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The youngest of Sir Sayer de Rochford of Fenne’s prominent sons, John de Rochford the Younger, first appears on record in 1376. The register of the Boston Guild of Corpus Christi records that in that year he and his wife Alice joined the Guild, just as his late father and eldest brother had done before him.
Confusingly, John’s eldest brother was also called John. If this sounds odd, note that it was not unknown at the time for siblings to share a name; and for the most part these two can easily be distinguished from one another in contemporary records. The older John was already knighted when the younger was born, and he was almost always called “Sir John de Rochford” or “John de Rochford, knight” in the records of the time. For clarity I refer to him as Sir John de Rochford II of Fenne. As the eldest son, he was heir-apparent to the ancestral family estates. The younger John, the subject of this biography, meanwhile, was usually called “John de Rochford the Younger” or “John de Rochford of Boston” in contemporary records. There are some records where the distinguishing details are missing – in particular, lists of men appointed to royal commissions in the Patent Rolls. But in these cases it is usually clear who was being referred to by their position in the list and thus their relative status. Sir John, as a knight, would be named before all men on the commission who were not knights, whereas John the Younger would be named among them. This applies until about 1399, when John the Younger himself was knighted and thereafter usually known as “Sir John de Rochford” just as his older brother had been – an obvious source of further confusion that is cleared up only with the knowledge that the older Sir John had died between 1392 and 1396.
Returning to John the Younger’s early life: about a year after he joined the Boston Guild of Corpus Christi, on 6 February 1377 he joined another older brother, Sir Ralph de Rochford of Walpole, as a commissioner of the walls and ditches in Marshland Hundred, Norfolk. John’s name appears very low in the pecking order for this commission, after a couple of clerks; but as a younger son he might have been considered lucky to be on a royal commission at all. The opportunity to learn the ropes with Sir Ralph, who was an experienced royal commissioner and some 20-25 years older than him, must have been useful. Perhaps his appointment was under the growing influence of their eldest brother, who had just been elected to parliament, or of the increasingly powerful John of Gaunt, whose patronage would soon play a pivotal role in the fortunes of the family.
If John the Younger was of age by this time, he must have been born by about 1357. In fact, an inquisition post mortem into the estates of the late Sir Roger Hillary taken in 1403 (with clarification from a court case of 1422) confirms that John was born around 1354-1357 and that his mother was Sir Roger’s sister Joan Hillary, who Sayer had married by 1348. Roger had died leaving no children and his estates were to be split between the heirs of Joan and another sister, Elizabeth, both of whom were dead. Joan’s heir was “John son of Saer de Rochefort, knight, junior” who was “aged forty years and more”, while Elizabeth’s heir was her daughter Elizabeth aged “fifty years and more”. Assuming John was therefore 40-49 years old, he was born in or after 1354.
So John the Younger was in his early twenties when he was appointed to his first commission. In November 1379 he was appointed to another commission with his brother Ralph, this time to find out who had been harassing the Boston Friars Preachers in their beds at night “so that they were obliged to ring their bells to raise the commonalty of the town to come to their aid”, and arrest the accused. But in early 1380 the commission was dissolved and the brothers and their colleagues were ordered to free anyone imprisoned by it.
While their eldest brother, Sir John, lived at the family’s ancestral home at Fenne, and Sir Ralph was based at Walpole in Norfolk, John the Younger lived in Boston itself where he associated with the wealthy merchants. Unusually for a younger brother, he appears to have been extremely wealthy himself early in life. The 1381 poll tax return for Boston put his assessment at ten shillings – the largest figure by far of the 1,594 tax payers in the town, and second only in Skirbeck wapentake to his eldest brother’s payment of 13s 4d. The tax return also stated that John the Younger had a wife named Joan. This seems to have been a clerical error, perhaps intended for his mother who was by now a widow. Some time between June 1381 and June 1382 John de Rochford the Younger and his wife Alice – not Joan – came to some agreement with his maternal uncle Sir Roger Hillary over the manor of East Bergholt in Suffolk. Alice was still alive in 1398, and John asked to be buried beside her in his will in 1410.
The arms of the Rochfords and the Fastolfs impaled, as described in the Norfolk Visitations of 1563-1613 for John de Rochford the Younger and his wife Alice. If correct, Alice must have been a Fastolf.
There is no known primary evidence to confirm who Alice was, but she seems to have had local family connections, as in 1381 and 1388 she was involved in various court cases as executrix of the will of Richard de Neuton, another Boston merchant. It has been said that she was a Hastings, but there is no evidence to support this – it appears to be a mix up with John’s brother John the elder. Meanwhile, there is a tenuous clue in the Norfolk Visitations of 1563-1613, which correctly states under an entry for the Tilney family that one of John’s daughters, Margaret, would marry Frederick de Tilney, a son of Philip de Tilney, with whom John struck up a close relationship during his time at Boston. The entry also records arms for “Rochford and his wife – Quarterly or and gules, a bordure sable bezantee; impaling, Quarterly or and azure, on a bend gules three escallops argent”. The first blazon, Quarterly or and gules, a border sable bezanty, is the Rochfords’ coat of arms. The second, impaling it to indicate marriage, Quarterly or and azure, on a bend gules three escallops argent – quarters of gold and blue, with a red diagonal stripe over the top with three silver shells on it – is best known as the arms of the Fastolf family of Great Yarmouth on the east coast of Norfolk. If the visitation was accurate, Alice must have been a member of that family, but there is no other evidence to weigh in on the matter.
The Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi, Boston. This page records the membership of John de Rochford the Younger’s father, Sir Sayer, in 1343. John himself became alderman of the guild for many years. The register is now in the British Library (BL Harley MS 4795).
In 1380 John the Younger had been appointed as one of the two chamberlains or treasurers to the Corpus Christi guild, and he must have done a fine job as in 1381 the members chose him as their alderman, the chief official of the guild. He would continue in this role until 1386 when he was succeeded by Sir Philip de Tilney, but he would later hold the office again from 1391 to 1394, then from 1397 to 1399, and finally in 1409. John cannot have been more than 27 years old when he was first appointed as alderman, and the role would have brought him many useful connections. On 3 November the same year he stood surety for the Boston merchant John Bell and John de Swyn to have them freed from arrest. Bell was also a member of the guild and would be a close associate of the Rochfords into the 1400s.
The 1381 poll tax was the trigger for the Peasants’ Revolt. Sir John de Rochford, who had been made a commissioner of array and a justice of the peace in 1380, was sent to deal with the Lincolnshire rebels in July and December 1381. In March the next year, as the insurgency lingered on, John the Younger was appointed to join his older brother in keeping the peace in Lincolnshire, and “to arrest, imprison and punish such rebels and any who incite rebellion” using an armed force of knights and esquires if necessary. In December their commission was renewed, and Sir John and John the Younger were appointed as justices of the peace together for the Parts of Kesteven and Holland respectively.
These were John the Younger’s first royal commissions since the abortive investigation into who broke into the Friars Preachers’ house in 1379. They mark the start of a remarkable lifelong career in royal service with hardly a break: by the time he died in 1410, John could count more than fifty individual commissions to his name. After 1382, John the Younger was appointed as a justice of the peace in Lincolnshire a further eight times – in 1388, 1390, 1397, 1398, 1399, 1401, 1406 and 1410 – mostly for the Parts of Holland and occasionally for Kesteven and Lindsey. He also followed in his father’s and brother Sir Ralph’s footsteps, serving on numerous commissions of the walls and ditches, most of them in Lincolnshire, some in Norfolk and a few in Cambridgeshire. These were in 1386, 1390, 1392, 1394, 1395, 1399, 1405, 1406, 1407, 1408 and 1410. In the later years he was often appointed to two such commissions in different counties at the same time, bringing his total to fifteen. To add to this, John also served on some twenty-odd ad-hoc royal commissions during this period.
By early 1385 the French were planning an all-out invasion of England. Amid fears of an imminent attack, the English crown fired commissions off to every corner of the country, including to John de Rochford the Younger and others in the Parts of Holland, “to array all men-at-arms, armed men and archers … and distrain all who in lands and goods are capable but by feebleness of body incapable of labour … to contribute to the expenses of those who will thus labour in defence of the realm … Moreover the signs called ‘Bekyns’ are to be placed in the accustomed spots to warn people of the coming of the enemy”.
John the Younger would be appointed to a few more commissions of array, in 1399, 1402 and 1403, and even join one or two military expeditions. But in stark contrast to the rest of the Rochford family, he did not get much involved in war: he seems to have been far more interested in trade, justice and religion. John must have inherited these traits from his mother’s father, Sir Roger Hillary, a lawyer who had risen to become a chief justice of the Common Pleas.
Aptly, many of John’s ad-hoc royal commissions were connected with Boston and local trade. At some point in 1385 he was appointed to a “special assize”, and on 24 November that year he and other “merchants of England, complaining of the unjust arrest and detention in Prussia, by merchants of that country, of their goods and merchandise to the value of £20,000” were instructed by the crown to retailate by detaining all Prussian merchants’ goods in ports from London to Boston: it was a trade war. In a sign of his growing influence among local merchants, on 26 July 1386 John the Younger was elected Mayor of the Staple of Boston. He was about thirty years old. His constables were Richard de Northwood and John Bell – he had stood surety for the latter in 1381, and just a few months before, in May 1386, he and Philip de Tilney had helped a chaplain named John de Barton acquire some property in the town from John Bell and his wife, Isabella.
Soon after, on 22 September, the king sent instructions to John de Rochford the Younger – now often called “of Boston” – and Philip de Tilney and others to assess and levy a loan of 200 marks from the town, perhaps to help fund the punishing costs of war. A few days later, on 25 September, the king instructed John’s brothers Sir John and Sir Ralph to control the escalating prices of arms, armour and horses in their neighbourhood. The French had struggled to get their expedition off the ground in 1385, but by autumn 1386 the threat of invasion was greater than ever.
Meanwhile, John of Gaunt had left for Castile to pursue his hopes for the throne there, and Richard II’s fragile reign began to fall apart. The Lords Appellant staged their coup, and in March 1388 John de Rochford the Younger appeared alongside his brothers and his nephew Henry de Rochford in swearing allegiance to them at the Merciless Parliament. A number of Richard’s favourites and supporters were executed that year. Gaunt’s own son, Henry Bolingbroke, the earl of Derby and heir to the duchy of Lancaster, was among the leaders of the Lords Appellant, and it is perhaps out of loyalty to him that the Rochfords supported their actions. After all, they could not have known when, or even whether, Gaunt would return, or how he would react. Many of the Rochfords’ Lincolnshire associates swore to support the Lords Appellant too: the Skipwiths, Leakes, Claymonds, Spaignes and John Bell, to name a few.
On 24 May, while parliament was still sitting, John the Younger and his brother Sir Ralph de Rochford of Walpole undertook a commission to investigate a dispute over the manor of Denver in Norfolk. Later in the year, in September, a case that he and others had against Walter Couper of Spalding was quashed. In February 1389 John and Philip de Tilney, who was then alderman of the Guild of Corpus Christi, took the precaution of having the royal licences from Edward III for the founding of the guild reviewed and admitted into the Patent Rolls. And in February the next year John and a host of others gained royal licences to grant property to Barlings Abbey, where he would one day be buried.
By the end of the decade Richard II was able to restore royal authority with the support of John of Gaunt, who had returned crownless from Castile in 1389. The Lords Appellant were treated with surprising leniency and peace was maintained until 1397, when the increasingly tyrannous king set about a calculated revenge. It would prove to be his undoing.
If the 1380s had been a brilliant decade for John Younger, the 1390s got off to a remarkable start. In 1390 he was elected as one of two knights of the shire to represent Lincolnshire in parliament in November that year – although he would not actually be knighted until the end of the century. The other representative was Sir John Bussy, another prominent member of John of Gaunt’s group who had sworn allegiance to the Lords Appellant in 1388. Bussy had probably been at the 1378 siege of St Malo with John de Rochford’s brothers Sir John and Sir Ralph.
The next year John the Younger was re-elected as alderman of the Corpus Christi guild, and in May 1392 he was able to gain a royal licence for his colleague and friend Philip de Tilney and others to grant property worth £20 a year to the guild.
By this time John’s two aging eldest brothers were both in or close to their sixties. He undertook two further commissions with the eldest, Sir John – one in May 1391, and the other in May the following year. Both were to deal with several chaplains serving local fraternities and secular individuals, who “maliciously resist and refuse to obey” the vicars of their parish churches, “and have induced their masters and abettors to beat and wound” these vicars, “and insult and threaten them with death, so that they cannot attend to their duties”. Between these two investigations, one of the John de Rochfords – it is not certain which – was appointed as sheriff of Lincolnshire and instructed to investigate allegations that “certain of the king’s lieges” had been involved in counterfeiting the king’s seal at Lincoln. This was a serious matter – the crime was a form of treason.
Sir John’s involvement in the May 1392 investigation with John the Younger is the last certain record of him alive. The last record of Sir Ralph alive is a final commission of the walls and ditches in July 1391. It seems that soon after this, both passed away. After this point John the Younger was only called “the Younger” in records that referred to the past.
The Guildhall in Boston, built in the 1390s by John de Rochford the Younger and his associates for their newly-incorporated Guild of St Mary. Copperplate about 1820, from Pishey Thompson’s Boston (p235).
In September 1392 John de Rochford (now no longer “the Younger”) clubbed together with Philip de Tilney, John Bell, William de Spaigne and others, with £40 cash in hand, to gain a royal licence to found a new Guild of St Mary in Boston. They were all tenants of Richard II’s wife, Queen Anne. She persuaded the king to give his consent and was duly nominated as foundress of the new guild.
On 5 March the next year John, Philip de Tilney, John Bussy (with whom John had served as a knight of the shire) and Walter Tailboys were appointed to sort out a row between the church, the commonalty and “some of the more worthy citizens” of Lincoln over the election of a new mayor and bailiffs. The task must have looked like political suicide, as they soon wrote back that “without authority of the king’s special command they dared not take upon them that charge because of divers doubts and other perils which might arise in time to come”. The king determined to have the matter settled before him personally.
Soon after John was appointed to a commission to look into the use of fraudulent weights and measures in Lincoln. And at the turn of the year he and Sir John Bussy were once more elected as Lincolnshire’s knights of the shire for the parliament of January-March 1394. On this occasion Bussy was also elected as Speaker of the House.
John de Rochford and Bussy’s relationship was not purely political. Later that year Bussy, together with John’s nephew Sir Ralph Rochford III, John of Gaunt, the bishop of Salisbury and others became trustees of the manor of Little Thetford near Ely in Cambridgeshire. This property was to be the inheritance of Frederick de Tilney, the son of John de Rochford’s late friend Philip de Tilney, and John’s own daughter Margaret. Frederick and Margaret were married, but they were still very young and John was to hold the property in trust for them for eight years, after which presumably they would be old enough to have it for themselves.
Further evidence of the Rochfords’ association with the Bussys could be seen in the latter’s home church, where the arms of the two families once appeared together, alongside those of Sir John Bussy’s mother’s family, the Paynells, and others with whom they were connected.
John de Rochford did not deal much in property for himself, but he often supported family members and associates in their own dealings. In 1381 he had been involved in his brother Sir Ralph’s purchase of property in Hagworthingham, while in 1382 he witnessed an agreement between Sir John de Toutheby and two Boston men. Between 1389 and 1394 John was involved in several transactions of Sir Henry Hasty’s estates in Heckington, Great Hale, Little Hale and elsewhere, presumably as a trustee. In 1389 he was party to a transaction between a clerk, Robert de Whitby, on the one side, and William son of Thomas de Wainfleet and Christian his wife on the other. And in 1393 he was involved in a deal between the chaplain John de Barton, and Ralph de Derby and Elizabeth his wife, regarding property in Benington, Leverton, Skirbeck and Freiston.
For unknown reasons, for the three years after 1394 John de Rochford was replaced as alderman of the Corpus Christi guild, and he was appointed to no royal commissions other than a single commission of the walls and ditches in May 1395. The next record of him after this is not for two years. Perhaps John had fallen out of favour, or perhaps he was abroad. Several sixteenth- and seventeenth-century writers referred to “his noble birth, great learning” and “large travel through France and Italy”. If true, it may be during this period that John toured the continent.
Whatever the reason for the hiatus, things began to get back to normal in 1397: John was re-elected as alderman, in July he was appointed as a justice of the peace for the Parts of Holland, and in autumn he represented Lincolnshire at parliament with Sir John Bussy for a third time. By this time Richard II had fully recovered royal authority and his conciliatory demeanor was gone. Bussy, who was Speaker again, turned against the former Lords Appellant to become a fearsome proponent of the king’s revenge. Bussy swiftly persuaded the Commons to repeal the Lords Appellant’s royal pardons, and by the end of the next year they were all executed, imprisoned or in exile. Henry Bolingbroke was banished from England for ten years.
In December 1397 John de Rochford was appointed to deal with “the assembling in divers conventicles in divers parts of the county of Lincoln of disturbers of the peace armed and in warlike array, who have assaulted the men and servants of John bishop of Lincoln”. In February the next year John de Rochford was reappointed as a justice of the peace in Lincolnshire, and on 2 June 1398 he was instructed to return possessions belonging to the vicar of Sibsey that he had previously been told to seize, as it turned out that the vicar had been falsely accused by his brother of whatever it was he was supposed to have done wrong.
Around this time John and his wife Alice received papal indults – permission – from St Peter’s in Rome to have a portable alter so they could pray on the move, and also “that the confessor of their choice may grant them, being penitent … plenary remission in the hour of death”. This is the last record of Alice: it may be that her death was anticipated.
While John de Rochford’s favour with the royal faction does not appear to have returned to pre-1394 levels, his influence within Lancastrian circles was greater than ever. By the time of John of Gaunt’s death on 3 February 1399, John de Rochford had become steward of the duchy of Lancaster’s honour of Bolingbroke, which was headquartered at Bolingbroke Castle about fifteen miles north of Fenne. This was where Gaunt’s exiled son, Henry Bolingbroke, was born.
With Gaunt’s death, his retainers might have expected Henry Bolingbroke to inherit the duchy and all that went with it. But King Richard II had not yet had his fill of revenge, and he took the opportunity to dispossess the young heir. It was a tyrannical move, and it triggered a crisis that would end Richard’s reign within the year. In July Henry set sail from France with a small army on the precept of reclaiming his inheritance. He landed in Yorkshire, where he could count on the support of many family retainers, and as he marched south his numbers swelled. By 1 September Henry had Richard II locked up in the Tower of London. Sir John Bussy, for his part in the tyranny, was summarily beheaded by Henry’s supporters at Bristol Castle.
The hastily convened 1399 parliament at which King Richard II was formally deposed and Henry Bolingbroke established his claim to the throne. John de Rochford the Younger was one of the two Lincolnshire representatives at this parliament. From Jean Creton’s La Prinse et Mort du Roy Richart, c1401 (BL Harley MS 1319, f. 57r).
Official accounts state that on 29 September Richard II “voluntarily” abdicated, while a hastily convened one-day parliament formally deposed him the next day at Westminster. John de Rochford and Sir Thomas Hauley were present as Lincolnshire’s representatives. Henry Bolingbroke summoned a parliament of the same representatives to start six days later, during which he secured his claim to the throne, and he was crowned King Henry IV in Westminster Abbey on 13 October 1399. So it was that the Rochfords’ new patron became king. John would certainly have been present for the coronation.
The deposed King Richard, meanwhile, was relocated to Pontefract Castle, where John’s father Sir Sayer de Rochford had been imprisoned almost eighty years before. Richard is said to have starved to death in captivity around February 1400.
The Rochfords appear to have played a valuable role in Henry’s bid for the throne, since royal appointments and rewards soon began to pour in. John de Rochford was knighted, probably during the October-November 1399 parliament, and in stark contrast to his marginalised years under Richard II, he would now be at the centre of royal administration in Lincolnshire for rest of his life. Records of John’s activities from this time have noticeably less to do with Boston and mercantile issues – he ceased to be alderman of the Guild of Corpus Christi – and rather more to do with supporting the new Lancastrian regime, which was beset by rebellion from all sides.
On 28 November 1399 John and his nephew Sir Ralph Rochford were appointed as justices of the peace in the Parts of Holland and Kesteven respectively. In December they and Henry Rochford, the son of John’s late older brother Sir Ralph of Walpole, were appointed as commissioners of array in Lincolnshire and Norfolk. They must have aided the king in putting down the Epiphany Rising of earls loyal to King Richard, all of whom were captured and summarily executed in January 1400. One of these was Thomas earl of Kent – on 18 February John was rewarded with the stewardship of all his seized estates in Lincolnshire.
