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Stock Exchange Volatility and the Hunt for Uncorrelated Returns
The volatility on the stock exchanges in August 2015 served as a reminder of the equity risk in many portfolios. Meanwhile, there are few alternatives for uncorrelated returns, as interest rates are low and many hedge funds face difficulties generating alpha. As an investor, you should always be conscious of how unexpected risks can affect your portfolio.
August 2015 has been a challenge and a reminder for many investors of the large share of equity risk that many carry in their portfolios. Led by a renewed plunge on the Shanghai stock market (SHCOMP), where index fell by 6.3% in one day on August 18, global stock index (MSCI World) fell by 9.5%, in the following days until 26 August. In a little more than a week, many stock markets saw the worst as well as the best days in years, reflecting the macroeconomic uncertainty.
To make things worse, interest rates globally are at a historic low, making it highly unattractive to carry fixed income. On some markets, such as the Swedish and the Swiss, negative interest rates are a strong incentive for investors to strive for a minimal amount of cash in their portfolios.
The, by now, traditional alternative would be investing in hedge funds. However, in the last few years we have seen that many managers have found it difficult to generate alpha. Looking at the broader global hedge fund index (HFRXGL), it has moved -1.5% YTD (1 September 2015) and -2.3% in August. The low volatility of the asset class is still attractive to many investors, but the discussion about the ability of hedge fund managers to provide alpha will probably continue.
Even if some large investors, such as the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CALPERS), have eliminated their hedge fund programs due to complexity, cost and scale, the hedge funds' assets under management has grown, proving that there is a strong demand for uncorrelated assets.
When I founded Entropics together with our Chief Underwriter, Dr. Gunnar Roos, a major deciding factor was to provide investors with an additional source of uncorrelated and good risk adjusted returns.
August has demonstrated what low or non-existent correlation means. While volatility has been very high on the stock markets and many have suffered substantial losses, the Swiss Re Cat Bond Total Return Index has moved +1.27%, reflecting the low correlation of the assets class.
As an investor, you should always be considering how to diversify your portfolio to cope with unexpected financial events.


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An epic legal battle between the famous comic creator Jack Kirby and Marvel Comic was settled just days before the Supreme Court was scheduled to discuss the case. The parties were involved in an extensive legal dispute regarding the ownership rights to legendary comic characters such as X-men, Iron Man, and Spider-Man. The question before the Supreme Court was whether the works created by Kirby over 50 years ago belonged exclusively to Marvel under federal copyright law. Although Kirby passed away in 1994 his children initiated the legal confrontation with Marvel and its parent company Walt Disney in hopes of protecting their alleged rights and interests in their father's creations. His family sought to terminate Marvel's copyrights to works published from 1958 to 1963 but Marvel fought back arguing that the family lacked termination rights because Kirby created the comic characters while working for Marvel.
The Second Circuit affirmed the trial court's determination that the works belonged entirely to Marvel because they constituted work-for-hire under the Copyright Act of 1909, a legal determination that rendered the family's claims invalid under the Act. Under the "instance and expense test," Kirby created the characters under the direction of Marvel and was in turn duly compensated. Under this test Marvel was the full owner and the Court agreed with Marvel's argument that it alone bore the risk and potential expense if the works were entirely unsuccessful. Kirby's children appealed arguing that their father was not a work for hire employee, but rather an independent contractor.
Due to the possible implications of the case for the entertainment industry, the case was closely watched. Kirby's request for cert was accompanied by a handful of amicus briefs from organizations representing inventors who argued that their rights were continuously torn away by the work "made for hire" test. According to a brief written by the Screen Actors Guild the "instance and expense test" used to determine work-for-hire provides "a windfall to purchasers at the expense of the creative community." To many the case highlighted the struggle between creative contributors and large companies who managed those contributors' work. In addition, the case brought attention to a common issue of re-creating or building large franchises based on old creations such as superheroes, comic strips, television cartoons, or classic toys. These recreations can reap huge profits but also raise serious intellectual property concerns and costly litigation disputes.
The highly anticipated legal battle was brought to an abrupt end last Friday. Rather than an epochal battle at the Supreme Court, the parties reached an agreement to settled and released the following statement:
"Marvel and the family of Jack Kirby have amicably resolved their legal disputes, and are looking forward to advancing their shared goal of honoring Mr. Kirby's significant role in Marvel's history."
The settlement may not come as much of a surprise with the stakes relatively high for Marvel if the Court sided with Kirby. The outcome could have resulted in royalties on billion dollar movies such as Iron Man, The Avengers, and the recent summer hit Guardians of the Galaxy. A loss for Marvel may have even allowed Kirby's children to terminate copyright claims to a vast number of characters Kirby created. Unfortunately for all watching, the actual terms of the settlement remain a mystery.
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While Marvel settling in this case makes sense, given their potential to lose a significant amount of money from their movie franchises, it will be interesting to see if this represents a trend toward future litigation. Since comic book characters are typically jointly created by a writer and an illustrator, there are many potential plaintiffs for such a case. Additionally, as DC Comics begins to catch up to Marvel, with plans to produce new movies focusing on Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, comic book movies will become an even larger source of revenue. The amount of money being brought in at the box office by comic book movies may tempt more writers and artists to pursue legal action, with the hope of gaining loyalties or a lucrative settlement.
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Grandma's Raspberry Rugelach
I remember sitting on my great-grandmother's couch with a pad and pen in hand as she told me each ingredient and measurement for her special rugelach. Her recipe stands apart because it's a fun twist from typical versions. —Dalya Rubin, Boca Raton, Florida
Total TimePrep: 45 min. + chilling Bake: 25 min./batch + cooling
Makesabout 5 dozen
- 1-1/2 cups margarine, softened
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 3 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Pinch salt
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 4 to 4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup seedless raspberry jam
- 1 cup confectioners' sugar
- 4 teaspoons 2% milk
- In a large bowl, beat margarine, sugar, vanilla and salt on medium-low until combined. Slowly beat in whipping cream. Gradually beat in enough flour until dough is no longer sticky. Divide dough into four portions, then flatten into disks. Wrap in plastic; refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Preheat oven to 350°. On a lightly floured surface, roll each portion of dough into a 12-in. circle; spread each with 1/4 cup raspberry jam. Cut each circle into 16 wedges.
- Gently roll up wedges from the wide ends. Place 2 in. apart on parchment-lined baking sheets, point side down. Bake 25-30 minutes or until light golden. Remove to wire racks to cool.
- If desired, combine confectioners' sugar and milk until smooth. Drizzle over cooled rugelach.
For Apricot Variation: You can substitute apricot filling for the raspberry jam. In a small bowl, combine 1/2 cup sugar and 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon. Spread 1/4 cup apricot jam over dough; sprinkle with 2 tablespoons cinnamon sugar. Proceed as directed.
Nutrition Facts1 cookie: 96 calories, 6g fat (2g saturated fat), 4mg cholesterol, 53mg sodium, 10g carbohydrate (4g sugars, 0 fiber), 1g protein.
