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    The Alliance Française de Moncton (AFM) is a registered Canadian non-profit organization. Founded in 1999, the AFM welcomes more than 150 students each year, organizes about 30 events and has close to 50 active members every year. Our mission is to promote the French language and Francophone cultures. The Alliance Française de Moncton is linked to the Foundation Alliance Française, which was founded in Paris in 1883 and is today the most important worldwide non-profit organization specializing in the teaching of French as a second language. The Foundation Alliance Française gathers more than 800 Alliances Françaises branches in 135 countries, with over 550 000 students. In Canada alone, there are 9 Alliances Françaises centres, with 160 instructors, more than 10 000 students a year,offering approximately 450 000 hours of instruction,7500 DELF exams and over 250 events each year. The courses are taught in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL), which provides a common basis for the design of schedules, diplomas recognized worldwide, and allows international mobility.
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The AFM team consists of highly qualified and university trained instructors. Each one has extensive teaching experience and a deep passion for their work. With instructors from all around the globe, we bring you the vast Francophone world all in one place. The Francophone world is diverse, and our instructors represent the many varieties of our dear French language, and work to introduce you to it. They are skillful at adapting to learners of any age, objective, or language level. The AFM instructors are capable not only of designing French programs for specific purposes, but also of teaching to learners of any origin, adapting to unique cultural, phonetic, syntactic, and lexical backgrounds. And to top it off, our instructors are as friendly as they are professional – and are looking forward to meeting you!

image Antoine grew up in the north of France. He has a Master’s degree in Business International. He has worked in marketing for Nestlé, GAN Insurance Corporated and French National Lottery. Antoine was also in charge of communication and international Reltionship for a city. Antoine wants to discover, understand and respond to the needs of students and his team of teachers. He likes to look for new ways to create beautiful learning experiences.

Antoine Lamoot

Executive Director
image Jurgita is from Vilnius, Lithuania. She has a Bachelor's degree in French Philology and she studied in Lithuania, Switzerland and Spain. She also has a Master’s degree in French from Université de Moncton and is certified as an examiner-corrector DELF/DALF. She has been living in Moncton since 2009. Fascinated by the teaching profession, her purpose is to pass on her love of the French language, while incorporating some fun activities into her courses. Her students describe her as kind and strict at the same time.

Jurgita Mataciunaite

Course Coordinator & Instructor
image Laura is from Bordeaux, France. She has a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics, specializing in teaching French as a Second Language. She also has a certification as an examiner-corrector DELF/DALF and a trainer for instructors to become examiner-corrector DELF/DALF. Serious, thorough discreet, Laura knows how to inspire confidence in her students.

Laura Chilon

image Mhammed is Moroccan Canadian. He studied linguistics and teaching French as a Second Language in Nancy, France. He has a Master's degree in Language Sciences and a degree from the École Normale. He is certified as an examiner-corrector DELF/ Dalf. His co-workers describe him as a calm person who is always ready to lend a hand. He seeks to build his students’ self-confidence and motivate them to want to learn French.

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image Sophie is from Normandie, France. She studied administration and management in Paris. She has a Master's degree in Applied Foreign Languages and a Post graduate degree in Business Administration. She also has a degree as an instructor of French as a Second Language (DAEFLE) and is certified as an examiner-corrector DELF/ DALF. Sophie is patient with her students and she takes time to match the objectives of the course with the student’s interests.

Sophie Gayer

image David Milette gets his passion for bilingualism from his home town of Montreal. His studies have included Pure and Applied Sciences (D.E.C., Vanier College, Montreal), Linguistics (B.A. spécialisation, Université de Montréal), Theology (M.Div., Brock University, Ontario), and Second Language Training (Adv.Certif. in TESL, Crandall University, Moncton). David enjoys getting to know new people and especially likes helping people to communicate better and to succeed in their various endeavours.

David Milette

image Sophie has worked for more than thirty years in the field of communications. She has been a journalist, a TV host, a researcher and a chronicler. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Education from the Université de Québec at Rimouski. She likes to create an atmosphere of pleasure and happiness in the learning of the French language.

Sophie Boucher

image Rémi is from Bourges, France. Curious about everything, he studied chemistry, Japanese and educational engineering. Rémi is dedicated to his student and he is always looking for new ways and new tools to facilitate the transmission and acquisition of knowledge.

Rémi Bénétreau Dupin

image Originally from Ontario, Gregory Durand is passionate about language and its various technicalities. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Canadian History and French) from the University of New Brunswick, as well as a Bachelor of Education from Crandall University. He is currently studying at the University of Moncton to earn a Bachelor of Translation. As a teacher for numerous years, he finds pleasure not only in teaching but in learning from his students.

Gregory Durand

image Ph.D student in french studies in the Moncton University, Daouda Diarra has a master’s degree in french and comparative literature obtained at the Paul Valery University of Montpellier 3 in France. Former student of Ecole Normale Supérieure of Bamako (Mali), he has a master’s degree in modern literature obtained in 2010. French-speaking enthusiast, Daouda is also writer, actor and director. Storyteller and playwright, he publishes with his brother Jamajiri ou l’arbre du peuple in 2015 in edilivre edition and then Prométhée noir, a historical play in 2016.

Daouda Diarra

image Bleuenn comes from Brittany, France, and settled in Moncton in 2007. Her passion for languages and passing on knowledge, led her to study English, translation and teaching French as a foreign language.

