1903. Side and rear view of Station showing proximity to Merrimack River. A protective dike was constructed following the 1901 flood. The 1936 flood inundated all this area including the main laboratory buildings up to a level just below the laboratory benches.

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The Station's Middle Years

 

For sixty-five years the studies of the intermittent filtration of sewage have gone on their methodical way and still the last word has not yet been said en that subject. One finding opens up another question and that leads to further planned research. Just why, for instance, does it improve performance in some coarse grain filters to re-circulate a part of the effluent? What are the best proportions of re-circulated effluent and raw sewage during each of the seasons? What about the useful disposal of gas formed in sludge? What to do about the seasonal variations in the "pH" of raw sewage? These are only some of the questions for which the final answers are only now being worked out.

 

But the treatment of domestic sewage became only a lesser part of the total research effort of the Station. Other and more insistent problems presented themselves during the early and "middle years" of the Lawrence Experiment Station history — the "twenties" and "thirties" and on into the "forties." In one field alone, the problem of industrial wastes, the continuing researches would have justified the long existence of the Experiment Station. It has been a quiet year indeed when the expanding industries of New England have not added at least one new industrial process to what constitutes the economic life-blood of the region. And many of the new processes bring with them a new problem — the disposal of the waste products they create.

 

Industrial wastes uncared for may create an intolerable nuisance when poured into streams. They may make the waters totally unfit for drinking purposes, or they may ruin the streams for other industrial use. Not unimportant also is the damage industrial wastes can do to streams as places for recreation. On the other side of the coin, is the fact that research sometimes leads the way to valuable compounds which may be recovered from the wastes thought to be only useless but hazardous to life and property.

 

Researches in the treatment and disposal of industrial wastes began at the Experiment Station as early as 1895. That year one of the experimental sand filters. received wool scourings with eventual purification — though at an extremely low rate. Paper-mill wastes were applied to another filter and more satisfactory results were achieved. The following year tannery wastes were tried on both a sand filter and a trickling filter of coke. Soon textile wastes were being pre-treated by passing them over iron filings, and in 1901 dye wastes were subjected to study.

 

The staff early recognized that many industrial wastes would require different treatment methods than those used for domestic sewage because these wastes were damaging to the bacterial growth necessary for sewage treatment, so determined efforts were made to minimize the bacteria-killing factors in these chemicals by coagulation and chemical treatment.

 

In 1900 Mr. Clark enumerated the five chief difficulties in the biological treatment of sewage raised by the addition of industrial wastes:—their bactericidal action; excessive carbonaceous matter; volume of liquor; varying chemical characteristic of wastes from essentially similar industrial processes from plant to plant; and liability of change in process in any plant. This statement made almost a half century ago is still a concise and pertinent picture of the difficulties still encountered. The only additional factor is that of entirely new products, processes and wastes continually being introduced in an aggressive industrial expansion.

 

Work through the years established the fact that many industrial wastes highly bactericidal could by pre-treatment be reduced to a condition that permitted them to be added safely to municipal sewage, but the problems of making them safe were found to be enormous and to vary markedly from season to season and from waste to waste. What and how much chemicals must be added? How great is the dilution required? How are filters to be made accustomed to each new waste? How much recirculation will be required in each instance? Questions like these all called for long and painstaking studies to find the answers, as they do to this day. But the answers were found as year followed year, and these answers often were crucial to the continued industrial development of Massachusetts, as well as to the health of the people of the State.

 

Study of industrial wastes has continued unremittingly to this very day as one of the most productive services of the Experiment Station and it is logical to assume that similar studies will be required as long as the Commonwealth continues its policy of industrial expansion and diversification.

 

Gavin Heath was born in Cape Town, South Africa on October 23, 1961. Gavin was exposed to a variety of cultures and experiences courtesy of eclectic and progressive parents.

 

At age six, young Heath would meet, play and dance with the tribal cultural known as Ndebelle. He and sister Colleen would circle huge fires, echoing strange and rhythmical chants while anticipating the next ceremonial dance step. By daylight Heath would join the Ndebelle youth patiently watching the elder women methodically decorate their thatched mud dwellings. The brightly painted and highly contrasting geometric shapes and cultural motifs would slowly unfold and most certainly entertain. These were indeed beautiful gifts for all to share.

 

Heath would revisit these incredible people as an adult and one day pay tribute to their culture and peaceful heritage.

"I remember well the Ndebelle. These proud people maintained their culture, positivism and dignity.

 

Gavin Heath has been creating glass art since 1987 and has been exhibiting his work at the Sawdust Art Festival and the Festival of the Arts for 20 years.

 

He is available for custom installations and also teaches private classes in glass blowing at his Laguna Beach studio.

 

You can find his artwork at auction.

 

When not making art out of glass Gavin travels the world surfing in the most remote areas he can find.

 

(949) 395 4976

gavinheath@mac.com

artglass.tv

 

(further information you can get by copying the link at the end of page and then clicking on it!)

History

 

Plaque to the founder of the Hyrtl'schen orphanage Joseph Hyrtl and Joseph Schöffel

© IMAREAL / E. Vavra

The Biedermeier-influenced city on the edge of the Vienna Woods is the capital of the district Mödling in the south of Vienna. The town has experienced in its 1100-year history since the first mention very different phases: in the Middle Ages briefly Babenberg residence, for centuries an economically potent wine market, from the 19th Century summer resort and industrial center, since 1875 town, in the 20th Century for almost two decades XXIVth district of Vienna, since 1954 again an independent municipality of Lower Austria and as a school and garden city popular residential area in the vicinity of Vienna.

Mödling has partnerships with cities in France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bulgaria and Italy.

The historical tradition of Mödling goes back far beyond the first written mention, how settlement finds from the Neolithic Age, Hallstatt period (eg calendar mountain) and Roman times as well as the great Avar burial ground "at the Golden Staircase" from the 7/8th Century BCE prove. In the year 903 Mödling is first mentioned (Medilihha). The later settlement was probably made in the 11th Century beneath an early castle building on the church mountain (Kirchenberg), where later a Romanesque predecessor of Othmar church was built.

In the late 12th century Mödling was for a few decades the residence of a Babenberg branch line. Henry the Elder, a brother of Duke Leopold V., had since the 1170 century belongings in and around Mödling. He and his son Henry the Younger, calling himself "Duke of Mödling", resided on the castle probably built around 1150 in the Klausen, among whose most famous visitors was Walther von der Vogelweide. With the death of Henry the Younger in 1236 extinguished the Mödlinger line of the Babenberg and the reign became princely domain. The time of the Babenberg commemorates the in late 12th Century built Romanesque ossuary at Othmar church - a circular building with an apse - as well as the denomination "Babenberg".

In the late Middle Ages, Medlich developed into a major wine market (1343 mention of market town) which in the 15th Century as one of the four princely spell markets was also represented in the Parliament - in addition to Gumpoldskirchen, Langenlois and Perchtoldsdorf. For centuries shaped the wine-growing the economy and social structure. The Mödlinger wine was good and helped the market particularly in the 15th and 16th Century to its prosperity. The settlement reached at the end of the Middle Ages that extent, which until the 19th Century should remain essentially unchanged. The center formed ​​the area around the Schrannenplatz with a dense stand of late medieval and early modern town houses that bear evidence of the wealth and self-confidence of the citizens of the market town. From the late medieval Schrannen building, the official residence of the market judge, was created in 1548 the representative Renaissance town hall with loggia.

The elevated lying Othmar church became in the 15th Century by transferring the rights of the church of St. Martin parish church of Mödling. The massive late Gothic church was built in a nearly 70-year construction period from 1454 to 1523 on the walls of six predecessors and able to resist fortified. As Mödling was destroyed in 1529 by the Ottomans, the just completed church lost its roof and remained for over a century till the restoration in 1660/70 a ruin. On the Merian engraving from 1649 the uncovered Othmar church on the left side is clearly visible. As a temporary parish church served the about 1450 built late-Gothic hospital church.

The internal conditions at this time were mainly marked of the clashes of the market with the princely rule Burg Mödling - since 1558 combined with the rule of Liechtenstein - which reached its climax in 1600 under the energetic administrator Georg Wiesing (1593-1611). During the Reformation, the market largely became Protestant. In the course of recatholicization a Capuchin monastery was founded in 1631, which served as a factory after the repeal under Joseph II and was then bought by the Thonet family (so-called Thonet Schlössel, today Bezirksmuseum).

In Türkenjahr 1683 (besiegement of the Turks) took place in the Othmar church a horrific bloodbath, in which hundreds of people who had sought refuge there were killed. The church was destroyed again, but this time built up rapidly with the market judge Wolfgang Ignaz Viechtl in a few years.

End of the 18th Century occurred in Mödling the settlement of industrial enterprises, especially textile mills that took advantage of the cheaper production possibilities and also its proximity to Vienna. Was decisively shaped the character of the place but by the rise to a summer resort, initiated by Prince Johann I of Liechtenstein beginning of the 19th Century, which acquired in 1807 the rule of Liechtenstein-Mödling with the former family ancestral home. He had the area under enormous cost reforested (Schirmföhren/pinus mugo, acacia, etc.) and transformed to a public park in Romantic style with promenade paths, steep paths and artificial constructions (Black tower, amphitheater, Husarentempel). The ruined castles Mödling and Liechtenstein were restored. The former Liechtenstein'sche landscape park is considered a remarkable example of the garden culture in 1800 and is now a popular tourist destination (1974 Natural Preserve Föhrenberge).