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Cool story for the cookies. The cookies were relatively simple to make. My family rated them as good- not great- I think the taste of margarine which we rarely use may have been part of the reason. So that may just be a personal preference. They also did not age well- they should be eaten within a couple days I felt. They came out beautiful in appearance and had a different look from other cookies I made this holiday. Thanks for sharing.


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Atlantic City is a city of bright lights, where energy management seems to be a distant thought. But for a few days it became a place where facility management leaders sought their fortune, not from the casinos, but by expanding their knowledge of this fast moving technology.
That's right, last week we traveled to New Jersey for the 25th annual Globalcon conference and expo, which brought together decision makers from a wide variety of industries to learn about energy, power and facility management strategies and technologies.
These facility managers were there to explore promising new technologies, to compare energy supply options and to learn about innovative and cost conscious project implementations.
EnTouch's booth was bustling as we showcased our Risk-Free Energy Management Assessment for Enterprise program, which provides an up-front evaluation of the energy and maintenance cost savings from installing an EMS in a specific facility. Evaluations are completely risk-free with no obligation to the customer.
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My girl she's a good one,
she's always on my mind,
she is a rose and I am a stone,
she's always poking her head out
and striking a pose,
I'm always plucking her petals,
and some nights we fall out of love,
some nights I sleep in her arms,
some nights I sleep on the couch.
Well I spent that night in our past life,
wringing out the years from our shoes,
in the distance you lived with my signature
penned on a treaty that kept our armies at rest,
but I was a pushy little one,
when you tried to find someone new,
I just kind of waited around for you,
because what else was I suppose to do?
I know where you are heartache exists,
it's when you are alone and when you're around me.
I saw it in your face the day we parked your car
on the shoulder by the reservoir,
and in my mouth my words did hide
for fear of being recognized.
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Dear Editor,
I grew up in colonial Sydney in the 1950's when it was an outpost of the British Empire. One of my most vivid memories is of my mother dressed in hat, white gloves and pearls, attending bridge parties where tea was served. Occasionally I was allowed to indulge in the leftovers from these parties. The assortment of sandwiches included the usual curried egg, cucumber and so on, but the variety I loved best were the chicken mayonnaise with chives. These sandwiches were always cut into fingers without their crusts. It was not until four decades later that I discovered them again in Venice at Harry's Bar.
When asked to organise the catering for the book launch of my husband Michael Montgomery's (writing under the pseudonym Helen Batting) most recent publication, Wallis Simpson's Diary, I thought these delicious finger sandwiches very appropriate.
Chicken and Chive Sandwiches
1 chicken
Bouquet garni bag for poultry
1 carrot peeled and cut into chunks
l onion peeled and quartered
Chopped chives
Mayonnaise (a good bought variety if you prefer)
- Poach chicken in a large saucepan with the bouquet garni, carrot, onion, salt and a few peppercorns.
- Bring to the boil, cover with lid and simmer gently for l hour or until the juices run clear when the point of a knife is stuck into the thigh.
- Leave the chicken to cool in the stock.
- When cold, skin it and strip all the meat from the bones and chop into small pieces.
- Mix chicken with chives and mayonnaise.
- Spread onto slices of freshly-baked granary bread.
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Q. Critically discuss the statement that adult females experience 'special strivings ' of imprisonment
Prison is a cardinal penalty of the penal system. It 's argued that it punishes an single by taking their 'freedom ' and rehabilitating them for their greater good of their future life. However, a cardinal statement within the usage of prisons is related to female imprisonment. Many have argued, as this inquiry does, adult females suffer from 'special strivings ' when imprisoned. This 'special strivings ' analogy, elaborates on to countries such as the geographical place of female prisons, the bond between female parents and their kid, the deficiency of emotional support to adult females and acknowledgment of the differences in the jobs they may confront compared to males. In this essay, the inquiry has asked me to critically discourse these experiences for adult females. To critically discourse, I must look at all sides of the statements, at all the theories related to it and so reason my findings and my result. There have been legion surveies on the emotional and mental wellness of adult females in prison and the experiences they face and I must utilize these to reason whether adult females do see particular strivings in prison.
A majorly debated subject sing the imprisonment of adult females Centres on the usage of Mother and Baby units. This is the usage of a specially designated 'creche ' type country in the prison for pregnant females to give birth and effort to make a mother-child bond, with new born babes being kept in some prisons up until the age of 18 months. A survey by HMIP ( 1997 ) showed that 4 % of female parents had a kid with them in prison. However, the usage of a female parent and babe unit must be foremost approved by the place secretary, and is a controversial subject due to the elevation of a new born babe in a prison environment and the position that 'incarcerating inexperienced persons ' is profoundly affectional. Harmonizing to the prison service web site, 'each application for admittance is assessed on an single footing by a multi-disciplinary squad, whose focal point will be at the best involvements of the kid. ' They so continued to explicate that every adult female 's prison is appointed a female parent and babe liaison officer, who offers aid and advice to the appliers. However, harmonizing to the reform group 'women in prison ' , topographic points are frequently limited and demand outstrips supply. The age bound upper limit is 18 months in unfastened prison and nine months in others, so at that place will ever be an inevitableness of female parents being separated. Mother and Baby units are frequently a controversial country and many argue that there are considerable concerns about holding babes develop in prison environments. Mental upsets in female captives are well higher than in non-incarcerated groups ( singleton 1998 ) . This is evidently another concern for M & A ; BU 's, even thought the rates are shown to be lower among female parents in the female parent and babe units, it remains a concern. However, some people feel if a female parent wants a kid in prison with them, they should be allowed. A place office survey undertaken a decennary ago indicated that recent research suggests female parents in prison are 'doubly punished ' as they are functioning a sentence at the same clip as seeking to do commissariats for their kids with all the associated troubles and strains, compared to male parents who serve their sentence by and large in the cognition that their spouses will go on to care for their kids ( Caddle and Crisp 1997 ) . The statement is based around happening the balance of making a mother-child bond and the moral rights of raising an 'innocent individual ' in a prison. Others have argued about why a female parent should hold particular privileges to entree to their kid, when a male parent does n't hold the same rights, some besides argue about the public assistance of a kid raised in a prison environment and whether that can be safe, clean or morally right. The other possible position is that some female parents and babes are really better off in prison, potentially safe from force in the place, hapless life conditions and a deficiency of maternal accomplishments.