Bleuenn Briend

Francis Weil – President

Marie-Paule LeBlanc – Vice President

Michèle Wen – Secretary

Maguette Lo – Treasurer

Paul Delaney – Director

Denise Gallant – Director

Jesse Kerpan – Director

Lourdes O’Reilly – Director

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Lavender infused lamb

Lavender infused lamb
with slow-cooked vanilla carrot
1 large Rack of lamb
3T extra virgin olive oil
4 Garlic cloves
2T Butter
Lavender 4 sprigs
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
400g Baby carrots
200g Parsnips (if available), cut into thin wedges
1T extra virgin olive oil
1T butter
½ vanilla pod
Salt to taste
1 bunch Rainbow Swiss chard
2T extra virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Nutmeg to taste
1 cup cream
Heat olive oil in a pan over a medium heat. Place the rack of lamb skin side in the pan and allow the fat to slowly render as the lamb caramelizes.
Turn over and brown the other side evenly. Add the garlic, butter and lavender. Allow the butter melt as it infuses with the lavender and garlic as you spoon it over flavouring the lamb. Season the lamb with salt and freshly ground black pepper before placing in the oven to roast for 2 minutes at 180.
Blanch the carrots until just tender, shake off the water then add to the pan over a low heat with the parsnips, olive oil, and butter. Slowly allow the carrots and parsnips to caramelize as they cook further. Once well browned and cooked add the vanilla and an extra bit of butter of you need and toss to coat in the vanilla flavor.
For the creamed swiss chard: Add the swiss chard to a roasting dish and drizzle the olive oil over. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and a touch of nutmeg, pour over the cream and roast in the oven for 20 minutes at 180°C until well cooked and the cream has reduced.

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About AHI Carrier FZC

The largest Carrier Joint Venture HVAC Distribution Company outside USA.

AHI Carrier is a Joint Venture formed in December 2008 between Carrier Corporation, a United Technologies company and Airconditioning & Heating International (AHI) - A Carrier distributor in Russia, CIS & Central East Africa since 1997 (27 Countries). Since the creation of AHI Carrier JV, more countries have been added to its distribution network to include Central & South Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and parts of Middle East (69 Countries).

AHI Carrier “Residential & Light Commercial” unit distributes “Carrier” and “Toshiba” brands of Home Comfort Products, Light Commercial & VRF systems through an extensive dealer network.

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AWA+D has been all over Los Angeles this summer, providing Continuing Education Units for our members and potential members in our incredibly popular Happy Hour Lecture Series, engaging discussion at the AWA+D Salon and even an exhibit booth at the Dwell On Design Show 2012. We would like to invite you to join in on the fun!

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Archive of all the junk that was on the main aighead.com page for the aighead.com Fiscal Year of 2009.

The 52nd show! aighead.com presents: Some Hippy Nonsense. We talk about broken phones, obtaining illegalities, and young bums. Click here to listen now!

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The 44th show! aighead.com presents: A Linguistic Debate. We talk about pancakes, Michelle Obama's crazy look, and keyboard pants. Click here to listen now!

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The 41st show! aighead.com presents: Hard Gas. Better late than never. We talk about tire spinning hillbillies and Wayne Newton's face. Click here to listen now! Happy birthday to my mom!

Who knew squirrels like McDonalds too?

The 40th show! aighead.com presents: Silent Hill Edition. We talk about cell phone elbow, bumper nuts, and Progressive Flo. Click here to listen now!

The 39th show! aighead.com presents: The TV and Movie Episode. The kids intro the show and we talk about, uh, tv and movies. Sound quality sucks, sorry. Click here to listen now!

Late night update... Uh here is a video of the Apollo 11 Saturn V launch in slow motion. This is from 1969 and is pretty incredible. Go to Vimeo to see it in HD, too cool.

Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

New Squirrel of the Week, live from our nations capital! Oh, and it's getting to be bug season, keep your queeziness on gaurd.

Oscar dragged this beast home from the park today...

The 38th show! aighead.com presents: Punching Snookie. We talk about poor diagnosising, Little IslaM, and hardcore mayo. Sound quality sucks, sorry. Click here to listen now!

The 37th show! aighead.com presents: Global Warming Spectacular, Pt. V or CCCCCCCCCCCC-TV. We talk about snorting stuff, The best 'That's What She Said' ever, and Steve calls in. Click here to listen now!

The future is going to be really screwy. This is cool and while I'd love to see some use beyond photos, I could see taking advantage of this system quite a bit. There is a big alphabet that shows up late in the video, and I'd be very curious to know how easy or fast it would be to do some actual typing... Speaking of which, I'm going to try to train the Windows 7 speech recognition system some more so I can stop all this typing...

The 36th show! aighead.com presents: Global Warming Spectacular, Pt. IV or Infinity Dollars. We talk about robots, black midgets, and the iPad (kinda). Click here to listen now!

I'm on a roll! Here is video I took of the sun right behind the Washington Monument, in Washington DC, and it shows how quickly Earth moves around in space. It's my best video yet! This video will eventually end up in a Vacation section, once I build that page.

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So I dug up this video for the aighead.com presents show notes and it seems a waste to just keep it there, so here you have me, blowing a big ol' fireball in a Jimi Hendrix costume... Oh, and now you can find this video for all of eternity over in Oddities.

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The 35th show! aighead.com presents: Global Warming Spectacular, Pt. III or Saddle Up. We talk about The Blob, 3rd hand smoke, and the uncleanable. Click here to listen now!

The future of computer user interfacing input? This is a long video but a pretty slick demonstration, however, I'm not sure how long it takes to learn to intricately control all your fingers at once. I really am becoming a blogger, sorry.

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

The 34th show! aighead.com presents: Global Warming Spectacular, Pt. II or No Gay Horses. We talk about mouth tattoos and doing things that look illegal. Click here to listen now!

The 33rd show! aighead.com presents: Global Warming Spectacular, Pt. I or The Christmas Spoiler Episode. We talk about babies, content sucking, and TVs of the future. Click here to listen now!

And then, I'm kinda unhappy about Mr. Potato Head introducing my kids to Kim Jong Il's hair this early in life...

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The 32nd show! aighead.com presents: Let's Go Golfing! We play golf inside and don't talk much about anything!

The 31st show! aighead.com presents: Squirrel Army. From BAS, we've got rough sound, beard talk, and talk about tiny people.

Welcome to what amounts to me reposting stuff. Look ma, I'm a blogger!

