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foodnetwork
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Slice the carrots into 3-inch long by 1/4-inch wide strips. Bring a small pot of water to a boil over medium heat and add the carrots. Cook the carrots until just tender, about 2 minutes. Drain. Stack the carrots into bundles and tie each bundle with a blanched chive.
In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the brown sugar and stir until dissolved. Stir in white wine and simmer for 2 minutes. Add the carrot bundles to the sauce and cook until coated with the sauce, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a serving bowl and serve.
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2019-04-19T05:54:19Z
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https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/carrot-bundles-recipe-1948783
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Science
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aol
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Shia LaBeouf has unveiled yet another piece of online performance art, and this one is aimed directly at new President of the United States Donald Trump.
On the day of Trump's inauguration, LaBeouf announced a new project called "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US," which is live-streaming footage from a camera installed outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York. You can watch the live stream at the official website hewillnotdivide.us.
At the time of this writing, the live-streamed footage consisted of Jaden Smith (actor, rapper, and son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith) alongside others chanting, "He will not divide us." LaBeouf was not seen in the video.
The stream began at 9 a.m. on Friday, January 20, Inauguration Day, according to the announcement on the site, and invites the public to "deliver the words 'HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US' ... repeating the phrase as many times, and for as long as they wish."
The site says the live-streamed project will exist "continuously for four years, or the duration of the presidency." LaBeouf is working on it alongside his art collaborators Nastja Säde Rönkkö and Luke Turner.
LaBeouf previously staged #ALLMYMOVIES, a live stream of the actor watching all the films in which he starred.
I'm trying to be a respectful diligent American rt now but as I start to watch this inauguration- Regression is the word that comes to mind.
It's a great day to watch infomercials!
Trump’s inauguration will be protested in all 50 states and 32 countries, making this the highest attended 3 Door Down concert to date.
For the first time I will not be watching or listening to anything "inauguration."
I agree with everything he's saying and nothing he's doing. One nation under Goldman Sachs.
On my to D.C. for the Woman's March. My plane is so fired up and totally awesome.
for the first time in eight years, Jews can breathe freely in this world. May it continue!
In these times, unite in kindness, deeper understanding, compassion, love, and knowledge. Make sure the truth keeps its meaning.
May God bless our new President Trump & his family, may God bless the Obama family and may God bless us all in the United States of America!
All of the jokes/parody/comedy aside, let's stop for a moment to take a full account of where we are. This country is lost. It's in trouble.
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2019-04-19T19:16:19Z
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https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2017/01/20/shia-labeouf-debuted-a-4-year-anti-trump-live-stream-he-will-n/21659499/
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Arts
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wordpress
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They are all fantastic charities~ thank you for helping out 🙂 #9 and #10 will be done closer to the end of 2013. “Out of the Darkness” deals with suicide prevention and “More Self Less” is a local charity that ‘adopts’ families year round (and especially during the holidays) and provides them with food, medical supplies, household items, presents and more.
Thank you for helping me see this through 🙂 My daughter was a preemie, and my best friend lost her daughter at 31 weeks. March of Dimes does AMAZING work. I love to support them as well. Thanks for hanging out on my page!!
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2019-04-24T18:20:47Z
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https://mysuddenattackofconscience.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/a-renowned-philosopher-once-said-get-on-your-feet-get-up-and-make-it-happen/
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dailymail
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Manchester City will consider loaning Erik Palmer Brown to PSV Eindhoven when he joins in January.
The Sporting Kansas City defender is understood to have agreed a pre-contract with Pep Guardiola's side that will see him sign a four and a half year deal in January.
The USA under 20 captain is then expected to go out on loan to PSV as he does not qualify for a UK work permit.
Brown, 20, had a previous spell on loan with Porto's B side in 2016.
Meanwhile, City and Chelsea are among the clubs monitoring 22-year-old Lazio midfielder Sergej Milinkovic-Savic. The 6ft 3ins Serbia U21 international was born in Spain and is represented by former Chelsea striker Mateja Kezman.
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2019-04-20T17:24:05Z
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-4891174/Manchester-City-set-loan-Erik-Palmer-Brown-PSV.html
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Sports
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tufts
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MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (October 9, 2018)—In research that extends knowledge about the physiology of regeneration and wound repair, Tufts University biologists have discovered that amputation of one limb is immediately reflected in the bioelectric properties of the contralateral, or opposing, un-damaged limb of developing frogs. The pattern of bioelectric depolarization in the un-injured leg is directly correlated to the position and type of injury, indicating that information about damage to tissues is available to their symmetrical counterparts within about 30 seconds of injury. The newly discovered phenomenon, dubbed “bioelectric injury mirroring” or BIM, is described in detail in a paper published in the journal Development.
Bioelectric phenomena are caused by cells that produce a voltage potential across their membrane by actively pumping or passively diffusing charged ions into or out of the cell. Most cells are capable of doing this, and patterns of high and low voltage potentials help direct the proliferation and differentiation of cells, as well as the patterning of tissues and organs, during embryonic development. Bioelectric states have also been implicated in regeneration – researchers have been able to alter bioelectric state to induce the regeneration of tails on tadpoles that had already matured beyond the capability of regeneration.
Busse, post-doctoral scholar Patrick McMillen, Ph.D., and Michael Levin, Ph.D., the Vannevar Bush Professor of Biology in the School of Arts & Sciences and Director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, devised experiments using a fluorescent dye that can reveal the pattern of electrical depolarization in the upper layer of skin.
When Busse amputated the limbs of froglets still in regeneration stage, the dye revealed a remarkable phenomenon: The un-injured leg exhibited bioelectric states that mirrored the location and type of injury occurring on the opposite side, and the effect was immediate, occurring within 5 seconds.
“What was amazing about this result was that not only did the depolarization in the un-injured leg detect the presence of injury on the other side, it also reflected information about the position of the cut,” said Levin.
The researchers considered whether such information was conveyed by typical neural communication through the central nervous system or spinal cord, but the BIM signal was undiminished when the central nervous system communication was interrupted. The result suggests that the distant communication between limbs occurs by a cell-to-cell mechanism which may be an evolutionary precursor to the more familiar neural signaling.
“Looking ahead, we will be employing more precise genetically-encoded voltage sensing tools, which can provide more quantitative and deeper tissue information than dyes, and machine learning methods to extract signatures of different types of damage from the bioelectric signal, to provide a more highly resolved understanding of the BIM phenomenon,” said Levin. Next steps involve understanding the mechanism and information content of such long-range signaling in the body, and potentially developing surrogate-site diagnostics for many different disease conditions.
This research was supported by the Allen Discovery Center program through The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group (grant #12171), and the W. M. Keck Foundation (grant #5903).
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2019-04-23T04:00:59Z
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https://now.tufts.edu/news-releases/amputation-injury-communicated-opposing-limbs
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squarespace
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Yellow Button Studio is the creative studio for illustrator, designer, and art director Jessie Schneider. She spends most of her days creating out of her home studio based in Saint Paul, MN. When Jessie isn't in the studio, she loves to spend time biking, drinking coffee, antiquing, and exploring the outdoors with her Shepherd/Corgi mix, Dolly.
Please contact me regarding freelance work opportunities , or collaboration ideas.
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2019-04-20T03:55:45Z
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http://yellowbuttonstudio.squarespace.com/about/
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wm
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Hello! This is my last blog entry, and in it I will summarize the trends and ideas I found in the books I read.
One widespread trend I noticed was that both young and adult forms of many alien species have important roles in the ecosystems, and the roles are often quite different. This is very true on Earth, and its presence in the books shows that many authors are well-versed in ecology. Dune, Grass, Speaker for the Dead, and Cycle of Fire all show this trend to some extent.
Another tendency I noticed (also present in Earthly ecosystems and again showing the environmental knowledge of modern authors) was for most, if not all, of the species mentioned to be involved in some way with each other. The interactions included in the books ran the gamut from parasitic and predatory to mutualistic, and many were described in loving detail which showed them to be as complex as Earthly interactions. Additionally, in the best cases these interactions did not remain static, but were shown as changing as conditions changed, which describes Earthly ones as well. However, in all cases, the interactions seemed to stay within the Earthly realm of possibility, which disappointed me. Perhaps I have not read enough material, but I was hoping for at least one truly weird interspecific interaction. As an added note, the earliest novels and short stories had noticeably simpler interactions, with many species almost living in a vacuum- therefore I think it’s likely that the growth of ecology as a distinct science is responsible for the change, since the early works were written before its emergence.
As for the species themselves, the books seemed to agree on one thing- carbon-based life-forms, except in the most extreme conditions, will be fairly similar in structure and mind. The only major exceptions were the weird spine-eyes of the Tenebrans in Close to Critical, which didn’t seem to match any eye design on Earth, the multi-individual minds of the Tines in A Fire Upon the Deep, and the sentient trees in both Speaker for the Dead and A Fire Upon the Deep. Even the developmental patterns described did not stray far from Earthly models (for example, many of the novels included up to five developmental stages, some of which ate each other- this occurs on Earth, although I’m not sure if any animals with five stages exist). One point of difference was the presence, in two books (Cycle of Fire and Speaker for the Dead) of species which contain the DNA or spores of another species. In the latter book, the two species have merged their DNA and merely have separate developmental stages now, while in the former, spores of the other species embedded in the flesh begin to grow whenever environmental conditions change. Nothing like that is present on Earth. Another point of difference is the long “hibernation” or stasis of organisms in Helliconia Spring, in which an organism survives for a couple thousand years without nourishment. Unfortunately, the author of that novel failed to give any ideas for how such a hibernation could occur. There are also a number of novels and short stories featuring organisms with characteristics of both plants and animals- perhaps the lack of such things on Earth made it an interesting topic for the authors.
While the appearance, life history, and interactions of species are well-described in most of the books I read, there are far fewer descriptions of possible evolutionary pathways for these organisms. Some of the most fascinating species (the sentient plants, the pack-minded dogs, the necrogenes on Helliconia Spring) have no explanation or even hint as to how the author thought they might have arisen. Even the other novels mostly avoid the topic of evolution, and reading between the lines only gives the impression that the authors think evolution on other planets would work like Earthly evolution does. There isn’t even any mention of a genetic material besides DNA.
Another widespread trend in the books is to portray an ecosystem as wholly shaped by environmental conditions, and at the mercy of natural forces. Only a few of the novels show environments unlike the more pleasant Earthly climes, and all of these stress the fragility of the ecosystems. The two Hal Clement novels, as well as Helliconia Spring, show whole ecosystems being destroyed or at least affected by harsh conditions. Dune also shows this, but depicts the ecosystem as being able to recover and change the physical forces of the environment as well.
A final trend is the ability of nanotechnologically created/altered organisms to outcompete “normal” organisms and control their environment. This is evident in both Prey and Blood Music (although Blood Music is about genetic engineering rather than nanotech, the resultant cells are altered technologically by man and do outcompete the rest of the world), as well as in The Diamond Age (a novel I read but didn’t write a blog entry about due to it not being particularly useful for my project- while the nanotech creations described in it are clearly able to diffuse into the natural environment and affect it, this is a tiny thread in a 400-some page book which hardly describes ecosystems or natural implications of nanotech at all, and is set on Earth to boot). Both the latter novel as well as Prey also portray nanotech “creatures” as able to reproduce and evolve in the wild. In Prey, the devices take on the niche of an apex predator, while in The Diamond Age they merely war among themselves.
This is my fourth blog entry. It will focus on two novels- Tunnel in the Sky, by Robert Heinlein, and Helliconia Spring, by Brian Aldiss. The first novel describes the trials of a group of students accidentally left on an alien planet during a survival test. The second is the first novel in the Helliconia trilogy and chronicles the dawn of a new age on Helliconia, which has an extremely long and unusual orbit around a binary star system. This causes it to go through periodic “winters” and “summers” every few thousand years, during which all life and civilization is overthrown and then rebuilt.
Tunnel in the Sky takes place on a very Earth-like planet. All the life-forms appear similar to Earthly ones and occupy almost identical niches. This could merely mean the author did not want to think up a whole new ecosystem, or it could mean that he wants to put forth the idea that on any Earth-like planet, evolution will take a similar course and the same structures, behaviors, and relationships will prevail. The specific ecosystems described are all various tropical forests and grasslands, with their attendant animals. One animal is notable- a small carnivore called a “dopy joe” changes once a year from an ambush hunter of small mammals (it seems like the large animals are mammalian) to an aggressive creature that forms mobs and drives other animals before it in a mad bloodlust. Unfortunately, there is no good explanation given for why they do this. The other animals counteract this by running away, which works well.
Helliconia Spring centers around the idea that all the ecosystems of a planet are dependent on its astronomical conditions, and that these define life on the planet. Additionally, rather than have an impoverished environment at each new spring or fall, organisms will find some way to outlast poor conditions, and this evasion of death also characterizes the environment. The set of species living in the “winter” (in ice age conditions) primarily consists of mosses, lichens, deer-like animals of various kinds, small animals, dog-like predators, fish, white birds, humans, and phagors. These last are intelligent white-furred bipedal carnivores with man-like hands, and goat-like legs, muzzles, and horns. Their civilization dominates the planet during the “winter”, but is overthrown and replaced by a human culture in the spring and summer. Most of the large animals of the “winter” are necrogenes- they reproduce by mating, then dying at specific times and places and allowing the maggot-like young produced by mating to eat their carcass as they grow up. Large migrations to favorable death-places take up much of the life-cycle of the necrogenes. Presumably, having such a large source of food for the young is a boon in the hard winter conditions.
In spring, the larval forms of various animals emerge from the ground, and the hard, lifeless boles of certain trees explode, hurling their seeds out into the world. The other plants emerge from tough seeds that have laid in the ground for thousands of years, and become fodder for animals like the antelope-like hoxney. The new set of large animals seems mammalian, and they live among temperate forests and grasslands. There are several creatures that live throughout the year and do not have to resort to crystalline cocoons to survive winter. One is a dragon whose wingless larva lives in tunnels deep in the earth, and the other is a stungebag, a huge worm-like animal with a hard wood-like covering and a large mouth buried under a concealed pit in the ground. Animals fall in and are eaten.
This is my third blog entry. I’ve finished my reading for the project and am now posting blog entries on all the remaining novels and short stories at once. In August, I will post a final summary entry comparing all the books I’ve read and bringing together my conclusions. This entry will focus on two very early works of sci-fi (one, in fact, is from 1912, before sci-fi as a genre had even properly emerged, and could probably be better described as an adventure thriller- however, it does take place on Mars and features alien life forms, and so is useful for this project). That novel is A Princess of Mars, by Edgar Rice Burroughs. With it, I will discuss several short stories by Stanley Weinbaum, published in the mid-1930’s, which are set on Mars and Venus.
A Princess of Mars features an Earthling who ends up on Mars (in a quite unrealistic way- a hallmark of a thriller rather than good science fiction) and comes into contact with several alien tribes and empires. While living amongst them, he discovers various multi-legged oviparous alien fauna, which subsist on the yellowish moss carpeting much of the Martian surface. There are two large herd-forming herbivores and several carnivores of various sizes. While their many legs, eyes, and facial structures are reminiscent of insects, the animals are clearly similar to Earthly analogues in behavior. Despite the detailed descriptions and the plausibility of the shapes of the animals, as a portrayal of an ecosystem the novel mostly fails. There is an extremely limited number of animal species (and no catastrophe or particularly harsh conditions to explain that) mostly feeding on only one plant species. Besides this, almost all the animals are very large- this is implausible. Finally, carnivores are apparently very common and running rampant over the countryside (from the number of times the people encounter them), despite there not being enough herbivores to sustain them. As an afterthought, although the Martians have had large canals throughout the planet for thousands of years, the ecosystem around them is identical to the surrounding countryside. This is also implausible. Making a realistic environment of Mars is clearly subordinated to other considerations in this novel (which is understandable given its age-ecological science had not yet developed by its publication).
The Weinbaum short stories have slightly more imaginative depictions of alien planets, possibly because their author had a scientific background. In the two Martian ones, “A Martian Odyssey” and “Valley of Dreams”, Mars is portrayed as a world where plant and animal never fully differentiated. Thus, all life forms are mobile, but have various plant-like features such as a root-appendage that can be placed in the ground to obtain nutrients during the night. They also reproduce by budding off from the parent like some plants (e.g., aspens) although they then detach from the parent as well. Some have nervous systems; others apparently lack them. Several species live in symbiotic relationships, and there is one known predator (an ambush hunter that lures prey by conjuring up visions for them-how it does this is unclear, and whether it can only attack certain intelligent species is even less clear). Additionally, there is a silicon-based creature which lives separately from the carbon-based life and builds little homes for itself out of its silica waste. It reproduces by releasing a gas enclosed in silica bubbles, which escapes and acts on nearby silicon in the soil to create a new silicon creature. Besides the use of silicon in all its chemical reactions instead of carbon, it seems to be similar in most fundamental respects to Earthly life and could be considered “alive”. Several other Weinbaum stories focus on Venus- “Parasite Planet”, for instance, depicts Venus as exploding with life because of the high heat and humidity (this was long before Venus’s true conditions were known) and having all of its life constantly feeding on other life-forms, even to the point of molds growing instantly on unprotected foliage or skin. In fact, living matter is so abundant “doughpots” (masses of undifferentiated cells rolling along the ground absorbing as food any life in their path) can thrive in the forests, and all the plant species catch and eat animals to supplement their diet. Both planets are shown as following the same general biological principles as Earth, with the difference being that by chance or adaptation, plants and animals are not fully separate. The ecosystems shown all contain large numbers of small prey species and plants, and are fairly realistic because of that. Weinbaum clearly considered carefully-thought-out alien life-forms one of his top priorities.
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2019-04-18T14:40:45Z
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http://freshmanmonroe.blogs.wm.edu/tag/getito/
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Arts
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tripod
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People's Republic of China. In the early years, due to the transportation, only the Asians came here to lean the Wushu. Based on the spirits of Shaolin Wushu and the theory of Taiji boxing, they have created several other Asian trends such as Karate, Tangshoudo ect. Many exercisers enjoyed and benefited a lot from it , so it spreads very fast. Today many people from Asia as well as Europe and America come to Taiji Kung Fu Books to perfect what they have learnt and feel the air where were born the Shaolin Weshu and Taiji boxing.
In order to fulfill the purpose of furthering the influence of Shaolin Wushu and taiji boxing, enhance the exchanges among the Wushu amateurs, our provincial government began to organize the International Wushu Festival and Taiji boxing Festival since 1991. We have successfully sponsored festivals till today, and the Festivals have become more and more Qigong Wushu DVD famous around the world.
Other training will include practical defense using that particular style, defense simulation such as two-man choreographed sequences for beginning contact training. There are also internal and external body training methods to strengthen the body to withstand strikes and blows. In the advanced stages of training, a student begins full-contact training by Taijiquan Uniforms sparring with semi-control in order to add realism to the training.
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2019-04-22T21:00:33Z
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http://buy-kung-fu-clothing.tripod.com/taijiquanoutfit.html
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Arts
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vh1
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Scandal’s Olivia Pope and President Grant are in the middle of one of the sexiest — and most flagrantly dead-wrong (hello, he’s still very married to Mellie!) — affairs in TV history. But they certainly didn’t invent the art of scandalous secret love. From Friday Night Lights’ Tim Riggins stealing Lila Garrity from his BFF; to Cersei and Jaime’s twincestuous, extra-marital boning on Game of Thrones; here are the 10 hottest affairs in TV history.
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2019-04-21T23:59:50Z
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http://www.vh1.com/news/85924/top-10-scandalous-tv-affairs/
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Arts
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Games
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wordpress
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Well, my excitement about spring was a bit short-lived. I was pretty sure we would get another foot or so of snow before spring actually shows up…and I was right. The last week it’s been snowing and blustery all week, and today is the first day the sun has come out to play since my post Spring Has Sprung (And So Have I!). Of course I super jinxed it all, ah well though. We even have years where it randomly snows as late in the year as the end of June, so this wasn’t surprising at all! I’m still a bit bummed out that spring isn’t here to stay yet though.
The view of the frozen over lake from the dock.
As bummed as I am, I still love how beautiful things can look when covered in snow. My boyfriend has an uncle who lives a few hours north of us, and he happens to have an awesome little cabin about 100km’s away from anywhere that is just so peaceful and relaxing…despite being incredibly redneck. We recently spent a few days out there and it was just breathtaking. I really hope I get a chance to go there during summer, as long as I have a lot of bug spray at least!
The door of the cabin. It was set up with amazing security…mostly to keep bears out.
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2019-04-25T01:47:03Z
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https://thingsnstuffido.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/second-winter/
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Recreation
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icm
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Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is a therapeutic option for a number of malignant and inherited disorders. However, the efficacy of this therapy is limited by a number of serious infectious and noninfectious complications. Pulmonary infections represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality post-HSCT and can occur both pre- and post-hematopoietic reconstitution. Susceptibility to Gram-negative bacterial infections despite full hematopoietic engraftment suggests that innate immunity remains impaired months to years post-HSCT. This review will describe the process and complications of HSCT and will summarize what is known about innate immune reconstitution post-HSCT. Data from the literature as well as our own laboratory will be presented to suggest that an eicosanoid imbalance characterized by over-production of prostaglandins and under-production of leukotrienes leads to impaired lung phagocyte function post-HSCT. Of therapeutic interest, strategies which limit production of prostaglandins can improve pulmonary host defense in animal HSCT models, which suggests that this may also be beneficial for human HSCT recipients.
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2019-04-23T14:38:54Z
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http://psjd.icm.edu.pl/psjd/element/bwmeta1.element.element-from-psjc-273c1458-eb69-33e6-9e1f-ad6830e31ec9
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dailymail
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A fisherman has told how his brother-in-law twice saved him from drowning, then died in freezing seas himself after suffering a seizure.
Father-of-three Douglas Hook was forced to leave his friend and business partner in icy water and swim four miles to safety after 11 hours in the sea.
The 38-year-old had launched into a new career fishing for whelks with friend John Askey, 31, when tragedy struck.
On 17 June the men, both from Pembroke Dock, west Wales, were on a maiden voyage in Cardigan Bay in their 12-tonne trawler on their first working day together.
The sea was 'as calm as a mill pond' and they were finishing up for the afternoon. But the vessel began taking on water and Mr Hook, who is married to his friend's sister, found himself waist deep and pinned to a wall.
"I would have drowned if John hadn't leapt in and pulled me out," Mr Hook said today.
The boat rapidly capsized and sank, leaving them clinging to an inflatable life-line in freezing seas, hoping someone had seen what happened.
Both men refused to panic and decided to try to swim for shore, occasionally stopping to hug in a bid to keep warm as night fell.
"We talked about all sorts of stuff. We'd joke about how our families were going to kill us when we got home and how it was pretty good going - sinking our new boat the first time we'd taken it out properly.
"It was freezing and I confessed to John that I didn't think I was going to make it."
He also recalled how his brother-in-law saved him for a second time when he slipped under the waves from deep fatigue. "I'd gone numb and just went under. It felt comfortable, like falling asleep, but he grabbed me and we'd go on.
"At one point I started hallucinating. I swore I could see my wife Louise and our baby Grace waving at me from the beach."
Mr Hook said that as the freezing ordeal continued into the late evening his friend suffered a massive fit.
"He'd gone blue, his mouth was foaming and his eyes rolled back in his head," he said.
"I tried rubbing his chest to warm him up. But he'd gone."
He struggled to swim on for two more hours as he held on to his friend's body but eventually realised he couldn't make it. At that point he tied his friend to their emergency buoy and set him adrift.
"I kissed him on the head, held him and said, 'Sorry mate, this hasn't worked out too well for us has it? I'll see you soon'," he said.
Mr Hook successfully undertook the gruelling four-mile swim to shore alone, finally arriving on a beach at around 2.30am.
He then staggered to a road to get help and was taken to hospital suffering from hypothermia. Doctors there had to shock his heart back to life twice.
Speaking in praise of his friend, whose body has still not been recovered, he said: "He was a great friend, someone who had the sea in his veins.
"If it had fins and scales he'd catch it. I've seen him wrestle conger eels with his bare hands before now.
"I don't know why I'm here and not John. I think the freezing temperatures got to him more."
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2019-04-24T19:01:17Z
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-392622/Survivor-recalls-fatal-maiden-voyage.html
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Arts
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News
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pcworld
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Apple cofounder Steve Jobs got directly involved in an alleged conspiracy to fix e-book prices after a publisher balked at participating in the scheme, according to a court document filed by 31 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
The document, an amended complaint to an antitrust lawsuit by the states and others against Penguin, Macmillan and Apple, was filed in a New York federal district court. A similar lawsuit against the publishers and Apple has been filed by the Department of Justice.
According to the complaint, when one of the conspiring publishers dragged its feet on entering the e-book pricing deal with Apple, Jobs was enlisted to sell high-ranking officials in the publisher’s parent company on the wisdom of the proposed pricing scheme.
3. Hold back your books from Amazon. Without a way for customers to buy your ebooks, they will steal them. This will be the start of piracy and once started, there will be no stopping it. Trust me, I've seen this happen with my own eyes.
"Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see any other alternatives. Do You?" he wrote.
Within three days of the letter, the amended complaint noted, the foot-dragging conspiring publisher and its co-conspirators agreed on an "agency" e-book pricing scheme and signed an agency deal with Apple.
In their complaint, the states and others allege that Apple joined publishers Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster in a price-fixing conspiracy and facilitated their scheme to increase e-book prices.
Apple facilitated the alleged conspiracy, the states argue, by bringing the publishers into agreement with one another on how to go about increasing e-book prices.
The publishers' plan was carried out in two steps, the complaint explained. First, the existing wholesale model for selling books -- where retailers decided the price consumers paid for e-books -- would be replaced with an agency model in which the publishers controlled the price consumers paid for an e-book. Second, retail e-book prices would be increased.
