts with "dry" lightning. Because the lower atmosphere and ground are so dry at the beginning of some monsoon seasons, little to no rain reaches the ground. However, lightning does. Dry lightning, combined with drought conditions has sparked all of the recent large wildfires throughout the park.
At Fire Lookout, there was an actual fire lookout manned by a ranger.
Fire Lookout
At Park Point Overlook, I took a short gentle trail to Park Point, the highest point in Mesa Verde National Park at 8,572 feet (2,613 meters) above sea level. I could see north to the valley below and to the Abajo Mountains and Manti-LaSal Mountains, as well as south to the ridges and canyons throughout Mesa Verde: Moccasin Canyon, School Section Canyon, Soda Canyon, and Prather Canyon. On a clear day, four states are visible, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah.
Park Point Overlook
I made another stop at Geologic Overlook before proceeding to Wetherill Mesa. A sign at the overlook informs visitors about water on Mesa Verde. Moisture, in the form of rainfall or snowmelt, percolates through porous sandstone layers until it reaches a dense, impermeable layer of shale. Prevented from percolating farther downward, the water is forced to the rock surface resulting in a seep spring in the canyon walls. These springs provided a ready source of fresh water to inhabitants.
Geologic Overlook
The park road splits at the Far View Area, into fingerling roads to Chapin Mesa and Wetherill Mesa. I took the Wetherill Mesa road because the next morning I would go on a tour of Chapin Mesa.
The twelve-mile road on Wetherill Mesa is only open from May through September.
The first overlook on Wetherill Mesa is Windows to the Past. About nine hundred years ago, the Ancestral Puebloans lived in a cooperative society – trading, communicating, forming friendships, and nurturing their families. More people lived in this valley in the 12th century than live in the valley now.
Windows to the Past
From Shiprock View, it was supposedly possible to see Shiprock, located on the Navajo Reservation, but I didn't see it on this day. Red Canyon Tower Overlook Tower showed a round tower across Rock Canyon which is on the Ute Mountain Ute Indian Reservation.
I walked the Step House Trail at the end of Wetherill Mesa, which I'll write about in another post.
Far View Lodge is the incredibly nice lodge on the park property. This is where I stayed the night, checking into room 109 at around 4:30. I made a dinner reservation for 8:15 and then bought two Mesa Verde mugs and a pair of copper earrings at the Far View Terrace shop.
Far View Lodge
view from my room at Far View Lodge
Since I had plenty of time before dinner, I drove to the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum, with its amazing dioramas.
Early Habitation in North America (10,000-15,000 years ago)
America's first inhabitants were hunters and gatherers. Archeologists found 19 fluted spear points among the bones of 30 bison at this site near Folsom, New Mexico. This big game hunt took place about 10,000 years ago.
The Modified Basketmaker Period (1300 years ago)
Between A.D. 550 and 750, the Pueblo people began living in the area now known as Mesa Verde National Park. Archeologists use the term "Modified Basketmaker," to describe the culture of these people. These descendants of the earlier Basketmakers were more dependent on agriculture, abandoning their nomadic lifestyle.
The people began building permanent semi-subterranean houses, known as pithouses, in the alcoves as well as on the mesa top during this period.
The Developmental Pueblo Period (1200 years ago)
The period from A.D. 750 to 1100 witnessed the development of the true pueblo, or village, architecture similar to styles existing in the Southwest today. During this "Developmental Pueblo Period" pottery-making flourished, new techniques of farming emerged, and trade became significant.
Pueblo people built this village about A.D. 850, when architecture was in an experimental stage. Water was obtained from springs and seeps at the heads of canyons and draws. Reservoirs were built to catch run-off from rain and snow. Fields of squash, beans and corn dotted the region. Although baskets remained common, pottery was the dominant craft.
Leaving the museum, I walked down as far as I could to the Spruce Tree House overlook, which was sadly closed because of rock falls.
Spruce Tree House overlook
I drove the Mesa Top Loop on Chapin Mesa but I didn't stop everywhere because I knew some stops would be on my Aramak tour the following morning. I also wanted to get back to my room so I could enjoy a beer on my balcony before dinner.
I stopped at the Navajo Canyon and Sun Point Views, as well as the Square Tower House, for glimpses into the canyons. As much as I peered out at the canyons, I could never find the actual Square Tower House.
