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Well, a few days have come and gone since the opening day of The Session or Beer Blogging Friday, so I thought I'd best get to work on a summary. This is only an interim round-up as I know we have a few more posts definitely on the way.
Also, Thursday just gone was the British Guild of Beer Writers awards dinner, so I'm hoping that by now, the hangovers have cleared and yet more of the UK's finest decide to put pen to paper or fingers to keys.
It's been a real experience hosting The Session and one that I have enjoyed immensely. Some of the posts have been heart wrenching trips down memory lane, others quirky and down right hilarious, but all celebrating good beer and I thank everyone heartily for taking the time to join in. CHEERS!
We've a great post to open the round-up, where Simon from Reluctant Scooper is in absolutely cracking form as he re-tells the classic tale in humorous style, but with a serious cautionary tale hidden amongst the captivatingly funny text, with "Scrooged: or A Cautionary Tale Of How Beer Got Fecked".
Zac from Building International Coalitions Through Beer and Pavement who went along a similar line as I in terms of a beery confession about Christmas past, which involved a trip to the roof to emulate Santa's little helper, with almost as scary consequences as the "Ugly Sweater" competition..read his post here.
Last months host Steve goes with "A Dickens of a Christmas" on his blog Beers I've known. Steve gets over an early years "tongue burner' on Scotch Whisky, not letting it put him off his garage full of winter warmers. For the future, I too want to find that special place mate.
Dave at Broadford Brewer had me laughing at the first paragraph with this introductory quote "here's my small silver coin of a post to be wrapped neatly in the plum pudding blog round-up". He's also got some interesting beery choices for Christmas, I like it. Read it here.
In his imaginatively titled post "Barley's Ghost", The Beer Nut, goes for beers of the past, present and future which are still around, (happily I have a couple of them). Some great news for Irish drinkers and hopefully for the rest of us too, check his post out here.
Paul at Sockster's Brewhouse has a Dickens of a Christmas indulging a passion for dark mild over the "Bank-s" holiday with "Sarah Hughes', stirred some great memories of pre-Christmas lunch drinks, read it in full here.
Sean from Beer Search Party puts a completely different trust on the topic, being from the much balmier at the time of year Los Angeles, some great sounding beers to be supped nonetheless, read all about them here.
Richard from Travels With Cap'n has a Black Tuesday to look forward to with a few friends on Hanukkah along with a beery plan to sample lots of Oregon's finest brews, read it here.
Alan from A Good Beer Blog takes time to reflect on where his blog has been over the years in terms of "Beers Of Christmas Past, Present and Future", it's funny how things don't quite read the same a few years down the road.
Stan from Appellation Beer asks the interesting question "What would Scrooge drink?", can you put a name to your favourite and would you buy him a beer?
Jon from The Brew Site, looks back at some beery Christmases with family & friends drinking Jubelale and canned session brews and looks forward to sharing something special and interesting here.
Reuben from A Tale Of Ale goes all Bah Humbug on us, moving from Lambrusco, then living the "High Life" on Samichlaus.
Leigh at Good Food Good Beer takes us on a journey on his post The Best Day Of The Year, a real fly on the wall experience about how things are in his and his family's houses at Christmas, carefully eyeing that special beer but just drinking…what family drink.
Craig from Drink Drank defies time itself hatching a fascinating plan to brew a beer from the past, for the present and the future in his post Marley's Ghost, I'd love to hear how this turns out and maybe some of my UK brewing friends could try it too for a transatlantic tasting session?
Matt from Hoosier Beer Geek puts his spin on a subject that seems to be on quite a few lips (keyboards, blogs) of late, that is are we all guilty of treating beer as "my precious", I know I am. Read about the path to self redemption here.
Kenny from The Beer Monkey breaks on in song on the Christmas Karaoke with a rib tickling rendition of The Twelve Beers Of Christmas. I challenge you not to be singing along as you read this one 😉
Boak And Bailey remind us all to put the beer snobbery aside and enjoy the true sentiments of Christmas offerings, no matter what they are or where they came from. "There never was such a goose."
Tiffany from 99 Pours must have a soft spot for old Scrooge-face if the beers she's preparing to serve misery guts up are anything to go by. I think I need to work on my mean streak, it obviously pays big dividends, read it and weep here in Beers That Will Haunt Old Scrooge
Bob from "It could do with a few more hops…" pushes aside the spiritual visitations and relays how he has already come to terms with his own demons. The beastly dark side of beer geekery and how it can potentially ruin a good pint. Looks like there will be better things than "lumpy Mikkeller" in the Arnott household this Christmas..read on here
Jay from a beer in the hand is worth two in the fridge is looking for beer Resurrection and harding for an Abstrakt Christmas, hoping to convert his Father in law to the good cause. Read all about it..
Paul from Source Deli dips another toe into the beer blogging arena and joins The Session for the first time with his post "3 beers of Christmas Dinner or The Non-Stop Rise of Beer Part 2", where he plots and plans the beer matches for Christmas dinner before succumbing to family tradition..
Then of course there's my own witterings on Beersay, "A Christmas Carol" and as Broadford Brewer commented: "Leading the way with confessions followed by true redemption with what can only be described as an amazing selection of beers!!! If you are sharing them they we'll have to dub you Ebenezer Good!"
I'll give it a few more days before I put the final summary post together so please give me a shout if any of you are busily creating something you'd like to add. Hopefully some of the fine work above will serve as inspiration. You can add your links HERE
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The OECD Committee on Fiscal Affairs has released for public comments a discussion draft on the Transfer Pricing Aspects of Business Restructurings.
Business restructurings by multinational enterprises have been a widespread phenomenon in recent years. They involve the cross border redeployment of functions, assets and / or risks between associated enterprises, with consequent effects on the profit and loss potential in each country. Restructurings may involve cross-border transfers of valuable intangibles, and they have typically consisted of the conversion of full-fledged distributors into limited-risk distributors or commissionnaires for a related party that may operate as a principal; the conversion of full-fledged manufacturers into contract-manufacturers or toll-manufacturers for a related party that may operate as a principal; and the rationalisation and / or specialisation of operations.
As evidenced by a January 2005 OECD Centre on Tax Policy and Administration Roundtable, these restructurings raise difficult transfer pricing and treaty issues for which there is currently insufficient OECD guidance under both the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations (the "TP Guidelines") and the OECD Model Tax Convention on Income and on Capital (the "Model Tax Convention") (see outcome of the January 2005 CTPA Roundtable. These issues involve primarily the application of transfer pricing rules upon and / or after the conversion, the determination of the existence of, and attribution of profits to, permanent establishments ("PEs"), and the recognition or non-recognition of transactions. In the absence of a common understanding on how these issues should be treated, they may lead to significant uncertainty for both business and governments as well as possible double taxation or double non-taxation. Recognising the need for work to be done in this area, the Committee on Fiscal Affairs ("CFA") decided to start a project to develop guidance on these transfer pricing and treaty issues.
In 2005 the CFA created a Joint Working Group ("the JWG") of delegates from Working Party No. 1 (responsible for the Model Tax Convention) and Working Party No. 6 (responsible for the TP Guidelines) to initiate the work on these issues. At the end of 2007, having taken stock of the progress made to that point, the CFA referred the work on the transfer pricing aspects of business restructurings to Working Party No. 6 and the work on the PE threshold aspects to Working Party No. 1. The discussion draft being released today has resulted from the work done on the transfer pricing issues by the JWG and Working Party No. 6. Working Party No. 1 intends to consider PE definitional issues under Article 5 of the Model Tax Convention, both in the context of business restructurings and more broadly, as part of its 2009-2010 programme of work, which will result in a separate discussion draft.