As a result of the alleged conspiracy, Apple and the publishers "agreed to eliminate e-book retail price competition between Apple and Amazon and other outlets.
Rather than hinder competition, Apple claims its deal with the publishers fostered competition. "The launch of the iBookstore in 2010 fostered innovation and competition, breaking Amazon's monopolistic grip on the publishing industry," it said in a statement issued after the Justice Department filed its lawsuit against the company.
"Just as we have allowed developers to set prices on the App Store, publishers set prices on the iBookstore," it added.
However, there's evidence that the deal Apple cut with the publishers to sell e-books wasn't as common as the high-tech firm would like the public to believe.
That agreement contains something called a "most-favored nation" clause. Typically, those clauses are included in contracts to protect a buyer from wholesale price fluctuations.
Apple's most-favored nation clause was different, according to the Justice Department. "[I]nstead of [a clause] designed to protect Apple's ability to compete, this [clause] was designed to protect Apple from having to compete on price at all, while still maintaining Apple's 30 percent margin," the Justice Department said in its complaint against Apple and the publishers.
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Posted on May 24, 2013, in Uncategorized and tagged cornavirus, flu, pandemic, Professor Ali Mohamed Zaki, Saudi hospital, virus. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Im no professional, but I consider you just produced an excellent stage point. You obviously know what youre talking about, and I can definitely get behind that. Thanks for staying so upfront and so straightforward.
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The 'man in briefs' was vandalized in its previous public outing.
Tony Matelli‘s underwear-clad sculpture of a sleepwalking man was at the center of controversy on a college campus in 2014, with outraged students launching a petition for its removal. Now, the eerily lifelike figure of a man in white briefs wandering in his sleep with outstretched arms is coming to the High Line as part of the group show “Wanderlust,” opening in April, Hilarie M. Sheets reports in the New York Times.
The work, simply titled Sleepwalker, was created by the Brooklyn-based Matelli for his 2014 solo exhibition “New Gravity” at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, but was installed on campus, outside the museum, DNAinfo recalls.
Despite the outcry, museum director Lisa Fischman decided to leave the sculpture in place until July 2014. “I was completely taken aback by this response,” she told the NYT, adding that her intention was to show a vulnerable depiction of a man, as opposed to the typically monumental representations of men in statues.
Tony Matelli’s Sleepwalker after being vandalized.
“What they see in the sculpture is not in the sculpture,” Matelli commented about the debate. “If you have bad feelings toward this and it’s triggering you, you need to seek sympathy, you need to seek help,” he added.
But not everyone was convinced. The sleepwalker was vandalized with yellow paint splashed on its face, left arm, left leg, and foot. (Matelli’s realistic sculptures seem to inspire strong feelings in their viewers; his Stray Dog piece was vandalized in Manhattan last spring).
How will visitors to the High Line react to the man in white briefs? If the show’s title “Wanderlust” is anything to go by, they might just walk past it without giving it a second thought. “It’s a space always in motion, both because you have to walk from one end to the other and because the city is changing so quickly around you,” said Cecilia Alemani, who is responsible for the High Line’s art program.
It seems more likely that visitors will jump at the opportunity to participate in Marie Lorenz’s project “Tide and Current Taxi,” which will lower water-taxi rowboats from the High Line to the Hudson River. Other artists in the group show include Roman Ondák, Barbara Kruger, Nari Ward, and Kathryn Andrews.
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Very insightful – I’ve had some of the same struggles myself and am so thankful for God’s gracious mercies, that He can restore to our sons where their dad and I were lacking.
This is the same for me and my relationship with my children. Oh, how I’d love to go back and do it differently. Thank God for His grace and new beginnings.
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2019-04-23T20:13:30Z
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It's not very often that a book really reshapes our perception of an issue, but Hennie van Vuuren's "Apartheid, Guns and Money: a tale of profit" is one. It is a massive work: over 600 pages and the result of a decade of meticulous, painstaking work.
The extraordinary tale that Van Vuuren tells is how - as the South African state gradually became an international pariah and as the truth about apartheid became internationally known - it moved from a normal member of the world community to a covert operator. It began working in shady ways, through even more shady operators.
What is really novel is that he uncovers a completely new set of actors: the Chinese and the Soviet Union. In the past it has been assumed that, for the most part, they were completely wedded to the liberation movements. The support from Moscow and Beijing for the African National Congress and - to a lesser extent - the Pan Africanist Congress, was so widely reported that few suspected there might be less than total solidarity between the communist powers and the liberation movements.
Yes, there were the odd stories about the South African diamond giant - De Beers - being spotted at the ballet in Moscow doing deals with Russian diamond companies, but this was seen as a small aberration. After all, both countries wanted to keep up the prices of diamonds on international markets, so some kind of arrangement was perhaps inevitable.
But - if Van Vuuren is right - these relationships went far, far beyond the odd contact.
The tale begins with a top secret minute of a meeting between the head of the South African Defence Force, Jannie Geldenhuys, and his senior officials in connection with operation "Daisy". This was an attempt to recover $20 million that Starckmann had allegedly swindled out of the South Africans.
The story is of mind-boggling complexity, but involves Starckmann doing a deal with an East German firm called IMES, run by the East German deputy foreign minister with Stasi employees - members of the East German secret service. The result was an arrangement which involved 60 shipments of weapons to South Africa via a Danish shipping company. The shipments were to be trailed half way around the world to disguise their final destination.
The relationship that the book portrays between South Africa and the Chinese is just as complex. It involves purchases of Chinese military equipment - everything from machine guns to missiles and rocket launchers - using Congolese companies as a front. Sometimes the shipments were destined for South Africa's Angolan allies, UNITA, sometimes not.
Overall the book is a compelling and convincing narrative: our understanding of apartheid's global supporters has been transformed.
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MAGRA will launch two projects in 2017 that support Wisconsin DPI's continued efforts to close the Black–White achievement gap.
In partnership with the MAGRA membership, REL Midwest researchers will conduct a systematic review of research literature on strategies that effectively reduce the Black-White achievement gap. The review will examine what strategies improve educational outcomes for Black students, key characteristics of successful interventions, and which interventions can be applied across a variety of contexts. This literature review will be posted to the REL Midwest website in late 2017.
REL Midwest also will support the MAGRA membership with in-depth coaching and consultation. Although Wisconsin currently has a framework for closing the achievement gap between students of color and their peers, the complexity and number of approaches to closing the achievement gap make coordination and evaluation difficult. Wisconsin DPI and alliance members have asked REL Midwest to perform an environmental scan of current efforts to close the achievement gap in Wisconsin. The hope is that a shared understanding of the challenge will allow Wisconsin DPI and its partners to enhance how they work together to close the achievement gap in the state.
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“Is Prepping Worth it? What if Nothing Happens? Is it all a Waste?
The REASON for The Y2K scare was IN CASE something DID happen.
FORTUNATELY, nothing did. IN 2,000, or 1999. Nothing much happened on the computers,etc.
However, those who argue that Y2K was a fizzer(and 1999), therefore ALL scares are fizzers, and so 2012 must be too!!
The IDEA is to be PREPARED just IN CASE the warning is sound.
I think silly criticism put on Pakalert. Should not have asked so OBVIOUS a question!
I suppose many do look for an EXCUSE to reject preparing(PREPPING).
Which is better? To prepare and nothing happen. Or NOT to prepare and SOMETHING happen!
The point is this: The idea is to handle(deal with) the POSSIBILITY that SOMETHING(BAD) MIGHT(happen)!!
The ship may sink. The plane MAY crash. So have a life-jacket on!!
How many are DISAPPOINTED when nothing happens?? This is silly!!
1. 1999 and 2,000 were APPROXIMATE dates issued for the TRUE date – which is 2,012!!
2. The people(skeptics) who harp on I WISH IT WAS 2,013 so that the matter is settled are ASSUMING that The 2,012 warning is erroneous.
There IS a prediction or prophecy that Doom will occur(or perhaps ONLY start) in the year 2,012 A.D. Yes, it MAY be phoney. True. But on the OTHER HAND, it MAY be SOUND!!
How do you skeptics KNOW(beyond ALL doubt??) that this 2012 prophecy WON’T come to pass????
WISE to wait until 2,012(and 2,013) has GONE before CROWING!! I THINK!!
WAIT, and SEE!! – As the saying goes!! OBVIOUSLY!!!!
Or shall I be THANKFUL, despite my work, THAT IT DIDN’T??!!
All SORTS of predictions get made all the time, everywhere. SOME eventuate. Others don’t!!
But I don’t think it is wise to be SURE IN ADVANCE that it won’t happen!!
In any case, how MARVELLOUS that it didn’t(IF that is so)!!
At least The Preppers have THEN got a good supply of things – for any future calamities!!
I do not KNOW(for certain) what TOMORROW will bring.(In fact I don’t(for CERTAIN) know AT ALL!! Do I? DO YOU??
I also do not know(for CERTAIN) what tomorrow WON’T bring!
Therefore wise to hedge bets!!
I COULD say “The sun will rise tomorrow”. Yet there is a day coming SOON, VERY SOON, when the sun WON’T rise tomorrow!!
One CANNOT avoid ALL suffering.
How many of you think that because I tried to be a bit humourus in my last article, that the whole thing is PHONEY? Bit hopeful weren’t those of you who thought THUS!!
We SIMPLY do NOT know THE FUTURE!!
I TRY to go by PROBABILITY.
Whilst not IGNORING the POSSIBLE!!
Or even the MERELY improbable.
Keep CALM, absolutely calm, because this is NOTHING compared to what is coming!
Called THE EVENT, many now living GOT BORN purposely TO EXPERIENCE!!
Yes, how nice to be able to claim that you experienced THE WORST CATASTROPHE EVER – to hit Man on Earth!!
What will it be like? You know that film 2012? That BASICALLY is what we can expect!! When I say HELL ON THIS EARTH, I MEAN just THAT!!
Tsunami, world wide, of about 700 feet high! Picture one of THEM racing up your beach!
I say again: You(and every creature on Earth!) are MORE LIKELY to die – than to live! Terribly and horribly.
I am spelling it out AS I SEE IT.
What is happening, you see, is that TWO great cycles of disasters are occurring SIMULTANEOUSLY!!
AND we have the 3,600 year cycle of Nibiru’s passing us.
BOTH of these cycles are OCCURRING SIMULTANEOUSLY this time!!
In fact, what is happening(about to happen) is an event that happens about once in every 26 MILLION YEARS!!
Normally each one of either produces a CATACLYSM. But THIS time, we have the BOTH together!! So a DOUBLE CATACLYSM!!
But an average galaxy contains 300,000 such EARTHS of people!
The number is way too far beyond that of the AVERAGE individual to grasp!
So please do not say GALAXY – when you ONLY MEAN solar system!
Your(hypothetical)village is ONLY 1,000,000 x short of The Earth number.
than is the disparity between a village of 7,000 against an Earth of one million(1,000,000) such villages!
…THAT we are ABOUT TO SUFFER One ATLANTIS type event.
One Atlantis type event equals ABOUT 1000(roughly) World Wars. Of World War two size.
THAT is ABOUT the size of it.
Can YOU imagine 4,000 WW2’s compressed into one?
THAT is what we can EXPECT over the next 8 months to two years.
It will be(I am estimating) UTTERLY unimaginable!!
Folks, comrads,…PLEASE fasten your SEAT BELTS!!
I am TRYING frantically, desperately, to give you all SOME IDEA of what to expect.
I struggle to render an accurate picture, as to nature AND magnitude.
We have never had it so good. This generation. And VERY SOON, will never have had it so bad!
Yet SOME will survive. Even millions. Don’t know how many millions. POSSIBLY billions. But WHERE are they going to HIDE??!! From the destruction LASHING everything???? In ALL forms, from EVERY DIRECTION!!!!
Nibiru is as big as Saturn!
I STILL say GET DOWN THE NORTH GEOGRAPHICAL POLE! Aim for it and KEEP ON GOING for at least 600 miles – and you SHOULD find yourself upon THE INNER SURFACE of this HOLLOW EARTH!!
Just about every settlement on Earth turned into an HIROSHIMA!!
Death will be best,…But do NOT commit suicide!
What makes it worse THIS TIME is the number of people on Earth, and the degree of technology reached!!
Electric arcs will leave hardly ANY electronic and electric devices working!
AND to “Zeta Talks”(ALSO GOOD).
The two named are the best I have found so far.
Just an early BREEZE in the coming SUPER HURRICANE!!!!
And MAN, am I falling SHORT by way of DESCRIPTION!!
Best hope? Get buried(with plenty of water,etc(medical supplies,radio,batteries,AND SO ON…AND SO ON….)) IN a Super-Market!
And JUST HOPE NO ONE can reach you!!
BELIEVE ME, THIS IS BUT THE FAINTEST ADUMBRATION OF IT ALL!!!!
Did you remember to add smelling salts to your list??!! GOOD IDEA!!!!
Heat, cold, fright and TERROR will take many off BEFORE they realize it!!
Cause of the coming Pole Shift.
Nibiru IS approaching, and its gravity is pulling on The North Geographical Pole, straining to pull it over. Because Nibiru is 22x as massive as Earth(Though only 4 to 5 times as big), it will succeed. Eventually.
VERY little time is left for us all to PREPARE. MANY of Earth’s life-forms will die. Including BILLIONS of humans. Anywhere from 3 to 6 BILLION humans. Prepare to die – unless aliens evacuate you.
Nibiru IS in sight. NOT a lens flare! Close examination of many videos,photos,etc. renders this clear enough!!
This occurs EVERY 3,600 years! And is due to Nibiru passing(on ITS orbital trajectory) close to The Earth! THIS is WHY the great continent civilizations of the past got destroyed!!
It is for sure. And it will be SOON!!
Not likely to hit us.
It is possible that Nibiru is a captured wandering planet, and not a planet of Sirius B. Apparently these are common, and when caught – wreck havoc in whatever solar system they get trapped by.
We are NOT looking at another fantasy notion here. This is real. The Nibiru report IS true!!
It is true that many humans fantasize some weird things. But THIS Nibiru,ETC. is NOT one of them!!
Nibiru does not fit the usual Gas Giant,etc. category – and is therefore likely a capture by Sol, our sun. Perhaps an outer planet of Sirius B – or maybe one of the planetoids or planetary space wanderers that happened to get too close to the sun.
These captured alien objects wreak havoc because NOT fitting the original solar lay-out concerned.
Our accelerating wandering magnetic pole is one of the first signs of a pole shift.
Note that a pole shift is not a matter of a few inches – but of TOTAL INVERSION!!
The Southern Stars will interchange with The Northern Stars. The Southern Cross will hang over London, perhaps. And The Plough,etc.(A Northern Constellation) will hang over Austalasia!!
All SORTS of weird things will happen!!
The increasing disasters and high temperatures are due to Nibiru’s approach.
I am not fool-proof. But am giving my best estimates judging from the picture I get – as I go along.
We stand more chance of dying than of surviving this. Every creature on Earth does!!
I have warned for ten years now. As I have watched Nibiru get closer and closer.
And the sceptics fear it.
A Conspiracy of Silence exists to TRY to hide it from The Public.
It MAY resemble(at face value) an unlikely notion. BUT IS NOT IN FACT so!
Unusual things DO SOME TIMES occur!!
It is not a case of LOOK DEEP, but LOOK DEEPER!!
The line between dud and UNUSUAL genuine can some times be too narrow to distinguish easily!!
Though all duds are not genuine, not all dud looking coins(ETC.) are in fact duds!!
DESPITE the some-times genuine looking duds!!
I hope you know what I mean!!
The Nibiru notion – though it SUPERFICIALLY may have a number of fake properties – is, in fact, genuine DESPITE the APPARENTLY fake areas!!
In your eagerness to have Nibiru booted out, take CARE you do not eject a GENUINE ARTICLE!!!! Simply because of phoney FAKE superficia!!!!
Not all dud coins are INFALLIBLY dud!!
The weakness here may be YOUR erroneous(in this case!) wish to classify Nibiru as a foolish notion!!
Dud coins can look genunine.
And sometimes genuine coins can LOOK dud, – when they are NOT!!
Even though genuine coins USUALLY look genuine!!
Those calling Nibiru phoney, are betraying their wish that it NOT be genuine – rather than that they have exposed yet one more phoney!!
Upon the altar of their wish that Nibiru BE a fake!!
Simply because fakes USUALLY bear tell-tale non-genuine SIGNS!!!!
Don’t let the SIMILARITY in appearances fool you here!!!!
1. Why MUST Nibiru BE phoney?
OR, is it genuine, but YOU cannot BEAR that??!!
Are YOU not being fooled by Orthodox DRIVEL?!
Which SO MANY have swallowed HOOK, LINE AND SINKER!!!!
2. WHEN you so viciously attack any who disagree with you(who have been fooled by orthodoxy).
3. Is it not possible that Orthodoxy ITSELF is fooled??
4. And even if you are correct(IF you are!!), WHY such INTENSE anger and HATRED??
Is no one else allowed to make a mistake? But you CANNOT??!!(CANNOT make a mistake.) – and DO NOT??!!
WHY are you so ABJECT to Orthodoxy??!!
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Thanks to artificial insemination, this giant panda is one step closer to becoming a mom.
Mei Xiang, a panda at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington D.C., had the procedure performed last month by a team of veterinarians, scientists and zookeepers.
The National Zoo announced Thursday that the insemination was performed, and the team will continue to monitor the 20-year-old panda’s health for the next several months to determine whether she is pregnant.
“Hopefully, we will have a healthy cub and celebrate another conservation success for the zoo and this vulnerable species,” National Zoo director Steve Monfort said in a statement.
Every year, there are only 24 to 72 hours during which a female panda can conceive.
When zookeepers began noticing Mei Xiang and her mate Tian Tian were signaling they were ready to mate, the team in charge of the artificial insemination acted quickly.
Because it is impossible to determine if a female panda is pregnant from hormone analysis or behavior, researchers will perform ultrasounds regularly to monitor if a fetus is developing.
“Our team worked seamlessly to give Mei Xiang and Tian Tian the best chance to contribute to their species’ survival,” Monfort said.
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I moved last week and am finding myself unpacking endless boxes of what is now considered “old media:” CDs, DVDs, and above all books. Boxes and boxes of books, fiction and non-fiction and poetry and even spiral-bound collections of notes. (Never know when you’re going to need those old grade 10 Canadian History notes!) Sorting through them all brings me a kind of contentment that I’m sure is akin to how others feel when purchasing new shoes or clothes or gadgets. My books tell a story about the things I’ve studied, and the papers I’ve written, and the dusty used book shops I’ve visited throughout the years. They are a visual reminder of how my thinking has expanded.
I’ve written before about the sad demise of the bookshelf in the age of Wikipedia and e-readers, but moving has caused me to think about my particular clutter more broadly, particularly given how difficult it is for me to get rid of it (much to the chagrin of my ever-growing moving fraternity). There is comfort in stuff, especially in one’s own stuff. My grand theory is that everyone has a “clutter threshold,” beyond which things start to seem untidy. (I fall somewhere between Ikea-Chic and Victorian-Living-Room on the continuum, but more toward the latter.) And while my clutter tolerance level has remained relatively static, I’m always happy to put something else on the shelf that I’ve loved reading.
Is this just simple materialism? No; I suspect it runs much deeper. Things – particularly branded things, but also things in and of themselves – are what project our image out into the world. What we own and use defines us. Many psychologists believe that an obsession with objects is part of feeling secure, or included, in that having the same things as others gives one a certain identity as part of their group, however remote the connection. Advertising, of course, capitalizes upon this need for security and belonging by selling emotions, with the promise of happiness, comfort, or popularity inherent in owning or using their products.
My sagging bookshelves define me in ways I’m quite happy with, which is likely why I find it so difficult to give books away. Other people feel similarly about clothing, or teacups. But at what point does our love of things start to have negative effects? In Das Kapital, Marx wrote of commodity fetishism, the result of a capitalist system in which people’s labour is viewed as a commodity in and of itself, something to be bought and sold. Commodity fetishism alters social relations so people can only see their relationships with objects, instead of each other, i.e. producer with what she produces, consumer with what he consumes. Have we got to a point where we care about things more than the people whose stories are wrapped up in making, marketing, and selling them?
I read an article last August in the Globe & Mail about objectum sexuals: a movement of those who form romantic/intimate relationships with things. One such individual the article profiled had recently married the Eiffel Tower; another was at the time “dating two soundboards” (apparently objectum sexuals are no more likely to be monogamous than those who are attracted to humans). Is this just capitalism to its farcical extreme? Did Marx foresee this? Is our preoccupation – and in some cases obsession – with material objects a sign of the decadence and decay of Western society?
I wonder if this kind of thing occurs in the developing world, where there are generally fewer things, or if extreme materialism is only found among those who have the luxury of having many things. It makes some kind of sense (perhaps from watching too many 80s movies) that those who aren’t used to thinking of objects as having what Marx referred to as exchange-value instead of merely use-value would find the materialism Westerners exhibit absurd. In part, I suspect it is because those who live in less highly developed monetary exchange societies don’t imbue objects with significance in and of themselves to the same extent, as representations of communities. In the West we use objects to send subtle messages about what we value, what we think, and who we are at a fundamental level. In our world of extreme marketing and extreme materialism, buying (or not buying) things is our way of acting, instead of protesting or voting, which in many developing societies can be highly political even in the action itself. In my conceptual model detailing a national hierarchy of needs (perhaps more appropriately titled a hierarchy of national development), materialism would likely rest in the second-highest tier, that of a “thriving public sphere” with imagined communities. Consumer communities are a large part of the significance behind the idea of “taste,” because taste is, essentially, a quality that is comparative or shared.
I suspect that this is why iPods and e-readers and such – though certainly useful, and popular – will take a while to replace actual CDs and books entirely. Having electronic objects that store many different albums or books in one place ingratiates one into only a narrow kind of community, that of electronic gadget aficionados, whereas every book is a choice that can open up commonalities with whoever happens upon a bookcase. E-readers are not common enough yet to overcome their form and be judged by function alone, as paper is for books.
So would a way to escape from extreme materialism be to seek out others who feel the same way through action, instead of consumerism? To stop buying things and turn to protesting instead? Perhaps. But society has evolved to a state that is so commercialized, such actions are by default seen as economic ones, a kind of self-identification through one’s refusal to consume. In a world of too many things, materialism is no longer a difference of kind, but of degree. The amount and make-up of my clutter thus says a lot about me. Alas, back to boxes.
There’s a lot of talk about public space, especially in urban centres. In Toronto there are whole movements dedicated to using it, preserving it and creating more of it – more parks, sidewalks, markets, waterfronts, and civic centres. Many see public space as a fundamental pillar of democracy, particularly at the local level where grassroots community organization can impact politics to a greater degree than at the national level.
A lot of these campaigns are led by the young and largely propertyless, often leftists, renters or students. Case in point: the authors of the Project for Public Spaces website ranked the 20 best neighbourhoods in North America in their “Great Public Spaces” section. Of course, I looked for Toronto and wasn’t surprised to find Kensington Market – somewhere I personally find not “one of the most vibrant places in Toronto” but a sketchy and slightly smelly collection of ramshackle shops – coming in at 8th place. Hardly Rockefeller Plaza. And the local counsellors who support the cause are on the political left too, even considering municipal politics in Toronto slants quite heavily that way to in general.
I wonder if the leftist slant of public space advocacy is because the availability of public space is more important to those who don’t have/want private spaces of their own. With the opportunity to own a tiny condo or one-room loft, concern for public space for general use seems to decline. It’s more appealing, perhaps, to be able to control one’s environment, despite the costs. And the clamouring for public space grows ever quieter as the students move from starter lofts to semi-detached homes with lawns, commutes, and bigger environmental footprints.
There is definitely, therefore, a generational aspect to the use of, and maybe even need for, public space. Private space is increasingly necessary in raising a family or seeking financial security. And the kinds of activities that occur in public spaces – socializing, meeting new people, and acting on common interests – move further into the realm of private space as we grow older and tend to seek out the same friends, colleagues, or associations we’ve had for years. More private space makes our worlds more insular.
In part this trend is due to the decline of public-private spaces that in the past would encourage intergenerational socializing. Consider that in the Victorian era, a huge amount of time was spent at semi-private dances, in gentlemen’s clubs, or in church, all of which are areas that have fewer and fewer members each year. Like never before, space has been divided up into “privatopias,” whether owned by individuals or corporations, and access to these tightly controlled by invitation only.
It is also increasingly commercialized, something urban studies scholars have been writing about for ages. Whereas 200+ years ago town squares, public parks, and fairs abounded, today the majority of “public space” has a commercial bent, such as restaurants, arenas, nightclubs, and shops. Starbucks, renowned for its marketing campaign to make its cafes the “third space,” in the end really only wants you to buy their lattes and frou-frou yogurt cups. And the best example of the commercialized space, and one of the most popular “public” spaces for youth, is the mall. What is more likely to incite consumerism than a collection of stores, kiosks and food courts? There is much more of an incentive to do something (usually buy something) within public spaces today, whereas in the past the only thing one was expected to do was socialize.
It is perhaps not surprising then, given the generational divide in the use of public space and how increasingly partitioned it is into commercial zones, that young advocates of public space have turned to a generally no-cost option for interaction: the Internet. The most abundant public space today is the virtual kind. Spaces like chat rooms in the early days, and later Facebook, MySpace and YouTube were revolutionary because they allowed large groups to get together to exchange news, form communities, and interact in real time. And they’ve since gone one better and added the advantage of collaboration outside of real time that allows group affiliations without having to all be present in the same place at the same time, through “walls,” posts and message boards visible to everyone. The Internet seems to be the solution to the ever-declining amount of physical public space: no governments need to be lobbied or protests staged; no corporations need to be fought for land; and the degree of commercialization is smaller, with relatively unobtrusive ads (so far).
