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So, I’m going to create a split in my naming convention. Sucralose blends will be known as “Tasty” and Stevia Blends will be known as “Goodness”, henceforth.
Tasty blends will often be less expensive than their goodness counterparts. They’re likely to be more synthetic in nature, and are likely to be the better tasting of the blends. Goodness blends will be as close to nature as I can make them, without concern for costs.
Even though I personally believe that the Tasty ones are less expensive and taste better, I’m still likely to mix up a batch of goodness for myself. As a person, I often call myself a “gateway cave hippy”. It’s the best way I can describe my desire to be open to things, while trying to stay closerish to nature and eat like Grok. In other words … I’m a confusing mess of hypocritical humanness.
Finally, all of my blends contain erythritol. Remember from previous versions in this series. My fun and frisky pet name for erythritol is “Smappy”, as the word “erythritol” sounds like a chemical spill. Such a shame for such a wonderful and natural sweetener. So … they will all be named “Smappy”.
Basic Tasty Smappy is designed for simple applications. It’s cheap, easy to make and tastes great! It’s good in most applications. This runs the risk of crystallizing in super sweet recipes, but is fine as a standard sweetener. This would be great for coffee, or ice tea. This would be good to give a sweet kick to a pancake batter. It’s great for adding a touch of sweetness to ANY savory dish. Really, what we’re trying to do is limit the high concentrations of erythritol. So, this sweetener should work for most things, where sugar is needed, provided the end result isn’t super sweet. We have another blend for that.
That’s it! In a bowl, add the erythritol and then distribute the 14 drops around the bowl. Mix it very very well, making sure there are no clumps. Then, leave it uncovered, or “mostly” uncovered, so that nothing can fall in it … for a few days, to let any water evaporate from the drops. A good way to do this is in a kitchen aid on the lowest setting. Just let it churn until dry. Mix it before using, just to be safe. You can now use this mixture like you would for sugar, one cup to one cup.
Erythritol is about 70% as sweet as sugar. This means that 1 full cup of erythritol is going to be equal to the sweetening power of 7/10th of a cup of sugar, even though it takes up the full volume of 1 cup of sugar. So, we need to add 3/10ths of a cups worth of sugary sweetness, without adding any extra volume. This is where the zero carb liquid sweetener sucralose comes in. The brand I’m using suggests each drop is 1 teaspoon’s worth of sugar. (remember, if you use a different brand, this number is important) There are about 14 teaspoons in 3/10ths of a cup. So … we add the 14 drops to the erythritol and we now have something with both the volume and sweetness of 1 cup of sugar. BOOM!
Actually, what I like to do is put it into a coffee grinder and powder it. Because erythritol is so stubborn to dissolve, I tend to pulverize it. This, somewhat confusingly, changes its volume. When you powder the smappy, it increases in volume, because of all the air that’s just been added to it. This means it’s actually bigger … or physically takes up more space than it used to. So, what I usually do is just weigh it. The weight is consistent, whether it’s full of air, or not. So, imagine a cup of sugar, or a cup of Basic Tasty Smappy as being 200 grams, or just over 7 ounces. If you powder it, but you need a cup of granulated sugar for something … just to be safe … weigh it out, weighing out 200 grams or … just a hair over 7 ounces. However, if you never powder it, then it’s fine to keep the granular Basic Tasty Smappy and measure it … one for one, to sugar.
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Again, we’re just trying to replace that 3/10ths of a cup of sugar, but this time doing so with the stevia. The stevia powder I’m using is highly concentrated and suggests 1/2 tsp is enough to replace a full cup of sugar. If you do a bit of math, the real numbers are actually .15 tsp, but 1/8th is close enough and I’ve seen 1/8th tsp measuring spoons. I suppose you’d want it “heaping”. If you’ve got a VERY accurate scale, you’d want about 192mg worth of powdered stevia to make up that 3/10ths of a cup.
This stuff may sound a bit intimidating at first, but … it’s really not. It’s all basic math, based on stuff printed on the labels. It takes a bit of extra knowledge to know things like how many teaspoons are in a cup and so on, but that information is just a quick online search away. My goal with this series is less to lock people into a specific recipe, but to give them the keys to make their own blends, combining their favorite products. These blends I’m describing are merely examples. Good examples, but … optimized by math, not your personal tastes.
Now, here’s a sugar blend that’s better for baking. Really, it’s just as good as the Basic Tasty Blend, but it’s a bit more complex, a bit more costly and certainly a bit stranger. HOWEVER, it’s also very tasty (very probably the tastiest blend in this list) and will work fabulously in your muffins, cakes and cookies. Again, the idea is a cup of sugar replacement, but with a whole lot less carbs.
Mix in a bowl! And/or powder in a vitamix or coffee grinder and then sit out, uncovered, stirring occasionally and allowing to dry.
This one uses polydextrose to bulk out the erythritol. Erythritol, in too high a concentration tends to crystallize when it cools, resulting in a gritty texture and a “cooling” sensation. This is why recipes that are super sweet tend to exibit this behavior. By using a bit less, and adding the bulk of the polydextrose, and the sweetness of the liquid sucralose and the acesulfame potassium (Ace K), we’re given a blend that’s more suited to sweet things like super sweet cakes, cookies, frostings, some ice creams, etc.
This particular blend is probably the tastiest of them all. It’s got the best behaviors. It’s also the cheaper blend. However, it’s not without its faults. For one, this blend runs about 16 net carbs per cup, unlike the priur two blends, each of which run at zero.
The polydextrose adds about 12 carbs to the mix, for a full cup. That’s a clear downside. It’s also got a bunch of super strange sounding synthetic oddities in it. And, what’s a “sweet one”? Sweet ones are a brand name of acesulfame potassium, which is blended with dextrose and corn starch (to add bulk and to prevent clumping, I’m assuming). This adds another 4 ’ve t’s so …r!
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Thank you for this great post – I have been experimenting with this myself. Now I don’t have to!
Thank you DJ, I’ve avoided sweet stuff for five months but using your sugar blends I might venture into making the occasional treat.
So I’m guessing erythritol is your go to sweetener. Lol. So this is where you get your bulk I guess. Makes sense. I’ll do some of my own research too but you’ve done a lot. So between that and some stevia extract powder I’ll be ok. My other preferences would be to use regular maple syrup or honey vs sugar free. Won’t be horrible but a little higher carb. The other good ingredients you use like almond and coconut flours make a lot of sense. Our bodysure processes them better thank plain old all purpose flour. Much healthier. Thanks for this series. Clears some things up for me.
This is a sensational series, and I do thank you for sharing all the well laid out information. What a labour of love!
I’m thinking of adding tagatose to the smappy goodness baking blend – the question is, do I retain the inulin?
I presume that the inulin is what adds the browning properties to this blend. tagatose browns MORE than sugar, and is 90% as sweet as sugar. Does the inulin serve any other purpose here?
If not, I don’t have any on me, and would try 2/3 cup erythritol, 1/3 cup tagatose, and the stevia to enhance.
Hi Emma, if you want to replace some of the baking smappy blend with tagatose … I’d suggest removing half of each of the ingredients and replace them, in even amounts, with tagatose. Each of these recipes are designed to be just as sweet and measure, volumetrically, like sugar. Tagatose already measures about like sugar … so by removing half the existing volume and replacing it with half tagatose, you’re still very much in the right ball park. It’ll have a slightly higher GI, it’ll caramelize faster and it won’t be as sweet as the original blend, but … not in any meaningful way. I actually think it’ll TASTE amazing! I’d just keep an eye on it, as you’re baking … maybe decreasing the temperature by 5 to 10% as you bake things … and let them go a bit longer, but … I DO think it would be a fantastic blend!