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Many surveies have been conducted on the topic of female captives, and most of them have been conducted by women's rightists looking at why adult females are treated otherwise to male captives, the set up of prisons, and the effects that set up has on females. The first country of peculiar involvement is the prejudiced facet of the prisons. Carlen and Worrall ( 2004 ) focused on how female captives are treated otherwise to their male opposite numbers, but non normally in ways that are of advantageous to them. Carlen ( 1983 ) besides noted that although tonss of female captives are treated as if they are work forces, their experiences in prison are immensely different from males. Carlen suggested that adult females tend to be imprisoned greater distances from place compared to work forces, due to the limited figure of female prisons in the UK, intending the distance to their closest prison could be greater. This causes a job with household contact. Female prisons in the UK, as compared to work forces have merely 14 prisons to work forces 's 139. The female prisons are hence widely dispersed across assorted parts of the UK. This has many issues, chiefly being that household contact may be highly difficult, and near impossible if the households are hapless, as travel costs and clip are non easy accessible to see the female. Figures show that households are forced to reach their loved 1s by telephone ( 75 % ) and missive ( 85 % ) . This evidently is non every bit good as seeing the person in existent life, and can hold monolithic impacts on the female captive emotionally. It besides has a negative impact on the household its ego, particularly if kids are involved, with the absence of a female parent who is non even accessible to see. Carlen besides found that the nature and scope of governments in adult females 's prisons tends to be more restricted for the same ground. Women captives besides tend to endure greater societal stigmas, which is mostly as a consequence of being perceived as being 'doubly pervert ' . Carlen and Worrall ( 2004 ) besides identified 'prisonisation ' as a cardinal factor in adult females 's imprisonment. They believe that prisons and prison systems are organised in relation to work forces 's demands and ill equipped to cover with adult females 's differing demands. They besides looked at the negative manner in which adult females adapt to imprisonment compared to work forces, and to whether their behavior interior is a merchandise of the nature of the government and the civilization of the prison. Resistance is besides another cardinal point Carlen and Worrall examined, claiming that in contrast to the earlier point of prisonisation, they explored the thought that adult females can, and do defy facets of the experience of imprisonment by transporting out functions such as utilizing muliebrity as a tool to counter prison life. They besides attempt to develop vivacious, extremely organized inmate civilizations harmonizing to Barton ( 2005 ) .
A unfavorable judgment suggested earlier on in this essay was that prisons are designed for, and hence better suit males. Some believe that resources, and the manner captives are treated to the mold of a male captive, and this presents a cardinal issue to female captives. This leaves job countries such as small specialization intervention for adult females, limited work, preparation and educational jobs and a 'cry ' for female intervention by the rise of feminism in prisons. This unfavorable judgment is a really strong one as the traditional mold, aimed at white British work forces, is to old school, and does n't cover the broad scope of inmate 's diverseness from their age to their civilization and to their demands allow entirely their gender.
To assistance to the statement of adult females sing particular strivings in imprisonment, some statistics are interesting to see on the subject. Prior to come ining prison, 47 % of female captives reported holding used cleft cocaine in the twelvemonth before entrance, and 57 % reported utilizing diacetylmorphine, demoing merely some of the drug jobs suffered by adult females before come ining prison, doing rehabilitation whilst imprisoned hard. ( Home office research findings ) . 40 % of female captives besides received aid or intervention for a mental or emotional job in the twelvemonth prior to imprisonment and 50 % of females had some signifier of personality upset, proposing deep prevarication jobs in the mental province of female wrongdoers prior to come ining prison and potentially set uping the strivings they experience in prison as some prisons may non be set up to assist cover with these issues. Whilst in prison 14 % of female captives were assessed as holding suffered from a functional psychosis in the past twelvemonth. Besides 15 % of female 's sentenced captives had antecedently been admitted to a mental infirmary ( singleton et al.1998 ) , demoing the old concerns of the mental breakability of female inmates. 60 % of female captives besides rated their ain wellness as carnival, hapless or really hapless ( Marshall et al. 2000 ) . Female captives besides reported holding higher rates of asthma, epilepsy, high blood force per unit area, anxiousness and depression, tummy ailment, period and menopausal jobs, sight and hearing troubles and kidney and vesica jobs, than adult females in the general population, all indicating towards more specially designed female prisons instead than the traditional female prison which many argue is still based on the classical prison based on the demands of work forces ( Marshall et al. 2000 ) . 37 % of female captives had antecedently attempted self-destruction ( singleton et Al. 1998 ) , all of these statistics prove merely some of the 'special strivings ' adult females feel before, during and after admittance to prison. However, an alternate position of the manner adult females are treated in the condemnable justness system suggests adult females are treated favorably. Hermann Mannheim ( 1940 ) said 'it can, of class, be taken for granted that the female wrongdoer, if punished, meets on the whole with greater lenience on the portion of the tribunals than the male. Talking by and large, the per centum of adult females lessenings in conformance with the badness of the peculiar method of penal intervention ' . This position is summarised as a 'chivalry thesis. ' This implies that the condemnable justness system is more protective and has a patriarchal position of female offending. Mary McIntosh ( 1978 ) argued that 'most Torahs apply to work forces and adult females likewise, yet far more work forces are convicted of offenses than adult females. ' However to contrast that, there is a position that adult females are treated much harsher in the system so work forces. There is increasing grounds that adult females find condemnable tribunals more daunting, unsympathetic and perplexing than work forces ( Parker et al. 1981 ) . However Farrington and Morris ( 1983 ) found that gender tended non to hold any bearing on the badness of the sentence.
So what else can be done to assist female captives? What alterations could be made to halt these 'special strivings ' ? Some different options have been bandied about and discussed. The first is Women centred prisons. Arguments have been raised that prisons that are 100 % female, intending all staff are female excessively, may extinguish gender favoritism, and a better apprehension of the demands of female inmates. Research workers such as Liebling and Price ( 2001 ) found that like in the constabulary service, females were badly underrepresented in the prison officer classs and do up a significant minority. They found out that merely 17 % of prison officers were female and that falls to 10 % for senior officers and 7.5 % were chief officers. One of the issues with female prisons being full with male prison officers is the issue of cross gender communicating. Some female inmates may non experience as if they can 'open up ' to male officers about jobs they may be confronting, taking to a 'locked up ' type hurting and the physique up of hurting and defeat. Another option is mixed-prisons, some feel it will move as a 'space rescuer ' and cut costs on female lone prisons and could besides battle the issue of female captives holding to travel long distance from place. The authorities late built and opened a mixed-prison in Peterborough lodging 480 work forces and 360 adult females, nevertheless contention surrounded it as merely female inmates were made to cook repasts as officers believed there was a "serious hazard of males loading nutrients, as compared to females, ' foregrounding some of the possible jobs that it would confront. The concluding option suggested is community based countenances. It has been suggested that tutelary sentences for adult females must be reserved for serious and violent wrongdoers who pose a menace to the populace and that community solutions for non-violent adult females wrongdoers should be the norm. It besides argued that adult females should be improbable to have a tutelary sentence should non be remanded in detention and that there must be a strong consistent message right from the top of authorities, with full grounds given, in support of its declared policy that prison is non the right topographic point for adult females wrongdoers who pose no hazard to the populace.