The following month, on 17 March 1400 John was given the delicate task of recovering and restoring goods and chattels “of no small value” that belonged to King Henry IV’s friend and ally Thomas Arundel, archbishop of Canterbury, and had gone missing after the archbishop fled into exile in 1397. In August “Sir John de Rochefort knight” and his nephew Henry, now also knighted, joined the king’s expedition to Scotland as captains, with two men-at-arms and twenty archers under them. But John was back by November when the royal administration issued several commissions to him and William Gascoigne to handle disruptions on the Bolingbroke estate, of which John was still the steward. By the end of the year John was appointed as sheriff of Lincolnshire.
On 11 May 1402 John and other leading Lincolnshire knights were sent instructions to “arrest and imprison all persons preaching such lies … that the king has not kept the promises he made at his advent into the realm”. They were to proclaim clearly the king’s intention to rule justly, and ensure everyone understood that subversion would not be tolerated.
Meanwhile, a rebellion was fomenting in Wales under the leadership of Owain Glyndŵr, and on 7 August John was instructed to array the men of Lincolnshire and send them to Shrewsbury to “resist the malice of Owen Glyndourdy and other rebels”. In October the king, who was in urgent need of funds, sent letters to John and other knights across the country requesting that they raise a “benevolence” from their home counties. By summer 1403 the Welsh were in full revolt with the support of both Sir Edmund Mortimer, whose nephew of the same name had a strong claim to the throne against Henry IV, and the rebel earl of Northumberland, Henry Percy, who brought the Scots in on the action.
On 21 July 1403 Percy’s son Harry “Hotspur” was killed at the battle of Shrewsbury. A few days later, on 27 July, the king sent instructions to John de Rochford and others to “assemble all knights, esquires and yeoman” and “bring them to the king in person at Pontefract … to go with him against Henry earl of Northumberland, who has risen in insurrection in the county of Northumberland … and is directing his steps south to destroy the king and his lieges.” In August and September these commissions of array were repeated with fresh urgency as “the king’s enemies … have lately invaded the realm”. Towards the end of the year the king’s Privy Council summoned John and many other lords and knights of the realm to a Great Council, presumably to discuss the rebellion. Parliament early the next year consented to a new tax “in consideration of the wars in Scotland, the rebellion in Wales, the safeguarding of the sea” and much else besides, for which John de Rochford was appointed as a controller and collector in the Parts of Holland and the Isle of Ely.
Percy was still at large in June 1405 when the king sent John instructions to send urgent supplies to him and his army at Newcastle. They were heading “north to punish Henry earl of Northumberland”, who was entrenched at Berwick. They needed 30 tuns of flour, 25 tuns of wine, 2000 fish, 100 quarters of oats and 140 quarters of beans and peas, from Lincolnshire alone. The following month the French sent forces to aid the rebels in Wales, and simultaneously invaded English-owned Aquitaine. John was among those commissioned to raise a loan to support the costs of the erupting war – the king desperately needed money “to pay the wages of men-at-arms and archers, both those who are to remain in Wales … and those who are to set out for Aquitaine”. In November John was commissioned with William Gascoigne, who was now chief justice of England, to try a large group from Lincolnshire accused of treason.
In 1406 John got into a violent altercation of some kind with Robert Kerville. On 29 April he was bound over to do no harm to Kerville, for which Walter Tailboys, John Coppledike, Frederick de Tilney and John Skipwith stood as sureties for him. Curiously, only ten days before this John’s nephew Sir Henry Rochford and Robert Kerville had stood surety for one another, that Henry would do no harm to John Gauthorp, Walter Godard of Terrington and William Maysoun, and that Kerville would do no harm to William Lovell and Robert Falyate. Whatever the nature of this fight, it was not serious enough to stop John from being reappointed as a justice of the peace for Lincolnshire that year. But otherwise he appears to have taken a brief step back from front-line support for the Lancastrian regime to focus on a personal passion for history and literature.
There are two manuscripts in the British Library that were written by Sir John de Rochford around this time. The first, completed in 1406, is a series of extracts from Josephus’ history of the Jewish people written around the year 93 or 94 AD. It has a mouthful of a title: Notabilia Extracta per Johannem de Rochefort Militem de Viginti et Uno Libris Flavii Josephi Antiquitatis Judaice, or in English, Notables Extracted by Sir John de Rochefort from Flavius Josephus’ Twenty One Books of Judean Antiquity. The second, probably completed soon after, is an index to Matthew Paris’ Flores Historiarum or Flowers of History, a chronicle of history from the creation to 1306.
By May 1407 John was no longer steward of the honour of Bolingbroke, but from October to December that year he was back in parliament, this time having been elected to represent the county of Cambridge. Other than one commission of the walls and ditches there in 1392 and another in March 1407, his only known association with that county was as constable of Wisbech Castle, so perhaps his patron for that post, the bishop of Ely, had some part to play in his election. Their relationship appears to have evolved over the years, as in 1404 John was also acting as a justice for the bishop’s treasury.
For the last few years of his life John turned his attention back to his hometown of Boston, and also to Lincoln. He was appointed as sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1409, and elected for one final stint as alderman of the Guild of Corpus Christi – a post he had first been elected to in 1381. He continued his work as a justice of the peace and on commissions of the walls and ditches in Lincolnshire, and no doubt his responsibilities as constable of Wisbech Castle kept him busy too. In addition, in 1410 John was appointed as keeper of Lincoln Castle, and also as one of the “justices of the survey and custody of the rivers” in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire.
One of the surviving fragments of Sir John de Rochford the Younger’s personal work, Extracts from the Chronicles of the Church of Chester … to the Year 1410, which is when he died. The manuscript was severely damaged in a fire – what little remains is now in the British Library. Copyright the British Library Board (Cotton MS Vitellius D XII, ff 1–28).
John still found time to continue his scholarly work around this. There was a third manuscript of his, entitled Extractum Chronicarum Cestrensis Ecclesiae per Johannem Rocheford, a Christo nato ad annum 1410 – in English, Extracts from the Chronicles of the Church of Chester by John Rocheford, from the birth of Christ to the year 1410. These were the chronicles started by Ranulf Higden and now called Polychronicon, which ran up to 1357. Perhaps John wrote his own entries from that date onwards and updated it each year until he died. It has been said that this manuscript was destroyed in a fire – fragments of it do survive today in the British Library, but they are severely damaged.
John went on to detail various bequests to St Paul’s in London, the shrine of St Alban, the shrine of St Hugh of Lincoln and the shrine of St Ives at Ramsey in Cambridgeshire, and also funds for the fabric of Lincoln Cathedral and priests there. Interestingly, there are no gifts to the churches of Boston or John’s ancestral home at Fenne, but he left to Stoke Rochford church a “vessel of gilt copper… to bear the body of Christ on the feast of Corpus Christi”.
Other than his wife, John did not mention any family members in this testament. Instead he referred to a separate last will, of which there were two copies: one in his own possession, and another in the possession of his principal executor, John Southam, who was a canon of Lincoln Cathedral. John de Rochford also wrote that he intended “by divine permission to make codicils for legacies to both friends and servants”. Sadly, no copies of this will or any codicils are known to have survived.
There are no other records of William de Rochford, but we can deduce that he died childless some time between May 1401, when his father became constable of the castle, and 1411 or 1412, when his father’s only surviving heirs were William’s sisters Margaret and Joan, and his late sister Alice’s eldest son.
John de Rochford’s maternal uncle Sir Roger Hillary had died childless in 1400, so the Hillary inheritance was to be split between the heirs of Roger’s two late sisters, Joan and Elizabeth. Joan’s heir was her son John de Rochford the Younger, while Elizabeth’s heir was her daughter Elizabeth de la Plaunk, who was by this time married to her fourth husband, Sir John Russell of Strensham. The valuable Hillary inheritance included manors at Bescot, Aldridge and Fisherwick in Staffordshire, and Stretton on Fosse in Warwickshire. But Roger Hillary’s widow, Margaret, was still alive, and the property was not shared out until after she died on 27 April 1411. Since John de Rochford and his only son William were also both dead by this time, the Rochfords’ share of the inheritance was to be shared between William’s three sisters – or in Alice’s case, her son.
Around 1394 John arranged the marriage of his daughter Margaret to Frederick de Tilney, the son of his late friend Philip de Tilney. Frederick and Margaret were both minors, since John’s part of the marriage agreement involved him maintaining them. Margaret herself cannot have been more than twelve years old, since another inquisition identifying John’s heirs in 1422 reported that she was in her thirties at that time. For their part, Philip de Tilney’s executors and trustees contributed a manor at Little Thetford near Ely, Cambridgeshire, into the bargain, which John was to hold on behalf of the married couple for eight years, suggesting that Frederick was perhaps about thirteen years old. Frederick and Margaret were both still alive in 1404 when John’s nephew Sir Ralph Rochford, who had become a trustee to the property, appointed attorneys to help the couple protect their property in a legal battle. By the time of the 1422 inquisition, however, Margaret was a widow, and she was still alive in 1434.
John’s second daughter, Alice, married William Gibthorp, but she had died by 1412 and her heir was their son John Gibthorp, who was still under age. By the time of the 1422 inquisition, John Gibthorp had also died and and his heiress was his only child Elizabeth Gibthorp, who was just one-and-a-half years old.
John de Rochford’s third daughter, Joan, was married to Robert Roos of Gedney in Lincolnshire, by 1412. John and his nephew Sir Ralph Rochford had been given the wardship of the young Robert Roos and his inheritance after his father Sir James Roos died in 1403. By the time of the 1422 inquisition Joan had died and her heiress was her only child Margaret Roos, who seems to have been somewhere between about six and eleven years old, depending on which account is to be believed.
With the death of his son William, John de Rochford the Younger’s branch of the family name ended. But it would continue for several decades through his nephews Sir Ralph Rochford of Fenne and Sir Henry Rochford of Walpole, and their children.
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2019-04-20T16:15:19Z
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https://therochfords.wordpress.com/biographies/rochford-of-boston/sir-john-de-rochford-the-younger-of-boston-died-1410/
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John W. White is the dean of Libraries at the College of Charleston, South Carolina. He earned his PhD in history at the University of Florida and is the author of a number of works on southern history and politics. He currently serves on the editorial board of the South Carolina Historical Magazine and is the co-director of the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative.
No Purdue University Press books have been authored by this contributor.
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2019-04-24T16:04:47Z
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http://www.thepress.purdue.edu/contributors/john-w-white
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Reference
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lulu
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Do you feel like anger is controlling your life? Does every little thing seem to set you off, making it hard to control your stress, avoid blowing up at others, or getting things done at work? Anger is an issue that many of us deal with, but it is how we get help and use the proper anger management that will ensure that we are dealing with anger without letting it control us. Anger Management: Best Anger Management Techniques to Help Control Anger in Children, Teenage Anger, and Anger in Adults is the help that you need to finally take control of that anger. Far too many of us are dealing with constant anger that is ruining our health and making us feel miserable. Far too many of us are not only dealing with anger in ourselves, but also anger in children and teenage anger that can be confusing and distressing. This guidebook can show you that there are healthier ways to manage your stress and get your life back!
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2019-04-21T02:42:45Z
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http://www.lulu.com/shop/meghan-johnson/anger-management-best-anger-management-techniques-to-help-control-anger-in-children-teenage-anger-and-anger-in-adults/ebook/product-22988474.html
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Kids
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shu
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The purpose of this study was to determine whether caffeinated gum influenced performance in a battery of soccer-specific tests used in the assessment of performance in soccer players. In a double blind, randomised, cross-over design, ten male university-standard soccer players (age 19 ± 1 y, stature 1.80 ± 0.10 m, body mass 75.5 ± 4.8 kg) masticated a caffeinated (200 mg; caffeine) or control (0 mg; placebo) gum on two separate occasions. After a standardised warm-up, gum was chewed for 5 min and subsequently expectorated 5 min before players performed a maximal countermovement jump, a 20 m sprint test and the Yo-Yo intermittent recovery test level 1 (Yo-YoIR1). Performance on 20 m sprints were not different between trials (caffeine: 3.2 ± 0.3 s, placebo: 3.1 ± 0.3 s; p = 0.567; small effect size: d = 0.33), but caffeine did allow players to cover 2.0% more distance during Yo-YoIR1 (caffeine: 1754 ± 156 m, placebo: 1719 ± 139 m; p = 0.016; small effect size: d = 0.24) and increase maximal countermovement jump height by 2.2% (caffeine: 47.1 ± 3.4 cm, placebo: 46.1 ± 3.2 cm; p = 0.008; small effect size: d = 0.30). Performance on selected physical tests (Yo-YoIR1 and countermovement jump) was improved by the chewing of caffeinated gum in the immediate period before testing in university-standard soccer players but the sizes of such effects were small. Such findings may have implications for the recommendations made to soccer players about to engage with subsequent exercise performance.
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2019-04-23T08:59:02Z
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http://shura.shu.ac.uk/18752/
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Back to Skull is an EP released by American alternative rock group They Might Be Giants in 1994. The EP was issued contemporaneously with the band's 1994 album John Henry, which featured similar artwork. Artwork for the EP was done by Mike Mills.
"She Was A Hotel Detective" is a completely different song from "(She Was A) Hotel Detective" from the debut album, despite the nearly identical titles.
"Ondine" was omitted from the European release of the EP.
"Snail Dust" is a remix of "Snail Shell" by The Dust Brothers, with whom the band would later collaborate on their 2007 album, The Else.
^ tmbg.com information on Back to Skull artwork archived on archive.org. Retrieved 2012-08-10.
^ a b Back to Skull liner notes.
^ Back to Skull European disc.
^ The Else liner notes.
This page was last edited on 28 February 2019, at 04:15 (UTC).
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2019-04-26T12:36:52Z
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_Skull
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cherylnewbygallery
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"The History of the Indian Tribes of North America" by Thomas L. McKenney and James L. Hall has been long renowned for its faithful portraits of Native Americans. These dramatic, hand-colored lithographs are based upon original portrait paintings by the artist, Charles Bird King, who was employed by the United States Government to record the appearance of these natives as they came to Washington, D.C. to sign peace treaties.
The paintings formed the basis for the War Department's Indian Gallery. Most of King's original paintings were subsequently destroyed in a fire at the Smithsonian. Therefore, the appearance of these portraits in McKenney & Hall's magnificent work serves as our only remaining records of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the 19th century. Among the McKenney & Hall Portrait Gallery were Sequoyah, Black Hawk, Osceola, and Pocahontas.
Folio Edition: Average Paper Size: 20" x 13 3/4"
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2019-04-22T11:17:03Z
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https://www.cherylnewbygallery.com/2-uncategorised/86-the-history-of-the-american-indian-tribes-of-north-america
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yale
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Q. I'm an alumnus and I have registered for access to JSTOR. Why can't I get some of the articles?
Alumni access is subject to a publication date "moving wall." No material from the last five years is available.
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2019-04-18T15:01:35Z
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http://ask-e.library.yale.edu/faq/259173
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PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — The king is not dead, he's just testing skis and being the best cheerleader he can be for his wife.
It wasn't by choice, mind you.
Ole Einar Bjoerndalen, who is known in his sport as the "king of the biathlon," would rather be participating in the Pyeongchang Games than watching them.
The Norwegian legend who has won 13 medals in the Winter Games — more than any man in history — didn't qualify for his seventh Olympics.
But he's here in Pyeongchang anyway trying to help his wife, biathlete Darya Domracheva of Belarus, win some medals and simply be there for support. Domracheva came through on Saturday night with a silver medal in the mass start and Bjoerndalen was beaming with pride.
"She was incredible," Bjoerndalen said with a wide smile.
But there is a noticeable sadness in the king's voice, too, knowing that he could be here as a competitor rather than just helping the Belarusians with waxing and testing their skis.
He said he's tried to stay positive after being informed three weeks before the Olympic Games that he didn't make the Norwegian team. It was a tough pill to swallow for the 44-year-old Bjoerndalen, who despite struggling in the World Cup season still believes he can compete with the best biathletes in the world.
"At first it was really hard for me because I was really prepared for this Olympics," Bjoerndalen told The Associated Press in an interview. "I had too many problems in the summer and autumn so I could not do my preparations. But I'm in really good shape now, but that didn't count toward the qualifications. That's life."
At the 2014 Sochi Games, Bjoerndalen won gold in sprint and mixed relay, taking his tally to eight gold medals at the Olympics.
Domracheva knows her husband is hurting ever since hearing the news he wouldn't be participating in the Olympics.
"Of course for him, it would be much better if he could compete here also but he got over the situation," Domracheva said. "Now he is enjoying being here, training a bit and helping our wax men. An extra pair of legs to test the skis."
Bjoerndalen downplayed his role with the Belarusians, saying he is just trying to help out where he can.
"I did some ski tests and that's all," Bjoerndalen said. "They have a really good team and have good trainers and waxers. I can only help with the skiing."
The Norwegians, meanwhile, have struggled a bit without Bjoerndalen in the biathlon.
Johannes Thingnes Boe, the No. 2-ranked biathlete in the world behind France's Martin Fourcade, won gold in the men's 20-kilometer individual race but has otherwise struggled and has missed medals in his other three events. Emil Hegle Svendsen managed a bronze medal in the 15-kilometer mass relay.
"It is really strange not having him here," Svendsen said. "He has been in every world championships that I've been to. It was strange that all of a sudden I'm the oldest guy on the team."
It's even more difficult for Bjoerndalen knowing that fellow Norwegian Marit Bjoergen, who competes in women's cross-country skiing, is in the verge of passing him as the most decorated Winter Olympian in history.
While the competitive Bjoerndalen said it's a record he would have liked to have held on to as long as possible — and added to his career medal totals — he's also supporting Bjoergen.
"For sure, I want to see her win," Bjoerndalen said. "It will be really amazing. The career that Marit has had is really amazing. She is really strong. She has been doing it for so long and still she was amazing on the relay, so it's great that she has two more chances to break it."
Bjoergen has two chances to break the record before the games come end — in the team sprint relay on Wednesday and the mass start on Sunday.
"I think she will win at least one more gold — and maybe two more," Bjoerndalen said of the 37-year-old Bjoergen.
Together, Bjoerndalen and Domracheva have 17 Olympic medals they can decorate their 1-year-old daughter Xenia's room with. He'd love to see Domracheva add a few more before the Winter Games wrap up.
But right now his role is to just be there to cheer her on.
He was yelling to her on the final lap of her silver medal run in the women's mass start. But for the most part, the couple just tries to enjoy their time together in Pyeongchang.
"We don't speak about races, he just keeps me relaxed and happy," Domracheva said.
Bjoerndalen didn't talk about his future in the sport, but Svendsen said he has a sneaky suspicion that king of the biathlon isn't quite ready to hang up his rifle.
"You know what, I have a feeling we will be seeing him again, even though he's 44 years old," Svendsen said.
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2019-04-18T23:25:32Z
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https://www.wtva.com/content/olympics/474456723.html
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Thwart; hinder; baffle; bewilder; foil; frustrate; perplex; disappoint; dampen.
ball (-s), n. [ME] (webplay: astronomy, atmosphere, borne, burn, dance, dancing, earth, earth filled, eye, feet, fire, foot, hair, hand, hold, houses, invitation, leap, light, play, serve, snow, throw, toss).
Sun; solar globe on the horizon at sunset.
Tutu; dance costume; ball gown; ballet dress; full circular dancing skirt; [word play with ballet] cotillion; choreography; ballet corp; party with dancing.
Round toy; spherical object for play.
Round wrapped mass; solid spherical bundle of spun threads.
Nugget; lump of precious metal.
Bullet; shot; lead missile projected from a cannon.
Bit; speck; mote; molecule; particle; [fig.] sun ray; sunset color.
ballad (-s, -'s), n. [OFr 'dancing song'.] (webplay: sing, solemn, tune).
Bird song; tonal message; pattern of sound.
Song; strain; lyric; popular tune; lighthearted melody.
Music; lyrical poetry; [phrase “Of Ballads and of Bards”]: of poems and of poets; from the ancient tradition of memorializing the dead in oral and written compositions.
ballet, n. [Fr. dim. of bal, dance.] (webplay: airs, ball, dance).
Theatrical dance; elegant French dance form.
balloon (-s), n. [It. 'great ball, football'.] (webplay: air, football, light, long, open, wind).
Sun; celestial globe [word play on “ball”]; [fig.] dream; idea; ideal; hope; success; human life.
Aerostat; round blimp; flying hot-air vehicle; floating inflatable ball; gas-filled silk bag with a basket for carrying people.
ballot (-s), n. [It. dim. of balla, ball.] (webplay: vote).
Lottery; lot-drawing; game of chance.
Poll; decision; nomination; voting-ticket; [fig.] final judgment; ultimate destiny.
balm (-s), n. [ME basme < L.; see balsam, n.] (webplay: easing, growth, odoriferous, pain, taste).
Relief; comfort (see Jeremiah 8:22).
Pollen; [fig.] fragrance; bouquet; floral aroma; scent of flower pollen.
Medicine; remedy; soothing cream; pain-relieving ointment.
Emollient; perfume; essence; sweet-smelling unguent; oil used to prepare the dead for burial (see Genesis 37:25).