This discussion draft only covers transactions between related parties in the context of Article 9 of the Model Tax Convention and does not address the attribution of profits within a single enterprise on the basis of Article 7 of the Model Tax Convention, as this was the subject of the Report on the Attribution of Profits to Permanent Establishments which was approved by the Committee on Fiscal Affairs on 24 June 2008 and by the OECD Council for publication on 17 July 2008. The analysis in this discussion draft is based on the existing transfer pricing rules. In particular, this discussion draft starts from the premise that the arm's length principle and the TP Guidelines do not and should not apply differently to post-restructuring transactions than to transactions that were structured as such from the beginning.
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In light of the importance of risk allocation in relation to business restructurings, the first Issues Note provides general guidance on the allocation of risks between related parties in an Article 9 context and in particular the interpretation and application of paragraphs 1.26 to 1.29 of the TP Guidelines.
The second Issues Note, "Arm's length compensation for the restructuring itself", discusses the application of the arm's length principle and TP Guidelines to the restructuring itself, in particular the circumstances in which at arm's length the restructured entity would receive compensation for the transfer of functions, assets and / or risks, and / or an indemnification for the termination or substantial renegotiation of the existing arrangements.
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Bivacco Cesare Fiorio (CAAI), 2729m, south of Mont Dolent.
3pm, 13/09/98
Interior of the Fiorio.
Alpe Vouasse, 2393m.
A derelict mountain hut below the Clocher de Vouasse in the Combe de l'A, off the Val d'Entremont.
I believe a degree of restoration was carried out in 2004, to bothy standard rather than hut.
11am, 17/09/98
Cabane du Col de Mille (Commune de Liddes), 2473m, Val d'Entremont.
Aiguille du Tour is the dominant peak, I think, with le Portalet to the left.
2pm, 19/09/98
Alp Servay (Commune de Bagnes), 2074m - a Swiss bothy! Mont Rogneux behind.
5pm, 19/09/98
Cabane Marcel Brunet (Commune de Bagnes), 2103m, Becca de Sery and the Petit Combin.
11am, 20/09/98
Cabane de Moiry (CAS), 2825m, and Pigne de la Lé.
8am, 24/09/98
Almagellerhütte (SAC), 2894m, and some of the Dri Horlini.
5pm, 13/09/99
Cabane des Gentianes (or La Barma), 2458m, Lac des Dix. Mont Blanc de Cheilon centre and La Luette right.
5pm, 22/09/99
Cabane François-Xavier Bagnoud (Commune de Bagnes), 2645m.
The new Panossière Hut, almost 1km down the moraine from the old hut which was destroyed by an avalanche in March 1988.
2pm, 08/08/00
Laggin Biwak (SAC), 2428m, Simplon side of the Lagginhorn. This pod was placed here in 1983 to replace an earlier hut, 1km further on at 2746m, which was destroyed by a powder avalanche.
3pm, 02/09/01
Weissmieshütten (SAC), 2726m. The building on the right is the original Weissmies Hotel, which now forms the winterraum.
4pm, 07/09/01
Capanna Corno Gries (CAS), 2338m, below the Nufenenstock.
9am, 25/08/02
Capanna Adula (CAS), 2012m.
On the Ticino side of the Rheinwaldhorn. Originally built for workers on a hydro scheme.
7pm, 30/08/02
Britanniahütte (SAC), 3030m.
4pm, 21/08/03
Britanniahütte (SAC), 3030m.
11.40am, 11/08/12
Bordierhütte (SAC), 2886m.
7pm, 25/08/03
Mischabelhütten (AACZ), 3329m, with Saas Fee a vertical mile below them.
1pm, 02/09/03
Rifugio Vittorio Emanuele II (CAI), 2732m.
1.30pm, 27/07/10
Cabane d'Ar Pitetta (CAS), 2786m.
12.50pm, 27/07/12
Cabane Tracuit (CAS), 3256m.
8.00am, 30/07/12
The chopper is delivering materials for . . .
. . . the new Tracuit.
8.15am, 30/07/12
Tracuit dining room. '1€ = 1CHF' is a bit cheeky.
Weisshornhütte (SAC), 2932m.
1.55pm, 15/07/12
Berghaus Fluhalp, 2620m.
1.30pm, 17/08/12
A pleasant and happy combination of hut and hotel. Not sure what the wee hill in the background is.
Domhütte, 2940m.
2pm, 19/08/12
Shut, for the construction of . . .
. . . the new extension . . .
. . . which will have several mod. cons.
Хижа Мусала, the Musala Hut, 2430m.
1pm, 20/01/13.
On the ordinary route from Borovets to Musala, at 2925m the highest mountain in Bulgaria, and indeed in the whole Balkan peninsula. I wasn't exactly equipped for alpinism, just walked up from the town in denims and trainers with Kahtoolas, so carrying on to the peak was not an option, though I believe it's an easy and well-marked trail, in summer anyway.
I don't know what the capacity of the Musala Hut is (it was shut) but it must get busy in summer, for I understand that this nearby building is used as an annexe for organised groups.
1pm, 20/01/13
Almagellerhütte (SAC), 2894m.
5pm, 15/08/13
Val d'Ayas Guides' Hut (CAI), 3420m.
4.30pm, 20/08/13
Mezzalama Hut (CAI), 3004m.
3.30pm, 21/08/13
On the walk back next day I made a short detour to visit the Rossi e Volante bivi hut, which clings to the face of that buttress.
8am, 22/08/13
Bivacco Rossi e Volante, or Cesare e Giorgio (CAI), 3750m.
8.30am, 22/08/13
Kinhütte (fam. Imboden), 2584m
Täschhütte (SAC), 2701m
Capanna Gnifetti (CAI) 3610m, 04/09/19
Rifugio Citta di Mantova (SGG), 3498m. 04/09/19
Rifugio Citta di Mantova 03/09/19
Bivacco Giordano (Balmenhorn) (CAI) 4167m. 04/09/19
Bivacco Lateltin (CAI), 3132m. 29/08/19
Bivacco Gastaldi (CAI), 2620m, Gressoney.
10.50, 18/08/20
Rifugio Margherita (CAI), 4554m, Signalkuppe
13.45, 24/08/20
Margherita in time of covid :
18.15, 24/08/20
Rifugio Q. Sella, 3585m, beneath Castor :
14.15, 27/08/20
Laggin Biwak (SAC), 2428m, Simplon side of the Lagginhorn. This pod was placed here in 1983 to replace an earlier hut, 1km further on at 2746m, which was destroyed by a powder avalanche.
3pm, 02/09/01
Weissmieshütten (SAC), 2726m. The building on the right is the original Weissmies Hotel, which now forms the winterraum.
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The Olympic Opening Ceremony is a spectacle of grandeur unlike anything in sports. The flags. The music. The energy. And of course, the entering of the Olympic torch into the stadium and symbolic lighting of the Cauldron. If you don't get goose bumps watching it, there's something wrong.