The 30th show! aighead.com presents: Teeth Killing Yumminess. From BAS, we've got terrible sound, trains, and The Blob!

I installed a new window on my busted car! Go check it out!

So, I haven't updated the site with anything that wasn't adcp related in a billion years, what better way than to break the crap out of my car window? Check out Oddities or just click the picture below to enjoy as much as I did...

The 29th show! aighead.com presents: Panel of Douche Bags. We talk about oatmeal, getting whacked, and Commilinigus.

The 28th show! aighead.com presents: Corporate Hobos. We talk about a new holiday, The Tickler, and oatmeal.

The 27th show! aighead.com presents: Are we recording?, We talk about money stacks, soul rape, and folding a rainbow.

Also, we're rocking a slight banner redesign to signify our staying power and the presents page is nicer and more cohesive than ever!

The 26th show! aighead.com presents: Mind Thief. We talk about selling bikes, rappin' grannies, and gay hobos. Be sure to check out the new, super-cool, show note format. Really, it's pretty cool!

The 25th show! We talk about drunk flares, free hair cuts, and '50's women.

The 24th show! We talk about our first real sponsor, a career change, and my kid tells jokes, then shows he's sleepy...

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Happy New Year everyone. The 22nd show is ready. aighead.com presents: A show where we do lists We talk about Jeopardy, play a game, and get uncomfortable with the direction of the conversation. We're all adults here, right?

The 21st show! aighead.com presents: Suing W. is here to play by the fire on Christmas Eve, you're kids will love it and everyone will sleep well.

The 20th show! aighead.com presents: Free Garage Sale! is all up in your ears! We discuss falling, cheerleader car washes, and movie reviews.

The 19th show! aighead.com presents: Stop Touching Me is here. We tell jokes, and talk about crappy cars and Zack Morris.

The 18th show! aighead.com presents: Depression Area is here! We talk about genocide, kicking ducks, and what Sesame Street is really doing to our kids.

The 17th show! aighead.com presents: Reading Sucks is now ready! We talk about the release of the first show, Madeline Albright and Starbucks being hairy.

The 16th show! aighead.com presents: Creating Black Holes is up, up, and away. Check the disclaimer at the beginning of the show. We talk about what to do with the toilet, making money, and pants. Oh yeah, search for "aighead.com presents:" on iTunes now to listen or subscribe there! I finally got that crap worked out!

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The 13th show! aighead.com presents: Tastes like guilt. We talk about the horrors of Ikea, religion, and JoelTrains car buying experience.

So, here is aighead.com presents: Do you smell your house? Back on track.

Slightly late, due to some computer power supply issues (MacGruber to the rescue, with pictures to come!) here is the slow and serious 11th show. aighead.com presents: Teabag me before you leave.

Holy week 10, Buttman! aighead.com presents: Jules Verne is happening to, in and around your ears.

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I think all the picture screwups have now been fixed. I think.

New Squirrel of the Week!

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aighead.com presents: The best sound effect ever has been sloppily produced by yours truly... I kinda screwed up on adding some of the normalish intro and outro-ey stuff, but the content is all still large Marge and in charge. Oh yeah, we started recording in the garage and the sound quality is a fair amount better!

aighead.com presents: Some crap or another is up, up and away!

Happy birthday to my dad yesterday and my sister today. Woop!

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Robotics blog

Custom Quadcopter Control Board

After seeing hobbyist-oriented batch PCB services, such as Sparkfun’s BatchPCB and Laen’s OSHPark, I decided instead of squeezing an Arduino Mega and a DFRobotics shield into a plastic food container, I would make my own, compact PCB and send it out to be manufactured. To my dismay, it all worked on the first try!

PCB Unpopulated

Step 1: Establish requirements

There are some measures to cut cost and complexity (and thus board size) that were taken due to the nature of a multirotor. First, we can get rid of the voltage regulator circuit, since we will be powering the board with a 5v BEC such as this one or powered by an ESC motor controller with a BEC built in. This allows us to remove a voltage regulator and two electrolytic capacitors.

I also left out the FTDI USB serial converter. Thie probably cuts $10 off the board and we can just use a standard USB-TTL converter for all the boards to program them.

Step 2: Get it working on the breadboard

I’ve done breadboard Ardunio projects a bunch of times, so I’m pretty familiar with the process. I recommend trying it out, if you haven’t already. Here’s a good link for instruction: I chose to use the MultiWii firmware for the quadcopter, which just needs 2 lines for I2C sensors, 1 line for Serial PPM from an RC receiver and 1 line for each rotor to control the motors.

Next, I needed to map out the pins.

For an ATmega328 microcontroller, which I chose to use for this project, the pins are as follows based on the diagrams from MultiWii:

  • Arduino Pin 3 -> Motor 1
  • Arduino Pin 10 -> Motor 2
  • Arduino Pin 9 -> Motor 3
  • Arduino Pin 11 -> Motor 4
  • Arduino Pin 2 -> Serial PPM Receiver
  • Arduino Analog Pin 4 -> Sensor I2C Bus SDA (data)
  • Arduino Analog Pin 5 -> Sensor I2C Bus SCL (clock)

Then I needed to map these pins to the ATmega328’s pins, since Arduino’s pins don’t match the microcontroller’s. So I used the following image, snagged from the site.

Arduino Pins

Step 3: Pick out the parts

I bought all the crystals, capacitors, resistors, LEDs, headers and buttons on eBay, in quantities of between 20 and 100 each. For small quantities, I use Sparkfun. For the ATmega328P-AU, the SMT version of the microcontroller of the Arduino Uno, I went to Mouser which gives discounts with higher quantities. Each board needs:

I hooked it all up to a breadboard to test out with a through-hole version of the ATmega328 to make sure it was all working before doing the design.

Step 4: Design the board

Now that I’d figured out to get all the parts working together, it was time to figure out how do design a PCB. I read Sparkfun’s EAGLE tutorial a couple times to let it sink in. Then, I went and downloaded the free version of EAGLE and got started.