Since the Biedermeier Mödling in the summer was an extremely popular artist hangout. Among the most famous artists of the 19th Century who were inspired by the romantic nature here, were Franz Schubert, Franz Grillparzer, Ferdinand Waldmüller, Ferdinand Raimund and Ludwig van Beethoven, who here worked on one of his major works, the "Missa Solemnis". In the 20th Century settled inter alia Arnold Schönberg, Anton von Webern, Anton Wildgans, Franz Theodor Csokor and Albert Drach temporarily or permanently down. To Beethoven, Schönberg and Wildgans memorials have been established (Beethoven House, Schönberg House, Wildgans archive).

In the second half of the 19th Century Mödling became administrative center (District Court, District administration) and an industrial site and educational location with high schools and colleges (eg educational establishment Francisco-Josephinum). The good traffic situation at the southern railway, the progressive industrialization and the expansion of health facilities (park, Kursalon) led to a rapid expansion of the hitherto for centuries unchanged market. Under mayor Joseph Schöffel (1873-1882), who became famous because of his successful engagement against the deforestation of the Vienna Woods as the "savior of the Vienna Woods", followed the methodical installation of the so-called Schoeffel(before) city - Schöffelvorstadt (New Mödling) east of the Southern Railway and the establishment of workers' settlements. Later followed the exclusive residential areas of the turn of the century with their representative residential buildings. Probably the most important building of the late 19th Century is the Hyrtl'sche orphanage (1886-1889), founded by the Viennese anatomist, Joseph Hyrtl and Joseph Schöffel. The Orphanage church St. Joseph was built on the in 1787 demolished Martin Church.

On 18th November 1875 the emerging market town was raised to the status of a city, two years later the incorporation of Klausen and Vorderbrühl took place. Through the establishment of Great-Vienna under the Nazi regime on 15th October 1938 the young city for 16 years lost its municipal autonomy; 1954 it became again a part of Lower Austria.

Symbol for the characteristic environment of Mödling was the "width pine" on the Anninger whose age goes back to the 16th Century (around 1550). It was a well-known natural landmark and has become the symbol of the city. 1988 died the tree and it had to be removed in 1997 for safety reasons. The remains are now in the Lower Austrian Provincial Museum.

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Birth: Dec. 28, 1822

Washington

Washington County

Pennsylvania, USA

Death: Sep. 12, 1900

Council Bluffs

Pottawattamie County

Iowa, USA

 

Obituiary:

 

Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, IA, Thursday, September 13, 1900, Page 1

 

DEATH OF A PIONEER

THOMAS OFFICER SUCCUMBS AT THE AGE OF 77.

IDENTIFIED WITH THE CITY FOR HALF A CENTURY.

SUCCESSFUL IN BUSINESS AND GENEROUS WITH FELLOWMEN.

Close of a Life of Remarkable Activity Along Many Lines, With Great Effort for Good.

 

Thomas Officer, one of the men whose lives have been woven into the growth of the city and have been made part of the history of Council Bluffs, died yesterday about noon at his home on Willow avenue, after a brief illness, which began on Monday of last week at Leadville, Col., where he had been spending the summer. During the recent months the members of the family, as they have seen him from day to day, were loathe to believe that he was failing in strength, but as they look back now they realize that for several months his vitality has been giving away. He realized that he had not long to live and as he put it "was living on borrowed time," but he was anxious to hold out to the last and die in the harness.

Left to Avoid the Heat.

 

Feeling oppressed by the intense heat of early July, Mr. Officer suddenly left for Colorado, where he hoped to feel better. After spending a day or two in Denver, he hurried on to Leadville only to find that he had made the change too suddenly and that he must seek a lower altitude for a time. He immediately returned to Denver, where he found business that called him to Kansas, and on his return to Denver he started again for Leadville by easy stages. This accomplished the desired result, for by the time he had again reached the higher altitude his system had become accustomed to the change and he seemed to get along well. Letters written home told of his enjoyment of the summer and of the improvement in the condition of the health of his son, William P., who was there with him and who was tramping the mountains.

 

Monday night of last week he was taken sick with a bowel trouble, but Tuesday he was better and went down town. That night the illness came on him again and with greater severity. During the night he caught cold and when morning came he was found to be seriously ill and suffering from a nervous chill. He was then taken to St. Luke's hospital until Saturday, when his son started home with him. They missed connections at Denver and Mr. Officer lay all day Sunday in the sleeper on a side track outside of Denver and arrived here on Monday. Mrs. Officer and her son, Charles T. Officer, started from here Saturday to meet the sick man, but owing to the failure of the connections the meeting failed and Mrs. Officer and son spent Sunday in a Kansas town where they met the returning party on Monday. After arriving here, Mr. Officer failed rapidly and it was seen that his death was only a question of a short time.

Sketch of His Life.

 

Thomas Officer was born near Little Washington, Washington county, Pennsylvania, December 28, 1822, and was the son of Robert and Margaret Scott Officer. He graduated from Washington-Jefferson college at the age of 17 years with the highest honors of his class, and, being set apart for the ministry, he attended Princeton theological seminary where he was a classmate and companion of many of the great theologians of the Presbyterian church--for instance Dr. William Paxton with whom, throughout their lives, he was a close friend. His eyes failed him after two years of close application to the profession of his choice and he had to seek a vocation where he could use his hands rather than his eyes. He received the appointment of instructor at the Ohio institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Columbus, where he remained several years and until selected by the legislature of Illinois to build and act as president of the Institute for the Deaf and Dumb Jacksonville. He organized that school and laid out the grounds for the building which is now one of the objects of pride in Illinois. Ten years later he came west to enter up some land at Sioux City and Council Bluffs.

Came to Council Bluffs.

 

That was the beginning of his acquaintance with this section of the country. In the following year he went back to Illinois for his family and Council Bluffs has since been his home and the center of his interests. He was associated in the removal west with W. H. M. Pusey and the two men established the private bank of Officer & Pusey in 1857. This bank has stood through all of the panics and financial troubles which have since swept over this country and it is said it is the only one of seventeen banks in this city that went safely through the panic of 1857. Together the men have engaged in various enterprises in this vicinity, though in the main they have held to their banking and real estate business. At times they would pick up some business on a mortgage and carry it on until they had secured the money they had invested and would then dispose of the property at a profit. In this way they have successfully managed lumber yards, saw and grist mills and other enterprises.

 

But Mr. Officer was not a selfish man and where he saw a movement which should be undertaken for the good of the city, he did not hesitate to embark in it. When he came here he was lost without a Presbyterian church so he immediately organized one and from that time until his death was a ruling elder in the church in this city. He has always contributed generously to the support and maintenance of the organization and to kindred interests. He organized the first school in the city, seeing that there was no place to educate the children and realizing that such must not be neglected. He was the principal owner and builder of the first electric light works in the city, later selling it out to other parties. Mr. Officer has served the public as a councilman and for years was a member and president of the school board.

Help to the Deaf and Dumb.

 

His fame as an expert instructor in the sign language of the deaf and dumb induced the legislature of Iowa to locate at Council Bluffs the state institute for the deaf and Dumb, largely that the state and the afflicted children would receive the advantages of his council and wide experience in the successful eleemosynary institution of Iowa. With Hon. Caleb Baldwin and Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, he selected the site for the institution and formulated the plan of organization. He was a member of the board of directors and for years its president.

 

Mr. Officer was married August 8, 1848, to Miss Elizabeth M. Pusey, a sister of W. H. M. Pusey, and all through these more than fifty-two years she has been his helpmeet and closest friend. Two sons and a daughter survive with Mrs. Officer. Charles T. Officer is teller of the Officer & Pusey bank; Miss Julia E. Officer resides at home and William P. Officer recently disposed of his business in this city because of ill health. Other relatives in this city are two sisters and a brother---Mrs. W. H. M. Pusey, Mrs. Rebecca Blaine and Robert P. Officer.

Mr. Pusey's Estimate of Him.

 

W. H. M. Pusey who has been associated with Mr. Officer for half a century was asked for an estimate of his character and he replied as follows:

 

"Yes, I knew Thomas Officer from young manhood until his death. He was of Scotch-Irish lineage, a blue stocking of no uncertain color. When he came to Council Bluffs we did not have a school house nor a school law (which is now the pride of Iowa) and further, no Presbyterian church, the church of his fathers. What did he do? He imported a preacher and teacher from Kentucky and largely supported him and his family and organized a Presbyterian church of twelve members, thus setting the Presbyterian faith and doctrine on wheels until, in its evolution and revolutions, the church of his childhood and heart wields a potent influence in the loved city he had chosen as the place of his life work. He took his imported Kentucky school teacher and set him up in business by procuring for hi a large school by private subscriptions and made a Presbyterian elder of the school teacher. Never seeking preferment, yet his aptness made him prominent in our schools, municipal government and the Deaf and Dumb institute, which received all the benefits of his enlarged experience. No public enterprise which received his approval, ever failed also to receive his financial aid. Dwelling in darkness, he gave us the electric light system.

 

"As a pure upright christian man all of we poineers(sic) will concede to him the advanced station in christian manhood, crowning his lovely life and character with the highest and most deserved praise.