The torch is initially lit in Olympia, Greece. Over the course of the next few months it is transported to the host city via what's known as the Olympic Torch Relay, passing through the hands of thousands of torchbearers, carried through cities and across countries by way of foot, water and even airplane, before eventually making its way into Olympic Stadium on the night of the Opening Ceremony, where it's used to light to cauldron. One of the true marks of the more recent Games is the surprise of who will be the final torchbearer, and how, in fact, the cauldron will ultimately be lit. So without further adieu, here are the Top 10 Olympic Cauldron lightings of the modern Olympic Games.
10. 2002 Winter Olympics – Salt Lake City, Utah
This one was special because maybe the most famous team in Olympic history, the 1980 gold medal U.S. men's hockey team, did the lighting. After the torch was skated around the ice, it was carried up a staircase to the "Miracle" team, which then lit the bottom of a glass tower, sending the flame up to the Cauldron. It was the first time that glass had been used in the lighting of the Cauldron.
9. 1964 Summer Olympics – Tokyo, Japan
If the spirit of the Olympic Games is rooted in fierce but friendly rivalry and competition then the lighting of the cauldron in Tokyo, the first Games to be held in Asia, was perhaps the most symbolic of all lightings. The final torchbearer, Yoshinori Sakai, a 19-year-old who never competed in the Olympics, was chosen to light the Cauldron because he was born on August 6th, 1945 – the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. It was seen as a symbol of Japan's post-war rise as a country of peace.
8. 2000 Summer Olympics – Sydney, Australia
For sheer show, this one might take the cake. After running up a flight of stairs, Cathy Freeman, an Australian 400-meter runner, made her way up a flight of stairs and into the center of a pool of water. She then bent down and lit a completely hidden mechanism that proceeded to light a partially submerged ring, making it appear as though the water itself was burning. A ring of fire circled Freeman – who, incidentally, would become the first athlete to light the cauldron and win a gold medal at the same Olympic Games – and eventually ascended to light the Cauldron.
7. 1980 Summer Olympics – Moscow, Russia
Prior to 1980, the lighting of the cauldron was a pretty straightforward thing: the final torchbearer marched the torch to the final lighting place, raised it for the crowd, and lit the cauldron. But in 1980, for the first time, they started to get creative with the lighting. As basketball gold medalist Sergei Belov ran the torch into the stadium, a pathway connecting the track to the Cauldron appeared, allowing Belov to run over the heads of all the athletes. It set a precedent, as from that point forward there would always be some sort of gimmick used to light the Cauldron.
6. 2006 Winter Olympics – Torino, Italy
At 187 feet high, this marked the tallest Cauldron in Olympic history. Two-time Olympic champion Stefania Belmondo lit a mechanism that sent off an explosion of fireworks around the stadium's ring and up to the Cauldron. To watch this one is maybe the most eye-popping display of all the lightings.
5. 1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles
With the final torchbearer being kept a secret, cheers erupted inside the Los Angeles Coliseum when 1960 gold medalist decathlete Rafer Johnson, who'd starred at UCLA, made his way up a staircase that stretched all the way to the top of the Coliseum. It looked like something out of a fantasy story, this giant stairway stretching to the heavens, Rafer climbing for what seemed like forever before finally reaching the top, where he stood beneath the Olympic rings and raising the torch for the crowd. When the fire swirled around the rings and up to the Cauldron, fans erupted in cheer.
4. 2008 Summer Olympics – Beijing, China
This one was amazing. Raised to the very rim of the stadium, gymnast Li Ning, suspended by wires, ran around the top of the stadium as clips of the torch's long journey to Beijing ran. When he got to the Cauldron, which gave the effect of spiraling into the air, Ning lit a huge wick that sent the flame burning up the spiral path and into the Cauldron.
3. 1992 Summer Olympics – Barcelona
For creativity, you'd have a hard time arguing against this one. Up until 1992, the lighting was always done by an athlete, or a group of athletes, actually touching the torch to the Cauldron. But this time, Spanish archer Antonio Rebello, after having his arrow lit by the final torch runner, literally shot a burning arrow into the Cauldron to set it ablaze. If you don't remember this one, you have to check it out.
2. 2004 Summer Olympics – Athens, Greece
This one ranks so highly as much for the site and the way the torch was relayed into the stadium. Athens, of course, was the site of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896, and for the first time ever the torch made its way around the entire world in a relay through former Olympic cities before circling back to Greece. The Cauldron itself was designed to look like a giant replica of the 2004 Olympic torch, and this time the Cauldron came to the final torch carrier. 1996 gold medalist windsurfer Nikolaos Kaklamanakis did the lighting before the Caldron swung back upward and remained raised his above the stadium.
1. 1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta
The identity of the final torchbearer was particularly secretive in 1996. Athletes and fans alike speculated who it would be, and when the greatest of all-time, Muhammad Ali, emerged to take the torch from four-time Olympic gold medalist swimmer Janet Evans, the reaction was something that can hardly be captured in words. Ali, of course, was as big a presence as ever, and after lighting the Cauldron he was presented with a replacement gold medal from his 1960 Olympic victory. To this day, it remains one of the most memorable moments in sports history.


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The Hollywood Reporter broke the news late Friday that Tom Cruise and Bauer Publishing (INTOUCH, LIFE&STYLE) have settled. Cruise was suing the magazines for $50 million for suggesting that he'd "abandoned" daughter Suri after Ninja Katie left him in the middle of the night but he was the one who took the worst hits during discovery as Bauer lawyers went full gossip on his ass, taking the opportunity to ask him about his dealings with Xenu and his dating practises. There were also the comments he made about how hard it is to make movies – kinda like fighting in Afghanistan. Those documents were then leaked online, making him look even more the fool.
As I wrote at the time, major tactical error for Team Tom. No one remembers the bullsh-t that INTOUCH and LIFE&STYLE regularly come up with anyway. Turning it into a legal situation only highlights the story that much more, to say nothing of how he opened himself up to even more exposure and voluntarily put himself in a room with tabloid representatives with licence to probe.
So it's no surprise that it ended up in a settlement. Financial terms were not disclosed. Does it matter if they're trying to spin it like he won? A joint statement from representatives for both sides reads as follows:
"Bauer Publishing, as well as In Touch and Life & Style magazines, never intended to communicate that Tom Cruise had cut off all ties and abandoned his daughter, Suri, and regret if anyone drew that inference from anything they published."
Friday afternoon, the last weekend before Christmas this comes out. Who's reading it? Not enough people for it to make a difference in public perception. Which means Tom Cruise's reputation is still intact: he loves the Church of Scientology and he hasn't been seen with his daughter in months.


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What's My Business Idea Worth?
By itself, not much. But if you have the ability to build a successful company around it, then you're in business.
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.
Q: I've got a great idea for a business-but what is it worth? Can I find someone to pay me for it? Will someone take this idea to market and pay me a royalty?
A: Nothing. No. No.
OK, it isn't quite that bad, but it's close. Like many current and aspiring entrepreneurs, you have probably wondered about the value of your great business idea. Most people put a lot of stock in their ideas, but the fact is, an idea by itself is worth nothing. The sooner you understand this, the faster you'll move along the path to success.
This concept is very hard for most people to understand. It sure was for me! Ideas are a dime a dozen-lots of people have great ideas. And for every great idea you've had, there are probably quite a few other people who have had the same or a similar idea at about the same time-hey, it's a big world out there with a lot of people in it! An idea is just the start. It is the very early beginning of a product or service, and the idea stage is a long, long, long way from a successful business. Many people don't understand this because they don't understand how value is added to a company.