First, I laid out the schematic, which was made so much easier thanks to Sparkfun’s parts library.

Then I roughly laid out the board, following the tutorial and just used EAGLE’s autorouter to route the traces.

Step 5: Fabrication

I was looking into various hobbyist PCB fabrication services and I was liking the DorkbotPDX service the most when I realized it had been just re-done and had become Since then, I’ve basically been using that site as a Gerber file viewer to see how my design will look on a final board. When I finally got to a point where I liked the board, I submitted my board and paid the $30 to have it fabricated and shipped to me. It took about 3 or 4 weeks to get them, but it was like Christmas when I did!

Step 6: Soldering

I’d never soldered SMT before, but Sparkfun has a tutorial for that, too. I laid down the ATmega328 on it’s pads and soldered one corner to tack it down. Then I laid globs of solder down on each side and used solder wick to pick up the excess. Since I didn’t have flux, it was very frustrating to do at first, but I finally got the hang of it. Looking under a magnifying glass, it looked like there were no solder bridges, so I crossed my fingers and hoped all the pads were making contact with the pins and moved on.

Next, I put in all the through-hole components in and soldered them. Nothing interesting there. Then I soldered the headers in, one at a time. They are tricky since they wiggle and end up crooked. Sparkfun’s parts library has some “lock” headers which have the holes jagged, for a tighter fit, and I wish I had used them.

Step 7: Programming

Time for the fun part. I bought an USBasp from ebay to program AVR microcontrollers which is why I used the 2x5 shrouded headers for ICSP. I plugged it into the computer and the board and once again crossed my fingers. The power LED didn’t light up. Dang! I decided to try to burn the Arduino firmware on there anyway. I launched the Arduino IDE and hit the “Burn Bootloader” button and the status LED began flashing! Yay!

I wondered what was wrong with power LED, so I took another LED out of the bag and touched the leads to the pads, thinking I had inserted the LED backwards, and it lit up. I checked the orientation and the LED was in the right way, but was either defective or burned up from soldering too long. I sucked the solder out and put the new LED and everything was operational with the default Arduino blinky sketch.

It was time to put MultiWii on. I downloaded the Arduino MultiWii project and customized the config to match up with the hardware and used my Sparkfun FTDI Basic to program it. Since I did not implement auto-reset, I had to hold the reset button until the Arduino IDE says it is uploading to the board.

I then launched the MultiWiiConfig application on my computer and saw the orientation of the sensors were wrong, so I fiddled with them for about and hour, re-flashing every time I tested a change. Once the orientation was correct, I decided it was time for a test.

Step 8: Installation

I hot-glued some standoffs on the plastic container and screwed the board onto the standoffs. Plugged in the BEC for power, plugged in the motors (easy thanks to the silkscreen) and plugged in the serial PPM receiver. Easy as pie, compared to using an Arduino where you have to constantly check out the MultiWii site to figure out which pins were which.

PCB Installed

Then I plugged in the battery and, amazingly, I heard beeps from all 4 ESCs. Success!

I figured I had to make sure they were all working, so I armed to motors and all spun up. I took it out back and practiced my hover until my battery died.

This was my first PCB and my first quadcopter, though I have had the copter for a while now and I was able to get it working. If I could design a PCB and have it work on the first try, anyone can. Hobbyist electronics has really come a long way in the past few years.

Thank you to the open source community and a huge thank you goes out to Sparkfun for sharing all of their secrets with the general public.

As a side note, I had a Hawaiian themed party last week and we have a left over fake parrot. I figured it could help me keep track of the orientation of my quadcopter instead of forgetting which way it’s facing. Here’s how it looks:

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iPad mini 3 joins iPad Air 2 in offering the simplicity and security of Touch ID; both run more than 725,000 apps specifically designed for iPad and come in three gorgeous metallic finishes— gold, silver and space gray.

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Pushing The Break On Education Funding In Colorado

Douglas Bruce, a driving force behind TABOR, celebrates at a victory party in downtown Denver after Amendment 1 was projected to pass.

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In Colorado the economy is booming. The unemployment rate is 3 percent. And shiny new skyscrapers are rising all over Denver as revelers pour fistfuls of cash into downtown bars and restaurants.

But no one invited Colorado’s public schools to the party.

In 1992, voters in the state amended the constitution with something called the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights, or TABOR.

It required that voters, not lawmakers, have the final say on tax increases, and it capped tax revenue. Anything the state raised over that cap — typically in boom years — would be refunded to taxpayers.

TABOR’s effect on Colorado’s schools has been severe. To find out why, click here.

The story of education funding in Colorado is part of the NPR reporting project School Money, a nationwide collaboration between NPR’s Ed Team and 20 member station reporters exploring how states pay for their public schools and why many are failing to meet the needs of their most vulnerable students.

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Indiana Primary: Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders Fight For Their Political Lives

As Indiana polls are closing, Ted Cruz is likely bracing for a brutal loss to Donald Trump, while the Democratic fight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is expected to be close.

Many polls across the state closed at 6 p.m. ET, while a dozen counties remained open until 7 p.m. ET. Here are our four things to watch in tonight’s primaries.

On the GOP side, the race devolved into even more vitriol today on the campaign trail. Cruz blasted Trump as a “pathological liar, “”utterly amoral” and a “narcissist” after his rival repeated a tabloid story that alleged that Cruz’s father had ties to President John F. Kennedy’s assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

Even after the other remaining GOP candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, signaled last week he wouldn’t compete in Indiana as part of a quasi-alliance with Cruz’s campaign, the Texas senator couldn’t catch Trump in polls.

Trump trotted out key Hoosier State endorsements of his own, including legendary (and controversial) former Indiana University basketball coach Bobby Knight.

Cruz tried to counter by naming onetime rival Carly Fiorina as his running mate last week, but the unusual move didn’t boost his numbers in the state. If he does lose to Trump tonight, his hopes of stopping his march to the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination becomes even more dim.