 

"As a banker he was loyal to his clientage and they were loyal to him, so through his long years of banker, he has maintained, his well earned reputation of success and popularity. The good man, full of honors and years, has gone and if the people read his history and acheivements(sic), they would simply reiterate the epitaph on the tomb of Christopher Wren,

 

"'If you would read my history, look around you.'"

As Seen By His Pastor.

 

Rev. W. B. Barnes, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, said that the place left vacant in the church by the death of Mr. Officer can never be filled, for in every item of the church work, the spiritual as well as the financial, he had a part. He was the most conspicuous man in the church and took his share in every feature either small or great and was a liberal supporter of all of its financial interests. Rev. Mr. Barnes referred to Mr. Officer's part in the organization of the church and to the fact that he had been elder for forty-four years.

 

Others in speaking of Mr. Officer have referred to his exactness, saying that he was very methodical and believed that if you want a thing done right, the surest way to secure it is to do it yourself. He was a sturdy, upright man, of strictest integrity and one given to the advancement of all good things that he saw about him in the world. No charitable work in the city ever suffered from lack of his support and no appeal made to him in behalf of any beneficent or religious movement was in vain. To all organized work of this character in the city he contributed a specific amount regularly. But about all of this work he was most unostentatious and whether sending out provisions for a needy family or contributing money to a worthy cause, he always sought to conceal the identity of the giver.

 

The funeral will be held on Friday afternoon at 2:30 at the residence and all friends are invited to attend. The service, in harmony with the desire that he recently expressed, will be very simply, with no eulogy. The burial will occur later and will be private. The family requests that no flowers be sent.

   

A Cushion Starfish motoring across the sea floor. You can see the suction feet stirring up sediment. I’ve never seen one move this quickly. On a serious mission.

 

These may look like innocuous and beautiful creatures. But they are voracious predators. Using their slow and methodical suction cups to pry open molluscs, so they can inject their stomach into their shell, digesting them from the inside out.

 

Ikelite DS-50 Camera left

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- It was a double Cinderella story for the Presidio of Monterey volleyball championship Jan. 30 and the 229th Military Intelligence Battalion. Fourth-seeded Company D took on the loser's bracket entry, second-seeded Company A, that was a player short for the championship. The Black Sheep methodically won in the required two matches to become champs over Co. D, 25-12, 19-25, 15-6 and 24-13, 10-25, 15-13.

 

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PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

In the late evening sun, a solitary Eurasian Oystercatcher forages for food in the grass just in front of a gentle water stream. Its striking black and white plumage stands out as it pecks methodically, illuminated by the golden light.

 

Eurasian oystercatcher / Haematopus Ostralegus / Scholekster

For the Teleidoscope theme "String".

 

So I'm going to try and catch up what I've missed out on since January!! I don't know if I can do it but I'll try.

 

I never realised how hard it is to draw string until today! I thought a knot would just be a case of drawing a squiggle and hey presto...but no! That doesn't look good. So after a fair while drawing a knot methodically, I think it's turned out ok.

 

Loving this Teleidoscope theme btw.

 

The costume is an old Halloween one by the way, not my usual Saturday night clobber! Although it may turn a few heads!

Catacombs, Montparnasse, Paris

 

I decided that today was a day for going underground, and I set off to Montparnasse to visit the catacombs. These are a vast maze of tunnels under Paris originally used for quarrying the stone out of which the city's main buildings are constructed. In the late 18th Century, the state of the city's churchyards had become so disgusting that the city removed the bones from all of them. They were brought here at night, the carts coming from the centre of the city accompanied by torch-bearing acolytes and priests chanting the requiem Mass. A skull count showed that almost six million corpses were removed in this way. They were buried deep underground, but these people being Parisians the skulls and bones were arranged in a neat and methodical way, a meaningful chaos. Layers of tibia and femurs are crowned by a layer of pelvises and skulls, and so on. Each churchyard was grouped together, and a plaque shows which parish provided the skeletons.

 

The work was interrupted by the French Revolution,which provided plenty more corpses for when the work was resumed. Altogether about a kilometre and a half of tunnels were filled with the remains of dead Parisians, and you can walk through them on a winding route under the streets around Montparnasse station. In fact, this is just a tiny fraction of the tunnels. The catacombs extend for hundreds of kilometres under the city, many of them rarely explored and difficult of access. Because of this, they are regularly broken into by intrepid adventurers, and many legends have grown up about parts of the network. However, my favourite story is one which is true.

 

In 2004, a group of police cadets on a training exercise were given the task of tracking an imaginary criminal in a part of the network which was little known. They got into the system through a manhole, and when they were about a hundred feet underground something rather odd happened. They triggered a motion sensor which set off the sound of barking dogs. Thinking that it was part of the exercise, they headed onwards only to come out into a vast cavern which had been fully equipped as a cinema. An anteroom had been equipped and fully stocked as a bar, and there was also a film storage room. When the cadets reported what they had seen, the electricity board were sent in to work out where the invaders were getting their electricity from. Instead, they found the wires all cut, the equipment removed, and a sign saying 'Don't try to follow us. You'll never find us.'

 

Perhaps the cineastes had got fed up with waiting to get into the system officially, because this was the only place all week that I encountered a serious queue. Worse, I was just in front of a small group of people who talked constantly in very loud voices. She was an American who obviously lived in Paris, and they appeared to be young relatives who'd come to stay. She was taking them down the catacombs, and the price to be paid for this by the poor kids was to suffer her pretentious nonsense. She went on about spirituality, and homeopathy, and psychoanalysis, and the inner energy, and so on. Fair play to the kids, they responded enthusiastically enough.

 

And then she got out some of her stream of consciousness poetry, and started reading it in a loud voice. Well, goodness me. I was put in mind of something the graphic artist Alan Moore said when he was in Hollywood helping turn his 'V for Vendetta' into a film, and he was asked at a director's lunch why he lived in Northampton, England. "Because it keeps me grounded", he replied, and I thought that this was exactly right. It was like the opposite of this pompous woman, although to be fair to her I expect that if I went to live in Paris I would also disappear up my own backside.

 

The catacombs are brilliant, worth every minute of the queuing time, worth every insufferable stream of consciousness adjective. And then I went and did some shopping.

 

You can read my account of my travels at pariswander.blogspot.co.uk.

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Picture shows: ISSAC HEMPSTEAD-WRIGHT as Tom

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(c) Studio Canal/BBC 2011

 

THE AWAKENING is set in 1921, in a post-war world of loss where the bereaved seek solace in spiritualism. Haunted by the death of her fiance, Florence Cathcart (REBECCA HALL) spends her time debunking supernatural claims, using methodical and rational explanations to disprove the notion that the dead can still haunt us. So she feels compelled to accept a request to go to Rookford, a boarding school in the countryside where a boy has recently been found dead and rumours about a ghostly boy hunting the school are causing panic amongst pupils and parents alike.

 

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SSMART = Sanitary, Social Distance, Methodical, Aware, Responsible, Thoughtful

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Construction is steadily moving forward on the 18,000 sq. ft. Possum Creek Skatepark in Gainesville, Florida.

 

Led by Spohn Ranch's COO, Mark Bradford, the crews in Gainesville are quickly turning what were once just some dreams scribbled on paper into one of Florida's premiere concrete skateparks.

 

Through a combination of advanced pre-cast concrete technology and methodical on-site concrete pours, the skatepark is nearing a flawless finish with less than 30 days on site.

 

Here Spohn Ranch COO, Mark Bradford executes a concrete pour for one of the parks poured-in-place features.

5391. If this photo is taken up large, two men can be seen standing at the fork of the gully. That is where the Sea Venom flown by pilot Sub Lt Brian Dutch and Senior Observer Lt Sandy Sandberg crashed on the night of June 15, 1960.

 

Dutch and Sanberg had ejected at several hundred feet, and the plane burst into flames as Dutch drifted down towards it. We continues with his account, pickng it up where the decision hgas been made that they must eject.:

 

"....Now at that stage the RN Sea Venoms had no ejection seat and the RAN Sea Venoms had been fitted with the Martin Baker Patent Ejector Seat MK 4A. As there had not been an ejection, there were several myths and rumours about the seat, particularly as the RAAF Sabre aircraft had an American seat and had had several fatal low level ejections.

 

Our seats were canted towards one another at about 4 degrees which meant that if both the pilot and observer ejected together the seats would collide above the aircraft, so the drill was that the observer should eject the heavy canopy and then immediately eject himself.

 

The limitation of the ejector seat, which was powered by 3 cartridges, was 200 knots of forward speed and 200 feet of height. I pulled up the nose of the aircraft to about a 60 degree climb and put on full power to try to clear the ground. I remember seeing the altitude indicator showing a steep climb, the altimeter was rising and the air speed indicator[ASI] falling rapidly!

 

The next 30 seconds or so seemed to take ages! In good drill fashion I said to Sandy “EJECT, EJECT, EJECT”…

 

No reaction. I looked at Sandy who had not responded. The intercom had obviously failed. My only option was to change my right hand from the control column and pull the canopy ejection myself toget the message across to Sandy. As the canopy exploded clear I remember seeing Sandy’s eyes like saucers as he reached for the canopy and ejected. With Sandy clear, I waited

until the ASI was falling through about 110 knots and ejected myself.

  

There was a surging acceleration into the darkness, I felt the seat curving backwards and then a jerk as the canopy of the parachute deployed and I was floating downwards. Almost immediately the aircraft exploded on the ground just below me and I realised that I was drifting towards the fire.