I really don’t know how I feel about yacon syrup yet, to be honest…I’ve heard similar things about it regarding the fructose and similarities to agave nectar’s frustratingly misleading healthiness…but again, time and research will tell! In the meantime, I’ve had a lot of trouble finding a brown sugar substitute. I secretly want to try mixing sugar and Walden Farms pancake syrup with something like a flavored extract (I think brown sugar flavors exist, or toffee, or butterscotch or SOMETHING…) but that might turn out super weird. Won’t know until I try, I guess…?
Either way, thank you SO MUCH for this incredibly informative series on sweeteners!
Hi Sara, I suppose I?m somewhat with you on the yacon front. I believe it?s better than agave, but ? not quite the perfect little angel its occasionally touted as being. That said, a little bit goes a long way and I?d choose it over molasses, which is a common tweak for homemade brown sugars. Stretched over enough Smappy Blend ? it?s not likely to add many carbs, even if every last one is hard hitting (which I doubt). I do tend to think of it as sweet and syrupy fiber. I?m a believer, but with a solid side of healthy skepticism, if that makes any sense. I?m a yacon agnostic! 😉 I?m glad you enjoyed the series. I had a blast writing it!
Ha! A yacon agnostic. I like it. Also – by mixing SF pancake and SUGAR with an extract, I actually meant pancake syrup and eryth–er, smappy with a syrup and an extract. Durr. I don’t think mixing a bunch of real sugar with a sugar free syrup would accomplish much.
I had really high hopes for Just Like Sugar Brown, but it seems like it was way too weird for you? That orange peel business IS kinda weird. Maybe you can’t taste it? But dang, these are all so expensive just for a test drive, you know? The life of an LC-baker. Oy.
Have you tried combining Smappy with some FOS/Inulin and Glycerol and finishing with Luo Han Guo? Smappy would give the main body; FOS and Glycerol would give negative heat of solution, hygrosocpicity and prevent crystallization; and Luo would up the sweetness so you could use it cup for cup with sugar. Of course that is just purely theoretical idea, but it would be a mix of supposedly healthy sweeteners that offset each other downfalls.
So, if you were making home made low carb ice cream, which non sugar blend would you recommend?
It seems i need to make my own blend. Like you I love Swerve. But my husband says he doesn’t like the aftertaste. I’ve ordered the powdered stevia extract you recommend hoping it might help alleviate the problem. How do I go about testing? Do I try to make something like a small batch of chocolate pudding or something like that and keep trying till i hit upon the right taste? or do you suggest a different combination or different approach? Thanks for your help. And by the way. I’m loving your book. Where can i post my review for it?
Friend! You have done it againhis information, and here it is on your website. I even own your book and I guess I wasn’t at this level yet when I first read it. Thank you!! I just made my first blend: one cup of erythritol with an eighth of a teaspoon of stevia powder. It’s amazing! I love you! Lol You’re my fave!
They no longer sale Sweet One, I happen to have a stash of it but I was wondering if and when I have to use straight Ace K, what amount do you think would be needed? I assume since Sweet One includes dextrose and cornstarch it would be slightly less? Just not sure how much less.
There is now a Sweet One replacement called Sweet2 on Amazon.
I much appreciate this series of seven articles on sweeteners. I learned a lot from reading the articles.
To reduce damaging effects of fructose metabolism is the main driver for me to reduce the amount of sucrose that I eat.
I first learned about polydextrose and inulin through your articles. I like that polydextrose and inulin undergo browning reactions, without being absorbed into the blood stream — where propensity for browning reactions becomes propensity for glycation.


Muslim American claims detention and torture by FBI
By Anne Sewell Apr 19, 2012 in World
The Muslim American stated that he was beaten, kept in solitary confinement for over 3 months and threatened with death, before being released. He claims he was charged in connection with a terror plot in Portland, Oregon.
Fikre's family is Eritrean and moved to the U.S. when Fikre was 12. He then moved to Portland in 2006.
According to AP, Fikre states that his interrogators usually came in the morning to his concrete cell. As he was blindfolded, he only caught glimpses of their shoes.
He states that they beat the soles of his feet with hoses and sticks. According to an account given in a press conference in Sweden, Fikre stated that every day the men who questioned him told him that he will be released "tomorrow".
Yonas Fikre (33), who was held for 106 days, said: "It was very hard, because you don't know why you are in there and the only person you speak to is either yourself, or the wall, or when you go to the restroom or when you go to the torture place. I have never been that isolated from human beings in my entire life."
Fikre is currently seeking asylum in Sweden and has been there since September 2011.
The detainment lead from the fact that he attended the same mosque in Portland as a man charged in connection with a bomb plot in the city in 2010. He was arrested last June while visiting the U.A.E. and taken to a prison in Abu Dhabi for questioning about the activities in the Portland Mosque.
In a news conference on Wednesday, Fikre stated that the interrogators got very angry when he presumed they were working for the FBI: "They got very angry and they said ‘We don't work with the Americans, we are an independent country.' "
Later, however one of the interrogators did acknowledge FBI involvement in the operation. Fikre said: "He confirmed to me that the FBI were there. Also, when I was getting beaten, they did admit that the FBI knew exactly what was happening and they were working with the FBI."
So far, the FBI has refused to comment and Beth Anne Steele, a spokeswoman for the FBI office in Portland, said she could not talk about the specifics of the case.
APFikre was tortured at the behest of the FBI.
Fikre is apparently the 3rd Muslim man to state that he was detained and questioned about Portland's Masjid-as-Sabr mosque while traveling abroad. The mosque is known to have a notorious reputation within U.S. secret services with Muslims tied to the mosque arrested 10 years ago after they attempted to enter Afghanistan to fight U.S. forces.
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It would be better for us to suffer a cataclysmic event that might bring our country together rather than a civil armed conflict.
I don’t think our country could fully recover from the latter.
I think it more correctly should be identified as the 3rd American Civil War. The first occurred in 1775 when British subjects in the British American colony revolted and fought both the established government and the loyalist stooges that supported it.
I see you have been paying attention to our history, James Harton. Your insight is well stated.
My guess is (and I’m sixty) that I doubt I won’t see it in my lifetime. My two children probably will but those two are stalwart individuals and I have items that I’ll be leaving them. The knowledge they all ready possess.
Technically the so called first Civil War was a war of rebellion, the South wanted out of the Union, they did not want control of the government. The upcoming would be a true Civil War.
Correct, that wasn’t a civil war. A civil war is where a sovereign country battles within itself. The 1860s war was a sovereign country being pushed to defend itself from another country that invaded it and sought to pillage it’s resources. Incidentally, the invading country succeeded and they wrote the history books. However, there are quite a few families who’s daddies and mommies told the true story to their children down through several generations.
That’s why we call it the “War of Northern Aggression”.
The winner gets to write history. This idea that Lincoln was wealthy is far from the truth.
The real title is The War of Northern Aggression or the War to Incorporate the US(lincoln was a rich corporate attorney that forced the US from a Constitutional nation into a corporate entity and sold you as collateral)
Like those here, I have espoused this for some time. I think it could easily be a financial “crises” that starts it in the bigger cities (SNAP stops, etc.). The megalopolis ones first, followed quickly by secondary ones like Atlanta, Kansas City, Memphis, etc. It would then flow outside the larger surrounding smaller towns where the gangs are looking to loot. It could also easily spill into the surrounding suburban areas, depending upon the mindset and gun control. How long until the National Guard comes into play, and where their loyalties would lie is the kicker in this thought line. Either way, the major lines of transportation will be blocked, and it will become hunker down where you are. I give it about 3-4 days to spread, a week at the outside.
I have to be careful in my wording. I respect JWR.
I think civil war will be an orchestrated event and highjacked to accelerate complete global controls and constitutional convention under the U.N.