The very valuable (and pretty rare) skill in the business world is the ability (mixed with determination and persistence) to build a profitable business. It is easy to have the idea ("I'll make this gizmo, and it will revolutionize the auto industry!"), but it is very hard to think about how you'd actually go about designing the gizmo, how you'd make it, how you'd price it, how you'd get production going, how you'd make a compelling sales pitch to your customer, how much, if any, they'd buy, and, let's not forget, how you'd find the money to make this happen. Yep, that's the hard part. But if that sounds daunting to you, don't despair-I promise that you can learn how to do all those things! Just remember that there is a big, big difference between a great idea, a great product and a company that makes money selling it.
Related to the value of your idea is the question of how worried you should be about someone stealing it. The answer in most cases is not very. While it does happen, it doesn't happen as often as you might think, and the reason goes back to the value of an idea. If the real work is in the skill and time and effort it takes to build a successful business, then why would anyone capable of actually doing that want to try to do it with your stolen idea when they could just as easily come up with their own? Pretty much everyone who is capable of doing something with your idea is too busy with his or her own projects to steal yours. If your idea is something that, just by knowing it, other people could easily copy, then you've got bigger problems to deal with as you try to build your company.
I hope I haven't discouraged you from thinking up new and exciting business and product ideas. I hope that what you take from this column is the understanding that to strike it rich, you have to do much more than just come up with the idea. You have to take your ideas and figure out how to market them, how to sell them and how to produce them at a low enough cost to allow you to make money. You have to figure out how to respond to your competitors when they duplicate your products. You have to figure out how to manage your people, pay the bills and make your products and services better and better. In short, you have to build a company-that's the hard part.
Keith Lowe is an experienced entrepreneur who is a founder and investor in companies in several industries. Lowe also mentors new entrepreneurs; serves as past chairman of the board for Biztech, a nonprofit high-tech business incubator; and is a co-founder and officer for the Alabama Information Technology Association.


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It might seem that all you want to do is put some advertising from the document and buyers will contact you and suddenly you happen to be in operation. In fact, it is exactly what other companies do isn't it? Should you do that you will surely not make the ideal utilization of the advertisement and quite be losing dollars.
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Step One: Mark
The water line (the highest point that floodwaters reached) will be evident on the drywall. Mark a cut line six to 12 inches above that using either a laser level or marking around the room at a uniform height above the floor. Then snap a chalk line. This might seem unnecessarily fussy at this point when all you're trying to do is remove soggy drywall to ventilate the wall. But a neat job now will greatly speed the installation of replacement drywall.
Step Two: Place Tarps
Place a tarp at the base of the wall to catch debris. The tarp is a smooth surface that will keep the damaged area cleaner and make it easier to scoop debris off the floor.
Step Three: Cut
Cut along the line with a sharp utility knife.
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Step Four: Puncture
Take a framing hammer and knock a hole in the drywall that will allow you to reach through to the other side. Make sure you do this between the studs, and below the cutline so that you're damaging the drywall that you're going to remove anyway.
Step Five: Remove and Test
First, remove the plates from your electrical outlets and pry off baseboard trim. Next, wearing gloves, reach into the hand hole and pull the drywall away from the studs. The first couple of bays will be difficult. Once you've opened a large area, use a flat bar, hammer, or a flat-nosed shovel to pry the drywall away from the studs.
While you're doing this, check for dampness on the exterior walls. Get your hand in the insulation. Your goal here is to remove the drywall up to the point where the insulation is dry, so that anything that gets damp is replaced. So if the insulation still feels wet where you made your first cut line, make another test cut higher up the wall.
NOTE: Removal of electrical cable, outlets, and outlet boxes (and their replacement) should be left to a licensed electrician.
Step Six: Transport
Transport the debris outside. The ideal is that you already have a Dumpster, dump truck, or garbage hauler so that you won't have to remove the debris twice. If that's not possible, pile the debris on the ground and cover it with a tarp to keep it from getting wetter and heavier. Weigh the tarp down or stake it in place do it doesn't blow away.
Remember that drywall is heavy—especially waterlogged drywall. But there are several ways to move it. One is to slide it inside a tarp. Large chunks can also be placed in a wheelbarrow or dropped into a plastic garbage can, which you can slide out of the house or carry on a hand truck.
Whatever you do, figure out debris transport before you cut your first piece of drywall and you'll have an easier time overall.
Step Seven: Dispose of the Remainder
Cut away soggy fiberglass insulation and stuff it into contractor trash bags. Remove drywall screws by backing them out or snapping them off. Same goes for drywall nails.
Step Eight: Ventilate
Fans speed evaporation and reduce the chance of condensation forming inside walls and the formation of mold.
Post-Flood Installation
To put your walls back together after the flood, you'll need to have an electrician replace outlets and wiring, and perhaps the receptacle boxes as well. At PM, it's always been our view that a homeowner who does his or her homework is competent to do basic electrical work, but flood damage is a special case. Flood-damaged electrical materials should be replaced by a pro, who can also evaluate the home's grounding and bonding system. After that's done, you can move on to replacing the insulation you cut out and hanging new drywall.
To do that, cut each piece of replacement insulation so that it firmly butts against the piece above. Staple it in place. Next, cut the replacement piece of drywall and screw it to the studs. Use one screw on each side of the joint (that is, one screw in the new drywall and one screw on the older piece of drywall above). Spread taping compound on the seam and embed paper tape in the compound. Properly embedded paper tape is strong and easy to apply. Strike off excess drywall compound with a 6 in. knife and let the compound dry. Sand off ridges and bumps before applying the next layers of compound.
For plenty more on installing drywall, check out our guides to doing it well and finishing it right.
Roy Berendsohn has worked for more than 25 years at Popular Mechanics, where he has written on carpentry, masonry, painting, plumbing, electrical, woodworking, blacksmithing, welding, lawn care, chainsaw use, and outdoor power equipment. When he's not working on his own house, he volunteers with Sovereign Grace Church doing home repair for families in rural, suburban and urban locations throughout central and southern New Jersey.


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As we enter the final year of Aspire: A Plan for Princeton, I thought I would report on our progress to date and reflect on the impact that the campaign has already had on the University. I would also like to express my heartfelt thanks to all who have shared their energies, time, and resources in support of our campaign and the aspirations it embodies.
Like the three campaigns that preceded it, Aspire is a ringing affirmation of Tiger loyalty and generosity. Since 2005, we have received 216,258 gifts from 61,054 donors, including a remarkable 73.3 percent of undergraduate alumni. As of June 30, we have drawn within $270 million of our $1.75 billion target, and we have reached this point despite the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression! Annual Giving, which lies at the heart of our campaign, has been a major engine of this progress, generating more than $50 million in unrestricted funds in 2010–11 alone. I am especially heartened by the response of young alumni, who even in this difficult economic climate have answered Princeton's call. Last year, the average participation rate among the 10 youngest classes exceeded that of alumni as a whole by almost 10 percent, surely the most compelling evidence I can muster that the University continues to serve its students well. In the course of the campaign, we have also received a wide range of exceptionally generous capital gifts, including transformative investments by Peter Lewis '55 and Gerhard Andlinger '52 in the creative and performing arts and energy and the environment, respectively. Large or small, however, every gift matters, and, together, they have already had a major impact on our University community.