At Sun Point View, I could see both the mesa tops and the alcove dwellings. Although the Puebloans used the cliff alcoves throughout the entire time they lived in Mesa Verde, the cliff dwellings themselves were not built until the final 75-100 years of occupation. For over 600 years, these people lived primarily on the mesa tops.
I stopped briefly at Fire Temple, New Fire House, and Sun Temple. Sun Temple has a D-shaped symmetry, with twin kivas, following a preconceived design that must have required a community-wide effort to build. The structure was never completed; there is no evidence of a roof or roof timbers. Apparently construction stopped when the Anasazi people began to leave the area. Though the structure appears ceremonial, its exact function remains a mystery.
Sun Temple
I was glad I stopped at the Cliff Palace View at nearly 7:00 p.m. as the light was perfect for photos. I wouldn't find this to be the case when I took the tour the next morning. Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling in North America. It is the crown jewel of Mesa Verde and an architectural masterpiece.
From the clifftop overlooks, the collection of rooms, plazas, and towers fits perfectly into the sweeping sandstone overhang that has largely protected it, abandoned and silent, since the 13th century. The construction of Cliff Palace was a major effort, taking place between 1190-1280. Its alcove is about 215 feet wide by 90 feet deep and 60 feet high. It includes about 150 rooms, 75 constructed open areas, 21 kivas and 2 "kiva-like" structures. It was inhabited by an estimated 100-120 people.
It was too early in the season to take the Cliff Palace tour. The tours would be offered the weekend after I left. I was able to take the Balcony House Tour, however, as I wrote about here.
Cliff Palace View
The Far View Sites came before the cliff dwellings, when Ancestral Puebloans farmed the area; the community supported dozens of families. Starting around 800 A.D., they lived here for several centuries, farming the deep mesa-top soils, building their homes, and raising their families. It was one of the most densely populated regions of Mesa Verde. In the mid-1100s, there may have been at least 35 occupied villages and surrounding farm and garden plots within a half-mile-square-area.
Far View Sites
I returned to the Far View Lodge and bought a Coors Light, took it to my room, and sipped it on the balcony while I scanned the day's photos on my camera and watched the sinking sun.
At my 8:15 dinner reservation, I was seated at a window table in the Metate Rooom where I could enjoy the final dip of the sun below the horizon. My meal of Ancient Grain "Risotto" – asparagus, roasted mushrooms, wilted chard, oven dried tomatoes, and herb Parmesan breadcrumbs – was accompanied by fresh bread and tomato basil soup. All delicious!
And I got my sticker and cancellation for my first day at Mesa Verde in my National Park Passport.
National Park Passport & cancellation stamp for 5/20/18
*Steps: 14,873 (6.3 miles)
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the san juan skyway scenic byway: telluride to mesa verde
wanderessence1025	April 18, 2019
When I woke up in Telluride, the sun had finally come out, making it seem more inviting than the clouds and rain of the day before. It was too late, though. I had to leave. After stopping at the Shell station for gas, a huge herd of deer ignored me as I drove back to the San Juan Skyway Scenic Byway to resume my loop drive. My destination was Mesa Verde National Park.
Gorgeous views greeted me right away. A deer skittered across the road in front of me. The snow-covered Sunshine Mountain, El Diente Peak, Mt. Wilson and Wilson Peak, all part of the Lizard Head Wilderness Area, glowed in the distance. Chartreuse aspens lined the road.
San Juan Skyway Scenic Byway
At one viewpoint, a man, a self-proclaimed photographer, was setting up a tripod on top of his van. He told me that in the fall, the apron of aspens at the base of the mountains glowed like gold.
The mountains at this viewpoint were set aside by the Secretary of Agriculture in 1932 as the Wilson Mountains Primitive Area. In 1980, Congress reaffirmed this protection by establishing the 41,196-acre Lizard Head Wilderness through the passage of the Colorado Wilderness Act.
Sunshine Mountain, Mt. Wilson and Wilson Peak
Lizard Head Wilderness offers outstanding opportunities for solitude, as well as access to three "fourteeners:" Wilson Peak (14,017′), El Diente (14,159′), and Mt. Wilson (14,246′). The area is open to foot and horse travel, but is closed to all mechanized means of travel, according to a sign at the site.
aspens in front of Sunshine Mountain, Mt. Wilson and Wilson Peak
aspens along the San Juan Skyway Scenic Byway
I drove past Priest Lake, and over Lizard Head Pass (10,222′).