But what is lost without physical space? True, there will be no “guerrilla gardening” online (except, perhaps, in other people’s FarmVilles). And it is easy to argue that virtual space is less accessible – to the underprivileged and those who can’t easily navigate the Internet – than its physical equivalent. It is also vulnerable to the same kinds of privatization that threaten space in the outside world, through access controls or commercialization.
But the potential for grassroots activism is surely greater, since the Internet is vast and largely unpoliced, unlike physical spaces. I wonder, will declining physical public space affect the quality of democracy for good or ill? It is perhaps a truism after even the short time facebook has been around that people are more likely to support a cause by joining a group than leaving the house to protest something. And joining facebook groups is no doubt less effective than voting for a local politician who can actually effect change. But the far-flung and ever-present nature of virtual public space carries advantages here too: people are perhaps even more likely to find out about something because the exchange of information is even more rapid than before, and isn’t immediately lost the way it would be in a physical gathering.
The challenge, then, is bringing the activism and accessibility of the physical public space into the virtual world. Ideally, of course, the public space of the future will be a hybrid of the virtual and physical kind. Perhaps the use of each will inspire support for the other. But in the short term, I nominate facebook as one of the “great public spaces” of our time. I wonder what Habermas and the public space committee would say to that.
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Labour MP writes of gruel, rotten bones and putrid horseflesh in childish attack on Cameron's "workhouse ethos"
"Not far from where young David Cameron went to school at Eton, there used to stand a workhouse for the poor of Victorian England. Husbands were separated from wives; mothers from children. When Elizabeth Wyse on Christmas Day 1840 tried to spend the night with her daughter, the workhouse director dragged her from the room, locked her in the workhouse cage, and left her in solitary confinement with no coat, no bedding-straw, and no chamber pot for 24 hours. The following morning, she was served her fellow inmates' cold gruel before being sent back to her soiled cage to clean it. With her hands. The Victorians disliked the poor. At Andover workhouse in Hampshire, single women with illegitimate children were forced to wear a yellow stripe across their grey gowns if they wanted to eat. Young boys were sent out to work in the tanneries and were so starved they gnawed on rotten bones and putrid horseflesh to stay alive. The cuts we are witnessing today to Britain's public services will not send us back to the worst days of the 19th century. But the approach of David Cameron and George Osborne to the welfare state reeks of the 1800s."
Hunt's garbage is in full here.
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2019-04-20T14:31:00Z
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https://conservativehome.blogs.com/leftwatch/2010/10/labour-mp-writes-of-gruel-rotten-bones-and-putrid-horseflesh-in-childish-attack-on-camerons-workhous.html
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Promenade performance for ages 8+.
The Gift tells the story of brother and sister, Mary and Keith. When Mary receives 'The Gift' everything changes and their lives begin to move in very different directions.
Performed in promenade at CastleCourt shopping centre in Belfast.
The information for this entry was taken from company administrative files and press cuttings.
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2019-04-26T01:48:18Z
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http://irishplayography.com/play.aspx?playid=60353
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Cornell Cooperative Extension supports our local agriculture industry with educational programs and technical services for farmers and rural landowners with commercial and part-time agricultural business enterprises. We offer resources and programs related to dairy farming, livestock management, agronomy, ag economic development, natural resources, horticulture, maple production and much more.
"The Guide to Farming in NY State" covers topics pertinent to planning and operating a farm business, from getting started, to selling what you produce. Free download here!
The Paul Smith's College VIC offers a variety of free and fee-based arts, sports, and environmental educational programs throughout the year.
Find more regional events in agriculture in the Cornell Small Farms Quarterly online!
Cornell Cooperative Extension has produced on-line pesticide applicator courses that qualify for New York DEC recertification credits.
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http://franklin.cce.cornell.edu/agriculture
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Most scenarios about America’s energy future include nuclear power. President Obama has promised $8 billion in loan guarantees to break ground in Georgia on the first two new nuclear reactors in nearly 30 years. But there’s no permanent plan for the radioactive waste that will come from these new plants.
And it gets worse: there’s no plan for the 70,000 tons of nuclear waste that we’ve been accumulating for the last 60 years. Our correspondent, Mona Iskander, went to Wiscasset, Maine, to visit one small town that wants to see some decisions made.
Editor’s note: This report previously included a still image of liquid natural gas storage tanks near the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant that Need To Know erroneously believed to be the Calvert Cliffs nuclear plant itself.
There ARE solutions that have been developed to increase the “burn” on the existing nuclear waste. The IFR (Integral Fast Reactor) developed by Argonne Natl. Laboratory in the late 80s, used a holistic conceptual and engineering aproach which would have addressed the waste problem quite handily. However, the program was killed in 1994 by Bill Clinton and John Kerry. Google “IFR” and “Dr. Charles Till” to read the Front Line transcript from 1996. I assure you, it will be time well spent.
I just watched a very poor presentation of the nuclear waste issue, including a huge error characterizing the Yucca Mountain site as having “perfect” geology. Download an earthquake map from the USGS. Notice where Nevada is in relation to the San Andreas Fault. There are far mor stable geologic settings available to store nuclear waste.
Please present a more balanced point of view. Yucca Mountain was chosen because it is on the Nevada Test Site, which the government already owns and his already heavily contaminated. You never mentioned the “Screw Nevada Act.” Finally, if you are interested in the facts about Yucca Mountain I recommend “How Safe is Yucca Mountain?” by Dr. Thomas B. Cochran, who testified before Congress. The link is here.
Sorry, the Cochran article in the previous post is from a presentation at Vanderbilt Universith. Here is one made in Congress.
I should add that existing nuclear wastes and weapons materials (including Plutonium and depleted Uranium), can be consumed in secured MSRs, thus supporting nuclear non-proliferation negotiations and anti-nuclear weapons organizations. The history of the MSR illustrates how politics shoots us all in the foot. Alvin Weinberg was fired by the Nixon administration for being too concerned with safety. Edward Teller recommended in 1985 that we build MSRs instead of our current, inefficient, water-cooled reactors that have explosive potential — he was ignored. The established industry is now so heavily subsidized and used to profits from the expensive ore-to-fuel-to-waste cycle that completing MSR demonstrations will be difficult. However, it’s our only real choice to meet the unfortunate reality now clearly explained in AAAS Science Vol. 329, 9/10/10 (Davis et al. p1330). The combination of greenhouse emissions and ocean acidification will inevitably drive us to safe, efficient nuclear power, and Thorium MSRs provide both that and weapons/waste destruction. Also read The American Scientist, July-August 2010 (Hargraves & Moir). It’s sobering to realize we have a decade of free power available in a pit in Nevada — 3200 tons of Thorium from the Manhattan Project. The established nuclear industry does not like this, but it will happen, hopefully here before other countries succeed and sell MSRs back to us, again hurting our balance of payments & technical leadership.
Have you read the nuclear energy”Primer” by Dr. Bill Wattenburg on nuclear energy? Very convincing information from an experienced scientist (Livermore National Lab & more) who now hosts a late night talk show weekends on KGO in San Francisco. The web address is http://kgoradio.com/Article.asp?id=1409613&nId=12&spid=33320.
The show on nuclear waste provided much good information but contained two glaring omissions, existence of the Nuclear Waste Fund and the destruction of plutonium.
Each kilowatt-hour of electricity generated from nuclear power has been taxed for the ultimate disposal of nuclear waste, creating the federal Nuclear Waste Fund. By law, the federal government has taken the responsibility to dispose of this waste using money from the Nuclear Waste Fund. The government squandered a sizable amount from the Nuclear Waste Fund on the Yucca Mountain project that it has now aborted. The law requires the government to receive the waste by 1998 but since there is no place for the waste to go, utilities are incurring substantial expense for temporary storage for which they are suing the government. You failed to mention that consumers have prepaid for the disposal and the current costs to taxpayers are simply paying for a government mistake, not nuclear waste disposal.
You characterized the plutonium in nuclear wastes as though it just adds to a weapons stockpile. You failed to mention that like uranium, the plutonium can fission and provide additional energy for electricity if it were used as reactor fuel. Once fissioned, the plutonium would be destroyed and no longer an issue.
Thank you Dr. Cannara and others for your thought-provoking comments and observations. I’d often heard about the Thorium and MSR project. The IFR was the program which apealed to me most since it involved, as part of the aforementioned holistic engineeering approach, inherently safe operation. I suppose that the MSR is similarly configured but don;t really know enough about it to make that determination.
I think the bottom line in all this is that there are a number of available, economical and PROVEN technologies that can help us in the move away from fossil fuels and CO2 and NOx (and Hg and other) emissions and into a setting of clean and abundant ordered energy. My greatest hope, as you so eloquently put it, is that the US can take the lead on this and become the EXPORTER to the rest of the world. There’s no real reason we can’t, other than political will–or a lack thereof.
promotion of reprocessing over all other spent fuel management options.
It’s interesting that the same people who believe in AGW based on a scientific “consensus” of climatogists, will not accept the proper methods for processing and disposing of nuclear fuel — supported by an actual overwhelming consensus of qualified physicists.
See EnergyPresentation.Info for an independent scientific perspective on our energy policies.
Your essay on the nuclear waste issue did not include any reference to the solution presented by the concept of the Integral Fast Reactor. The fast reactor can utilize any and all nuclear waste as fuel, and the plutonium in weapons as well. The waste products are minimal and have short half-lives, for the most part. The IFR is a passive reactor and is inherently safe. Try to find the interview of Dr. Charles Till, formerly director of the Argonne National Laboratory West in Idaho at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/reaction/interviews/till.html. You will be amazed.
Balance is lacking in this point of view by JF. Geology, even with faults, is more stable than any human society has been over much shorter timeframes. In the case of Yucca the ‘screw nevada bill” was an unfortunate thing, it made it difficult for “us” (I am a former Yucca worker) to explain to Nevadans that we were looking out for their safety. What that bill did is cause us to answer the question: can it be done safely here? If not, come back to Congress. We twice (2002, 2008) said “yes” to that question, but it will cost a lot. In 2002 Congress responded with a law desifnating the site as the nation’s repository. In 2008 the Nuclear Regulatory Commission accepted the license application for detailed review. The fact that the license was for a 70,000 metric ton repository was dicatetd by Congress. Our Environmental Impact Statement evaluated one almost twice that size. If you have mountains you have faults, the trick is to investigate and see which faults are “capable” (meaning there has been movement during the Quaternary on that fault). Yucca Mountain was bounded on two sides by capable faults, but there were no capable faults inside the rock of interest for use as a repository. What thus means is that for the last 10-million years, earth movements have been buffered by the capable faults, and have not caused any further faukting inside the “block” of interest. The good news is that your federal government was not as stupid as you might be thinking. We pulled in the nation’s best seismologists and also volcanologists and asked them to give us the likelihood of future impacts on the repository from earthquakes and nearby volcanic eruptions (extremely unlikley as they might be). Those likelihoods, and totally oversated assumptions about potential damage to waste packages, led to most likely outcome of a 1% rise in the LOCAL background dose, raising it from 200 millirem per year to 202 millirem per year for the “reasonably maximally exposed individual” defined by the Environmental Protection Agency. MOST of the rest of the country sees more like 300 millirem per year from natural background, so 202 versus 200 is truly insignificant. BUT the important thing here is that society ought to be making these types of decisions, not technocarats like myself. And whatever society decides, using Constitutionally prescribed decison processes, is just fine by me. Heck, granitic rocks, rock salt, and claystone are likely to be used in Sweden and Finland, Germany and France, respectively, so if we as a nation decide to go to those rock types, much of the pioneering site characterization technique development and safety evaluation work, and even repository designs, can be obtained from those countries, we could even bring their experts here to advise us, and thus give us a very rapid start using these rock types, if that is what this society decides.
Oh my gosh, I need to get a spell-checker! Sorry!
I forgot to say that that likely 1% increase in local background dose was at a million years after final repositry closure. The EPA saw fit to require a 1-million year safety evaluation for Yucca Mountain, as had been recommended by the National Academy of Sciences, and the NRC included that million-year timeframe into its licensing requirements.
Not being technically savvy enough in all this debate the simpletons view appears to be that The MSR approach uses existing waste or at least some of it to fire it up cost = zero unless the government wants to sell it back at say half the cost of existing nuclear fuels. If the expert is right it has no radioactive waste ( MSR ) approach to dispose of and less susceptible to explosion risks.
So why is it not happening…. my guess, too many vested interests in existing technology and Uranium mining and the Political lobby associated therewith.
Mr. Chu should be tasked with sorting this out and allocating government funds only to the best technological and cost effective solution and waste management solution,historically and for future.
NICE SPIN, but typical of the empty talking heads on news programs!
The WASTE that was leaking into the Columbia River was not from the vitrification process. It was mostly from storage tanks.
PS As to effects on fish, look for the documentary on Chernobyl animals: healthier on average the neighboring cities!
NICE SPIN! Wonder who you shill for?
Reading WIKI Thorium/Dangers says otherwise about its safety!
Ah, it wasnt squandered. It was part of a major learning curve ladder that benefited so many nations as they visited each others sites and met in Europe.
Plus, it wasnt OUR govt that aborted the project, the law was never changed. Instead it was the Obama-ites and Reid that defunded the project over the objections of all the states paying to solve their problem.
So, in effect, they have taken the catalyst for newer nuke plants out of the equation. Those newer plants would of been able to produce HYDROGEN as a byproduct which could replace LNG/Propane as a fuel for American transportation fleets like USPS, FEDEX, UPS, etc.
Whats unnecessary is our current methods of electrical generation, especially COAL. But, it lives on from our past.
The one direction that frightens me is choices that require BATTERIES for storage. Just ask any warehouse that uses BATTERY powered vehicles about reliability, cost, and upkeep. Most companies abhor replacing those batteries. Not to mention the effect on countries we DUMP such things, and their cheap labor’s health problems that result.
If there were any better way, would the great superpowers not do it?
Someone isnt paying attention. Look at the lady at MMS who was tasked to push wind power over oil and took her eyes off of BP; even planning an award for them.
Lil obama is pushing whats in HIS best interest and for photo ops. The same problem at DOE and NASA.
Dont know if he is a beneficiary, but PELOSI and REID are major holders of CLNE and have acted in their own best interests rather then in AMERICA’s.
So much for blind trusts, if even I know what they own.
It isn’t “waste.” Spent nuclear fuel has 95% of the energy potential of the original fuel. France has been recycling spent fuel for decades and Japan will soon start up a facility to do it.
Not recycling spent fuel is like mining gold and then throwing 95 lbs out of every 100 back in the mine.
For decades green groups and the news media have mis-labeled spent fuel as “waste.” The reason we have a once-through fuel cycle is based on a political decision to do it this way. From a technical point of view, it makes no sense. Green groups like it because it allows them to use the “waste” issue to attack nuclear energy.
What green groups fail to realize that every kilowatt that isn’t generated with nuclear energy is a vote for more greenhouse gases.
@Dan: I agree, if we could recycle all of that, that would be great. The video mentioned plutonium as the major byproduct of the recycling process. Would that be able to be turned into something inert?
Not being a nuke physicist…where are those East European radioactive hogs coming from?
It’s been out of the bag, on how to split the atom sinse I was a first grader. Also all the nifty stuff on how to make bombs , Read maps, Lead armys ,Fly airplanes, and more.All this I read in my weekly reader. Sinse I’m only about average. I can only say. Great reporting,Did you not hear the leaders of our country say “there are people trying to distroy U>S>!!!!. If I were a torrorest .I’d send a box of candy and a cuppy doll to the lot of you.For all the info and ideas you’ve given.The report clearly marks the location of the dumps it also showed the best way to aproach, a few more seconds of film and He could pinpoint the best place to set a charge.And lets not forget the commenters. There is a weath of information there.
“The chemistry is fundamentally the 63-year-old Purex process developed in the Manhattan Project–Purex stands for ”plutonium-uranium extraction”–but Areva says the separation equipment employed is more compact than its predecessors and generates less waste.
Both France and Japan are manufacturing MOX fuel (mixed oxide fuel consisting of 95% uranium and 5% plutonium). Japan has no choice since it cannot compete with China for fossil fuels.
The obstacles to dealing with used fuel are not technical but political. As Need to Know points out, at one time the US had a recycling program. France and other countries never stopped theirs. Fuel that’s been through a commercial power reactor once still retains over 96% of its energy so should not be called waste. It can be recycled multiple times. The volume of waste is reduced dramatically. In France, if a family of four gets all its electricity from nuclear power for 20 years, its share would be a glass cylinder the size of a Bic lighter. All of France’s vitrified residue for four decades is stored under the floor of a room the size of a basketball gym. Dry cask storage, despite the doubts raised by the fellow in Maine, is extremely safe and sturdy. Used fuel can remain in storage like that for 100 years. But it won’t–it’s too valuable as a source of new fuel. Using advanced reactors of designs that have already been tested, used fuel will eventually be recycled here in the US. Nuclear power is the only large-scale, clean way to replace deadly fossil-fuel combustion.
“Reusable” nuclear waste is actually plutonium, the stuff of nuclear bombs, more deadly by far than “deadly” fossil-fuel combusion. Invisible, odorless and irretrivable, transported by air, water or direct contact it damages human, animal and plant cells causing cancer, liver damage, infertility and the human genome . It would be insane to recycle nuclear waste to generate electricity although the industry has considered and rejected it for now sixty years.
this is exactly right. the myth of “recycling” nuke waste has been hyped for decades, & is not cost effective or environmentally sound. in fact it’s just another PR ploy for a dying, desperate reactor industry that can’t get private financing, can’t get meaningful liability insurance can’t handle its wastes. it’s time to move on to what works—renewables & efficiency.
I agree with Gwyneth Cravens – the used fuel is a tremendous resource that is currently being stored away for future use. This is no myth – we have both seen with our own eyes how France is using early recycling technology to recover some of the energy that their used fuel retains.
No one, not even the French, will claim that our current recycling technology for used fuel is the be all, end all. In its current form, it recovers about 20-25% more energy from mined uranium than a system that does not include any recycling.
However, there are already improvements being made in the system that will increase that percentage of recovery. The nice thing about used nuclear fuel is that even the parts of the material that have not yet been recovered for new energy are not thrown away – they are stored away in carefully controlled containers to be used at a time when technology has improved. The potential is that we can eventually recover almost 140 times as much energy from mined uranium as we do with the use once then store forever cycle.
Harvey, unlike you, I have not spent my life criticizing the technical accomplishments of others without actually engaging in technical development myself. I have been a manufacturer and a nuclear plant operator. I understand that manufacturing improvements are an evolutionary process and that cost effective improvements require continual efforts. It is silly to talk about the cost effectiveness of a system that is not in current use. A good technologist can see the potential, but it requires practice, refined procedures and improved tools to turn the potential into something that is cost effective.
The French have refined their techniques to the point of being quite cost effective now and they still have plenty of room for improvement. They have some of the cheapest, cleanest and most reliable electricity in Europe as a result of their independent minded decision to pursue nuclear energy. Their well trained technologists have done their homework and chosen well.
In contrast, Americans have allowed the coal, oil and gas industries to keep us addicted to their highly profitable product lines. Sadly, those industries have had assistance from people like you, Karl Grossman, and Amory Lovins.
The IEEE article that you quoted is not correct. The recovered plutonium in France is mixed with uranium that has been recovered from French enrichment tails.
Some of the uranium that has been recovered from used fuel is now being shipped to enrichment facilities in Russia where it is enriched to the level used in low enriched uranium fuel pellets.
The uranium “tails” from that process remain in Russia. It might surprise some non technical observers, but the Russians were quite insistent upon keep those tails and made sure that it was written into the contract that they signed for the enrichment process.
Unlike folks who are not in the know when it comes to the technical details of nuclear materials, the Russians recognize that there is significant energy value even in “depleted” uranium. It contains 2 million times as much energy per unit mass as oil; it just needs two neutrons in order to release that energy. It also helps if one of those neutrons is “fast” and the Russians currently lead the world in fast neutron reactor operation.
Western Europe will be able to purchase more oil and gas from Russia because the Russians will be using cheap, clean nuclear energy to supply their own domestic needs. Their oligarchs will laugh all the way to the bank as they sell their oil and gas for export earnings and keep the cheap stuff for themselves.
The show suggested that Nevada’s objections to Yucca Mountain were the main objections. Perhaps Nevada’s Sen. Reid made the most noise politically, but there was already strong, irrefutable science saying we couldn’t use Yucca Mountain for nuclear waste for the necessary thousands of years.
For example, science showed that Yucca Mountain was not geologically stable. Apparently it wasn’t considered politically correct to talk about that.
There is NO safe way to store high-level radioactive waste for the thousands of years it will be dangerous. The money we have wasted pretending we can do so will be multiplied many times in the future. Producing more such waste is an insane policy.
The best answer to taking care of high-level radioactive waste is NOT TO MAKE ANY MORE OF IT! Does that help us with the thousands of tons we already have? No, it doesn’t. We have to do our best to keep it out of the environment, but there is no way safety can be guaranteed. We (or should I say greedy nuclear utilities) stubbornly insist we can outwit Mother Nature’s laws, but on this issue our attempts may prove suicidal.
The nuclear fuel cycle produces greenhouse gases. Nukes release radioactivity daily into air and water. How can that be called ‘clean’?
Rather presumptuous for the NRC to be predicting likely increases in background radiation a MILLION years hence….
I would say that bureaucrats who can be so cavalier about nuclear power are not thinking about the day-to-day effects on people like the uranium miners, who get lung cancer.
Well I’d like to see the waste sent to the sun for disposal, but that’s pretty expensive, and dangerous.
However, all the people who hate nuclear because of its dangers and waste seem to give coal a bye. How about all that CO2 that these plants store in our atmosphere. Free garbage dump for them, a dangerous climate change for us. I also doubt that those most against nuclear realize we in the US get 20% of our electricity from nuclear. How many accidents have been reported? Deaths? Compare that to coal.
France adopted nuclear decades ago. They’re doing alright… don’t see many of them glowing in the dark.
So yes, the waste is a problem, but it’s a few tons of waste, compared the the gigatons of CO2 in the atmosphere that we currently do not have the technology to remove.
No private insurance company will insure them; no private company will invest in them. S. Africa, U.K., U.S.etc,, they literally can’t GIVE these plants away.
question IF or HOW it’s constructed.
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http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/environment/legacy-of-waste-the-high-cost-of-nuclear-power/3846/
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. . . we expected — and got — more from public infrastructure investments?
Many cities are making substantial investments in themselves. Like Toronto, they’re making multi-million-dollar deals to extend transit systems, improve social housing stock, restore architectural treasures and build community facilities. Some are no longer satisfied, however, with the traditional contracting process. Los Angeles, Edinburgh, New York and others expect more — more for their money, more for residents, and more of themselves and their partners.
These far-sighted cities expect developers and civic coalitions to negotiate Community Benefit Agreements as a first step in the planning process. CBAs are legally binding contracts. They define the benefits residents will receive from the development, such as local hiring and training programs, living wage guarantees and affordable housing. They single out groups who are not already benefiting from the city’s growth — young workers, newcomers, foreign-trained professionals and low-income communities — and send opportunities their way.
How would your idea transform the city?
CBAs demand a disciplined process for finding common ground and strategizing to deliver the highest returns. They earn community support for development projects, diffuse opposition, and build the reserves of trust, skill and resolve needed to tackle other complex issues.
Toronto is becoming a city that expects more — and gets more — from urban redevelopment initiatives. Metrolinx and the Toronto Community Benefits Network, an alliance of residents, labour, and community groups, are currently negotiating a CBA for the Eglinton-Crosstown LRT. It’s leading to a smarter strategy for investing provincial dollars, creating apprenticeships and jobs for low-income communities, support for affected neighbourhoods and world-class infrastructure.
It’s not about new money. It’s about working differently with the resources already on the table, and building a broad base of supporters.
Unlike old-style backroom deal-making and shallow public consultations, this process empowers everyone who has a stake in the outcome and sets their sights higher. It counters the cynical view of development as serving only a select few with real evidence that it can serve us all. CBAs have the potential to help make Toronto more cohesive, more prosperous and more equitable at the same time.
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https://www.thestar.com/bigideas/experts/2014/02/24/expect_more_from_public_infrastructure_investments_colette_murphys_big_idea.html
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You are cordially invited to attend Spring 2013 Workshop Series event that NOTA will be hosting on Saturday, June 15th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in Satterfield Hall 122, Kent State University in Kent, OH.
The 2013 Workshop Series Event will feature two presentations: “Medical Translation: Getting Started and Maintaining Clients” presented by Madalena Sanchez Zampaulo and “How to Become an Ohio State Certified Court Interpreter” presented by John P. Shaklee. Madalena’s presentation will focus more on the medical translation market and will present key tips and strategies on how to build your resume, find jobs and projects in the medical field and continue education as a medical translator. John’s presentation will outline the process involved in becoming an Ohio State Certified Court Interpreter, where you will learn about the written and oral exam, preparation tactics and ethics.
Presentations will be followed by the International Pot Luck Cuisine Fest. All of the attendees will be highly encouraged to bring a dish from their native cuisine to share with everyone and provide a brief overview of the dish including information such as 1) origin of the dish, 2) how it is being prepared – recipe for your dish, and 3) how the dish became popular in your native culture. After presentation, everyone will have a sample and enjoy the great taste of each dish that is being featured in our Pot Luck Cuisine Fest!
The registration fees for the 2013 Spring Workshop Series event are set as follows: $10/person for NOTA Members, $20/person for Non-Members, and Free for Students. If you would like to RSVP for this event, please send the corresponding payment to Reinhold Federmann at the following address: 3085 Brush Road, Richfield, OH 44286-9630. In addition to this, please send an email to Vitaliy Plinto, NOTA Programs & Events Chair, at vvp13ster@gmail.com and indicate the total number of people in your group (including yourself) that will be attending the event. All registration requests and payments must be received no later than Wednesday, June 12th to guarantee available seating for the event.