Nectar; nourishing liquid; revitalizing fluid.
balsam, n. [L.] (webplay: tree).
Soothing resin; balm of Gilead; oily aromatic substance from plants such as copaiba, benzoin, and storax; [fig.] sweetness; goodness.
Baltic, proper n. [Med. L. < Lithuanian or Lettish baltas, white.] (webplay: sea).
Northern European sea; body of water that separates Norway and Sweden from Denmark and Germany; [metonymy] ocean; great geographic feature; [fig.] source of power.
Engagement; betrothal; wedding announcement; decree of marriage.
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2019-04-25T16:20:22Z
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http://edl.byu.edu/lexicon/b/4
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wordpress
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This letter was written by George W. March (1840-1905)—a shoemaker from Danville, Rockingham county, New Hampshire. He was the son of George H. March (1813-18xx) and Ann [ ] (1817-18xx). George was married to Helen M. Goodrich (1843-1920) in January 1870. Helen was the daughter of Andrew Jackson Goodrich (b. 1820) and Perlette St. Johns (b. 1820) of Vermont. She had previously been married to William B. Morrill. George addressed the envelope to his father but wrote the letter his sister, Abbie (b. 1844).
When George wrote this letter in November 1862, he was serving in Co. D, 14th New Hampshire Infantry. George mustered into the service on 24 September 1862 and mustered out on 19 November 1863, discharged for disability after only 14 months of a three year enlistment. The 14th Regiment was recruited mostly from the southwestern part of New Hampshire. When they were sent to Washington D. C. in late October, they were not needed by the Army of the Potomac so they were ordered to report to Gen. Grover who commanded a brigade doing picket duty along the Potomac from the District to the mouth of the Monocacy river. The brigade consisted of the 39th MA, 14th NH, 10th VT, and 23rd ME, the 10th MA Battery & two squadrons of cavalry. The 14th NH was encamped at Lock 21, Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Later in November it was moved to Rockville.
14th Reg. New Hampshire Vols.
Rockville District, Montgomery county, Md.
I guess you will begin to think I don’t have anything to do but to write letters because I write you so many letters but when I am sitting round having nothing in particular to do, I like to take my pen and write. Today is Monday and I and [Henry H.] Titcomb are on picket so we have not much to do. He is writing on one end of a board and I the other.
Perhaps you have heard of the great battle which is going on at Manassas. ¹ For two or three days the roar of artillery has been distinctly heard here. The great battle is not yet ended for as I write I can plainly hear the roar of cannon which at every discharge is sending many poor fellows to their last account. So far as heard from, McClellan is driving the enemy and the probability is that the glorious Union army of the North will come off victorious. The noise of the cannon sounds like distant thunder. May God give victory to the right, which is on the Union side.
This morning a company to which twenty of our men were attached for picket duty marched the men three miles and some of them were left there and the rest marched back and were placed alongside the river and canal. Three of us are on the canal. No one but canal men and cavalry men are allowed to pass. I do not think that we shall have any fighting to do this fall or winter and we are in hopes that the war will be ended before long. Most likely we shall go into winter quarters here. We are about twenty-five miles from the battle. Yesterday some few went up a great hill to see the smoke but could not see it. The horizon looked smokey but whether caused by the battle or not, I do not know.
Abbie, I received a letter from Mollie the other day and she said she had had not letter from you. She wanted to know the reason. Now, I tell you to write before you do anything else. Mother, I should like some of your [ ] boiled dinner, wouldn’t I bet some. I’ll bet I would. I think if well, I shall come home in one year or less for the war will end in that time or before so all think here.
I am pretty well and hope you [are] the same. I want to know how mother is and how she gets along with me out here. Does she worry much?
Don’t you write me another letter without filling ever page full.
How is Nellie now? Is her arm any better? Tell Father to write and tell me about shoemaking and the news in general. Give my love to all the people who enquire after me. Has the 15th Regt. started yet? Write soon.
¹ George erred in concluding the Army of the Potomac was engaged at Manassas. The cannonading he heard was from the vicinity of Philomont in Loudon county, Virginia—about 25 miles to the west. The guns were those of Confederate artillery officer John Pelham attached to Jeb Stuart’s Cavalry as they attempted to intercede in the march of McClellan’s army up the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. After considerable prodding by Lincoln, it was McClellan’s scheme to engage Lee’s army before they could return to the vicinity of Richmond from their Maryland Campaign but McClellan seemed to be in no hurry. As a consequence, Lee’s army returned safely to the south side of the Rappahannock river. McClellan was replaced as commander of the Army of the Potomac on 5 November 1862.
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2019-04-20T20:14:16Z
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https://sparedshared16.wordpress.com/2018/03/01/1862-george-w-march-to-george-h-march/
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waitrose
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Sparkle the natural way. Whatever the occasion, our lively bubbles are sure to deliver instant refreshment. Why not put a bottle of our sparkling natural mineral water on the table to add some fizzy sparkle to your meals?
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2019-04-23T04:13:59Z
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https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/buxton-sparkling-mineral-water/552530-361737-361738
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Arts
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Reference
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sa-cd
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With this recording of exceptional beauty, we are literally transported to the heart of a choral universe of the highest quality in which the works of composers both known and little-known have been convoqued. The program revolves around the iconic figure of the Virgin Mary, with notably “Hymn to the Virgin” by Benjamin Britten, followed by “Salve Regina” by Francis Poulenc, “Ubi Caritas” by Maurice Duruflé, “Ave Maria” by Anton Bruckner, “Bogoroditse Devo” by Sergeï Rachmaninov and Arvo Part, “Lux Aurumque” by Eric Whitacre, “Stabat Mater” by Andrew Smith, and “O Nata Lux” by Morten Lauridsen. Fourteen pieces in all and for all to discover or rediscover choral music played with finesse, rigor, and voluptuousness by the group Schola Cantorum, firmly directed by Tone Bianca Sparre Dahl. In short, here is an SACD of the first order in an exemplary DXD sound recording, with as a bonus a pure audio Blu-ray. Who could ask for anything more?
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2019-04-19T07:26:48Z
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http://sa-cd.net/showtitle/8800
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Arts
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Arts
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sfu
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Tools and best practices will keep your records more secure. We'll consider security topics including cloud storage, full disk encryption, digital preservation, and secure destruction of records.
Using plug-ins for safer browsing (i.e. Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere).
Note: attendees must bring their own device and laptops are preferred.
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2019-04-23T06:28:14Z
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https://www.lib.sfu.ca/help/publish/research-data-management/33095
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Arts
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Computers
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wordpress
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So many options and so little time! Oh, my goodness! I am overwhelmed with the wealth of wondrous words open to me (you like that? That is an alliteration). How many of these quotations from monologues do you recognize? They are all beautiful characters whose words flow from their tongues like so many crystal water droplets, one following hard upon the next (that is a simile) and yes, I am getting carried away with this rhetorical speech. Fun fact: In Shakespeare’s day, “rhetoric” was not a word which implied insincerity or any sort of negative connotation. To speak “rhetorically” simply meant speaking in figures and artificial patterns which were not usually used in everyday life. Some people say that everyone in Shakespeare’s day understood his verse because that was just how people spoke. While the audience did understand his verse, it was not because this was how they spoke in real life; it was because they had a much more auditory culture. Interesting, no? We studied more of these Shakespearean forms of speech in class this week and so many of these things are coming together to make sense in my mind.
Liz asked us to read a really helpful little book called “Shakespeare Alive” by the famous director Joseph Papp which was packed full of helpful little historical tidbits for better understanding of the Bard’s work and world. For instance, did you know that the players in Shakespearean theatre presented a different play every day and a new work somewhere around every two weeks!? Can you imagine the work involved in doing that? With this in mind it completely makes sense that so many works are in verse…to help the actors memorize quickly and create word pictures in the minds of the actors and audience. Liz reminded us that before we speak any kind of imagery in the text we must first see the image in our mind’s eye. It is these images which produce life in the imagination of the actors and enables them to convey that energy and passion to the audience.
Although we touched upon language and rhetoric again this week, Liz’s primary focus was on breath and breathing. I have had only a little bit of vocal training in my theatre education so far and some of the vocal exercises she gave us were fairly difficult for me, requiring my full attention. However, she gave us a mental image that really did stick in my head and helped me so much. She told us to think of our breath as being a line which we were throwing to someone as we spoke to them. Every single thing we said had to be thrown to the person we were speaking to and connect us to them by a line. You try it…take a deep breath and feel your ribs swing out to let in more air, then toss a line on your breath to someone. This vocal support really feels very enjoyable, particularly when paired with those lush, round Shakespearean words I mentioned last week. I will hold this picture a long time.
So now, the moment of truth……….What am I going to do for my monologue? It has to be good, something I can really enjoy as I work. It should also be something with a lot of imagery and rhetoric which I can sink my teeth into as I play with this language. And Liz said it should be a character we could actually play now, someone near our own age and experience. Well……..I think I have made a decision. “As You Like It” has always been my favorite comedy…. Can I handle it? I’m going to go for it. I may not have this chance again!
Ladies and gentlemen, for my first performance as the Antaeus Intern in Shakespeare, I will be presenting Rosalind (my dream role) from “As You Like It,” act III, scene v.
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2019-04-23T12:46:27Z
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https://antaeuscompany.wordpress.com/2014/09/
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Arts
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Arts
| 0.775083 |
nationalgeographic
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Angelina Arora from Sydney hopes to help clean the ocean of plastic pollution, one bag at a time.
In partnership with the National Geographic Society. This story is part of Planet or Plastic?—our multiyear effort to raise awareness about the global plastic waste crisis. Learn what you can do to reduce your own single-use plastics, and take your pledge.
Arora explained to National Geographic the moment when she first understood the impact plastic was having on the environment. One day when she was a young girl, she went out shopping to the local supermarket with her mother when she noticed that her mother paid for plastic bags. Curious, she asked the cashier why. The cashier responded that it was to deter people from using plastic bags and therefore help save the planet.
This idea, and Arora’s strong love of science, is what guided her to create a sophisticated biodegradable plastic at age 16. However, the journey was not an easy one. After experimenting and failing with different kinds of organic waste, such as banana peels, Arora turned to prawns (shrimp) after noticing the similarities between their shells and plastic.
See the National Geographic film Science Fair in select theaters.
“I looked at prawns and thought what makes their shells look like plastic? Maybe I can take that out and use it someway and bind it to make a plastic-like material," Arora explained to National Geographic in an interview.
She found that the combination of the two organic products created a plastic-like material that decomposed 1.5 million times faster than commercial plastics, completely breaking down within 33 days.
Her invention won her the Innovator to Market Award in the 2018 BHP Billiton Foundation Science and Engineering Awards and international recognition at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, where she won 4th in the world, as well as a comprehensive scholarship to a prestigious U.S. university. She competed against students from over 81 countries.
"The world is changing faster than many of us can keep up with, but science, technology, engineering, and maths can guide that future through innovation," CSIRO’s Chief Executive Larry Marshall explained in a press release.
However, Arora’s sights are set on the bigger picture.
“Everyone should do whatever they can, so I’m just trying to play my part,” she urges.
At just 16, Arora has a bright scientific future ahead of her.
This story was previously published by National Geographic Australia. National Geographic is committed to reducing plastics pollution. Learn more about our non-profit activities at natgeo.org/plastics.
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2019-04-25T15:13:32Z
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https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/09/angelina-arora-teenager-created-plastic-shrimp-science-fair/
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Shopping
| 0.568488 |
kent
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Kent State has reserved rooms at a reduced rate of $359/night plus tax for resort view rooms. To reserve a room, please call the hotel at 1-800-241-3333 and reference “Kent State University Foundation” to receive the special rate.
All reservations must be made by January 27, 2015 and guaranteed with a first night's room deposit via a major credit card. Any rooms not reserved by this date will be released.
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Underestimate LeBron James at your own risk.
The 34-year-old team captain didn’t win the MVP – that honor went to his first overall draft pick, Kevin Durant (31 points). But James was right at the forefront of a comeback from 20 points down on Sunday night, as his handpicked team topped Giannis Antetokounmpo and company 178-164 at the Spectrum Center on Sunday night.
Even his fussy groin injury, the one that has kept him out of 18 games this season so far, looked temporarily healed as he caught lobs from Dwyane Wade, his former teammate and close friend. The 34-year-old wasn’t at the height of his powers for the entire game – All-Star games are rarely exhibitions of all-out effort – but with 19 points, eight rebounds and four assists in his 15th consecutive All-Star Game appearance, he’s still the player fans expect him to be.
Even in exhibitions, James plays to win: His team overcame a 38-point performance from Antetokounmpo, the Milwaukee Bucks forward who is one of the regular-season MVP front-runners. Some of Team Giannis’ top plays came in the first half, particularly a Steph Curry bounce pass that soared above the backboard before Antetokounmpo flushed it with a tough reach about 2½ feet above the rim.
But James’ merits as a team-drafter came to roost: Kawhi Leonard scored 19 points, while Klay Thompson (20 points) and Damian Lillard (18 points) sparked the bench.
Team LeBron outscored Team Giannis 96-69 in the second half. Team LeBron coach Mike Malone, who worked with James closely for five years as a Cleveland Cavaliers assistant, told a (possibly apocryphal) story about halftime, when his players were down 95-82 but wanted to watch rapper J. Cole perform at halftime.
Team LeBron fell in line, holding Team Giannis to fewer points in each quarter as the game progressed.
The offensive spark came from Lillard, who tied the score with back-to-back third-quarter 3-pointers that he drilled from the midcourt logo, sending the bench exploding in celebration. Timely shooting from Durant and Leonard helped close the door on Antetokounmpo’s squad, which he had drafted to be scrappy over being experienced.
The teammate who might be the most talked about of James’ selections was held out for most of the game: Anthony Davis scored just five points in under five minutes, reportedly held out over concerns of a lingering shoulder injury. Kyrie Irving, James’ former partner in Cleveland, had 13 points and tossed an assist for a furious James dunk late in the fourth quarter.
But James’ favorite moment might have been the pomp surrounding Wade, who scored seven points in his final All-Star appearance. He didn’t quite have the splash of Dirk Nowitzki, who drilled three straight 3-pointers after subbing into the game in the first quarter, including a shot before the buzzer. Both were presented with framed jerseys before the final quarter.
James called it “bittersweet” – the bitter part that it would be the last time the two are playing on the same floor.
Peace is something that’s far from James at the moment. With the Lakers (28-29) in 10th place in the Western Conference, James said he would immediately shift forward into concentrating on making the playoffs.
It was only for one game, but Malone said he remembered the rush of confidence he felt with James as one of his players rather than one of his opponents. He sounded like he wouldn’t count him out.
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2019-04-20T17:11:21Z
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If La Ley can be described as Latin America’s answer to Duran Duran, don’t think this Chilean band does nothing but “Girls on Film” and “Hungry Like the Wolf” covers.
Instead, La Ley takes after Duran Duran’s Liberty and The Wedding Album era. Guitarist Pedro Frugone even cites Duran Duran guitarist Warren Cuccurullo as an influence.
The opening track of Uno has a perfectly telling moment. Right before singer Beto Cuevas tears into the soaring chorus of “Eternidad,” there’s a bass solo that sounds like it came straight from John Taylor’s fingers himself.
But that’s not the only influence informing La Ley’s music.
For Uno, the band ditched most of the synthesizers from 1998’s Vertigo that made them sound somewhere between Depeche Mode and Erasure. Now relying more on acoustic and electric guitars, La Ley sounds like the Cure would if Robert Smith took Prozac, and Maná’s Fher cited the Smiths and Echo and the Bunnymen as songwriting influences.
Without all the keyboard effects, La Ley’s songwriting comes into sharper focus, and while there are a few moments that would make either Nick Rhodes or Neil Tennant proud, Uno is mostly Frugone’s showcase.
As bands are wont to do nowadays, La Ley tacked a hidden bonus track after “Al Final” with Cuevas singing in English. The song serves as subtle warning — this band has a singer that can allow La Ley to take on North America if they so wanted.
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2019-04-24T06:15:33Z
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https://archive.musicwhore.org/2000/10/01/his_name_aint_rio/
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Costa Mesa Mayor Jim Righeimer and Mayor Pro Tem Steve Mensinger have sued the city's police officers association, alleging the group and two other defendants intimidated and harassed them for political gain.
A civil action lawsuit filed Tuesday names the Costa Mesa Police Officers' Assn.; Upland-based law firm Lackie, Dammeier, McGill & Ethir; and Menifee private investigator Chris Lanzillo, alleging they intentionally inflicted emotional distress and violated civil rights, among 15 other complaints.
Righeimer's wife, Lene, is also included as a plaintiff.
The mayor and mayor pro tem referred all questions to their lawyer, Vince Finaldi, who said the tactics alleged in the suit are common practice for Lackie, Dammeier, McGill & Ethir, a law firm known for representing police.
"They're coercing and intimidating these people so that they change their vote in favor of the police association," said Vince Finaldi, who filed the suit on behalf of Mensinger and the Righeimers.
Much of the lawsuit stems from an Aug. 22, 2012, incident during which Lanzillo, a former Riverside police officer, followed Righeimer as he left Skosh Monahan's, a bar and restaurant on Newport Boulevard owned by Councilman Gary Monahan.
According to a 911 tape acquired by the Daily Pilot, Lanzillo called to report a potential drunk driver.
He then alleged that the driver, whom he did not identify as Righeimer, was driving erratically and reaching a speed of 50 mph down a residential street.
A police officer responded to the call and administered a sobriety test in front of Righeimer's Mesa Verde home while his children watched in fear, the lawsuit alleges.
Righeimer was immediately found not to be impaired and soon after the incident held a press conference where he produced a receipt for two Diet Cokes from Skosh Monahan's.
At the press conference, the mayor accused political enemies of trying to set him up. He asserted that the association employed Lanzillo to tail him – an allegation the association strongly denied at the time.
Representatives from the association could not be reached for comment Tuesday afternoon or evening.
Righeimer and the council majority have been working to reduce public employee compensation, a move that has drawn fierce resistance from public employee associations, collective-bargaining units that share some characteristics with but are not technically unions.
The suit alleges that the police association, Lanzillo and the law firm were all involved in the situation at least indirectly.
"What we're saying is it's a conspiracy, that they were all conspiring together to do this," said Finaldi, of the Irvine-based law firm Manly, Stewart & Finaldi.
Costa Mesa's police association knew that Lackie, Dammeier, McGill & Ethir would resort to strong-arm tactics outlined in the lawsuit because the strategies were included in a "playbook" available on law-firm's website, according to the complaint.
The plaintiffs also allege that the law firm was in electronic communication with Lanzillo during the time he followed Righeimer home, Finaldi said.
The private investigator previously told the Daily Pilot that he was on another assignment when he decided to follow Righeimer but would not reveal who he was working for that night. The law firm has denied sending him to tail Righeimer.
The police association cut ties with Lackie, Dammeier, McGill & Ethir soon after.
The lawsuit, which was filed in Orange County Superior Court, goes beyond that night, stating the three plaintiffs now live in constant "fear for the well-being of [themselves] and [their families]" or being "set up" by the defendants.
The plaintiffs have asked for a jury trial, during which any damages would be decided, Finaldi said.
Lanzillo and the law firm also could not be reached after work hours Tuesday evening.
— Staff writer Bradley Zint also contributed to this report.
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2019-04-26T16:13:41Z
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https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/tn-dpt-xpm-2013-08-20-tn-dpt-me-0821-righeimer-mensinger-lawsuit-20130820-story.html
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Get a tommorning mug for your guy James.
what are you doing tommorning??
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2019-04-23T05:03:44Z
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Richard Hatch has been refused an early prison release, so now he apparently wants to serve his supervised release in South America.
The original Survivor winner has filed a motion in U.S. District Court asking for travel freedom to live in Buenos Aires, Argentina under supervision once his 51-month jail sentence expires, The Providence Journal reported Friday.
Hatch was convicted on tax evasion charges in January 2006 and is scheduled to be released from federal prison and moved to a halfway house on May 12, according to The Journal, which added his supervised release would begin in October.
Hatch requested the travel freedom because he is currently married to an Argentine national whose family is unable to travel to the U.S., The Journal reported. Should his request be denied, Hatch has asked that the court at least let him visit Argentina and seek income opportunities -- including potential "guest appearances" on upcoming Survivor editions -- abroad.
The federal government opposes the 47-year-old Newport, R.I. native's request on the grounds that the sentence requires he complete mental-health counseling, file amended tax returns for 2000 and 2001 and pay $400,000 in back taxes, according to The Journal.
Hatch has failed to file corrected tax returns or pay any of the taxes he owes, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew J. Reich, who told The Journal the federal government will seek to revoke the supervised release should Hatch not file an amended tax return.
"[Hatch] describes himself as 'a rational, nonsmoking, drug-free and responsible citizen...' who is not in need of supervision," Reich wrote, according to The Journal.