Under the leadership of campaign co-chairs Bob Murley '72 and Nancy Peretsman '76, our legendary army of volunteers and staff is working hard to reach our campaign goals, but, in the final analysis, campaigns are not ends in themselves but rather a means to a larger end. The end, in this case, is the education of thoughtful and effective leaders and the generation of new knowledge, not for their own sakes, but to make our world a more humane, secure, and vital place for all. This, in turn, demands a standard of excellence that campaigns are tailor-made to foster. Under the aegis of Aspire, we have formally defined our highest priorities in order to enhance what we now do well, improve upon areas where we fall short of our high expectations, and break new ground in strategic areas. I often say that my primary role as president is to serve as Princeton's foremost cheerleader and its most exacting critic, and campaigns are a golden opportunity to both build upon past achievements and embark upon new opportunities or, as this year's valedictorian, John Pardon '11, put it, "to look for the challenge rather than for the comfortable."
As we began the campaign, we identified five areas where Princeton is well positioned to grow and where, in fact, we must grow if we hope to remain a great university. Specifically, Aspire seeks to provide an "equity of experience" for every student by extending our historic financial aid program to campus opportunities for study and work abroad, regardless of family circumstances; to expand our capacities in engineering and environmental science to find green energy sources and to protect the environment; to place Princeton in the "service of the imagination" by significantly expanding ways for students to explore the creative and performing arts; to strengthen the engagement of students and faculty with the world; and to assume a leading role in the exciting field of neuroscience, as well as other scientific areas.
This is an ambitious agenda, but thanks to you, we are well on our way to fulfilling it. I have already alluded to the Lewis Center for the Arts and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, but we can also point with pride and gratitude to scholarships and professorships that have kept our student and faculty bodies strong; to the phoenix-like rebirth of Butler College; to major academic initiatives, beginning with the very first gift to Aspire—a pledge from Dennis Keller '63 and his wife Connie that has endowed the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education; to our groundbreaking Bridge Year Program; and to new buildings and facilities, not the least of which is the future home of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and Department of Psychology.
A final—and critically important—benefit of this campaign is the opportunity it offers alumni, parents, and friends to renew their ties to Princeton and to join our faculty and staff in defining its future. The Connect Initiative, for example, has enabled black alumni to both expand and focus their support for their alma mater.
All this and more Aspire is achieving, and I invite you to join—or increase your involvement in—our campaign, ensuring that Princeton can embrace the challenges of the 21st century while reinforcing its historic strengths in the service of this nation and all nations. As I tell every class at Commencement, let us together aim high and be bold!


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June 30 is Gretsch Day at Cream City Music
Gretsch guitars and Cream City Music are excited to announce the "Gretsch Day" Event, featuring "The Fred & Joe Show," taking place on Saturday, June 30, 2012, from 11 am to 4 pm CDT at the Cream City Music store on 12505 West Bluemound Road in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
The event, which is free of cost to all guests and open to the public, will feature continuous musical performances beginning at 2:00 p.m. by Bluegrass guitar pickers Nik & Sam, fingerstyle guitarist Bobby Gibson, and acoustic guitar sensation Jake Allen. Guests making very special appearances include Fred Gretsch, the fourth-generation owner of the iconic Gretsch Guitar Company, and Gretsch Guitars Product Specialist, Joe Carducci.
In addition, guitar artist Sarah Gallenberger will unveil her newest masterpiece painted on a Gretsch G6120 guitar. This one-of-a-kind Gretsch will be up for grabs in an online auction benefitting the Milwaukee-based charity Guitars for Vets.
Special offers on Gretsch products and guitars will be available to attendees throughout the day along with a special Gretsch gift bag for the first twenty guests through the door.
For more information, call Cream City Music or visit their website.
About Cream City Music
Cream City Music is on a constant search for great deals to pass on to its customers. Whether it is new, used or vintage items you are looking for, Cream City Music probably has a better price. Its staff is knowledgeable and friendly, and they also like to share their expertise. With a broad assortment of new, used, discontinued, and scratch and dent deals, there is a lot to choose from. Cream City Music takes pride in giving detailed, accurate descriptions of everything they sell, and is trying to provide the best one-on-one customer service available on the planet. For more information, visit their website.
About Guitars for Vets
Guitars for Vets, Inc. (G4V) is a federally registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that enhances the lives of ailing and injured military veterans by providing them with guitars and music instruction. Through self-expression and the healing power of music, it is our intent to restore the feelings of joy and purpose that can be lost after suffering trauma. For more information, visit their website.


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Top-ranked Victoria Azarenka won her sixth WTA title of the season Sunday by beating Julia Goerges 6-3, 6-4 at the Generali Ladies.
Azarenka has won 13 straight matches without dropping a set since losing the US Open final last month. She pulled out before her quarterfinal at Tokyo two weeks ago due to dizziness, then won in Beijing last week to begin her streak.
''I don't really count my victories,'' said Azarenka, who has 14 career titles. ''I just try to go out there and enjoy every match.''
Azarenka broke the fifth-seeded Goerges in the opening game and again at 5-3 to take the first set. That still made the German the first opponent to win more than two games in one set against the Belarusian at this tournament.
''I felt very good, very energized each day of this week,'' Azarenka said.
Azarenka's next tournament is the season-ending WTA Championships in Istanbul.
Azarenka won 12 consecutive points early in the second set to help build a 5-0 lead. She then lost four straight games before closing out the final on her fifth match point.
''I lost my concentration,'' Azarenka said. ''Julia came back so strong and I made some unnecessary mistakes. I am glad I came out on top. It was quite difficult.''
Goerges earned and converted her first break point when Azarenka was serving for the match at 5-1. She broke Azarenka again to make it 5-4 but then dropped her own serve for the fifth time in the match.
''It was a good match, very intense,'' the 19th-ranked German said. ''I had a super comeback at the end, but she was just too consistent and deserved to win.''
Goerges, who has two career titles, is 0-2 in WTA finals this season after also losing in Dubai in February.
''But I am proud of this week, and it's not over yet,'' said Goerges, who was scheduled to play the doubles final with Czech partner Barbora Zahlavova Strycova later Sunday.
''It's a good feeling to know that I was able to keep up with the best player in the world and got a chance to turn around the match. That makes me positive.''


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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Movie buffs and sports fans looking to 3D televisions for the ultimate home theater experience may want to get their eyes checked first -- or risk a 3D headache, U.S. eye experts said on Saturday.
The growing popularity of three-dimensional movies such as James Cameron's "Avatar" -- now a $1 billion box office hit -- has inspired a crop of 3D TV sets, unveiled this week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
And while new digital 3D technology has made the experience more comfortable for many, for some people with eye problems, a prolonged 3D session may result in an aching head, they said.
"There are a lot of people walking around with very minor eye problems, for example a minor muscle imbalance, which under normal circumstances, the brain deals with naturally," said Dr Michael Rosenberg, an ophthalmology professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.
He said in a 3D movie, these people are confronted with an entirely new sensory experience.
"That translates into greater mental effort, making it easier to get a headache," Rosenberg said in a telephone interview.
In normal vision, each eye sees things at a slightly different angle.
"When that gets processed in the brain, that creates the perception of depth," Dr Deborah Friedman, a professor of ophthalmology and neurology at the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York.
"The illusions that you see in three dimensions in the movies is not exactly calibrated the same way that your eyes and your brain are. If your eyes are a little off to begin with, then it's really throwing a whole degree of effort that your brain now needs to exert.