To reason, grounds suggests adult females do see particular strivings whilst in imprisonment, and stairss and alterations should be made to accommodate the penal system to adult females 's demands, instead than prevailing with an old system set up to cover with male captives. As I have found Mother and pamper units are a controversial subject, but a deficiency of a female parent and babe unit may move as a 'double penalty ' due to the deficiency of a mother-baby bond. However the consequence it has on the kid born in the prison should be researched in more deepness and if there is any negative effects on the kid, the issues should be earnestly reconsidered. The intervention of adult females in prisons was besides another country I looked at it and it showed the demand for alterations excessively. An over representation in female prisons of male officers creates a kind of 'tension barrier ' between the genders and can take to a physique up of defeat to the feeling that they may non be able to speak to them officers freely as they are male. Research I studied besides found tonss of particular strivings amongst adult females. Mental jobs with wrongdoers amongst adult females was particularly high, and the drug usage and force could be needed to be treated in a different manner to how males are treated to work out their jobs in prisons, but the chance is n't there for adult females. The concluding country I looked at was what changes or different options they have available to accommodate the system to assist female wrongdoers. The first was the usage of Women centred prisons and the creative activity of a better apprehension between the inmates and the officers by being the same gender. The second was the creative activity of assorted prisons, but that had some issues with tensenesss between male and female captives. The concluding was the usage of more community based countenances instead than incarcerating adult females, nevertheless this may do females more bucked up ot commit offenses due to the deficiency of terrible penalty for their actions.
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Joe Leaphorn
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|Joe Leaphorn
|First appearance
|The Blessing Way
|Last appearance
|The Shape Shifter
|Created by
|Tony Hillerman
|Portrayed by
|Fred Ward
Wes Studi
|In-universe information
|Navajo tribal police officer
Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn is a fictional character created by the twentieth-century American mystery writer Tony Hillerman; he is one of two officers of the Navajo Tribal Police who are featured in a number of Hillerman's novels.[1] The other officer is Jim Chee.
Personal life and education[edit]
Joe Leaphorn was born to Anna Gorman, whose father was Hosteen Klee Thlumie, called Hosteen Klee by young Leaphorn. His maternal grandfather told him the stories of the Navajo way of life (Listening Woman). He was educated in the lower grades near home on the reservation, but sent to boarding school for the higher grades, thus missing some of the stories told only in winter season. He thinks back often to his college days at Arizona State University, where he completed a master's degree in anthropology, writing a thesis paper (Dance Hall of the Dead). In addition to anthropology, he has a lifelong interest in the many religions of American Indians and peoples of the world (Listening Woman). In the earlier books of the series, Lieutenant Leaphorn is married to the love of his life, Emma. They had no children. In Skinwalkers, Leaphorn recalls meeting his wife at university. They have been married for thirty years, and he is preoccupied by her health problems, which he fears mean Alzheimer's disease but are diagnosed as arising from a brain tumor at the end of the novel. In A Thief of Time, when Leaphorn's wife has died a few months earlier, he reflects on his marriage. Leaphorn had been funded to continue in anthropology, get his doctorate, be a professor. Then he met Emma on the campus, and married her. He found a job to support them and keep them on the reservation where she wanted to live. He had the habit of trying out theories of people with her, a sharp observer, as he solved his cases, and he misses that immediately as he grieves the loss of her. In The Fallen Man it is revealed that Emma survived the surgery to remove the benign brain tumor; she died from a staph infection following the surgery, when Jim Chee is in the same hospital recovering from wounds sustained on duty. Emma and her relationship with her husband are revealed after she dies, in Joe's recollections of how he would talk with her, the decisions he made to please her, and how he feels guilty having another woman in the house, in Emma's room, as he muses in Hunting Badger.
Later, Leaphorn becomes attracted to an anthropologist named Louisa Bourebonette, whom he meets while working on a case in Coyote Waits. Louisa sometimes helps in collecting information to solve cases, as she interviews older Indians of several tribes, in her professional pursuits of documenting the origin stories of each tribe. Leaphorn is always in love with Emma, but he enjoys Louisa's sharp mind and her company.
His life as police officer and detective[edit]
He was perhaps 40 and a lieutenant in the first novel (The Blessing Way), so the early days of his career as a policeman are revealed as stories of the past in the novels. Educated in assimilationist Indian boarding schools operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, he is not as well-versed in Navajo rituals as the younger officer Chee, though he has attended the usual ceremonies, and does so in the novels (e.g., attending the multi-day Kinaalda ceremony on two separate days while solving the case in Listening Woman). He is a police officer for the Navajo, he is a Navajo, fluent in that language and in English. In the first three novels of the series, he has no staff; he reports to superiors in the Navajo Tribal Police (Captain Largo) and works with officers of other tribes and often with agents of the FBI and other federal investigative agencies. Leaphorn's approach to his cases is informed by some Navajo, or Dine, tradition, but is also influenced by Anglo-European logic. In Skinwalkers, Leaphorn has responsibilities to assign officers where they are needed for specific situations.
The attraction of police detective work for him is the freedom to follow his curiosity to solve problems. He is skilled in tracking in the desert country where it can be months between rainfalls, and tracks are unchanged unless another crosses the path. He seeks the logic of each situation.
Leaphorn is not one to do the sings (lead the ceremonies) of his own culture and is resistant to some Navajo taboos. But at the same time, he realizes that many traditional Navajo follow those beliefs and often act on them, in cases that result in violence. He holds a Navajo world view, with no expectation of heaven in the afterlife, instead a need to find his place in this life and lead his life well. He follows the rules of courtesy of the Navajo as to the ebb and flow of conversations, and his ability to handle demanding characters from the white world around him. He is still learning the ways of white men in the novels, as he cannot understand the choices made by graduate student Ted Isaacs, who leaves the love of his life on her own when she needs a place to live, in favor of his career, in The Dance Hall of the Dead. In Talking God, we learn that in the year following the death of his wife, Leaphorn has a Blessing Way ceremony done for him by Jim Chee, an event that both find beneficial.
The belief in skinwalkers, common among so many Navajos, is the one that bothers him most and for good reason. In times of troubles, when people seek a scapegoat, the notion of a skinwalker being the cause gives a person reason to kill the skinwalker, who is another human being. He encountered a triple murder by one man who then killed himself early in his police career, we learn in The Blessing Way, the first book in the series, the one man believing the others to be skinwalkers and Leaphorn did not act on that knowledge as quickly as he later thought he might have. As a police officer, he arrests murderers, along with the FBI, who are formally responsible to prosecute homicides on the reservation lands. Times of troubles may be fatal medical problems for the one seeking a scapegoat when there is no cure. This to Leaphorn is superstition that would be helped greatly by seeking treatment and by accepting current knowledge of health and disease, then accepting fate in the Navajo way. The skinwalker has many attributes that are not human, such as the ability to turn into birds or animals, to fly, and to put a bit of bone into a person, thus marking the person for death.
Leaphorn is called the "Legendary Lieutenant" by other police officers in later novels, and especially by Chee, who holds him in awe.
Leaphorn lives in the Navajo capital of Window Rock, Arizona. In his career he worked in a number of locations, including a brief stint training at the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C. His longest assignment appears to have been in Tuba City, Arizona, where he was a traffic cop, before the story told in The Blessing Way, as described in the Listening Woman.
Leaphorn is connected to many on the reservation. One example is his encounter with John "Shorty" McGinnis in Listening Woman (Chapter 5), where McGinnis tells Leaphorn he knew his maternal grandfather in younger days. His grandfather had not yet earned the title of Hosteen, and was called Horse Kicker by his friends, all long before Leaphorn's time. McGinnis is again a useful contact in Skinwalkers and in Coyote Waits.