"He overlooks the fact, however, that [former Chief U.S. District Judge Ernest C.] Torres found that Hatch is in need of supervision, including mental-health counseling. Part of his reasoning in this regard was based on the fact [that] Hatch perjured himself extensively during the trial."
Hatch has previously claimed that he believed either CBS or Survivor's production company would pay for the taxes on his $1 million winnings -- an allegation that even if true, would still not address Hatch's conviction for evading taxes on the Pontiac Aztec he received as Survivor's winner; $28,000 of real estate rental income; and an additional $327,000 that he earned during a Boston radio show co-host stint that followed his Survivor win.
He subsequently appealed his case to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost.
Most recently, Hatch requested immediate release from prison because he feels he is innocent, was represented by ineffective lawyers and had a judge improperly calculate his prison sentence.
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2019-04-21T04:12:08Z
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"6 People from Junior High School."
And, hopefully you'll "Have the Feeling" and join us.
New Information Provided this Month!
Disregard Information in Previous Emails!
For Accuracy, Please Review on Desktop and "Not Mobile"
Your Mobile Phone to Reference Over the Weekend.
"Charming," Country French in Chevy Chase. "Classic Cuisine."
Zagat Rating: 4.5. We Can't Do Any Better.
Open bar prior to lunch, and wine included with feast.
No Rules: You Define It!
To help make this special occasion even more memorable, our official photographer for the reunion, Ro, from Capture The Moment Photography, will be taking photos of the attendees and activities at La Ferme and possibly the picnic as well, if we have sufficient donations.
Those Photos Will Go in the Memory Book and Class Website.
If you want to have the photographer capture an exclusive photograph, you can make arrangements for those photos directly with Ro during the reunion. You will then have the option of purchasing high resolution prints and/or digital downloads of your exclusive photo.
Place an order by October 31, 2016 and reference the Richard Montgomery High School Reunion and receive a 25% discount!
Arrangements already made for beer and wine selection.
New Information: The Previous ABC Store Closed This Month.
Both Locations Are 2-3 Miles Away From the After Party!
Click here to open their website.
Only 4 miles away from La Ferme.
Details and Directions will accompany ticket.
After Party for Folks Who Joined Us at La Ferme.
During the After Party, we will be treated by "Baltimore Improv Theatre,"
an improvisational and sketch comedy theatre company.
Click here or the name above to open the Baltimore Improv Theatre website.
with all the fixings including Beer from 1pm - 4 pm.
A Contribution is Welcomed If You're Unable to Join Us at La Ferme.
Please RSVP, So There is Enough Food & Beer!
Imagine Fall Colors in this Maryland State Park!
Folks do not come to reunions because they feel they don't, "Measure Up."
To Come to Terms With Aging--Seeing new fine lines and more gray hair isn't easy to deal with for most people.
When you arrive at The Fab 40th and realize that everyone is getting older, it can make the experience feel less isolating and help you come to terms with the fact that aging is an inevitable part of life.
Whether you plan on joining us or not, you can still participate with the Memory Book.
Send It Back to Us Before October 1, 2016.
We are using photographs taken at The Fab 40th and including them in The Memory Book.
5 More Days, That's It!
We will run a multi-media show throughout the lunch of photographs of classmates from "Yesteryear" (you pick the years: Elementary School-College) to "Today."
You might want to select photos of special occasions, such as prom, field trips, school plays, sporting and club events. Or, just send us your senior picture, and some current shots too.
We're Going to Use Photos from The Memorial Page. We want to include tributes to classmates who have passed away. If you have photos of these classmates, please send them as well, so we can include them in the presentation.
Simply gather your photos and send them to reunion40photos@recruitcom.com and in the Subject Line Insert your graduating first & last name and please say: "My Photos!"
and we will include them in the show.
If you're unable to join us at The Fab 40th, still send us your photos, so we can include you!
Donations are warmly welcomed and more is needed!
As you know, since August 2015, we were attempting to keep costs down as much as possible to make it more feasible for folks to participate. As you can well imagine, "Everyday" New and More Expenses are Generated."
We Are Easily a "Considerable Amount" in the Hole!
all the "Extras" we are planning.
your generosity is warmly appreciated!
Plenty of Food and Beer For You.
III.) Provide Photos for Sights and Sounds (Multimedia Show).
With enough volunteers, only for 15 minute intervals. Click Here.
VI.) Make a Financial Contribution.
Tickets can be purchased online using the "Buy Now Button" on the www.rmhs1976.com website.
Debit cards, Visa, MasterCard and American Express are accepted. See class website "Tickets page" for details.
$115.00 payable to the RMHS Class of 76.
Gratuities are Included in Your La Ferme Lunch Ticket.
No Credit Cards Are Accepted After September 19!
Only Checks or Cash Will Be Welcomed.
We will not have access to technology to process your order.
Click here for details concerning rooms, rates, amenities and reservations.
Please, do not use past emails to book your room!
I "fabricated" five reservations that any one of you can have.
Contact me immediately or those reservations will be cancelled.
Bradley Blvd and Wisconsin Ave in Bethesda.
Historically, it's way cheaper than National Airport or Dulles.
Hopefully, this information will help you in making a decision that benefits you and provides us an opportunity to revisit a time past.
Baltimore/Washington Airport is 35 minutes away from the Reunion and the airlines are discount carriers or carriers that reduce their airfares.
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2019-04-21T01:13:10Z
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The first known interstellar object to travel through our solar system could be a gigantic alien solar sail sent to look for signs of life, according to a new study.
The mysterious asteroid Oumuamua has been analysed by astronomers from the Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA) after it was found to be unexpectedly speeding up.
Scientists have now concluded that the asteroid “might be a lightsail of artificial origin” using solar radiation to propel itself forward.
The study said: “Considering an artificial origin, one possibility is that Oumuamua is a lightsail, floating in interstellar space as a debris from an advanced technological equipment.
Professor Abraham Loeb, who carried out the study with Shmuel Bialy, told Universe Today: “Oumuamua could be an active piece of alien technology that came to explore our Solar System, the same way we hope to explore Alpha Centauri using Starshot and similar technologies.
Before he died, Professor Stephen Hawking said the most likely shape for an interstellar spacecraft would be a "cigar or needle" as this would “minimise friction and damage from interstellar gas and dust”.
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2019-04-22T22:33:25Z
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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/mystery-interstellar-asteroid-oumuamua-could-be-gigantic-alien-solar-sail-sent-to-look-for-signs-of-life/ar-BBPjklX?ocid=spartandhp
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"Loss of nuclear PTEN in HCV-infected human hepatocytes" by Wenjie Bao, Liliana Florea et al.
Import of PTEN to the nucleus relies on the interaction of Transportin-2 and PTEN proteins; we show that depletion of Transportin-2 by HCV infection or by the introduction of vmr11 in uninfected cells results in reduced nuclear PTEN. In turn, nuclear PTEN insufficiency correlates with increased virus production and the induction of ?-H2AX, a marker of DNA double-strand breaks and genomic instability.
Reproduced with permission of BioMed Central Infectious Agents and Cancer.
Bao, W., Florea, L., Wu, N., Wang, Z., Banaudha, K. et al. (2014). Loss of nuclear PTEN in HCV-infected human hepatocytes. Infectious Agents and Cancer, 9:23.
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2019-04-25T06:39:27Z
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https://hsrc.himmelfarb.gwu.edu/smhs_surgery_facpubs/213/
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If there’s one thing Theresa May can’t be accused of, it’s doing anything in a rush.
By taking her time, Mrs May hopes to run down the clock in order to give her critics no option but to swallow her deal. As much as she might insist that the public wants to “get on” with Brexit, the Prime Minister is in no hurry to do so.
She has promised not to delay any longer, but it seems like we’ll only see results just before the time runs out.
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2019-04-23T04:50:37Z
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/12/13/theresa-may-prime-minister-survives-delaying-dithering/
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Pundits on the yak-yak circuit got the jump on the game when the election was quickly called for President Obama and the slew of Democratic senators elected from Red states. But it took conservatives such as Karl Rove quite a while to fully accept how the electorate voted, and some pundits predicted Florida would eventually go for Mitt Romney. It did not.
Let's just say the Republicans got voted off the island, or as Jon Stewart of The Daily Show put it this way in a tweet: "FLASH: Romney wins (most of) the Confederacy." And Whoopi Goldberg tweeted: "Make no mistake, values won this election."
Republican billionaires ponied up $400 million to super PACs with names like American Crossroads to knock Obama out of the ring, yet they lost every battle they fought. It could be that the Republicans made a fatal error early in the campaign: They thought Mitt Romney was running against a failed Obama when actually he was running against a failed George Bush. Exit polls found that 62 percent of the electorate still blames our economic meltdown on the Bush administration.
Amazingly, the voters of America were not fooled by all that money. The half-truths and shape shifting failed to work no matter how many poisonous television ads were aired. No post-mortem critic was more brutal than Jason Stanford, author of Cognitive Dissonance and Republican Logic: "Republicans are people," Stanford wrote, "who make fortunes sucking 'dinosaur juice' out of the ground, and on Sunday mornings worship in churches that tell them the world is 6,000 years old."
When McGovern died a few weeks before this election, the conservative writer David Brooks described the late senator as "the most decent politician in America." McGovern's vision of a diverse, environmentally sound and equitable America forged the political identity of millions of young people who now take their grandchildren out for ice cream on Sunday afternoons. Some of my generation believed -- more fervently than we have believed in anything since -- that we could leave the world a better place than we found it. We believed we could make a better world for blacks, gays, Latinos, Asians, women and children; for the animals and trees, for rivers and oceans and whales and sparrows and the air we breathe. McGovern's defeat at the hands of Richard Nixon, in 1972, was a cruel awakening. A generation of idealists has worn that defeat as a badge of honor for 40 years.
As the returns rolled in on Tuesday night, and we cheered as each battleground state fell into the Democratic column, a few of us old-timers in election headquarters felt a certain tiny flame flicker back to life.
"The child is father of the man," wrote the poet William Wordsworth back in 1802. But this election was not like 1992, or 1996, or even 2008. No, the presidential election of 2012 felt like something special, a redemption. The young campaign workers cheered with enthusiasm, but for us grandparents, this was different. As New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd put it: In 2008, Obama lifted us up; in 2012, we lifted him up.
And as Julian Zelizer, a political historian at Princeton University commented the following morning on CNN, "The ‘60s culture wars won, and that's a legacy we're now seeing. Doing away with taboos about race, sexuality, drugs, and gender roles, especially marijuana and gay marriage...most of America, even the red states, moved in a more liberal direction last night."
America finally caught up to George McGovern. His vision of a pluralistic and diverse America is our path forward. It's the only sane path out of the political morass of the past four decades, and peril will befall any politician who ignores it. And that's what I'll remember.
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The Paddling Club promotes the sport of whitewater kayaking. The club runs weekly open sessions, kayak polo, as well as occasional wave pool sessions and theory sessions throughout the school year. The Club welcomes beginners to the sport and fosters an environment where members can practice and improve their skills.
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"Epicycle" redirects here. For the similar mathematical curve, see Epicycloid.
In the Hipparchian and Ptolemaic systems of astronomy, the epicycle (from Ancient Greek: ἐπίκυκλος, literally upon the circle, meaning circle moving on another circle) was a geometric model used to explain the variations in speed and direction of the apparent motion of the Moon, Sun, and planets. In particular it explained the apparent retrograde motion of the five planets known at the time. Secondarily, it also explained changes in the apparent distances of the planets from the Earth.
It was first proposed by Apollonius of Perga at the end of the 3rd century BC. It was developed by Apollonius of Perga and Hipparchus of Rhodes, who used it extensively, during the 2nd century BC, then formalized and extensively used by Ptolemy of Thebaid in his 2nd century AD astronomical treatise the Almagest.
Epicycles worked very well and were highly accurate, because, as Fourier analysis later showed, any smooth curve can be approximated to arbitrary accuracy with a sufficient number of epicycles. However, they fell out of favour with the discovery that planetary motions were largely elliptical from a heliocentric frame of reference, which led to the discovery that gravity obeying a simple inverse square law could better explain all planetary motions.
The basic elements of Ptolemaic astronomy, showing a planet on an epicycle (smaller dashed circle), a deferent (larger dashed circle), the eccentric (×) and an equant (•).
In both Hipparchian and Ptolemaic systems, the planets are assumed to move in a small circle called an epicycle, which in turn moves along a larger circle called a deferent. Both circles rotate clockwise and are roughly parallel to the plane of the Sun's orbit (ecliptic). Despite the fact that the system is considered geocentric, each planet's motion was not centered on the Earth but at a point slightly away from the Earth called the eccentric. The orbits of planets in this system are similar to epitrochoids.
Had his values for deferent radii relative to the Earth–Sun distance been more accurate, the epicycle sizes would have all approached the Earth–Sun distance. Although all the planets are considered separately, in one peculiar way they were all linked: the lines drawn from the body through the epicentric center of all the planets were all parallel, along with the line drawn from the Sun to the Earth along which Mercury and Venus were situated. That means that all the bodies revolve in their epicycles in lockstep with Ptolemy's Sun (that is, they all have exactly a one year period).
The inferior planets were always observed to be near the Sun, appearing only shortly before sunrise or shortly after sunset. Their apparent retrograde motion occurs during the transition between evening star into morning star, as they pass between the Earth and the Sun.
The ancients worked from a geocentric perspective for the simple reason that the Earth was where they stood and observed the sky, and it is the sky which appears to move while the ground seems still and steady underfoot. Some Greek astronomers (e.g., Aristarchus of Samos) speculated that the planets (Earth included) orbited the Sun, but the optics (and the specific mathematics – Isaac Newton's Law of Gravitation for example) necessary to provide data that would convincingly support the heliocentric model did not exist in Ptolemy's time and would not come around for over fifteen hundred years after his time. Furthermore, Aristotelian physics was not designed with these sorts of calculations in mind, and Aristotle's philosophy regarding the heavens was entirely at odds with the concept of heliocentrism. It was not until Galileo Galilei observed the moons of Jupiter on 7 January 1610, and the phases of Venus in September 1610 that the heliocentric model began to receive broad support among astronomers, who also came to accept the notion that the planets are individual worlds orbiting the Sun (that is, that the Earth is a planet and is one among several). Johannes Kepler was able to formulate his three laws of planetary motion, which described the orbits of the planets in our solar system to a remarkable degree of accuracy; Kepler's three laws are still taught today in university physics and astronomy classes, and the wording of these laws has not changed since Kepler first formulated them four hundred years ago.
Claudius Ptolemy refined the deferent-and-epicycle concept and introduced the equant as a mechanism for accounting for velocity variations in the motions of the planets. The empirical methodology he developed proved to be extraordinarily accurate for its day and was still in use at the time of Copernicus and Kepler.
In the Ptolemaic system the models for each of the planets were different and so it was with Copernicus' initial models. As he worked through the mathematics, however, Copernicus discovered that his models could be combined in a unified system. Furthermore, if they were scaled so that the Earth's orbit was the same in all of them, the ordering of the planets we recognize today easily followed from the math. Mercury orbited closest to the Sun and the rest of the planets fell into place in order outward, arranged in distance by their periods of revolution.
Although Copernicus' models reduced the magnitude of the epicycles considerably, whether they were simpler than Ptolemy's is moot. Copernicus eliminated Ptolemy's somewhat-maligned equant but at a cost of additional epicycles. Various 16th-century books based on Ptolemy and Copernicus use about equal numbers of epicycles. The idea that Copernicus used only 34 circles in his system comes from his own statement in a preliminary unpublished sketch called the Commentariolus. By the time he published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, he had added more circles. Counting the total number is difficult, but estimates are that he created a system just as complicated, or even more so. Koestler, in his history of man's vision of the universe, equates the number of epicycles used by Copernicus at 48. The popular total of about 80 circles for the Ptolemaic system seems to have appeared in 1898. It may have been inspired by the non-Ptolemaic system of Girolamo Fracastoro, who used either 77 or 79 orbs in his system inspired by Eudoxus of Cnidus. Copernicus in his works exaggerated the number of epicycles used in the Ptolemaic system; although original counts ranged to 80 circles, by Copernicus's time the Ptolemaic system had been updated by Peurbach towards the similar number of 40; hence Copernicus effectively replaced the problem of retrograde with further epicycles.
Ptolemy's and Copernicus' theories proved the durability and adaptability of the deferent/epicycle device for representing planetary motion. The deferent/epicycle models worked as well as they did because of the extraordinary orbital stability of the solar system. Either theory could be used today had Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Isaac Newton not invented calculus.
With better observations additional epicycles and eccentrics were used to represent the newly observed phenomena till in the later Middle Ages the universe became a 'Sphere/With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er,/Cycle and Epicycle, Orb in Orb'.
By this time each planet had been provided with from 40 to 60 epicycles to represent after a fashion its complex movement among the stars. Amazed at the difficulty of the project, Alfonso is credited with the remark that had he been present at the Creation he might have given excellent advice.
Another problem is that the models themselves discouraged tinkering. In a deferent-and-epicycle model, the parts of the whole are interrelated. A change in a parameter to improve the fit in one place would throw off the fit somewhere else. Ptolemy's model is probably optimal in this regard. On the whole it gave good results but missed a little here and there. Experienced astronomers would have recognized these shortcomings and allowed for them.
which is periodic just when every pair of kj is rationally related. Finding the coefficients aj to represent a time-dependent path in the complex plane, z = f(t), is the goal of reproducing an orbit with deferent and epicycles, and this is a way of "saving the phenomena" (σώζειν τα φαινόμενα).
Reason may be employed in two ways to establish a point: firstly, for the purpose of furnishing sufficient proof of some principle [...]. Reason is employed in another way, not as furnishing a sufficient proof of a principle, but as confirming an already established principle, by showing the congruity of its results, as in astronomy the theory of eccentrics and epicycles is considered as established, because thereby the sensible appearances of the heavenly movements can be explained; not, however, as if this proof were sufficient, forasmuch as some other theory might explain them.
Whereas we use "hypothesis" to denote a tentative theory which is still to be verified, Ptolemy usually means by ύπόθεσις something more like "model", "system of explanation", often indeed referring to "the hypotheses which we have demonstrated".
^ "epicycle". Online Etymology Dictionary.
^ Andrea, Murschel (1995). "The Structure and Function of Ptolemy's Physical Hypotheses of Planetary Motion". Journal for the History of Astronomy (xxvii): 33–61. Bibcode:1995JHA....26...33M. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
^ One volume of De Revolutionibus was devoted to a description of the trigonometry used to make the transformation between geocentric and heliocentric coordinates.
^ Palter, Robert (1970). "Approach to the History of Astronomy". Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science. 1: 94.
^ Owen Gingerich, "Alfonso X as a Patron of Astronomy", in The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler (New York: American Institute of Physics, 1993), p. 125.
^ Gingerich, "Crisis versus Aesthetic in the Copernican Revolution", in Eye of Heaven, pp. 193–204.
^ "The popular belief that Copernicus's heliocentric system constitutes a significant simplification of the Ptolemaic system is obviously wrong ... [T]he Copernican models themselves require about twice as many circles as the Ptolemaic models and are far less elegant and adaptable." Neugebauer, Otto (1969) . The Exact Sciences in Antiquity (2 ed.). Dover Publications. ISBN 978-0-486-22332-2. , p. 204. This is an extreme estimate in favor of Ptolemy.
^ Palter, Approach to the History of Astronomy, pp. 113–114.
^ Goldstein, Bernard R. (1972). "Theory and Observation in Medieval Astronomy". Isis. 63 (1): 39–47 [40–41]. doi:10.1086/350839.
^ Kollerstrom, Nicholas (2000). Newton's Forgotten Lunar Theory. Green Lion Press. ISBN 1-888009-08-X.
p. 14.. The quotation is from John Milton's Paradise Lost, Book 8, 11.82–85.
^ Encyclopædia Britannica, 1968, vol. 2, p. 645. This is identified as the highest number in Owen Gingerich, Alfonso X. Gingerich also expressed doubt about the quotation attributed to Alfonso. In The Book Nobody Read (p. 56), however, Gingerich relates that he challenged Encyclopædia Britannica about the number of epicycles. Their response was that the original author of the entry had died and its source couldn't be verified.
^ Hanson, Norwood Russell (1 June 1960). "The Mathematical Power of Epicyclical Astronomy" (PDF). Isis. 51 (2): 150–158. doi:10.1086/348869. ISSN 0021-1753. JSTOR 226846. Retrieved 21 October 2011.
^ See, e.g., this animation made by Christián Carman and Ramiro Serra, which uses 1000 epicycles to retrace the cartoon character Homer Simpson; cf. also Christián Carman's "Deferentes, epiciclos y adaptaciones." and "La refutabilidad del Sistema de Epiciclos y Deferentes de Ptolomeo".
^ Cf. Duhem, Pierre (1969). To save the phenomena, an essay on the idea of physical theory from Plato to Galileo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. OCLC 681213472. (excerpt).