"This disparity for some people will give them a headache," she said.
Dr John Hagan, ophthalmologist in Kansas City, Missouri, and a fellow with the American Academy of Ophthalmology, said some people who do not have normal depth perception cannot see in 3D at all.
He said people with eye muscle problems, in which the eyes are not pointed at the same object, have trouble processing 3D images.
Experts say there are no studies tracking how common it is to get a headache after watching a 3D movie, but Rick Heineman, a spokesman for RealD, a provider of 3D equipment to theaters, said headaches and nausea were the chief reasons 3D technology never took off.
The company, which provides 3D equipment to 90 percent of U.S. movie theaters with 3D capability and has cut deals with Sony Corp, Panasonic, JVC, Toshiba Corp and with Direct TV, said its newer digital technology addresses many of the problems that typically caused 3D moviegoers discomfort.
Heineman said older 3D technology involved the use of two film projectors, one that projected a left eye image and one that projected a right eye image. Three-D glasses would allow viewers to see a different image in each eye.
"People often complained of headaches and it was really because the projectors weren't lined up," Heineman said.
Heineman's company uses a single digital projector, which switches between the left and the right eye image 144 times a second, to help overcome some of the old problems.
"By going to a single digital projector, those issues were solved," he said.
Friedman said she thinks most people will do fine with 3D movies and with 3D TVs, but Rosenberg said people may quickly tire of the novelty.
"I think it will be a gimmick. I suspect there will be a lot of people who say it's sort of neat, but it's not really comfortable," he said.
Editing by Eric Beech
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Feb. 4, 2008 -- Children born to women who suffer the death of a loved one during their first trimester of pregnancy may be at increased risk for developing schizophrenia, new research shows.
The study is not the first to suggest that a mother's psychological state can influence her unborn child's brain development, but it is the largest, involving nearly 1.4 million Danish children followed for decades.
The schizophrenia risk was still quite small in the children of women who experienced the death of a family member early in pregnancy, and the findings need to be confirmed.
But researchers say the study adds to the evidence that severe stress early in pregnancy -- in this case the death of a parent, sibling, spouse, or child -- may negatively impact fetal brain development.
"We did not see this association in the months before pregnancy, or after the first trimester," says study co-author Kathryn M. Abel, PhD, of the University of Manchester.
Stress and Schizophrenia
Abel and colleagues from the University's Center for Women's Mental Health Research examined data from a comprehensive, nationwide Danish health registry, which recorded about 1.38 million births in the country between 1973 and 1995.
The same registry was used to determine if mothers who gave birth during this time had first-degree relatives who died, received a diagnosis of cancer, or had a heart attack or stroke during their pregnancies.
Roughly 22,000 women experienced the death of a close relative during pregnancy, and about 14,000 had a relative treated for a life-threatening illness.
A total of 7,331 schizophrenia cases were identified among Danes born between 1973 and 1995 over at least two decades of follow-up.
Being born to a mother who had a close relative die during her first trimester was found to be associated with a 67% increased risk for schizophrenia.
But a similar death up to six months before conception or at any other time during pregnancy did not appear to elevate risk, nor did having a seriously ill relative during pregnancy.
Abel tells WebMD that the research team plans to repeat the study using the Swedish health registry, which is more than twice the size of the Danish one.
The newly published study appears in the February issue of the journal Archives of General Psychiatry.
"We also want to expand the research to look for other mental health outcomes," Abel says. "I think it is highly likely that if we look at a broader spectrum of psychiatric disorders we will find that those are increased as well."
Some Stress May Be Good
Developmental psychologist Janet DiPietro, PhD, who also studies the impact of maternal stress on fetal brain development, says even if major traumatic events such as the death of a loved one do influence schizophrenia risk, the risk is still very small.
Having a family history of schizophrenia or another mental illness was associated with a much larger risk, in this study and in others.
DiPietro says much of the research linking pregnancy stress to negative outcomes has focused on early child development and relied on mothers' perceptions of their children's behavior.
"The problem is that mothers who are more anxious and stressed are more likely to view their child as having behavioral problems," she says.
In her own 2006 study, in which child behavior was independently assessed, moderate stress during pregnancy was actually associated with a good outcome -- advanced development at age 2.
One possible reason for this is that the chemicals the body produces in response to stress also play a role in fetal maturation, she tells WebMD.
DiPietro is associate dean for research and a professor at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.
"The knee-jerk reaction is to think that all stress is bad, but this may not be so in pregnancy," she says. "The fetus is not as vulnerable as we may think to the day-to-day stresses women deal with, like working and meeting deadlines."


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You're now ready to log in to UPS CampusShip and set up the system for your company.
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Check to make sure that you have received an e-mail with the UPS CampusShip URL, log-in name, and your UPS CampusShip password. When you log in for the first time, you must agree to the UPS CampusShip Terms and Conditions.
On your first visit to the site, you will be prompted to change your temporary password. Enter 6 - 10 alphanumeric characters, and select your challenge information (for example, a question whose answer is known only to you). After selecting Update, you may use your new password immediately. In the future, when you log in, the Ship a Package page will display.
Note: User IDs and passwords are case sensitive.
As you gather and review key information to launch UPS CampusShip for your company or location, you will be working through these setup processes:
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Intervertebral disks are the shock absorbers of the spine. These oval-shaped sacs sit between each pair of vertebrae, cushioning them from the impact of everyday movements. Each disk is made up of two parts: a fibrous shell known as the annulus fibrosus and a gel-like substance called the nucleus pulposus . Much like a waterbed shifting under the weight of a misplaced bowling ball, the disk changes shape whenever the spine rotates or flexes, fluidly adjusting to absorb the motion and protect the vertebrae.
Unfortunately, just as waterbeds eventually mature into box springs, intervertebral disks don't last forever. Over time, the disks begin to lose elasticity and flexibility—a condition called degenerative disk disease (DDD) that affects 60% of people over the age of 40, according to Medscape . This can lead to problems such as neck or lower back or more serious conditions such as herniation, which occurs when the disk's inner fluids leak through the annulus fibrosus. Although DDD can be the source of chronic pain, treatment does not always require surgery. Often, DDD can be managed with physical therapy, over-the-counter medications, and chiropractic treatments, such as spinal adjustments or spinal decompression.


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\nNice guy Paul Rudd has it all—he's funny and so freaking cute. The 42-year-old is already taken, but we can still cozy up to one of his movies, like the hilarious I Love You, Man and Our Idiot Brother. And thankfully for his fans (is there anyone who doesn't love this guy?), he has more due out in 2012. This month, he costars with Jennifer Aniston in Wanderlust, a comedy about a couple who end up on a hippie commune. Next, he's the leading man in Judd Apatow's This Is 40. We can't wait.
Describe the most fearless thing you've done.
I went river rafting down a rapid called The Gauntlet. It was incredibly dangerous. Now I realize it was just bone stupid. Is that an
expression? It should be.
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Can you share the best advice you've been given?
Write thank-you notes. It's a nice thing to do. E-mail doesn't count.
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"Those jeans make you look fatter."


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I've just had the pleasure of reviewing an intriguing new range of watercolours, intriguing because they are vegan - no animal products.