 

Once again I recalled my drills and remembered our lectures on controlling a parachute. I reached up and pulled the right hand lines…. “Christ, I’m drifting into the fire faster” I thought,

as I quickly changed to the left lines and landed just clear of the aircraft fire.

 

As I landed in a small tree with my feet in a stream, I could hear shouting and thought that it was Sandy shouting for help. I methodically undidmy harness release and ran to assist Sandy. I got about 4 feet before I was jerked on to my back. I had forgotten to undo my emergency oxygen tube! Flushing with embarrassment in the darkness, I undid the tube and again ran to assist Sandy. Bang!… I ran into a fence. When I finally got to Sandy he was OK and said that he had been shouting at me as he could see me drifting into the fire and was trying to warn me!

 

CONTINUED WITH NEXT ENTRY:

 

Photo: Sent by Michael Sandberg, ex-RANM FAA, with permission.

A semi-methodical approach paid off at Amaze 'N Things.

Black Knights on Patrol

The men and women of Task Force 3-66 are actively patrolling western Paktika province, taking the fight to the insurgents. Since assuming responsibility for the area, the Black Knights have been methodically clearing district after district to allow the provincial government to provide security and development. Western Paktika is essentially a rest stop for insurgents linked to Sirajuddin Haqqani traveling from Pakistan and continuing west. The heat, elevated terrain, and harsh landscape of Paktika province are unforgiving allies of these enemies of Afghanistan. With limited road networks the primary mode of travel here is walking. The relentless training planned and executed by the leaders of Task Force 3-66 back in Germany is now paying off.

 

American White Pelican

(Pelecanus erythrorhynchos)

Conservation Status: low concern, but protected.

 

The American White Pelican is one of North America’s largest birds, with a 9-foot wingspan, they are also among the heaviest flying birds in the world. They are superb flyers and often travel long distances in large flocks by soaring. When flapping, their wingbeats are slow and methodical. American White Pelicans feed from the water’s surface, dipping their beaks into the water to catch fish and other aquatic organisms. They often upend, like a very large dabbling duck, in this process. They do not plunge-dive the way Brown Pelicans do. During the breeding season, breeding adults grow an unusual projection or horn on the upper mandible near the tip of the bill.

  

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Catacombs, Montparnasse, Paris

 

'bone pile of the cemetery of the Innocents, placed here in August 1787'

 

I decided that today was a day for going underground, and I set off to Montparnasse to visit the catacombs. These are a vast maze of tunnels under Paris originally used for quarrying the stone out of which the city's main buildings are constructed. In the late 18th Century, the state of the city's churchyards had become so disgusting that the city removed the bones from all of them. They were brought here at night, the carts coming from the centre of the city accompanied by torch-bearing acolytes and priests chanting the requiem Mass. A skull count showed that almost six million corpses were removed in this way. They were buried deep underground, but these people being Parisians the skulls and bones were arranged in a neat and methodical way, a meaningful chaos. Layers of tibia and femurs are crowned by a layer of pelvises and skulls, and so on. Each churchyard was grouped together, and a plaque shows which parish provided the skeletons.

 

The work was interrupted by the French Revolution,which provided plenty more corpses for when the work was resumed. Altogether about a kilometre and a half of tunnels were filled with the remains of dead Parisians, and you can walk through them on a winding route under the streets around Montparnasse station. In fact, this is just a tiny fraction of the tunnels. The catacombs extend for hundreds of kilometres under the city, many of them rarely explored and difficult of access. Because of this, they are regularly broken into by intrepid adventurers, and many legends have grown up about parts of the network. However, my favourite story is one which is true.

 

In 2004, a group of police cadets on a training exercise were given the task of tracking an imaginary criminal in a part of the network which was little known. They got into the system through a manhole, and when they were about a hundred feet underground something rather odd happened. They triggered a motion sensor which set off the sound of barking dogs. Thinking that it was part of the exercise, they headed onwards only to come out into a vast cavern which had been fully equipped as a cinema. An anteroom had been equipped and fully stocked as a bar, and there was also a film storage room. When the cadets reported what they had seen, the electricity board were sent in to work out where the invaders were getting their electricity from. Instead, they found the wires all cut, the equipment removed, and a sign saying 'Don't try to follow us. You'll never find us.'

 

Perhaps the cineastes had got fed up with waiting to get into the system officially, because this was the only place all week that I encountered a serious queue. Worse, I was just in front of a small group of people who talked constantly in very loud voices. She was an American who obviously lived in Paris, and they appeared to be young relatives who'd come to stay. She was taking them down the catacombs, and the price to be paid for this by the poor kids was to suffer her pretentious nonsense. She went on about spirituality, and homeopathy, and psychoanalysis, and the inner energy, and so on. Fair play to the kids, they responded enthusiastically enough.

 

And then she got out some of her stream of consciousness poetry, and started reading it in a loud voice. Well, goodness me. I was put in mind of something the graphic artist Alan Moore said when he was in Hollywood helping turn his 'V for Vendetta' into a film, and he was asked at a director's lunch why he lived in Northampton, England. "Because it keeps me grounded", he replied, and I thought that this was exactly right. It was like the opposite of this pompous woman, although to be fair to her I expect that if I went to live in Paris I would also disappear up my own backside.

 

The catacombs are brilliant, worth every minute of the queuing time, worth every insufferable stream of consciousness adjective. And then I went and did some shopping.

 

You can read my account of my travels at pariswander.blogspot.co.uk.

As the horses slowly pull the planter down the field, the two adults seated low in front of the driver are hand planting seedlings in a furrow. The children following help to tamp the soil down around the plants

 

A Swimspa is a methodically approved solution to relax the body from several diseases.

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A quiet, cosy afternoon with my boy, pottering around and jigsaw making. I love watching him do jigsaws - when his concenration holds, he's very methodical and very impressive. This Peppa Pig collection has proved very good value for money, at £10 for 6 jigsaws. He generally warms up on a 24 piece one, and then skips the intermediate level and dives into a 50 piecer.

Note the wine and two kinds of mayonaise, to compare. In a blind taste test, marc couldn't tell them apart. Whole grain rustic bread and dried sausage. The yolks of the eggs are quite orange here! And the cheese accompanies everything because all year round goats stand in the fields all around us for miles and chew grass into milk in a methodical way.

Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby - A senior member of the Midsomer Constabulary's Causton CID, Barnaby handles the considerable number of murders that occur in the county. A patient, tolerant man whose style of investigation is methodical and fair. Much of his social life seems to revolve around his wife and daughter to whom he is devoted. In fact they both often provide a personal connection with the crimes in which he is investigating.

 

Detective Sergeant Gavin Troy - Barnaby's first and longest-serving deputy. He is a local man and attended a local comprehensive. He is young to be a Detective Sergeant, a point often commented on. He is extremely bright and ambitious, through it is usually his boss who solves the crime, often after Troy has made the wrong conclusion. In contrast to the tolerant Barnaby, Troy is one to make un-politically correct remarks often concerning his disdain for homosexuals. He is often known to make other inappropriate comments, often at the least fortuitous of times. He was promoted to Inspector and transferred to Middlesbourough at the end of the sixth series.

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Phaselis Research

 

Phaselis

 

When compared with the previous period of research on the history of the city over the past quarter century it has undergone radical changes. While modern scientists follow the path of their predecessors in collecting data through systematic processes and methodically analysing them, they change the route whereby they approach the city as a context- and a process-oriented structure, having economic, social, cultural, political and environmental dimensions which come together at different levels.

 

This considerably more inclusive definition expands the discipline concerning the city’s historical research, which consists of archaeology, epigraphy, ancient history and the other ancillary sciences and it encourages scientists from the natural and health sciences to participate within these studies. This is because in the course of the exploration of an ancient settlement the study of both the environment and the ecological setting which make human life possible; together with health issues, such as diet and epidemics, form the context within which human beings live, and which are thereby as important as the human actors.

 

Within the context of the planned Phaselis Research, even certain knowledge such as the settlement’s appearing on the stage of history as a favorite break-point with its three natural harbours, it being famous for its roses, the frequent seismic upheavals at sea and on its shores and its citizens leaving their homes because of a devastating malaria epidemic suggest the necessity of the application of this multi-dimensional research methodology in order to understand more fully the historical adventure of this city.

 

By presenting this research project, we aim to implement and realize this multi-dimensional research method, which as yet lacks widespread application in the field in our country, however conceptually and practically with a multi-disciplinary research team consisting of both national and international scientists, we intend to register systematically every kind of data/information regarding all contexts of the city employing modern methods and to present the results to the scientific world in the form of regular reports and monographic studies, thus forming a strong tie between past and future research.

 

Phaselis Territorium

 

The boundaries of the ancient city of Phaselis’ territorium are today within the administrative borders of the township of Tekirova, in Kemer District, determined from the archaeological, epigraphic and historical-geographical evidence, reaching the Gökdere valley to the north, continue on a line drawn from Üç Adalar to Mount Tahtalı to the south and extend along the Çandır valley to the west.