^ Lucio Russo: The forgotten revolution. How science was born in 300 BC and why it had to be reborn. Springer, Berlin. 2004, ISBN 3-540-20068-1, p. 91.
^ Toomer, G. J. (1998). Ptolemy's Almagest. Princeton University Press. p. 23. ISBN 0-691-00260-6.
Ptolemy and Homer (Simpson) Reconstruction of a planet's bizarre orbit with Ptolemy's system of epicycles and deferents.
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An Act to renumber and amend 943.23 (2) and 943.23 (3); and to create 943.23 (1r), 943.23 (2) (b) and 943.23 (3) (b) of the statutes; relating to: carjacking offenses and providing criminal penalties.
943.23 (1r) Whoever, by the use of force against another or by the threat of the use of force against another, intentionally takes any vehicle without the consent of the owner is guilty of a Class E felony.
(a) Except as provided in par. (b), a Class H felony.
943.23 (2) (b) For a 2nd or subsequent offense, a Class F felony.
(a) Except as provided in par. (b), a Class I felony.
943.23 (3) (b) For a 2nd or subsequent offense, a Class G felony.
311,6 Section 6. Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to offenses committed on the effective date of this subsection but does not preclude the counting of other offenses as prior offenses under section 943.23 (2) (b) and (3) (b) of the statutes.
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*goggle eyed* Woah! Good luck with it all!
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The Barriers Series can be read as a series in order.
Have questions or comments for Sara. Fire away here.
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2019-04-25T17:57:14Z
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Mr. Art Moore is from the New Salem Community on Lookout Mountain. Mr. Moore and his wife, Mrs. Effie, Moore, served their community and county faithfully for a long, long time. Mr. Moore was born in the New Salem Community and lived there all his life except for a few years when he took employment elsewhere as a carpenter. During World II he was a sheet metal worker at the Atomic Energy Plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
During the early years of their lives, both Mr. And Mrs. Moore were school teachers. They cleared up the farm that is their present home place, made a living and reared a large family principally from farming.
Mr. Moore made many contributions to agriculture in this area. He served for a number of years as Farm Bureau director and as President of this organization, also as director of the Farmer’s Co-Op and member of FHA committee dealing with farm and home loans.
Mr. And Mrs. Moore have always been very close to their family. Many of the children were able to complete college. Some became teachers. They were very close to the New Salem Methodist church and were very active in helping with the landscaping of the present church.
Mr. And Mrs. Moore were famous for their apple cider and gingerbread. They were active supporters of the Plum Nelly Show from the beginning.
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2019-04-20T04:12:43Z
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https://dadecountyhb.wordpress.com/from-old-book/art-moore/
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Josh Skube is a senior academic counselor, working with baseball, men's lacrosse, and volleyball. He joined the ASSA office in the spring of 2017.
A native of Chesterton, Indiana, Josh earned a Master of Science in Exercise Physiology from Indiana University in 2001 and Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology from Indiana University in 1998. Recently he has helped develop and implement the Undergraduate Engineering Leadership and Engineering Science Pathways to Success programs in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Prior to joining ASSA, Josh also coached the women's and men's swimming programs at the University of Notre Dame from 2000-2015.
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This is to advise you that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviewed your website at the internet address www.diamondcbd.com in September 2018 and has determined that you take orders there for various products you claim to contain cannabidiol (CBD), including “Liquid Gold Gummies (Sweet Mix),” “Liquid Gold Gummies (Sour Mix)” and “blue CBD Crystals Isolate 1500mg.” The claims on your website establish that these products are drugs under section 201(g)(1)(B) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) [21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)(B)] because they are intended for use in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease. As explained further below, introducing or delivering these products for introduction into interstate commerce for such uses violates the Act. You can find the Act and FDA regulations through links on FDA’s home page at www.fda.gov. In addition, the Federal Trade Commission has reviewed your website for potential violations of Sections 5(a) and 12 of the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 45(a) and 52.
Your products “Liquid Gold Gummies (Sweet Mix),” “Liquid Gold Gummies (Sour Mix)” and “blue CBD Crystals Isolate 1500mg,” are not generally recognized as safe and effective for the above referenced uses and, therefore, these products are “new drugs” under section 201(p) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(p)]. New drugs may not be legally introduced or delivered for introduction into interstate commerce without prior approval from the FDA, as described in sections 301(d) and 505(a) of the Act [21 U.S.C. §§ 331(d) and 355(a)]. FDA approves a new drug on the basis of scientific data and information demonstrating that the drug is safe and effective.
A drug is misbranded under section 502(f)(1) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 352(f)(1)] if the drug fails to bear adequate directions for its intended use(s). “Adequate directions for use” means directions under which a layperson can use a drug safely and for the purposes for which it is intended (21 CFR § 201.5). Prescription drugs, as defined in section 503(b)(1)(A) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 353(b)(1)(A)], can only be used safely at the direction, and under the supervision, of a licensed practitioner.
Your products “Liquid Gold Gummies (Sweet Mix),” “Liquid Gold Gummies (Sour Mix)” and “blue CBD Crystals Isolate 1500mg,” are intended for treatment of one or more diseases that are not amenable to self-diagnosis or treatment without the supervision of a licensed practitioner. Therefore, it is impossible to write adequate directions for a layperson to use your products safely for their intended purposes. Accordingly, your products “Liquid Gold Gummies (Sweet Mix),” “Liquid Gold Gummies (Sour Mix)” and “blue CBD Crystals Isolate 1500mg,” fail to bear adequate directions for their intended uses and, therefore, the products are misbranded under section 502(f)(1) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 352(f)(1)]. The introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of these misbranded drugs violates section 301(a) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 331(a)].
We also note that your “blue CBD Crystals Isolate 1500mg” product is labeled with the phrase “nutritional supplement.” To the extent that you intend to market this product as a dietary supplement, you should be aware that FDA has concluded based on available evidence that CBD products are excluded from the dietary supplement definition under sections 201(ff)(3)(B)(i) and (ii) of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(ff)(3)(B)(i) and (ii)]. Under those provisions, if an article (such as CBD) is an active ingredient in a drug product that has been approved under section 505 of the FD&C Act, 21 U.S.C. § 355, or has been authorized for investigation as a new drug for which substantial clinical investigations have been instituted and for which the existence of such investigations has been made public, then products containing that substance are outside the definition of a dietary supplement. There is an exception if the substance was “marketed as” a dietary supplement or as a conventional food before the new drug investigations were authorized; however, based on available evidence, FDA has concluded that this is not the case for CBD.
CBD is the active ingredient in the approved drug product Epidiolex. Furthermore, the existence of substantial clinical investigations regarding CBD has been made public. For example, two such substantial clinical investigations include GW Pharmaceuticals’ investigations regarding Sativex and Epidiolex. FDA considers a substance to be “authorized for investigation as a new drug” if it is the subject of an Investigational New Drug application (IND) that has gone into effect. Under FDA’s regulations (21 CFR § 312.2), unless a clinical investigation meets the limited criteria in that regulation, an IND is required for all clinical investigations of products that are subject to section 505 of the Act. FDA is not aware of any evidence that would call into question its current conclusion that CBD products are excluded from the dietary supplement definition under sections 201(ff)(3)(B)(i) and (ii) of the Act, but you may present FDA with any evidence that has bearing on this issue.
Similarly, we note that your “Liquid Gold Gummies (Sweet Mix)” and “Liquid Gold Gummies (Sour Mix)” products contain a Nutrition Facts panel. To the extent that you intend to market these products as foods, you should be aware that it is a prohibited act under section 301(ll) of the Act (21 U.S.C. 331(ll)) to introduce or deliver for introduction into interstate commerce any food to which has been added a drug approved under section 505 of the Act or for which substantial clinical investigations have been instituted and for which the existence of such investigations has been made public, unless the drug was marketed in food before any substantial clinical investigations involving the drug were instituted. CBD is the active ingredient in the approved drug product Epidiolex. Furthermore, the existence of substantial clinical investigations regarding CBD has been made public. Based on available evidence, FDA has concluded that section 301(ll) prohibits the introduction into interstate commerce of any food to which CBD has been added.
The violations cited in this letter are not intended to be an all-inclusive list of violations that exist in connection with your products. You are responsible for investigating and determining the causes of the violations identified above and for preventing their recurrence or the occurrence of other violations. It is your responsibility to ensure that all products marketed by your firm comply with the Act and its implementing regulations.
In addition, it is unlawful under the FTC Act, 15 U.S.C. § 41 et seq., to advertise that a product can prevent, treat, or cure human disease unless you possess competent and reliable scientific evidence, including, when appropriate, well-controlled human clinical studies, substantiating that the claims are true at the time they are made. See POM Wonderful LLC v. FTC, 777 F.3d 478, 504-05 (D.C. Cir. 2015); FTC v. Direct Mktg. Concepts, 569 F. Supp. 2d 285, 300, 303 (D. Mass. 2008), aff’d, 624 F.3d 1 (1st Cir. 2010); FTC v. Nat’l Urological Group, Inc., 645 F. Supp. 2d 1167, 1190, 1202 (N.D. Ga. 2008), aff’d, 356 Fed. Appx. 358 (11th Cir. 2009); FTC v. Natural Solution, Inc., No. CV 06-6112-JFW, 2007-2 Trade Cas. (CCH) P75, 866, 2007 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 60783, at *11-12 (C.D. Cal. Aug. 7, 2007). More generally, to make or exaggerate such claims, whether directly or indirectly, through the use of a product name, website name, metatags, or other means, without rigorous scientific evidence sufficient to substantiate the claims, violates the FTC Act. See Daniel Chapter One, FTC Dkt. No. 9239, 2009 WL 516000 at *17-19 (F.T.C. Dec. 24, 2009), aff’d, 405 Fed. Appx. 505 (D.C. Cir. 2010).
The FTC is concerned that one or more of the efficacy claims cited above may not be substantiated by competent and reliable scientific evidence. The FTC strongly urges you to review all claims for your products and ensure that those claims are supported by competent and reliable scientific evidence. Violations of the FTC Act may result in legal action seeking a Federal District Court injunction or Administrative Cease and Desist Order. An order also may require that you pay back money to consumers.
With regard to the advertising claims discussed above, please notify Richard Cleland, Assistant Director of the FTC’s Division of Advertising Practices, via electronic mail at rcleland@ftc.gov within fifteen (15) working days of receipt of this letter, of the specific actions you have taken to address FTC's concerns. If you have any questions regarding compliance with the FTC Act, please contact Mr. Cleland at 202-326-3088.
With regard to the FDA-related violations, you should take prompt action to correct the violations cited in this letter. Failure to promptly correct these violations may result in legal action without further notice, including, without limitation, seizure and injunction.
Within fifteen working days of receipt of this letter, please notify this office in writing of the specific steps that you have taken to correct violations. Include an explanation of each step being taken to prevent the recurrence of violations, as well as copies of related documentation. If you believe that your products are not in violation of the Act, include your reasoning and any supporting information for our consideration. If you cannot complete corrective action within fifteen working days, state the reason for the delay and the time within which you will complete the correction.
President, First Capital Venture Co.
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2019-04-24T06:01:01Z
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https://www.fda.gov/ICECI/EnforcementActions/WarningLetters/ucm634738.htm
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creativetime
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In light of the events of the past year, the 2012 Creative Time Summit will address the extreme wealth disparity that is increasingly affecting the global economy and politics. Presenters at the 2012 Creative Time Summit: Confronting Inequity, will reflect upon recent upheavals in the international political and economic climate, focusing specifically on the topic of wealth inequity across the globe and the ways in which it erodes democracy.
Slavoj Žižek, one of the most polemical and entertaining theorists of our time, headlines the roster of speakers at this year’s conference with artist Martha Rosler. Other presenters include artists Michael Rakowitz and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev and, from the social justice field, Malkia Cyril of the Center for Media Justice and Joia Mukerjee, Chief Medical Officer of Partners in Health, among many others. Additionally, in an effort to acknowledge the impressive scope of past Summit attendees, the lineup this year will include a special presentation by a member of our community, selected through the first-ever open call for a Summit presenter.
This year, there are more opportunities than ever for attendees—onsite on online—to participate. In-depth discussion sessions on Day Two will allow audience members to engage directly with one another and presenters about a particular topic. The Summit Lunch on Day One will give attendees another chance to meet and exchange ideas.
Outside of New York, over 30 institutions will host live screenings of the Summit. Many have organized corresponding events, including local presentations and discussion groups. Be sure to check out the partners page on our website to see what our partners are planning! Of course, you can watch on your own, live, right here on the conference website and engage with presenters in New York and viewers around the world via social media.
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2019-04-23T11:55:36Z
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http://creativetime.org/events/event/the-creative-time-summit-2012/
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Following the enormous success of the reissues of Charles Portis’s first three novelsThe Dog of the South, Norwood, and Masters of Atlantiscomes the reissue of a fourth truly brilliant, wonderfully bizarre novel by one of our great American novelists.
Jimmy Burns is an expatriate American living in Mexico who has an uncommonly astute eye for the absurd little details that comprise your average American. For a time, Jimmy spent his days unearthing pre-Colombian artifacts. Now he makes a living doing small trucking jobs and helping out with the occasional missing person situationwhatever it takes to remain “the very picture of an American idler in Mexico, right down to the grass-green golfing trousers.” But when Jimmy’s laid-back lifestyle is seriously imposed upon by a ninety-pound stalker called Louise, a sudden wave of “hippies” (led by a murderous ex-con guru) in search of psychic happenings, and a group of archaeologists who are unearthing (illegally) Mayan tombs, his simple South-of-the-Border existence faces a clear and present danger.
Sometime after my fifth reading of Charles Portis's Gringos, I stopped worrying so much about death, politics, and getting fat, and I started worrying about my car.
Gringos is a compact, hilarious meander in the life of Jimmy Burns, an amateur archaeologist, junk trader, and shade-tree mechanic eking out a transcendently unexamined life in Mexico's Yucatán peninsula. Burns's anxieties are more automotive than existential, a stacking of priorities that, as the book proceeds, begins to resemble a quietly heroic state of grace. These are the sorts of unassailable proverbs you get from Jimmy Burns: "You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say—today I will change the oil in my truck." Repeat this line a few times. It sticks in your head like the answer to a Buddhist koan.
I put Burnsisms into practice all the time. The other day, I was driving around with my lady friend when, out of nowhere, she yelled, "Look, dammit, there are some things going on between us we seriously need to discuss." "Okay," I said, "but right now I need to listen to that thumping sound, which I think is a blown sway-bar bushing." I don't know what a sway-bar bushing is, but saying these words made everything get calm and quiet so that all I could hear was the soothing drone of the engine and the tranquil grinding of my sweetheart's molars.
Over the course of the novel, Burns's heroics range past the everyday and into more swashbuckling territory. At one point, he's compelled to blow out the brains of a homicidal hippie guru, but he doesn't let the killing ruffle his composure. "Shotgun blast or not at close range, I was still surprised at how fast and clean Dan had gone down," Burns reflects. "I wasn't used to seeing my will so little resisted, having been in sales for so long."
Portis's ``gringos'' are a motley bunch of archaeologists, UFO-ologists, New Age mystics, Mormons, teenage runaways, Mayan artifact smugglers, and assorted expatriates floating around the Yucatan peninsula like so much flotsam. But most of them are there for a reason. They are all trying to make some kind of contact: with the ancient Mayan civilization, an advanced extraterrestrial civilization, the supernatural, even their inner selves. Portis grandly spoofs some of these ridiculous quests, but realizes his gringos travel in a world that can turn deadly and may even demand blood sacrifice. It is a world where things rarely are what they seem and where connections are often made only by chance. Readers who delighted in the author's True Grit ( LJ 5/1/68) or The Dog of the South ( LJ 4/15/79) will not be disappointed.-- Charles Michaud, Turner Free Lib., Randolph, Mass.
Gringos 3.8 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 13 reviews.
Jimmy Burns is a former marine living in Merida, Mexico. He makes a living doing some trucking and locating bail jumpers and missing persons. He used to deal in artifacts but got out of the business. Jimmy is a clear-headed veteran that can take care of himself - and others that need it - without getting too conscience-stricken afterwards. His character is revealed slowly and skillfully. Like two of Charles Portis¿ other novels, Norwood and Dog of the South, a large portion of Gringos consists of a road trip. Jimmy takes his confidant, Refugio, and two archeologists to find the husband of a friend who has wandered off toward Guatemala in search of UFOs and an unspecified New Year cosmic gathering. Portis keeps the story moving with exceptional details and observations supplied by Jimmy. Every character is vivid and unique unless there¿s a reason for them not to be, as in the case of two baldheaded henchmen (henchboys really) of an ex-convict fake hippie shaman. Gringos, like other Portis novels, is about as good as fiction gets.
My sense is that Gringos is a guys' novel, like the work of Cormac McCarthy, and I'm curious to see if my wife will get past the first 25 pages. It lacks deep character development and a strong plot. These aren't necessarily criticisms. I found it a quick and enjoyable read. The writing is brisk and Portis writes wittily about a caste of misfit American expatriates living and working in Merida, Mexico: "hippies", archeological professors, UFO hunters, retirees, new age types, grave robbers, etc. As a former Peace Corps volunteer I'm familiar with people that feel more "at home" abroad than in the U.S. It's hard to sort out the caste of supporting characters but that's not really the point. I believe Portis sketched a world he knows (he frequently travels to Mexico) in a light and lively way. If you can enjoy his dry humor and appreciate the steamy third world conjured in these pages you'll enjoy the trip.
If you are complaining in the comments about a 10 dollar nook book price or calling anyone greedy for charging any amount for books, you are a sad person. Do you know what goes into writing a book? Whether the content is printed or put into digital format should not matter. The nook was made for convenience, not to cheapen artistic expression. By the way. Amazing book. I paid the price. It was worth it.
Nookbook price is too high! B&N and the greedy, tree-killing, paper-loving, neandrathal publishers are just missing the whole point of the ereaders. It's 2011, people. Librarys are renting these ebooks for FREE. You are all going to go out of business if you don't change your business model!
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2019-04-26T14:10:31Z
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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gringos-charles-portis/1000020743
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“For every job the No. 1 thing we look for is general cognitive ability, and it’s not I.Q. It’s learning ability. It’s the ability to process on the fly. It’s the ability to pull together disparate bits of information. We assess that using structured behavioral interviews that we validate to make sure they’re predictive.
What else? Humility and ownership.
but how do you reliably test for those?
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2019-04-18T17:17:46Z
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https://davidjaxon.wordpress.com/2014/03/10/the-3-things-google-looks-for-when-hiring/
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miamiherald
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Another truck trying to avoid the trailer veered to the right and struck Ortiz’ car, pushing it off the roadway. The driver of the truck, Emad Said Daashoush, was taken to nearby Lakeside Hospital with minor injuries.
Fog may have been a factor in the 6 a.m. crash.
The family had been overcoming a house fire.
Their Kendall home has been boarded up since the September 2014 fire, CBS4 reported. Carolina Ortiz escaped the blaze with burns. Luis Varona rescued his mother and two siblings from the fire.
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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article15227462.html
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Description : Thuis is one of my favourites..New version from my original...u do the autotuning..
Description : Another trap style downflow version of my original acapella. There is a demo track on my tracks page if u wanna collab..
Description : Have fun with the vocals! Reminds me a little bit on Two feet! You can upload the vocals on Youtube and Soundcloud. Before uploading them on streaming platforms (like spotify, apple music etc.) please contact me.
I'm excited to hear how y'all flip this!
Just started out singing so thought a good way to progress is to upload here, both getting collabs and feedback on my work.
Feel free to use this acapella if you use "ft. stranger¿" in the title and if there is NO money/royalty involved! For serius collabs with royalty involved you MUST contact me!
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https://www.looperman.com/acapellas/genres/trap-acapellas-vocals-sounds-samples-download
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NetRead’s goal is to support the publishing industry through innovative, digital solutions.
Founded in 1999, NetRead created the first commercial ONIX-conversion application, JacketCaster. As the first to upgrade to ONIX 3.0 in 2009, NetRead continues to lead, combining its expertise in metadata with its content and asset distribution product, EbookCaster. Publishers of all sizes utilize these applications to reach global markets in the accelerating e-landscape.
JacketCaster is a hosted solution for converting and distributing publisher title information. Transmitting rich product information is essential in the digital environment, and JacketCaster‘s ability to transmit on-demand or on a predetermined schedule are necessary processes. Additionally, JacketCaster extends the publisher’s sales reach, increasing sales and leveraging the backlist.
EbookCaster delivers the publisher’s ebook and digital assets as the desired by the sales channel. Utilizing the power of JacketCaster‘s metadata conversion feature, EbookCaster allows publishers to make rapid changes to product information, content or image formats, and affect the sales information on the etailers’ websites.
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https://netread.com/about/
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educationindex
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After 4 years hard working, 30 million dollars in acquiring Angiomax, further R&D, and initiate marketing test, in order to successfully market the first flagship drug Angiomax, the Medicines Company now have a couple of decisions to make in terms of initial pricing, segmentation, marketing strategies, etc (see exhibit 1).