The palette is quite unusual in that it's very organic, Colors of Nature as they are labeled by the Canadian manufacturer. There are lots of Siennas and Umbers. The brightest pigment is the Ultramarine and there is a good Chromium Green. This is a plaette that is a natural for landscapes and probably portraits, as the pigments dilute down to ver soft washes. Good granulation and a beautiful range of greys is achievable. I'm missing a clear bright red. The Real Red is very much an Indian red. This palette is certainly tailormade for Tuscan landscapes and architecure.
The paints come in little pots and are very reasonably priced. Good luck to Colors of Nature - http://colorsofnature.com
Have Dogs, Will Travel
May 2005 - Two Australians moved to Tuscany where they planned to live for two years. Two weeks later their dogs, Snowy and Dermott, arrived. Seven years and a property purchase later, they're still here.
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Vegan Waterecolours
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Sketching in Rome
From our room with a view
Largo di Torre Argentina
We recently had the good fortune to spend three days in Rome staying in a delightful suite overlooking the ruins in Largo di Torre Argentina.
How did I score three days in Rome? Well, Italy happened to be playing Ireland at Rugby in the old Olympic Stadium.
I would probably have been bored to tears had Italy not won!
The highlight of the trip (for me) was discovering a wonderful little kosher restaurant in the old Ghetto where I finally saw how to prepare Carciofi alla Romana. The fridge is now full of globe artichokes.
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Labels: artichokes, Largo di Torre Argentina, Rome, Rugby, sketching, watercolour
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Patonga Pelican Linocut
Linocut 10 cm x 13cm
One of my favourite things about going home to Australia is to see the pelicans at Patonga. Well it won't be long now but in the meantime I've made this two plate linocut. Not sure which I prefer. I think the first one.
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A climber from Newfoundland and Labrador who made it to the top of Mount Everest during a season marked by multiple deaths says he feels that crowding at the final ascent is just one among several safety problems.
Mark Ballard said Monday that when he came to the last portion of the climb there was a chaotic scene of lineups as a number of expedition companies attempted to reach the summit under last week's bright and clear skies in the Himalayas.
Ballard says his Sherpa guide was instrumental in navigating his way through the crowds, especially on the final Hillary Step, swiftly taking him around slower groups and reducing his waiting time in the frigid, thin air.
Still, he said there was a 1.5-hour wait on the way down from the summit due to the queues of climbers lining the route on May 22.
Ballard says he believes there needs to be "work on qualification of climbers" attempting the summit, as he noticed some continued to climb despite difficulties adjusting to the altitude.
He also says some climbers lacked knowledge, such as the protocols when two climbers meet as one is ascending and the other descending on the same rope.
"It was chaos coming down for sure," the Canadian climber said in an emailed comment.
"That (the descent) was all about staying warm, my right foot was freezing."
A photo he provided shows a line of dozens of climbers making their way up and down on May 22.
"I think that part of what happened came down to the smaller weather window this year, which required many companies to push into a small amount of days," Ballard said.
Trevor Day, an associate professor of physiology at Mount Royal University in Calgary, says high altitudes can cause all climbers to lose strength and can lead to sickness — but inexperienced climbers may not have a strong sense of their own limits.
"If you have experience getting sick and being up there, you have a sense of what you can do and what you cannot do," he said.
The Associated Press has reported a number of May deaths on the world's highest peak, which is about 8,850 metres high and commonly requires about two months of trekking to summit.
Indian climber Ravi Thakar, 28, died during the third week of May while sleeping in his tent at Mount Everest's highest camp site.
An Irish climber, Seamus Lawless, was missing after falling while returning from Everest's summit.
CNN reported that Robin Haynes Fisher died at about 8,600 metres while descending from the summit on May 25, noting he had commented on the overcrowding in his final social media post.
The body of Indian climber Ravi Kumar was spotted on May 20, but it was impossible to retrieve the body, after the climber fell some 200 metres.
Climbers from the United States, Slovakia and Australia also died on the mountain over the May 18-19 weekend.
Everest claims multiple victims each year, often in the "death zone" above 8,000 metres, where the air is too thin to sustain human life.
For example, in 2017, 648 people summited Everest, according to the non-profit Himalayan Database. Six people were confirmed to have died on the mountain that year, one of them on the north side.
Eric Simonson, a partner in International Mountain Guides, said in a telephone interview that his company takes safety measures that include multiple Sherpas carrying additional oxygen tanks when there's a lineup on the final ascent.
"It's just the way the cards got dealt this year …. Unfortunately the weather didn't come good until the very end (of May) and everybody had to go," he said in a telephone interview from the firm's headquarters in Ashford, Wash.
He said on May 22 his company had eight climbers and 11 Sherpas going up to the summit.
"We went up with abundant extra oxygen and manpower …. It wasn't optimal, but I'd rather have people standing in line on a nice day than battling a whiteout."
Simonson said ensuring safety — whether it be additional Sherpa guides or training of the mountaineers — costs money.
"The teams that spend the money can create greater safety margins for their customers, and the teams that are bare-boned, they don't have those resources," he said.
The Associated Press reported that the Nepalese Tourism Department issued a record 371 permits this year to people to scale the mountain. The increased number of climbers this year is likely because many people were unable to climb in 2014 and 2015, when deadly avalanches disrupted the climbing seasons.
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Earlier this week, I participated in the Books Online workshop in Toronto. The workshop featured an update from James Crawford on Google Books, and papers on social reading and ebook interfaces, and the development of ebook services for various communities with special needs, including children, isolated First Nations communities, and the visually impaired. There were also reports from various other research projects, mostly outside the US. It was an especially good opportunity to get in touch with projects and people I don't ordinarily encounter, since I don't do much international travel at the moment.
My own contribution was a keynote titled "The Metadata Challenge", discussing some ways in which metadata can be used effectively to support discovery, access, and usability in large-scale digital libraries. The talk covers a wide range of topics, including several metadata-related projects I've written about here, such as subject maps, copyright data, and work-oriented catalog views. I've posted slides and notes from the talk on my Metadata Challenge page, which you're welcome to download and read.
This coming Tuesday, I'll be giving a more tightly focused metadata talk at the Digital Library Federation forum in Palo Alto. I'll be going into detail about how we use freely distributed linked authority data on subjects from the Library of Congress to improve discovery in catalogs being maintained and developed at Penn. In the same session, Kevin Ford of the Library of Congress will talk about recent changes and new improvements in the service we're using.
I expect my presentation to include a live demo and other interactive elements, and we both hope to leave plenty of time for questions and discussion. If you're interested in how you can use LC's authority data, or data like it, to improve subject-oriented catalogs, I encourage you to attend the session if you can make it.


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Hello friends! I am going on a tour, and I don't even need to leave my couch. This will be the best vacation ever.
I was invited on this tour by Liz and her charming daughter, Zoe. Zoe is a lot like my daughter; smart, mischievous, and sure to be trouble when she's a teenager.
Her adventures, or mis-adventures as it were, are chronicled on Zoe vs. the Universe. Some favorites include Zoe taking on Doc McStuffins (or, doctoring to be precise) and Potty Training. I'll wait while you read and enjoy.
Back? Good. Now, I get to answer four questions and then pass the baton onto some other bloggers that you will enjoy just as much as you love me and Zoe.
1. What am I working on? As lame as it might sound, I am working on my blog. I just started writing in January, and I am still getting the hang of social media and building my audience (hi, mom!). For reasons not known to me, I have been adopted by the BLUNTmoms and featured on Mamapedia. It's humbling and awesome and I hope they don't figure out I am a fraud.