 

Phaselis was discovered in 1811-1812 by Captain F. Beaufort during his work of charting the southern coastline of Asia Minor for the British Royal Navy. Beaufort drew Phaselis’ plan and in the course of conducting his cartographic studies, he saw the word Φασηλίτης ethnikon on the inscriptions and consequently identified these ruins with Phaselis. C. R. Cockerell, the English architect, archaeologist and author came to Phaselis by ship and met Beaufort there. Then in 1838 C. Fellows, the English archaeologist visited the city. He found the fragments of the dedicatory inscription over the monumental gate built in honour of the Emperor Hadrianus and mistakenly thought the Imperial Period main street was the stadion due to the seats-steps on either side of the street. In 1842 Lt. T. A. B. Spratt, the English hydrographer and geographer, and the Rev. E. Forbes, the naturalist came to Phaselis via the Olympos and Khimaira routes. Due to the fact that they all came by sea and they only stayed for a short time, their descriptions of the topography inland are without detailed and there are serious errors in orientation.

 

PhaselisThose researchers who visited Phaselis between the late 19th and the early 20th centuries concentrated primarily upon the discovery of inscriptions. In 1881-1882 while the Austrian archaeologist and the epigraphist O. Benndorf, the founder of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, and his team were conducting research in southwestern Asia Minor, they examined Phaselis. In the winter of 1883 and 1884 F. von Luschan from the Austrian team took the first photographs which provide information concerning the regional features of Phaselis’ shoreline. In the same year the French scientist V. Bérard also visited Phaselis. In 1892 the members of the Austrian research team, O. Benndorf, E. Kalinka and their colleagues continued their architectural, archaeological and epigraphical studies in Phaselis. In 1904 they were followed by D. G. Hogarth, R. Norton and A. W. van Buren from the British research team. In 1908 the Austrian classical philologist E. Kalinka visited the settlement again, collected epigraphic documents and conducted research on the history of city (published in TAM II in 1944). The Italian researchers R. Paribeni and P. Romanelli visited Phaselis in1913 and C. Anti in 1921. Anti returned to Antalya overland and in consequence discovered several epigraphs and the ruins of structures within the territorium of Phaselis.

 

Further archaeological, epigraphical and historical-geographical studies of Phaselis were conducted by the English researchers F. M. Stark and G. Bean, who came to the region after World War II. In 1968 H. Schläger, the German architect and underwater archaeologist began exploring the topographical and architectural structures of Phaselis’s harbours. After Schläger’s death in 1969, the research was conducted under the leadership of the archaeologist J. Schäfer in 1970. H. Schläger, J. Schäfer and their colleagues obtained important data concerning the architecture and history of Phaselis through the surface exploration of the city and its periphery. Following the excavations conducted along the main axial street of the city, in 1980 under the direction of Kayhan Dörtlük, the then Director of the Antalya Museum and between 1981-1985 under the leadership of the archaeologist Cevdet Bayburtluoğlu; underwater exploration was carried out in the South Harbour under the direction of Metin Pehlivaner, the then Director of the Antalya Museum.

  

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Catacombs, Montparnasse, Paris

 

I decided that today was a day for going underground, and I set off to Montparnasse to visit the catacombs. These are a vast maze of tunnels under Paris originally used for quarrying the stone out of which the city's main buildings are constructed. In the late 18th Century, the state of the city's churchyards had become so disgusting that the city removed the bones from all of them. They were brought here at night, the carts coming from the centre of the city accompanied by torch-bearing acolytes and priests chanting the requiem Mass. A skull count showed that almost six million corpses were removed in this way. They were buried deep underground, but these people being Parisians the skulls and bones were arranged in a neat and methodical way, a meaningful chaos. Layers of tibia and femurs are crowned by a layer of pelvises and skulls, and so on. Each churchyard was grouped together, and a plaque shows which parish provided the skeletons.

 

The work was interrupted by the French Revolution,which provided plenty more corpses for when the work was resumed. Altogether about a kilometre and a half of tunnels were filled with the remains of dead Parisians, and you can walk through them on a winding route under the streets around Montparnasse station. In fact, this is just a tiny fraction of the tunnels. The catacombs extend for hundreds of kilometres under the city, many of them rarely explored and difficult of access. Because of this, they are regularly broken into by intrepid adventurers, and many legends have grown up about parts of the network. However, my favourite story is one which is true.

 

In 2004, a group of police cadets on a training exercise were given the task of tracking an imaginary criminal in a part of the network which was little known. They got into the system through a manhole, and when they were about a hundred feet underground something rather odd happened. They triggered a motion sensor which set off the sound of barking dogs. Thinking that it was part of the exercise, they headed onwards only to come out into a vast cavern which had been fully equipped as a cinema. An anteroom had been equipped and fully stocked as a bar, and there was also a film storage room. When the cadets reported what they had seen, the electricity board were sent in to work out where the invaders were getting their electricity from. Instead, they found the wires all cut, the equipment removed, and a sign saying 'Don't try to follow us. You'll never find us.'

 

Perhaps the cineastes had got fed up with waiting to get into the system officially, because this was the only place all week that I encountered a serious queue. Worse, I was just in front of a small group of people who talked constantly in very loud voices. She was an American who obviously lived in Paris, and they appeared to be young relatives who'd come to stay. She was taking them down the catacombs, and the price to be paid for this by the poor kids was to suffer her pretentious nonsense. She went on about spirituality, and homeopathy, and psychoanalysis, and the inner energy, and so on. Fair play to the kids, they responded enthusiastically enough.

 

And then she got out some of her stream of consciousness poetry, and started reading it in a loud voice. Well, goodness me. I was put in mind of something the graphic artist Alan Moore said when he was in Hollywood helping turn his 'V for Vendetta' into a film, and he was asked at a director's lunch why he lived in Northampton, England. "Because it keeps me grounded", he replied, and I thought that this was exactly right. It was like the opposite of this pompous woman, although to be fair to her I expect that if I went to live in Paris I would also disappear up my own backside.

 

The catacombs are brilliant, worth every minute of the queuing time, worth every insufferable stream of consciousness adjective. And then I went and did some shopping.

 

You can read my account of my travels at pariswander.blogspot.co.uk.

Granite rock, which is brought in by barge, is methodically placed in the Piankatank River near Gwynn’s Island in Mathews County Virginia. The rock is the basis for the newest, 25-acre oyster reef in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is overseeing the more than $2 million sanctuary reef project in partnership with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission and the Nature Conservancy. (U.S. Army photo/Patrick Bloodgood)

  

A tasting of mainly Old World wines after work in a home wine cellar environment. As below is our thoughts of the evening's wines, accompanied by delicious cheese, chicken nuggets and someone's else chicken chop.

 

Domaine Faiveley - www.bourgognes-faiveley.com

Nuits Saint Georges, Cote d'Or, Burgundy, France.

 

Founded in 1825, Bourgognes Faiveley has been handed down from father to son for over 175 years. As the 6th generation to take the reins, François Faiveley manages, with equal amounts passion and competence, the largest family domaine in Burgundy. Methodically reconstructing vineyards fractured by French inheritance laws, Bourgognes Faiveley today owns more appellations in their entirety (monopoles) than any other domaine in Burgundy. Domaine Faiveley is also one of the biggest domaines (115ha) in Burgundy and, many would argue, one of the best. François Faiveley (in charge since 1978) is constantly striving to produce great wines and takes great pains over every aspect of wine production. Rather than a widespread use of clones, Faiveley reproduces vines predominantly from his own stocks. Many of Faiveley's top wines are hand bottled with no filtration.

 

2002 Faiveley Corton-Clos des Cortons Faiveley (Corton, Cote de Beaune)

Tasted on Thurs 1.11.2007. 100% Pinot Noir. 375ml. 13.0%. Toast, fresh red berries. Medium to full-bodied with good finish, underlying but firm, grippy tannins with muscular depth and a short to medium finish. Drink between 2017 and 2037. (Henry)

 

Domaine de la Vieille Julienne - www.vieillejulienne.com

Southern Rhone, France

 

This biodynamic 25 acres or 32 hectares estate is located in the northern end of the Chateauneuf-du-Pape appellation. Average age of vines 50 years and older. Their Chateauneuf is typically a blend of 60% Grenache, 15% Syrah, 10% Mourvedre, 10% Counoise, and 5% Cinsault. The large oak foudres have been replaced with small oak barrels although Jean-Paul believes in "emphasising the fruit and the balance more than the wood". All his wines are bottled without filtration. Since 1990, it is owned and overseen by winemaker Daumen Jean-Paul.

 

2001 Domaine de la Vieille Julienne Chateauneuf-du-Pape

Tasted on Thurs 1.11.2007. 60% Grenache, 15% Syrah, 10% Mourvèdre, 10% Counoise and 5% Cinsault. 14.0%. Good and perfumed bouquet of some smokeness, meat, dark berries. Medium-bodied, smooth, soft, velvet-like, juicy, with an elegant sweetness. Medium finish. Drink between 2007 and 2015. (Andrew)

 

Chateau Caronne Ste Gemme - www.chateau-caronne-ste-gemme.com

Haut-Medoc, Bordeaux, France

 

The 16th century estate was founded by Emile and Eugene Borie in 1900. It is located in the central Medoc, near St Laurent Medoc, not far from Chateau Camensac, Chateau Belgrave and Chateau La Tour Carnet to the north, and Chateau Lanessan to the east. It is traditionally planted with 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot. Harvest is by hand and part mechanical, sorted, destemmed, fermented in stainless steel where they then see barriques for twelve months, of which 20% are new each year before release. Today it is owned Emile's grandson Jean Nony, and overseen by Jean's nephew, François and his brother. Assisting Francois is cellarmaster Bruno Guyomar and oenologist Olivier Dauga.