If you have any questions or need any additional information about this event, please contact John P. Shaklee at (330) 327-2189 or Vitaliy Plinto at (216) 773-8792. Thank you for your interest and we look forward to seeing you all at he Spring 2013 NOTA Workshop Series event in Kent on June 15th!
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2019-04-20T18:35:48Z
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"Etude in E Op.10 No.3"
the blackest magic of voodoo keeps this beautiful woman alive...yet DEAD!
She's alive... yet dead! She's dead... yet alive!
Who said the dead don't walk?
See it happen--right before your startled eyes...in the screen sensation that rips the mask from the darkest secrets of forbidden voodoo!
Paul Holland: It's easy enough to read the thoughts of a newcomer. Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies. The glitter of putrescence. There is no beauty here, only death and decay. Betsy Connell: You can't really believe that. Paul Holland: Everything good dies here. Even the stars.
Betsy Connell: [Betsy Connell and Mr. Holland are walking through the garden together] Why was the maid crying? Paul Holland: I'm not sure I can make you understand. [He stops and points at an odd-looking sculpture in the garden] Paul Holland: Do you know what this is? Betsy Connell: A figure of Saint Sebastian. Paul Holland: Yes. But it was once the figurehead of a slave ship. That's where our people came from. From the misery and pain of slavery. For generations they found life a burden. That's why they still weep when a child is born and make merry at a burial... I've told you, Miss Connell: this is a sad place.
Betsy Connell: Frankly, it was something of a shock to see my patient that way for the first time. Nobody had told me Mrs. Holland was a... mental case. Paul Holland: A "mental case"? Betsy Connell: I'm sorry... Paul Holland: Why should you be? My wife IS a mental case. Please remember that, Miss Connell. Particularly when some of the foolish people on the island start regaling you with the local legends. You'll find superstition a contagious thing. Some people let it get the better of them. I don't think you will. Betsy Connell: No. Paul Holland: Come along. I'll introduce you to Dr. Maxwell and your patient.
Val Lewton did not like the article "I Walked With A Zombie" by Inez Wallace that had been optioned so he adapted the story to fit the novel "Jane Eyre" because he felt the article's plot was too clich�d.
Edith Barrett, who played the mother, was only 3 years older than James Ellison, who played her younger son, Wesley. She actually was 2 years younger than Tom Conway, who played her older son, Paul.
The role played by Frances Dee was originally filled by Anna Lee.
In the script, the fictitious island is very explicitly identified as being owned by the United States. None of these items (such as a prominent American flag flying at the harbor) made it into the film, and items like the Island's association with British Columbia (where Betsy is from) suggest that it might instead be a current or former British colony.
The two figures seen walking along the beach during the opening credits are Frances Dee and Darby Jones.
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http://www.buried.com/horrormovies/i-walked-with-a-zombie-1943/347/
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It continues to surprise me how many leaders attempt to be one way at work, while their “true” personality emerges outside of work. Once a CEO reminded me, “Leadership is acting.” And it surprises me when these same leaders seem shocked or confused when their employees don’t trust them, don’t like them, and can’t really wait to work elsewhere.
Authenticity has been explored throughout history, from Greek philosophers to the work of Shakespeare (“To thy own self be true.” –Polonius, Hamlet). Authentic leadership has been explored sporadically as part of modern management science, but found its highest levels of acceptance since Bill George’s 2003 book, Authentic Leadership.
But what is authentic leadership?
1. Authentic leaders are self-aware and genuine. Authentic leaders are self-actualized individuals who are aware of their strengths, their limitations, and their emotions. They also show their real selves to their followers. They do not act one way in private and another in public; they don’t hide their mistakes or weaknesses out of fear of looking weak. They also realize that being self-actualized is an endless journey, never complete.
2. Authentic leaders are mission driven and focused on results. They are able to put the mission and the goals of the organization ahead of their own self-interest. They do the job in pursuit of results, not for their own power, money or ego.
3. Authentic leaders lead with their heart, not just their minds. They are not afraid to show their emotions, their vulnerability and to connect with their employees. This does not mean authentic leaders are “soft.” In fact communicating in a direct manner is critical to successful outcomes, but it’s done with empathy; directness without empathy is cruel.
4. Authentic leaders focus on the long-term. A key tenet in Bill George’s model is the company leaders are focused on long-term shareholder value, not in just beating quarterly estimates. Just as George did as CEO of Medtronic , and as Bezos has done for years at Amazon, leaders realize that to nurture individuals and to nurture a company requires hard work and patience, but the approach pays large dividends over time.
What are your motivation triggers? Take the "Your Engagement Profile Quiz" to find out.
Check out Kevin Kruse’s new book, Employee Engagement 2.0, and discover how to turn apathetic groups into emotionally committed teams.
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Last year, many library supporters participated in the rally and visits to legislators on Capitol Hill for Library Advocacy Day. This year, the annual national advocacy event for libraries, coordinated by the American Library Association Washington Office, has returned to its original format as National Library Legislative Day. Library advocates from across the country will come to Washington, DC on Monday, May 9th and Tuesday, May 10th to learn about legislation and issues and visit members of Congress. With many issues facing libraries this year, this federal advocacy effort will be very important.
3/30/2011 Update: Registration will open at 8:00am. Briefings will begin at 9:00am.
4/25/2011 Update: Revised issue briefs have been posted. Go to the National Library Legislative Day web page and scroll down to the bottom of the page. Additional issue briefs will be added as they are available.
A reception will be held in the evening on Monday, May 9th on Capitol Hill.
3/30/2011 Update: The reception will be held in the Rayburn Foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building from 5:30pm – 7:00pm.
On Tuesday, May 10th, library advocates will visit members of Congress and ask for support of libraries. In Maryland, in order to present an organized advocacy effort, formal meetings with legislators will be coordinated through the Maryland Library Association’s Legislative Panel. If you are interested in participating in the scheduled meetings, please contact Natalie Edington, Maryland’s State Coordinator and the Federal Coordinator of the Legislative Panel, at nedington@aacpl.net by Monday, April 18th.
If you are interested, a block of rooms has been reserved at the Liaison Hotel under American Library Association 2011 and they usually fill up quickly. To make reservations, call 1-866-AFFINIA or book online.
4/13/2011 Update: There are still some rooms left in the block of ALA rooms. The reduced rate on these rooms will be available until April 18th. If the Liaison Hotel staff tell you that the block of rooms if full, please contact Kristin Murphy from the ALA Washington Office for assistance at kmurphy@alawash.org or 202-628-2520.
This posting will be updated as more information becomes available. For some additional information, you may also visit the National Library Legislative Day web page of the American Library Association Washington Office.
Library Advocacy Day was held on Tuesday, June 29th. Over 1600 library supporters, including more than 100 people from Maryland, rallied on Capitol Hill. Then many visited legislators to encourge support of libraries. In addition, over 1100 people contacted legislators through Capwiz during Virtual Library Advocacy Week. Many thanks to all who participated! Here is a collection of photos and a video on the live event.
Video of the speakers during the Rally.
Photos from the Maryland Library Community.
Photos from other rally participants.
Photos from the American Library Association’s Washington Office.
Also, you can read an article on the event on page 19 of the Summer edition of the The Crab, the newsletter of the Maryland Library Association.
Library Advocacy Day a success! Virtual Library Advocacy Week just getting started!
Many thanks to over 100 Maryland library supporters who came to Washington, DC on Tuesday to attend the Library Advocacy Day Rally and visit members of Congress. Rally participants enjoyed hearing from Lauren Myracle (YA author whose books often appear on the Banned Books list) and two library supporters in Congress–Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) and Congressman Vern Ehlers (R-MI). About 1600 people from across the country attended the Rally. Pictures will be posted soon.
If you couldn’t make it to Library Advocacy Day, you can still participate in Virtual Library Advocacy Week. Thank you for any library support you can provide!
Virtrual Library Advocacy Week – Make your voice heard!
In these tough economic times, Americans need their libraries more than ever. Sadly, libraries are often forgotten in times of crisis by everyone but the people who need them most. For this reason, the ALA is hosting Library Advocacy Day on June 29, 2010, on Capitol Hill.
If you can’t make this event, there are still many opportunities to get involved. Please show your support for libraries the week of June 28-July 2 by participating in Virtual Library Advocacy Week. This event, which will be held in conjunction with Library Advocacy Day, will be the biggest show of library advocacy on the federal level in the history of the American Library Association. Your voice, along with over a thousand advocates rallying on Capitol Hill on the 29th, will raise awareness about the important work that libraries and librarians do on a daily basis to help kids learn to read, help people find jobs, and so much more.
A simple phone call or e-mail is all it takes. To send an e-mail, go to http://capwiz.com/ala/home/ and click on the issue you are interested in. The website will take you to a sample form letter. Customize it with stories on what your local library is doing to help people look for jobs or gain digital literacy skills as well as other programs. These examples truly matter to your elected officials.
Fund the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) at $300 million for FY 2011. LSTA funding is distributed to states by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through population-based grants and is the only source of federal funding for public libraries.
Fund the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program at $100 million so that students all across the country can obtain the 21st century skills they will need to succeed in college and the workplace.
If you’d like to call, you can also call the Capitol switchboard at (202)224-3121 and ask for your member of Congress. If you aren’t sure who your member is, use the Capwiz link above to find out. It’s really that simple.
When you’re done with your call, don’t forget to tweet about your experience. Just use this hashtag: #LAD2010.
For more information on Library Advocacy Day, please view the posting on the Maryland Library Association’s Legislative Panel blog.
At the Rally, look for the Maryland sign! ALA is providing signs for each of the states so that people can easily find colleagues. At this point, there are at least 100 people registered from Maryland, out of about 1200 total from around the country, so we are very well represented!
“Advocacy Hour” – Daily from 1pm – 2pm on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at the Membership Pavilion, Booth 2525. Come and learn about all the ways you can get involved in library advocacy, as well as ask questions about Library Advocacy Day.
Q&A at the Membership Pavilion – Sunday from 12 – 1 pm and again from 2:30pm – 3:30 pm; Monday from 11:30am – 12:30pm and again from 2:30pm – 3:30pm. Volunteers and staff will be available to answer questions.
LAD / Ambassadors Desk – Located in Registration. Staff will be happy to answer questions and register individuals for the event.
Personal Stories – The personal story of what you and/or your library do for your customers is always valuable.
For Public Libraries – Stress how public libraries are connected to the community, provide free Internet access, assist job seekers, help small businesses and support education and literacy for children.
For School Libraries – Accentuate the positive impact that school media specialists and an effective school library program have on student achievement in reading, information literacy and helping students become 21st Century Learners.
For Academic Libraries – Emphasize the vital role academic libraries play in strong academic programs and in shaping the graduates who contribute to the success of Maryland’s business and industry and to the quality of life throughout the state.
The American Library Association (ALA) has posted issue briefs giving background information and what action is needed on various legislation and issues that impact libraries. They are available to review in preparation for Library Advocacy Day and Congressional visits.
The Palm Cards that ALA will be providing will include three issues, as listed below. Information on the issues may be found in the Issue Brief as indicated.
Can’t make it to Library Advocacy Day on June 29th? Participate in the Virtual Library Advocacy Day! Join the ALA Washington Office on Monday, June 21st for a webinar on the Virtual Library Advocacy Day to learn more. For webinar details and registration information, see the District Dispatch posting.
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WASHINGTON – Frustrated by the FBI's decision not to indict Hillary Clinton, congressional Republicans are pressing the agency to launch a new investigation into whether the Democratic presidential candidate lied to Congress during her testimony on the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
The House Benghazi committee is set to meet Friday to approve a report on its two-year investigation that found no wrongdoing by Clinton but did reveal that she used a private email server for government business.
Lawmakers may take a fresh look at Clinton's testimony that she never sent or received emails marked as classified when she served as secretary of state, and her claims that she only used one mobile device for emails and turned over all of her work-related emails to the State Department.
Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said Thursday that he would refer Clinton's Oct. 22 testimony to the FBI to investigate whether she lied to Congress.
Clinton testified for nearly 11 hours as the star witness called by the Benghazi panel during its investigation of the deadly 2012 attacks that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. Clinton was secretary of the state at the time of the attacks.
Separately, the State Department was reopening its internal investigation of possible mishandling of classified information by Clinton and top aides. The internal review was suspended in April to avoid interfering with the FBI inquiry.
Pressed by Chaffetz Thursday on whether Clinton lied, FBI Director James Comey said during a hearing that he had not reviewed Clinton's testimony because it had not been referred to him by Congress. Chaffetz assured Comey he would soon get a referral.
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi dismissed the latest GOP move as purely political.
"So let's get this straight: This is going to be an investigation of the decision that is an investigation of the emails that was part of the investigation of Benghazi," she told reporters. "So we had an investigation of the investigation of the investigation. How long can this go on?"
Pelosi spoke as Comey testified before the Oversight panel on why he did not recommend charges against Clinton over use of her home email server. Comey said his team found no evidence that Clinton lied under oath or broke the law by discussing classified information in an unclassified setting.
Under an onslaught of Republican criticism, Comey vigorously defended the government's decision and rejected GOP accusations that the presidential candidate was given special treatment.
To criminally charge Clinton based on the facts his agency's yearlong probe had found would have been unwarranted and mere "celebrity hunting," Comey said.
In nearly five hours of testimony, Comey sought to explain the Justice Department's decision ending an investigation that has dogged Clinton's presidential campaign and raised fresh questions among voters about her trustworthiness.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans have asked Comey to release all unclassified findings of the FBI's yearlong investigation. Ryan also has asked Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to bar Clinton from receiving classified briefings for the rest of the campaign.
A group of Republicans senators has introduced legislation to strip Clinton of her security clearance.
During an exchange with Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., Comey confirmed that the FBI's investigation found at least three emails with classified markings on Clinton's server, despite Clinton's assertion during the Benghazi hearing that she had neither sent nor received any items marked classified.
The State Department says human error was responsible for a pair of Hillary Clinton emails the FBI identified as marked classified when they were sent.
Gowdy serves on the Oversight panel and is chairman of the Benghazi committee.
Under sharp questioning from Gowdy, Comey said Clinton used multiple mobile devices during her tenure and that investigators found "thousands" of work-related emails she had not turned over to the State Department. Clinton has said she used one device and returned all work-related emails.
Gowdy complained Thursday that Clinton benefited from a "double-track justice system that is rightly or wrongly perceived in this country."
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Clark, Eric. 2005. “The order and simplicity of gentrification: a political challenge.” Pp. 261-269 in Gentrification in a global context: the new urban colonialism, R. Atkinson and G. Bridge, eds. London: Routledge.
Crossa, Veronica. 2009. “Resisting the entrepreneurial city: Street vendors' struggle in Mexico City's historic center.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 33(1): 43-63.
Parnreiter, Christof. 2015. “Strategic planning, the real estate economy, and the production of new spaces of centrality: The case of Mexico City.” Erdkunde 69(1): 21-31.
Smith, Neil. 2002. “New Globalism, New Urbanism: Gentrification as Global Urban Strategy.” Antipode 34(3): 434-457.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. 2000. The Essential Wallerstein. New York: The New Press.
This journal is published by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
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We don’t have any more footage of Shazam since he dies so early in the film. In hindsight that bold decision may have been a mistake.
They gave Shazam the Drew Barrymore Scream treatment! Not really, though. David F. Sandberg has been responding to fans who expected another trailer to drop last week. On a more serious note, he said he didn't know where that rumor came from, and he hated for fans to be disappointed, but he couldn't respond to every rumor out there. As he put it, the safest bet is to not believe anything that hasn't been officially announced.
David F. Sandberg is worth following on Twitter for his little fan polls alone. You may recall the light shade he threw at the MCU's Captain Marvel when tweeting the results of a fan poll that put Shazam! second to Avengers 4 on the list of most-anticipated superhero films for 2019 -- ahead of Captain Marvel. As he teased/reminded comic book readers, Shazam is #TheOriginalCaptainMarvel.
Zachary Levi -- who almost blew off his Shazam! audition, thinking it wouldn't go anywhere -- has also been having fun engaging with fans, and he even cried over some fan art he received during Brazil Comic Con.
Shazam! is technically connected to the DCEU, and Henry Cavill's Superman was supposed to cameo at one point, but it's mostly its own thing. It will be following the record-breaking success of Aquaman, and seems to have an even lighter tone and brighter visuals. We don't know yet how much money Shazam! will make at the box office, but hopefully it's enough to pay for all of those expensive suits.
The first Shazam! trailer came out during 2018 San Diego Comic-Con. Another trailer was shown at Brazil Comic-Con, but not all of that footage has been released to the public at this point. The second teaser aired as a TV spot earlier in January. We'll probably get more footage of some kind before the film's April release, but we don't know if that will come via an "official trailer" or quick TV spots, etc.
Keep up with our Shazam! updates and get ready to watch the film in theaters starting April 5. April is going to be a particularly big month for superhero movies, but all of 2019 is shaping up to be one for the books.
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Greater Noida: India has moved to 3rd rank globally among 205 countries with 85 per cent implementation of pictorial warnings on tobacco products packs.
This is a dramatic leap from the 136th position India held in 2014 and the 123rd in 2012, revealed an International Status Report at the ongoing WHO FCTC COP7 here.
The top two countries are Nepal and Vanuatu.
Nepal has implemented 90 per cent of pictorial warnings. Vanuatu was ranked second on the strength of its promise to implement the warning from 2017.
The Cigarette Package Health Warnings International Status Report was released on the fourth day of the World Health Organisation's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) Conference of the Parties (COP 7) by the Canadian Cancer Society.
It ranks 205 countries and territories on the size of their health warnings on cigarette packages and lists countries and territories that require graphic picture warnings.
"Nepal has the largest warnings in the world with (pictures) covering 90 per cent of the package front and back. Vanuatu will also require 90 per cent picture warnings in 2017.
"India and Thailand have the next largest warnings at 85 per cent of the front and back," said the report, a copy of which is with IANS.
"India has demonstrated global leadership by implementing 85 per cent pictorial warnings on all tobacco packages. This accomplishment is praiseworthy, as it has been achieved despite fierce opposition from the tobacco industry.
"India will serve as a very positive model for other countries, thus benefitting public health worldwide," said Rob Cunningham, Senior Policy Analyst, Canadian Cancer Society, while releasing the report.
According to the Canadian Cancer Society, 105 countries and territories have finalised pictorial warnings requirements, an increase from the 77 by the end of 2014.
In 2001, Canada was the first country to make mandatory such warnings -- covering 50 per cent of the packs.
"Fifty-eight per cent of the world's population is covered by the 105 countries and territories that have finalised picture warning requirements. Ninety-four countries and territories require warnings to cover at least 50 per cent of the package front and back (on average), up from 60 countries in 2014 and 24 in 2008.
"The implementation by most European Union (EU) countries of the new EU requirement for 65 per cent picture warnings was an important development contributing to the increase since 2014 in the number of countries requiring picture warnings," said the report.
The report shows a significant global momentum with four countries going for plain packs and 14 working on it. It also shows that 105 countries and territories have required pictorial health warnings on cigarette packages.
This significant milestone in global public health will reduce smoking and save lives, experts say.
According to WHO, tobacco-related diseases kill about 2,500 Indians daily and over 10 lakh Indians a year. It is estimated that about 5,500 youth and children (as young as eight years old) initiate tobacco.
India has 12 crore tobacco users, according to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey. Tobacco use also imposes enormous health and economic costs on the country.
The total direct and indirect cost of diseases attributable to tobacco use was a staggering Rs 1.04 lakh crore ($17 billion) in 2011 or 1.16 per cent of India's GDP.
The status of the report also ranked Thailand, Australia and Sri Lanka 4th, 5th and 6th globally with 85 per cent, 82.5 per cent and 80 per cent pictorial warnings.
They were followed by Uruguay (80 per cent) and Brunei (75 per cent).
"The Indian government has set an example for making India Global Leader and sending a strong message to the global community about India's commitment to reducing tobacco use and the sickness and poverty it causes," said Bhavna B. Mukhopadhyay, Chief Executive, Voluntary Health Association of India, a member of the Indian delegation.
"Cigarette package warnings are a highly cost-effective way to increase awareness of the negative health effects of smoking and to reduce tobacco use.
"Picture-based warnings convey a more powerful message than a text-only warning and larger ones increase impact. Picture warnings are especially valuable for low- and middle-income countries where there are higher rates of illiteracy," said Mukhhopadhya.
Guidelines under the WHO-FCTC treaty also recommend that countries consider implementing plain packaging.
Plain packaging includes health warnings on packages, but prohibits tobacco company branding, such as colours, logos and design elements, and requires the brand portion of each package to be the same colour, such as an unattractive brown.
The brand name would still appear, in a standard font size, style and location. The package format is standardised.
Plain packaging puts an end to packaging being used for product promotion, increases the effectiveness of package warnings, curbs package deception and decreases tobacco use.
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The Massachusetts Library System (MLS) bestowed the first ever Stronger Together Award upon the Wellesley Free Library. The Stronger Together Award celebrates a Massachusetts library or group of libraries, an individual or group of individuals, or a professional organization that contributes to strengthening the Massachusetts library community. Wellesley Free Library was chosen for its contributions serving on professional committees, sharing best practices of progressive children’s services, broad programming to immigrant populations, active support of the Massachusetts eBook Pilot Project and grassroots efforts to support career networking. This work was actively shared widely.
“We are pleased to present this award to the Wellesley Free Library because its staff reached outside their traditional community to promote high-quality library services across the Commonwealth,” said Greg Pronevitz, MLS Executive Director.
Representatives of the Wellesley Free Library receive the Stronger Together Award.
OCLC library data now supplementing Yelp.com listings to improve public access to library information.
Ten archivists and curators from the US and the UK collaborated to create “Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers and Archive Repositories.” The report offers separate recommendations for repository staff and donors/dealers in differnt topics: initial collection review, privacy and intellectual property, key stages in acquiring digital materials and post-acquisition review by a repository.
This report offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well-being of born-digital materials transferred from donors to archival repositories. The report surveys the primary issues and concerns related to born-digital acquisitions and is intended for a broad audience with varying levels of interest and expertise, including donors, dealers, and repository staff.
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Mark Nahrgang is the owner of Kingdom Inspection Network Group – St. Louis and is a professional NACHI certified building inspector in the St. Louis metro area. Mark performs residential inspections as well as commercial inspections. Kingdom Inspection Network Group (KiNG) was started in 2005 as an outgrowth of Ohio Property Inspection Services (OPiS) and now has offices in Missouri, Michigan, Virginia and Ohio. At KiNG, one phone call takes care of all your inspection needs. Contact Mark to schedule an inspection in the greater St. Louis area. Mark currently teaches a Continued Education course for the St. Charles County Association of Realtors. See the Continued Education class schedule for class dates and times.
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Family — Is it the foundation of relationships in God’s Kingdom?
Love – Is the God of the Old Testament a grumpy old man?
Will Jesus judge the nations with justice?
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Use these recommended resources as a place to start exploring career choices and academic majors. Need more help? Visit us during walk in hours or schedule an appointment to learn more about ways to explore your options - from self-assessment exercises to networking, researching, internships and more!
If you are having difficult identifying your interests or deciding upon a major, begin by completing the exercises under the Self Assessment section.
Need to know more about Jefferson's academic majors like what our graduates continue on to do after college? Look at our Resources by Major for helpful information on Jefferson - East Falls majors.
Want to be sure you're staying on top of developing your career throughout your time here at Jefferson? Use our Plan for Career Success to stay on track!
If you need to gather more information on careers, industries, and employers, check out our Career Exploration Resources and begin your research today!
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Myosin light chain kinases (MLCK) are the most studied of the calmodulin-activated enzymes; however, minimal sequence information is available for the smooth muscle form of the enzyme. The production of an antibody against the enzyme and the use of expression vectors for constructing cDNA libraries have facilitated the isolation of a cDNA for this kinase. The derived amino sequence was found to contain a region of high homology (54%) to the rabbit skeletal muscle enzyme and also very significant homology (35%) to the catalytic subunit of phosphorylase b kinase and cGMP-dependent protein kinase. All of these homologies were found in the known catalytic domains of these enzyme, thus enabling us to predict the location of the catalytic domain for the chicken gizzard myosin light chain kinase. Within the catalytic domain a consensus sequence for an ATP-binding site was located. Subcloning and expression of different regions of the cDNA defined a 192 base pair fragment coding for the calmodulin-binding domain of MLCK. Both of the cAMP-dependent protein kinase phosphorylation sites were identified by sequence homology. A linear model for MLCK is presented placing the various domains in relative position. Northern blot analysis and S1 protection and mapping experiments have revealed that the mRNA for MLCK is 5.5 kilobases in length, but there also exists a second mRNA of 2.7 kilobases that shares a high degree of homology with about 520 base pairs at the 3' end of the cDNA for MLCK.
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2019-04-21T20:02:44Z
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https://scholars.duke.edu/display/pub679445
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Like a bear coming out of hibernation, stretching, opening her eyes and seeing the springtime. There may be a lot of disorientation as you move from one reality to an awakened reality. You are all well trained. You are awakening and you create a field of automatic awakening for those around you. One of your main purposes on Earth is to awaken and create a field of awakening; connecting virtually with others who have the same harmonic resonance thereby creating a field that lifts everyone higher and higher without effort. The magnetism of awakening is rapid. You’ve already hit a tipping point in awakening for humanity. There will be many tipping points at unpredictable times. The outcome is all good, though the path there is sometimes steep.
Surprising, unpredictable and non-linear opportunities for growth will open up. The analogy of the children’s board game Chutes and Ladders game may be appropriate here. There is likely to be more gyrations in the stock market and in financial markets worldwide. There will be a devaluation of several major currencies that will impact the global market. There is likely to be brinksmanship between America and Russia with side games centered on continued disturbances in Syria and more disturbances in Turkey. Extreme weather will continue. It may be a calmer year for hurricanes but a more active year for earthquakes.