Leaphorn creates a large, color-coded map for his police work. It is an old auto club road map of the Four Corners area, Indian country. On this map he marks different kinds of crimes with different-colored pins - red-headed pins stand for alcohol-related crimes, including bootlegging as alcohol is illegal on the reservation, blue for sheep stealing, brown with a white center for the rare homicides and others for "white man crimes" like burglary, vandalism and robbery, which occurred mainly on the edges of the reservation. This process allows him to notice patterns that link various crimes together, and helps him solve them. This map is enhanced by notations, as well, noting places where roads have washed out in a heavy rain, places where witchcraft has been reported, and summer camps for sheep grazing for various Navajo families. In Coyote Waits, Leaphorn's map is described as a photographic enlargement of an auto club map, posted up in his office; he used it trying to make sense of the murder by Ashie Pinto, but in that case most of the useful information comes from conversations with people who seek him out (the niece of Ashie Pinto), or who he seeks out (McGinnis, Kennedy), and his running internal conversations as if his wife were still alive to make useful observations on people, than from studying the map. It showed only how very far from home Ashie Pinto was arrested, with no explanation how he arrived at the scene of the murders.
Five months before The Fallen Man, Leaphorn retires, and as part of the plot he gets a commission as a private investigator. An old case he left as an unsolved missing person case is solved on the basis of new information uncovered by Jim Chee. Chee accepts praise from Leaphorn and the two work together to resolve the case. He gives Jim Chee advice when requested, and shares information with him, as Chee develops more confidence in himself and evaluates Leaphorn as a very smart man. Leaphorn does not enjoy retirement. His contacts throughout the Southwest, and his renown, lead him into a number of cases, after his active police career is over. in Hunting Badger, Leaphorn and Chee work together, including using the map to figure out where the criminals are hiding, matching up their trail with the story of an old coal mine shaft that opened on the rim of Gothic Creek Canyon. Leaphorn was drawn into that case as a pawn of the main criminal, which he realizes at the end, but he also follows through with Chee until the very end.
His name[edit]
In his autobiography Seldom Disappointed (2002), Hillerman reveals that he named Leaphorn after the ancient Minoan practice of bull-jumping, as he was reading a book on Minoan culture while writing his first novel.[citation needed]
The Lieutenant's nickname among Hillerman fans is "Lovely Leaphorn."[citation needed]
Appearances in other media[edit]
In the film adaptation of The Dark Wind (1991), Leaphorn was played by Fred Ward, though his character was not part of the novel.
Three of the Hillerman novels (Skinwalkers, Coyote Waits, and A Thief of Time) were adapted for television as part of the PBS series Mystery!, in its American Mystery! specials. In these adaptations, Leaphorn was played by actor Wes Studi, a member of the Cherokee Nation. Robert Redford served as the executive producer in all four film adaptations.
Joe Leaphorn appears in the following novels:
- The Blessing Way (1970) ISBN 0-06-100001-9
- Dance Hall of the Dead (1973) ISBN 0-06-100002-7
- Listening Woman (1978) ISBN 0-06-100029-9
In the three novels published between 1978 and 1986, the stories focus on the younger Jim Chee.
In each of the following Leaphorn and Jim Chee work together:
- Skinwalkers (1986) ISBN 0-06-100017-5
- A Thief of Time (1988) ISBN 0-06-100004-3
- Talking God (1989) ISBN 0-06-109918-X
- Coyote Waits (1990) ISBN 0-06-109932-5
- Sacred Clowns (1993) ISBN 0-06-109260-6
- The Fallen Man (1996) ISBN 0-06-109288-6
- The First Eagle (1998) ISBN 0-06-109785-3
- Hunting Badger (1999) ISBN 0-06-109786-1
- The Wailing Wind (2002) ISBN 0-06-019444-8
- The Sinister Pig (2003) ISBN 0-06-019443-X
- Skeleton Man (2004) ISBN 0-06-056344-3
- The Shape Shifter (2006) ISBN 0-06-056345-1
- Spider Woman's Daughter (October 2013) (written by Anne Hillerman) HarperCollins ISBN 9780062270481
- Rock With Wings (May 2015) (written by Anne Hillerman) HarperCollins ISBN 9780062270511
- Song of the Lion (April 2017) (written by Anne Hillerman)
Skinwalkers, A Thief of Time and Coyote Waits were each adapted for television as part of the American Mystery! series by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
- ^ George N. Dove and Earl F. Bargainnier (eds), Cops and Constables: American and British Fictional Policemen, Popular Press, 1986, pp. 98–113, ISBN 0879723343.


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"Through using the best practices we developed with AHLA and WWF, and better engineering both menus, our goal is to reduce post-event food waste to between zero and 5 percent," explains Dolan Lane, executive chef of Red Star Tavern in Portland, OR. Part of the Kimpton Hotel Monaco Portland, a luxury boutique property with 8,000 square feet of meeting space in the center of the city's hip downtown, Red Star Tavern was one of 10 hotels selected to launch Zero Waste. Its catering program's offerings of rustic dishes and craft beverages served as a foundation for Zero Waste's goals of "cross-utilization of product, better estimates on serving size, and dishes/presentations that minimize food waste," as Lane puts it.
For example: Rather than discarding day-old bread, Lane's team now incorporates it into the Bread Pudding French Toast. Scraps from the beets used in the Instagram-ready Roasted Heirloom Beet and Pear Salad are then pickled and used in the bar's house Bloody Mary. Vegetable ends and trimmings are pureed and used in the restaurant's Celeriac and Apple or Roasted Butternut Squash Soups. Uncut produce is turned into cold-pressed juices like the Morning Zinger of carrot, apple, and ginger. The list goes on.
Zero Waste Menu was formally launched following a three-month pilot program, in which Lane and his team evaluated the current food sustainability practices they had in place and conducted a series of "road-map meetings," tracking waste (by weight and volume) and setting a baseline for reducing it.
"It was important to understand and measure both the pre- and post-service waste," says Lane. "Yellow bins captured 'Pre-Service' waste, such as kitchen prep and scraps, and green bins capture 'Post-Service' waste, food that had been given to guests, via plate or buffet, that could not be re-used."
WWF provided the tools and equipment to help with the tracking and made introductions to local shelters where prepared food that was left over could be distributed. By the end of the three-month pilot, pre-service waste had already been reduced by 15 percent -- before the Zero Waste Menu had even formally launched.
Lane gives another example of how his team worked together to identify simple-but-impactful areas of opportunity: Bread by request, rather than given to every attendee automatically.
"Over the course of the trial, dough waste was reduced by about 22.5 pounds per week, we saved roughly 65 pounds of butter each month, and a portion of Pedro's time - our bread maker - was able to be re-allocated to new duties," says Lane. "We'd classify that as a success."