 

1999 Caronne Ste. Gemme Cru Bourgeois

Tasted on Thurs 1.11.2007. 65% Cabernet Sauvignon, 32% Merlot and 3% Petit Verdot. Oaked Barriques for 12 months (20% new) before release. 12.5%. A delightful Bordeaux of chocolate, dark berries, classic. Medium-bodied, some leather, berries, enjoyable with a medium finish. Drink between 2007 to 2010. (Daniel)

 

Chateau Saintt-Pierre - www.chateaustpierre.com

St. Julien, Bordeaux, France

 

This 16th century 17 hectares estate is the smallest and least well-known of the St-Julien crus and has been making wine in accordance with its 4ème Cru Classé status (4th Growth). It is located behind the village of St-Julien-Beychevelle. In 1982 the property was bought by Henri Martin, who also owns Chateau Gloria. Today it is run by his daughter Françoise and her husband Jean-Louis Triaud.

 

2003 Chateau Saint-Pierre

Tasted on Thurs 1.11.2007. 70% Cabernet Sauvignon, 20% Merlot and 10% Cabernet Franc. Oaked (50% new) for 18 months before release. 13.0%. Big dark fruits, toast. Medium to full bodied with noticeable fruitty tannins with a medium finish. Drink between 2008 to 2013. (Andrew)

Self improvement is approximately learning what you are about and putting the actual you in command of your lifestyle. The below article offers you some useful information it is possible to apply for your own personel self improvement.

 

Stress could possibly be the opposite of happiness most of the time. Being exposed to sustained and extreme stress might have negative mental and physical repercussions. Whenever we want to work toward our goals calmly and methodically using a clear head, we must remove the stress in our heads. Allow your set time during on a daily basis that one could relax and empty your brain. Taking some time yourself will allow you to relax, while keeping your goals under consideration.

 

Always carry a means to take note of thoughts you could have. Carry paper as well as a pen around together with you. Take note of around it is possible to, then reference it later once you have a creative burst of energy.

 

Begin your own personal development with a glance at your leadership qualities. The real key to as being a leader is influence, in accordance with a lot of people. Take a look at journey of leadership. Which events have gotten probably the most influence on your lifestyle? Consider how you will have started as a result of these events. Precisely what is the best attribute that creates you with a team player? Once you examine these thoughts, you may be a little more of any team player and leader.

 

Exercise even if you are in your ideal weight. There are numerous top reasons to exercise. Those who exercise regularly are typically happier and a lot more relaxed than their couch potato counterparts.

 

Write a pep talk yourself. Take the time to publish down several of the great things that you simply love about yourself while keeping it over a exotic postcard. Make it together with you, and pull it all out should you be feeling discouraged. Another excellent idea is always to recite a list while filming yourself, to be able to look at the footage regularly. Should you do that?

 

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Joel got his income tax prepared today. The guy that did it was so slow and methodical. He had to readjust his chair several times during the simple EZ form. We laughed hysterically!

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Black Knights on Patrol

 

The men and women of Task Force 3-66 are actively patrolling western Paktika province, taking the fight to the insurgents. Since assuming responsibility for the area, the Black Knights have been methodically clearing district after district to allow the provincial government to provide security and development. Western Paktika is essentially a rest stop for insurgents linked to Sirajuddin Haqqani traveling from Pakistan and continuing west. The heat, elevated terrain, and harsh landscape of Paktika province are unforgiving allies of these enemies of Afghanistan. With limited road networks the primary mode of travel here is walking. The relentless training planned and executed by the leaders of Task Force 3-66 back in Germany is now paying off.

Black Knights on Patrol

 

The men and women of Task Force 3-66 are actively patrolling western Paktika province, taking the fight to the insurgents. Since assuming responsibility for the area, the Black Knights have been methodically clearing district after district to allow the provincial government to provide security and development. Western Paktika is essentially a rest stop for insurgents linked to Sirajuddin Haqqani traveling from Pakistan and continuing west. The heat, elevated terrain, and harsh landscape of Paktika province are unforgiving allies of these enemies of Afghanistan. With limited road networks the primary mode of travel here is walking. The relentless training planned and executed by the leaders of Task Force 3-66 back in Germany is now paying off.

This image represents the 600-700+ images I lost on the last day of a one-week vacation in Costa Rica.

 

Here's my tale:

 

PARADISE LOST

A Photo Essay, Without Photos

 

I have just returned from a week at Playa Conchal Resort in Costa Rica, a beautifully appointed tropical resort where my family and I were indulged with ideal weather, comfortable accommodation, a wide variety of delicious food and drink, and days spent lounging at poolside, wandering the beach, marvelling at the wildlife, and getting our adrenaline flowing with various gravity-defying and power-driven activities.

 

Here’s a typical day: I would rise with the sun around six, throw on a t-shirt, some shorts and sandals, grab my camera bag, and get a travel mug filled with Costa Rican coffee at the breakfast buffet just as they opened. Then I would head to the beach and either turn left or right. Right would take me to Brasilito, a nearby village that was waking with the morning sun. There, I’d wander the streets and alleyways photographing the light and shadows. Drowsy dogs, walls saturated in vivid colours, and doorways adorned with Christmas decorations were the focus of my photography. Returning along the beach, more photo opportunities awaited me as the sun was now breaking the hillside and reaching the sand and rolling surf. The shadow play on the sand through the trees was quite captivating, with footprints both fresh and fading interrupting the flat plane of sand.

 

On other days, turning left at the beach would take me eventually to a still sleepy beach cafe, where the bold colours and vacant furniture cried out to be photographed. Two small decaying, varicoloured rowboats left leaning upright against ancient trees also commanded my camera’s attention. But the best find of all was an abandoned house up on the hillside overlooking the beach. Half a dozen large, ornate orange pillars welcomed me to this fascinating former home. Behind these imposing sentries lay a large structure, entirely roofless, each room floored in ornate blue and white tile, half-concealed in dusty debris. The brilliance of the painted walls, some white, some orange, some blue, was artfully tainted by the patina of weather and age. Room by room I studied details with my camera, aligning windows and walls, studying proportions and colours and light. Why this once splendid home was abandoned, I don’t know. I paid two visits to this location, the second, on our final day, more methodical and studied than the first, paying very careful attention to my exposures and composition. Plans of a photo book began to form in my imagination, using these shots to complement other images from similar, but so different locations.

 

A pre-arranged rendezvous for a nine a.m. family breakfast pulled me homeward after each of my morning adventures, where my sleepy-faced family and I would plan the coming day. This generally consisted of pool time, beach time, and some sort of excursion, which included kayaking, zip lining, power boat tubing, and an amazing backroad ATV adventure, which turned out to be the highlight for my sons and I. My photography would continue at various points throughout the day, waiting for the warm slanted light at day’s end, usually at the beach, to finish off before a relaxing evening of dinner and conversation.

 

It was on our final day that this perfect routine came to an abrupt end, as it was late that morning when my camera bag was stolen from the beach. With surprising boldness, someone came up from behind our group of chairs and lifted my bag where my boys sat reading. For once, I had decided not to carry it with me as I enjoyed a short walk on the beach with my wife. At all other times, my bag was attached to my side like an appendage. This bag contained not only my valued Nikon, but three lenses, my wallet, my new iPod, my glasses, my watch, and various other items. And the greatest loss of all was hundreds of photographs that I so looked forward to coming home with, not only my personal work, but the documentation of an important family vacation.

 

A hasty search of the beach and the road and peering in windows of parked cars led nowhere, as did the subsequent involvement of resort security and the Costa Rican police. My unfocussed anger led to a profound disappointment which in turn, coloured my brilliant week in a drab grey. My impression of the warm and friendly Costa Rican people was suddenly tainted by one heartless individual, and my unwavering belief in karma began to crumble. This stuff doesn’t happen to me. Happy hour that afternoon wasn't, as I recounted with dismay the two or three or four steps that always seem to precede an unfortunate event.

 

We flew out of Costa Rica the following morning, and I left something very important behind. Beyond my camera equipment, beyond my personal possessions, all my identification, beyond even all those precious photographs, I left behind a part of my faith in people.

 

This photo-less essay has given me a chance to record, without camera and lens, the beauty and wonder of one short, but intense week in a place far from my home and my ways, and has given me a way to create something from nothing. There are far greater losses to experience than mine. My family is home safe and sound, and with time, I’ll probably get over this loss. And as I now proceed to try to replace all my identification, and attempt to hopefully recover my lost possessions through insurance, I hope that part of me that I left behind will someday return.

 

Michael

                                                                                                                                

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Phaselis Research

 

Phaselis

 

When compared with the previous period of research on the history of the city over the past quarter century it has undergone radical changes. While modern scientists follow the path of their predecessors in collecting data through systematic processes and methodically analysing them, they change the route whereby they approach the city as a context- and a process-oriented structure, having economic, social, cultural, political and environmental dimensions which come together at different levels.

 

This considerably more inclusive definition expands the discipline concerning the city’s historical research, which consists of archaeology, epigraphy, ancient history and the other ancillary sciences and it encourages scientists from the natural and health sciences to participate within these studies. This is because in the course of the exploration of an ancient settlement the study of both the environment and the ecological setting which make human life possible; together with health issues, such as diet and epidemics, form the context within which human beings live, and which are thereby as important as the human actors.