2. How does my work differ from others of its genre? It's funnier, more insightful, and… that's all rubbish. What I offer are dynamic, witty stories with a lot of dogs, kids, and insanity. How am I different? Um… I talk about poop and wine more than other writers?
3. Why do I write/create what I do? When I was a child, I was never without a book; just like Amy Carter. Books transported me to Walnut Grove, via the Phantom Tollbooth, on a horse named Misty. All of those stories stirred my imagination and I wanted to create my own. I've dabbled in poetry, short stories, and, obviously, blogging. Right now, blogging seems to work for me, so I'm going to ride this out for as long as I can.
4. How does your writing/creating process work? My inspiration is all around me. I take notes and brainstorm until I find something that "moves me." I dash off an initial draft, then tweak, revise, proofread, force my husband to read my writing, then revise some more and publish. Sometimes, what I publish actually resembles what I started out with.
And since everyone is completely bored of me now, I'll send the blog tour to:
Pam, author of the blog Divorce Doula. She is a Vancouver-based divorced mother of two awesome boys embarking on a respectful, amicable and often humorous co-parenting adventure with their father.*
Cordelia, the Multilingual Mama, is a writer, researcher, multilingual homeschooling mother, former sailing instructor, with a past in environmental science and social innovation.*
Shawna is a mom of 2.5 babies, blogging over at the Dovetail Blog. She describes herself as a huge nerd who takes way too many pictures of her kids.*
And the final stop is with Kim, at Two Bugs and a Blog. She is on a mission to share the good, bad and ugly side of parenting.*
*Bios shamelessly stolen from their websites.
Visit, read, and share. Tour your little hearts out!


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Prior to watching Another Year I was not in awe of Mike Leigh's track record, but rather shamefully ignorant. I was keen to watch the film though because of some glowing reviews last year, promising trailers and that wonderful artwork and logo. I remember seeing said tree sprawling massively across an Odeon in London's West End way back in the halcyon days of 2010, and thinking that was the type of thoughtful British picture I wanted to see.
The central idea behind the story, which Leigh scripted as well as directed, is tender, realistic and probably true to life. Happily married couple, Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen) are lucky and they know it. The people in their lives, who seem far less blessed, gravitate towards them for kindness and warmth. Their son Joe (Oliver Maltman) is taking his time to find love as his friends get hitched left, right and centre, Gerri's co-worker Mary's (Lesley Manville) bubbly energy conceals her loneliness and Tom's childhood friend Ken (Peter Wight) is trapped in Hull watching his precious roots wither away. The narrative plays out with a chunk from each of the year's four seasons.
The opening scene was just what I had been hoping for and what Leigh's reputation guaranteed. Imelda Staunton plays an insomniac pressing her GP for sleeping pills but understandably her doctor seeks out the true, underlying causes. Staunton's character is clearly completely miserable; crestfallen at her lot in life and the realisation that this is all she's likely to get. The scene lasts a full five minutes, uninterrupted; Leigh really lets it breathe and grow. For most of the scene we don't see the GP's face, helping us truly inhabit Staunton's excellent performance. We've all felt like that at the doctors, like you're just another appointment to be checked off by a faceless health drone.
The GP refers our dejected and menopausal patient to a counsellor. It turns out that Gerri is a counsellor. And this is where the problems begin with Another Year. Gerri continues to be a counsellor for the duration of the story, always behaving as though maintaining professional standards, even alone in bed with soul mate Tom. Ruth Sheen's tone of voice never varies more than a fraction, making her seem either mildly interested or not that bothered. Whilst Broadbent's range of reactions to the various problems of friends are different and human, Gerri deals with each situation on dull auto-pilot. Sheen's performance genuinely seemed mechanical and totally robotic, which was a real shock after all the talk of quality acting.
The passing of the seasons is beautifully shot and there are moments of heart warming dialogue that is convincingly ordinary and recognisable from everyday life. Do I really want to watch a film with conversations startlingly similar to the small talk I run away from in reality though? It all gets rather dreary, with next to no drama in the first two seasons and not a pinch of escapism. Leigh's script also has some awful expositional dialogue, particularly for Lesley Manville's character Mary, Tom and Gerri's desperately clingy friend. I cringed at the clumsy manner her myriad but dull problems were introduced and grimaced later at Manville's caricatured portrayal of an overzealous eccentric going off the rails. Her drunkenness at BBQs is amateurish.
Or is it? I honestly don't know if I fell into the trap of mistaking the annoying traits of a character for bad acting and storytelling. This is because the last two seasons, autumn and winter, went a long way to redeeming the failures of the first couple. As Mary reaches rock bottom her character becomes far more bearable and Manville's performance finally makes you empathise and feel pity, sympathy, and even sadness. David Bradley puts in a fabulous performance as Tom's grieving brother who is a man of few words. Some of his scenes with Broadbent, and an extended one with Manville, are superb.
I don't want to mimic the idiotic readers of the X-Factor age who throw away a book they're reading in disgust because the characters are not "likeable". Novels and films are not about providing you with brief friendship. But Another Year is hard to get into. As I've said I was really surprised by how irritating I found the performances of Ruth Sheen and Lesley Manville. In Manville's case I think I judged her too quickly and her character was simply a vibrant pain in the neck, well realised. However I maintain that Sheen was simply two dimensional, which is disappointing given the importance of actors to such an ensemble piece. By the time Another Year ended I was starting to enjoy it but there's no doubt that this is a film with the potential to frustrate as well as reward.


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As our Heroes make their way through Hearthome City and to the Hearthome City Gym, they run into their friend Nando at the Gym door who tells them that the Gym Leader will be away for quite awhile, much to Ash's dismay. But telling them about the upcoming Hearthome City Pokemon Tag Battle, Ash and Brock decided to enter that instead – as a team. Meanwhile, the Hearthome City Pokemon Contest is just getting underway, and Dawn finds herself competing along with Nando, Zoey, and Jessilina, who of course is actually Jessie in disguise. Feeling very confident, Dawn gives a superb performance, but is sadly shocked to learn that she hasn't even made it past the 1st round. As she struggles to cope with the situation, Jessilina is defeated by Nando, leaving Zoey and Nando battling in the finals, which Nando ultimately wins. Sharing feelings about their losses proves to cement Dawn and Zoey's friendship even further, and as they both marvel at Nando's ability to compete in both Pokemon Gym battles and Contests, the future begins to look much brighter for both of them, as the Pokemon Tag Battle is set to take place for Ash and Brock in a matter of days.
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Fleming's Steakhouse Adds Steak Companions Menu
Fleming's Steakhouse has now added a "steak companion" menu to all their locations. These are seafood and other "toppings" that you can add to your steak!
The companions include a truffle poached lobster with bearnaise sauce and caviar, which obviously I had to get. Going to a steakhouse is already a splurge, but for special occasions might as well get lobster and caviar.
They had a bone-in filet mignon that night, which I highly recommend over the other steaks! My friend got the bone-in filet mignon and after trying hers I didn't want to return it ... especially the tender parts near the bone. We topped this with the King crab with herb butter.
The other companion options are Diablo Shrimp (baked with spiced barbecue butter sauce), and a Flavor Trio of steak spreads. They also have three sauces like chimichurri and peppercorn that are complimentary.
We also had fun with their new digital wine list. You can browse by types of wine or look at the recommended pairings for specific dishes.