On the Democratic side, both Clinton and Sanders were in a tight contest. But even if the Vermont senator does win, the delegates he picks up likely won’t be enough to stop Clinton. The 83 delegates up for grabs will be distributed proportionally, but Sanders still trails the former secretary of state by 327 pledged delegates.

According to NPR’s calculations, even if Sanders does get a narrow win, it won’t blunt her delegate lead enough. Going into Tuesday, Sanders needs 65 percent of all remaining pledged delegates for a pledged majority. Including superdelegates, Clinton is 91 percent of the way to the 2,383 she needs. And as NPR’s Arnie Seipel has calculated, even if all superdelegates voted way their states did, Clinton would still have a 200-plus superdelegate lead over Sanders, with a 500 total delegate lead.

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Medical Errors Are No. 3 Cause Of U.S Deaths, Researchers Say

Medical errors rank behind heart disease and cancer as the third-leading cause of death in the U.S., Johns Hopkins researchers say.

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A study by researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine says medical errors should rank as the third-leading cause of death in the United States — and highlights how shortcomings in tracking vital statistics may hinder research and keep the problem out of the public eye.

The authors, led by Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Martin Makary, call for changes in death certificates to better tabulate fatal lapses in care. In an open letter, they urge the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to immediately add medical errors to its annual list reporting the top causes of death.

You can hear NPR’s Rachel Martin talk with Dr. Martin Makary about on Wednesday’s Morning Edition.

Based on an analysis of prior research, the Johns Hopkins study estimates that more than 250,000 Americans die each year from medical errors. On the CDC’s official list, that would rank just behind heart disease and cancer, which each took about 600,000 lives in 2014, and in front of respiratory disease, which caused about 150,000 deaths.

Medical mistakes that can lead to death range from surgical complications that go unrecognized to mix-ups with the doses or types of medications patients receive.

But no one knows the exact toll taken by medical errors. In significant part, that’s because the coding system used by CDC to record death certificate data doesn’t capture things like communication breakdowns, diagnostic errors and poor judgment that cost lives, the study says.

“You have this over-appreciation and overestimate of things like cardiovascular disease, and a vast under-recognition of the place of medical care as the cause of death,” Makary said in an interview. “That informs all our national health priorities and our research grants.”

The study was published Tuesday in The BMJ, formerly the British Medical Journal.

Bob Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch for the CDC, disputed that the agency’s coding is the problem. He said complications from medical care are listed on death certificates, and that codes do capture them.

The CDC’s published mortality statistics, however, count only the “underlying cause of death,” defined as the condition that led a person to seek treatment. As a result, even if a doctor does list medical errors on a death certificate, they aren’t included in the published totals. Only the underlying condition, such as heart disease or cancer, is counted, even when it isn’t fatal.

Anderson said the CDC’s approach is consistent with international guidelines, allowing U.S. death statistics to be compared with those of other countries. As such, it would be difficult to change “unless we had a really compelling reason to do so,” Anderson said.

The Johns Hopkins authors said the inability to capture the full impact of medical errors results in a lack of public attention and a failure to invest in research. They called for adding a new question to death certificates specifically asking if a preventable complication of care contributed.

“While no method of investigating and documenting preventable harm is perfect,” the authors write, “some form of data collection of death due to medical error is needed to address the problem.”

Anderson, however, said it’s an “uncomfortable situation” for a doctor to report that a patient died from a medical error. Adding a check box to the death certificate won’t solve that problem, he said, and a better strategy is to educate doctors about the importance of reporting errors.

“This is a public health issue, and they need to report it for the sake of public health,” he said.

Dr. Tejal Gandhi, president of the National Patient Safety Foundation, said her organization refers to patient harm as the third-leading cause of death. Better tracking would improve funding and public recognition of the problem, she said.

“If you ask the public about patient safety most people don’t really know about it,” she said. “If you ask them the top causes of death, most people wouldn’t say ‘preventable harm.’ “

Dr. Eric Thomas, a professor of medicine at the University of Texas Houston Medical School whose research was cited in the Institute of Medicine’s landmark To Err is Human report, said existing estimates aren’t precise enough to support immediately listing errors as the third-leading cause of death.

But collecting better cause-of-death data is a good idea, said Thomas, who agreed that medical errors are underreported.

“If we can clarify for the public and lawmakers how big a problem these errors are,” he said, “you would hope it would lead to more resources toward patient safety.”

Have you or a loved one been harmed during medical care? Join the discussion at ProPublica’s Patient Safety Facebook group or fill out the Patient Harm Questionnaire.

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Google And Fiat Chrysler Partner To Make Self-Driving Minivans

Google announced it is partnering with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to expand its self-driving car project. This is the first time Google has worked directly with an automaker to integrate its self-driving technology into a passenger vehicle.

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Google is partnering with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to expand its self-driving car project, the companies said Tuesday in a joint press release.

Though Google has been an industry leader in the quest for self-driving cars, this is the first time it will work directly with an automaker to integrate its self-driving technology into a passenger vehicle.

According to the statement, around 100 Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans will be used for the testing, which will more than double the size of Google’s current self-driving fleet.

“FCA has a nimble and experienced engineering team and the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan is well-suited for Google’s self-driving technology,” said John Krafcik, CEO of the self-driving car project. “The opportunity to work closely with FCA engineers will accelerate our efforts to develop a fully self-driving car that will make our roads safer and bring everyday destinations within reach for those who cannot drive.”

In February, NPR spoke with Chris Urmson, the technical director of Google’s self-driving car project about the benefits of making self-driving cars a reality. He said:

“In America, there’s 33,000 people that are killed on the road every year, and to put that in perspective, that’s equivalent of a 737 falling out of the sky five days a week. … There is just a tremendous opportunity there to save lives — 94 percent of those accidents are due to human error, and the good news is we can build software and hardware that can see the road and pay attention all the time and react more quickly and keep people safe on the road. The other big aspect is accessibility. When you think about the baby boomer generation, they’re starting to get to a point where they feel uncomfortable driving or their family feels uncomfortable about them driving. Making sure they have access to transportation, to continue to do all the things they do today — to go and visit their grandchildren or just to go to a coffee shop — we think that is an incredibly important use for this type of technology.”