 

Within the context of the planned Phaselis Research, even certain knowledge such as the settlement’s appearing on the stage of history as a favorite break-point with its three natural harbours, it being famous for its roses, the frequent seismic upheavals at sea and on its shores and its citizens leaving their homes because of a devastating malaria epidemic suggest the necessity of the application of this multi-dimensional research methodology in order to understand more fully the historical adventure of this city.

 

By presenting this research project, we aim to implement and realize this multi-dimensional research method, which as yet lacks widespread application in the field in our country, however conceptually and practically with a multi-disciplinary research team consisting of both national and international scientists, we intend to register systematically every kind of data/information regarding all contexts of the city employing modern methods and to present the results to the scientific world in the form of regular reports and monographic studies, thus forming a strong tie between past and future research.

 

Phaselis Territorium

 

The boundaries of the ancient city of Phaselis’ territorium are today within the administrative borders of the township of Tekirova, in Kemer District, determined from the archaeological, epigraphic and historical-geographical evidence, reaching the Gökdere valley to the north, continue on a line drawn from Üç Adalar to Mount Tahtalı to the south and extend along the Çandır valley to the west.

 

Phaselis was discovered in 1811-1812 by Captain F. Beaufort during his work of charting the southern coastline of Asia Minor for the British Royal Navy. Beaufort drew Phaselis’ plan and in the course of conducting his cartographic studies, he saw the word Φασηλίτης ethnikon on the inscriptions and consequently identified these ruins with Phaselis. C. R. Cockerell, the English architect, archaeologist and author came to Phaselis by ship and met Beaufort there. Then in 1838 C. Fellows, the English archaeologist visited the city. He found the fragments of the dedicatory inscription over the monumental gate built in honour of the Emperor Hadrianus and mistakenly thought the Imperial Period main street was the stadion due to the seats-steps on either side of the street. In 1842 Lt. T. A. B. Spratt, the English hydrographer and geographer, and the Rev. E. Forbes, the naturalist came to Phaselis via the Olympos and Khimaira routes. Due to the fact that they all came by sea and they only stayed for a short time, their descriptions of the topography inland are without detailed and there are serious errors in orientation.

 

PhaselisThose researchers who visited Phaselis between the late 19th and the early 20th centuries concentrated primarily upon the discovery of inscriptions. In 1881-1882 while the Austrian archaeologist and the epigraphist O. Benndorf, the founder of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, and his team were conducting research in southwestern Asia Minor, they examined Phaselis. In the winter of 1883 and 1884 F. von Luschan from the Austrian team took the first photographs which provide information concerning the regional features of Phaselis’ shoreline. In the same year the French scientist V. Bérard also visited Phaselis. In 1892 the members of the Austrian research team, O. Benndorf, E. Kalinka and their colleagues continued their architectural, archaeological and epigraphical studies in Phaselis. In 1904 they were followed by D. G. Hogarth, R. Norton and A. W. van Buren from the British research team. In 1908 the Austrian classical philologist E. Kalinka visited the settlement again, collected epigraphic documents and conducted research on the history of city (published in TAM II in 1944). The Italian researchers R. Paribeni and P. Romanelli visited Phaselis in1913 and C. Anti in 1921. Anti returned to Antalya overland and in consequence discovered several epigraphs and the ruins of structures within the territorium of Phaselis.

 

Further archaeological, epigraphical and historical-geographical studies of Phaselis were conducted by the English researchers F. M. Stark and G. Bean, who came to the region after World War II. In 1968 H. Schläger, the German architect and underwater archaeologist began exploring the topographical and architectural structures of Phaselis’s harbours. After Schläger’s death in 1969, the research was conducted under the leadership of the archaeologist J. Schäfer in 1970. H. Schläger, J. Schäfer and their colleagues obtained important data concerning the architecture and history of Phaselis through the surface exploration of the city and its periphery. Following the excavations conducted along the main axial street of the city, in 1980 under the direction of Kayhan Dörtlük, the then Director of the Antalya Museum and between 1981-1985 under the leadership of the archaeologist Cevdet Bayburtluoğlu; underwater exploration was carried out in the South Harbour under the direction of Metin Pehlivaner, the then Director of the Antalya Museum.

  

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaselis

 

All images © Thomas Smith 2012.

 

Looking through a vast treasure trove of individually labelled tins of all shapes and sizes. Methodically hand labelled for every screw, nail and rivet imaginable. This is but a small number of my late grandfather's collection of garden and DIY supplies.

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Phaselis Research

 

Phaselis

 

When compared with the previous period of research on the history of the city over the past quarter century it has undergone radical changes. While modern scientists follow the path of their predecessors in collecting data through systematic processes and methodically analysing them, they change the route whereby they approach the city as a context- and a process-oriented structure, having economic, social, cultural, political and environmental dimensions which come together at different levels.

 

This considerably more inclusive definition expands the discipline concerning the city’s historical research, which consists of archaeology, epigraphy, ancient history and the other ancillary sciences and it encourages scientists from the natural and health sciences to participate within these studies. This is because in the course of the exploration of an ancient settlement the study of both the environment and the ecological setting which make human life possible; together with health issues, such as diet and epidemics, form the context within which human beings live, and which are thereby as important as the human actors.

 

Within the context of the planned Phaselis Research, even certain knowledge such as the settlement’s appearing on the stage of history as a favorite break-point with its three natural harbours, it being famous for its roses, the frequent seismic upheavals at sea and on its shores and its citizens leaving their homes because of a devastating malaria epidemic suggest the necessity of the application of this multi-dimensional research methodology in order to understand more fully the historical adventure of this city.

 

By presenting this research project, we aim to implement and realize this multi-dimensional research method, which as yet lacks widespread application in the field in our country, however conceptually and practically with a multi-disciplinary research team consisting of both national and international scientists, we intend to register systematically every kind of data/information regarding all contexts of the city employing modern methods and to present the results to the scientific world in the form of regular reports and monographic studies, thus forming a strong tie between past and future research.

 

Phaselis Territorium

 

The boundaries of the ancient city of Phaselis’ territorium are today within the administrative borders of the township of Tekirova, in Kemer District, determined from the archaeological, epigraphic and historical-geographical evidence, reaching the Gökdere valley to the north, continue on a line drawn from Üç Adalar to Mount Tahtalı to the south and extend along the Çandır valley to the west.

 

Phaselis was discovered in 1811-1812 by Captain F. Beaufort during his work of charting the southern coastline of Asia Minor for the British Royal Navy. Beaufort drew Phaselis’ plan and in the course of conducting his cartographic studies, he saw the word Φασηλίτης ethnikon on the inscriptions and consequently identified these ruins with Phaselis. C. R. Cockerell, the English architect, archaeologist and author came to Phaselis by ship and met Beaufort there. Then in 1838 C. Fellows, the English archaeologist visited the city. He found the fragments of the dedicatory inscription over the monumental gate built in honour of the Emperor Hadrianus and mistakenly thought the Imperial Period main street was the stadion due to the seats-steps on either side of the street. In 1842 Lt. T. A. B. Spratt, the English hydrographer and geographer, and the Rev. E. Forbes, the naturalist came to Phaselis via the Olympos and Khimaira routes. Due to the fact that they all came by sea and they only stayed for a short time, their descriptions of the topography inland are without detailed and there are serious errors in orientation.

 

PhaselisThose researchers who visited Phaselis between the late 19th and the early 20th centuries concentrated primarily upon the discovery of inscriptions. In 1881-1882 while the Austrian archaeologist and the epigraphist O. Benndorf, the founder of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, and his team were conducting research in southwestern Asia Minor, they examined Phaselis. In the winter of 1883 and 1884 F. von Luschan from the Austrian team took the first photographs which provide information concerning the regional features of Phaselis’ shoreline. In the same year the French scientist V. Bérard also visited Phaselis. In 1892 the members of the Austrian research team, O. Benndorf, E. Kalinka and their colleagues continued their architectural, archaeological and epigraphical studies in Phaselis. In 1904 they were followed by D. G. Hogarth, R. Norton and A. W. van Buren from the British research team. In 1908 the Austrian classical philologist E. Kalinka visited the settlement again, collected epigraphic documents and conducted research on the history of city (published in TAM II in 1944). The Italian researchers R. Paribeni and P. Romanelli visited Phaselis in1913 and C. Anti in 1921. Anti returned to Antalya overland and in consequence discovered several epigraphs and the ruins of structures within the territorium of Phaselis.

 

Further archaeological, epigraphical and historical-geographical studies of Phaselis were conducted by the English researchers F. M. Stark and G. Bean, who came to the region after World War II. In 1968 H. Schläger, the German architect and underwater archaeologist began exploring the topographical and architectural structures of Phaselis’s harbours. After Schläger’s death in 1969, the research was conducted under the leadership of the archaeologist J. Schäfer in 1970. H. Schläger, J. Schäfer and their colleagues obtained important data concerning the architecture and history of Phaselis through the surface exploration of the city and its periphery. Following the excavations conducted along the main axial street of the city, in 1980 under the direction of Kayhan Dörtlük, the then Director of the Antalya Museum and between 1981-1985 under the leadership of the archaeologist Cevdet Bayburtluoğlu; underwater exploration was carried out in the South Harbour under the direction of Metin Pehlivaner, the then Director of the Antalya Museum.