Decision I: At what initial price should Angiomax be offered to the market? Which segments should be targeted first? Why?
In order to successfully market Angiomax, The Medicines Company must look at the different segments that may use the drug, and what the value Angiomax could offer to the buyer and to the end user..
The framing effect might work here (I am not sure about this, please check), since the cost of complication or lost of life is very high (both financially and mentally), aversion of risk may reduce the price sensitivity of Angiomax.
To buyers, the factors above would also work to reduce their price sensitivity. However, we should have a solid rationale behind our strategy to show the fairness of our pricing, to deliver not only the good reputation but also financial benefit to the hospitals, and to gain a win-win situation for both buyers and the company.
In the case, there are 1,300 medical centers performed angioplasties, 700 of which were responsible for 92% of all angioplasty procedure. The following calculation is for these 700 centers we are going to target.
In Exhibit 2, for we calculate the difference of the cost of complications by using Heparin or Angiomax. For very high risk patients undergo angioplasty a year, by using Heparin, cost of complications is $110,252,800, Angiomax is used, cost of complications is $40,185,600. Total saving for complications is $70,067,200. Divided by 700 centers, each center can save $100,096.
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2019-04-24T20:11:13Z
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https://www.educationindex.com/essay/Angiomax-Case-F35VM57EEZ
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Located in the heart of New Mexico, the city of Albuquerque is the state's largest city and a major cultural center in the American Southwest. Framed by the Sandia Mountains, Albuquerque is home to major attractions such as Tingley Beach, the Sandia Peak Ski Area and the annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Visitors to the city will find no shortage of RV campgrounds, many of which allow easy access to outdoor attractions.
Situated in the northern region of the Chihuahuan Desert in central New Mexico, Albuquerque is a desert city that is defined by the presence of the Rio Grande and the towering Sandia mountains. Albuquerque has a high elevation that ranges between 900 feet above sea level to more than 6,700 feet. The climate of the city is arid, with dry, sunny days most of the year and short, chilly winters that occasionally blanket the city in snow.
Albuquerque offers RV parks such as the Enchanted Trails Camping Resort and the Albuquerque Central KOA.
The Enchanted Trails Camping Resort is a 135-site full hookup park that offers a gift shop, restrooms and showers and a pool. Situated just to the west of Albuquerque, the park is located on a hill with lots of trees.
The Albuquerque Central KOA is a 182-site campground that contains a pool, restrooms and showers, and a camping supply store stocked with RV supplies and snacks. Full hookups are available, including wireless Internet.
Active military personnel and veterans have access to the Kirtland Air Force Base FamCamp, a 72-site military campground located in East Albuquerque. The campground offers spacious pull-through RV sites suitable for big rigs, with 20-, 30- or 50-amp electric hookups, water and sewer. Sites vary between concrete and gravel, and all sites are first-come, first-served. Amenities are basic, and include laundry facilities, restrooms and showers. Wireless Internet is available in some areas of the park.
Albuquerque has several mobile home parks that also welcome RVs. A gated community, Coronado Village offers daily, weekly and monthly rates for back-in RV sites. Visitors have access to full hookups, and amenities such as a clubhouse, pool and jacuzzi.
El Rancho Mobile Home Park also offers full hook up RV sites, and many sites are naturally shaded by trees. The park is situated within easy access to I-40, and is just a quick drive away from Old Town Albuquerque and the New Mexico State Fairgrounds.
Albuquerque offers extensive hiking opportunities. Visitors can try the brief, half-mile Mesa Point Trail, which leads past rocks adorned with petroglyphs to views of extinct volcanoes and the Rio Grande River, or the more challenging 10K North Trail, a six-and-a-half-mile trail that showcases the east side of the Sandia Mountains.
The trail to Jemez Falls, located near Albuquerque in Jemez Springs, is a one-mile trail that leads to scenic views of the waterfalls and a shallow wading pond.
Wishhart, Michelle. "RV Campgrounds in Albuquerque." Travel Tips - USA Today, https://traveltips.usatoday.com/rv-campgrounds-albuquerque-50997.html. Accessed 25 April 2019.
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2019-04-26T04:17:33Z
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https://traveltips.usatoday.com/rv-campgrounds-albuquerque-50997.html
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Recreation
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ktoo
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With everywhere from Maine to Louisiana having played the role of Alaska on the big screen, Juneau is appearing on the silver screen for the first time in 13 years.
Production Weekly describes the movie as the story of a young girl sent to Alaska by her struggling mother.
Weiss emphasizes the importance of Alaska as a place of reflection.
“We’ve tried to capture that side of Alaska and I think that’s what, when we speak to real people, especially transplants, that’s what they say. They thought ‘we’ll just be here for a few months,’ and twenty years go by. It’s that quality we’re trying to tap into,” Weiss said.
The crew had local help with that aspect. While the number of the people working on the project varied depending on what they were doing, there were ten full-time Alaskan crew members on the crew of 23 total production workers.
“We have all these local Alaskans saying ‘actually, it would be better if you went this route,’ and we’ve taken their advice at almost every turn and it’s been well worth it,” producer Julie Christeas said.
Writer and director Frank Hall Green originally conceived the idea for the film while visiting Alaska.
“It was always going to have to be here. He dreamed of it here. We’re not shooting Canada for Alaska. We’re not shooting Seattle for Alaska,” Christeas said.
Producer Joe Stephans added that the crew actually used Alaska for Seattle in one scene. He calls it a little payback.
In the film, Juneau serves as Mackenzie’s introduction to Alaska.
“It’s her gateway to Alaska. We found Juneau to be the most cinematic of cities with the ever changing weather against the landscape,” Weiss said.
The film crew spent a week and a half shooting around Juneau with scenes at Cope Park, the Breakwater Inn, and the Juneau Airport. Filming also included a shoot at Mendenhall Glacier that resulted in an up close experience with the wildlife.
Stephans said that park officials were on top of things and cleared the cast and crew out while the mother and two cubs wandered through the set.
“Every single day there is something new and just when you’ve seen what you think will be your single take home memory of the shoot, something else happens and that’s just a daily occurrence,” said Weiss.
Production finished on Sept. 6 with filming aboard the AMHS ferry Malaspina while it was docked in Juneau.
Juneau last saw time on the big screen with the 1999 film Limbo.
“We’re not necessarily on the movie map yet, but hopefully things will change,” said Elizabeth Arnette, with the Juneau Convention & Visitors Bureau.
The film has applied for the Alaska Film Production Incentive Program, which the producers give credit to for being able to shoot in Alaska.
“It encouraged us to come here and find crew that lived here, worked here and has resources here,” Christeas said.
The film, from Tandem Pictures and Green Machine Film is expected to be released in 2013. You can follow the film-making process on Wildlike’s Facebook page and see behind the scenes photos from scouting through the wrap up.
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2019-04-20T15:10:53Z
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https://www.ktoo.org/2012/09/10/wildlike-movie-seeks-to-tell-a-real-alaska-story/
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Rebuking Jeff Sessions, a federal court rules that Texas’s voter-ID law intentionally discriminated against minority voters.
Yesterday’s ruling by District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos was a big victory for voting rights and a big loss for Jeff Sessions and the Trump Justice Department, who reversed the Obama administration’s position that the law was intentionally discriminatory.
Ramos’s decision was the fifth time Texas’s voter-ID law has been struck down by the courts. A federal district court in Washington, DC, first blocked the law all the way back in August 2012. But after the Supreme Court ruled in June 2013 that states with a long history of discrimination no longer had to approve their voting changes with the federal government under the Voting Rights Act, Texas’s law went into effect within hours.
We’re learning more and more about the real purpose of such laws. An article in The Birmingham News yesterday described how the top adviser and mistress to disgraced Alabama Governor Robert Bentley suggested closing 31 DMV locations, many in majority-black counties, after the state passed a new voter-ID law. The head of the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency “claims he then reported the closure plan to then-Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange’s office because he was concerned about a Voting Rights Act violation.” The US Department of Transportation subsequently determined it violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
However, these voting-rights victories could be short-lived if new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch provides the deciding vote reinstating such restrictions should they reach the highest court.
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2019-04-21T12:15:48Z
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https://www.thenation.com/article/a-big-win-for-voting-rights-in-texas-and-a-big-loss-for-trump/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DAILY_2017_04_11&utm_term=daily
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It takes a lot to learn the alphabet, and it’s always exciting to see a little mind at work.
A grandmother from Alabama posted a video of her 2-year-old grandson reciting the alphabet, and it has quickly gone viral with over 15,000,000 views.
The 2-year-old becomes more and more confident as he gets further along, reciting the alphabet. The toddler nails each letter until he reaches the letter W, and his reaction is priceless. Once he and his grandmother pass W and get to the letter Z, the toddler claps and cheers celebrating his success.
The video has been shared over 330,000 times.
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2019-04-23T05:08:32Z
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https://wgntv.com/2016/02/01/2-year-old-boy-recites-abcs-in-heartwarming-viral-video/
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The Mishna records a disagreement as to whether a person reading the twice daily Shema should do so aloud.
The Mishna records a disagreement as to whether a person reading the twice daily Shema should do so aloud: "One who reads the Shema and did not make it heard to his ear has discharged his obligation; Rabbi Yose says that he has not discharged his obligation" (M. Brachot 2:3). The Talmud notes that the approach of Rabbi Yose is also the opinion of other sages, including Rabbi Yehuda the Prince or Rebbi, as he is commonly known, the eventual author of the mishnaic text which has reached us. The Talmud further explains that these sages reached their conclusion based on the first word of the prescribed text - "shema" meaning "hear": The word "shema" should be understood as setting down the requirement that the text must be read in a tone that can be heard (B. Brachot 13a, 15a). The majority opinion as expressed by the first anonymous opinion in the Mishna, however, understands the word shema to indicate that passages can be read in any language and concludes that there is no audibility requirement. What about other mitzvot that also require the recitation of texts - such as the Amida and Grace After Meals - must they be said audibly? Later talmudic sages note that the mishnaic argument exists particularly with regard to Shema, where there is the possibility of understanding the word "shema" as indicating a requirement that what is being said is heard. All sages agree that other mitzvot that require speech need not be said audibly. With regard to Grace After Meals, there is an opinion that it should be recited audibly; however, this is not seen as a requirement that invalidates the recitation (B. Brachot 15a-b). Elsewhere in our tractate we find a statement regarding the audibility of the so called "silent" Amida. As we have noted, there is clearly no requirement to recite Amida aloud, but the issue discussed is whether it can be said aloud if the supplicant so wishes: "One who makes his voice heard in his prayer [referring to the Amida] behold he is lacking in faith" (B. Brachot 24b). A person who prays aloud may be thinking that God will only hear supplications pronounced audibly. Behind this statement is the message that the Almighty hears our prayers, even when they are inaudible to the human ear. The rule that the Amida must be said silently is immediately qualified: If someone cannot focus when reciting the Amida silently, he is permitted to pray audibly as long as he is praying alone. Praying audibly with a congregation, however, could disturb fellow supplicants and therefore is not permitted, even for those who have difficulty concentrating when praying silently. Here too we find exceptions: Codifiers note that for educational purposes, the prohibition against praying aloud in public is relaxed (Tur, 13th-14th centuries, Spain). Praying aloud on the High Holy Days is also treated as a different category: There are those who make extra effort to attend services on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur and in consideration of them, we allow audible prayer to facilitate their participation. Also prayers on these significant days are often of a different quality, and a change to audible prayers may facilitate greater concentration and focus. It should be noted that praying silently does not mean scanning the words. Rather, supplicants are encouraged to mouth the words that they are reciting inaudibly. This follows the paradigm of Hannah's heartfelt prayer for a child where her lips moved but her voice was not heard; a prayer that was answered with the birth of the prophet Samuel (see I Samuel 1). Codifiers discuss how silent the "silent" Amida must be. According to the classic codes, "silent" means that fellow congregants cannot hear. The supplicants themselves, however, should be able to hear their own hushed tones (Shulhan Aruch OH 101:2). Others - particularly those who follow the Jewish mystical tradition as expounded by Rabbi Yitzhak Luria, known as the Ari (1534-1572, Jerusalem-Egypt-Safed) - rule that silent Amida should be just that: Recited in silence such that no one can hear, not even the supplicant. When discussing the rules of any ritual such as prayer, there is always the danger that we will get lost in the minutiae of the law. Instead of seeking the thrust of the law, we get bogged down in the details. To be sure, the details piece together to give the form and we endeavor to fulfill each element of the law, yet it is regrettable to focus solely on the details without so much as a glance in the direction of the larger issue that the details seek to address. The discussions regarding the audibility of our prayers must be more than setting an appropriate decibel level for our supplications. It would appear that the tension surrounding the audibility of prayers turns on the two distinct yet interwoven tracks of the prayer venture: The individual's personal and heartfelt supplications on the one hand, and the community's joint, collective effort on the other hand. The most effective medium for an individual may indeed be to pray aloud, for when reading aloud we are often able to focus not only on what we read but also on what we hear. Alas, an individual muttering his prayers can easily distract a neighbor trying to pour out his heart to the Almighty. Moreover, if everyone in the community were to pray aloud, the result would be cacophony. When we gather as a community, individual silent prayer may be preferable to provide space for each supplicant, though the cost may be that some community members cannot concentrate. The challenge that stands before any community is how we create a space that allows individuals to pray as part of a group; the audibility of prayers is one of the issues that must be addressed when trying to find the most appropriate balance between the personal prayer endeavor and the joint communal effort to commune with the Almighty. The writer is on the faculty of Pardes Institute of Jewish Studies and is a rabbi in Tzur Hadassah.
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2019-04-22T06:21:32Z
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https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Judaism/World-of-the-Sages-Audible-prayer
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In the long run fame finds the deserving man.
And vain pretense, unnoticed, goes its way.
Bring sure reward to tortured soul and brain.
However well ‘t is guarded from the light.
Keeps strict account and will redeem its worth.
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2019-04-19T05:23:10Z
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https://www.americanpoems.com/poets/ella-wheeler-wilcox/in-the-long-run/
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Reference
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When you finally had the book in your hands?
I didn't even know the final chapter had been released. I was wandering around a book store, and then I saw it. The hardcover edition of The Dark Tower.
I nearly fell to my knees. The only thing I kept thinking was "It's here, It's here!!!!" It's amazing how you've been through the journey and you only feel the tenth of what Roland would have felt when he reached the Tower.
My hands were shaking when I handed it over to the cashier. I kept babbling about how the book was the final volume of the series. The chick probably thought I should get out more often.
My reaction was "damn it's bigger than the rest, this really screws up my presentation". I should explain, I bought them all within a few months of each other pre owned online, didn't know what the hell the dark tower was at that point -just a fantasy western. they're all the same size and with the same theme covers, except part 7, which is still the same theme, but a trade paperback size. I was in the process of building up a collection of all his books. So it was about 2 years after I bought it that I actually read it.
I still have 50ish pages to go so I haven't read the above posts. Mayhap by tomorrow morning, I'll be done.
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2019-04-18T22:58:58Z
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https://stephenking.com/xf/index.php?threads/what-was-your-reaction.1666/
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Shopping
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weebly
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September 4, 1936: "A fire tower, 85 feet in height, is being constructed on a summit overlooking Salem Mountain. The tower will be erected through WPA funds. Preliminary work began today with a crew of five men being employed.
The tower is situated at a strategic point in a vast area of valuable timberland. It will be used as a lookout by fire wardens. Those who drew the plans for the station say that the view will embrace a distance of 12 miles.
Twenty men will be employed when the project gets under full swing, and it is expected that it will be completed before the Winter.
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2019-04-22T20:35:19Z
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https://easternuslookouts.weebly.com/salem-mountain.html
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metroactive
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Handyman/ex-soap opera actor Rob Hillis of 'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition' will do some fix-it demonstrations at this weekend's South Bay Home and Garden Show. The Show runs Jan. 9–11 at the Santa Clara Convention Center.
The members of Tower of Power are still going strong after 40 years.
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2019-04-22T17:09:13Z
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http://www.metroactive.com/metro/01.07.09/
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The question of whether Ohio deer hunters can keep up with the state's deer population, as many farmers, wildlife officials and some commuters hope, should be answered this week.
Hunters will have to go some during the weeklong gun season, which opens Monday, to push the overall 2008-09 harvest toward last season's four-month total. About 230,000 deer were felled by hunters between Sept. 30, 2007, and Feb. 4, 2008.
That was enough only to maintain the status quo in terms of herd size statewide.
Across Ohio, the Ohio Division of Wildlife says, deer numbers stood at about 700,000 in September. Many of those 700,000, however, were crowded into counties in which numbers stand at near-pestilential levels.
Thus, liberalized regulations in recent years have been biased toward reducing deer numbers, particularly in the east-central, southern and southeastern counties that comprise Zone C.
One measure of the liberalization is indicated by the fact that antlerless permits can still be purchased today for use through next Sunday in Zone C. The antlerless permits, which cost $15, require the buyer to purchase a regular deer permit at $24.
Through the 2008-09 bow and youth seasons, the harvest of whitetailed deer has slipped a bit from a year ago.
During last weekend's youth gun season, youngsters knocked down 9,852 deer, 663 fewer than the 10,515 killed in 2007. That's a decline, after several years of increasing harvests, of about 6.3 percent.
Despite a second year of loosened regulations, bowhunters took about 4.4 percent fewer deer during the season's first six weeks compared with a year ago. The count was 51,620, down from 53,982.
That, of course, leaves more deer for gun hunters, who get their shot through Sunday and again during the weekend of Dec. 20-21. The muzzleloader season runs Dec. 27-30, and bowhunters have until Feb. 1 to fill tags.
This week's weather forecast, which calls for snow on the ground in much of the state and daytime highs in the 30s, should bring out an army of hunters, the ranks of which might number 400,000 strong.
The prediction is that between 115,000 and 125,000 deer will be tagged during nine days of gun hunting.
To dwell on deer hunting only in the aggregate is to consider, by most reckoning, only the abstract. The deer the hunter takes is the one that matters. Further, the part of the hunt that counts most among individual hunters is stories told, memories made, bonds forged and life lessons learned.
"Approximately 25 minutes after shooting light, a nice buck was walking by," Soisson wrote. "Tyler was in ready position as the deer grunt call stopped the deer in his tracks. Seconds later, the report sounded from the Remington 12 gauge. The deer dropped. I think I was more excited than he was."
Also sharing the good news and a photograph by e-mail was Alan Hinson of New Albany. The snapshot shows Hinson's son, Connor, 15, and friend Zach Pewitt, 15, of New Albany, posing with the bucks they took Nov. 22.
Noteworthy, Hinson wrote, was that the teens, hunting on the Hinson farm under the guidance of their fathers, Alan Hinson and Brad Pewitt, "harvested their first bucks ever."
Both Connor's 10-pointer and Zach's nine-pointer will be mounted to "honor the hunt and the event," Alan Hinson wrote. The carcasses, he said, were taken to Thurn's Specialty Meats, 530 Greenlawn Ave., Columbus, where they were to be processed through an arrangement with Farmers and Hunters Feeding the Hungry and given to the needy.
"Thought you might find this interesting as a way to encourage the donation of venison to the local food banks," Hinson wrote.
Also interesting was that both bucks shown in the photograph had green sprouting from their mouths, as if they'd been taken while munching on a pine branch.
Actually, the sprigs of pine were placed post-mortem in the deer's mouths.
"It's a European tradition that not only honors the animal but also is a symbol that connects the hunter with nature," Hinson wrote. "I was exposed to this tradition by a very good German friend and experienced hunter. I've since adopted it for all animals taken on the property."
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2019-04-26T13:44:37Z
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https://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/sports/2008/11/30/outdoors30.ART_ART_11-30-08_C11_AIC2M6G.html
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OAKLAND – If Joe Torre carried out a pre-game plan to watch how good the at-bats coming out of left field were Friday night, he probably was going to insert Shane Spencer for the slumping Chuck Knoblauch against the A’s last night at the Coliseum.
However, Knoblauch went 0-4 in Friday night’s 8-1 loss to the A’s and looked bad doing it. He grounded out to short in the first and fourth innings, whiffed looking in the sixth and tapped to the mound in the ninth. He is in a 3-for-23 (.130) slide that lowered his average to .252.
If nothing else, Torre had a hot bat in Spencer, who was on a 15-for-41 (.366) tear going into last night. But Spencer had a huge ice pack on his left elbow after Friday night’s embarrassment, thanks to being hit by a pitch Thursday night against the Devil Rays.
“I didn’t bother me swinging in BP,” Spencer said.
Another option in left for Torre is David Justice, but Torre wants to avoid making that move due to Justice being on the DL twice this season already with groin troubles.