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"The program also helps us to stay relevant in a very waste-conscious society," Lane explains. "The Zero Waste menu is reflective of what we do every day at Red Star Tavern: working thoughtfully with local farmers and seasonal produce to serve delicious breakfast, lunch and dinner. We're proud to be able to offer a catering option that will cut down on and bring awareness to food waste, and to be among the pilot hotels proving this initiative works."
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The debate between indoor, greenhouse and outdoor cultivation is a hot topic in the cannabis industry today. But there is one thing outdoor cultivators can have that is unavailable or unhelpful to the other types: goats.
"The goats serve a purpose for the grass," says Andrew Felperin, co-owner, CEO and production manager at Apollo Grown, an outdoor-greenhouse-indoor cultivation and extraction business in Eugene, Ore. "Things grow like mad out here. Oregon trail, you know."
Felperin lives on the farm and tends to the day-to-day of the cultivation operation while his partner Jared Dellinger, the other co-owner and head of marketing, lives in Hawaii.
The goats and other animals on the farm help with simple operations around the property: Six goats act as natural lawn-care specialists when they aren't escaping from their pens; four dogs act as a security measure (although Felperin admits they do go after the odd delivery driver who forgets to check in ahead of time); and the pigs—well, they are there to be roasted during company luaus.
"I raise pigs every year so that we can have little barbecues and stuff for our employees," Felperin explains. "After-work type of fun, you know?"
Now, after retrofitting the property to accommodate a cultivation business—including renovating a horse arena into an extraction lab—Apollo Grown is working to make a splash in an established Oregon market with its launch of branded extracts and flower.
Not Horsing Around
It isn't always fun cookouts and chasing after escaped goats, or "rascals" as Felperin calls them. After buying the farm in August 2015, he and Dellinger spent a year leasing the property to two friends to operate the farm under the state's medical caregiver program. It wasn't until January 2016 that the company received its license to cultivate recreational cannabis.
It took a much shorter amount of time to get the processing license, Felperin says, because the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC), which oversees the state's adult-use marijuana program, was able to streamline the process after initial delays.
"The moment we started our producer's license application to the moment we got it was eight months," Felperin recounts. Almost a year after securing the producer license, the duo applied for a processor's license. "The moment we started our processor's license and we got that … it took about two or three [months]. So you could see within a year how much the OLCC kind of dialed in their systems to get us the licenses."
While the owners were waiting for their licenses, they kept busy by working on retrofitting the property. The former owner was a logger, so there were a few warehouses that were well-suited to quickly convert to indoor cultivation rooms, which allowed Apollo Grown's medical caregivers to start cultivating and getting product out to medical dispensaries.
Then came the greenhouses. Currently, Apollo Grown operates 10 greenhouses manufactured by Oregon Valley Greenhouses: five measuring 50 feet by 20 feet, and five larger ones measuring up to 20 feet by 100 feet.
The first phase of retrofitting the property was making sure the land was laid out properly. Apollo Grown's property lies on a hill facing Northeast, which sounds counter-intuitive to growing such a light-intensive crop, but Felperin says it works great for the operation.
"We definitely get exposure—a ton of exposure during the middle of the season. Like right now, we're getting probably 13 or 14 hours of sunlight on these suckers," he says. "As the seasons change …, it starts to get a little more shaded here, which we kind of like. It kind of tells the plants to hurry up and finish."
To maximize the available light, the team worked the land into three tiers: Driving past the front gates of the farm will lead visitors to the first tier: the warehouses containing the indoor grow operation. Past that are the greenhouses and outdoor plants. Continue even further, and visitors will find the horse arena-now the extraction lab.
Apollo Grown cultivates its crops in soil amended with beneficial nematodes, predator mites and insects as part of its integrated pest management (IPM) plan, although it is planning a move to hydroponics in the near future.
Efficient Farming
According to Felperin, two of the biggest considerations in retrofitting the farm were water and electricity. Water was not an issue for the group: Streams, a well and rainwater collection give Apollo Grown all the water it could need. Having multiple sources of water also means that Felperin is not over-using any one source, which fits into the company's resource efficiency and sustainability plan. The roof-runoff especially works in the company's favor.
Oregon allows businesses to collect water runoff from any permitted buildings and reuse it, says Felperin. "They consider that your water," he says. "Our barn is pretty massive. I would say it's a 15,000- to 20,000-square-foot roof. And the house is probably 5,000 square feet. The permitted buildings down below are about 5,000 square feet each."
Oregon can receive quite a bit of runoff during both the summer and winter. Apollo Grown collects and stores that water in aerated tanks to keep it from going stagnant. Felperin says that the farm can collect more than 2,000 gallons of rainwater by the time the outdoor growing season rolls in.
As for electricity, growing outdoors and in greenhouses allows the group to cut down on energy needs. The only true lighting need is in the indoor facilities. Apollo Grown uses 680W Fluence Bioengineering SPYDRx Plus lights. Felperin says using LEDs is the best way to cut down on power without affecting yield or quality. He recounts how a dispensary owner asked him questions about Apollo Grown's flower products, and how the owner was shocked to hear they were grown under LEDs.
"We didn't use any CO2 or anything, and we still got about a pound-and-a-half [per] light, which was really awesome," he says. "They give us pretty much the exact THC content, the exact weight … but they save us a lot more in our energy costs."
Felperin also uses gravity-feeding tanks instead of electric pumps to feed his crops. By putting the tank higher than where the irrigation lines run, gravity pushes water through the lines when the valve is open.
Water, electricity and security requirements should be considered together, not as separate components, he continues. A common mistake he has seen people make when retrofitting a farm for outdoor cultivation is completing steps one-by-one instead of all at once. For example, digging trenches in which to run electric lines, filling them in and then realizing you need to run water lines across the property.
"That hole you dug for the electric, you could have put a pipe in for water. … Or [the] same with your cameras," he says.
Cost of Doing Business
While operating outdoors and using energy- and resource-efficient processes has allowed Apollo Grown to cut costs, some expenses cannot be curbed. For the Oregon company, a lot of the cost came from retrofitting the horse arena into the extraction lab.
"To have everything in line, from the machines to the material to the spot, the land that you're doing it on, the property, to the mistakes and errors that are made—and they are made—I would just say it would be not wise to think that it wouldn't be a six-figure cost to start. And it has been for us," Felperin says.
The first step to retrofitting the arena was epoxying the floors to seal away any potential dust or other contaminants. Having a clean working environment was not a priority for horse trainers, but is crucial to a cannabis cultivation, especially an extraction-first company like Apollo.
The next big expenses were the high-end extraction and safety equipment needed to run a large-scale extraction lab. At several thousand dollars apiece, the bill adds up quickly. Apollo Grown has two $10,000 fume hoods, a $25,000 extraction machine and several ovens costing $10,000 each. Another oven and extraction machine on the way has added to the costs— which Felperin places at a quarter-million dollars—to get the lab up and running.
"It took a little time, Felperin says. "But I would say those are the numbers roughly we were working with, in our opinion, to do it right, to get ready for a relatively full-scale extraction company."
Packaging also comes at a cost. For the scale at which Apollo Grown is operating, packaging costs are in the tens of thousands of dollars. However, Felperin says that by operating on a larger scale, the company gets a better value despite the higher cost. He says that buying smaller quantities often translates to bloated costs.
