I haven't been back to Las Margaritas in years, due to the fact that our last visit was rather disappointing and the portion sizes have significantly shrunk. Let's see if things have changed……..
After dealing with finding more loose change, we entered and were promptly greeted/seated.
Did I ever mention before how much I love nachos? Well I do! I even had it for dinner the other night! The warm chips served here are good and the salsa was flavourful without being overly spiced or spicy.
As for our orders, I went with their lunch special for the day, Chicken Spinach Quesadilla with a side of chicken torta soup.
Colleen had the Beef Chimichanga. Wasn't sure if the chillies were going to be over spicy so we asked to have it on the side (it wasn't spicy at all) the dish was served with refried beans, rice and a dollop of guacamole on top. Colleen isn't a big fan of the guaq…so I gladly took it off her plate and enjoyed it, as far as portion to price goes, it wasn't worth it. Small portioned and very little filling. Let's just say that I ate most of this dish because from the start it was already at a point of fail for Colleen.
The restaurant quickly filled up, many of the other tables were getting the fajitas and it looked good from our table. Maybe I'll give that a try next time. Our server was very nice and helpful.
sweet, sounds pretty good. i'm heading over there tomorrow and will definitely be getting a margarita.. and i'm actually going for an all inclusive trip to maya riviera in a couple weeks so you're longing has gotten me more excited … and I've gone here before, and wow, the fajitas are so filling. definitely recommend them.


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Bill and Melinda want other countries to adopt the Aadhaar scheme. To undertake this level of project in other countries, the World Bank and the Gates Foundation have reportedly roped in multi-billionaire Nandan Nilekani.
Aadhaar has been a boiling issue in India for the past few months. Data theft cases for as little as Rs 500, fake software to create Aadhaar cards, and alleged 'loopholes' in the unique identity scheme have left a dent on its credibility. It has been facing increased scrutiny over privacy concerns following several instances of breaches and misuse. Despite all this, Aadhaar as a scheme has been appreciated by many prominent people all over the world. Bill Gates, founder of one of the world's biggest tech companies, Microsoft, has been a staunch supporter of the Aadhaar scheme since the very beginning of its rollout. This time, he has again come out openly saying the Aadhaar technology does not pose any privacy issue. Not only that, he also appreciated Prime Minister Narendra Modi for fully "embracing" the scheme, which was initiated during the previous UPA regime.
The founder of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation told PTI his organisation has funded the World Bank to "emulate" the project as it is worth doing so. Bill and Melinda want other countries to also adopt the scheme. "The bio-ID verification programme has multiple benefits," says Bill. To undertake this level of project in other countries, the World Bank and the Gates Foundation have reportedly roped in multi-billionaire Nandan Nilekani. The Infosys founder, who is also considered as the chief architect of Aadhaar, will consult and help the World Bank carry out the 'Aadhaar-like' project in other countries.
After the successful implantation of the Aadhaar scheme in India, other countries have also approached New Delhi for assistance in creating similar data base.
Appreciating India for successfully implementing the scheme, Gates said India's Aadhaar technology could be implemented across the world. Bill Gates thinks the Aadhaar-like scheme could help improve governance, which is directly linked to economic growth and the overall improvement in society.
"The benefits of that (basic ID -- Aadhaar) are very high. Yes, countries should adopt that approach because the quality of governance has a lot to do with how quickly countries are able to grow their economy and empower their people. Aadhaar in itself doesn't pose any privacy issue because it's just a bio ID verification scheme," said Gates.
One of the world's richest men, Bill Gates, also tried to sooth fears around the Aadhaar data misuse, saying individual application users need to properly check who can see information. He also defended financial institutions seeking Aadhaar details for opening an account. "Application by application, you have to make sure that's well-managed. In the case of the financial bank account, I think it's handled very well. (It uses) Aadhar to set up the accounts so that you can both get your cell phone and get your bank account," he said, reported the agency.
He said some of the initiatives carried out by the Narendra Modi government on digitisation could help improve the level of education in the country, and hence, the governance. Before this in 2016, Gates had said the Aadhaar is a scheme "never been done by any government before, not even in a rich country". The UIDAI's ambitious Aadhaar project is the world's largest biometric database with whopping 111 crore people of the total 125 crore Indians already connected with the identity scheme.


Mediocredito Europeo ("MCE") is an Italian-based financial institution that originates cessione del quinto dello stipendio, or "CQS" loans, to Italian consumers. To obtain a CQS loan, the borrower, often a public employee or pensioner, pledges up to one fifth of their salary or pension (the meaning of "cession del quinto dello stipendio") for up to 10 years, and the pledged amount is paid by the borrower's employer or pension plan directly to MCE. MCE obtains (at borrower's expense) life and employment insurance on the loans to mitigate the risk of loss. The company is headquartered in Rome, with branches in Milan, Naples, and Syracuse in Italy. MCE has a secured warehouse financing line in place with a large global bank and an Italian bank, and will complete its first public term ABS transaction in 2018.
The company developed out of the Ktesios platform which was founded in the early 1990's. Seer-managed funds first invested in MCE in 2017, and took over 99% ownership in 2017. MCE is licensed by the Bank of Italy as a financial institution under the recently adopted Section 106 licensing regime.


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Candler Park is a 55-acre (223,000 m2) city park located at 585 Candler Park Drive NE, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It is named after Coca-Cola magnate Asa Griggs Candler, who donated this land to the city in 1922.  The park features a nine-hole golf course, a swimming pool, a football/soccer field, a basketball court, tennis courts, and a playground.

Candler Park is also the name of the neighborhood surrounding the park.  It is on the east side of the city, bordering Little Five Points, Lake Claire, Inman Park, Druid Hills, and Edgewood.

The Candler Park Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 8, 1983, with a boundary increase on March 17, 2005.  It includes portions of Lake Claire.

MARTA rapid transit rail service is available at the Edgewood/Candler Park station.

School districts
Public-school attendance zones include :
 Mary Lin Elementary School
 Samuel M. Inman Middle School
 Midtown High School

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See also
 Candler Building (Atlanta, Georgia)
 Candler Building (New York City)
 Candler Field
 National Register of Historic Places listings in DeKalb County, Georgia

References

External links

Candler Park Fall Fest
 Candler Park Golf Course Review
Candler Park Neighborhood Organization
Candler Park Conservancy

Parks in Atlanta
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Georgia (U.S. state)
1922 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Geography of DeKalb County, Georgia
Neighborhoods in Atlanta
Bungalow architecture in Georgia (U.S. state)
Candler family
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The BRITISH LIVE PERFORMANCE SERIES–an eclectic collection of artists, all recorded live in the U.K.–is excited to announce three new releases set for October 30: BELINDA CARLISLE, JOE JACKSON and URIAH HEEP. The Guitar World website broke the news with an exclusive preview of Uriah Heep, which you can listen to here.
These exciting concerts follow up acclaimed sets from GLEN CAMPBELL and RICK WAKEMAN, which were released September 18, all on Los Angeles-based RAINMAN RECORDS. Check out an exclusive Glen Campbell track on ROLLINGSTONE.COM here.
Belinda Carlisle first found fame at an early age with the Go-Go's in the 1980s, and was already a rising solo artist by the time she performed this sold-out show at Birmingham NEC in 1990. The show includes big Go-Go's hits like "We Got The Beat" and "Our Lips Are Sealed" plus hits from her burgeoning solo career like "Mad About You" (a #3 hit), the #1 US and UK hit "Heaven Is A Place On Earth," "I Get Weak" (a UK Top Ten penned by Diane Warren) and "Circle In The Sand" (UK #4 hit).
British singer-songwriter Joe Jackson broke onto the music scene with his first single, "Is She Really Going Out With Him," and would go on to release at least nine albums that charted in the UK. This show from Nottingham's Theatre Royal in August 1980 proves the musicianship of his band – guitarist Gary Sanford, bassist Graham Maby and drummer Dave Houghton – was clearly the product of many years' dedication. They were able to deliver a terse, muscular yet understated backing to frame Jackson's intelligently ironic lyrics.
Next up in Rainman Records' British Live Performance Series are sets from ASIA and SQUEEZE.


Manchester City will be looking to to correct the wrong of the first leg and comeback to beat Tottenham to advance to the Champions League semi-finals.
Man City vs Tottenham will be televised on BT Sport 2 from 7pm on Wednesday, April 17.
City find themselves a goal down after an uncharacteristically negative performance in the first leg at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Man City have been boosted by the return of Fernandinho to training and Raheem Sterling and Sergio Aguero being declared fit for the clash.
On Aguero's fitness Guardiola said: "Sergio Aguero needs competition, and needs a little time to get to his best condition.
They both started in the weekend's victory against Crystal Palace and both proved that they have to start in the second leg, with De Bruyne especially impressing as he wracked up his first two assists of the season.