It will be a real civil war highjacked after great loss of life or a million waco’s on their timeline with their complete control of any real information of unity/organization using some contrived and funded revolt that makes good people look bad and a offered solution. I do not see in God’s Word that a nation repents and God redeems them from their sin(unless it is Isreal the tribes… not Zionists). Particularly a super power as the U.S.
If civil war ever moves forward and the truly righteous start to win and there is hope of private property and individual liberty and the system felt like they cannot highjack the momentum, they will use the other global players to sabotage our nuclear capabilities and nuke us with Russia or North Korea or China. I think Russia makes more sense. I do think that there could be those that survive this and God preserves them through that event. This end could end up being a blessing in disguise.
I think it will be a 10,000 Waco’s and we will fall without a wimper because they will be labeled child traffickers it will be Televised/youtubed when they want. Everyone will fall under Noahide laws after they dissolve the constitution. The ONLY time there will be conflict is at 3:00a.m. when “I” am affected. Everyone else will say at least it isn’t me. They will not let “Bundy ranch Radio and Social media” happen again.
You notice islamic law is very similar.
Either way it will be extremely hard and will try men’s souls, before and after.
This is Black Pill BS
They don’t have as much power as you think since almost no one believes a word anyone says anymore. In any case a real civil war will mean Clinton Doctrine applied to everyone in the press, probably first . Same rules the cartels play by and they work.
The reality is is that people want to be entertained sure but the media is dying. The money is in stupid super hero movies and thrills, not messaging
I’ll also note that compliance with gun control is near zero. Even in new Jersey literally no one has turned over 10 capacity magazines into the police. No one.
That said the reason there is a crisis at all is that people on the Right are fighting a religious war without even an ideology. Leave me alone is a protest not an ideology
No one on team freedom can articulate what they would kill and die or risk much anything for and the few that do often start babbling on in religious terms that frankly turn off lots of people.
A lot , maybe most of us don’t want religious fanatics in charge or want want the government dismantled .We want representation for our taxation and a return to sane social values.
No one is offering that and until they do , nothing can change.
Until YOU personally can articulate in detail what matters and what policies you would prefer you can have power and don’t deserve it and note any policy that avoids power is a guaranteed failure
As the Chinese say
This looks to me like you have been paying attention, neighbor. One need only peruse the contents of COINTELPRO to verify the likelihood of people employed by any number of government (or Fortune 500) agencies doing exactly what C. Burnett states.
I found it strange that you would quote Mencken since he was the epitome of the coastal leftist elite that you describe in your article. His disdain (hatred) of Christianity, rural America, and the middle class is practically legendary. By all accounts, he was referring to what he saw as a necessary culling of those groups of people.
I do not see a revolution or Civil War anywhere on the horizon. As a whole, we have already proven we will take anything they dish out. We have made heroes out of those that enforce the laws that enslave us; even the corrupt within their ranks are beyond reproach. You also have an entire generation of “conservatives” that have been so brainwashed by the warmongering on Faux News that any criticism of The Empire’s Armies is denounced as unpatriotic. I imagine there will be flag waving and cheering crowds when they come for the guns.
Perhaps Mencken did say it best. Not in the quote given, but when he described American politics as “the worship of jackals by jackasses”. We will get the government and country we deserve.
Great reply, DD. I tend to agree with you here. I would be interested to know how you are defining “they” and “we” but generally speaking, you have a great reply here.
Thanks Muddy. Hope you and your loved ones had a Merry Christmas and Happy New year.
I use the general term “they” because the opinion of exactly who “they” are varies so wildly among people. For some it can be the judicial system, the banking system, or the progressive liberals on the school board or town council. When I think of “they”, simply any person or group that attempts to repress the God-given freedoms I have to peacefully exist and prosper within the boundaries of morally acceptable behavior.
“We” refers to the people of. I have found peace by not buying into the Redskins vs Cowboys/Red Sox vs Yankees paradigm (insert the Martin Niemöller poem “First they came for the…” here). “A house divided shall not stand.” There are truly evil people in this world and “they” are forever the enemy of “we”, no matter red or blue.
I agree, DD. For too long the government has wrapped all of their foreign destabilizing adventures in the American flag and too many American citizens stand and salute. Not a single soldier, sailor, or marine lost their lives in the Middle East protecting MY liberty or freedom. If they were truly to protect me they would be in


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George died sometime during the day on March 18, 1930, at the age of 81. Son Fred found him dead in bed that evening. The Uniontown Daily News Standard eulogized him as "one of the oldest citizens of Stewart township...
The gossip columns of the Connellsville Weekly Courier announced the wedding in a one paragraph story, reading "Charles Smalley of Green Briar and Annie Crowder of Tucker Run were quietly married at Uniontown last Thursday."
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Son Harry Armel Smalley (1912-1997) was born in about 1912 in Stewart Township, Fayette County. When he was 16 years of age, he joined the U.S. Navy, with the news announced on the pages of the Uniontown Evening Standard. He was sent to the Great Lakes Naval Station for training. At the age of 17, in 1930, he dwelled with his mother and step-father James Shipley in Stewart Township. He was married three times and all told produced five children. One of his wives was Sylvia E. Hyatt (1912- ?
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Great-grandson Patrick Fernan Chasse III (1969-2018) was born on Nov. 10, 1969 in Manchester. He entered into marriage with Maureen ( ?- ?
Son Ralph Dale Smalley (1922-1999) was born on Feb. 20, 1922 in Ohiopyle, Fayette County. He received a grammer school education. As an adult, he resided in Dunbar, Fayette County and stood 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighed 152 lbs. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on Dec. 1, 1942 and served at Fort Dix, NJ on March 2, 1946. Ralph entered into marriage with a Turner cousin, Alverta Jean Turner ( ?- ?
Granddaughter Donna Jean Smalley ( ?- ?) was born in (?). When a young woman, she was employed at Uniontown Hospital. She wedded Donald "Larry" Martin ( ?- ?
Grandson Ralph Lee Smalley ( ?-1974) was born in (?
Granddaughter Sandra Jane Smalley ( ?- ?
Grandson Larry Dale Smalley (1970- ?
Grandson Barry Wayne Thorpe (1954-2012) was born on July 23, 1954 in Pennsylvania. On Dec. 21, 1999, he was joined in wedlock with Deidra Phillips Wilson ( ?- ?
Granddaughter Sharon Thorpe ( ?- ?) married Ernest Woodby ( ?- ?
Granddaughter Karen Thorpe ( ?- ?) wedded Edward Steele ( ?- ?
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Florence's daughter Mary Margaret Shipley (1931-2009) was born in 1931 in Stewart Township, Fayette County. She was unmarried and lived with her mother in 1947. Eventually she married James Kenneth Watson ( ?- ?
Grandson James Kenneth Watson Jr. ( ?- ?
Grandson Lonnie Dale Watson ( ?- ?
Grandson Keith A. Watson ( ?- ?
Grandson Kenneth Wayne Watson ( ?- ?
Granddaughter Brenda Sue Watson (1964-2016) was born in 1964. She wedded Charles F. Motter ( ?- ?
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Florence's daughter Mildred Mae Wallace (1933-2009) was born on Dec. 29, 1933. She was single in 1947 and dwelled at home. She was united in matrimony with David Lester Martin ( ?- ?
Florence's son William Donald "Don" Wallace (1936-1999) was born the day after Christmas in 1936 in Ohiopyle, Fayette County. He married Iva Derby ( ?- ?
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Dia de Muertos Ohio takes place around Cleveland Public Theatre at the old Saint Mary Romanian campus. In the old parish hall, Mexican Folkloric dancers performed. The room is too small for the crowd, and the dancers need some room. Before the Aztecs dance, they bring out smoke. It is good performance, my camera did not take good pictures with the non-dissipating smoke. And again rude photographers were to be found where people are tight around a performance, well it does not have to be tight. It is odd that these individuals are intent on the subject, yet are oblivious to other people in their proximity, even those they have body contact with.