The new president of the United States will actually spark more activism in which people decide to take action and not necessarily trust the government to always have their backs. Overall there will be a growing exasperation with governments. This will lead to grassroots solutions; people connecting with people in other countries, not waiting for their governments to make decisions. There will be a loosening up of impediments as people take things into their own hands and find solutions that the governments could not do.
Jonette is a spiritual adventurer and modern-day shaman who leads spiritual tours to power places around the globe. She is a gifted channel, oracle, and author of the internationally best-selling books “The Eagle and the Condor” and “Soul Body Fusion®.” She is the founder of the Soul Body Fusion® method for healing and beyond. With her guide “Mark” she teaches people to reach multi-dimensional and quantum states of consciousness.
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2019-04-19T10:40:41Z
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https://jonettecrowley.wordpress.com/tag/following-your-call-to-light/
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A rare opportunity, under value, in one of the best areas of Scottsdale with the new Ritz Carlton, Paradise Valley being completed less than a mile away in 2020. Terrific, light and bright, Geoffrey Edmnunds, 3 (all masters) bed/3 bath home in Colonia Encantada needing a little TLC and updating on one of the most private lots in the community. North/South facing, in the back of the community, on a cul-de-sac, near the second pool & down the street from the private dog park. One master bedroom/bathroom downstairs, another two masters upstairs. All NEW AC. In a year, this home will be within walking distance of Fendi, Hermes & more in the Palmeraie. Fantastic community with two grass tennis courts, two pools, a gym, clubhouse and 24/7 guarded gate, across the street from McCormick Golf Club.
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http://homes.azcentral.com/property/az/scottsdale/85258/colonia-encantada/7500-e-mccormick-parkway/5c7a64332fe3540abd000048/
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Amongst the many deep, dark questions I have been assailed by through the years, there is none that disturbed me more than the one concerning supernatural creatures. Yes, you have guessed it correctly. I am indeed referring to ghosts. And the question in question is: Do they really exist? I have to admit that I am still searching for an answer, which means, amongst other things, that I often find myself in uncomfortable situations. Such as wondering whether the person sitting next to me in a theatre, say, is a ... you know what I mean, don't you?
Being fair minded though, I allow my neighbour the same right that I exercise. So, when the person glares back at me with misgivings in response to my repeated furtive glances, I respond with profound humility. In fact, I am even tempted to embark upon a conversation with such people on the subject of our mutual mistrusts, simply to assure him or her that I am as much uncertain of my own true identity as I am of others'. To be precise, I am willing to admit without any hesitation whatsoever, that I could well be a ghost posing as a living being, which, needless to say, leaves enough room for the reverse possibility too. The former option, however, sounds more convincing, since ghosts are known to be particularly well-endowed with abilities to transform their shapes whenever they will, except of course for the fact that I am not exactly sure if I myself am one such spirit engaged in the bizarre gimmick.
Yamini was a stenographer. Do you know what a stenographer is? She is someone who takes dictations from dictators who are too arthritic to write or type with their own fingers and occupy enormous chambers allotted to them in recognition of their disability. Medical records confirmed that the uric acid in my blood stream had reached alarming levels and facilitated thereby my entry into the aforementioned chamber, the enormous one, in case you have lost track. I moved into my newly decorated office, consisting of an outsized desk, five empty filing cabinets, six bookshelves full of dust but empty of books, I being as uninterested in them as the three geckos who shared the room with me. There was a room-heater of course to keep me warm when I dozed off on winter afternoons. Soon, like all high officials occupying enormous c's with attached wc's, I fell in love with my well-appointed facilities. And Yamini, whom I hope you haven't forgotten on account of my garrulity induced distraction, was asked to submit to my dictates along with those of others elevated to my rank.
Since the nature of my work was not clearly defined, they adorned me with a designation, somewhat in the spirit of a Minister without portfolio, a recognition granted to prevent party MP's from bickering. In my case, they worked out a rather pompous title. I forget though what exactly it was, because it was long and convoluted, apart from containing difficult words. As far as I can reconstruct from my rapidly decaying memory, the position I held sounded somewhat as follows: "Crisis Coordinator for Devastating Predicaments in the Absence of Emergencies of any Variety At All". Long, as I said. Even the acronym CCDPAEVAA is a strain on one's memory. I will refer to it therefore simply as cc. If nothing else, it rhymes well with the ec and wc that went with it.
I soon realised that one of my unwritten duties was to keep Yamini, the little stenographer, running in and out of my ec. The thin, emaciated girl with large timid eyes would rush in pencil and pad in her fragile hands, ready to take a dictation. But, I would normally forget what I wanted to dictate! Which was embarrassing for me, being a cc and all you know. I would start out with something like, "OK Yamini, take a dictation." "Yes sir," she would whisper reverentially, her fingers ready to fly across her notebook. And we would be in that situation for the next several minutes without one more word being spoken. With the discomfiture mounting by the seconds, I would try to salvage little bits of my dignity by starting to rock in my chair, pretending to be deeply immersed in thought. And she watched me rock, sitting rock still herself, pencil poised, in stunned silence.
After a while, I would suddenly blurt out, "Dear Mr. Jhunjhunwala, How much longer do you think you will take to realise that the half-bricks you supplied us are turning out to be utterly useless to keep monkeys away from our premises. Please be advised that our aim being atrocious, the bricks we throw usually land in neighbouring buildings, destroying glass panes and sometimes hitting people instead of the monkeys. They have now gone to court against us and we have to prove that you never supplied us any bricks at all. Don't send us bricks any more please. Besides, do try and appreciate that all my colleagues are descended from monkeys anyway. I, being their cc, am not allowed to throw bricks at them either."
Well I wasn't exactly silent either. I was simultaneously cursing Godrej or whoever it was that had designed the chairs and uttering my ooh's and aah's as I nursed my posterior, which was the hardest hit area of my remains. These noises, on top of my complete disappearance, did not make a favourable impact on Yamini. Like me, she too must have entertained doubts about the real identity of the people she came across in her everyday travails. It would seem that she did not quite associate the moans with my vocal chords and there being no living animal visible in the room, except for the three geckos, not to lose track of details, she concluded that the supernatural had invaded. Whereupon she backed up her discovery by loud, piercing shrieks. There was nothing but alarm in her voice as she sat petrified in her chair, pouring out her agony in clear D-sharp scale, with an intensity that would amaze even Parveen Sultana. The day had been cloudy and it was somewhat late in the afternoon. The dusk had arrived early therefore, adding the necessary finishing touches to the atmosphere.
Soon enough, the entire office had assembled in my ec. Fortunately, they discovered me, but hesitated for a while to help me rise to my feet, being taken in by Yamini's yelling. By this time, I too had regained enough of my composure to make out the only word Yamini appeared to have left in her vocabulary. And that word was "Ghooooooooooooost", loud and clear. She repeated it in a variety of notes of course, with a twist here and a turn there, but the solitary word remained unchanged. Good singing it was, but a bit monotonous, lyric wise I mean. The assembly debated for a while on who needed more help at that moment of time. It was Yamini who won their sympathy, because by this time she had actually fainted and definitely needed to be carried out of the room in a make shift stretcher. They called in a doctor too as I was given to understand later on, who advised her a month's rest to recover from her shock.
But it was Yamini who did manage to disappear. She failed to join office after her leave expired. Some say she sought transfer to a branch the office had in Coimbatore. Upon inquiries though, I discovered that the branch had long gone out of existence. Yamini, it would appear, had branded me a ghost only to melt away herself. Like "a cake of ice on a hot July day".
And that, dear friends, completes the circle, bringing us back to the vacuous inquiry we embarked upon. Who's who indeed in this wide, wide world?
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2019-04-19T00:45:22Z
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https://www.boloji.com/articles/9774/i-ghost
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VHT's new Special 6 EL84 adapter reconfigures the Special 6's 6V6 output tube socket to accept an EL84 output tube. Now Special 6 players can enjoy the earlier breakup, distinctive midrange complexity and legendary top-end chime that only an EL84 can provide.
The Special 6 EL84 adapter works in other 6V6 amps as well. Check with your amp tech to be sure your amp's voltages don't exceed the maximum ratings for an EL84. The new VHT Special 6 EL84 Adapter has a MAP of $19.49. It is available now.
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2019-04-22T02:13:52Z
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https://www.guitarplayer.com/miscellaneous/get-new-sounds-from-your-old-amp-with-the-vht-special-6-el84-adapter
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"Pool Boiling Heat Transfer from Deformable Particulate Beds" by J. A. Weibel, S. Sarangi et al.
Pool boiling heat transfer is measured from a particulate bed of loose copper particles that are able to freely move on the polished copper surface beneath. The working fluid is FC-72. High-speed microscopic flow visualization at 3000 frames per second (Ultima APX, Photron) enables observation of vapor-particle interactions (VH-Z50L, Keyence). Free particle beds of 98, 196, and 925 μm average particle diameter are directly compared to a baseline polished surface with average roughness < 0.1 μm (top). Layer thickness to particle diameter ratio is held constant. The largest particle size initially improves nucleate boiling performance, but bed deformation is not observed, and critical heat flux is reduced due to vapor trapping in the porous layer. In comparison, the smaller free particles retain nucleate boiling enhancement, but particles in the path of vapor departing from the surface are displaced and ejected into the liquid (middle). Visualizations confirm that passive deformation of the loose particulate bed eases vapor escape from the surface (bottom), enabling a 32% reduction in surface superheat up to the same critical heat flux as measured for the polished surface.
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https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/coolingpubs/230/
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As I wrap up another wonderful semester at SMU, I get to reflect on a class that I took that I felt was absolutely essential in pursuing that nerve-wracking, somewhat dreaded, always exciting “next step” in my life. For the first time in my life, there hasn’t been a definitive next step. After elementary school, it was getting ready to switch classes in the middle school setting. Then, it was preparation for high school. Then college apps, then college, etc, etc, etc.
But as I fly home on my last ever “Christmas break” from school (well, unless grad school happens…), I get to reflect on that. However, this is not what this about.
Rather, I want to reflect – gush, rather – on the course that I just wrapped up at SMU taught by Professor Jake Batsell, Digital Journalism. It is a j-school capstone class, one that is comprised of mainly seniors. From guest speakers who graduated from SMU who are now working in the field to his regular lectures, I learned a great deal from this course. Regardless of what I’ll be doing in 5, 10, 50 years, I know that the knowledge and heart that Batsell instilled in us this semester will live with me forever. There were more takeaways from this course than your average college course (not that SMU has any of these, however).
Batsell is technological wizard with a heart of gold. So, THUS, he was able to help me through some of my struggles with the technical elements of the class that didn’t come as easily to me (I wasn’t the only one). No, coding is not my forte, but he taught me to have confidence with it and I know that I’ll use at least a bit of this in the future (or maybe a lot!). Only time will tell.
Most importantly, he was able to take a look at my StageD214 Blogsite for my Engaged Learning Project and give his opinion on it. He gave me suggestions that I could incorporate almost immediately. I am very grateful for his help in this area, as I hope that my blog will continue as an outlet and resource for SMU students for a long time.
In the spring, I’ll be taking an advertising course called Technology Marketing and Advertising, which I assume will be an extension of Digital. Professor Mark Bunting, a former TV host, will teach the class, and I am looking forward to what I can learn from him!
To see ZOOT SUIT at Cara Mia Theatre Co.! Don’t miss this production, which runs until Dec. 21st.
Check out Nancy Churnin’s review in the Dallas Morning News/Guide Live Arts of the show.
I thought I would post about my initial experience with ONCE when I saw it in the West End over a year and a half ago now with a dear friend. From the moment I walked in the house, ticket in hand (only 25 pounds!), I was immersed into the world of the play. Before the show even started, the cast got onstage, playing traditional Irish songs and interacting with us. We were even invited onstage to get a drink since the show is set in a pub (I bought an Irish beer of course). When the lights dimmed, I didn’t blink until curtain call, when I was sobbing of course).
What’s most striking about the show, besides its beautiful narrative, is the music and execution thereof. It is incredible that all of the actors do not only tell a wonderful story each night, but they also play (and dance with!) their instruments and play them seamlessly! During one of the songs in the show, the lead male character (“Guy”) accidentally broke a string on his guitar. Oh, the magic of live theatre.
Seeing it at the Pantages when I was home in August wasn’t as magical as the experience that I had with the show in London (but how could it be?!). It was still WONDERFUL and it was interesting to see it in a bigger venue. Being a 1920s-40s song and tap gal myself, I still am incredulous that I consider it to be one of my favorite musicals…but it is a timeless story with real-life characters and beautiful music – what’s not to love? I am looking forward to hearing Dallas’ response to the show.
I was lucky enough to sit in on rehearsals and meetings when I covered the SMU Mustang Mavericks a few weeks ago!
Stay tuned for my full 3-part story and in the meantime, follow the Mavericks’ whereabouts on WordPress!
A rehearsal shot from #DTCCarol at Dallas Theater Center. A few more weeks to share in the Christmas spirit with this lovely cast and show!
Twelve Days at Night – In a brand-new exhibit, the Dallas Arboretum makes the famous song “12 Days of Christmas” come to life!
On the first day of Christmas, what did the Dallas Arboretum give to Dallasites? Twelve Days of Christmas, the first annual Christmas spectacular at the gardens that brings the well-loved song “12 Days of Christmas” to life.
Sponsored by the Amegy Bank of Texas, this $2 million exhibit opened on Nov. 16, 2014 and will remain open until Jan. 4, 2015, so don’t miss out while it is here!
Most of the twelve gazebos have mechanical animation that brings the story to life. For instance, in the “Nine Ladies Dancing” exhibit, the ladies swirl around with dance cards and in “10 Lords-A-Leaping,” it seems as if the 10 men ice skating on the rink are leaping so much that they may fall over. Each scarf, bowtie and mustache serves a specific purpose in each of the 12 exhibits throughout the garden, which makes it clear that skilled designer Tommy Bourgeois and the employees at Dallas Stage Scenery have a knack for detail and finesse.
Don’t miss this exhibit, which will close Jan. 4, 2015. But don’t show any sign of a “bah humbug” when it is over; the Dallas Arboretum plans to feature this exhibit every year for the next five years.
Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden is located on the southeastern shore of White Rock Lake at 8525 Garland Road, Dallas, Texas 75218. The Dallas Arboretum is also the home of the internationally acclaimed Rory Meyers Children’s Adventure Garden. The Arboretum is open daily from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Don’t miss #DTCCarol at Dallas Theater Center, which opens tonight at the Wyly Theatre in the Dallas Arts District.
What an excellent week for Dallas theatre! This classic play opens tomorrow night at SMU‘s Greer Garson Theatre, under the direction of professor Benard Cummings.
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2019-04-21T02:54:16Z
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A junior objective synonym of Lomaspilis Hübner, .
Parsons et al. (1999) included LOMATOSPILUS Agassiz, 1847; and POECILOPHASIA Stephens, 1831 as junior synonyms of LOMASPILIS Hübner, 1825.
Search the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) for references to POECILOPHASIA and included species.
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http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=23489.0&FAMILY=Geometridae&beginIndex=394&listPageURL=GenusList3.dsml%3FFAMILY%3DGeometridae%26beginIndex%3D390&searchPageURL=index.dsml%3FFAMILY%3DGeometridae%26beginIndex%3D390
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DUBLIN — An Irish government plan to address population growth isn’t an outline for “nation-destruction” that will bring in 1 million immigrants from Muslim countries, as claimed by several false stories circulating online.
The plan to address growth doesn’t specify countries where immigrants would come from, nor their religions.
Several websites tie all projected increases in the Ireland 2040 plan to immigrants — “likely Muslims” — from Afghanistan, Africa, the Middle East and Pakistan — and claim the prime minister, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, is an “ethnic Indian.” The prime minister is the son of a Hindu doctor from India and an Irish nurse.
The plan describes projected growth of around 1.1 million over 22 years. The leading nationalities of people moving to Ireland in the year before the country’s most recent census in 2016 were returning Irish citizens, followed by people from the United Kingdom and those from Brazil.
The quote attributed to Varadkar is accurate, but he did not say it in speaking of immigration. Varadkar tweeted that remark Feb. 16 about the plan as a whole, just before the government released it.
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https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/false-stories-claim-ireland-prepping-for-muslim-immigration
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Some of my favorite high school memories are from the poetry class I took in my senior year. It was a pretty small class, maybe fifteen or twenty of us total. I had always loved poetry before I took the class, both reading and writing it, but my teacher Ms. Rath’s class gave me an in-depth look into the art form. We studied many different poets, from Emily Dickinson to Margaret Atwood, while attempting to write in the same forms they used. And now, many years later, I can still recognize those styles and often can name the poet just by writing a few lines of their work.
As I read Lesléa Newman’s new collection of poetry, I Carry My Mother, all I could think about was that class. Not only was I recognizing many of the poetry forms she used (pantoums, sestinas, among many others), but I found myself naming the poets that served as her inspiration. It felt like I was back in high school, studying some of the most famous poets throughout history. These homages to Elizabeth Bishop, Dr. Suess, and many more endeared Newman’s poetry to me; it made it all seem familiar to me, as if I’d read them years ago instead of for the first time.
I Carry My Mother is not only a tribute to the works of famous poets but, more importantly, to Newman’s mother, who passed away three years ago. The poems show her mother both as Newman wants her to be remembered as well as how Newman saw her as she was dying in her hospital bed. Her writing is also a vivid portrait of Newman’s coping and mourning and suffering, both before and after her mother’s death. I Carry My Mother is a brief and poignant collection of poetry written by a woman who struggled to be the daughter that her mother wanted her to be, and what it means to be a daughter after your mother is gone.
Cantor-Stone , Miriam. "Book Review: I Carry My Mother." 12 February 2015. Jewish Women's Archive. (Viewed on April 19, 2019) <https://jwa.org/blog/book-review-i-carry-my-mother>.
Cover of "I Carry My Mother," a collection of poems by Lesléa Newman.
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Great Professional 3 Room Office Suite For Lease. Light & Bright, Corner Windowed Unit, 2nd Floor Walk-Up, Just Steps From Bethpage Train Station, 1/2 Mile From Rt 135 Seaford/Oyster Bay Exp. Presently Configured As Reception Area W/ Kitchenette, & 2 Private Offices; Or Can Be 3 Offices. Each Office Has Plumbing For Sink. Landlord Pays Heat & Electric. Perfect For Most Any Type Office Or Medical Use. Shower On Premises. Flexible Lease Terms. $2,000 Per Month, Including Taxes And All Utilities.
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https://long-island-homes.newsday.com/property/ny/bethpage/11714/-/281-broadway/5c0afe63c45a7861150002ac/
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Welcome, ner'vod! I am the guardian, or keeper if you will, of Canderis, my Mand'alor's, archive.The Mand'alor has set aside his workings from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, its sequel: The Sith Lords, Empire at War, and Oblivion for use of you. Check out the Forge to browse his mods and skins for the game of your choice.Behave yourself and you may leave alive.
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Geoffrey Bawa was Sri Lanka's most prolific and influential architect. His work has had tremendous impact upon architecture throughout Asia and is unanimously acclaimed by connoisseurs of architecture worldwide. Highly personal in his approach, evoking the pleasures of the senses that go hand in hand with the climate, landscape, and culture of ancient Ceylon, Bawa brought together an appreciation of the Western humanist tradition in architecture with needs and lifestyles of his own country. Although Bawa came to practice at the age of 38, his buildings over the last 25 or more years are widely acclaimed in Sri Lanka. The intense devotion he brings to composing his architecture in an intimate relationship with nature is witnessed by his attention to landscape and vegetation, the crucial setting for his architecture. His sensitivity to environment is reflected in his careful attention to the sequencing of space, the creation of vistas, courtyards, and walkways, the use of materials and treatment of details.
One of Bawa's earliest domestic buildings, a courtyard house built in Colombo for Ena De Silva in 1961, was the first to fuse elements of traditional Sinhalese domestic architecture with modern concepts of open planning, demonstrating that an outdoor life is viable on a tight urban plot. The Bentota Beach Hotel of 1968 was Sri Lanka's first purpose-built resort hotel, combining the conveniences required by demanding tourists with a sense of place and continuity that has rarely been matched. During the early 1970s a series of buildings for government departments developed ideas for the workplace in a tropical city, culminating in the State Mortgage Bank in Colombo, hailed at the time as one of the world's first bio-climatic high-rises.
Looking back over his career, two projects hold the key to an understanding of Bawa's work: the garden at Lunuganga that he has continued to fashion for almost fifty years, and his own house in Colombo's Bagatelle Road. Lunuganga is a distant retreat, an outpost on the edge of the known world, a civilized garden within the larger wilderness of Sri Lanka, transforming an ancient rubber estate into a series of outdoor rooms that evoke memories of Sacro Bosco and Stourhead. The town house, in contrast, is an introspective assemblage of courtyards, verandas and loggias, created by knocking together four tiny bungalows and adding a white entry tower that peers like a periscope across neighbouring rooftops towards the distant ocean. It is a haven of peace, an infinite garden of the mind, locked away within a busy and increasingly hostile city.
Since Bawa started out on his career, Sri Lanka's population has almost tripled, while its communities have been fractured by bitter political and ethnic disputes. Although it might be thought that his buildings have had no direct impact on the lives of ordinary people, Bawa has exerted a defining influence on the emerging architecture of independent Sri Lanka and on successive generations of younger architects. His ideas have spread across the island, providing a bridge between the past and the future, a mirror in which ordinary people can obtain a clearer image of their own evolving culture.
Khan, Hassan-Uddin. 1995. In Contemporary Asian Architects. Köln: Taschen Books.
Robson, David. 2001. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture Chairman's Award.
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Wed, Dec 12, 2018 -- 9:30 a.m.
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The Hurricane of 1893, Louisiana's Deadliest Storm - Windell Curole, South Lafourche Levee District.
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Everlab Conference on the Intersection of Environment and Economy - Lacy McManus, GNO, Inc.
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The important point here, I would suggest, is that we are not left with some nihilistic flight from time in which chronology is subjugated to some kind of higher (yet still not definitive) dream-time. The rather lazily drawn out claim, made all too often by both Lynch admirers and detractors alike, that his essential modus operandi is one in which dream-time and its layering of unconscious desires is the only (non-)structure of order, does not do Lynch justice.
Rather, I would argue that his treatment of time is far more subtle. What might at first glance appear as merely jumbled-up, disarranged, fractured, and fragmented words, images, scenes, or characters have at their core the threat of something more axiomatic, something where order is always a tangible possibility. In place of (or perhaps in spite of) untamed, limitless abstraction, Lynch always offers the opposite – clarity and the threat of order breaking out at any moment.
This simple rearrangement would offer cohesion in place of the randomness of the unqualified chatter of this scene in its former shape.
The fact that there is this more axiomatic, analytical aspect to Lynch’s work is perhaps one reason why all of his films, including Inland Empire, can be read as having ‘happy endings,’ or at least having endings which include the redress of the major difficulties which his protagonists and their situations face. Abstraction, then, is always mirrored by its other – a concrete order.
And this is precisely why, as I have already mentioned, Lynch’s characters make constant references to their experience of time. It is not a case of ‘anything goes,’ rather, there is always a short step from confusion to resolution.
In place of a hierarchy either way, Lynch’s work is a constant straddling of the tension line between the two.
Time is a healer. Age and experience help one to become wiser and more mature. So the cliché’s go. Are these notions not the flagship for the hope of Reason itself? That is to say, do not the lessons learnt through trial and error heuristically enable one to reach greater heights of understanding?
The Apollonian notion of order dictates that one comes to judge soberly the relationships in one’s life. Or as Habermas might say, the “unforced force of the better argument” is impelled to hold sway, and that it is this communicative rationality which once again reinforces the foundations of Reason and raises it to a linear, progressive, normative standard.
But what happens when communication serves no progressive rationality? When supposed linearity dissolves into fragments? When customs and norms are transvaluated? When Dionysus kicks out at Apollo?
Possible answers to these questions lie within The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant.
The film dissects the various relationships of a successful clothes designer, Petra Von Kant – with her former husbands, her ‘friend’ Sidonie, her daughter, and her mother – but with particularly chilling emphasis on her involvement with her live-in secretary/maid/slave Marlene, and a young girl named Karin with whom Petra falls in love.
In a Foucaldian sense, Fassbinder weaves these relationships into an exploration of how power is manipulated through a series of discursive filters: history, class, art, age, psychosis, and gender.
Just as potently, the film is also a vivid rumination on the nature of the Hegelian master-slave dialectic, and Nietzschean master-slave morality. This is brought to bear in the tension within the film between art and love on the one hand and servitude and labour on the other, and the paradoxes contained within each. The freedom of expression within the former is offset immanently by the amour fou which paralyses Petra and makes her a prisoner to her love. At the same time, the alienation and submission of the latter in the form of Marlene’s slavery to Petra is offset by the inherent freedom which marks out Marlene’s choice to leave Petra at the end of the film.
Time does not always heal like the cliché would have us believe. It sometimes pushes us further into desperation or moral degradation. The interdependence of Petra and Karin, and Petra and Marlene is the ostensible interdependence of the master and the slave. On the surface it may appear at the end of the film that Marlene finds a way out of her alienation; that she acts freely and recognizes that she has more authority than she may have dreamed. Similarly, it may appear at first glance that Petra also realizes that her success is built on the foundations of Marlene’s labour, and together this allows for a certain dialectical uplift in consciousness on the parts of both women, helping to outline the epiphanal aspects of the Absolute in Hegel’s thought. However, Marlene leaves with a gun in her suitcase, suggesting all the while that there may be trouble ahead, and once again undercutting the notion of any linear resolution of all present difficulties. Furthermore, this highlights that despite the fact that Petra makes peace with her master Karin, and with her slave Marlene, amour fou is always only just around the corner.
The paradox in Petra’s treatment of Karin and Marlene is the tension between Reason and its limits. Petra rails about how much Karin is hurting her, how she doesn’t understand why someone she loves so much would hurt her in such a fashion. Yet she does the same thing to Marlene on a regular basis, hurting someone who loves her, and doing so unapologetically. She misses the truth that is right in front of her.