"Packaging for 500 [pieces] could cost [around] $7,000. But for 5,000 of them, it's $10,000," he says.
Science Matters
Knowledge is not something that is lacking at Apollo Grown: All senior staff have a college education and some, including Felperin, have master's degrees. Biomechanics, mass communications, mechanical and software engineering, biochemistry and plain-old chemistry are all among their areas of expertise.
Having that knowledge, especially the chemists in the lab, has allowed Apollo Grown to finely tune its processes and cultivar selection.
"We have the luxury of deciding whether the bud that we are growing out there, how much of it and what specific strains can be used for processing for certain things," Felperin says. "So we are starting to get more specific now on which strains we want to grow for live resin or the strains we want to do for shatter, or the strains for crumble or distillate or CO2, or anything, for that matter."
Through its experiences, Apollo Grown has found that a high-wax cultivar such as Blue Dream has a better yield as a crumble than as a shatter. Felperin says that while the high wax content does reduce the THC levels in that particular crumble, it is filled with natural plant wax and terpenes.
For shatter, Apollo Grown prefers using cultivars with higher levels of THC and lower levels of waxes, such as OG Kush or Sour Diesel. "You blast those through the machine, the closed-loop system, and it comes out with more shatter," he says. By removing the wax from the concentrate, Apollo Grown gets more material for shatter.
Having engineers on staff also helps the company avoid spending too much on outsourcing repairs. The main lab director has a degree in mechanical engineering. Felperin says that on top of overseeing the lab, he also acts as the resident "maintenance man" who fixes everything from cultivation equipment to cars. More than that, however, is how that knowledge allowed Apollo Grown to customize its extraction equipment.
"He has kind of retrofitted the extractor over time to make it incredibly our own. No one probably has our system directly," Felperin says. "So that's what he's really good at: creating efficiency within machines or redundancy within machines."
"He has actually saved us tens of thousands of dollars over the years just in his engineering skills," he adds.
The key to managing such a team is making sure everything is flowing smoothly, which is what Felperin does on a daily basis. On top of being CEO, he also acts as the production manager. Communication between heads of cultivation and extraction specialists allows everyone to plan and prepare for what kind of extracts the company is going to put out, he says.
A Niche Discovery
Marketing those products to one of the more established markets can be a daunting challenge. Felperin says every region has different preferences, which is why the company offers a wide-range of products. "The more concentrate material that we can come up with, the more [niche] and better products we can make for our customers."
While the company works with distributors to get its products around the state, Felperin, and Dellinger, who serves as head of marketing in addition to being co-owner, visit shops in their general area to tell their company's story.
"We have learned a lot in these past couple of weeks just going around to dispensaries with face value," Felperin says of the duo's first two weeks of sales in mid-May. "That helps a lot in comparison to some sort of wholesaler—[and] we do have a wholesaler, but that's because we can't service the whole state."
Competing with established brands hasn't held the company back so far: Its monthly sales projections were 10,000 units (0.5g of concentrate or 1g of flower), but the co-owners quickly saw that those were low within the first two weeks.
"Thus far it hasn't been too difficult to get shelf space in dispensaries," Dellinger says. "There are a few established companies out there, but there are so many different factors which can get you shelf space in a dispensary, such as quality, price points, professionalism and brand image/recognition. We have spent a lot of time focusing on these different characteristics."
Cultivators can reach consumers in many ways, and Apollo Grown is using multiple outlets. The company hired a marketing firm to handle social media campaigns, and it also advertises in magazines. Dellinger says Apollo Grown is looking into buying billboard advertising by September.
"Every brand has a different way that the consumers view them," he says. "You just have to cover those characteristics and find a way to look different than every other company. There are so many types of products, and all you need to do is create a unique niche."
And with its new "Sun Balls" product coming to market in a few months, Apollo Grown is likely to catch people's attention.


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12. Strict Zone/Paleo or Mexican and Margaritas Kind of Paleo? Paleo with some hell raising cheat days.
13. How long did it take to get your first Pull-up or Muscle Up? Any tips? It took me 8.5 mos to get my first unassisted pull-up. And the feeling of getting RX'd next to my single 1 was pretty awesome! Only advice I can give is try and try again. Dont' give up and you are capable of so much more than you think.
14. Class time you regularly attend? Why? 5:15am (don't believe any of the coaches' stories about this class ). This is the only time I can fit it in my schedule. Plus I really like the 5:15 crew, especially my Early Girlies.
15. What movement(s) are you best with? Why? Double unders. I played tennis on a professional level at one point and jump rope is just as essential to tennis players as it is to boxers, so I've had lots of practice.
16. What movement(s) are you worst with? What are you doing to get better at them? Running and anything involving hanging from rings or a bar (think toes to bar/rings, pullups etc). To get better I just try to get one more rep than last time, or run just 10 sec faster than last time. I need to just hit the trail and go for runs more, but time just isn't on my side.
17. Beach and Sand or Snow and Skis? Tough choice, love skiing but water is pretty awesome too.
18. Three times a week or Unlimited? Unlimited
19. CrossFit has helped me be a better _____________? You fill in the blank (ex. Dad, Softball Player, Husband, Nurse etc…) Person altogether. I'm happier, healthier, fitter and more patient.
20. If I could write the WOD on the board? What would it be? (You write the Strength and WOD)
Buy in – 100 double unders, then
5 Rounds:
10 pull ups
20 wall balls
10 box jumps
20 KB Swings
Buy out – 400 m run


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RLSafeHome is helping keep seniors in the Seacoast area of NH, Southern Maine, and Northeastern Massachusetts in their homes longer with products that make aging at home safer and more secure. RLSafeHome's new website designed by PCS Web Design helps them to reach their target market in their preferred service areas with a mobile-friendly, CMS-enabled website that let's them tell the whole story with words, audio, and video content hosted directly on their website.
HTCS High Tech Consulting Service represents CMS (that's Contract Manufacturing Services) and high-technology component manufacturers and needed a CMS-enabled (as in Content Management System) website to reach its target market. With an active show schedule that's featured prominently on their homepage, potential clients can easily find out when and where they can meet and speak directly with the company's founder and president. Utilizing a responsive design that's mobile-friendly, potential clients searching for the company from their mobile devices can easily connect with them at show venues anywhere in the world.
PCS Web Design loves working with creative individuals. PCS' owner, Jim Fontaine, happens to be married to this professional animal portrait artist, so you could say this website was a labor of love! That being said, there's no doubt that this website showcases the artist's talent. Donna was very pleased with the results and the fact that commissions from other areas of the country began coming in almost immediately demonstrates the impact that a professionally designed website can have for any business.
This basic business website for a local excavating contractor and licensed septic installer fit the bill perfectly. With a great reputation and a recognizable logo on their vehicles, job site signage, and frequent mailings it was easy to construct a website that maintained and expanded upon their name recognition by giving them a strong visual online presence. Subtle touches like photo shadows and adding the business' logo as watermarks to website photos gives this simple site a very polished appearance. Providing the companies complete contact info via a QR-code makes it easy for potential customers and other contractors to add this business to their mobile phone's contacts.