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Neptune Head of the River Cancelled
#Rowing: The Neptune Head of the River, scheduled for Saturday, November 2nd, at Blessington Lakes, has been cancelled. The entry was low and the organisers decided not to go ahead. The Castleconnell Head, set for next Saturday, Ocober 2nd, has a huge entry and crews were unlikely to compete in both events.
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Limerick Regatta Cancelled
#Rowing: Plans to hold Limerick Regatta on Sunday have been abandoned. The regatta was scheduled for O'Brien's Bridge on Saturday, but the forecast predicted the arrival of Storm Hannah. The organisers have announced that a proposal to move to Sunday faltered because they could not source an ambulance and safety launch for the venue at such short notice. They thanked those who entered.
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Refixed St Michael's Head Cancelled
#Rowing: St Michael's Head of the River, which was refixed for this Sunday, March 31st, has been cancelled. The event was originally scheduled for St Patrick's weekend (March 16th) but fell to a bad weather forecast. The entries were low for the refixed event and it has been cancelled.
St Michael's will hold a club event and have asked clubs which had entered to join them if they wish.
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St Michael's Head of the River Cancelled
#Rowing: The St Michael's Head of the River, scheduled for Saturday, March 16th, has been cancelled. The weather forecast for Limerick changed, and the organisers felt they could not be certain of running a safe event. Monday was considered for a rescheduled event, but some clubs could not change their plans.
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Skibbereen and Lagan Heads Lost to Winds
#Rowing: The Skibbereen and Lagan heads of the river have both been cancelled. Both were scheduled for Saturday. The Belfast Rowing Club event was cancelled late on Thursday night, while Skibbereen waited until Friday morning to make the call on their head, set for the National Rowing Centre. The forecast of high winds led to the cancellations.
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Bann Head of the River Cancelled
#Rowing: Bann Head has been cancelled. The organisers joined those of Skibbereen Head in deciding that the weather conditions might have endangered contestants. The Coleraine event and the Skibbereen Head at the National Rowing Centre were both set for tomorrow, Saturday.
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Skibbereen Head Cancelled
#Rowing: Skibbereen Head of the River, set for Saturday, November 17th, at the National Rowing Centre, has been cancelled. A forecast of high winds led the organisers to make the decision on safety grounds.
Metro Regatta Joins Skibbereen and Lough Rinn in Cancelling
#Rowing: Metro Regatta has been cancelled. The weather forecast was for winds to rise to 20 to 25 kilometres in the afternoon at Blessington – with gusts. The organisers felt that these conditions might have made it unsafe to row. The cancellation is the third of a major regatta, following Skibbereen and Lough Rinn.
Lough Rynn Regatta Cancelled due to Weather Forecast
#Rowing: The organisers of Lough Rynn Regatta, set for Saturday, have cancelled the event. As Thursday went on the weather forecasts suggested that the mean speed of the win would be over 20 kilometres per hour with gusts which could make rowing on some parts of the course unsafe.
John Walsh, the regatta secretary, sent out a statement which said:
It is with huge regret and a heavy heart that the committee of Lough Rynn Regatta communicates this press release to inform the clubs that the Regatta for 2018 scheduled for 5th May 2018 has been cancelled due to the forecasted wind and wind gusts that are promised tomorrow during the middle of the day.
In the interest of athlete and volunteer safety we have made this decision in as timely a manner as possible. We gave the forecast every chance to improve once it deterioated yesterday afternoon and have even debated which forecast is the best to use. To be fair to all of the 41 clubs and 443 crews that were due to compete on the day and that were to due to travel from all over the country this decision is now being communicated in line with the initial announcement last night.
We would sincerely like to thank each and every one of the clubs, athletes and coaches who entered in such large numbers and to our army of volunteers who had set aside their day for the hosting of a successful regatta. Included in our volunteer rota was Mr. Eamonn Colclough, President of Rowing Ireland and Ms Michelle Carpenter the newly appointed CEO of Rowing Ireland. All our volunteers who have worked tirelessly over the past number of weeks are all equally devasted but safety comes first in this instance.
We will review the rowing calendar and hopefully will be back later in the year with an alternative event / date.
Thank you all for your continued support.
Yours in rowing
Regatta Secretary
Lough Rynn
Skibbereen Rowing Regatta Cancelled
#Rowing: Skibbereen Regatta, set for this Saturday and Sunday, April 14th and 15th, at the National Rowing Centre, has been cancelled. The weather forecast, which orginally put the Sunday of the event in doubt, worsened. Saturday evening was set to feature a south east wind which would have made parts of the course unrowable. The organisers decided to abandon both days. The event featured a record entry for a domestic regatta.
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Why the iPhone X is a Disappointing Announcement
by Ethan Berman
With the recent controversy surrounding Silicon Valley these days, between Twitter and Facebook becoming quasi-fascist platforms, actively fighting against free speech and pushing social justice, and the drama surrounding Google, with the infamous memo and diversity lawsuit, the least tech corporations could do is actually innovate and justify their companies intended existence. Unfortunately, with the rather lackluster announcement of the iPhone X earlier today, it seems that Apple, a company that made it's name by trailblazing and setting the standard for technology, is deciding to continue to take the back seat to innovation, and simply copy features that Samsung developed many iterations ago. Not only is the lack of genuine innovation disconcerting, but the price point and obvious gimmicks really made this iPhone announcement one of the most lackluster of the past years. Let's take a look at the details.
To clarify, the iPhone X itself isn't going to be a bad piece of tech. Most of the issues I have with the phone have to do with how disappointed I am with what could be, versus what we actually got. Like always, the new version of the iPhone will have a great camera, a killer display, a sleek design, and a fairly large storage capacity. The battery life is a few hours longer than previous iterations, and Apple's finally ditched their iconic home button for the sleek design that Samsung pioneered with their new Note and Galaxy phones. Aside from these few hardware features though, there isn't much to be glad about with the new, and highly overpriced phone from Apple.
The biggest issue I have right off the bat with the iPhone X is the fact that the asking price in the U.S. is $1000. In 2017, the price of owning a brand new cellphone is $1000. Not only is this price absurd, but it seems counter intuitive to Apple's branding from just a few years ago with the iPhone C and S variants. The C was notoriously worse than the S version, but was way cheaper, and was advertised as the cool, young, hip, and ethnic alternative to the typical iPhone, which is so strongly associated with teenage cheerleaders and sorority girls. The fact that Apple decided to ratchet up the price of this new phone to literally double what the C cost brand new, only creates two realities. Either A, Apple made the C to get a young generation attached to their platform, forcing them to upgrade to a more expensive phone in the future, or B, Apple didn't make larger profits from the cheaply made, cheap in cost phone that they invested in, and thus found it more profitable to just keep the iPhone an expensive, yet mandatory piece of tech. Either way, I don't think the price jump is a good look for Apple, as it muddles their messaging.
The other big miss on Apple's part is in copying Samsung's aesthetic and features, which is not only sad, but slightly ironic. When the Samsung Galaxy first came out, Steve Jobs was so furious that another company copied the model of the iPhone, that he threatened both legal action and physical violence on the Korean manufacturers. Now though, the modern Apple brags about adding wireless charging, seamless design, facial recognition, and a line of smartwatches, literally all features that Samsung has been doing for cheaper for several years now. Looking at the modern Apple, I can't see a difference between them, and any other smartphone, which is incredibly worrying.
Outside of the lack of innovation, the worst part of Apple's conference was in their proud reveal of AR, or augmented reality with their new phone. Augmented reality is a cheap gimmick used in mobile games like Pokemon Go, and has become incredibly popular due to Snapchat appropriating it to create their "filters". This carries into their other new announcement of animated emojis, based off of your facial recognition. We saw as a variety of people turned their features into the monkey, dog, and poo emoji and sent it to their friends. The fact that a simple camera gimmick was highlighted as the iPhone X's only innovation was actually somewhat sad, considering Apple just years ago was not only considered incredible at innovating, but at marketing as well. Watching the trailers show off a cheaply modeled dinosaur trotting around a simple park made me skeptical of Apple's future in the marketplace.
With all that being said, I really can't understand how people can justify paying for the new iPhone. For tech junkies, there's no benefit to owning this hardware, and for the casual user, the price makes me skeptical people will flock to this phone. The fact that Apple called this new phone the X, makes an unnecessary release seem to be their new flagship, with none of the benefits. I recommend that anyone who finds themselves tempted to upgrade to an iPhone because of features like wireless charging or larger screens, that you please check out the new phones from Samsung. Every one of my friends who made the switch from Apple to Samsung found themselves much happier, not only in saving money, but in getting more phone for what they're paying. The iPhone X is a perfect analogy for the state of the American tech sector right now, out of touch, bloated in price, behind the curve, and riding on the shoulders of better innovators who came before them. By no means is this the death of Apple, but it's definitely the end of me caring about the once great company.
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Q: Guidance For Implementing A Circular Progress Bar in UITableView After finding myself inspired by the upcoming Workout app for iOS/Apple Watch, I found myself dissecting what appears to be a UITableView with this circular progress indicator.  I've seen some circular progress indicators online (iOS-Circle-ProgressView) but have been unsuccessful in implementing this into a custom cell in my UITableView.
I'm intersted in implementing the above into my project, but my attempts to import it seem to result in a blank space in the cell, and no circular indicator.
Is it possible to implement such an item inside a custom cell?  Or would it have to live in its own view controller?
Thank you!