A History of Violence has as one of its main concerns the manner in which Selfhood is constituted and the various rival claims that impinge on constructing that identity. The work of Galen Strawson analyses the strategies and the ways in which human beings attempt to build those constructions. For Strawson, those strategies fall into two distinct categories: Narrativity and Episodicity.
Both these narrative views of the Self broadly align themselves to what Strawson calls “Diachronic Self-Experience.” (2) This is a Self whose past, present, and future has indelible continuity, stretched out across time, and is prone to think of itself in narrative terms.
Thus, the memories themselves are not the most important thing, but rather the fact that we are creatures who are able to remember.
In A History of Violence, Viggo Mortensen plays one man, but two characters. When we first meet him, he is Tom Stall, he runs a diner, lives with his nuclear family on a small ranch in a small town in a sleepy part of Indiana where even the police know each one of its citizens by first name. We are soon made aware though that Tom Stall was once someone else: Joey Cusack. Joey was wild, ran with mobsters, and once tried to take a rival gang leader’s eye out with barbed wire. Once this past, which was kept hidden from his family, is revealed to them, the lines of tension between Tom and Joey come to the fore, both in his dealings with his family and with the people from his criminal past.
Which one, then, is the real man?
On this account, the history of violence depicted in the film does not mean that Tom has to define himself as any particular ‘type’ of person at all, still less as Joey.
However, this thesis is disrupted somewhat by other strands in the film which pose problems for Strawson’s theory. Firstly, however much the Self may be able to resist the false consciousness of a psychological narrative for itself or the construction of an ethical autobiography built to make sense of its ‘personality,’ the Self is still at some level in thrall to wider societal objectification. Self-telling here is indelibly linked with Other-telling. In as much as all human beings are seen by others through whichever filter of assessment they may choose to use (including diachronic analysis, as well as psychological or ethical Narrativity), Narrativity appears to be a tool far more compelling in the way that we make sense of the world than an Episodic injunction to withhold from this kind of Self/Other-telling or Self/Other-assessing.
Of course, this does not wholly invalidate Strawson’s argument, it just makes his task of living in the moment so rigorous that it would seem difficult to say for certain that one could wholly delimit or resist some kind of Narrative grasp of who a person is.
With this in mind, it is clear in A History of Violence that not only do Tom/Joey’s family react to him differently when the truth about his past as Joey emerges, but also the citizens of his sleepy little town, including the patrons at the diner he runs, would feel differently (in a pejorative sense) should they too become aware of the diachronic facts about him.
The other important strand in the film which raises tensions about Strawson’s argument is the reaction of Tom/Joey’s son Jack. Before he learns of Tom’s history as Joey we see Jack struggling to come to terms with being bullied in High School and the way that he should react to it. Initially, he uses humour to save himself from taking a beating. However, after he learns of his father’s past, a violent side to Jack’s own personality is unleashed and we see him viciously attack his bullies when confronted by them.
The history of violence then is not just a strong Narrative that comes out internally within the relationship between Tom/Joey, but also internally within Jack, as well as externally between father and son. Indeed, this genetic aspect would seem to override Strawson’s construction of Episodics. In light of the linkages (the history of violence) between Jack and Tom/Joey, not only is there the possibility of genetic pre-disposition to being a certain kind of Self, but there is also a clear Narrative strand which cannot be so easily dismissed by a call to Episodic priority.
Again, this does not invalidate Strawson’s thesis. He accepts these linkages, but describes them as “piecemeal,” (7) which is to say that they do not represent some definitive, objective writing on the wall about who one is. In this light, Jack could (and according to Strawson should) still mark out his own path without the relapse into identity-thinking which would mark out his behaviour for this or that particular type.
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↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 "Primo Colon Profile". Online World of Wrestling. สืบค้นเมื่อ June 16, 2008.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Primo profile". WWE. สืบค้นเมื่อ May 21, 2016.
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↑ Sitterson, Aubrey (August 18, 2008). "Hometown Heartbreak". World Wrestling Entertainment. สืบค้นเมื่อ August 26, 2008.
↑ Sitterson, Aubrey (August 26, 2008). "Championship Scramble scrambled". World Wrestling Entertainment. สืบค้นเมื่อ October 28, 2008.
↑ "WWE Tag Team Champions def. World Tag Team Champions (New Unified Tag Team Champions)". WWE. สืบค้นเมื่อ April 7, 2012.
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Do you have a great eye for detail, an organised nature and love problem solving? TAFE Digital offers nationally-recognised courses to get you started on an exciting career in business administration.
Studying a business administration course will put your communication and organisational skills to use, and launch you into an exciting and rewarding business career. It is a fabulous entry point into many industries, and is a great opportunity to work on the frontline of business.
TAFE Digital offers nationally-recognised courses for every stage of your business administration career. We're passionate about hands-on training, and helping you reach your career ambitions.
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Given her ridiculously tiny frame, Ali Lohan could be forgiven for thinking she could get away without wearing a bra.
The 18-year-old doesn't need the support, that's for sure, but her favourite brightly coloured top revealed too much as she hit an LA juice franchise for a healthy snack.
Admirable we're sure, but the willowy brunette could really do with a burger and fries for once in her life.
Even as an aspiring model Lindsay's little sister might be taking her weight loss too far.
She was all skin and bones in tight jeans and the baggy shirt, which looks as though she could work behind the counter at the juice shop.
The colour-block top exaggerated her dainty upper body.
Her father, Michael, is dismissive of such concerns.
Lohan, who signed with Next Models last year, is considering a full time move to the east coast to make it as a catwalk queen in New York City.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2134001/Worryingly-Ali-Lohan-steps-juice-fix-bra.html
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Have a question about Library Cards?
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Get help with downloading eBooks or - phone 1-866-779-7761 Monday to Friday 8:30 - 4:30 for assistance.
All adult, teen and child library cards for cardholders in the Pictou-Antigonish County Region expire and must be renewed every three years. Cardholders must visit any Pictou-Antigonish Regional Public Library location or call toll free 1-866-779-7761 to renew their card.
Cardholders are responsible for all items on a card, all use made of the card and all charges made against it until it is reported lost or stolen. If your card is lost or stolen, inform the library immediately. You have three ways of notifying us of a lost or stolen card: Call toll free 1-866-779-7761, email, or visit your nearest library to report the card lost.
Like most other cards, your library card comes with a PIN (Personal Identification Number). This is a 4-digit number of your choice. If you would like to change your PIN number you can call us, tell us your library card number, and we'll change your PIN or you can login to your account from our online catalogue and change your PIN.
Any resident of Pictou or Antigonish County is eligible to receive a Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library card free of charge.
You can either apply online or in person at any PARL Library location. Children ages 14 and under require the signature of a parent or guardian.
Check the online catalogue before making your suggestion and be aware that you may also request a book not held by our region through Interlibrary Loan.
For information regarding programs or events at the Library, please contact the branch library or our Programming Department at 902 755-6031.
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Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, California Legacy: Concepts in Clay, 20 February-25 April 1992. Catalogue, ill. p. 35, fig. 95, checklist p. 47.
American Museum of Ceramic Art. Peter Voulkos: Echoes of the Japanese Aesthetic, 12 November 2005-4 February 2006.
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http://voulkos.com/quest/found/ceramics1970s/cr705_3g.html
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"One of the most accomplished and influential saxophonists in the world in his first-ever solo recording. In the best visionary tradition, Steve Coleman has traveled the world from India to Egypt in search of knowledge, truth and beauty. Drawing upon centuries-old traditions of numerology and mysticism, he has created a veritable textbook of revolutionary musical concepts through the instrument whose modern language he has helped to define. This is a long overdue intense personal statement by one of the world's great musical seekers."
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2019-04-19T07:31:52Z
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https://www.forcedexposure.com/Product.aspx?CatalogNo=steve-coleman-invisible-paths-first-scattering-cd/TZ.7621
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Dark Star recording artist’s Two Ton Anvil is lead and fronted by vocalist/guitarist founding member Reed McCallister who formed TWO TON ANVIL in 2008. The Two Ton Anvil project is some of the most marketable music the band has ever created. Reed added friend and bassist Glenn Christon and completed the band with drummer Paul O'Neal and guitarist Dave Janusz.
Combining several metal genres like mid tempo heavy groove with some fast metal there’s no doubt that tunes like "Victims," "Ballbreaker," and "Timebomb" are catchy tunes that will keep you listening. Maybe you want the speed of "Murder Cage" or the melodies of "Reach;" but whatever type of metal music you're looking for - these guys have it. The band has a meaty sound with huge vocals and catchy melody hooks that are guaranteed to hold your attention! The band has consistently held multiple spots in the top ten lists of various websites claiming the sought after #1 spot in several categories.
The band was featured in www.indiestop10.com as an official featured artist in an interview with host Mike Cameo. In addition, the band has also been listed and showcased for many months in the years between 2008 and 2016, on Indie's Top 10 podcasts and over 3 dozen internet sites on the World Wide Web.
Not only has Two Ton Anvil been slowly making a name for themselves in local Chicago music scene but also have shared the stage with national acts such as Five Finger Death Punch, Bury your Dead, In this Moment, Another Black Day, Kittie, Dirge Within, Texas and Texas Hippie Coalition among others.
With the debut of their self-titled CD in stores now and their second CD 'Coming Home' released 9/11 of 2012, the band has enjoyed success on their first world television premiered video -"Corruption"-, which was also released as a single on national radio airwaves along with "Ballbreaker" from the 'Coming Home' CD. Two Ton Anvil has been touring all over the Midwest with more coast-to-coast event scheduling in the works. With Dark Star Records behind the group, good things are certain to happen for this hard working group of dedicated musicians.
Two Ton Anvil has music for purchase on all of the major download sites such as iTunes, Napster, Rhapsody, CD Baby, etc., and of course through the Dark Star Records and the band's own TwoTonAnvil.com websites. The 2 TWO TON ANVIL releases are available for download now featuring 27 songs and also available for physical purchase at Best Buy, DarkStarRecords.com, and at the MEDIA / MUSIC section of this website. The band is currently finishing up the new release in the studio which will be available for pre-order in early Fall 2016 with the official release date early 2017.
Click on a photo to view their individual bio page.
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Back up your scenery.cfg files – We also recommend you back up your scenery.cfg file, especially those of you with an extensive scenery collection.
Improved mouse cursor slow-down over complex cockpits.Although we have made some optimizations to this code, players may still experience some reduction in framerates when using highly complex cockpit models. This is because such models are pushing the boundaries of what is possible within the game engine.
Because this update includes changes to the way Steam optimises FSX:SE add-on content available from the Steam store, some add-on content you have purchased may also may reinstall. This means that the size of the update will vary depending upon how many Steam add-ons you have installed. If you are just running the core simulator without add-ons, your download will be approximately 22.9 MB. This may increase up to 4.0GB if you own all of our FSX: Steam Edition add-ons.
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2019-04-24T17:56:24Z
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https://jomardi.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/fsx-se-update/
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If you want to see what this is about Curt posts at the Beatgearcavern website and the full works can be seen there, something obviously went wrong with his post here.
I've seen the pics and it is quite beautiful.
Curt also posts on the Gretschpages and Gretsch-Talk, and his work is very nice, judging from the photos!
There's a lot of work out there for professional restorers and refinishers, and competition, as they say, improves the breed.
A hearty "welcome" to Curt!
I think it's part of a communist plot!
reference the what does the "C" stand for thread... Just another thread getting out of hand.
Trying to have fun like everyone else.
Paul thanks for the warm welcome and comments, I'm not a threat to anyone as far as competition goes as there's a ton to go around!
Curt, this forum has not enabled uplinks. If you would, please post your Azureglo w/ checkers 320 on a hosting site and post a "cut-and-paste" link so we can see them, we would be grateful.
My 320 is the only one of my Ricks that does not have checkerboard, and I would like to see what adding it does for its aesthetics.
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Leaving Monpazier we made our way south and west, skirting around the main town of Villeneuve-sur-Lot to reach the municipal area of Allez-et-Cazeneuve, where we would soon be living in a comfortable renovated former boulangerie for a few months, early next year. This was the location of our second upcoming house-sit, and we’d arrived to both familiarise ourselves with the property and to spend time with British owners Monica and Ken.
They are both keen open water swimmers and occasional triathletes, like us, although their challenging, long-distance swimming exploits put us to shame. We had long chats about travels and possible future adventures as we toured their property and ate wonderful home-cooked food, fresh from the garden, washed down with very tasty home-brewed beers. We were greatly impressed by Ken’s artistic skills, expressed through his classical guitar playing and photography. We had a local guided walk around the nearby leafy countryside, before checking out their sizable vegetable patch and lands. After a slow breakfast and more animated chat, we said our goodbyes until our return in the New Year, after which Monica and Ken will be sunning themselves on the opposite side of the world.
We drove a further hour west to the outskirts of La Reole, into the small hamlet of Barie to meet up with Jane and Roger, with cats Tilly & Ozzie, the hosts for our first winter house-sit. Another British couple living in France, they own a large stone farmhouse backing on to a kiwi orchard, with the river Garonne running fast by the front – such an idyllic, rural setting. We got our bearings of the property, learning of its idiosyncrasies, with a constantly-refilling glass in hand. We had a wonderful dinner and chat, then relaxed into what will be our room for the duration. Later we had a local riverside walk with Jane to help gain our bearings as Roger dealt with a last-minute plumbing issue. With us settled in, they left early to drive back to the UK to meet up with family and together fly to Australia for Christmas. We awoke the first day under glorious blue skies in South-west France, our home for six weeks, as the willing staff of two adorable cats.
Physical: Set up a daily exercise task of stretches, weights and core work, to get stronger and more flexible. We’ll run more, longer and faster to an organised schedule, getting fitter with an eye on completing a marathon in 2018.
Mental: Learn / improve our spoken French, spending at least a half hour (or more) talking, listening and playing app-based games, alongside listening to podcasts during exercise or walks. And watch a few French movies too.
Musical: Learn to play the piano. This will be totally from scratch (for me, not Nicky), but there’s one in our second house-sit, so we have the means and opportunity – all we need is the will and dedication. Learning to read music is also a part of this.
Culinary: Bake many various breads (and cakes), testing and learning different styles and recipes and seeing which ones are the most successful. Tweaking and finding the best options for simple bakes in Benny when we’re back on the road.
Literary: Read lots of books not yet read, and aim to produce and develop more interesting and challenging writing pieces, rather than simple, descriptive diary-entry blog posts. We have plenty of ideas, but no execution as yet.
Writing out these five goals, each set in a different field of study, is one small step towards making them happen. Creating the time to undertake them, by organising two restful, relatively long-term house-sits, is the second small step on that long path. All remaining steps will be subject to us garnering the requisite determination and resolve to use our free time productively. Whether we manage to complete all of these self-enforced tasks, no matter how much we wish to do so, remains to be seen.
We’ll post occasional updates of our progress to help keep us honest.
This entry was posted in 2017 Winter Travels, France, Housesitting, In France, Our Travel Journal and tagged cats, gardening, goals, Housesitting, nature, planning, walking, winter on Dec 6, 2017 by Aaron Hill.
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There’s a lot of button jewelry out there these days, but Lorimarsha‘s pieces are among the very best. The vintage Bakelite buttons she use come in tones that are retro without being overly kitschy, and are so appropriate for the coming cooler months. Rings, bracelets, necklaces and more are available in her Etsy shop. [via] Link.
• Button Jewelry – Link.
• Gradient Button Necklace – Link.
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https://makezine.com/2007/09/20/bakelite_button_jewelry/
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A care home has scooped an award for its latest project. Staff, residents and families of the Field View Care Home near Hartlepool are thrilled that their wedding-themed memory box has won a regional award.
Field View, a 38-bedded home which offers residential care for the elderly and those living with dementia, created their winning wedding-themed reminiscence box with the help of staff, residents, families and visitors who donated items.
Residents discussed memories of their own wedding day and attending the weddings of others to come up with ideas. Items included traditional good luck charms, a vintage fine bone china tea set and silver cutlery that would have been used at the wedding dinner, wedding photos and clothing, including a 1960’s wedding dress, veils and garters.
Read more on the Hartlepool Mail website.
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2019-04-23T21:51:49Z
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https://idea.nottingham.ac.uk/news/idea/wedding-themed-memory-box-wins-award
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In Shloss v. Estate of Joyce, the Fair Use Project scored a comprehensive victory for fair use against an estate that had doggedly refused to allow scholars to quote from the works of James Joyce. The lawsuit represented the culmination of more than ten years of threats and intimidation by Stephen James Joyce, who purported to prohibit our client, Professor Carol Shloss, from quoting from anything that James or Lucia Joyce ever wrote for any purpose. As a result of these threats, significant portions of source material were deleted from Shloss's book, Lucia Joyce: To Dance In The Wake. We sued the Estate of Joyce asking the district court to declare that Shloss’s quotations fall within the fair use doctrine. Roughly a year into the lawsuit, the Estate agreed to settle the case on terms that permit the publication of the material that was deleted. Shloss then demanded the Estate pay attorneys' fees to compensate her counsel for the many hours they put in vindicating her rights in the face of the Estate's assertions of infringement. Ultimately, the Estate was required to pay $240,000 of Shloss’s legal fees.
Here is an editorial from today's L.A. Times, entitled Portrait of the Old Man as a Copyright Miser: How a Lawsuit About Some Old Books and Letters Sheds Light on 21st Century I.P. Madness.
"New works alter, and deepen, our understanding of their sources. This is something for copyright holders to keep in mind in the era of infinite mashups and YouTube parodies. The love of a creative work is like any other kind of love: If you try too hard to control it, it can only die."
As one of Shloss's very proud lawyers, I couldn't have said it better myself.
Most who have followed Professor Carol Shloss's lawsuit against the Estate of James Joyce and its Trustees know she prevailed completely when the Estate agreed to let her publish the materials at issue free from copyright infringement liability. Now the Court has confirmed what we all knew to be true. In an order issued today, the Court held that Shloss is the prevailing party in her lawsuit and is therefore entitled to recover attorneys' fees from the Estate. Read the order here.
The amount of fees to be awarded is still to be determined, but we hope this demonstrates that inadequate respect for fair use's critical role in scholarly inquiry and free expression can have substantial and serious consequences.
Having obtained what she sought in her complaint (the right to publish her Electronic Supplement on the internet) and more (the right to publish it in print, too), Professor Carol Shloss has asked the Court to order the Estate to pay her attorneys' fees based on the unsubstantiated positions the Estate took for years, only to back down once finally challenged. Read Shloss's motion for attorneys' fees here.
The Court ordered the Estate to pay more than $326,000 in attorneys' fees. After initially appealing that decision to the Ninth Circuit, the Estate thought better of it and agreed to pay $240,000 in fees to resolve the matter once and for all.
The Court held that Shloss is the prevailing party in her lawsuit and is therefore entitled to recover attorneys' fees from the Estate.
Professor Carol Shloss asked the Court to order the Estate to pay her attorneys' fees based on the unsubstantiated positions the Estate took for years, only to back down once finally challenged.
Joyce and the Estate entered into a settlement agreement enforceable by the Court that prohibits them from enforcing any of their copyrights against Shloss in connection with the publication of the supplement, whether in electronic or printed form.
Carol Loeb Shloss is a Professor of English at Stanford University. Throughout her 32-year academic career, she has taught or held research positions at numerous universities, including Wesleyan University, Harvard University, and Oxford University. She is the author of four books and has won numerous grants and fellowships, including the 1994 Pew Fellowship for Creative Non-Fiction Writing. Professor Shloss is a world-renowned Joyce scholar and an expert on Modernist literature.
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2019-04-20T22:33:18Z
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https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/our-work/cases/shloss-v-estate-joyce
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We love our characters. They are like children, of our own creation. They are magical, mystical, they turn our fragmented ideas into stories and make what we write come to life. So, of course, we don’t want to give them character traits that will get them into too much trouble or allow them to do bad things. We want readers to connect with them, cheer for them, bond with them. And all of the above can be a big problem.
Characters without trouble who do no bad things (have no flaws) are boring. And will take your story nowhere. Stories without conflict where the protagonist’s core beliefs and fears are challenged are without character substance and interest. We read to see people in big messes, people who strive to triumph over the worst that can happen. So what do you do? Push your character in every way that it counts.
When you are developing your characters, be sure to give them flaws that will push their buttons, then push them! Build the flaw from your character’s fears and desires and make it so important, if it were to be pulled out of your character, there would be no story. (see an entire article on this here: Character Flaw: Make it Count).
Katniss won’t let anyone near her again because she believes those who she loves will die. Her father did. And her sister, Prem, is the most precious person in Katniss’ life. So what does author Suzanne Collins do through the events of the story? Threaten Prem. Take a lesson from Collins and whatever your character is most afraid of…do it to her. Put her in harm’s way. Make sure there is no way out.
by Pat Conroy, the protagonist, Will McLean, values the loyalty and friendship of his roommates above all else. Then, there is his code of honor. Throughout the book Will insists he doesn’t know what honor is, yet shows how strong his honor and moral code is time and time again. So what does Conroy do? Make the cost of loyalty and friendship too high for Will to pay, and more, morality and friendship clashes with Will’s sense of honor. Does Conroy push his character? That’s an understatement!
You build your character with plenty of good traits. What happens if the trait grows so strong, it flirts with the dark side? A fun, flamboyant character who takes nothing seriously and is emotionally unstable? An good-time easygoing guy who is unreliable? An investigator who is analytical to the point of being inflexible and a perfectionist? A considerate kind person who can be at times, needy and clingy? A creative character who easily goes to moody, tends to brood, and at the worst, disdains ordinary people without genius? Take the good traits of your character and push it to the dark side and see what happens. You will also discover a clear character arc for your character to travel during the events of the story. And by the way, you can do the same “push” exercise for your antagonist—someone who is self-indulgent and self-absorbed but has moments of humorous self-awareness, or an abusive character others can count on in an emergency can mix it up and reward your readers. Better yet, make them think and add depth to your writing.
This was the perfect article for me to read right now! I am fired up to develop a character that I have been thinking about and this gave me some ideas about her story. Thanks!
Excellent, Diana! So happy this sparked your creativity!
Thank you for sharing the value of real people characters and how their emotional tribulations are valuable to understand and share.
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2019-04-18T15:03:46Z
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http://howtowriteshop.loridevoti.com/2013/01/push-your-character-into-interesting/
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ترتبط مدينة غيماراييس التاريخية بتبلور الهوية الوطنية البرتغالية في القرن الثاني عشر وتشكل مثالاً سليماً وحقيقياً على تحول مدينة من القرون الوسطى الى مدينة حديثة. وقد أبقت على تشكيلة غنية من الأبنية المختلفة الأنماط الشاهدة على تطور البرتغال من القرن الخامس عشر ولغاية القرن التاسع عشر، مع مواصلة استعمالها مواد البناء والتقنيات التقليدية.
Исторический город Гимарайнш ассоциируется со становлением в XII в. португальского национального самосознания. Это исключительно хорошо сохранившийся подлинный пример эволюции средневекового поселения в современный город. Разнообразие типов его зданий раскрывает специфику развития португальской архитектуры в период XV-XIX вв., когда использовались традиционные строительные материалы и методы.
Vinculada al nacimiento de la identidad nacional portuguesa en el siglo XII, Guimaraes es un ejemplo excepcional de transformación de una población medieval en ciudad moderna. Esta ciudad ha conservado con autenticidad y en buen estado una serie muy variada de edificios ilustrativos de la evolución específica de la arquitectura portuguesa entre los siglos XV y XIX, caracterizada por el uso sistemático de materiales y técnicas de construcción tradicionales.
Guimarães ligt aan de belangrijkste middeleeuwse verbindingsroute die Monçao en Braga met Viseu en Caminha verbindt. De stad domineert de vruchtbare vlakte die zich uitstrekt in de richting van de zee. De historische binnenstad is gerelateerd aan de opkomst van de Portugese nationale identiteit in de 12e eeuw. Het is een uitzonderlijk goed bewaard gebleven en authentiek voorbeeld van de ontwikkeling van een middeleeuwse nederzetting tot een moderne stad. De grote hoeveelheid bouwtypes in Guimarães toont de specifieke ontwikkeling van de Portugese architectuur tussen de 15e en de 19e eeuw, mogelijk gemaakt door het consequente gebruik van traditionele bouwmaterialen en technieken.
Criterion (ii): Guimarães is of considerable universal significance by virtue of the fact that specialized building techniques developed there in the Middle Ages were transmitted to Portuguese colonies in Africa and the New World, becoming their characteristic feature.
Criterion (iii): The early history of Guimarães is closely associated with the establishment of Portuguese national identity and the Portuguese language in the 12th century.
Criterion (iv): An exceptionally well preserved town, Guimarães illustrates the evolution of particular building types from the medieval settlement to the present-day city, and particularly in the 15th–19th centuries.
Within the boundaries of the 19,45 ha property are located all the elements necessary to express the Outstanding Universal Value the Historic Centre of Guimarães, including a particular type of construction developed in the Middle Ages using granite combined with a timber-framed structure, a technology that was diffused widely in the former Portuguese colonies of Africa and the New World, and a well-preserved historic building stock that represents the evolution of building typologies from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. This development is documented in the rich variety of different building types that have responded to the evolving needs of the community. The property does not suffer unduly from adverse effects of development and/or neglect. There is a 99,23 ha buffer zone, parts of which remain outside the protection zone. While norms for the protection of the historic centre exist, these have not been established for the buffer zone.
The Historic Centre of Guimarães is authentic in terms of its location and setting, forms and designs, and materials and substances. It has succeeded in preserving its historic stratigraphy and territorial integrity. Different phases of development are well integrated into the whole.