  

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaselis

 

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One side of the corridor of the cardiology ward. This was apparently the most recently active area of the hospital, which would also explain why there is so much debris compared to the rest of the building: there was simply more to take. Yet it does not feel like vandalism, more like methodic and authorized (though somewhat sloppy) removal. It's interesting to note that even the power outlets' covers have been removed, as can be seen hre on the left.

 

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Catacombs, Montparnasse, Paris

 

I decided that today was a day for going underground, and I set off to Montparnasse to visit the catacombs. These are a vast maze of tunnels under Paris originally used for quarrying the stone out of which the city's main buildings are constructed. In the late 18th Century, the state of the city's churchyards had become so disgusting that the city removed the bones from all of them. They were brought here at night, the carts coming from the centre of the city accompanied by torch-bearing acolytes and priests chanting the requiem Mass. A skull count showed that almost six million corpses were removed in this way. They were buried deep underground, but these people being Parisians the skulls and bones were arranged in a neat and methodical way, a meaningful chaos. Layers of tibia and femurs are crowned by a layer of pelvises and skulls, and so on. Each churchyard was grouped together, and a plaque shows which parish provided the skeletons.

 

The work was interrupted by the French Revolution,which provided plenty more corpses for when the work was resumed. Altogether about a kilometre and a half of tunnels were filled with the remains of dead Parisians, and you can walk through them on a winding route under the streets around Montparnasse station. In fact, this is just a tiny fraction of the tunnels. The catacombs extend for hundreds of kilometres under the city, many of them rarely explored and difficult of access. Because of this, they are regularly broken into by intrepid adventurers, and many legends have grown up about parts of the network. However, my favourite story is one which is true.

 

In 2004, a group of police cadets on a training exercise were given the task of tracking an imaginary criminal in a part of the network which was little known. They got into the system through a manhole, and when they were about a hundred feet underground something rather odd happened. They triggered a motion sensor which set off the sound of barking dogs. Thinking that it was part of the exercise, they headed onwards only to come out into a vast cavern which had been fully equipped as a cinema. An anteroom had been equipped and fully stocked as a bar, and there was also a film storage room. When the cadets reported what they had seen, the electricity board were sent in to work out where the invaders were getting their electricity from. Instead, they found the wires all cut, the equipment removed, and a sign saying 'Don't try to follow us. You'll never find us.'

 

Perhaps the cineastes had got fed up with waiting to get into the system officially, because this was the only place all week that I encountered a serious queue. Worse, I was just in front of a small group of people who talked constantly in very loud voices. She was an American who obviously lived in Paris, and they appeared to be young relatives who'd come to stay. She was taking them down the catacombs, and the price to be paid for this by the poor kids was to suffer her pretentious nonsense. She went on about spirituality, and homeopathy, and psychoanalysis, and the inner energy, and so on. Fair play to the kids, they responded enthusiastically enough.

 

And then she got out some of her stream of consciousness poetry, and started reading it in a loud voice. Well, goodness me. I was put in mind of something the graphic artist Alan Moore said when he was in Hollywood helping turn his 'V for Vendetta' into a film, and he was asked at a director's lunch why he lived in Northampton, England. "Because it keeps me grounded", he replied, and I thought that this was exactly right. It was like the opposite of this pompous woman, although to be fair to her I expect that if I went to live in Paris I would also disappear up my own backside.

 

The catacombs are brilliant, worth every minute of the queuing time, worth every insufferable stream of consciousness adjective. And then I went and did some shopping.

 

You can read my account of my travels at pariswander.blogspot.co.uk.

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups.

 

"In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003," reads an overview of the examination, conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and its affiliated group, the Fund for Independence in Journalism.

 

According to the study, Bush and seven top officials -- including Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice -- made 935 false statements about Iraq during those two years.

 

The study was based on a searchable database compiled of primary sources, such as official government transcripts and speeches, and secondary sources -- mainly quotes from major media organizations. See CNN viewers' reactions to the study »

 

The study says Bush made 232 false statements about Iraq and former leader Saddam Hussein's possessing weapons of mass destruction, and 28 false statements about Iraq's links to al Qaeda.

 

Bush has consistently asserted that at the time he and other officials made the statements, the intelligence community of the U.S. and several other nations, including Britain, believed Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

 

He has repeatedly said that despite the intelligence flaws, removing Hussein from power was the right thing to do.

 

Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Press Secretary Ari Fleischer each made 109 false statements, it says. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made 85, Rice made 56, Cheney made 48 and Scott McLellan, also a press secretary, made 14, the study says.

 

"It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al Qaeda," the report reads, citing multiple government reports, including those by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the 9/11 Commission and the multinational Iraq Survey Group, which reported that Hussein had suspended Iraq's nuclear program in 1991 and made little effort to revive it.

 

The overview of the study also calls the media to task, saying most media outlets didn't do enough to investigate the claims.

 

"Some journalists -- indeed, even some entire news organizations -- have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical," the report reads. "These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, 'independent' validation of the Bush administration's false statements about Iraq."

  

The quotes in the study include an August 26, 2002, statement by Cheney to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

 

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction," Cheney said. "There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."

www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/23/bush.iraq/index.html

  

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- It was a double Cinderella story for the Presidio of Monterey volleyball championship Jan. 30 and the 229th Military Intelligence Battalion. Fourth-seeded Company D took on the loser's bracket entry, second-seeded Company A, that was a player short for the championship. The Black Sheep methodically won in the required two matches to become champs over Co. D, 25-12, 19-25, 15-6 and 24-13, 10-25, 15-13.

 

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

 

Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook

 

PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

Water buffalo are known for being sure-footed and methodical creatures. Rarely do you see them moving very quickly and rarely falling. This was one of those rare chances to see the embarrassed creature. I have grown to greatly enjoy the water buffalo. They are laid back and will stand in the fields waiting for the farmers to return often for hours. I could learn something about patience and perseverance from the water buffalo.

October 25th, 1812, Frigate USS United States (44) defeated the British Frigate HMS Macedonian (38) in a sea battle west of the Canary Islands. Captain Stephen Decatur used his sailing skills and long-range firing accuracy to destroy Macedonian’s mizzen top mast, which let her driver gaff fall. Once Decatur clearly had sailing advantage, he methodically fired upon the ship until the Macedonian struck her colors. She was later repaired and placed into U.S. Naval service under the same name.

  

As the client waits anxiously, Nicole Santella of Concrete Zen Pittsburgh, methodically places the 9 samples down to show the texture, color and finish samples of the floor. The client has a great eye for detail as we work on the Restoration of the Signature "Cherokee/Tile Red" floors of a Frank Lloyd Wright Apprentice Peter Berndston project in Swisshelm Park (Pittsburgh PA). After years of waxing and sealing our challenge was to bring out the color and create the worn surface superficially.

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- It was a double Cinderella story for the Presidio of Monterey volleyball championship Jan. 30 and the 229th Military Intelligence Battalion. Fourth-seeded Company D took on the loser's bracket entry, second-seeded Company A, that was a player short for the championship. The Black Sheep methodically won in the required two matches to become champs over Co. D, 25-12, 19-25, 15-6 and 24-13, 10-25, 15-13.

 

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

 

Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook

 

PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

Black Knights on Patrol

 

The men and women of Task Force 3-66 are actively patrolling western Paktika province, taking the fight to the insurgents. Since assuming responsibility for the area, the Black Knights have been methodically clearing district after district to allow the provincial government to provide security and development. Western Paktika is essentially a rest stop for insurgents linked to Sirajuddin Haqqani traveling from Pakistan and continuing west. The heat, elevated terrain, and harsh landscape of Paktika province are unforgiving allies of these enemies of Afghanistan. With limited road networks the primary mode of travel here is walking. The relentless training planned and executed by the leaders of Task Force 3-66 back in Germany is now paying off.

My fairly methodical pursuit of Chinese restaurants continued today on the Isle of Sheppey when I was able to include them in my list of subjects.

 

New River is in Russell Street, Sheerness.

 

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PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- It was a double Cinderella story for the Presidio of Monterey volleyball championship Jan. 30 and the 229th Military Intelligence Battalion. Fourth-seeded Company D took on the loser's bracket entry, second-seeded Company A, that was a player short for the championship. The Black Sheep methodically won in the required two matches to become champs over Co. D, 25-12, 19-25, 15-6 and 24-13, 10-25, 15-13.

 

Official Presidio of Monterey Web site

 

Official Presidio of Monterey Facebook

 

PHOTO by Steven L. Shepard, Presidio of Monterey Public Affairs.

1. Sautee onions and garlic, add mushrooms and spinach, and cook through, add jalapeños at last minute, stir through and remove from skillet

2. beat two eggs and 1t water until lemon yellow and slightly frothy, pour into hot skillet

3. methodically pull the edge of the eggs towards the center, then tilt the pan so the egg runs down and covers the exposed skillet - keep doing this until the egg doesn't run anymore

4. put veggie mixture on 1/2 of egg base

5. sprinkle cheese on top (I'm using raw milk garlic and dill cheese from the farmer's market)

6. fold eggs over fillings

7. flip omelet over - cook egg to your liking (this was actually more done than I like it, but the browning looked nice, and I needed the time to take pics!)

8. serve with your favorite sides (nitrate free bacon here, on a very large plate)

   

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