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You will plan, scope and deliver a wide range of content for print and digital platforms, with great writing and strong editing being a vital part of the role to ensure the successful promotion of our Gardens. This also includes working with and managing key stakeholders, researching for articles, choosing images, managing the lifecycle of web content and liaising with other Editorial team members.
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Alternative therapies for developmental and learning disabilities include a range of practices used in the treatment of dyslexia, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, Down syndrome and other developmental and learning disabilities. Treatments include changes in diet, dietary supplements, biofeedback, chelation therapy, homeopathy, massage and yoga. These therapies generally rely on theories that have little scientific basis, lacking well-controlled, large, randomized trials to demonstrate safety and efficacy; small trials that have reported beneficial effects can be generally explained by the ordinary waxing and waning of the underlying conditions.

Treatment needs
There are a number of non-standard treatments for developmental and learning disabilities. There is a call for alternative therapies particularly when a condition lacks a reliable remediation. For example, there is no cure for autism; the main goals of mainstream behavioral and medical management are to lessen associated deficits and family distress, and to increase quality of life and functional independence. Some alternative therapies, such as gluten-free, casein-free diets, may be appealing to some parents because the treatment recommended by most experts is thought to be "cold and manipulative". Parents may also consider a drug treatment for attention deficit as avoidable. Alternative treatments to a stimulant medication range from natural products to psychotherapeutic techniques and highly technological interventions. It has been argued that although texts that promote alternative therapies do not directly accuse parents of inadequacy, the claims that the disability is caused by certain factors, such as poor nutrition, supports the culture of mother-blame.

Prevalence
From 12% to 64% of families of a child with ADHD use an alternative therapy, with the lower estimates likely come from narrower definitions of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). School teachers, family and friends are the most common source of suggestion of alternative therapies for ADHD. In 2003, 64 percent of families of a child with special health care needs reported that they use alternative therapies. These therapies included spiritual healing, massage, chiropractic, herbs and special diets, homeopathy, self hypnosis and other methods of complementary and alternative medicine. The need for an alternative therapy was related to the child's condition and to its evaluation as repairable or not. A 2008 study found that about 40% of Hong Kong children with autism spectrum disorder were treated with CAM, with the most popular therapies being acupuncture, sensory integration therapy, and Chinese herbology; the 40% is a lower prevalence than in Canada and the U.S., where biological-based therapies such as special diets predominate. In the U.S. CAM is used by an estimated 20–40% of healthy children, 30–70% of children with special health care needs, and 52–95% of children with autism, and a 2009 survey of U.S. primary care physicians found that more of them recommended than discouraged multivitamins, essential fatty acids, melatonin, and probiotics as CAM treatments for autism.

Evidence basis
Complementary and alternative medicine often lacks support in scientific evidence, so its safety and efficacy are often questionable.

While some experts encourage parents to be open-minded, others argue that treatments and services with no proven efficacy have opportunity costs because they displace the opportunity to participate in efficient treatments and services. According to Scott O. Lilienfeld, many individuals who spend large amounts of time and money on ineffective treatments may be left with precious little of either. As a result, they may forfeit the opportunity to obtain treatments that could be more helpful. Thus, even ineffective treatments that are by themselves innocuous can indirectly produce negative consequences.

There is often little or no scientific evidence for effectiveness of alternative therapies. It may be difficult to separate the success of a specific treatment from natural development or from the benefits of the individual's positive attitude. Some phenomena that can explain positive results are the placebo effect, the Hawthorne effect and different types of attentional and motivational effects. People with disabilities may benefit from some alternative therapies, at least for relaxation, social interaction, personal development and self-esteem.

Precautions
Because many alternative therapies have not been evaluated in scientific studies there may be no guarantee for their safety. In most countries, with the exception of osteopathy and chiropractic, complementary medical disciplines have not been state registered. This means there is no law to forbid anyone from setting up as a practitioner even with no qualification nor experience.

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References

External links
Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine (SRAM)
CSL Dyslexia information online packet
British Dyslexia Association: Alternative therapies
Dyslexia Association of Ireland: Alternative therapies