I am of the current opinion that taking pictures outside in the cold is not fun. Got nothing in the near calendar. Snowy owls are in town.


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Historically, the elderly would stay in their homes until they died … at least the fortunate ones. Oftentimes, they were forced to leave the family house and live out their remaining days with either caring relatives or in a nursing home. This unpleasant relocation became necessary when they reached the stage of life where caring for themselves was simply no longer possible.
The family home of 58 years sold as Dad moves to retirement community
Here are a few more of my personal thoughts about Dad, the family house, traditional elder care, and a new way for the elderly to care for themselves.
Still healthy at age eighty-two. Had his knees replaced the last few years and gets around fine and dandy. Just like Lt. Dan … Dad has magic legs.
Dad and the lovely Amy will celebrate their seventh anniversary next month. They found each other after both lost their first loves of fifty years.
Independent, smart, and still actively thinking. Dad decided the retirement community was where he wanted to live his final chapters. About a year ago, he started telling my siblings and me about his plans. This week it becomes official.
Dad said he wanted to live where he was close to his lifelong community and friends. He never said it directly, but I sense he didn’t want to be a burden on one of his children or feel trapped inside one of their houses.
My parents spent forty-eight of their fifty-year marriage in the family house.
My older brand myself were all raised in the family house. Lots of memories. Lots of good times. Lots of love.
In 1963, my father built an addition to the house and transformed a cramped, 900-square foot, three-bedroom, one-bath house into a comfortable, 1800-square foot, four-bedroom, two-bath house with a recreation room, much larger kitchen, and a separate laundry room. He made it livable. He made it the family home.
The house sold after the first weekend it was listed. A single open house was held. Three offers. One at full price. It?s a testament to the fine job Dad did in caring for the house all those years. Amy?s fine eye for tastefully decorating the place surely helped.
A young man, planning to marry and start his own family, purchased the house. He will no doubt make it his family home. I hope it serves him as well as it served our family.
Someone asked me if it’s sad that the house sold … Sad? No. … The end of an era? Absolutely, yes!
Caring for Family Elders (traditional)
I remember going to my mother’s mother’s home (Grandmom McKenna) and my mother’s grandmother’s home (Great-Grandmom Fox) after their deaths. My mother, aunts, and cousins all spent days cleaning out those houses and sorting through the stuff … the junk.
I remember my father going to his mother’s home (Grandmom Weber) on a weekly basis and helping her clean her house and preparing her meals for the week. Weekly then became twice weekly. Twice weekly became every other day. The goal was to have her live out her final years in her home. My father and uncles acted as caretakers for several years. She didn’t want to leave her home.
Grandmom eventually had to move into my parents’ home. She died within the year.
A New Way for the Elderly to Live
Today, things are different. There are other options. Rather then living out the final years in the family home, people a.
The community my father is moving into is less then one mile from the family home. Friends from the neighborhood and church are now living there.
Dad’s and Amy’s new home is Southampton Estates. It’s an entire campus/complex on 75 acres. There are 367 suites, and 120 skilled care beds for those who may require a higher level of care in the future. Amenities and services include: indoor swimming pool, exercise room, wood and craft shops, walking trails, formal and casual dining, a chapel, and lots more.
Dad and Amy know several lifelong friends who have already moved there and more who are planning to move there in the future.
Sad? No
Next Blog Date: September 15, 2011


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Native to the tropical regions of Hawaii, Lobelias are beautiful flowering plants that grow as tall as 3 to 5 feet. One-quarter of the known 360 species are already confirmed to be extinct, with around 124 more facing extinction. The Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge, with its 32,733-acre protected tropical forest, works to protect the Lobelias of Hawaii, as well as other endangered plants and animals.
With over 25,000 known typeAs a result of commercialism, many of the tropical orchids have been hunted by traders and are now consequently endangered. Due to their specialised reproductive system, orchids have low pollination rates, hurting their chance of survival even more so when combined with the loss of habitat.
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Thesurvives on a host plant, much like a mushroom. It is found in the rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo. It takes nine months for the Rafflesia to mature, at which point it is the size of a cabbage and shaped like a button. Once fully grown, the flower is approximately 3 meters wide and lives for only 5 to 7 days. With such a long maturity rate and short lifespan, it is easy to see how deforestation has put this giant, fleshy flower on the endangered list.
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And what a compliment it is to have a customer return to you again and again and again (this is the fifth boat purchase/sale in seven years with Intrinsic). The bonus for us is how much we enjoy working with Mr. F!
The last new boat Mr. F built with us was a beautiful Jupiter 41 Sport Bridge. When he decided he wanted to move back to inboard diesels, we started looking at all of his options. After looking at his options with brokerage boats, brands we carry and competitors’ lines, he ultimately set his sights on a new Hatteras 45EX.
You can find “GROSS MARGIN” between the Chesapeake Bay and the Bethany Beach area of Delaware. And Mr. F might just give you a little tour of his new pride and joy.


Simply Fresh has been named Symbol/Fascia Group of the Year for the first time at the Retail Industry Awards 2016, just seven years after it was founded by Birmingham-based entrepreneurs Sukhjit and Kash Khera.
The group impressed the judges with a particularly strong performance over the past year that saw shop numbers increase from 55 to 86 outlets. The judges also praised the innovation and energy of the group, which was felt to have successfully carved out a unique niche within the convenience sector. “They have made a space for themselves and have done it their own way,” said one judge.
Simply Fresh also took the title of Symbol Initiative of the Year for its smartphone-based loyalty app, which rewards shoppers for every pound they spend.
The Retail Industry Awards were unveiled yesterday evening at a gala dinner held at London’s Grosvenor House hotel, attended by almost 700 guests from across the UK grocery sector.
Further winners on the night included One Stop, which scooped the inaugural Franchise Group of the Year award, and Nisa, named Fresh Produce Retailer of the Year in the symbol group sub-category.
Best fresh produce retailer in the individual store sub-category was McBride’s Spar Scaffog in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, while Nisa Local retailers Paul and Pinda Cheema took the title of Chilled Retailer of the Year for their Malcolm’s Stores outlet in Tile Hill, Coventry. Costcutter Oakwood Gate Service Station, in Birchwood, Cheshire, was named best independent forecourt.
Individual accolades went to Toni Wordsworth, from Costcutter, Campbell Street, Farnworth, near Bolton, who was named Independent Sales Assistant of the Year, and Sunita Kanji, of the Family Shopper store in Little Hulton, Greater Manchester, winner of Store Manager of the Year in the independent segment.
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The Nature Library now has over 175 non-fiction titles for lending and over 65 titles for reference. Many of these titles are geared to younger readers. Nature, habitat, gardening, landscaping guides, as well as wildlife encyclopedias, are available for adults as well.
Even though the library is not open, exciting things have been happening! The library now has the use of all the space in the Spinning Room and has expanded to include books and a DVD on how a Mill like Bondsville would have operated. A loom much like those that would have been used at the mill has been donated and we hope to have re-enactors demonstrate how the loom works. We’ll be able to have programs in the building. Lots to look forward to!


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BALTIMORE — Today, the NAACP announced the list of high-profile speakers and performers participating in the 2020 Virtual March on Washington programming on August 27th and 28th. Beforattend the in-person march on August 28th, s ahead of the November elections.
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Sabres acquire Riley Stillman in trade with Canucks
The Buffalo Sabres made a minor trade Monday night to beef up their defense depth, acquiring Riley Stillman sh Bloom.
The 6-foot-1, 196-pound Stillman, 24, has played 140 NHL games, including 32 with the Canucks this season.
It was believed Sabres general manager Kevyn Adams planned to address his defense depth before Friday’s trade deadline.