The Historic Centre of Guimarães is subject to several legal provisions regarding the protection of historic buildings, including Law No. 107/2001 of 8 September, Decree-Law No. 120/97 of 16 May, and Decree No. 3/98 of 26 January, and to legal provisions regarding town planning, including Decree-Law No. 38/382 of 7 August 1951, Decree-Law No. 445/91 of 20 November, and Decree-Law No. 250/94 of 15 October. Its master plan, which dates from 1994, includes regulations for the protection of the historic centre. The historic centre includes 14 historic buildings that are legally protected as National Monuments (8) or as properties of Public Interest (6), according to the Portuguese Law on the Protection of Historic Monuments. Apart from some State-owned properties, most of the building stock is privately owned. The public areas of the historic centre are the property of the Municipality of Guimarães. Management of the historic centre is the responsibility of the Local Technical Office for the Historic Centre of the Municipality (GTL), established in 1985. Any intervention related to listed buildings is under the control of the Directorate General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC). Sustaining the Outstanding Universal Value of the property over time will require preparing, approving, and implementing the required norms and regulations for the buffer zone.
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2019-04-25T05:08:04Z
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https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1031/
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A new center for 17th and 18th Century Studies has been established at UCLA to focus on the research and teaching of more than 60 faculty members and scholars from around the world.
The center is the only broadly based university research program in the United States dealing with this iterdisiplinary field of study, UCLA officials said.
The new center will link with UCLA's Clark Memorial Library, which specializes in English literature, science and medicine, and includes more than 100,000 books and treasures.
The center's first event, Aug.
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2019-04-22T20:36:23Z
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-07-14-we-6698-story.html
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Ethel Joy Blum, 66, of 3222 Ellington St., died Thursday, Oct. 6, 1994, at Covenant Medical Center of injuries sustained in an automobile accident.
She was born Oct. 27, 1927, in Waterloo, daughter of Earl Wallace and Muriel E. Steggal Smith. She married Ray E. Moore Dec. 16,1945; they were later divorced She married Roy Blum Oct. 4,1974; he died in 1981.
Survived by a son, Harold D. Moore of Waterloo; a grandson; and a brother, Frank D. Smith of Waterloo.
Services: 1 p.m. Monday at O'Keefe & Town'e-Grarup & Waychoff Funeral Home, with burial in Oran Cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 6 p.m. today and from 9 a.m until services Monday at the funeral home.
Memorials directed to the family.
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2019-04-26T12:49:02Z
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http://iagenweb.org/boards/blackhawk/obituaries/index.cgi?read=465213
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The problem some Toyota drivers have had with unintended acceleration of their vehicles -- a problem we first wrote about last April -- is not caused by any electronic flaws in the cars, a lengthy federal study has determined.
The lengthy federal study could not determine, however, just what was causing the problem.
Federal investigators, including NASA engineers, spent ten months studying the electronic systems of Toyota cars and could find nothing that might have cause the accelerations.
"We enlisted the best and the brightest engineers to study Toyota's electronic systems, and the verdict is in. There is no electronic-based cause for unintended high-speed acceleration in Toyotas," Ray LaHood, the Secretary of Transportation, said in a statement accompanying the study's release.
Still suspected are floormats that might be pushed down onto the gas pedal, and gas pedals that stick.
Toyota recalled 11 million vehicles when the acceleration problems began to get publicity.
"Toyota welcomes the findings of NASA and NHTSA regarding our Electronic Throttle Control System with intelligence (ETCS-i) and we appreciate the thoroughness of their review," Steve St. Angelo, Toyota's Chief Quality Officer for North America, said in a written statement. "We believe this rigorous scientific analysis by some of America's foremost engineers should further reinforce confidence in the safety of Toyota and Lexus vehicles. We hope this important study will help put to rest unsupported speculation about Toyota's ETCS-i, which is well-designed and well-tested to ensure that a real world, un-commanded acceleration of the vehicle cannot occur."
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2019-04-19T07:17:06Z
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https://www.houstonpress.com/news/toyotas-unintended-acceleration-problems-not-caused-by-electronics-feds-say-6719176
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Stanhope, James Stanhope, 1st Earl, 1673–1721, English general and statesman. During the War of the Spanish Succession he participated in the capture (1705) of Barcelona, was appointed (1706) minister to Spain, and in 1708 became commander in chief of the British forces there. He soon captured Minorca, taking Port Mahon and making it a winter base for the British fleet. He won the battles of Almenara and Zaragoza (1710) but lost his army to the French at Brihuega (1710) and was himself imprisoned for a year in Spain. On the accession (1714) in England of George I, Stanhope became a secretary of state. Devoting himself primarily to foreign affairs, he concluded a complex series of treaties, including the Triple Alliance (1717) with France and the Dutch. As chief minister (1717–18) he carried through the plans originated by Robert Walpole to fund the national debt and repealed (1718) the Occasional Conformity and Schism acts against dissenters. Becoming secretary of state again (1718), Stanhope negotiated the Quadruple Alliance of 1718 against Spain and formed (1719) a Baltic coalition to resist Russian expansion. His masterful diplomacy greatly strengthened Great Britain's position in Europe. He was created Earl Stanhope in 1718.
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2019-04-24T02:30:28Z
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https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/history/bios/uk-ireland/stanhope-james-stanhope-1st-earl
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My apologies for any technical/sound issues. We have been trying to work out how to stream while doing the audio version of the cast and we discovered it can be pretty tricky! Thank you for your patience this week!
HCT Bahamas: Some dude not named Frozen won(ShtanUdachi).
No arena segment this week, too many cards to talk about!
Reminder - If you’re going to craft your Sylvanas and Ragnaros/any other cards moving into the Hall of Fame (Azure Drake, Sylvanas, Ragnaros, Power Overwhelming, Ice Lance, Conceal) do it soon or miss out on that sweet value.
We cover some news, but mostly those juicy Un'Goro Spoilers! Cards are coming at us at a rapid pace now and we can't wait!
Chase’s beer segment gets taken over by Doug and he talks about Stouts!
Arena Class with Nigel goes over Prince Malchezaar.
The guys sit down to drink some beers and talk about Hearthstone.
Five Midrange Cards You Should Draft More!
Then we ramble on about our global games votes, tavern hero qualifiers, Doug's league, and the ONOG Major at PAXEast.
The arena challenge is over. You can take a wild guess who won.
We go over the latest news and Chase has finally chosen our Twitter Names from the previous ranked ladder challenge. Our twitter handles are below if you want to check them out!
Flavor Text of the Week: Elemental Destruction and Innervate.
This week everyone is stepping up their beer game and Chase begins his new beer segments with one about hops!
We can't wait for the Year of the Mammoth, but for now we'll settle for nerfs and Arena changes. Nigel correctly predicts their emergence on 2/28.
OUR ARENA CHALLENGE IS ON BABY!!!
Flavor Text of the Week: Lava Burst and Elise Starseeker!
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2019-04-25T02:57:14Z
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http://brewmasters.libsyn.com/2017/03
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Merely everything of what exactly seen around the world; know the rope of history, race and religion, relationships and pace with the technology.
A friend of mine forwarded me this information early today and I felt it was so very helpful informative. I thought it would be a good idea when I share this with my friends as well. Posting here is a great way of spreading this information of course.
Clear Bladder Every Four Hours!
When one is maintained regularly or for long periods can damage the bladder and kidney. When traveling, we should not continue when one needs the toilet. In fact, empty bladder every three to four hours.
The bladder is actually a muscle that sits near the kidney, these filters the blood and enter the urinary bladder with fluid and waste – so-called urine.
Bladder to an adult human can hold around 350-450 milliliters of urine. When urine contents rise to a certain level, the body reacts on how stretched my bladder has become and sends signals to the brain.
The brain responds by sending two signals back to the bladder. One says that the bladder neck to relax; while the other says that bladder muscle to draw up together in order to get the urine out. It’s time to find a toilet. The system lies under the will power, which means that we can keep us, though it is not suitable to pee right then.
produces a hormone which means that we look at less liquid when one asleep. The most imminent danger of not peeing when a need is that, one can get infections in the urinary bladder and roads.
The urethra is at any given time full of bacteria, which only host more and more, when a pee host these washed out. Host not urethra washed, the bacteria can spread out and can develop a urinary tract infection. Urinary tract infections can spread to other places if they are not treated with antibiotics.
Delay a lavatory often urinary bladder muscle vertebra limp and thin walled to always be stretched. When will the draw together not be as effective, and one does not get out all the urine when a pee.
When host the remnants left in the bladder, which increases the risk of infections. Bladder host filled up faster again, and one is maintained perhaps because a network has been in the toilet and then host the injury worse.
If one continues in the longer one can actually fill up my bladder so much, that it will never work again. Voluntary or involuntary, days without pee breaks are extremely harmful to the urinary bladder.
But there is hope. A dropped bladder can be trained again, when by going regularly to the toilet. When the bladder must work host muscle stronger. A strong urinary bladder is a good urinary bladder.
To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. The more we learn, the more we’re aware how our body works and can take of it. Live Healthy!
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2019-04-20T18:51:03Z
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https://shiedcamouflage.wordpress.com/tag/host/
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We are pleased to announce that the OneBeacon Scholarship program has just released its application for 2013! If you’re a OneBeacon employee or work for an insurance agency/broker/wholesaler that represents OneBeacon—and have a high-school senior at home—read on!
On behalf of everyone at OneBeacon, best of luck to the Class of 2013!
Dennis Molenaar, Vice President of Risk Control at OneBeacon Government Risks (OBGR), will present at the Illinois Rural Water Association (IRWA) conference this Wednesday, February 20. The conference will be held at the Keller Convention Center & Hotel in Effingham, IL.
Molenaar’s session, titled ‘Making Risk Management Work For You’, will discuss updates to traditional risk management techniques and provide insight into how water districts can mitigate their risk. If you will be at the conference, you can catch Dennis’ session at 1 p.m. CT.
OneBeacon Professional Insurance’s Paul Romano was recently interviewed by Advisen regarding how technology is transforming specialty insurance- ranging from systems to facilitate interactions with brokers and agents, to using Big Data and predictive analytics to improve underwriting decision making, to the ways smartphones and tablets are changing the ways business people interact.
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2019-04-18T21:13:43Z
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https://onebeaconblog.wordpress.com/2013/02/
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In the Steppes of Central Asia (Russian: В средней Азии, translit. V srednyeĭ Azii, lit. 'In Central Asia') is a symphonic poem (or "musical tableau") composed by Alexander Borodin in 1880. It is dedicated to Franz Liszt.
In the Steppes of Central Asia had been intended to be presented as one of several tableaux vivants to celebrate the silver anniversary of the reign of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, who had done much to expand the Russian Empire eastward. The intended production never occurred, but the work has been a concert favorite since its first performance, on 20 April 1880 (8 April Old style) in St. Petersburg by the orchestra of the Russian Opera under the conductorship of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
The work depicts an interaction between Russians and Asians in the steppe lands of the Caucasus. A caravan of Central Asians is crossing the desert under the protection of Russian troops. The opening theme, representing the Russians, is heard first; after it, the strains of an ornamented eastern melody on English horn, representing the Asians. The melodies eventually combine contrapuntally. Amid these two ethnic melodies Borodin inserts a "traveling" theme in pizzicato that represents the plodding hoofs of the horses and camels. At the end, only the Russian theme is heard.
Somewhat unusually, the two scores available via the IMSLP show different tempo markings at the start. The Eulenberg score is marked Allegretto con moto, whereas the Russian Muzyka score shows Allegro con moto.
In the silence of the monotonous steppes of Central Asia is heard the unfamiliar sound of a peaceful Russian song. From the distance we hear the approach of horses and camels and the bizarre and melancholy notes of an oriental melody. A caravan approaches, escorted by Russian soldiers, and continues safely on its way through the immense desert. It disappears slowly. The notes of the Russian and Asiatic melodies join in a common harmony, which dies away as the caravan disappears in the distance.
^ Dianin, Serge. Borodin. Trans. from the Russian by Robert Lord. Oxford Univ. Press, 1967; rpt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980, pp. 113-114, 225-228.
This page was last edited on 3 April 2019, at 11:46 (UTC).
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The model will be available in six trims – Base, Premium, Sport, Limited, Limited XT, and Touring XT – all built on the Subaru Global Platform. The former trims will be powered by the same 2.5-litre Boxer engine as the sixth generation, however, it’s been enhanced to deliver 182hp instead of 175hp; the XT-designated trims will sport a 2.4-litre turbocharged Boxer engine capable of 260hp, the first time a turbocharged engine has been powering a Legacy since 2012.
What hasn’t changed about the 2020 Legacy in regard to previous models, is its goal of “go-anywhere usability.” The boot volume has increased, and all trims have standard mounting brackets on the roof to make transporting bicycles, surfboards, and canoes a breeze.
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2019-04-23T04:02:22Z
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http://www.msn.com/en-sg/cars/news/subaru-rolls-out-most-technologically-advanced-legacy-yet/ar-BBTpZSu?li=BBr8zL0
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Ford Mustang Questions including "How do you change a Mustang horn"
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on the inside of the door, opposite of the mirror there is a plastic cover, remove the cover and the bolts holding the mirror on will be exposed.
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Take it to a mechanic or fix it yourself.
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I think you meant the Lamborghini Adventador. In that case, ithas 700 horsepower.
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supercharger is belt driven and turbo is exhaust driven. supercharger boost is based on rpm and turbo boost is based on load and exhaust volume.
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Yes, it is the exact same enging block and heads. Upper intak would need to be changed and possibly the exhaust manifolds.
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Answer . \nTrouble? Noise maybe or a wild speedo gage? \n. \nUnscrew the cable at the dash side (from under the hood) and spray some WD40 inside the cable. Try that or replace the cable.
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Would a 1994 Mustang transmission fit perfectly in a 1990 Mustang 5 speed?
What is the spark plug gap for the Ford Excursion 6.8L?
Why would the stick shift on a used 1994 Ford Tempo suddenly stick in the park position?
Why are your head lights dim on your 98 mustang gt?
How much oil goes into a 1969 Ford Mustang 351w?
What cases a Ford LEFT turn signal to flash fast no left turn rear light no rear left brake light?
How much house power does a 1990 5.0 mustang have?
How old is Phillip Clark?
What is the cubic inch displacement of a 7.6 liter engine?
How can you get a 2000 Mustang started if the key will not turn?
The steering is locked.What you need to do to unlock it is to just turn the wheel a little bit as you turn the key and the ignition and the steering wheel will free up.
What is wrong with the power driver's seat in a Pontiac Grand Am if the electric motor runs but the seat does not move?
Answer . I had the same problem. Took it in to the dealer - the little sprocket that turns the other wheels was worn out. They replaced it along with a new motor - covered by warranty..
What is the wheel bolt pattern size for 2005 Ford Mustang?
How many gallons of gas will a gas tank hold for a 2007 ford mustang GT convertible?
How do you remove the center console and back seat of a 1999 Mustang Cobra?
How much is a 67 Shelby GT500?
$150K-$600K, depending on condition and who you purchase it from.
Freeze plug location on 1996 Ford Mustang?
Freeze plugs are located on the side of the block below the exhaust headers, and at the end of each cylinder head.
What motor does a Ford Mustang Cobra have?
How do you change wheel bearings on a 1991 Plymouth Acclaim?
What is the price of a 1967 shelby gt 500 in the 1960's?
Stock horsepower on 1992 mustang lx?
The 1992 Mustang LX 2.3 liter, 4 cylinder engine had an increase of horsepower to 105 due to two sparkplugs per cylinder. The V8 model had a rated horsepower of 225.
Photos on Where is the IAT sensor plug located on a 2000 maxima?
Answer . \nbehind the minifold.
Would parts from a 3000gt and gt vr4 link up with a 01 Mitsubishi eclipse gt 3.0 L DOHC v6?
Where is the transmission drain plug in a 1997 mustang?
What is the freon capacity of the 1998 ford ZX2?
What year was the first mustang produced?
Ford Motor Company has been producing the Ford Mustang since Aprilof 1964 for the 1965 model year. The Mustang is still in productionas of August of 2014.
How much horsepower does cold air intake add on a 5.0 mustang?
Maybe 10 on its own. With other mods like a bigger throttle body and exhaust it will help out more.
Why would no air come from the dash vents on a 1991 Ford Mustang even with the AC on?
How much horsepower in the 6-cylinder tacoma?
How many quarts of oil to fill a 1965 6 cylinder engine?
How many horsepower does a 6.6 liter v8 engine have?
What is the top speed for a Ford Shelby Cobra GT500?
How can you get tune up specs for a 1981 Dodge colt 1400cc in the Philippines?
When a 1991 ford mustang 5.0 ho strong smell of gas on the oil dip stick and runs rough what could be wrong?
How much is a 1984 Borg Warner T5 worth?
Where is the transmission dipstick located on a 1990 Plymouth Colt?
It's under the hood.Lift ur hood,stand at the front of the passanger side and look straight down.It has a ball shaped top..unlike a curl or loop..so,many people can't tell that it's a dip stick.
How do you fix power windows on a 2003 Mustang GT?
What stock horsepower did 91 caprice with the 350 have?
How fast can a 1967 Shelby GT500 go?
What type of oil does the 2006 Ford Mustang V6 use?
How can you tell if your 1966 mustang is a GT?
Where is the 4 wheel drive module on a 95 explorer?
Did a 1966 Mustang coupe have an overhead interior light?
What is faster a mustang gt or a suburban?
What could be wrong with a 1994 Olds 88 that has trouble starting when it is raining or cold outside?
Answer . \ncheck the coils .they might be bad. Answer . \nI'd try plugs/wires and fuel filter first. If it backfires when revved up while running rough, probably a spark problem, plugs, wires, or coils. But could also be a fuel problem (filter or water in gas).
What is faster a 65 mustang fastback or a 96 Chevelle SS 396?
Which side is bank 2 in mustang gt?
Will the 2011 mustang v6 be able to beat a 2010 mustang gt?
No, but it's VERY close behind the '10 GT. The new 2011 V6 only has10 horsepower less. Sends chills down my spine knowing it can getmax fuel economy of 48 miles per gallon and this performance!
Where can you find a fuse diagram for a 1986 Ford Mustang?
*~*~Fuse Diagram~*~* . \nGo to: www.veryuseful.com/mustang/tech/engine#Diagrams\n. \nGood Luck!
How do you change an oil pump on an 1984 Ford Mustang V8?
Answer . \nRemove the oil pan. This will give you access to the pump.
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J Res Pharm Pract. 2019 Jan-Mar;8(1):36-37. doi: 10.4103/jrpp.JRPP_18_93.
Use of Mannitol and Vitamins B in Piriformis Syndrome: A Possible Treatment Modality?
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
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On Sunday went to the library to return a book and saw they were holding the Toronto Storytelling Festival - its last day of festivities. I'd missed the First Nations stories earlier but was able to attend the Legends and Myths of Scotland - all about a dark doctor and a fairy of the sea instrument which I forget what it's call now. As well as French Canadian folktales of ghosts, werewolves and the Devil.
They hold it annually. Pretty cool for a free event!
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Marion Anthony Gales, who did yard work for Thomas, was another suspect. He denied that he committed the crime. Police never charged him.
But Friedland filed a wrongful death lawsuit in civil court against Gales, alleging that Gales had killed his wife. A jury in 1997 agreed and ordered Gales to pay Friedland $8.6 million.
Gales is in prison for voluntary manslaughter in the death of LaCoya Monique Martin, whose shirtless body was found face down beside a house on Oaklawn Avenue in Charlotte on April 6, 2008. He will remain behind bars until 2025.
The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department’s Cold Case Unit is investigating Thomas’ death. Lynn Thomas said she was glad police were at the park Saturday to help mark the anniversary.
“We’re following up on many different leads,” Sgt. Darrell Price of the Cold Case Unit said at a news conference where Lynn Thomas displayed poster boards full of photos of her sister.
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Again, the problem is not with reheating the rice itself, but with how you handle it in the first place. After cooking rice, you should not let it sit out for more than an hour. Uncooked rice can contain spores of Bacillus cereus, a bacteria that can cause food poisoning.
That bacteria can survive even after the rice is cooked, and the longer rice is left out at room temperature, the greater the chances the bacteria will multiply and potentially product toxins. If they form and you eat the rice later on, you might wind up with an uncomfortable bout of vomiting or diarrhea.
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Blog > Tony Katz > Tony Katz Today > Did Sean Hannity Cross the Line?
Did Sean Hannity Cross the Line?
Fox News Host Sean Hannity recently campaigned for President Donald Trump in the last days of the mid-term elections, and some people - including employees of Fox News - were upset that he crossed the line from news commentator.
WIBC host Tony Katz doesn't agree.
"Would anybody be surprised to learn that Don Lemmon is a progressive? Yes, he claims he's a journalist and unbiased, but he's a progressive.
My point is this: is anybody really and truly upset about Sean Hannity? First of all, he's a commentator - not a journalist. But nobody should be surprised to learn that Sean Hannity is a conservative. If anything, it's a much more honest representation of what we see out there in the political and media landscape."
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Hands up who enjoyed a delicious plateful of pancakes yesterday?! I must admit that the fact it was Shrove Tuesday had very little impact on this household. We’re more of an ‘any excuse for pancakes’ type family! So we merrily jumped on the pancake bandwagon and enjoyed a lovely stack of vegan pancakes each. Except little brother that is. After desperately trying to get his hands on one while they were cooking, as in tried to climb out of the wrap on my back and over my shoulder desperate, he then cried when he was given one at the table and refused to eat it. Babies are weird!
Add everything to a bowl, and mix until combined (don’t over do it, a few lumps are OK). Warm a heavy bottomed, non-stick frying pan on a low-medium heat until the whole thing is evenly heated (I’ve found this is the key to perfect pancakes). Add a ladleful of mixture to the frying pan at a time (it’s quite thick so won’t spread very far). Once little bubbles start to appear on the top side, while it’s still wet, carefully turn it over with a spatula. You will see it rise up as soon as it’s flipped. Cook for another minute or two until the second side is a light brown colour and it’s done!
Roughly chop the dates and soak them until they are soft. Drain and put them in a food processor. Give them a quick blitz then add the cocoa powder and coconut oil before blitzing again until the mixture is smooth.
So far I have tried it on toast, oatcakes, and let’s be honest here: straight off a spoon. It is delicious!
You can see it’s not quite as smooth as commercial chocolate spread but I could probably have made it a bit smoother in the blender. Also I imagine this would also be delicious as a cake frosting as it has a slightly fudge-y quality to it.
Did you guys know about this already? And you didn’t tell me?!
I’ve been looking for other uses for chickpeas, now that my head is full of aquafaba recipes, and I stumbled upon this recipe on ‘Chocolate Covered Katie’ for a cookie dough flavoured dip which is sugar free, high in protein, and very delicious!
It’s so simple to make too, you just put everything except the chocolate chips in a food processor, blitz, add the chocolate chips, and eat!
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30 | May | 2017 | TALK & OPINIONS BY SILVIO CANTO JR.
We’ve heard about this for years, i.e. our allies are not carrying their share. I remember when NATO troops went into Afghanistan but only a few countries were willing to put their soldiers on the battlefield.
So it was great to hear a U.S. president tell Europeans, not just the political class in private, that it’s time to act and commit 2% of their GDP to defense.
On this first overseas tour, President Trump certainly made an indelible impression. In the Middle East, traditional allies will feel reassured that the United States stands with them, especially in reining in Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
In Europe, Trump will probably never be loved, but he is increasingly acknowledged as someone who means business in aggressively advancing US interests, which include strengthening the NATO alliance.
In contrast to his predecessor in the White House, President Trump showed no willingness to atone to other world leaders for his country’s actions, and seemed determined to project strength and resolve at a time when American leadership is increasingly being challenged.
This was not the “leading from behind” approach of the Obama era, but a return to a more traditionally assertive US foreign policy based on clear-cut national interests.
Yes, it was a successful trip and time will tell whether accomplishments will follow.
However, President Trump faces a huge challenge at home. He flew back to a city where leaks have become a way of life, or certainly a way to embarrass the president and even his conversations with other world leaders.
It would be nice to hear one Democrat step up and remind “the leakers” that they are violating the law and making the U.S., not necessarily President Trump, look bad.
Well done Mr. President. Now, go after the leakers, and fast!
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We're still updating links to some of the older articles on the new website.
Playing in the Sandbox: Developing games for children with disabilities.
reads for sure! Check them out when you get the chance.
did not have time to attend any of those sessions.
the accessibility related papers and speakers.
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Today is Monday, Sept. 29, the 273rd day of 2008. There are 93 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana will begin at sunset.
� On Sept. 29, 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vatican apartment about a month after becoming head of the Roman Catholic Church.
� In 1829, London introduced its reorganized police force, which became known as Scotland Yard.
� In 1938, British, French, German and Italian leaders concluded the Munich Agreement, which was aimed at appeasing Adolf Hitler by allowing Germany to annex part of Czechoslovakia.
� In 1963, the second session of the Second Vatican Council opened.
� In 1988, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., marking America's return to manned space flight after the Challenger disaster.
� Ten years ago: Former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley died at 80.
� Five years ago: The White House denied that President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, had leaked CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity to retaliate against her husband, an opponent of the administration's Iraq policy.
� One year ago: President Bush signed a bill to prevent a government shutdown.
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In a horrible and tragic turn of events, the lifeless body of a toddler who was the subject of an AMBER Alert was found Tuesday dumped in a wooded area not far from his house in Largo, Florida. A state task force, local police, family and friends had been searching for Jordan Belliveau since Sunday.
His mother, Charisse Denae Stinson, 21, has been charged with first-degree murder, a capital felony, and aggravated child abuse in the death of her 25-month-old son. She’s being held in the Pinellas County jail.
She appeared before a judge today via video and was held without bail.
After being charged with murdering her baby, it’s revealed she is pregnant, as can be seen in video, and on a ‘Justice for Jordan” community Facebook page that shares messages between Stinson and another woman, Stinson admits she’s pregnant. Heavy located a baby shower registry for Stinson with a due date of December 2018.