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Two Alpinist stories included on the longlist for Banff Mountain Book Competition; Boardman Tasker shortlist also announced
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10-year-old Selah Schneiter climbs the Nose of El Capitan
Derek Franz / June 14, 2019
The Story of Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Lonnie Kauk with Paula Wright / May 24, 2019
Edelrid Bulletproof quickdraw: The burliness of steel with the lightness of aluminum
Derek Franz / December 6, 2019
The Less You Talk
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Wayne Merry while engaged in Alaskan glacier mapping for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1958. [Photo] Dick Long (Wayne Merry collection)
I first met Wayne Merry in 2008 at the gathering in Yosemite to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first ascent of the Nose. He was master of ceremonies and between watching his excellent presentations at the event and interacting with him on the Supertopo climber's forum, I gained a solid sense of his personality and character. In 2017, I had the opportunity to interview him as part of my work on the Elevated Lives Project. Early in the interview, he told a story from his freshman year in college. After a late night partying with friends, he needed a bit of adventure and climbed to the top of a stadium lighting tower, where he stayed until dawn. As he watched the world below scramble into routine action, he promised himself "then and there that I would not lead a conventional and mundane life like that. And I never did," he said with a smile.
Wayne Procter Merry passed away at home in Atlin, British Columbia, early on October 30, 2019, after suffering from prostate cancer. He was 88. Merry lived a consequential and deeply satisfying life as a trailblazer in a variety of arenas: big-wall climbing, national park administration, search and rescue, mountain guiding, municipal and wilderness first response, experiential education, resource and community management and conservation. All along the way, he shared his passion for the outdoors and his wealth of experience directly through his teaching, advocacy, and extensive written work.
He was born in Fresno on August 4, 1931, to Sarah Louise Procter and Harold White. Once his mother remarried, Wayne took the last name of his beloved stepfather, Ralph Merry. The Merry family moved frequently in those early years and eventually settled in Calistoga, California. All the way through school, Wayne was free to roam in the nearby woods in search of adventure with his younger brother Bill, who belayed him on his first climb in the St. Helena Palisades. Through Boy Scout trips, Wayne became enchanted with Desolation Valley and the Sierra Nevada, and he met real mountaineers such as Art Reyman.
Wayne attended Stockton College briefly, where he pursued an interest in music as he played both trumpet and baritone trombone. This first stint at higher education was interrupted by the outbreak of the Korean War. Wayne enlisted in the Navy, a move that ended up advancing his climbing career. While stationed in San Diego as a dental technician, he joined the local Rock Climbing Section of the Sierra Club and paired up with the likes of Jerry Gallwas, Gary Hemming, George Schlief and Barbara Lilley to climb at Mission Gorge, Tahquitz, Joshua Tree, and eventually, Yosemite.
Enjoying the spacious luxury of El Cap Towers, Wayne Merry takes a welcome break during the first ascent of the Nose in 1958. [Photo] Wayne Merry collection
Deployed as a medic in the Fleet Marine Force, Wayne fulfilled his service by teaching dental technicians in Hawaii until he was discharged early in 1956 to help care for his stepfather, who died of prostate cancer the following year.
In personal correspondence, Dr. Dick Long recently recalled, "In 1956, I got a job with the International Geophysical Year (IGY). On my third summer I talked Wayne into working with our three-man crew in Alaska. We did glacier surveys with 15-foot contours setting markers to be reexamined every 15 years. At the end of that summer, Harding contacted me to climb the Nose. I was married with two kids and my 'job' started the same week, so Wayne took my place. Cindy, Wayne's wife, feels that our Alaska glacier mapping work exposed him to the allure of the wild and unspoiled north." This deep affinity would have a major influence on the Merry family life decisions in the years ahead.
Meanwhile, after narrowly missing out on the first ascent of the northwest face of Half Dome, Warren Harding, Mark Powell and Bill "Dolt" Feuerer started up the first ascent of the Nose of El Capitan on July 5, 1957. At the time they simply referred to the Nose as the "south buttress." The first ascent of Half Dome had been a daunting leap—in comparison, El Cap's south buttress represented an even bigger leap. Harding's team persisted in pushing the route higher over a total of 45 days spread across two seasons. By the time Wayne joined the effort in September of 1958, ropes were fixed to the halfway point atop Boot Flake and Bill had dropped out, soon to be followed by the injured Mark Powell.
Team members working on the Nose were forced to climb outside of peak tourist season because of the spectacle they represented and the logistical problems created by the surrounding attention. Several climbers were involved in this protracted siege, but the team ultimately narrowed down to Warren, Wayne, George Whitmore and Rich Calderwood. Under pressure from the Park Service to complete the project, and working around job and school constraints, the team left the ground on November 1 for a final 10-day push. Rich Calderwood quit the effort to save his job when it became apparent that the climb was going to take longer than anticipated. The other three finished the grand adventure early on November 12 after Harding heroically drilled through the night by headlamp to overcome the summit overhangs.
George Whitmore, Wayne Merry, and Warren Harding toast their hard-won success after completing the first ascent of the spectacular Nose of El Capitan on November 12, 1958. [Photo] Wayne Merry collection
When I asked Wayne to reflect on the Nose in 2017, he said, "It is a great thing to look back at from a great distance. No matter how clumsily it was done by comparison to modern techniques, there is only one first. It feels pretty good to have made that particular one. It is a beautiful climb and recognized as one of the most famous in the world and I am happy with that."
Wayne was attending San Jose State while the Nose climb went on, and he later graduated with a degree in conservation with a minor in teaching. He had also fallen in love with Cindy Barrison. He wrote love letters to her while he was on the Nose. He tossed the notes to the ground in cans with small streamers, and the ground support team added a stamp to each letter and sent them to Santa Monica where she lived. They were married not long afterward.
The National Park Service hired Wayne as a Yosemite interpretive ranger in 1959. Initially this job involved such distasteful activities as leading singalongs at Valley campfire gatherings. Soon he transferred to Tuolumne Meadows, where he was surrounded by career naturalists such as Carl Sharsmith, Will Nealy and Allen Shields—a situation that was much more to his liking. After a few years in Yosemite, Wayne and Cindy had their first child, Scott. In 1964 the family was transferred to Olympic National Park. A year later, they moved to Wonder Lake in Denali National Park, where Wayne was assigned as a mountaineering ranger. Wayne and Cindy had their second son, Kendall, shortly after arriving in Alaska.
The Wilcox Expedition tragedy on Denali in 1967 marked a turning point for Wayne's career. He was so frustrated by what he and some others saw as a deficient rescue attempt by the Park Service that he threatened to resign unless he was promoted to Chief Ranger. He got the job.
Wayne quickly developed an aversion for the politics involved in upper level Park Service administration, so he accepted an offer from the Yosemite Park and Curry Company in 1969 to return and establish a mountaineering guide service. This effort earned quick success and also helped establish some mutual respect between the climbing community, the rangers and the concessionaires, who often viewed climbers as "somewhere between hippies and bears," in Wayne's humorous estimation.
During the 1960s, visitors to Yosemite greatly increased. And as a result, rescues and injury-related evacuations became an almost daily occurrence in peak season. While guide service members were capable and willing to perform these tasks in coordination with NPS rangers, the lack of predictability hampered the nascent guiding operation.
Wayne noted that dedicated climbers and rangers were constantly in conflict over camping stay limits. After enlisting Jim Bridwell to act as spokesperson for the climbers, Wayne approached Assistant Superintendent Keith Neilson with a sensible proposition: "Look, you have some of the best climbers in the world over in Camp 4. Why don't you take a select group and give them unlimited camping privileges so long as 50 percent of them are available at any one time to be teamed up with you on rescue. Then you can sign them up, cover them with workers compensation and even pay them if that's the way it wants to go. Then you'll have a superb rescue team. So I left it at that point and said, 'Bridwell is your representative, go for it.' I was so happy that Keith had the foresight to go along with that proposal." This was the beginning of the celebrated modern YOSAR.
Setting up the Mountain Shop was the next project that Wayne undertook successfully for the Curry Company. It started as a shelf display in a dress shop before moving to a dedicated building in Yosemite Village (which also housed the Mountaineering Guide Service) and eventually to Camp Curry. Wayne introduced multi-colored webbing to climbers, initially offering red and blue to supplement white, starting what he referred to as a "color revolution" in climbing gear.
Wayne also founded the Cross Country Ski School in Yosemite. In order to help in their promotions, Wayne, Ned Gillette, Jack Miller and Jed Williamson skied across the Brooks Range on wooden skis with no climbing skins or sleds. They started above the Arctic Circle with 80-pound packs for the 30-day outing.
During summer breaks, Wayne and his family often travelled north to Alaska. A friend who lived in Atlin, British Columbia, invited them to visit and Wayne immediately fell in love with the place.
"This is Brigadoon. I have got to live here," he said to himself at the time. In 1974 he and Cindy bought a house in the town of 400 and set about making a living. "We lived on moose, lake trout and garden vegetables," he recalled during my interview with him.
Wayne Merry happily managing an 80-pound pack in support of Alaskan glacier survey and mapping work for the International Geophysical Year (IGY) in 1958. [Photo] Dick Long (Wayne Merry collection)
Wayne organized a volunteer ambulance service and fire brigade along with search and rescue training seminars while Cindy taught school part time. In the late '70s they started Nortreks, a company that outfitted and conducted wilderness excursions, sometimes working with Mountain Travel and Alaska Travel Adventures. This went well until a recession in the early '80s forced a reconsideration of that enterprise. They soon discovered a paid position advertised on late-night television in Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit) Baffin Island for the kind of the first responder work that Wayne had been doing gratis.
They moved in 1984 and assumed various responsibilities until Arctic College set up a branch campus and Wayne developed an Environmental Technology program to train local Inuit people for various resource and community management positions. Building on extensive experience, Wayne and Cindy wrote a plain language wilderness first responder manual for St. John Ambulance and assisted in the implementation of the Yukon Emergency Mission Organization for search and rescue.
Once they were able to return to Atlin in 1990, they founded Context North and wrote a series of area-specific search and rescue manuals, which were then combined into a single publication covering all of Canada. Wayne was also instrumental in establishing the Protect Atlin Lake Society (PALS) to save his beloved Lake Atlin from a hydroelectric dam project.
Wayne felt a deep satisfaction from having saved many lives and contributed to the wellbeing of his home and wider community.
A gathering in celebration of Wayne's life will take place in Atlin on May 24. George Whitmore recently remarked that Wayne always seemed to be smiling and upbeat no matter how grim or trying the circumstances. In assessing Wayne's life and character, a mutual friend and admirer, David Harris, reflected "the world would be a perfect place if it were filled with people like Wayne Merry."