Stillman’s arrival gives Buffalo 24 players, so it must make a move to reach the 23-man roster limit. They honter following a day off Monday.
The Sabres, who are battling for their first playoff berth since 2011, have been moving Jacob Bryson and Kale Clague in and out of the lineup as the sixth and seventh defensemen.
The defense corps has mostly remained healthy over the past two months. Right now, NHL All-Star Rasmus Dahlin, who missed Sunday afternoon’s 7-4 win over the Washington Capitals, is day to day with an undisclosed injury.
The Sabres struggled mightily early in the season when Henri Jokiharju, Ilya Lyubushkin and Mattias Samuelsson were all injured. During Samuelsson’s 13-game absence, they lost eight straight games.
Stillman gives the Sabres six left-hand shots. He could be utilized on the third pair beside Lyubushkin, a righty.
The newcomer has compiled zero goals, five points, 23 penalty minutes and a minus-14 rating while averaging 16 minutes, 8 seconds of time per game this season. Since breaking into the NHL in 2018-19, he has recorded three goals, 23 points, 91 penalty minutes and a minus-20 rating. He has also played for the Florida Panthers and Chicago Blackhawks.
The 46.4 Corsi For percentage Stillman has registered this season ranks second-last among Sabres defensemen, trailing only Lyubushkin’s 46.2. Stillman had a 41.4 percent Corsi For last season.
He has one season left on the three-year, $4.05 million contract he signed in 2021.
The Panthers drafted Stillman in the fourth round, 114th overall, in 2016. Last year, when he played 52 games for Chicago, was his first full NHL season.
His father, Cory, a former forward, scored 278 goals and 727 points in 1,025 career NHL games006 when he was teammates with Adams.
In Bloom, 19, the Sabres traded a forward they drafted in the third round in 2021, 95th overall. He signed his entry-level contract last year following a 30-goal juniorThe 6-foot-2, 185-pound Bloom has enjoyed another stellar OHL campaign, scoring 26 goals and 58 points in 59 games. He has compiled 19 goals and 42 points in 40 contests since the North Bay Battalion acquired him in a trade from Saginaw.
Author Bill HoppePosted on 02.28.23 02.28.23 Categories Adams, Bloom, Bryson, Clague, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dahlin, Jokiharju, Lyubushkin, Samuelsson, Stillmsign goalie Michael Houser to NHL contract
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Speak2Sign
Speak2Sign is an app that converts speech to ASL. It can be used by those who are hearing impaired to understand conversations and announcements that are not in ASL!
'Good Morning' translated
About 70 million people in the world use sign language as their first language. When I first heard this I was astonished! There are almost but most people do not know sign language. Most TV shows, podcasts, and announcements completely overlook this group of people. I was inspired to create to Speak2Sign because I wanted to make daily life easier for those who are hard of hearing.
Speak2Sign takes an audio input and translates it into 2 types of sign language. First, it shows the user a video of someone signing the audio and then it also shows each specific letter signed out. The user can record announcements, conversations and even upload podcasts to translate.
To build Speak2 Sign I used OpenAI's Whisper text-to-speech model. Then I downloaded a dataset of about 1200 most common words and their respective ASL videos. Using python I located the ASL videos for each word. Then I used the ffmpeg software to concatenate the videos into one video. The first iteration of my app uses ASL pictures for each letter and displays them below. For the UI I used python's streamlit package which was very wonderful and easy to use! Currently, Speak2Sign uses NO APIS and I have run everything on my computer!
Creating Speak2Sign was a journey full of many challenges! Gunn Hacks was my first Hackathon so it was a completely different experience. Firstly getting the Whisper text-to-speech model to work on my laptop was a struggle. I had to download a lot of other software to get the text-to-speech working. Then, I struggled with formatting all the ASL photos into neat columns. I spent many hours formatting them nicely. Lastly, the dataset of ASL videos that I used turned out to be corrupted and I had to spend a lot of time removing videos from the dataset.
I am so proud to have Speak2Sign working! I'm so proud of concatenating all the videos properly and displaying the sign language photos neatly below.
I learned how to see a project from start to finish in only 24 hrs! I learned a lot of time management and perseverance. During the hackathon, I realized that I could not code for perfection but I had to make sacrifices. I also learned a lot about combining videos using ffmpeg and formating in Streamlit!
What's next for Speak2Sign
Currently Speak2Sign uses a very limited dataset, in the future I would like to use a larger more complete dataset. Also, Speak2Sign does not account for the small grammar differences between English and ASL which makes it difficult to translate extremely large conversations.
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AS THE PROBLEM OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE continues to houthe youth, it is imperative for all concerned sectors to remain vigilant in the fight against such social menace.
1. Drinking Not Allowed. And so is the abusive intake of drugs and other intoxicating substances. What can get one drunk are not just wine, liquor, or any alcoholic drink. Drugs, like methamphetamine, “roofie”, “ecstasy”, and cocaine, can do so, too, with an even more destructive effect. So can other substances, such as marijuana, or even tobacco.
Getting drunk with any of these substances is to break the law—not just the law of man, but above all, the law of God.
God’s law against drunkenness is clear: “Do not get drunk,” says the Bible for it “will only ruin you” (Eph. 5:18 Good News Bible).
We have seen and heard of many tragic real-life stories on how alcoholics and drug users were literally eaten up by their addiction. With their once-healthy bodies dried up, they have become like breathing carcasses, waiting any moment to be devoured by vultures.
Indeed, the age-old proverb of King Solomon still rings true today. For, even though drinking is seen to be fun and getting high on drugs is thought of as a pleasurable way to escape life’s woes, the biting reality is that alcohol and drugs are poison. Getting hooked with them is like getting yourself bitten by a venomous snake.
3. Slippery when ‘wet’. Or, in this case, when “high” or “drunk.” For, indeed, a slippery situation is what one gets himself into when he indulges in alcohol and drugs.
To paraphrase, who get involve in bloody fights and figure in horrible accidents? Who often end up making a gigantic fool of themselves by doing such ghastly and scandalous things, like prostituting themselves to loan sharks and syndicates? Those who take sniff after sniff (of cocaine) and shot after shot (of heroin), or what have you.
4. Do not enter. “Just this once” is the bargaining line that some youngsters use to convince themselves to join their peers in a drinking spree or a pot session. Unfortunately, as what reformed alcoholics and drug addicts would attest, once is never enough.
6. Stop. So, are you among those who have made the wrong turn and now face such dead end? It is time to hit the brakes and stop ruining your life with those vices. Making a firm decision to stop drinking or taking drugs begins with acknowledging that “y” (I Pet. 4:3 NLT).  Instead, arm yourselves with the same attitude our Lord Jesus Christ had, and be ready to endure sufferings for the sake of doing God’s will (I Pet. 4:2, 1 NLT).
Doing what it takes to straighten out one’s life can be like driving on one long, bumpy road. But it is this road that leads to a better place—far better than what we can imagine.
Let us keep on following the road that “leads to receiving eternal life,” which God is showing you now (Ps. 16:11, A Translation for Translators).


Did you hear? Jane subscribers are now receiving complimentary copies of Glamour in the mail. Naturally, former Jane staffers are handling this unforeseen development with the requisite level of poise, maturity and grace.
FORMER Jane magazine staffers are livid that Conde Nast is sending their one-time readers copies of Glamour now that Jane has bitten the dust. “I want all the Jane readers to just cancel, rather than get Glamour,” one ex-staffer griped. “I hope they call and say, ‘I don’t want this. Give me GQ, anything but this.’
Not sure what the big frickin’ deal is? One of many ex-Jane staffers explains!
Wait, Glamour preys on insecurity?