Google’s self-driving cars have already logged more than 1.5 million miles in four cities: Mountain View, Calif., Austin, Texas, Kirkland, Wash., and Metro Phoenix, Ariz, the company’s project website says.

U.S. Transportation Secretary John Foxx, however, told NPR in February that there are still some concerns over the prospect of autonomous cars.

“Let’s think about what it takes to get a driver’s license in the first place. When I came out of high school I was ready to get my driver’s license and the expectation at that time was the driver would be fully engaged 100 percent of the time when he or she was operating a vehicle. In a world where the vehicle is doing more of the driving task, we are also asking questions of ourselves how we train people to drive in cars like that.

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Deftones' Chino Moreno On Surviving, Evolving And 'Gore'

Chino Moreno, who has led Deftones since it formed in Sacramento nearly 30 years ago, performs with the band at SXSW 2016 in Austin, Texas.

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Still widely viewed with contempt by critics and fans alike for what’s often seen as little more than juvenile angst and theatrics, the nü-metal movement of the late ’90s was a just as important turning point for the genre as bands like Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer had been a decade earlier. At the very beginning of what became the music industry’s quick decline into bit torrent purgatory, nü-metal served as the collective voice of identity for an entire generational cross-section of music fans. By integrating hip-hop, funk and what were, at that point, the remnants of the grunge era, nü-metal put a face to metal’s name — something that had been all but forgotten by mainstream music at its advent in 1995.

In the two decades since those beginnings, not many of nü-metal’s defining acts have strayed far from the formula that brought them initial success. The lone exception to that trend might be Deftones. The Sacramento-based group has gradually distanced itself not only from the genre it helped establish but from virtually any kind of identifiable genre parameter. Beginning with its sophomore album, 1997’s Around the Fur, it became almost immediately evident that Deftones’ trajectory would take it someplace other than the appearances on TRL or guest spots on Eminem videos its contemporaries Korn and Limp Bizkit would be making by the end of the decade.

The music of Around the Fur, like its 1995 predecessor, Adrenaline, still aligned the group with the traditional nü-metal sound, with the release of 2000’s White Pony , Deftones made the distinction emphatically. Whether with vocalist Chino Moreno’s favor of singing over screaming (Grammy-winning single “Elite” notwithstanding), or the music’s shift into the heavy post-rock, shoegaze spectrum, the album signaled not only a change for the band but a new trajectory for heavy and experimental music entering the 21st century. Even more remarkable is that in the span of five years, Deftones had transformed from a band clearly rooted to a scene into a band whose sound no longer fit too comfortably under any genre-specific title.

Once an integral and recognizable part of metal’s traditionally hermetic trademark, Deftones has spent the sixteen years and four releases since White Pony establishing an identity as one of rock’s most mercurial and successful groups. Adding to the band’s singular identity is the unlikeliness of their story. Four childhood friends from the predominately Hispanic Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento, Deftones’ story is the stuff of rock and roll lore.

But it isn’t fiction, and the fairy tale is not without its bleak moments, the most challenging of which was the tragedy of losing longtime bassist Chi Cheng in 2013. The story of Deftones’ longevity and acclaim has come solely from the reliable unpredictability of its music. From the trip-hop nuances of its self-titled album in 2003 to the bleak math metal tendencies of 2006’s Saturday Night Wrist to the goth-rock tinged shoegaze of 2010’s Diamond Eyes to the prog-rock flirting of 2012’s Koi No Yokan, Deftones’ catalogue reads like a case study in how a band can translate influences into a sound that’s definitively their own. This year has seen that characteristic reach full form in what’s one of the group’s finest works, Gore, released last month. Balancing equal parts Morrissey, Iron Maiden and those most effective components of the band’s prior releases, Gore is an album almost as unlikely as the band that created it.

Speaking in the aftermath of the new album’s release and before the group is scheduled to begin a tour that will stretch through the summer, Moreno speaks of his bandmates as if they were siblings and Gore as if it was the group’s debut. What might be a put on for many musicians desperate to convey a sense of unity in the egocentric rock star circus, Moreno’s earnestness is believable as we discussed the Deftones’ journey from the garage to The Garden.

It’s hard to think of a modern metal band whose sound has transitioned as much as Deftones since 1995. For you, where has that tendency to change come from?

Chino Moreno: The honest answer is that I’ve never lived any other life. It’s just been this life of a bunch of guys who are friends, and when they were kids, they started a band and slowly started on this forward trajectory. It started with us just having fun with our friends and skating to rock when we were kids, and there’s always been a good momentum for us even when things were at their roughest. One of the hardest things any of us has ever been through was losing Chi, and that was really an eye-opening experience as far as how lucky we are that we have each other, and that we’re able to do stuff like create music together. We all have different ways of doing things, and all the opposite mindsets come in, and those things make us the band that we are. I wanna believe that we haven’t changed but that everybody else has just sort of caught up. But that may be very arrogant, so maybe I don’t wanna say that. But really I don’t feel like we’ve had to go out of our way to adapt. We’ve never been a band who decides to do one thing or another. We’re a band who decides not to do things. It’s really been about that process as opposed to “Okay, what are we trying to do?” We don’t even have those conversations, because it would be like us boxing ourselves into those ideas and only those ideas. Because we don’t have those obstructions, it frees us up and gives us a broad pallette where everybody gets to — not to be gross — but to just vomit on it, and then I’ll look at it and make some sense out of it.

Have you seen what influences you creatively transition over time?