Elevation 10,222 feet
I passed Sheep Mountain (13,188′), Lizard Head Peak, and Barlow Creek. Canadian geese flew over a lone bicyclist. The road followed a meandering river through a red rock canyon dotted with Douglas firs. More chartreuse aspens lined the road to Rico, which looked like a ghost town except for the lone gas station where I stopped for a restroom break and a snack. The lady manning the register was very friendly.
Before long, I was in Montezuma County, crossing Scotch Creek, and then the road followed the Dolores River to the Green Snow Oasis, a spread with tiny inviting cabins set fetchingly in green pastures. Red rock, aspens, cottonwoods, and Douglas Firs accompanied me to Priest Gulch. A man in a golf cart zipped around a campground. Log cabins hunched in the gulch, which was really a wide valley with cow-dotted pastureland and pretty ranches. Sunlight glowed in amoeba-like shapes on the mountains and pastures.
I left the San Juan Forest and arrived in Dolores at 11:00. Past a lumberyard, I saw miniature log cabins for sale. A psychedelic painted school bus hollered a welcome. Dolores offered up a horse farm, the Outpost Motel, Cozy Comfort RV park, Railroad Cafe, Ponderosa Restaurant, the Railroad Museum, The Ginger Jar and Chavolito's Mexican Restaurant. I kept driving through the town and emerged into wide open vistas.
By 11:14, I'd reached Cortez, elevation 6,200 feet, where I found Ken Banks' Shooter's World: Firearms and Accessories. A sign advertised Western Saddles Corral: Saddle Repair. This was cowboy country for sure. From Cortez, I was now retracing my drive from the Four Corners to Durango several days earlier, passing the Mesa Indian Trading Company, the cute and colorful Retro Inn, and Tequila's Family Mexican Restaurant.
By 11:45, I was at the entrance to Mesa Verde National Park, which I'd explore the rest of the day and the following morning.
The San Juan Skyway Scenic Byway – this part of the route was from Telluride to Dolores to Cortez to Mesa Verde
You can read about the various Colorado towns along the San Juan Skyway on my previous posts:
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Carol, of the Eternal Traveler, wrote a photo essay about an old covered bridge in Ontario: The Kissing Bridge.
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This supplement comes from a tree. The tree mainly grows in Eastern China and although it does not produce any flowers, it does yield nuts. These are used for cooking and assumed to have healing powers. Even though there are no proven results, the studies done on the effects of Ginkgo so far, are promising.
Leaf of the ginkgo biloba tree, native to East Asia.
Liquid, tablet, softgel and capsule and extract; typically 120 mg to 240 mg extract daily. Choose supplements standardized to 5- to 7-percent terpene lactones and 24-percent flavonol glycosides, the active ingredients in ginkgo.
Increases blood flow and circulation in Raynaud's phenomenon and claudication (pain in legs or arms caused by reduced circulation due to blocked arteries).
There is no strong evidence that ginkgo improves mood, menopause symptoms, memory or fatigue.
Results from a 2002 double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of ginkgo for the treatment of Raynaud's phenomenon showed that the supplements could reduce the number of disease flares by 56 percent.
Ginkgo's side effects include stomach upset, dizziness or headaches. Do not take ginkgo if you are taking blood-thinning medication like aspirin, have epilepsy or experience seizures, have diabetes or are scheduled for surgery.
Ginkgo has also been used to treat asthma, bronchitis, fatigue, and tinnitus (ringing, or roaring sounds in the ears). It is said to improve memory, prevent Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, multiple sclerosis, along with some other health issues.
Ginkgo extracts are also used in skin products.
Pour the olive oil over the crumbled Ginkgo leaves, place in an earthenware or glass oven dish (with lid) and stir. Cover with lid, preheat oven to 38 °C and cook for about 1 hour. Take out of the oven and stir again. Leave to macerate for about a week. Stir thoroughly and cook again in a preheated oven for 1 hour. Place herb mixture in a cheesecloth and allow to drain overnight. Melt the beeswax in a saucepan over very low heat and add to mixture. Let cool down. Put the cream in dark jars and check the consistency. The cream is ready when it sticks to the fingers without being too solid or too liquid.
The leaves lend themselves very well to make tea from. It can be sweetened with honey, or maple syrup. Of course an artificial sweetener will do just as well. The nuts have a slightly sweet flavor. They are often used in stuffing, soups, desserts, meat and poultry dishes. Many vegetarian recipes include Ginkgo as one of their ingredients in the dishes. The nuts are high in starch content and low in fat.