Scott Brosius’ broken left hand can’t heal fast enough for the Yankees. Torre went back to Luis Sojo, Thursday night’s hero, at third Friday night and watched the veteran go 0-for-2 with a walk. In the nine games Brosius has missed, Yankee third basemen are a combined 3-for-27 (.111). And Sojo, one of the most alert Yankees, forgot how many outs there were in the eighth. With the Yankees trailing, 8-1, Sojo walked with one out and ran when Alfonso Soriano hit a soft liner to second baseman Frank Menechino.
Orlando Hernandez was slated to make his second rehab start last night for Tampa (Single-A) at Clearwater in a Florida State League game. El Duque, who went three innings last Monday, has shown no problems with his surgically repaired toe that landed him on the DL in late May.
If El Duque came through last night’s test in good shape – he was looking to go more than three innings – he will likely need one more outing before rejoining the Yankees and replacing Ted Lilly in the rotation.
RHP Mike Mussina (11-10; 3.91 ERA) tries to break a two-game losing streak today when he faces LHP Mark Mulder (14-6; 3.26). Mussina hasn’t won since July 27.
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2019-04-24T07:26:57Z
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https://nypost.com/2001/08/12/torre-torn-between-shane-knobby-in-left/
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Heats School of Welding Technology Inc. will celebrate her 1st Year Anniversary on March 22, 2010 at HSWTI campus located in Carangian, Tarlac City.
The celebration will start at 9:00AM with motorcade, GTAW exhibition and refreshment.
The motorcade will start in HSWTI Campus. From HSWTI Campus, motorcade will move via Romulo Highway (Carangian, San Pablo, San Vicente and San Roque), then via Mc. Arthur Highway (San Roque, San Rafael, San Miguel). The group will take U-turn at Robinson Luisita and goes back to San Roque via Mc. Arthur Highway. It will turn right at Metrotown Mall via Tarlac-Sta Rosa Road going to Maliwalo and turn left at gasoline station near NIA. From there, the group will go through Matatalaib then goes to F. Tanedo. The group will turn right at Tarlac Cathedral and turn left before Ninoy Aquino Bridge. From there, the group will pass through Ninoy Aquino Highway going to Carangian and they will turn left at the Carangian Bridge goin back to Heats Campus.
The GTAW exhibition will be done by Heats Student showing his skills in Gas Tungsten Arc Welding in 6G Position using a schedule 40 2 inches A106 pipe. This exhibition will show how a GTAW process is being made on a pipe in a 6G position.
After the exhibition, refreshments will be served to all.
Alumni are invited to attend this celebration. TESDA Tarlac Officials were invited to witness the said occasion.
Congratulations to Heats for achieving your 1st Year Anniversary. You are now one year old toddler and ready to walk on your own feet. This will not happen without the dedication of Heats Management and Personnel. Keep up the good work!
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2019-04-21T16:09:58Z
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https://heatsschoolofweldingtechnology.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/1st-year-anniversary-celebration/
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2004 Top 3 Money List LDA Tour Sr. Div.
2001 World Ranked #6 Long Driver-Open Div.
I have always put “hard work” as the single most productive thing one can do to improve their game. Unfortunately, the body doesn’t always go along with the program and it isn’t always 100% when you need it to be. This year I was fortunate enough to have been introduced to the “Rock”, better known as Fusion Excel Quantum Pendant. I was tested, and sure enough in the process, having the “Rock”, did make a difference. I’m still a little old fashioned, but it did interest me enough to give it a go, so put it.
The REMAX World Long Drive finals is a grueling week of nerves, pressure and having to be at your peak performance at all times, which is not as easy as it looks. But, after looking back on the week, I realized that my concentration level was great, my body recovered 100% every day, and my flexibility and strength was better than normal. Now, was it the “Rock”? Is it all in my head? What’s the difference? Who knows for sure, but it works for me and hasn’t come off my neck. Also, my Mom was with me in Mesquite, and with 2 knee replacements, she has a hard time standing up from a seated position. She asked to see my “Rock”, and you guessed it, she stood straight up with no problems. I don’t know how, but it happened just that way. For some reason it works and that’s all I need to know, besides, it looks good too!
This entry was posted on Saturday, March 15th, 2008 at 3:48 am and is filed under Golf, Sports, testimonials. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.
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2019-04-20T20:48:56Z
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https://fusionexcel.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/pat-dempsey-world-long-drive-champion-on-fusionexcel-pendant/
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I thought Charles Krauthammer had a very good column in Sunday’s paper (“My vote explained”). He has Hillary Clinton down to a tee.
Then he says that he cannot vote for Donald Trump. That he will write in a choice.
But if he does this he is, in essence, giving Mrs. Clinton his vote. Heaven forbid that she wins the election. This nation as a democratic republic will go right down the drain.
Do people not know that socialism has never worked in the history of the world?
Are you listening Ted Cruz? Jeb Bush? Marco Rubio? Donald Trump is now saying that the election is rigged.
You know what that means? Mr. Trump is admitting that he didn’t win the primaries. He is admitting daily that the election is fake.
If I were you, I would ask for an investigation to determine how Mr. Trump won those states. Call Mr. Trump as a witness. Apparently he has proof for these claims because he says them with authority and to anyone who will listen.
I mean, that could be the only conclusion, right? Of course it could also be that Mr. Trump is just a whiny blowhard who has conned tens of millions of American voters and at least one major newspaper.
I am now convinced Wayne Allyn Root is living in a fantasy world.
In his Oct. 25 column, he again states that Donald Trump will win the election. His latest anecdotal “evidence” is that a cabdriver friend has asked every passenger for two weeks who they support. Mr. Root claims that every rider told his friend they were voting for Mr. Trump. The odds of this being true would be mathematically impossible.
The Review-Journal needs to drop this fanatic right-wing columnist and instead use someone who at least is fair and honest.
I read that the cost of flying Air Force One is $206,337 per hour. Thank goodness that the price of fuel has fallen, otherwise the cost would be higher.
I am also wondering if there is a price associated with the plane sitting on the ground while waiting for the president to finish delivering a speech electioneering for Hillary Clinton and various other candidates.
It was pointed out that Mrs. Clinton paid $37 million for a trip to Charlotte with President Obama. Cheap at that price, don’t you think?
I really do object to tax dollars being wasted this way.
Your endorsement of Donald Trump for president made me proud and very, very pleased to be a regular reader and subscriber to the Review-Journal.
The media, largely controlled by special interests, have thrown every unproven accusation toward Mr. Trump in order to prevent him from arriving in Washington and beginning the long-overdue job of cleaning up the corruption, illegal activities and rip-offs of American citizens by those in power.
You see, this time it is not really a Republican versus Democrat thing. It’s do we want more years of the same failed leadership? I mean we have had the Bushes and a Clinton already and, of course, Barack Obama — and somehow Hillary Clinton thinks aligning herself with him will make her look better?
That’s why Mr. Trump — who must be running only because he cares about this country, as he does not need the money, the grief or the attacks — is simply a breath of fresh air in the stagnant dirty arena that characterizes the current leadership and what a Clinton presidency would bring.
Thank you, Review-Journal, for your bold and proper endorsement of Mr. Trump for president.
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Books or portfolios of botanical paintings, technically known as florilegia, are often merely decorative, but have also recorded particular collections of plants.
Banks' Florilegium displayed the rich array of new plants brought back from Captain Cook's voyage round the world, while the Hortus Eystettensis (1613) catalogued the rare specimens to be found in the spectacular gardens created in Bavaria by Prince-Bishop Johann Konrad von Gemmingen of Eichstätt.
Most of the artists who provided the 374 paintings for the latter remain unknown, but in 1791, Francis I of Austria commissioned one man, Matthias Schmutzer, to paint every plant in the royal garden in Vienna for a Florilegium Imperiale that took 30 years to complete.
Similarly combining craftsmanship and royal patronage, the Highgrove Florilegium (which has taken a mere seven years to produce) records the plants growing at the Prince of Wales' home in Gloucestershire.
The idea for the book emerged from the botanical illustration course run by Anne-Marie Evans at the English Gardening School. Florilegia are back in vogue, and comparable projects are under way at both the Chelsea Physic Garden and Hampton Court Palace, both undertaken by graduates of Evans's course.
As Evans notes: "Whereas the florilegia of the 17th century were created to portray the beauty and novelty of those plants brought back from the colonies, the modern florilegium may be seen as a conservation tool, instrumental in recording for posterity collections of plants within a chosen garden."
A list of plants selected by the Prince's gardener, David Howard, was circulated among botanical artists from all over the world, who were invited to pick subjects and submit watercolour paintings. These were then subjected to a rigorous selection process, and only 30 per cent of them ended up in the book.
The plants are arranged by family in the two huge, beautifully designed and hand-bound volumes of the florilegium. Opposite each image, the botanical and common names of the plant are recorded, as well as a descriptive text supplied by the Natural History Museum.
Given that 64 artists were involved, it is unsurprising that the paintings vary considerably in style and presentation. Sometimes entire plants are shown, such as Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' with its liquorice-strap leaves, small violet flowers and intricate root system. Elsewhere only the most significant feature is depicted: three brightly hued leaves from a liquidambar tumbling across the page as if blown by the wind.
As anyone who has browsed gardening catalogues will know, the colours and textures of plants are difficult to reproduce, but accuracy is essential for a botanical project such as this, and each image went though many proofing stages until it exactly matched the original.
The 61 plates in the first volume of the Highgrove Florilegium depict plants that, in spite of their royal provenance, are for the most part reassuringly familiar, even humble. Given that the Prince is a passionate conservationist, who was encouraged by Miriam Rothschild to plant a wild-flower meadow, it is appropriate that one of the most beautiful illustrations is of the common buttercup, Ranunculus acris.
Trees, grasses, fruit and vegetables are also represented: from wellingtonia and Stipa gigantea to apples and pears, beetroot, and, of course, a Welsh leek.
Furthermore, these "plant portraits" are for the most part of the warts-and-all school, displaying occasional pest damage, such as the all-too-familiar hole in the leaf of the rhubarb chard (Beta vulgaris), and the occasional untidy dead leaf, such as the one belonging to Geranium phaeum 'Album', a plant dismissed by Christopher Lloyd as "undeserving of garden space", but which looks very desirable here.
The appropriately named Hosta 'Royal Standard', however, is enviably free of slug damage - which is perhaps as it should be, since Highgrove holds a National Collection of hostas.
At £10,950, the Highgrove Florilegium is not exactly a snip, but all royalties go to The Prince's Charities Foundation, and most copies will end up in institutions where many people will be able to look at them. Florilegia have always been expensive because they cost a great deal to produce.
Compared with the Hortus Eystettensis, however, which cost 500 florins at a time when 2,500 florins could buy you a large house in the most fashionable district of Nuremberg, the Highgrove Florilegium might almost be described as a bargain.
The Highgrove Florilegium is limited to 175 numbered copies; Telegraph readers may apply for the two volumes in a leather half-binding at £10,950 (Vol 1 is available now; Vol 2 in the summer of 2009).
Contact Addison Publications (020 7602 1848; www.addisonpublications.com), mentioning Telegraph Gardening.
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Published: Feb. 3, 2015 at 08:45 a.m.
Updated: Feb. 3, 2015 at 11:02 a.m.
Khalil Mack did not win the Defensive Rookie of the Year award, but teammate Justin Tuck believes the upside for the Oakland Raiders' linebacker is Hall of Fame-level.
"I've watched a lot of film on guys like Derrick Thomas, Lawrence Taylor ... I'm not saying that he will be that player, I'm saying he's capable of being that player," Tuck said last week, per ESPN.com. "Believe me, I know what praise I just gave him. I know what category I just potentially put him into.
"The thing I love about him that people don't get to see every day is not the fact that he's an absolute physical specimen," Tuck continued. "It's not that. It's that he's smart, he understands the game, but he also understands that he doesn't know it all."
Mack's play during his rookie campaign jumped off the screen. While he garnered just four sacks, the linebacker was a stud against the run and consistently disrupted plays in the backfield.
When you find yourself missing football this offseason, go to NFL Game Rewind and pop on a couple of Raiders games. It's impossible for your eyes to not go to Mack, especially later in the season.
For Tuck, the rookie's work ethic and desire to learn are what will get him to the next level.
"He comes into meeting rooms, he'll call me on Friday night before we come in on Saturday to finish everything going into our game and say, 'I've got a question about this,' " Tuck said. "From my experiences, guys like that are going to be very successful. I don't know what success that includes him to be. I don't know if that's a Hall of Fame guy. I don't know if that's multiple Pro Bowls, I don't know if that's just he's a quality football player.
"But I know for a fact he's going to be successful, because barring injury, I have no problem of saying he has the capability to be one of the best defensive players in this league for a long time."
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Just before he was to make his speech on Monday, President Reagan got stuck in an overloaded elevator for nearly a minute before a security guard employed by the United Nations pried the door open.
On International Peace Day, Marcella Perez de Cuellar, the wife of Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar, let loose a live ''peace'' dove that promptly fell to the ground with a thud.
And at a dinner for Asian ministers, Foreign Minister Tadashi Kuranari of Japan unleashed what his spokesman described as a ''secret weapon'': He performed four magic tricks.
It's that time of the year again, the time for protocol mishaps and reception-overload, for security measures and marathon meetings as another General Assembly debate opened.
In between, the presidents and prime ministers, foreign ministers and special envoys - even a couple of kings and princes - parade to the Assembly podium to tell the world just what they think of it.
The annual three-week general debate - no debate at all but a series of speeches - is the closest thing to a State of the World address as world leaders bring their concerns to the attention of their constituents at home and their colleagues abroad.
For the most part, the world's concerns are vastly different from the first Assembly 41 years ago, which grappled with the extradition and punishment of war criminals, a worldwide shortage of grain and the economic reconstruction of countries devastated by World War II.
This year, with uncertainty over whether there will be a Soviet-American summit meeting because of the Daniloff affair, East-West relations have overshadowed speeches and meetings. And stunned by a wave of terrorist attacks in France, Pakistan, Lebanon and Turkey, many speakers have called for cooperation among nations to combat a growing problem.
Leaders have also urged the resolution of the global debt crisis, apartheid, a variety of regional conflicts and the financial woes of the host organization. The United Nations controllers say they may not be able to meet the payroll by Dec. 31.
Some speakers seek to inspire, taking the broadest tour d'horizon. President Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica, for example, said he was ''putting his faith in in a higher destiny that will lead us to liberty and democracy'' when he spoke on Wednesday.
Others included concerns closer to home: from King Juan Carlos's call for the rapid return of Gibraltar to Spain to the demand by Foreign Minister Wu Xueqian of China that Vietnam withdraw from Cambodia.
At a time when the United Nations is struggling to streamline, Angola's Foreign Minister, Afonso Van Dunem, has emerged as a kind of in-house hero at this session.
The Angolan official was only 10 minutes into what was billed as a 40-minute discourse Tuesday when he suddenly stopped, turned to the General Assembly President, Humayun Rasheed Choudhury of Bangladesh, and announced what many delegates have called the most courageous statement of the 41st General Assembly.
He said, ''Mr. President, I have decided not to speak the entire speech which I have.'' Anyone who wanted a copy of it would find it distributed later, he added.
Because the Assembly is scheduled to end three weeks early as a cost-cutting measure, his gesture was warmly welcomed.
One diplomat even suggested a return to the early days of the Assembly, when a light on the podium warned speakers when their time was up, and when the microphone could mysteriously go dead.
Sometimes the verbal jousting both inside and outside the Assembly hall gets so rough that one side has to back down. In a special session that preceded this week's debate, Congo's Foreign Minister, Antoine Ndinga, angered Israeli officials when he said there were only two countries in modern times comparable to South Africa: Nazi Germany and Israel.
Israel protested through the United States, and American officials paid a visit on Mr. Ndinga, telling him that President Reagan just might not look favorably on a meeting with Congo's President, Denis Sassou-Nguesso, when he visits Washington next month.
Outside the United Nations, demonstrators with various political opinions and aspirations are once again jockeying for position. The Committee for Democracy in Bangladesh protested what it called military rule in Bangladesh; Albanians demonstrated against Yugoslavia's treatment of their compatriots, and a lone protester wearing a gray ski mask stood outside an elaborate dinner at the Libyan Mission on Thursday night, handing out pamphlets against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader.
The most talked-about event of the week has to be Mr. Kuranari's impromptu magic show at a dinner for Asian Foreign Ministers. He even succeeded in getting Indonesia's Foreign Minister, Mochtar Kusumaatmadja, and Australia's Foreign Minister, Bill Hayden, to help him with a rope trick.
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A tribal elder and Vietnam vet, who hasn’t left the Wind River Indian Reservation in over 40 years, visits the underground archives of Chicago’s Field Museum with two young Arapaho to explore ancestral objects kept in boxes for many years. Together they try to learn how these artifacts vanished from their tribe in the first place.
An Eastern Shoshone tribal elder and two young Northern Arapaho students leave Wind River Indian Reservation for Chicago’s Field Museum to find ancestral objects that were taken from their tribes. Their ultimate dream is to have a museum of their own.
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It’s always kind of weird writing about oneself. So… to clue you in on this Chica, we’re going magazine style interview.
Why I Run…Does “it is in my blood” count? I think I was born running, or in motion, always wanting to do something active. As a 4 year old, I was obsessed with the Bionic Woman. I wanted to run like her. While most kids built forts out of chairs and sofas, I spent afternoons jumping from couch to couch, imagining a life with bionics and wonder. As I got older, I found other ways to be active- cross country skis were a Christmas gift in 1st grade, a ten speed came in 3rd. Anything that got me in motion was my cup of tea. Later, I became a bit of a fitness freak, and added running upon the suggestion of my older brother.
Start in marathoning… Being eternally in motion, one would think I always have always run marathons. However, this didn’t come until 2003, when I ran my first marathon with an awesome bunch of people in a Team in Training Marathon. This was the start of many incredible friendships (plus meeting my husband!) and the start of running as a mainstay in my life. 23 marathons (and counting!) later, I love the sport (and my friends!) even more.
Favorite spots to run… Since I live by the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan, I feel fortunate to have what I call “the world’s best running route” just a few blocks from my house. I also dig cool urban routes around the world, and running through my favorite spots in Spain – Retiro Park, La Alberca, or the streets of Cordoba. My dream is to run the Madrid Marathon.
On 5 a.m. runs… I. Love. Them. To me, there is nothing better than getting up early, meeting my friend, and getting 5 miles in while the city sleeps. Even 5 a.m. treadmill runs are okay.
Winter running… It’s March as I write this, so I must admit I’m at my breaking point with the winter. However, I find running in cold weather to be not that bad. If I have to be outside in the cold, I prefer to be running. I love the feel of crisp air and the satisfaction I feel when I walk in my toasty house at the end of a run.
Shaking it up… 5 years ago, I discovered Bikram Yoga. I think it’s the perfect compliment to a regular running practice. Since becoming a yogini, my knees no longer hurt when I go down stairs, plus I feel just better conditioned and balanced overall.
Eating Plants… After a lot of experimenting with different ways of eating, I’ve found that I just feel better following a plant based diet. A bunch of resources (Forks Over Knives, Yum Universe, No Meat Athelete, One Part Plant, and Thrive) have schooled me nicely in plant eating, and given me solid medical evidence to support my hunch that it makes sense to choose plants and whole foods over meat, dairy and processed foods. This is what works for me; everyone needs to pick their own plan.
Other writing gigs… I’m hoping to do a lot of writing in 2015, and discover new places on the web where I can say a few words. One of those places is the LPGA’s Girls Golf site, where I’ve been able to combine my love of golf with my love of writing in a series of articles. Watch for those this year, and hopefully many others around the web.
On my book and future books… A few years ago, I wrote a book about the search for love. It’s basically every woman’s story and is enhanced by photos taken by my husband. You can find The Great Search on amazon.com. Also, watch for my first running book, “Why Not 26.2?” this summer!
Do you have questions or comments for Runnerchica? Ideas for the blog?
Hi – great story. In 1996, at age 57, I ran the equivalent of a marathon or more each day for 75 consecutive days (see http://www.myrunmovie.com. (Twin Cities, MN to the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Atlanta. My book, A Father’s Odyssey, highlights my life and the theme “Nothing is Impossible”. Proceeds from my book go to charity – diabetes, breast cancer and aspergers. A signed copy can be purchased on my website. An award winning documentary, MY RUN, with Billy Bob Thornton will be out this summer in theater and DVD.
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This blog is the fifth in a series of posts about Mongolia’s 2016 parliamentary elections that were held on June 29th.
Mongolia’s June 29th national parliamentary elections and Ulaanbaatar city elections acted as a multifaceted anticipatory device. The elections could be said to form a symbolically cumulative conclusion to a troubled political and economic period. The result was a vast overhaul of the state hural and the winning of an 85.5% majority for the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP). However, looking deeper into the temporal flow of the pre-election and post-election period reveals not so much a culminating electoral event and political regime change at the national and city levels. Instead, for many people living in Ulaanbaatar, this year has proven to be one of ongoing waiting and uncertainty. This period has been punctuated by waves of speculation and markers in time that produce stalling caused by changing groups of the political class.