[Ed: And here we thought “Hit Your Dream Weight,” “Get A Body You Love” “Low Calorie Cocktails,” “The Weekend Diet” and “Why I’ve Begrudgingly Grown To Accept My Big Fat Ass” were inspirational ballads!]
Meanwhile, when reached for comment, a still-bitter Jane Pratt calmly explained, “That’s what you get for firing me, bitches.”*
* We made that up.
F-ck. I LOVED Jane magazine…what happened?! Glamour is a joke. Their whole “do”s and “don’t”s bullshit is the reason why Jane is/was the ONLY women’s magazine I would ever consider reading.


FHWA > Engineering > Hydraulics > Environmental Hydraulics > Highways in the Coastal Environment > Tides, Storm Surge and Water Levels
Highways in the Coastal Environment: Second Edition
Chapter 3 - Tides, Storm Surge and Water Levels
Water level fluctuations include astronomical tides, storm surges, and long-term sea level rise or fall. Water level is important in coastal processes and engineering in part because it controls the location of wave influence on shorelines and structures. Geologically, sea level controls the overall location and shape of the continental shoreline. The definitions of tidal datums and surveying datums can be important for the design of engineering works near the coast. Storm surge, which temporarily raises the water level, can control the design water level for engineering. Tidal currents can be significant as tides and storm surges enter and exit coastal bays through inlets.
The portion of the water level fluctuation controlled by the astronomical bodies, the moon and the sun, are referred to as the astronomical tide. Additionally, coastal water levels are often affected by meteorological conditions including storm surge in response to winds and wave sand local rainfall. 3.1 Astronomical Tides
The tide is the slow rise and fall of the ocean waterstide is essentially a very long ocean wave with a wave period of 12.4 hours. The usual interval between successive high tides is 12.4 hours as the arrival of the crests of these waves represent high tide. The moon exerts a greater influence on the tides than does the sun. The astronomical tide is well understood and can be predicted for any time at many locations. Tidal predictions are well understood by most coastal residents and are often included in local daily newspapers and weatheprovides on-line tidal forecasts as well as other information about tides around the nation.[2] Along most coasts bordered by the ocean, the astronomical tide forecasts are within 1 ft of the actual tide elevation 90% of the time. The difference between the forecasts and actual water elevation measurements is normally a result of weather related phenomena (e.g., wind blowing from same direction over some period, i.e. a storm surge). Understanding some of the characteristics of tides is helpful in understanding some of the terminology used to define tides and tidal datums. 3.1.1 Characteristics of Astronomical Tides
In most locations in the United State24.8 hours). These are called"semidiurnal" tides (see Figure 3.1).At many locations the two high tides that occur each day are roughly of the same elevation. But at many other locations, there is a "mixed tide" with a clear "diurnal inequality" in the high tides as one is significantly higher than the other. Some places, like portions of the Gulf of Mexico, have only one high tide and one low tide per day. These tides are called "diurnal" tides. Figure 3.1. Basic Definitions of Tides modified from http:/tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov. Large differences in tide range occur at the same location throughout the month. The highest tides which occur at intervals of half a lunar month are called "spring tides." They occur at or near the time when the moon is new or full, i.e., when the sun, moon and earth fall in-line, and the tide generation forces of the moon and sun are additive. When the tide range is at its lowest during the lunar month, the "neap tides" occur.
Large differences in the magnitude of the daily tide range occur at different locations in the US. These differences are caused by the interactions of the oceanic tidal motions with the continental land mass and the depths and shape of coastal bays and shelves. At Anchorage, Alaska, the tide range can vary up to almost 30 feet between high and low tide. At Pensacola, Florida, however the range can be less than 2 feet throughout a day. These differences in tidal range can occur within short distances along the coast and up bays. For example, the average tide range at Sandy Hook, New Jersey is about 5 feet but is only 2 feet just 125 miles away at Montauk Point, New York . The basic astronomical tide producing forces go through a "tidal epoch, " a cycle that lasts approximately 18.6 years. Thus, water level statistics related to tides, such as mean sea level, are computed by averaging over a complete epoch. 3.1.2 Tidal and Survey Datums
The distinction betweenworks near the coast. Tidal datums are vertical datums based on the epoch-averaged tide levels at a specific location. Tidal datums are based on actual measurements at a specific tide gage. Since sea level is changing over the long-term, the tidal datums are re-established after every tidal epoch. The most recent tidal epoch ended in 2001 and NOAA's National Ocean Survey has re-established the tidal datums for most of the United States' tide gage locations for the 1983 -2001 tidal epoch. There are a number of tidal datums. The mean high water datum (MHW) is the average, over an 18.6-year tidal epoch, of the high water elevations at a specific location. The mean higher high water datum (MHHW) is the average of the higher high water elevations. The difference between these two datums, MHW and MHHW, is greatest at locations with the greatest "diurnal inequality" in high tides during a typical day. Likewise, the mean low water datum (MLW) is an average of the low tide elevations and the mean lower low water datum (MLLW) is an average of the lower low tide elevations. MLLW is the basis for most navigation charts because it provides mariners with a consistent, somewhat conservative, estimate of the depth. The mean sea level datum (MSL) is the average of all the observations of water level over a tidal epoch.
Survey datums are specified for gegeodetic surveying and set by the NOAA's National Geodetic Survey. The National Geodetic Verticalre the two primary vertical survey datums used in the US. The older NGVD 29 geodetic datum was originally established using estimates of mean sea level at 26 tide gages around the nation. Thus, it was often referred to as just "mean sea level." However, it has long been recognized that it was not the mean sea level because mean sea level changes through time and survey datums do not. The National Geodetic Survey has not called NGVD 29 the"mean sea level" for decades. NAVD 88 was an improvement to the NVGD 29 and ha snow replaced it as the primary vertical datum for surveying. It normally will be near the mean sea level at the open coast but it is not the mean sea level. The relationship between the survey datum, NAVD 88, and the tidal datums, e.g. MSL or MLLW, has been calculated by the NOAA National Ocean Service for many of the tide gages around the US. An example is shown in Figure 2.18 using the values for Charleston, South Carolina . The distances from a local tide station datum to the NAVD 88 and to the tidal datums for the 1983 to 2001 epoch are shown. The local tide station datum is meaningless except for that specific gage record. What are significant are the relative relationships between the survey datum and the tidal datums. Figure 3.2 shows that the mean sea level(1983 to 2001 epoch) is -0.21 ft NAVD 88 at Charleston, SC. This relationship is not the same at other locations around the nation. The relationship between the tidal datum sand NAVD 88 for different locations around the nation can be obtained directly from the NOAA NOS website (tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/ in November 2006). Investigating the relationship between site specific upland surveys and tidal datums can be important.
Figure 3.2. An example of the relationship between the survey and tidal datums.
Storm surge is the rise of water level above the astronomical tide as a result of meteorological forcing. This forcing is primarily wind but also includes the barometric pressure and, for some coast allocations, local rainfall runoff. Storm surge can be negative, i.e. winds can decrease water levels from the astronomical tide levels. Storm surge is highly influenced by geography including the shape of the coast and its bays, thundershower bathymetry, and the flooded topography. High storm surges occur along the coast where the landmass stops the hydrodynamic movements. The highest storm surge can occur in bays. Wind affects storm surge by placing a stress on the water surface, by generating oceanic currents and by generating waves. Breaking waves can contribute to storm surge by adding a component of mean water surface elevation called wave setup. Storm surge is an important coastal process for the design of coastal infrastructure primarily because it increases the design still water level and allows waves to attack higher elevations. Surge also can be an important component in tidal inlet hydrodynamics. Figure 3.3 is an example of hurricane storm surge. The predicted tide is plotted along with measurements from a tide gage located on a pier in the Gulf of Mexico. The surgewater level, extends for several days with a very dramatic peak of over 7 feet above the predicted high tide early on August 18. That high peak corresponds with the time that the hurricane made landfall with its eye just to the southwest of the tide gage. Figure 3.3. Storm surge at Galveston, Texas, from Hurricane Alicia in 1983. The hydrograph of a coastal storm surge is usually considered as the time variation of water surface elevation at a specific location. Both the magnitude and duration of a coastal storm surge can be important. During the most destructive coastal storm in United States history, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the water level rose 27 feet higher than its predicted tide elevation due to storm surge along much of the coast near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Several inland locations had mean high water marks over 30 feet in elevation. This storm surge was unprecedented in United States history. But the previous high storm surge, 21 feet, was along this same stretch of coast in Hurricane Camille of 1969. Anotherthe Nor'easter Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, caused much of its damage due to its relatively long duration. The storm surge lasted for 2½ days over five semi-diurnal high tides, or "five high-tides." This long duration allowed beach storm erosional processes to act that long and cause extensive property damage along the Atlantic coast.