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Olema
by Jim Wood September 17, 2007
Photos by Tim Porter
History is replete with stories of how the railroads created cities. Here's a tale of how a railroad's location all but decimated a city. "In the 1870s, Olema was a raucous and booming dairy town," says West Marin historian Dewey Livingston, "but because of a steep hill and Lagunitas Creek, when rail came to the area, the stop was put about two miles to the north, in what's now Point Reyes Station."
As a result, while Olema's importance gradually diminished, Point Reyes Station blossomed as a terminal connecting Marin County with Northern California destinations. Even so, Livingston says, "for a while the railroad's stop was dubbed Olema Station." The town's name itself stems from a nearby Miwok village called Olemaloke, roughly translatable as "little coyote lake"; thus Olema translates as "little coyote."
These days the little coyote is, "well, nowadays it's mostly a little intersection," admits shopkeeper Barbara Martin—that confluence being Sir Francis Drake Boulevard and California State Highway 1 (aka Route 1 / Shoreline Highway). But don't let that flashing stoplight surrounded by a few buildings fool you—there's a lot going on in Olema (pop. 55), the town the railroad passed by some 130 years ago.
"Oh my gosh," says Carole Wiltshire, who with her husband, John, recently acquired the circa-1876 Olema Inn & Restaurant, overlooking Sir Francis Drake and Highway 1. "Last Wednesday we did 120 dinners and over half were walk-ins; we had to turn away 15 people." If some of the folks turned away were looking for a night's lodging there are several nearby options. In addition to the Olema Inn, just across the street and south a bit is Olema Druids Hall & Cottage, a beautifully restored 1885 meeting hall turned luxury inn, rated a "Best Place to Stay" by Travel & Leisure and likened by Conde Nast Traveler to "a private weekend estate with the appointments of a contemporary hotel." Who needs railroads anyway?
Other Olema overnight options include An English Inn at Ridgetop and Olema Cottages, both on Sir Francis Drake and surrounded by open space, and Bear Valley Inn and the 22-room Point Reyes Seashore Lodge, both on Highway 1 and backing up to the 71,000-acre Point Reyes National Seashore. Also within the "little intersection" is the Olema Farm House, a restaurant and bar popular with locals and visitors alike.
Olema Cottages owner Kelly Emery (pictured on page 155) is one of the town's contented locals. "I grew up on a farm, then lived a while in San Francisco," she says, "and now, after living in Olema for eight years, everything seems just perfect." That even goes for the weather: "It's surprisingly beautiful," she asserts. "We get lots of sunny days—less fog than neighboring coastal towns—and I think it's because of the tall mountains between here and the ocean." The upbeat innkeeper is an incurable animal-lover with a menagerie of six chickens, several ducks, a couple of cats, a bunny and lots of birds. "I've always related to animals," she explains, "and the people who stay in my cottages, especially children, really love seeing them up close; sometimes it's for the first time."
Another unexpected roadside attraction in Olema is . . . would you believe, world-class shopping? "Travelers from all over drop in at our shop," says Dana Davidson, owner of The Epicenter, named for being the historical epicenter of the 1906 earthquake. "It's because we have clothing and fun things they don't see everywhere they go." Next door on Highway 1 is Vita Collage, an equally unique emporium featuring fine jewelry, leather purses and one-of-a-kind accessories. And next door to that, the Olema Trading Company sells locally handcrafted objects, including intricate stained-glass windows.
Less commercial pursuits are also possible. Across Highway 1 and to the south is the unforgettable Vedanta Retreat meditation center, with a spectacular tree-lined entry, expansive lawn and 135-year-old two-story house. Aligned with the Ramakrishna Order of India, it's open 10 to 6 daily to "people who will value it as a spiritual sanctuary," says Vendanta's secretary, Marianne Quinn. The retreat also offers private or group meditation sessions (call 415.922.2323).
Olema's other contemplative spot lies across the street and half a mile farther south on Highway 1. The 175-year-old Olema Cemetery is where local dairy farmers of the 19th century—Luigi Mazza, Guiseppe Martella, Ballista Tomasini—have been laid to rest, along with modern environmentally minded farmers William and Ellen Straus. Acclaimed abstract expressionist artist Sam Francis is also buried here (see related story on page 122).
As for living in Olema (zip code 94950), your chances are slim—if only because just a couple of dozen homes exist there. "However, one of them is for sale," says Joe Soule of Coastal Marin Realty in nearby Point Reyes Station, "and it's a nice one." Listed for $1.5 million, it's (Soule's words) a "hillside five-bedroom four-bath two-story, with 3,100 square feet and several fireplaces, on nearly two acres of well-tended land with a nice view of the Inverness Ridge." He stops for breath. "Oh, and there's a guest cottage."
Olema is full of nice surprises like that.
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What ship did my ancestor come on then?
In most cases, the ships your ancestors came on have not been preserved in the historical record. There was no law that required passenger lists to be kept and maintained, and as a result almost none survive. The main sources for most passenger lists are English records (of which there are not many), or journals (of which there are not many). Sometimes land and court records can help you determine what ship your ancestor came on, or at least narrow their arrival time down.
Was there a "second sailing" of the Mayflower?
There were several ships named the Mayflower that made trips to America in the 1600s and 1700s, including one that brought colonists to Massachusetts in 1629 and 1630. None have surviving passenger lists. The Pilgrims' Mayflower and her master Christopher Jones went back into the French wine trade for a couple years before being decommissioned and scrapped in 1624.
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No, I really can't tell you much more. A genealogy "how-to" book can be purchased from most bookstores or checked out from a library. By some estimates there are more than 25 million living descendants of at least one Mayflower passenger. The best resource for Mayflower descendants are the Five Generations publications of the Mayflower Society.
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Were there any blacks on the Mayflower?
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Each collection requires two types of photo sessions.
The Look book is a simple and explicit presentation of all the designed pieces, but the real image of a collection is given by the editorial shooting called Campaign.
The Starlike collection, designed for a seductive, relaxed, and always-in-action woman, needed a special city for the Campaign visuals. We chose Paris to make the most spectacular photo shooting.
Roxana Tanase is the model who embodies the spirit and aesthetics of our Starlike collection.
The mix of timeless Parisian architecture and the elegant, smart and feminine design of our creations has succeeded in conveying the message and essence of the Starlike collection.
Pointing for an extra dose of elegance, the short dress from the pink powder taffeta perfectly integrates into the landscape of the bridges over the Sena river.
The movement of the model creates a cinematic effect and places the woman who chooses to wear Aida Lorena Atelier in an amazing story.
Among the emblematic buildings of Paris, the Aida Lorena Atelier team brought to life the character that was our true inspiration for creating the collection.
The spectacular red dress that highlights the silhouette and fits perfectly with an elegant and memorable event was caught in a scene where only the Eiffel Tower draws your attention from the seductive attitude of the model.
Manually applied embroidery on the gray velvet dress complements the décor elements on the Parisian buildings.
The woman who chooses to wear such an elegant and feminine dress desperately wants to wear it in a city full of history, where you meet art at every step and you can shine on any day.
But because Paris is not just a city of classical architecture, we chose to combine a glamorous and colorful outfit with a space with industrial details and point the contrast between two equally strong aesthetics.
Paris is always a source of inspiration for fashion designers and the place where the most beautiful stories take shape and become reality.
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Zones allow for increased energy efficiency in your home. You can pick and choose the parts of your house to cool and heat. You can also assign each room a desired temperature. This flexibility means that your system doesn't have to work to cool or heat your entire home but instead works selectively. Rooms that don't require climate control are effectively sealed off, reducing the load on your HVAC system. This can lead to reduced utility bills and lower household costs.
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Jonas, named for Jonas Salk, and Rachel, named for Rachel Carson, were GS1280 AlphaServers from Hewlett-Packard (HP). They had a shared memory architecture and exceptional "memory bandwidth" (the speed at which data transfers between hardware memory and the processor) — five to ten times greater than comparable systems of the time.
When they arrived at PSC in 2003, each had 32 Gbytes of shared memory and 16 EV7 processors. By 2008, the Rachel and Jonas systems had each grown to be a loosely coupled set of machines. Each machine held 64 processors and 256 Gbytes of shared memory. Jonas was dedicated to biomedical research, while Rachel supported NSF science and engineering.
Rachel and Jonas were among the first GS1280s to roll out of HP production.
Some of the important research projects enabled by Rachel and Jonas are highlighted here. To see more, check the Projects in Scientific Computing archive.
Fire in the Brain
Joel Stiles, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, and Stephen Meriney, University of Pittsburgh
Simulations of neural synapses overturn some longstanding assumptions.
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Ken Jordan, University of Pittsburgh
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I've never figured out how to even set traps in this game which is probably a combination of apathy and a general distaste for their cheesy use in BG - are they currently workable in Deadfire?
It would be nice to be able to use them by setting under stealth in an active area (like a certain adra warehouse) .
They're workable-ish, but you can only have one on the field at a time, and they don't do nearly enough damage to justify that. Not worth bothering with after Port Maje, if there.
That's too bad maybe they will tweak them before it's over.
Yeah, I agree - at this point, pre-combat prep is mostly just "take some drugs." It's a shame.
knownastherat's point that you're generally just going to sell them is also valid - most traps have a pretty decent sale price, so the irony is that the point in the game where you're most likely to get some mileage out of them (early) is also the point where you might be hurting for cash and will want to sell them for a bit of other junk.
I am apparently still stuck in my BG hoarder mode where I rarely use any drugs or potions other than the occasional healing potion in battle and food for resting.
problem of combat prep is that it's not always applicable (or you already need to know the game). Some combats are scripted (like naval combats). In this game, stealth, pickpocket, traps... feel like abusing the system. It's really one thing I hate with deadfire rogue. Backstab, invisibility etc... mostly used to kill one enemy, reset combat, kill another etc... Instead of tactics you can use during a normal party fight.
Since they introduced bombes, they could have included traps as a new combat consumables using the same skill. More variety for the bombes.
Stealth : Like I proposed in first post, You should be able to restealth in combat. A 1 per encounter use like for athletic. That would make stealth usefull in all combat situation.
Pickpoket : why a separate skill? You must use stealth to steal... just merge it with stealth, like explosive & mechanic.
Backstab: I really dislike the weapon dmg bonus... because the rogue already have sneak attack & deathblow. Why not make it a passive that boost any martial ability used from stealth? I'm unsure power level affect martial abilities (I think someone reported it boost base weapon dmg?), but I would love if using a toxic strike from stealth with backstab actualy make the poison more potent. Same for crippling strike bleeding, or boost the bonus of a finishing blow etc... Boost the PL of the next attack ability. That would allow it to work with dual weilding too. Assuming PL change something with weapon abilities.
In my opinion, the skill system is a mistake. When you don't know the system, it's really obscure what the value represent. I really miss the generic abilities from POE1, and the ones introduced in deadfire are uninspired.
They could have introduced a general ability tree linked to character level and not PL (so doesn't mater if your solo or MC). Like in poe1 it work like the feat system of POE1. Instead of abstract values of the skill, introduce passives like a boost in alchemy duration (+x% duration), more potent alchemy etc... Bluff, diplomatie etc... could be passive that when you unlock just give you the options in dialogue.
And more important, reintroduce the active abilities, like viper strike, stealth could be a new invisibility ability (with a cooldown when out of combat?), same with pickpoket. Add some new 'general' martial and spell abilities (like arcane assault)... That would allow a wizard that use conjure weapon have easier acces to some martial abilities.
The power level system is a great idea, just completly underused. Why not every abilities have keywords? Exemple, why Toxic strike don't have the poison keyword? With more gear and passives that boost power level of different keyword, more build options. Cipher spells have keywords but you don't have any gear that boost them.
Instead of skills points, you boost your social abilities through power level. The advantage, is that you can make social abilities and combat abilities share some keywords, so you boost both. Exemple : charm & persuasion : make them share a keyword, a cipher or chanter with strong combat charming should be able to persuade more easly in dialogues.
Steath, smoke veil( invisibility), escape, pickpocket etc... give them illusion keyword, and perhaps some new rogue only keyword. Someone that master illusion should be more potent with these abilities.
Keywords should work as some sort of sub specialisations that can apply to any class.