Not necessarily. I mean, I’ve always just been reacting to what it is that’s put in front of me. The only thing that’s a little different is that early on, like especially with Adrenaline, I arranged a lot of the music, like saying, “This part here and this part there,” but I didn’t have anything to do with creating the sounds at all. It was really just the guys in the band presenting me with their sounds and I’d react to that. Over the years I’ve gotten more involved in the sound-making part of it because it’s just fun, so I have that perspective, but at the same time it’s still just me reacting to the music that’s put in front of me. The idea for me is just to make it feel natural and feel fun and not overthink it and just enjoy the moment.

Going back to 1995 for a second, you guys came out of the nü-metal scene and managed to avoid falling into a niche or gimmick. Was that a pitfall you saw early on?

We actually made a conscious decision back then, though we didn’t really talk about it per se, but we knew in our beings that we wanted to challenge people and challenge ourselves. When we did the White Pony record in 2000, it was really us just going on instincts but it was also us testing ourselves. That’s when it really felt like, “Wow. This is what feels the best for us.” I’ll be honest, too, when the record came out, half the people didn’t like it and especially people that knew us from Adrenaline who were like, “Why aren’t you rapping?” or “Why are you singing all the time?” For me, hearing that I kind of took it hard. I was still proud of it at the same time, and obviously now in retrospect I feel the same way.

I think we all learned from that experience to follow where we wanna go without having any too preconceived idea. We’ll be ourselves and we’ll capture that moment in time. That’s what we did with Gore, and I honestly don’t feel that much different than I did then. A lot of things around us have changed, though. Obviously rock and roll in general isn’t the same or isn’t as big now in a way. There’s a lot of uphill battles that we have to fight. People don’t buy records anymore. We’re not really in the video age. What worth would it be if we spent all this money making videos if nobody’s gonna watch it? It might go on YouTube or something. But it’s stuff like that, and a lot of other things that aren’t the same as they were when we started the band. I think we’ve adapted comfortably well enough that we feel good.

A lot of the band’s influences seem more present with this album than any of the others. Did you find those having more of an impact this time?

I don’t think so. We don’t really talk about them. If anything, while we’re writing a song if someone says something like, “Oh, that sounds like Cocteau Twins” or something, then it kind of deters us from doing it because it’s like being called out for where you got that from or us being too obvious, and there’s a lot of that going on. I feel like all that stuff should be a natural thing that just comes out, and you hear and recognize it in retrospect. Honestly, in retrospect I heard a lot of that Morrissey stuff in some of the vocals on this record. I heard it myself, and I made the mistake of saying it in the press right before anyone heard the record, and I think everybody assumed that I sounded just like Morrissey. I don’t think it does, but I heard those things naturally creep out from what it is that’s gone into my ears. The only rule we sort of have is to just try and expand on what we did on our last record. If things start to feel a little formulaic in any way, our instincts are to try and take a left turn from that. That’s always kept us and the records progressing, and it’s made records fun to make because you’re always challenging yourself.

Speaking of lyrics, obviously you were a little more pissed off 21 years ago than you are now.

[Laughs.] I think if I do get angry, I have better ways of dealing with it now. But I think that’s something that comes with age for anybody. I guess I’m not as pent up as I was when I was a kid. I don’t know why I was so mad, but it’s like that habit that some kids have where they think the whole world is against them. I know a lot of teenage boys feel that way, and I felt that way. But I’ve never felt like that’s all of who I am. The majority of my lyrics, though, are my attempts to sort of paint my ideas out. The music creates the mood, so to speak, and then I just put some words around it to sort of solidify that mood but not really be too descriptive and say exactly what it is. For me, when things are vague to me it’s calming, because I don’t feel like I need to understand it.

Do you ever revisit Adrenaline now?

You know, I listen to it, and I kind of blush. That’s one of my favorite records that we’ve done, because we were having the time of our lives then. We were just so happy that we got to make a record, and we had this chance to just be ourselves. I don’t even remember recording that record so much as I do us just hanging out together in our apartment that we all shared in Seattle. It was literally one of the best times of my life. I look back at it, and it’s just a really nice thing that we were able to do that together, and we talk about that s*** all the time.

As far as success goes, do you attribute a lot of that just to the fact that you guys are so comfortable with each other, having grown up together?

I do. Because we’re brutally honest with each other. We don’t do it just to be masochistic. I mean, we know how to pick our times. But it’s something that we expect from each other, and we all know each other so well that we know when to say something and when not to say something. At the same time, though, we always say something because we’re very outspoken, and there’s something very comfortable about that. I don’t think that anybody in this group has ever bitten their tongue when they wanted to say something that needed to be said. That’s a good thing, and we thrive on that. It’s good sometimes because we actually all live apart from each other in different cities, so when we do actually get together it’s like it’s always been where you get to hang out with these people who’ve been your friends since you were kids. It’s almost like a movie of all these stories that we’ve lived since we were kids.

Speaking of stories, you got this gig after the other guys heard you sing a Danzig cover, right?

Yes! It’s pretty funny, honestly. Stef [Stephen Carpenter] had a bunch of gear in his garage when we were kids. I wanna say we were like maybe fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, which was right around the time when we were gonna start the band. But everybody from the neighborhood would just go there and pick up an instrument and play. It was basically a bunch of mixed together or half-put-together bands or whatever, but every time I’d go over there, I’d want to play the drums but there would always be somebody there playing drums who could play better than me. So eventually I just had to figure out something I could do. I didn’t know I could sing, and that first Danzig record was one of my favorite records. I’d bought it the day it came out when I was in 10th grade. They were playing one of the songs, and I just started singing along with it. A few weeks later Stef was putting a band together, and he called me and said, “I’m putting this band together, and I want you to sing.” Of course, I’m like, “No, man. I can’t sing,” and he comes back with, “Dude, you sang that Danzig song the other night at my crib. You can totally sing. You’re in.” And that was pretty much it back in 1988 or 1989.

It’s kind of an amazing story, especially given the kind of economic and racial hurdles you guys faced in a predominately one-sided industry.