I found some recipes and hope you enjoy them.
Use 1-2 teaspoons (approx. 1-2g) of dried, chopped, and washed leaves, or 2 teaspoons (approx. 4-6g) of fresh, chopped leaves to 250 ml boiling water. Place the leaves in a suitable tea infuser or mesh tea ball, put it in a tea pot and add boiling hot water. Steep for 7-8 minutes. Remove the tea infuser or mesh tea ball and, if wanted, add ½ teaspoon honey or maple syrup. Also try the following: add this infusion to your favourite tea or other teas you like. It makes an excellent drink!
Ginkgo soup is a tasty way to provide your body with the active ingredients contained in Ginkgo nuts. It is nutritious, strengthens the kidneys, stimulates digestion, and improves hearing.
25g fresh or dried Ginkgo nuts, approx. 1l water, 25g boiled rice or potatoes, salt, lemon juice, black pepper.
Peel Ginkgo nuts (remove paper-like outer layer) and chop them to let the ingredients and taste fully develop. Put them in a pot, add the water and bring to the boil. Reduce heat and simmer for approx. 20 minutes until the nuts are soft. Let cool down a little, then blend the water and nuts to a smooth puree in a mixer or food processor. When the mixture has the right consistency, pour it into a bowl and add the boiled rice or potatoes to thicken the soup. Season to taste before serving. For a stronger taste, add celery seeds, thyme, and marjoram.
Besides the Vegetarian kitchen, Ginkgo is well known and used in the Chinese and Japanese kitchen as well. It is not commonly used for cooking, in the rest of the world. Should you have trouble finding it, try the specialized markets and Asian stores.
"Uncooked ginkgo seeds contain a chemical known as ginkgotoxin, which can cause seizures. Consuming large quantities of seeds over time can cause death. Ginkgo leaf and ginkgo leaf extracts appear to contain little ginkgotoxin."
There are benefits and advantages to many things. Even though, something may sound great, experience may teach it is not always as wonderful as portrayed. That is why it is good to take the time, make inquiries and weigh the pros and cons.
This goes for almost anything, with one exception: God's Word. We can trust and have faith, that is has only benefits!


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Two of the tree main dentists' unions have given their backing to a new health insurance agreement that paves the way towards 100% reimbursement for certain prostheses.
Following two years of negotiations with health body l'Assurance-maladie, the Union dentaire and CNSD unions, which between them represent 60% of dentists have voted in favour of the agreement, which caps the price of the majority of dental prostheses in return for a re-evaluation of the cost of other care, such as fillings and descaling.
It opens the way for prostheses, such as crowns for back and front teeth, to be fully reimbursed from 2020.
A third union, the FSDL had rejected negotiations, but the new agreement means that the plan will go forward despite their opposition.
It is estimated that dentists will benefit to the tune of €230million a year, Le Figaro reports, but that the impact of the bill varies from region to region.


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RIDM, Montreal's documentary film festival, takes place in November, but festival organizers keep film fans supplied with documentaries throughout the year via the monthly Docville program.
The presentation for Thursday, April 30, 2015, is Iris, a portrait of 93-year-old New York style icon Iris Apfel. It was the second-to-last film made by director Albert Maysles who died on March 5, 2015 at age 88.
You might have seen Iris Apfel in the documentaries Bill Cunningham, New York (2010), directed by Richard Press, or Bury My Ashes at Bergdorf's (2013) by Matthew Miele. Both films were shown here in Montreal at Cinema du Parc.
The documentary Iris is a portrait of fashion legend Iris Apfel, directed by Albert Maysles.
Once seen, Apfel is not easily forgotten. She likes to wear several large necklaces at once, and covers her arms in chunky bracelets. As a look at the trailer below will show you, she isn't one of those people who wears black all the time. More power to her, I say! The world is full of colour, so why not enjoy it as much as possible and as long as possible?
Iris, directed by Albert Maysles, United States, 2014, 83 min., in the original English.
Thursday, April 30, 8 p.m., at Cinéma Excentris, 3536 St. Laurent Blvd.
Single screenings cost $12 ($10 for students and seniors).
Tickets can be bought online. Doing so might be a good idea, since the Facebook page for Iris already indicates that 261 people intend to go. The Salle Cassavetes only holds 271 people and more than 1,000 (!) have been invited.