In a police report posted Wednesday, Stinson told detectives Jordan “had an unexplained serious injury to his right leg” and the “during a moment of frustration she admitted she struck him in the face with the back of her hand which in turn caused the back of his head to strike an interior wall of her home. After the blow to the head the victim suffered from seizures during the night which led to further decline resulted in his death.” This happened at around 1:30 a.m., police said. She then took his body to a wooded area near a sports field not far from her apartment complex and dumped his body.
Tuesday night, three days after his disappearance, family members stood by crime scene tape as they learned the child was dead. A short time later, officials made a brief and emotional statement: the 30-pound, brown-haired and brown-eyed boy whose face had been emblazoned across TV and phone screens for days was dead in a wooded area adjacent to a sports field. Crime scene tape and a helicopter whirling overhead as the area braced for a storm. There felt a despondency that transcended technology.
Later that night, local media WFLA captured video, albeit obscured, of the young woman now charged with murder in the first degree. In Florida law, the murder in the first degree capital felony is punishable by death. The prosecutor will have 45 days to say if s/he’s seeking death as opposed to life in prison without the chance for parole, and provide aggravating circumstances in asking for the extreme penalty.
As police continue the investigation, there’s so much to the story about the little boy whose AMBER notification lit up hundreds of thousands of phones across Florida and beyond Sunday morning.
According to Charisse Stinson’s story to police, she was walking from her apartment complex at 9:30 p.m. Saturday to a friend’s house carrying 2-year-old son Jordan when she took a ride from a man she did not know. While in the car, she fought with the man, who she later told police was named “Antwon,” and she said he punched her in the face.
She said she awoke in a wooded area of Largo’s Central Park at around 1:30 a.m. around four hours after getting in the car. She could not find her son and, police said, walked to a nearby motel and called for help. Largo Police responded and said they searched the park and the area and found no sign of Jordan.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued the Amber Alert Sunday morning for the “endangered” two-feet, six-inch boy described as last wearing a blue shirt emblazoned with the number 72, blue gym shorts with a black and white stripe, black socks and black and white Nike’s, authorities said.
Jordan also had a “partially healed cut” under his chin, police said and a birthmark on the right side of his abdomen, police said. Later it would be learned that Stinson claimed the boy fell in the tub and that’s how he got the chin injury.
Regardless, given police have charged her with murdering her child, it’s now clear that her “Antwon” story was just that, a story. But she told cops he was a black male, around 25, with brown hair, brown eyes, gold teeth and dreadlocks, wearing a white tank top and black AND1 basketball shorts.
Sunday the search for little Jordan began, and for a man with dreads and gold teeth in a Camry.
Jordan Belliveau, 2, is missing.
Sunday turned into Monday and there were no leads on “Antwon.” Meanwhile, police divers, K9 units and community search teams looked for the boy with a focus on bodies of water.
Largo Police Major Stephen Slaughter said then, “…a toddler can find his way on those pretty easily, so we want to make sure we look at all this.” Police searched waters and Dumpsters near the child’s home.
The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office dive teams were in a pond searching the area around the mother and son’s apartment complex. Slaughter said teams would also be searching nearby swamps and ponds. It’s rainy season in Florida and wetlands – swamps and ponds – are full.
Early Monday afternoon, another update but with no real news.
“Efforts continue to locate Jordan Belliveau (age 2). Pictured below is Jordan’s photo. Also included is a photo of Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office dive team assisting in checking area lakes (a standard procedure in these cases) and a picture of Chief Undestad, Major Seale, and Investigations Lieutenant Block meeting after the 11AM briefing near the Department’s Mobile Command Post.
When asked why she would get into a car late at night with someone unknown to her, Slaughter said she claimed her son was too heavy to carry.
YouTube screenshotJordan Belliveau, 2, is missing.
Reporters pressed Slaughter on why dive teams and K9s were searching the immediate area of the child’s apartment complex.
“We know he was here. He lives here. Then got in a car,” Slaughter said explaining the area where the mother said she awoke, a densely wooded section of the Central Park area of Largo, was already searched, and, it was standard procedure to check all the child’s whereabouts, including the ponds and swamps behind his house.
A ‘Where is Jordan Belliveau’ Facebook group organized by Jordan’s uncle has been searching for the toddler for days.
This page and post has since been removed from Facebook.
Stephon Davis posted, “I am the uncle of Jordan Bellevue I am the brother of Joe Cartel today I will be doing the walk from Largo Park to the nearest parks in the area it’s at least three parks in the area I asked ima asking community to come out and help me look for my nephew if anybody in the Community I would like to come out and help please feel free to inbox me or call my cell phone at 813 735 3588 if anybody would like to bring waters to donate for during the walk please feel free if the community help search my nephew and people speak up we can have him home so I’m asking everybody and they Mama them please come out and help me find my nephew please come show my brother your support at this time of need,” he wrote.
Some people said they don’t believe Stinson’s story. But Stinson appears, on social media, to be adoring of her son. Though the video, which was set to music was deleted along with Stinson’s Facebook page late Tuesday afternoon. Heavy did manage to take a few screen-grabs before the page was shuttered.
Jordan’s great-grandmother told local media she was also not sure about the story.
“He is beautiful, he’s a beautiful little boy, he is playful, he is loving, he is a good child,” Lorie Moore was quoted as saying by WRAL.
Since police began searching waterways, lakes, ponds and swamps around the woman’s home, some said her story is not plausible and question why a man who allegedly abducts a child would return the child to his home to “dump” the child’s body.
By late Monday, with a composite sketch out of “Antwon” and a search of waterways yielding no clues, police revealed they’d found bloody clothing and items inside the apartment the toddler shared with his mother. Local media reports said Stinson may have been facing eviction and was borrowing money for food.
What is also now known is that Stinson and Jordan’s father, Jordan Belliveau Sr., 22, both have criminal records and in particular, on charges of domestic violence. Indeed a history that goes back to early 2017.
Both faced domestic batter charges in 2017, Belliveau a felony charge and Stinson a misdemeanor. She also was charged with violating a protective order, court records show.
Three weeks ago, court records show, Belliveau was arrested and charged with domestic battery again for allegedly striking Stinson.
Belliveau also has a record that includes a 2015 misdemeanor resisting arrest charge and a felony burglary case. Also in 2015, he had a disorderly conduct arrest. The January 2017 arrest was for felony battery, felony domestic-related aggrvated assault with a deadly weapon, court records show.
“At this point, all factors are considered all factors are reviewed,” Slaughter was quoted as saying.
Police said Belliveau had an alibi. They said Stinson was cooperating, according to the report.
Investigators said surveillance video confirmed Stinson’s location when she walked to Largo Central Park and that she required medical assistance. She was treated at Bayfront Hospital, authorities said. But apparently that was staged as now seems clear with her arrest, police said.
From the beginning, police have asked for the public’s help. Since, they have received some 70 tips and are waiting for that one that will help them find Jordan.
LAago PoliceCharisse Stinson made up an elaborate story where she alleged she was attacked, knocked out, and awoke hours later in a park without her child, telling cops he was abducted by a stranger she’d taken a ride with . After days of searching, police have charged the 21-year-old Largo, Florida woman in the murder of her 25-month-old son.
Largo police said that there were numerous law enforcement departments involved in the search that was coordinated as part of the Florida Child Abduction Response Team. The FDLE, Largo police, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, the St. Petersburg Police Department, the Clearwater Police Department, the Treasure Island Police Department, the Pasco County Sheriff’s K9 unit, the Sarasota Police Department’s search and rescue unit, the Largo Public Works department and family and friends and volunteers.
Jordan’s grandmother Jessica Belliveau was frantic with worry for days and asked for people to please help then find Jordan.
For days, grandmothers and aunts, uncles and cousins, friends and neighbors hoped for the best. The tragic death had even the hardened cops at at Tuesday night presser tearing up; searchers who’d been looking since Sunday to find the boy lying dead all that time in the woods not a five minute walk from his home.
And Tuesday night, Jordan’s 21-year-old mother was in jail facing life in prison or death, should she be convicted, for his murder.
Sam and Juliet Warren, who were foster parents to Jordan from January of 2017, when he was around six months old, until May of 2018, when he was 21 months old. He spent most of his life with the Warren family. It’s where he learned to crawl, walk and talk, Sam Warren said in a statement issued Wednesday afternoon. The boy was returned to his mother less than four months ago.
Warren said that Jordan was failed by the system and failed by many other people close to him.
Jordan Belliveau, 2, was safe with a foster family for 16 months. He was returned to his mother Charisse Stinson. She's now charged with his murder.
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This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 6th, 2014 at 1:22 pm and is filed under Books. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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This society, named after the Roman goddess of the rising sun, was the official association of women students at Queen's from its founding in 1888 until 1967, when it merged with the Arts and Science Undergraduate Society (ASUS). Levana was founded at a time when women still felt themselves to be on unofficial probation at the university and provided them with a refuge from the often-critical eyes of male students.
Levana members held meetings in the Red Room of Kingston Hall, organized lectures and tea dances, and sponsored debates on topical questions. The Society promoted the general interests of women at Queen's and occasionally entered the political arena - as it did in 1933, for example, when it formed the victorious Arts-Levana-Theology coalition in the Alma Mater Society election to defeat students who wanted to permit fraternities and sororities at the university.
As women gained a more equal footing at the university, the need for an overarching women's society diminished until its members finally decided to merge with ASUS - to which the majority of its members already belonged - since there were few women outside of the Faculty of Arts and Science.
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Over the last several years, Ian Anderson has been taking breaks from his regular band work for the occasional solo album and tour. On this occasion, his four-piece backing band is supplemented by a small orchestra. In addition to some classic Tull selections, there are pieces from Anderson’s solo albums and a number of Christmas songs. The arrangements for the orchestra are both tasteful and inventive, treating the instruments with respect and giving them something more to do than play chords behind the band. “Aqualung” in particular gets a great new sound, taking it far astray from its hard rock beginnings. At various times, members of the orchestra get to step out front into the spotlight, most notably a flute duet with Anderson on “Griminelli’s Lament.” While the majority of the music is more or less acoustic, guitarist Florian Opahle gets to show off his rock chops on electric several times. Anderson himself performs quite admirably, with his flute sounding more fluid and nimble than ever, and though his voice may lack a bit of the range he had thirty years ago, he acquits himself well at all turns. The concert footage is augmented by a lengthy (48 minutes!) interview with Anderson in his home studio, covering a wide variety of topics, including some astute observations about the music business and the place of rock in music history. There are also conversations with some of the orchestra players for a little behind-the-scenes look at the show.
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The 26-foot-tall sculpture's run was extended; the time to see it is now.
STAYING POWER: Keeping relevant in the movie business is a topic so eternally hot that books have been written on it since, well. Since the invention of film. "Flavor of the day" is often applied to an up-and-coming actor, and whether that actor has the chops to stay in the public's hearts (and tap into the public's movie-going budget) is something that remains to be seen.
ALTHOUGH... there is one huge exception to this rule, and her name is Marilyn Monroe. Even though decades have passed since the ultimate movie star left us, she still captivates, on screen, in fashion, in art. And she's truly ruling art at the moment in Palm Springs in the form of the Forever Marilyn sculpture. The 26-foot-tall artwork -- we weren't kidding when we said "one huge exception" before -- was installed at the corner of Tahquitz Canyon Way and Palm Canyon Drive in the spring of 2012. The Seward Johnson sculpture, which has already visited Chicago and other cities, was never meant to be a permanent addition to the desert resort community, though; it was to be up for several months and then gone.
BUT... some movie magic must have worked, and Ms. Monroe's legendary staying power, because the artwork has received a couple of extensions to its California run. It was announced over the Fourth of July holiday that Forever Marilyn will remain in Palm Springs through Tuesday, Sept. 10.
YES... that means a trip to the desert in summertime, at the height of the heat, but isn't that the very best time to be in Palm Springs? A/C-nice movie-watching, misters misting restaurant diners, and all of those lovely, lovely warm-weather hotel deals. Don't put off your Marilyn visit any longer; the clock really is running out on this one.
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There was only one way to interpret Pat Shurmur agreeing to a nothing job on Mike Zimmer's staff as tight ends coach. He was the offensive coordinator in waiting.
Video (03:20) : Coach Mike Zimmer and quarterback Sam Bradford were surprised to hear Vikings offensive coordinator Norv Turner decided to resign.
There were deep thoughts taking place during the drive from Golden Valley to Eden Prairie on Wednesday morning, after the bulletin came down that Norv Turner had resigned as the Vikings offensive coordinator.
• Coach Mike Zimmer had taken a hard look at his team’s offensive effort over the previous two weeks and had told Turner, much-respected in the NFL as a big brain for offense, that it was time to step aside.
• Zimmer finally had come to believe it was Norv who had slashed the throats of the toy cats that Zimmer had introduced into the locker room two weeks ago as a motivational ploy.
Vikings coach Mike Zimmer spoke at a news conference Wednesday about the resignation of offensive coordinator Norv Turner.
That the Vikings’ official statement was the truth, that Turner made the decision to leave in the middle of the season, with no hard feelings, and simply in the best interests of the team and of him.
Zimmer made a compelling presentation to accept that as the reality. The coach said that Turner’s resignation early on Wednesday morning also had come as a surprise to him, and it was no way forced.
One factor that made it compelling was the sidebar to this drama: Zimmer was wearing sunglasses to cover the effects of surgery that he had to repair a torn retina Tuesday.
The other moment that left the media audience wanting to believe Zimmer was when he choked up on the second-to-last question in the Q&A, when paying tribute to Turner’s standing as an opponent — Zim’s defense vs. Norv’s offense.
And then Zimmer’s voice cracked. He might have actually cried if someone didn’t interrupt with a question about the right tackle position.
There was no mistaking the admiration as a fellow football man that Zimmer, 60 and in the third year of his first shot as a head coach, had for Turner, 64, and with three NFL shots as a head coach.
Yet, the circumstantial evidence is too strong to buy the idea that Turner wasn’t pushed into this decision.
So, there was no indication to the quarterback that Turner was contemplating this monumental decision on Tuesday.
Also, Zimmer returned to the Winter Park office after his eye surgery. He said the torn retina did not prevent him from watching a great deal of “film.’’ And, the coach, bad eye and all, slept in the office overnight.
It would seem that Zimmer had taken another long look at the disastrously failed game plan against the lowly Bears on Monday night in Soldier Field. And then the coach stayed in the office overnight, sure to be there when Turner arrived before dawn, as do assistant coaches.
Zimmer said that “Norv came in at 6:30’’ and that’s when Turner surprised him with the plan to resign.
Tuesday, nothing’s different with Norv, according to the quarterback; Wednesday, the head coach is waiting to meet at 6:30, and then Norv drops the bombshell.
OK, you can’t call a coach with a torn retina and fighting tears behind the sunglasses a non-teller of truth, and I’m not going to do that here.
I will say Zimmer bringing in Pat Shurmur, another former head coach, as a “tight ends’’ coach last Jan. 24 was a blatant hint of Zimmer’s unhappiness with the way Turner’s offense had performed in 2015.
The hiring of Tony Sparano gets thrown in the same pot as bringing in Shurmur, but it was a completely different deal. Sparano was hired to loudly encourage offensive linemen.
There was only one way to interpret Shurmur agreeing to a nothing job on Zimmer’s staff. He was the offensive coordinator in waiting.
Zimmer did his film study on that long Tuesday and into the morn, and even with one eye, he could see that the wait was over.
I only have one historical equivalent to Zimmer hiring Shurmur with Norv still on the job: That would be Kevin McHale hiring his pal Flip Saunders as the Timberwolves’ “general manager’’ in 1995, with Bill Blair still on the job as coach.
Blair, the Salty Sea Captain, lasted one-fourth of the NBA schedule, compared with Turner, the Salty Coordinator, who almost made it to the halfway point with the 2016 Vikings.
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2019-04-23T11:19:14Z
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http://www.startribune.com/circumstances-show-vikings-pushed-out-norv-turner-in-favor-of-pat-shurmur/399757541/
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reference
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What Were Some Mayan Achievements?
The building of temples and great cities without modern machinery, using astronomy to predict astrological cycles and plant crops and using their language to communicate and measure time are some of the Mayans most notable achievements. During a 600-year period of time, which was from 300 A.D. until 900 A.D., the Mayans made many great achievements in science, communications, engineering and agriculture.
The Mayans used their great understanding of astronomy to create calendars that are as accurate as calendars used in the 21st century. They managed to build large temples and cities with only basic tools and manpower while also using minerals, such as mica, to create paints that are still used used in art and other technology today. The Mayans were also responsible for developing a written language that consisted of 8,000 symbols or glyphs.
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What Did the Ancient Mayans Use for Transportation?
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2019-04-23T18:51:44Z
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https://www.reference.com/history/were-mayan-achievements-c9935f24fda28564
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theglobeandmail
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Workers package some of the artisinal cheeses at the production facility of Fromagerie Fritz Kaiser in Noyan, Que., in October, 2018.
British Trade Minister Liam Fox loves to talk about how eager he is to negotiate a trade deal with Canada once Britain is out of the European Union. He has already zeroed in on Canada’s protected dairy sector as a key issue in those discussions.
Mr. Fox made the comments after a speech in London where he talked at length about the importance of open markets and liberalizing global trade. When asked specifically about a trade deal with Canada, Mr. Fox cited cheese as an issue, but added that he felt confident an agreement could be struck.
“Of course the more that you want, the more you will have to give,” he said. “The less you want, the less you have to give. That is the discussion that we will have. What [Canada and Britain] do have is a very, very clear shared view that we need to be at the forefront of trade liberalization."
The U.K. is set to leave the EU on March 29, although Prime Minister Theresa May has yet to get a withdrawal agreement through Parliament. Mr. Fox has been an ardent supporter of Brexit and argues the Britain will thrive outside the bloc with its own trade policy.
On Friday, he said Britain would use the Canada-EU trade deal, known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, as a building block for a future U.K.-Canada agreement. But he also indicated Britain wanted to go further. “We are discussing with our Canadian partners what we might look for in terms of extensions to CETA to provide additional liberalization,” he said. Those discussions are expected to include dairy products and financial services.
Canada’s dairy sector is already facing pressure from CETA, which came into effect in 2017, as well as the recently concluded U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). The Canadian dairy industry has estimated that it will lose about 10 per cent of dairy production because of those deals and CETA alone has more than doubled EU cheese imports to 31,972 tonnes, or about 7.5 per cent of the Canadian cheese market.
The British dairy industry is worth about £11-billion ($18.8-billion) in annual sales, with cheese accounting for about £3-billion. Most British dairy exports go to other EU countries, but sales of cheddar cheese and milk powder to the United States have soared in recent years and the U.S. now represents around 15 per cent of total U.K. dairy exports. Those same products would likely head to Canada under a trade deal, say farm experts.
Mr. Fox didn’t spell out what the U.K. would be looking for in trade discussions with Canada, but he stressed the importance of helping consumers. “We need to remember one of the prime reasons for an open trading system is to give consumers better choice at lower price,” he said. That could be seen as a shot at the Canadian dairy system, which protects Canadian producers with strict quotas, higher price and steep tariffs to shut out foreign players.
Financial services will likely be a major part of any trade negotiations between Britain and Canada. The service sector makes up nearly 80 per cent of the U.K. economy with financial services employing about one million people. CETA doesn’t cover financial services in any detail, but Mr. Fox said liberalizing trade in services will be a priority for the U.K. after Brexit.
"Leaving the EU gives us the freedom to pursue an independent trade policy that reflects our unique strengths in services,” he said in his speech. After the speech, he said the U.K. is hoping to conclude trade deals with Australia, New Zealand and other Asian countries that include a “gold standard” for trade in services.
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2019-04-20T19:01:45Z
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-uk-pushing-for-greater-access-to-canadas-dairy-market-in-wake-of/
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I had the most wonderful experience here, and it was also my first time to travel outside the country. I’m glad that I did stay at Bed station hostel, the place is in a good location, it’s safe and walking distance to shopping malls.
The location of the place is easy to find, so you don’t have to worry finding the place. Since I arrive early than the expected check-in time and honestly I’m not in the mood to go out because I haven’t slept yet due to the event the night before, but the staff of the hostel is very nice to offer light snack and use of lavatory which is by the way complimentary for their visitors. While waiting for time, I was browsing to my phone and checking where I can kill time, so I decided to check the mall nearby and have lunch as well.
The best way to experience Thailand is to try their food, and the first food I tried is a Korean food 😀 😀 😀 After lunch, I head back to the hostel to check-in and I’m dying to get some Zzzzz.
Checking-in is fast, you just have to give 100baht for secutity deposit, then they will provide you with a magnetic card for opening the room which is good for security purposes and a key to power on the light and aircon at the same time.
When I actually see the place, I fell in love it. It’s the first place where every person I met would say hello and start a small conversation. The place is really nice, cozy and simple but everyone you meet is friendly. I would usually have breakfast around 7am and usually there are only few people by that time. I would enjoy their simple breakfast but very filling. I would have toast with strawberry jam, a bowl of cereal, and a cup of coffee. They practice “CLAYGO” or CLean As You GO for all guests. It’s over breakfast, that I also met someone that I never imagine I would actually go with to explore on of the palace in Bangkok. I met Saad, who is an Arab, well I was having breakfast when he ask if he could join me over breakfast, no biggie since I don’t mind, but I did not expect that we would actually end up planning going together to one of the palaces since he has already plan his day and mine. Well, I’m actually hesitant if I would let him tag along since I don’t know him, but we’re staying on the same place, nothing could happen bad right? So there, as long as you’re open to options and it’s safe, just enjoy the day.
Basically, this place has everything you need, a nice place to stay and good crowd of guests. I would definitely stay here the next time in Bangkok. Price is just right for travelers who are on a budget.
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2019-04-19T23:08:17Z
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https://imursweetescape20.wordpress.com/2017/01/26/bangkok-bed-station-hostel/
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The "A Civil Action" book and movie can be integrated into high school, college undergraduate, and graduate courses in a variety of ways. Given below are links to descriptions and suggestions for three ways that instructors already have employed to use the website materials and "A Civil Action". The Instructor's Activities & Assignments modules contain descriptions and suggestions for implementing each of the 13 Student Learning Modules.
The three "A Civil Action" courses, listed above, for which resources are provided all utilize the Student Learning Modules, which include assignments and activities for students that draw upon the Resource Collections. Alternatively, you can create your own course by perusing the Overarching Societal Questions raised in "A Civil Action" and Key Issues in the Trial and using any of the other resources within the website.
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2019-04-19T21:15:22Z
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https://serc.carleton.edu/woburn/instructors/index.html
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Maintain at acceptable levels the flow of traffic through the construction area.
Minimize travel delays experienced by motorists during construction.
Educate the public about the purpose, objectives and benefits of the project.
Encourage motorists to use transit and other alternative modes and educate travelers about the benefits of these modes.
Reduce the number of incidents within the construction area.
Possible permanent and/or temporary improvements to surrounding alternative routes and/or congested intersections prior to the main construction.
Contracting methods such as A and B bidding, and contractor incentive/disincentive provisions.
Public information program to possibly include: public information meetings; brochures; news releases; media advertising; participation at community events and opening an information center near the project site to provide full time employees to focus on: responding to walk-in customers, web site management, e-mail responses and responding to a telephone hotline.
Motorist information program to include: Dynamic Messaging Signs (DMS); preconstruction signage; closed circuit TV (CCTV); highway advisory radio, advance information panel signs and travel advisories through various media including commercial radio/TV feeds, Transportation Management Associations (TMAs), major employer sites, project web site, cell phone alerts, etc.
Travel Demand Management (TDM) program to maximize lane capacities by reducing the volume of traffic through the construction area. The program will possibly include: Rideshare marketing, incentives and support services; transit incentives and service enhancements; park and ride facility management/expansion and employer outreach.
Coordination with communities and other stakeholders to establish construction hours and obtain variances for noise abatement. This includes coordinating traffic control plans and construction activities involving major highway work that are being undertaken or will be by the Delaware River Port Authority (DRPA) and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), among others.
Mitigation actions to avoid or reduce construction impacts to local businesses.
Incident management program to include: increased number of safety service patrols to assist stranded motorists and clear incidents; use of standby mobile command vehicle for use during major accidents; use of a standby truck with mounted attenuator to clear incidents quickly and safely. Event plans should also be developed for managing traffic around major events occurring in the project vicinity.
Route 42 southbound Improvements - will add a 5th southbound lane on Route 42 between Route 55 and Leaf Avenue and relieve recurring evening commute problems which affect miles of I-76 eastbound and I-295 southbound traffic. This project is under construction.
Route 168 Operational Improvements - will implement Adaptive Signal Control from Benigno Boulevard to Route 130 to optimize traffic signal timing and arterial traffic flow. This work is included in the Advanced Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Contract.
Route 130 Operational Improvements - will implement Adaptive Signal Control from the Brooklawn Circle to Route 38 (Airport Circle) to optimize traffic signal timing and arterial flow. This work is included in the Advanced ITS Contract.
ITS Field Devices - will expand/enhance NJDOT's traveler information and travel time systems along all four freeways approaching the interchange within a 10-mile radius. Additional CCTV's are being added along Route 42 at Route 55 and on each leg of the interchange. This work is included in the ITS Advance Contract.
I-76/676/295 Incident Management Task Force for application to construction conditions. This work is on-going.
Coordination with various NJDOT, regional and municipal projects in the area and with PennDOT are also on-going. The Delaware River Bridge Authority (DRBA) and the DRPA have also been contacted for input and for their cooperation in providing advance traveler information regarding conditions in the construction area.
Construction stages are being designed to maintain as many lanes as exists today during peak commute periods.
On-going information about project progress and site condition will be provided via the project web site and other forms of communication.
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2019-04-24T12:31:09Z
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https://www.state.nj.us/transportation/commuter/roads/rt295/tmp.shtm
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