I have seen a few blog posts recently where people are talking about their personal style and it brought something home to me that I have been aware of for a while, and something I have had many internal struggles with over the years and that's that I actually have no idea what my 'style' is.
When I was in highschool there was this one girl who was a few years above me, and I vividly remember being jealous of how confident she was with her fashion. She knew who she was and she totally owned it. I remember hoping one day I would follow a similar suit, that I would grow into my style and that would be it. However, now in my mid 20s (26 is still mid 20's right?!) I think I would still struggle to tell you what my personal style actually is. It changes from day-to-day depending on my mood, the time of year and a million other things.
My problem is I always want what I wear to show me in my best light. I have always wanted my clothes to represent 'me' but on days when I'm not even sure who 'me' is it can get beyond frustrating. Some days I feel like I have 3 different people inside me, each with their own sense of style and I struggle to know which direction to go in. Hence most of the time I end up with a bit of this and a bit of that and hope somehow I can construct a semi-wearable outfit. I cross my fingers and hope for the best.
The ironic thing is you would think with the amount of clothes us gals accumulate through our adult lives we would be content with our wardrobes enough to just throw anything on in the morning and be happy, but that just isn't the case. My problem is I have such a wide variety of styles of clothing, but not enough of one style to say that's 'my thing'. So if anything, it's even harder to choose. I have floral dresses to band T-shirts to vintage pieces and everything in-between, all of which I adore. The thing is one day when I am shopping I could be feeling like a completely different person to who I feel like the next week, resulting in the mismatched collection of clothes I have today.
It's so easy when scrolling through Instagram or Pinterest to feel pressured to buy into a certain trend or colour scheme because you see everyone else is, but I have learnt over the years that if I know full well I won't wear something, it really isn't worth it. Even if it is only a few quid from Primark. Buying into trends for the sake of it is something that I have always been fairly good at not doing, even back in my teens I was pretty stubborn when it came to not getting into the 'latest thing' whatever that may have been, and not much as changed now I am in my 20s. This isn't to say I deliberately avoid what's currently 'in vogue' (lol), as there are the odd trends here and there that I admittedly do like, but equally I think it's important not to part with your money to buy into a trend just because it's the latest thing.
I think this is why I love second-hand shopping so much, you're not the one looking the for the clothes, the clothes find you. I have bought things second-hand from vintage fairs, car boot sales and charity shops that I doubt I would have looked at twice in high street shops, but they end up being my most worn items. Coincidentally, sometimes they also just happen to be something that's kind of current. This teddy coat is a fine example. Yes, teddy coats have been a bit of 'a thing' this winter, but I picked this one up in a charity shop just before Christmas and due to the classic brown tone I know it will continue to be a favourite for winters to come.
For the people who know what their personal style is, I salute you. Some days I wish I knew what mine was too. But sometimes I think being a bit fashion confused can be a good thing – It tempts you to try different things and that's the great thing about fashion, you can be a different person one week to the next through the clothes you decide to wear and hey – that's totally ok! I think sometimes as fashion bloggers it can be easy to think we need to stick to a certain trend, style or theme when in reality we don't need to at all. Style doesn't need to be concrete, nothing we're into now is set in stone.
A part of me hopes that girl I looked up to in school all of those years ago also had days where she didn't have a clue either, it's just she had the knack of looking like she knew what she was doing, something I don't seem to have quite learnt. Clothes are there to experiment with, the same as you can try on a different shade of lipstick or wear your hair a different way, these things are there to be given a go and not taken terribly seriously. Somethings will stick and some things won't, but at the end of the day it's only fashion, or it's only a lipstick – what's the worst that can happen?
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Gainesville Juvenile Arrest Protocol
What are the program goals?
The city manager and police chief in Gainesville assessed local arrest data and realized that black youth enter the juvenile justice system at a rate four times higher than white youth. Officials examined a variety of pathways to the system, including documented disruptive behavioral issues, school suspension, arrests and violation of probation. Gainesville Police Department implemented a revised arrest protocol as well as officer training to reduce the racial and ethnic disparities in their juvenile justice system.
Florida's statewide juvenile civil citation diversion tool allows police to issue citations to eligible youth, primarily those charged for the first time with minor offenses, rather than arrest them. Data revealed that officers in the Gainesville Police Department regularly arrested youth of color who were eligible for citations, while only citing white youth for similar circumstances. In 2012 the department instituted a protocol that requires an officer arresting a citation-eligible youth to contact a supervising officer for approval and to document the reason for denying the citation in writing.
Who are the partners?
The City Manager and the Gainesville Police Department received site-based technical assistance from The Center for Children's Law and Policy to develop the revised arrest protocol. The Police Department also partnered with the Reichert House afterschool program to disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline.
How is the effort financed?
Alachua County, Florida received $50,000 in funding from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to participate in the Racial and Ethnic Disparities Reduction Project over a two-year period.
Leadership in Gainesville also noted strained relationships among youth and law enforcement officers. In response, the department added the Pennsylvania Minority Youth-Law Enforcement Curriculum to its required training. Developed in Pennsylvania through the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Models for Change Initiative and tested in local departments throughout the state, the curriculum brings officers and local at-risk youth together to learn from each other about how to best communicate and build community.
City of Gainesville Police Youth and Community Services: Disproportionate Minority Contact Reichert House
Increasing Public Safety and Improving Outcomes for Youth through Juvenile Justice Reform
Models for Change
City of Gainesville Police Youth and Community Services: Police / Youth Dialogue
NLC Staff Contact
Laura Furr
Program Manager, Justice Reform and Youth Engagement
Institute for Youth, Education, and Families
furr@nlc.org
Last Modified April 2016
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St. John's is honored to welcome Bishop Flavian Kassalla. He is Fr. John's Bishop and will be visiting from the Diocese of Geita, Tanzania. He is here to personally say "thank-you" for the mission work our parish is doing in his Diocese.
The Bishop will be here for Mass at 6:15pm and there will be a dinner and reception afterward in the Knights Hall. Enjoy pork chops, short ribs, potatoes, vegetables, and salad and visit with the bishop! Price: Goodwill donation.