I do think that we were pretty lucky. We were all pretty driven in our own ways, though honestly I was never really driven in the fact that I wanted to make a career out of this or even really thought I could. I just wanted to be good at singing or be good at being a frontman or whatever. I think it was just a commonality we had with each other. Especially in the neighborhood we grew up in, the only kids who ever really wanted to hang out with us were other skateboarder kids who were into rock music. The majority of the kids in the neighborhood weren’t into rock and roll or skateboarding, so we kind of came together, and as we grew up together we realized there was nothing really like us; not in our neighborhood, not in our town, and then I realized once we started going out of our town that there was something we were doing that was different.

Early on there was a lot of people who would always bring up our race and say things like, “You guys are Mexican dudes, and you’re playing heavy metal. Is that weird?” [Laughs.] I never thought it was weird at all, but I guess from the neighborhood standpoint we were the only kids doing that. I just figure that music is universal, or at least it’s always been that way to me. But I definitely did feel like we were doing something that was our own. We weren’t influenced by anything that was directly around us. I mean, even the fact that I was the singer in a metal band and my favorite band was like The Smiths or The Cure — the other guys in the band couldn’t understand the music I liked at all. They introduced me to metal at that point, so were basically just figuring it all out while we were also creating music. I’ve been back to where I grew up at different stages of growing up since moving away, and it honestly seems like not much has changed. To me, it’s so weird when you’re in a neighborhood where you grew up, and it’s like when you’re a kid, your neighborhood is just so huge. It’s the world to you, and then you move away or you travel the world, and you realize how small the area is where you spent most of your childhood, but it’s always there in your heart. You never forget where you’ve come from.

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NPR Is Now Live On Video, Too

If you “like” an NPR page on Facebook, chances are, you may have noticed something new in your feed recently: live videos. It’s the latest effort from NPR to connect with our online audience where they’re at. For decades, NPR has innovated with audio and used the intimacy of the platform to connect with audiences and tell compelling stories. Now, we want to connect with you using video.

Over the past several weeks, our politics team has been experimenting on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court and the campaign trail to provide live video coverage and answer your questions in real time. The platform allows us the opportunity to take you with our correspondents around the world and to join conversations like the ones you hear on our air every day. Already, we’ve found it to be a really satisfying experience and we hope you do, too.

But it’s not just news – we’re cooking up ideas to bring music to you – enabling you to meet the latest artists and bands that we think are worth watching. We also plan to give you more from your favorite podcast hosts and producers. And we plan to reach out to our Member stations and other colleagues in public media, too.

To get this off the ground, we’ve formed a social video team that will work with Facebook to help expand our live video effort. Facebook will provide some technical and financial support, but the company will have no role in the content of the videos. We hope to learn a lot in the coming weeks and months.

As Mike Oreskes, NPR’s Senior Vice President for News and Editorial Director, told the staff today, we feel this is the next natural step in our role as public media – to make our content and our people more accessible and responsive to you — our audience. And in the process, we are excited about the creative challenge of showing the world what NPR looks like on video.

So stay tuned. We want to know what you’d like to see from us and we want your feedback.

Sara Kehaulani Goo is NPR’s Deputy Managing Editor for Digital News and Scott Montgomery is Managing Editor for Digital News.

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Reliable and Responsible

Dependability is a valuable quality in the workplace, whether it comes from your employees or vendors. Having a staff of dependable employees and managers helps our business run more smoothly and ensures that tasks are seen through to completion.

Akshay Catering aims to provide quality service with a wide range of menu selections, food quality that will surpass the distinct taste of our client, well-planned program, and competent workforce.

At Akshay Catering, the success of your event is our most important priority. Our goal is to combine creativity, passion, and professionalism in everything we do. We specialize in making your vision a reality. We concentrate on serving our customer’s needs, whatever they may be. The extent of the products and services that we can provide is limited only to your imagination.

We will maintain integrity in everything we do, continue to grow and expand to meet the demands of our customers, excel through industry leadership, be competitive, surpass expectations, and develop long-lasting relationships with suppliers and customers to sustain growth.”

We also do our best to support sustainable and safe methods of food preparations that reduce environmental degradation. Akshay caterers values are to stand behind the quality of our any products and service not reaching the satisfactory standard are automatically eliminated.

The implementation of quality assurance and quality control procedures is an important part for our services to function properly. Our methods help us improve transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness, and confidence in our clients. We have a food insurance certificate for clients peace of mind.

Quality work is consistently performed and that quality deliverables are consistently produced. Orderly procedures are established to provide QC for products and services so that our clients will never have to face any problems.

At Akshay caterers, we promote the dignity and self-worth of all of our workers, and strive to give them excellent quality of life. Apart from this, we offer discounts to various organizations and charitable trusts and people in need. We also personally get involved with such kind of activities.

We understand and believe in the necessity of helping the less privileged people. As a socially responsible organization, we take immense pleasure in doing such kind of activities. Though our CSR activities are in small-scale, our involvement and energy is onthe higher scale.

Our Skills –

We started our operations in 2007 with basic infrastructure. Almost a decade now and we are constantly growing our services. Catering and decorations are our core services and we also provide utensils on hiring basis. We will be adding more and more services to our portfolio in near future.

  • Catering Services 90%
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  • Utensil Suppliers 65%
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Akshay Caterers welcomes inquiries and your comments. Especially comments on how we can improve our services. We strive to respond to every comment with an answer or an appropriate referral as quickly as possible. Most comments will be responded to within 7 business days.


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Friday, July 10, 2009

Lake Clark National Park featured in National Geographic Adventure Magazine

Pick up a copy of the June/July 2009 National Geographic Adventure Magazine and flip to page 55!  You won't see our smiling mugs (although the boater in the photo looks pretty happy), but you get a chance to read about our favorite park in Alaska, Lake Clark National Park.  Featured as one of the "Best of the Great Parks," Lake Clark was catagorized as the Ultimate Wilderness.  Not a bad place to hang out.

Alaska Alpine Adventures received a mention as the go to guides for the park.

It's a great issue, make sure to grab a copy!

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