3.2.1 Modeling Approaches
Storm surge hydrographs from specific storms can be modeled with modern hydrodynamic modeling techniques. The numerical modeling of coastal hydrodynamics is based on solving the fundamental fluid mechanics of motionin a manner that is most efficient and appropriate for the problem. Different formulations of the equations and solution algorithms have been applied to the coastal hydrodynamics situation and there is a rich history of this modeling that has developed over the past thirty years in both the near shore physical oceanography and coastal engineering research communities. Much of the research and development of these models was done with funding from federal agencies with coastal interests including NOAA and the USACE. Research papers with the models and applications are available in a variety of publications. Many of the applications and models were presented at a series of specialty conferences called the s that began in the early 1990's and continue.
One of the available hydrodynamic models that can be used to estimate a storm surge hydrograph, as well as currents, associated with a specific storm is the storm surge and circulation model, ADCIRC (ADvanced CIRCulation, Luettich, et al. 1992; Blain, et al. 1994; Scheffner, et al. 1994; Westerink, et al. 1993; and Westerink, et al. 1994). ADCIRC's two-dimensional version uses a finite element approach to solve the depth-integrated, nonlinear momentum and continuity equations in the time domain. Input to ADCIRC includes the topography and bathymetry, distributions of wind velocity vector, and bottom drag coefficient, as well as boundary conditions. The output of ADCIRC includes the time series of surge elevation (this is the still water elevation without the wave crest elevations) at any location, the two-dimensional surface elevation and the water velocity fields at all grid locations.
The ADCIRC model has been used to develop an estimate of the storm surge hydrograph for Hurricane Katrina (Douglass, et al. 2006). The numerical grid used is shown in Figure 3.4. The grid extends out into the Gulf of Mexico
beyond the shallow continental shelf but is focused on the shoreline and upland areas that flooded. A map of the estimated maximum surge predicted by the storm surge model is shown in Figure 3.5. The highest surge reached 333 ft (10 m) above the mean sea level (MSL). This value agrees with those reported in post-storm surveys. Figure 3.4. Example of a numerical grid for a coastal hydrodynamic model (from Douglass, et al. 2006)
The detailed, estimated storm surge hydrograph at the location of the US Highway 90 bridge across Biloxi Bay
that was destroyed by Katrina is shown in Figure 3.6. The peak surge is estimated to be 21.5 feet at 10:30 a.m.
Also shown on Figure 3.6 are estimates of wave height from a SWAN model (see Douglass, et al. 2006). The shape of the hydrograph indicates that the bridge was exposed to surge elevations above 15 feet for three hours. Figure 3.5 Estimates of the peak storm surge caused by Hurricane Katrina (from Douglass, et al. 2006)
Figure 3.6 Storm surge hydrograph as estimated by ADCIRC modeling for Hurricane Katrina at the US 90 bridge across Biloxi Bay, Mississippi (from Douglass, et al. 2006)
3.2.2 Design Water Levels
The selection of a design water level can be one of the most critical coastal engineering decisions for the designs and structures discussed in Part 3 of this document. For example, the design water level often controls the design wave height, stone size and extent of armoring on coastal revetments. Also, wave loads on elevated bridge decks are extremely sensitive to water level. Essentially, the water level dictates where waves can reach and attack.
Design water level decisions should be addressed using the traditional, risk-based approach of a "design return period" as is common in hydraulic engineering. For example, the "100-year storm surge level" is the surge elevation with a 1%-annual risk of exceedance. Each year, there is a 1% chance that a storm surge of this magnitude (or greater) will occur. Some coastal designs may justify a lower return period (e.g., 25- year or 50-year) in certain areas -balancing the greater risks affiliated with such design with engineering and economic considerations. Three approaches for developing site-specific water level-return period relationships are: 1) use of available analyses, 2) historical analysis, and 3) numerical simulations with historic inputs. T on each of these approaches (including plusses and minuses). This document will only provide a brief synopsis of the key elements in each approach. Some limited information on return periods for water levels is available from state and Federal agencies. FEMA, as part of their flood insurance mission, has estimated 100-year flood levels and areas of subsequent inundation along much of the United States coast. However, the precision of the FEMA results can be limited and they should be evaluated carefully before use in design. Many emergency management agencies have coastal inundation maps that are based on results from hydrodynamic models. One commonly applied model isThe SLOSH model is usually used to estimate the worst possible flood level for each of the Saffir-Simpson scale storm categories. These may provide an estimate of extremely rare storms but do not provide risk-based information for design. Some Corps of Engineers Districts have developed their own water level-return period relationship for design at many coastal locations. Some state resource management agencies, e., have developed estimates of surge-return period relationships along the coast. All available estimates of the surge-return period relationship should be collocated and evaluated carefully before use in design. Available estimates are often not adequate for design of site-specific coastal works without the review by a qualified coastal engineer. The Florida DOT has researched application of such analyses and developed a protocol that may be useful for others to review and adopt (Sheppard and Miller 2003). Historical analysis on long-term tide gage data can provide water level-return period information. Typically, determining the return period associated with these tide station record involves application of log-Pearson Type III (or similar)statistical methods. Either graphical or analytical statistical approaches can be used. However, such analyses are typically restricted to locations near one of the NOAA/NOS long-term tide stations or a tide station operated by the Corps of Engineers; other local, state, or Federal agencies; or universities. In a situation familiar to practitioners trying to use riverine gaging station data, these tide stations are rarely close enough to the actual project site to allow direct application. However, unlike those stream flow driven riverine gages, the tide station may allow a practitioner to apply engineering judgment (and other, more formal techniques) and establish a reasonable "transfer function" that relates water levels at a location with a tide record to another nearby location. This could provide a reasonable estimate of the relationship for some locations. New, independent analysis of the relationship between water level and return period is often appropriate for design of coastal highway solutions. For major projects, a probabilistic, numerical approach which uses a hydrodynamic model for storm surge simulations (see Section 3.2.1) and historical storm information can be used. The model must be calibrated appropriately. Input storm conditions for historical hurricanes for the past 150 years are available from the NOAA HURDAT database. There are two general approaches to assigning the proper probability to historical storms and other "hypothetical storms;" 1) the Joint Probability Method (JPM) which is typically used by FEMA in their coastal flood studies, and 2) the Empirical Simulation Technique (EST) which was developed by the Corps of Engineers to develop(US Army 2002 CEM). This sort of analysis likely requires the integration of a qualified, coastal engineer or scientist into the design team.
3.3 Sea Level Rise
The level of the oceans of the world has been gradually increasing for thousands of yearsSome of the United States land-mass near the coast is subsiding due to a variety of geologic factors including compaction and man-induced factors such as groundwater or oil and gas extraction, however, is rebounding or emerging, due to glacial retreat. Relative sea level change, rise or fall, is the difference between these two, the ocean and the land elevation. The sea level fluctuations of the past twenty thousand years and the geologic impacts on beaches are discussed below.