Ackerly's Grill and Galley Restaurant needed a website that could help introduce and spread the word about this new establishment that was located in a well-known restaurant location in Alton, NH. Integrating Facebook comments and the restaurant's Facebook Page directly into the website helped to quickly reach their dining patrons and let them tell others about the restaurant. Being CMS-enabled allows the owners to quickly update their menu whenever new items are added as well as feature specials and events hosted by the restaurant.


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With more and more BCHA volunteers using crosscut saws to help clear wilderness trails the question comes up, how to sharpen a crosscut saw? Unlike a chainsaw that you can sharpen in the field or change a dull chain in a few minutes, crosscut saws do require some skill, special tools and a considerable amount of time to properly sharpen. With the idea of offering some support to BCHA volunteers I have put together a web page that should help with the issue. The new BCHW crosscut saw sharpening page can be found on the BCHW website under the Tech Tips link. It offers information on where or how to learn to sharpen as well as sources for some professional sharpeners. For those without web access many of the resources listed are available in other forms.
It does take some commitment of time and tools to pickup the skill but most anyone can learn to sharpen crosscut saws. There are formal week long training classes put on every year at the Nine Mile USFS Training Center, Lolo National Forest, Montana. The classes are open to anyone and the cost is reasonable. In addition the the formal hands on training there is some very good information available. The USFS Crosscut Saw Manual has step by step instructions and there is a new video/DVD by the Forest Service that is scheduled to be released soon. This video is very highly rated and should prove to be a valuable learning tool. In addition to the USFS resources there is other information and training aids linked on the BCHW Crosscut saw sharpening web page.
Another resource is an online crosscut saw forum at crosscutsawyer.com . This is a privately ran forum that has a wealth information on sharpening as well and other things related to crosscut saws. It is a little contradiction to have a modern internet forum for primitive tools but the knowledge of literally hundreds of years of experience from the forum members is amazing. If you do not find needed information in past posts, you can always ask.
In addition to the formal training or do it yourself learning there is the possibility of interested folks learning from BCHW members that are experienced saw filers. Both Gary Zink and myself have offered to help new filers pick up the skill. This would likely involve having members watch and ask question during a sharpening job. The timing and location of any of these sessions will depend on the interest and need. For BCHW to hold a week long, hands on training session is beyond the scope of any proposed training but we do have the resources to help and provide direction to anyone that is interested. No matter how a new filer picks up the skill, it will require quite an individual commitment of time and practice to become proficient.
So the main purpose of this message is to let folks know of the resources available for those that want to learn how to sharpen a saw and offer any help in the process. Please have anyone that has any questions contact me or Gary. Also I do know that other BCHW members do sharpen saws and if they want to help out, let us know. Comments or suggestions are always welcome.
Jim Thode ( Webmaster and crosscut saw user and filer )
Subject: USFS Chainsaw and Cross cut saw certification programs
Good afternoon, BCHA . There is some information in this news letter about the new Chain saw and Cross cut saw program that is in the works. BCHA and some of the states have been supplying input to the agency, USFS, about this, including bringing it to the attention of the Deputy Chief, Leslie Weldon and the Director of Wilderness, Leanne Martin at the BCHA national board meeting. It appears there will be a document to read and comment on out pretty soon. It will be interesting to see what they have come up with.
Michael K. McGlenn
Chairman BCHA


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Last night, for the first ever Vancouver Chowdown, a bunch of us Vancouver Chowhounds converged at Pojang Macha, located in a non-descript stripmall on East Broadway. Pojang Macha specializes in Korean food-cart cuisine. The restaurant derives its name from the Korean term for "covered wagon" ( these street carts are often tarped over in the Korean winter). To simulate this covered wagon aesthetic, the proprietors covered the interior walls and ceilings with a shock of orange tarp. For tables, they used what looked like steel oil drums with metal tops.
Here's an blog that provides an excellent description of pojangmacha http://fatman-seoul.blogspot.com/2004... .
We were seated at the hotpot tables in the middle of the room. The hotpots contained a continuously simmering broth that the servers augmented with water and flavourings (eg crab shells) throughout the evening. The hotpot had already been busy simmering skewers of odeng (fish cake) when we arrived. We helped ourselves to bowls of this light but flavourful broth between courses all evening.
At the start the event, we had a quick chat with the chef to indicated our desire to keep our meal within a $20 per person budget. We negotiated what amounts to a tasting menu of Korean street food. The meal started off with a panchan (a swirl of Korean appetizers/starters that often includes kimchee, seaweed, marinated vegetables, and other little bites) - ours came with a big block of uncooked soft tofu with a pleasing soy and sesame oil based sauce. The panchan was served on army mess-hall style sectioned plates.
The next course was a trio of BBQ skewers similar to Japanese kushiyaki (grayelf: that is the word we were looking for). The skewers had a distinctly Korean flavour profile - sweeter and spicier than their Japanese counterparts. Some at our table were aghast to learn that they had just enjoyed chicken gizzard in all its chewy wonder. LOL.
The third course turned out to be nearly everyone's favourite dish - the seafood hotteok - Korean pancake stuffed with seafood. The dish is very similar to the Japanese okonomiyaki. The hotteok was stuffed with a variety of seafood (mainly squid) and greens. It was crunchy on the outside from the layer of egg noodles as an outer covering.
The third course was what seemed to be a sukiyaki - tender slivered beef suated in a slightly sweet soy and sesame oil sauce. Very tasty and familiar.
The fourth course was the the odeng which had already been simmering since we arrived. The texture was soft. The simmering broth contributed a faint, subtle crabi-ness to the fish cake.
The fifth course was a spicy wheat noodle dish called (IIRC) goldong myeon. It was sweet and spicy from the red pepper and gochujang, a fermented condiment common in Korean cooking. It was very tasty and not as spicy as it looked.
The sixth and final course was a somewhat of a spicy stir-fry of pork served with a fan of medium-firm uncooked tofu.
Since the food here is meant to simulate streetfood, I set my expectations accordingly and was very pleased. Overall, I would say that that the food here is quite decent - similar in quality to some of the Korean izakaya on Robson St. The food here is also more inexpensive than the places on Robson - probably owing to the downmarket locale - thus, cheap rent. Six courses for $20 and we all left fully sated.
I observed that the restaurant was full of Korean and Japanese diners....one particular table in the front corner had a boisterous bunch of Japanese businessmen who definitely enhanced the authenticity of the experience.
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Commemorative Brick Garden at the Athletic Complex
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When the old Lakewood Elementary School was torn down, members of the SSEF salvaged numerous, original bricks that have been incorporated into a landscaped brick garden at the entrance of the new SWCS Sports Complex.
Also, incorporated into the design are personalized, engraved new bricks that can be purchased for a minimum donation of $50.00 each. Engraved bricks have been purchased to honor former teachers, remember old friends, congratulate graduating seniors or commemorate your own years as a Southwestern student. (more…)


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