One problem with Wiki's though are that they typically sit outside of a team's source control environment. This is bad because teams like the versioning functionality source control offers and also because it means you have another repository of knowledge that needs to be backed up. Typically I've just made do with these problems but on my current project we are using a Wiki to host our automated acceptance test scripts. We're using Fitnesse, but that doesn't really matter for the sake of this article. What does matter though is that we definitely want our automated acceptance tests under source control since they are closely tied to the state of our source code, so we need to figure out how to get our Wiki working with source control.
We check our entire wiki (application and data) into a single folder in source control. Since our acceptance tests are tied to the source code, we check the wiki into the same branch as the source code.
Developers and QAs who need to edit the acceptance tests do so on a locally checked-out version of the wiki. They run the wiki app locally and edit it through the web-app as normal, just on their local version.
The application build script refers to the acceptance tests defined in the wiki. Once any acceptance test changes are complete, a local build is run and then the wiki updates are checked in to source control.
At that point a build is kicked off on the Continuous Integration server. It updates both its local copy of source code and wiki files, validating the current state of source and tests.
Checkout the wiki from source control to a machine, and run the wiki on this machine as a shared wiki instance.
Install a Continuous Integration (CI) tool on the same machine that is hosting your shared Wiki instance.
Setup a CI project that monitors for changes both the local file system where your wiki files are stored and the folder in source control where these changes are checked-in.
You need to use a stateless wiki. If your wiki caches edits and/or data read from the filesystem you'll need to figure out a way of stopping it doing this, or a way of flushing its caches. Fitnesse thankfully is a stateless wiki so we didn't have this problem.
Some wiki's can be quite 'chatty' about what they save to the file system. The version of Fitnesse that we are using out of the box edits one file as soon as anyone even looks at a page, which isn't great for use with source control. Many wiki's also have their own in-built source control system of sorts, which we no longer need. In short, take time figuring out how to turn off various features of your wiki that aren't required in a source controlled environment.
Conflicts between users are going to be an issue, and we are still figuring out on our team a complete set of practices. The biggest tool for this is to make sure people using locally checked-out copies of the wiki update and commit very often and that the time between updates of the shared wiki is short (we have our's set to 15 seconds.) We also have a rule that any wiki refactorings (e.g. page renames) are only done on locally checked out versions, not on the shared instance.
The 'Recent Changes' file is always becoming conflicted but since it is just a generated page we tend to let 'local version win' in this case. We'll probably write some small batch scripts that make things easier for people.
Changes to Acceptance Test Fit Tables are only made on local wikis since they are part of the project's buildable source files and so people should be running these changes locally before checking in. Similarly, Fit tests can't actually be executed on the shared wiki – we decided it was too unclear what version of the code should actually be executed when tests were run in such a way.
The -o and -e 0 options suppress unnecessary file updates and in-built source control. We also deleted all the .zip files which already existed (these are just for source control).
This is a little complicated, but basically it means that 'sync.cmd' is called if changes occur in our subversion copy of the wiki, or on the local version, but ignoring any of subversion's own local files. Fitnesse is actually run as a service from c:\sourcecontrol\wiki-trunk\wiki .
svn commit -m "This is an automated Wiki commit"
OK, lets wrap this up. Wikis are great, writing acceptance tests in a wiki is also great, but acceptance tests should be in source control so we've put our wiki into source control. Through a bit of CI hackery we still have a 'shared' wiki that anyone can edit without having to use source control. It really is a hack though – it would be far cleaner if the shared wiki was actually persisting and reading directly to and from source control.
Kudos to Jeffrey Palermo – he's already done most of this, blogged it and so provided the start to the work we did.


This is a 14k white gold band set with a .17ct round brilliant cut diamond, and a satin and bright polished finish.
Just the right width at 7mm with the warmth of real gold in a combination satin and bright polished finish. Better yet, thanks to the drop in price on the gold market, this band is specially priced!


Speaking at a town hall meeting at La Croix last Tuesday, September 27, Friday, the Vice President of the Opposition New Democratic Party (NDP), said that the government had not held up its end of the bargain, as the agent charged with the responsibility to control the Black Sigatoka disease, and as Minister, Daniel ought to resign.
Friday also responded to a comment made by Daniel during a Unity Labour Party (ULP) rally at Sandy Bay last Sunday, September 2,5 that as the Minister of Agriculture, he had to accept the responsibility, but was not going to take the blame.
Daniel said that the arrival of the oil for the aerial spraying of bananas had been delayed because the documents prepared for the approval of the purchase of the oil remained on the desk of a worker at the Ministry of Agriculture, instead of being forwarded to the Ministry of Finance.
But Friday responded saying that the banana industry was significant as many farmers depended on it to earn a living.
"And to hear the Ministry of Agriculture, who have taken over the administration of the industry and who would have failed to deliver what they promised," he said, adding that the government promised to provide the inputs for farmers.
"They are the government, they are elected and we are to take them at their word, and when they fail, they can't come and say they taking responsibility, but not taking blame – they are to be blamed," Friday contended.
He continued saying that the Minister was putting the blame on a bureaucrat in his ministry. However, Friday said that Daniel needed to resign, just for making that statement.
"People must not settle for that kind of nonsense, stupid talk because that is a catch phrase, the prime minister said it in Parliament and they all copying it, but this is no joke," Friday said.
The government needed to be held accountable because it failed the people in what Friday termed an inexcusable manner.
The planes need to get to the fields in a timely manner or else the consequences will be unavoidable, and it does not take a lot of experience to know that, the Northern Grenadines area representative said.
"This is serious business, this is people's livelihoods and we must expect better," Friday said.


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Nuclear fusion, intelligent power grids and more: this is how China wants to become climate neutral
MRT· December 31, 2021
Surprisingly for many, the Chinese climate envoy Xie Zhenhua announced on November 11, 2021 at the UN climate conference COP26 in Glasgow that his country and the USA had reached a climate protection agreement: "As the two great powers in the world, we have to take responsibility other sides to work together to tackle climate change. " The US climate envoy John Kerry confirmed the agreement. After all, 40 percent of the world's CO comes from2Emissions from these two countries alone.
As early as September 2020, China's President Xi Jinping went specifically to the UN General Assembly for the first time Climate future of his country a: "Our goal is to reach the peak of the CO2-Emissions to be achieved by 2030 and CO by 20602– To become neutral. "Even more: He announced that China would no longer build coal-fired power plants abroad. Xi already put environmental and climate issues on the domestic political agenda between 2003 and 2007. At that time, he was still secretary of the Zhejiang Province party committee .
With its pledges, China moved away from its previous accusation of the historical guilt of the rich states. According to this, the first and foremost countries are obliged to reduce greenhouse gases, which have had the largest amount of CO since the beginning of industrialization2 deposited in the atmosphere. The USA, for example, has stored 410 billion tons of CO since pre-industrial times2 in the atmosphere, China with 220 billion tons is only slightly more than half. So the world had a problem even before China appeared on the world economic stage.
This turnaround was no accident, as did thorough analyzes of Carbonbrief and Nature show.
30 percent of global CO2Emissions from China
Since 2008, according to the Webseite "Our World in Data" the Oxford University at the top of the CO2– Issuers from all countries around the world. In 2020, its share was 10.67 billion tons, 30 percent of global CO2Emissions, a little more than twice as high as the US with 4.81 billion tons of CO2.
However, if you look at the per capita emissions, the picture turns. Because for every Chinese there are only about 7.1 tons of CO2 per year, for every American with 16 tons more than twice as much. And this despite the fact that China, as the world's factory, produces a large part of the consumer goods for the rich world, for which it has to offset its emissions, for example in the production of plastics.
In the 14th five-year plan, which was passed at the People's Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in early March 2021, the long-term climate goals that Xi announced at the 75th UN General Assembly have now been set in writing.
The plan matters 20 economic and social development goals binding, four of them explicitly refer to the reduction of energy consumption, the reduction of CO2-Emissions, nationwide reforestation and extensive, sustainable energy generation capacity.
Based on the decisions of the People's Congress, the central government presented a detailed work guide and an action plan for 2030 in October 2021. For the first time, they describe the concrete steps that China is taking to reduce its CO2-Wants to achieve goals.
Research infrastructure for less CO2Emissions
Important points in this are the strengthening of basic research and research into cutting-edge technologies, which in addition to nuclear fusion also includes the development of intelligent power grids and new materials. The two decrees also contain plans to increase the share of electricity from renewable and nuclear sources from 16 to 80 percent by 2060. Research on CO2Separation and sequestration are to be intensified, and by 2030 electric and hybrid vehicles are expected to make up 40 percent of all vehicles sold.
Overall, China is now ramping up investment in low-carbon energy technologies, from hydrogen fuel cells to batteries. But research on market-based emission control mechanisms will also play a role, such as CO2– Taxes and trading systems. In addition, there are models that help local authorities and industries to set realistic reduction targets.
According to research by Nature, more than ten scientific institutes were founded in China in 2021 alone to conduct research on climate issues.
But within four decades of the more than ten annual gigatons of CO2 Coming to zero means an extent and a speed of change that no other country has yet dared, Nature quotes a statement by the energy system modeler Gang He from Stony Brook University in New York, who has studied China's energy system in depth.
Keeping an eye on the social effects of upheaval
Last but not least, the population must also be taken along, says He. It is also important to find out which sections of the population the upheaval is affecting the most and how they can be helped to cope.
Part of the big change, however, will also be the change in teaching at universities. Points to this Zhang Xiliang hin, climate modeler and director of the Institute for Energy, Environment and Economics at the Tsinghua University. For example, traditional engineering subjects such as coal boiler technology and combustion engines will have to be eliminated in the future.
But even if China should actually succeed in achieving its extremely ambitious goals, they will not help to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees, says Yan Qin, Economist and CO2—Model Analyst at Refinitiv in Oslo, a company that provides data on financial markets.
But China's sheer size alone means that its commitments have a global impact, says Pep Canadell, Scientist at CSIRO Climate Science Center of the Australian Government in Canberra. "When China moves a bit to the left or right, up or down, the whole world feels it." Canadell is convinced that China's goals are not as ambitious as some would like them to be, but at least realistic: "What China should do is sometimes not what China can deliver."
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The Haverford Partnership for Economic Development (HPED) is a nonprofit organization through which government, businesses, commercial property owners and residents can effectively collaborate to facilitate business district revitalization and economic growth throughout Haverford Township.
We need a logo for our organization that takes our nonprofit corporations letters (HPED) and brands them into a coherent symbol for use on our website, letterhead and all related materials to be distributed to potential members. We are looking for a clean, classy, business illustration that is also hip and cutting edge.
Our specific community of Haverford Township in Pennsylvania.
As far as fonts are concerned, we are open for suggestions.