Tide gages have measured relative sea level changes around the nation for the last century. Figure 3.7 (Atlantic and Gulf coasts) and Figure 3.8 (Pacific coast)show the variation in the average annual mean sea level (MSL) for a number of locations around the United States coast for the past century. The values are plotted relative to the MSL of the 1983 to 2001 tidal epoch. There is a clear upward trend, i.e. relative sea level rise, along much of the United States coasts. There are, however, some places with no clear trend or even a negative trend. For example, near the California/Oregon border and in much of Alaska, there is a relative sea level fall in the last century. The rate of sea level rise (or fall) varies significantly along the United States coast with the highest rates of rise in the areas with the most land-mass subsidence along the Gulf Coast. The rate of relative sea level rise or fall can be evaluated by the change in mean sea level as measured at specific NOAA tide gages from one tidal epoch to the next. The change in mean sea level from the 1960 to 1978 tidal epoch to the 1983 to 2001 tidal epoch was +0.25 feet(sea level rise) at Charleston, South Carolina, and was -0.03 feet (sea level fall) at Juneau, Alaska. The world-wide, average sea level, with land-mass subsidence effects removed, is called the eustatic sea level. The estimated eustatic sea level has been rising at a rate of 2 mm/year for the past century. In a very active research field, many atmospheric scientists have concluded that the earth is warming and that sea level rise rates will accelerate in response. While no acceleration in sea level rise rate has been measurable yetthers have suggested future sea level rise acceleration scenarios for planning. The impact of long-term sea level rise has rarely been taken directly into account in the design and planning of coastal highways. It has, however, been indirectly taken into account because of its effect on epoch-based tidal datums and its fundamental controlling effect on shoreline change and other coastal processes. It is likely that long-term sea level rise and other global climate change phenomenon, such as an increase in storminess, have already significantly impacted our coastal highway system. For example, it is possible that the frequency of coastal flooding and damage to highways has increased in the past several decades. Thus, long-term sea level rise probably will be more often accounted for in the planning and design of engineered systems near the coast in the coming decades. Figure 3.7. Sea levels along the US Atlantic and Gulf coasts for the past century. Figure 3.8. Sea levels along the US Pacific coast for the past century.
3.4 Lake Water Level Fluctuations
The Great Lakes, the Great Salt Lake, and other very large inland lakes are tide less. They are completely separated from the oceans and are too small for any astronomical tides of their own. Water levels in these large inland lakes have significant fluctuations however in response to rainfall in their drainage basins. For example, there is an annual rise and fall of between 1 and 2 feet on Lake Erie due to snowmelt in the spring. Multi-year wet and dry periods cause 3 to 5 feet of decadal-scale fluctuations. Many of these very large lakes have their own local lake level datums that are used for science and engineering related to the water level. A bulletin describing lake levels for the Great Lakes is available from the Detroit District of the USACE on-line at www.lre.usace.army.mil/glhh. 2http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov
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 “Justice League” movie is coming on top of a “Superman V. Batman: Dawn of Justice,” and there’s a “Shazam!”/“Captain Marvel” movie in the works too. And that’“Deadpool”, “The Suicide Squad.”
T“The Suicide Squad”’? Needless to say the team was top secret and totally off the books. Waller becomes a bigger character in the DC Universe down the line for her illegal, often unsanctioned missions, and has had several run-ins with both Batman and Superman. The popular Batman villain Harley Quinn became a member of the team in versions of the comic in more recent years.
It’s an interesting, left-field choice for WB. You’d at least think we’d get confirmed announcements of “Flash,” “Wonder Woman” or more established characters first, but maybe it’s getting their foot in the door with super-villain movies ala Sony‘s “Sinister Six,” and not falling behind in that regard. No deals are done, but as Variety notes, Ayer is a strong first choice because he would be a good fit for dark and edgy material like this. No release date yet, but Justin Marks (“Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li,” “Top Gun 2“) wrote the screenplay.


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The small white building at NW 10th Street and N. Harvey Avenue in Oklahoma City once had the heartbeats of babies echoing through its halls when it was home to Dr. Francis Perry’s obstetrician and gynecologist office. Now, barks and meows ring through the building that houses Midtown Vets, a full-service veterinary hospital.


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White represents purity. The arrow symbolizes the directed selfless efforts to bring about the well-being of others (perfection as represented by a full circle) through teaching and learning which help others. The single arrowhead pointing clockwise and moving in a full circle, indicates the “time passing,” which is so important to bringing about the change in contexts over time
The Circle as a symbol means universal, sacred and divine. It also e therefore invites the observer to step inside, thus offering an invitation to everyone to empathize and be included in the Network’s endeavour "to make a better world" through its approach and process in management education towards social responsibility.
Open Book and the Sprouting Stalks of Golden Grain in Blue background
The open book represents the Network’s development and application of context-based knowledge to solve problems and create livelihoods and wealth for the people of the communities in the region.
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hikoku area, Japan. By possessing Japan’s oldest onsen spot, Dōgo Onsen, it has long been well known as an authentic onsen city. Also, Matsuyama has thrown up Japan’s great authors and poets. Its deep-rooted culture is uniquely distinct since it has been developed as a castle town. Therefore, of course, many fascinating attractions exist in this city. Below you will find a list of Matsuyama’s recommended tourist attractions.
Gogo-shima
Touring around historical sites, watching natural sceneries…, tourists tend to be very busy to complete their must-visit/do list when they are on travel. Sometimes, taking a break and doing nothing can be a luxurious pleasure of traveling. At “Gogo-shima”, people can have that kind of relaxing time.
Name: Gogo-shima
Address: Tomari-machi, Matsuyama City, Ehime
Access: About 20-minute by ferryboat from Takahama Port
Map: map to Gogo-shima
Hōjō Kashima
Name: Hōjō Kashima
Address: Hōjōtsuji, Matsuyama City, Ehime
Access: 3-minute by boat from Hōjō Port
Map: map to Hōjō Kashima
As a historical architecture, castles are always popular all over the world. Matsuyama castle is also one of them,s not too much to say that it is one of the biggest highlights of Matsuyama sightseeing. In Japan, there are said to be only 12 castles whose castle tower built before Edo era still remains, and Matsuyama castle is one of the castles that has the iconic castle architecture.
Being situated on a hill, a view that can be seen from its observatory is breathtaking. Visitors can enjoy the panoramic view of Matsuyama Plain. There is a cable car and lift, so no worry for those who are not confident if they can climb on foot. On weekends and consecutive holidays, it would be better to take enough time because crowds are expected at this popular castle attraction. Enjoy and get thrilled with the beautiful and impregnable appearance of the castle.
Name: Matsuyama Jo (Castle)
Address: 1, Marunouchi, Matsuyama City, Ehime
Time: Feb-Jul, Sep-Nov 9:00am-5:00pmAug 9:00am-5:30pmDec-Jan 9:00am-4:30pm
Access: 9-minute drive from JR Matsuyama Station
Map: map to Matsuyama Jo (Castle)
Address: Yunomachi, Dōgo, Matsuyama City, Ehime
Dōgo Haikara Dōri
Name: Dōgo Haikara Dōri (Shopping Street)
Address: 15-23, Yunomachi, Dōgo Matsuyama City, Ehime (Dōgo Shopping Street Promotion Association)
Phone: +81-89-931-5856 (Dōgo Shopping Street Promotion Association)
Access: Short walk from Dōgo Onsen Station
Map: map to Dōgo Haikara Dōri (Shopping Street)
Name: Dōgo Kōen (Park)
Address: Dōgo Kōen, Matsuyama City, Ehime
Access: Short walk from Dōgo Kōen Station
Map: map to Dōgo Kōen (Park)
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