Spots are available for the 2016 Online Level 1 Certification Initiative. This opportunity is open to any adult in the Archdiocese of San Antonio who wishes to grow in the knowledge and understanding of the Catholic faith. This formation will benefit any Catholic, including parish staff, pastoral council members, liturgical ministers, small faith communities, bible study groups, finance councils, school boards, RCIA teams, etc. Spaces are limited! Register now by going to www.archsa.org/initiative. Registration will continue through May 6.


Accountor Group is further strengthening the IT Function to support the group's continuing growth. Therefore, we are looking talent with can-do attitude to new role as Business Platform Manager.
At Accountor we do not settle with average. Instead, we are looking for brave forerunners that are looking ahead to the future. If you consider yourself as such a person and in addition as an expert in IT platform or IT solution management, keep on reading!
Reliable, integrated and well performing business platform is necessary for Accountor's business to achieve its targets and increase its competitiveness. We are gradually moving away from legacy environment with multiple technologies, complex integrations and complicated system dependencies.
Accountor Group is now looking for a Business Platform Manager to ensure successful implementation of group level Accountor Business Platform (ABP). It is D365 based platform, including group wide CRM and Finance & Operations modules. It forms the Accountor wide system backbone incorporating multiple features and functionalities and digital capabilities for all critical business support operations.
Platform manager needs to ensure that the development, execution and leadership of the Accountor Business Platform is transformational in its ambition and supports the delivery of the Business Strategy in hand with the Operational businesses.
The Business Platform Manager will be part of Group IT team and report to Group CIO. The location is in Accountor Headquarter in Espoo, Finland.
Fill out the application form by 19.4.2019. For further information about the role, please contact Group CIO, Matti Malinen on April 11th at 14.00-16.00, Mobile: +358 40 544 9556.
Accountor is the largest Accounting, HR and Financial Management Services Company in Northern Europe. We have over 100 offices in seven countries, with over 2,400 passionate employees helping our clients to succeed.


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Thierry Delaporte (45) is the new CEO at the worldwide Financial Services (FS) practice of Capgemini. He is following in the footsteps of Aiman Ezzat, he was nominated Chief Financial Officer at Capgemini Group in 2012. Delaporte will be based from Capgemini's New York office.
Capgemini has a strong track record in the Financial Services industry. Approximately 21.000 consultants within Capgemini and Capgemini Consulting are active in banking, insurance companies and the remainder of financial institutions.
The Frenchman Thierry Delaporte is currently Chief Operating Officer for 'Application Services One', a position which he has held since early 2011. He began his career in 1992 as a Senior Auditor at Arthur Andersen in Paris and London. In 1995 he moved to Capgemini and started as Group Internal Auditor for Sogeti, a subsidiary of the ICT-advisory firm. Over the past 17 years he held various roles as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or Chief Operating Officer for Operations (COO), across Europe, Asia Pacific and North America.
Thierry Delaporte: "I look forward to leading this outstanding global Business Unit at Capgemini which is viewed as one of the finest jewels of the Capgemini Group. I am grateful to have been given the opportunity to continue this growth and expansion and to help Capgemini become the 'Leader for Leaders' in the financial services industry, the largest industry sector for IT services companies".


is perfectly marvellous. Is anyone else watching it?
Saw it over Christmas. Very good.
I binged it over Christmas when I was struck down for a couple of days with food poisoning.
Absolutely lovely stuff, highly recommended, and the recreations of Greenwich Village and middle class Jewish life were wonderfully entertaining.
I can only assume a second series is in the works?
Binged over Christmas when we had the flu – brilliant writing, very very funny and it's got Lenny Bruce!!! Simply outstanding in times of outstanding television.
How is he doing those Premier Inn ads then? Eh?
That explains why he's not afraid.
Yes, and yes, yes, yes! Also binged, also impatient for a second series. The worst thing about it is the title and its inaccurately cosy impression of the material.
Me and the Mrs watched in the couple of weeks after its released and enjoyed greatly. Best original show on Amazon Prime last year.
Yes. Watched it. Loved it. Rave about it to anyone who crosses my path.
Not yet, I've got Spiral 6 and Babylon Berlin 16 eps) to get through first.


There was a lot of whispering around the water cooler. My supervisor was a candidate for Vice President of the department. Many asked, "Was she qualified?" Others thought, "There has never been a woman in this position before," and "Is she even suitable for the task?" Although there were at least four other candidates, she was chosen to carry the torch of Vice President. Never had I been so proud of my boss of three years. My coworkers and I had a big celebration dinner filled with joy and plenty of gifts to honor her new-found success. Finally, her hard work had paid off and she was headed for bigger and better things.
After the initial excitement died down, I was hit with the news that there would now be a few more additional changes. Although the promotion was a wonderful achievement, I never considered that I would no longer report to my fearless leader. As she moved up the corporate ladder, there was now a new vacancy in the department and things were about to shift. Her current position needed to be filled and I needed a new supervisor.
There was again a lot of whispering around the water cooler. "Who would be the candidate for the new position?" "Would that person be as qualified as my last supervisor?" and "Is this person going to be suitable for the task?" Many candidates began to come into the office. With each interview, anxiety began to build and an unseen dark cloud began to fill the atmosphere. My work environment was encompassed with a state of worry and fear of the unknown. Finally, a new candidate was hired and things began to change.
Through this experience, I realized three things: God is sovereign, change is inevitable and worry and fear is the absence of faith and trust. I often wonder why God sometimes never fully discloses the stipulations of his blessings. For example, even when there is a promotion, we often lose things in the process in order to grow. As God takes us to higher heights and deeper depths, we may lose some friends along the way and may have to endure a lot of negative "whispers" and our faith may be challenged. We may feel uncomfortable at times, but we cannot let fear overtake our hearts, because even though our situation may transform, there is a time and season for every change and this too shall pass.
We must fully trust God that our outcome will be in our favor and even when we go through the process of not knowing the future, there should be a reassurance that God is in control. God encourages us in the book of Deuteronomy 31:6 to "Be strong and courageous, do not be afraid of them, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go." He also reminds us in 1 Peter 5:7, to "Cast all our anxiety on Him, because He cares for us." God is with us, through the journey of moving into the blessings He has prepared for us. He is with us when people speak words filled with questions of doubt and uncertainty and He is with us through the midst of change. Leave the unknown results to God, and never fear the outcome of moving forward.