Image 1: A new fence has been set up on a plot of land.
One group of people in Ulaanbaatar have been particularly hit by post-election stalling. Again, their story began a long time before this year’s elections. They are a people who have been left behind after the last economic peak of 2011 and have borne the brunt of the subsequent departure of major investment from Ulaanbaatar’s construction sector. In the heart of Zuun Ail, an area close to the city core and a prime area for redevelopment projects, lies a collection of old niitiin bair – former construction worker dormitories built during the 1950s. Building No. 3, like the other niitiin bair, stands as a two story building that consists of one room apartments. These buildings have never had running water, and residents obtain their water from nearby wells. The one advantage these buildings had was heating. In the earlier days of the rise in construction development a construction company sought to redevelop these buildings into apartments. Excited at the prospects of gaining access to better infrastructure including running water, and increasing the value of their property, many owners in Building No. 3 signed contracts with the company to exchange their apartments for new ones to be built in their place.
Unfortunately, funding dried up, the redevelopment of Building No. 3 did not go ahead and the construction company is rumoured to have gone bankrupt.[ii] Before this was known however, the internal infrastructure of several of the rooms were removed, including the heating pipes, windows, doors and floor boards which were sold for scrap. Several different parties are blamed for this, including some residents claiming that owners were told to remove the infrastructure to display intent to leave and compliance with the upcoming redevelopment. Since then, the rooms have been further vandalised. The end result has been that multiple apartments on the bottom floor of the building have been slowly filled with refuse, as rubbish has been routinely disposed of through the gaping holes of former windows over the course of some time. The building’s heating has been switched off, the building itself is in a crumbling state of disrepair and is unsafe to live in.
Image 2: Many of the building’s lower floor windows have been removed and rubbish thrown in anonymously over time under the cover of darkness.
Image 3: An abandoned room in which the radiator and window have been removed.
Several people still live in this building and are unable to leave. Many owners, both living in the building and elsewhere, are desperate to find a solution to their problem – to find a different construction company deal, to receive compensation from the original construction company, or to simply find alternative housing. However, since the election period, simply being provided emergency alternative housing has become a main and urgent aim. Those still living in the apartment are working to a strict and unforgiving deadline: the looming onset of winter in an unsafe apartment building without heating. The situation is dire and resulted in Amnesty International Mongolia putting a call out to campaign for the former Ulaanbaatar mayor Bat-Üül to provide these people with alternative housing. This Amnesty International call-out has since been renewed and rebroadcasted since the elections. During the elections, election promises were made offering some solutions. This has meant that for these people, the elections acted as an important anticipatory device. However, as yet, the residents have not yet been provided alternative housing and cold weather is fast approaching.
For the resident owners, this prolonged period of waiting has been a time of strategy, observation and flows of different types of actions. Just as the political stalling is prolonged and ongoing, so too are their different types of strategies. Here attempted ‘resolution’ of their situation, rather than an end point, is a maintaining device and important way to be heard. Residents have been involved in different court cases related to their situation. Much time is spent commenting on the ongoing situation while sitting in doorways of buildings and on the street, where updates are shared, compared and critiqued. They display an ‘active interaction’ between resistance and attempts to bring about change, while staving off the material flow-on effects of forced disrepair (Ortner 2016).
Image 4: An apartment owner cleans out the accumulated and decayed rubbish of an empty apartment in the lower floor of the building.
Image 5: On May 22nd 2016 residents removed the rubbish from Building No. 3.
Thanks to their amazing efforts, the rooms are now cleared. But the building’s current residents continue to wait. They plan to have everyone move upstairs, then seal off the corridors and the windows of the ground floor to stop further rubbish polluting their building. In this period of waiting, their only option is to carve out a better space and modify this building to their needs. However, in the last few weeks, residents have informed me that people are beginning again to throw rubbish into the building during the night.
The promise of varying forms of assistance for residents of Building No. 3 is an election promise of severe personal, emotional weight. Providing emergency alternative housing can determine the health and well-being of a large group of people this coming winter. While some steps by new politicians have been taken since the election, alternative housing has yet to be confirmed. The failure to provide such housing puts these people into a dire and unknowable situation and has considerable material and felt ramifications.
Bureaucratic stalling in Ulaanbaatar at the height of summer was always going to have significant effects reverberating throughout the city. A land official told me, “it is normal for this [kind of stalling] to happen during an election year.” It is common for a new term of Mongolian national parliament to not be confirmed until September of that year. However, as Mongolia’s new politicians are aware, Mongolia’s recent economic oscillations mean that this year is no ‘normal’ election year. To address the looming decisions, the new state parliament was formed much quicker than usual.
What was described as a crisis in the lead up to the election has transformed to ever deepening gradations of ‘crisis levels’ without a clear end in sight. The course that Mongolia now needs to take given the government’s own economic assessment is by no means clear. Mongolia faces major economic decisions that, no matter which way they turn, will have significant geopolitical consequences. Mongolia is currently considering accepting IMF bailouts, while the Bank of China has set up an office in Ulaanbaatar, and waits to see whether Mongolia will open its economic borders to allow it to set up branches and commence operations in Mongolia.
While bureaucratic stalling is common during an election year, acts of stalling this year are especially critical given the far-reaching economic fallout that has affected so many groups of people. However, where there is stalling, there are also new possibilities. While people wait to see whether this ‘crisis ordinary’ (Berlant 2011:10 c.f. Rebecca Empson this blog series) will deepen into a chasm of economic disrepair that the country as yet cannot see an end to, some people see this interlude as the opportunity to divert their current course. Let’s just hope that the new political representatives of Zuun Ail at the city and national level will find ways to manoeuvre their newly acquired power to allow the residents of Building No. 3 to access alternative housing this winter. These are one group of people who simply cannot afford to wait.
A sincere thank you to Doljinsuren and Erdenezayar for assistance with this research.
[i] Living on land as a way to ‘hold’ and prevent others from claiming it has long been a part of land access in Ulaanbaatar since 1990.
[ii] While conducting research on property in Ulaanbaatar, more stories emerged of other similar failed redevelopments of other buildings in different areas of the city.
This blog is the fourth in a series of posts about Mongolia’s 2016 parliamentary elections that were held on June 29th.
Lauren Bonilla and Tuya Shagdar co-authored this blog. It is based on our collaborative research on the social life of political gifts and cash transfers in the Mongolian economy. We are currently writing a larger journal article on this topic and will present our research at the Emerging Subjects project workshop to be held at the National University of Mongolia on November 15th, 2016.
According to Mongolia’s election law, parliamentary candidates are permitted only 18 days to campaign prior to the day before Election Day. A short campaign period is meant, in theory, to curb excessive campaign spending and reduce the pre-election politicking fatigue of citizens. In practice, however, the campaign season extends well before the 18 days. For months before the parliamentary election, aspiring candidates employ an array of novel and costly tactics to attract public attention and support, notably though the giving of gifts.
In May, we (Tuya Shagdar and Lauren Bonilla) travelled to the geographic fringe of Mongolia in north-western Uvs province to study parliamentary election politics and rumours of gift-gifting before the official campaign period was set to begin. It was a heated time for us to be doing research on the elections. We learned this immediately when we arrived in the capital of Uvs, Ulaangom. When we attempted to snap photos of the Democratic Party (DP) headquarters and the fleet of slick black Land Cruisers parked outside of it, a man in his twenties working for the party ran towards us and aggressively questioned what we were doing. After warning us not to take photos and calming down a bit, he said to us, “You know what kind of period it is, right?” (Yamar uye baigaag medej baigaa biz dee).
Democratic Party (DP) Headquarters in Ulaangom, Uvs. Photo by Tuya Shagdar.
Actually, for many people in Uvs the heat of the elections began to blaze after the beginning of the fire monkey lunar year in February. Astrologists predicted that it was going to be one of the coldest and snowiest winters in Mongolia’s recent history, and this turned out to be true in Uvs. Herders struggled to keep livestock alive as temperatures dropped below 40 degrees Celsius and deep snow prevented livestock from accessing pasture. The physical, psychological, and financial effects of the harsh weather event, known as a dzud, were compounded by the absence of cash following a season of poor meat sales.
This difficult period provided an opening for aspiring parliamentary candidates to strategically make themselves known to both voters and to the political party they sought a nomination. Everyone we talked with in Ulaangom and a rural district in Uvs, Bokhmoron, talked about the “assistance” (tuslamj) that they or people in other districts received from individuals vying for a position a parliament.
The assistance families received was more than mere aid. Take, for instance, the packages that Odongiin Tsogtgerel of the Teso Group distributed throughout rural Uvs. Teso is a nationally-recognized food import and manufacturing company named after a district in Uvs (Tes) and run by a family originally from there. The company distributed an estimated 30,000 MNT (around USD $13) worth of prepacked noodles and rice to households throughout the province. On a number of occasions families hosting us prepared soups using the Teso products they received. Perhaps they valued the food items and reserved them for special guests, or maybe they thought that we, unlike them, would actually enjoy eating carrot-infused processed noodles.
Teso’s AGI brand carrot-infused Lapsha noodles given as part of the dzud assistance package. Photo by Lauren Bonilla.
Man in Bokhmoron making us soup with the noodles he received in his dzud assistance package, even though he is not a herder who lost animals during the harsh winter. Photo by Lauren Bonilla.
Just as every household had a bag of Teso foodstuffs from the assistance package in their cupboard, they also all had a Teso calendar hanging in their home. The calendar came with the package and promoted the Teso brand. Each month featured a different Teso business venture like imported Russian ice cream and mine drilling. The bottom of every page featured the image and profile of the President of the company, Odongiin Tsogtgerel. In May, the DP publically announced Tsogtgerel as one of its two parliamentary candidates for Uvs.
Teso calendar given as part of the dzud assistance package. April features the Lapsha noodle products given to households in Uvs. Photo by Lauren Bonilla.
Ondongiin Tsogtgerel, President of Teso Corporation: “In general if you are an entrepreneur who has new ideas to provide to the needs of others and if you are enjoying the work you do, the money will follow through. This is what I inherited from our father.” Photo by Lauren Bonilla.
Including a calendar in the assistance package many months prior to being publicly announced as a candidate was a clever way for a businessman to promote his name and company to voters. Though the package made no reference to his political campaign or politics in general, it was absolutely a form of pre-election campaigning. Indeed, people talked about the assistance packages as gifted by Tsogtgerel, not the Teso Corporation. People appreciated that Tsogtgerel distributed the packages at the end of a harsh winter when herders were tired and low on cash to buy food staples. The packages also influenced the way that people viewed Tsogtgerel’s character. Despite his young age, the packages demonstrated that he was a “big man” (tom hun) who “does a lot of things” (ih yum hiisen). As Liz Fox described in her recent blog post, The Road to Power, being someone who has done something, not someone who says they will do something, matters greatly to Mongolians nowadays. People have become tired of promises and politicians talking about the future when so many expectations have failed to materialize. Material things – gifts – demonstrate the capabilities of a person and their potential as a political candidate.
While the western calendar gifted by Tsogtgerel decorated the walls of gers, families also kept an astrological lunar calendar underneath poles holding up the ger ceiling, allowing for easy access. These small calendars are ubiquitous in the countryside and are used daily to aid decision-making about things like when to move to new pastures, make important purchases, or get a haircut.
During an afternoon lull in a family’s ger in Bokhmoron, we idly flipped through an astrological calendar, not expecting to find anything related to our research. Yet, interspersing pages about earth elements, animal days, and moon phases were political comics and commentary lambasting the last four years under the DP’s leadership. The calendar was published by a an incumbent member of Parliament belonging to the Mongolian People’s Party (MPP), Chimediin Hurelbaatar.
One of the comics depicts Hurelbaatar standing in front of seated leaders of the DP, holding a pointer to a graph and lecturing. The graph shows a sharply falling line meant to represent the downward trend of Mongolia’s economy. Hurelbaatar is shown as an MPP master teaching DP pupils that, “Without fixing policy mistakes we will not come out of the economic crisis”. The comic is also meant to recall lessons from Mongolia’s previous debt history. Hurelbaatar was one of the architects of Mongolia’s resettlement of its socialist-era Great Debt (Ikh Ör) with Russia, an event lauded as the MPP’s historic merit to the Mongolian economy. Hurelbaatar’s depictions of a collapsing economy resonated with pre-election discourses about an economic crisis and rising sovereign debt burdens. He presents himself in the astrological calendar as an economic pedagogue backed by experience to address Mongolia’s major issues.
An image in the astrological calendar of Chimediin Hurelbaatar schooling the DP leaders about the economic crisis. Photo by Lauren Bonilla.
Back page of the astrological calendar distributed by Hurelbaatar for the New Lunar Year of the Fire Monkey. Photo by Lauren Bonilla.
Astrological calendar detailing animal days and earth elements, as well as commentary about national external debt. Photo by Lauren Bonilla.
Like Tsogtgerel, Hurelbaatar distributed the astrological calendar as a gift to families after the Lunar New Year holiday in February. Both calendars served the same function to make the potential candidate’s name and face visible to people. However, Hurelbaatar’s astrological calendar appealed to more traditional sentiments and a past when the economy was stronger under MPP leadership. It also had direct political messaging, without specific mention of Hurelbaatar’s aspirations for another run in parliament. In contrast, Tsogtgerel’s western calendar demonstrated a young, savvy, and entrepreneuring capitalist with connections in domestic and international business spheres. Ultimately on Election Day the citizens of Uvs, like the rest of Mongolia, overwhelmingly elected MPP over DP candidates.
During our Uvs visit we were interested in material things that candidates distributed to people, but we also wanted to investigate rumours of cash handouts. Most of the times when we asked about cash handouts, our interlocutors showed reserve and alarm because such activities are considered illegal by the electoral law. Although responses were vague about receiving cash, people had strong convictions about cash gifts. Based on experiences during the 2012 parliamentary elections, we were told that candidates usually distribute cash in the last days of campaigning within the legally allotted 18 days. One young man admitted that he received cash and did not feel ashamed about it. He believed he was entitled to the money: “If it is offered, one should take it” (Ogoh l heregtei, ogch baigaa bol avah heregtei shu dee).
Whereas things like calendars and processed noodles were subsumed into the daily activities of people and appeared to symbolize patronage by powerful and wealthy elites, campaign cash handouts appeared to be something to be claimed, not just passively received. Moreover, the illicit discourse on cash handouts had a moral implication in a time of crisis and national debt – a topic that we will examine in a forthcoming journal article and project workshop at the National University of Mongolia on November 15th, 2016.
When we asked people what party they planned to support in the June election, we heard nearly the same thing over and over in rural areas: “I’m voting for the person, not the party” (Nam geheesee iluu huniig ni songovol uul ni). While the unprecedented number of independent and third-party candidates may have contributed to this attitude, the highly individualistic campaign strategies of candidates certainly nurtured a politics of persona.
Our research in Uvs suggests that gifts also serve citizens, and this is why they are readily accepted. Beyond the usefulness of things like calendars and noodles, the receipt of gifts during the pre-election period is a means for Mongolians to gain visibility as citizens. In contrast, after the elections everyone expects that politicians will lose interest in them and do only what matters for themselves, their businesses, and their factions.
The political parties publicly nominated candidates for jurisdictions on May 28, 2016.
Их Өр Үүссэн, Дууссан Түүх, Б.Пүрэвсүрэн, 2008, Улаанбаатар хот.
Hurelbaatar was re-elected into Parliament. An earlier version of this blog, posted on August 31st, mistakenly wrote that Hurelbaatar did not receive his party’s nomination.
Uvs is a longtime MPP stronghold in Mongolia.
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ALFRED R. CONKLING, PH. B., LL. B.
NEW YORK: CHARLES L. WEBSTER & COMPANY. 1889.
Publication information: Book title: The Life and Letters of Roscoe Conkling:Orator, Statesman, Advocate. Contributors: Alfred R. Conkling - Author. Publisher: C.L. Webster & Company. Place of publication: New York. Publication year: 1889. Page number: iii.
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2019-04-26T05:52:25Z
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https://www.questia.com/read/4701968/the-life-and-letters-of-roscoe-conkling-orator-statesman
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The admissions office recognizes that candidates 24 years and older who have not been enrolled in an educational institution may require additional consideration in the admissions process.
As with every applicant for admission, nontraditional candidates are required to present official documents of all academic work, including high school transcript and/or General Education Development certificate (GED) or passing HiSET exam and transcripts of all college-level work attempted. The admissions office looks for previous academic performance that would predict success at the university. The admissions office may waive the standardized test requirement on a case-by-case basis for first-year applicants. Students may contact an admissions counselor for further information. Students are also encouraged to describe their activities after high school completion as part of their application to UVM.
Nontraditional applicants who are missing any entrance requirements are reviewed on a case-by-case basis. If a record is otherwise admissible, the admissions office may offer admission with a clause requiring completion of missing requirements prior to enrollment or concurrent with the UVM degree program. UVM does not grant college credit through portfolio assessment. Nontraditional candidates may explore credit options through the College Level Examination Program (CLEP) website.
Nontraditional applicants who completed college-level courses during high school should refer to the College Credit for High School Classes section of this catalogue.
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http://catalogue.uvm.edu/undergraduate/admissioninfo/nontraditional/
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Day 9: A Good Solid Day | Southbound Bulldogs!
What is a typical mph on your roads?� I’m sure it varies but just an idea would be helpful.� Also, how many cars are entered in the race?� your class?� Go Dogs!
Maximum speed on timed runs is 50 mph, and we sometimes go as slow as 10 mph. At the start of the event, there were just shy of 100 cars, but a few have dropped out. In our class, there’s actually only three teams (including us), but it is very close right now for first.
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https://mcphersongreatrace.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/day-9-a-good-solid-day/
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Vanishing Ice is an artistic exploration of the planet's frozen frontiers. The exhibition traces the impact that glaciers, icebergs, and vast fields of ice - unique and often fantastic formations - have had on artists' imaginations.
For over two hundred years, remote and icy landscapes have inspired artists and thrilled the public; the confluence of art, science and public education is one of the major themes of this exhibition. Vanishing Ice begins with early scientific voyages of the eighteenth century, and the artist-naturalist-explorers who created romantic artistic interpretations of the natural wonders of the world (satiating popular demand for new images of little known territories). The exhibition culminates with contemporary works by a new generation of artists who are once again journeying to alpine ranges and the Poles to document the stunning vistas and the increasing vulnerability and fragility of ice.
Vanishing Ice features over 70 works of art, by artists form Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Russia, Switzerland and the United States. Among the internationally recognized historical and contemporary artists included are: Ansel Adams, Otto Olaf Becker, John Grade, Lauren Harris, Frank Hurley, Issac Julien, Rockwell Kent, Alexis Rockman, Spencer Tunick, and Joseph M. W. Turner. Through their work, Vanishing Ice reveals the transformative power of art in shaping the public's perception of these starkly beautiful environments.
Adjacent to the Vanishing Ice exhibition, Glenbow is pleased to present Island, a video-based work by Peter von Tiesenhausen. Like many of the artists included in Vanishing Ice, von Tiesenhausen evokes the majesty of the natural world-in this case the shores of Iceland.
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https://www.glenbow.org/exhibitions/past/2014-2015/vanishing-ice/
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In Mirrors and Mirages, Monia Mazigh lets us into the lives of six women. They are immigrant mothers — Emma, Samia, and Fauzia — guardians of tradition who want their daughters to enjoy freedom in Western society. They are daughters — Lama, Sally, and Louise, a young woman who converted to Islam for love — university students who are clever and computer savvy. They decide for themselves whether or not to wear a veil, or niqab. Gradually, these women cross paths, and, without losing their authenticity, they become friends and rivals, mirrors and mirages of each other.
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http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/books/view/1661
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ER interns and residents discuss patient care.
The New Year brings a new president and the prospect of change to the U.S. health care system. Reformers want more people to have affordable care and health insurance. That would mean fewer people relying on emergency rooms as their primary source of medical care. Massachusetts isn't waiting for the rest of the country on this issue. They're already pursuing universal health care for all residents. It hasn't been fully implemented yet, but ERs there are already changing how they deal with patients with chronic conditions. Reporter Curt Nickisch spent a Friday night following an ER doctor at Mass General Hospital.
Perhaps the best approach is for states to tackle this issue on the state level. It seems like any national debate over health care is so hysterical and misguided. Maybe there should just be a national requirement for universal coverage and let the states iron out the details according to their own needs and circumstances. No one size fits all.
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It's official -- Jessica Simpson's mother Tina has filed for divorce from her husband Joe.
The divorce filing -- dated September 24 in McLennan County, Texas -- was confirmed in court papers obtained Wednesday by ET.
The parents of the singer-actress have been married for 34 years.
"It is an amicable split and there is no third party involved," a rep for the family tells ETonline. "Any other related allegations are completely false. The family appreciates your respect for their privacy at this time."
Last month, Joe Simpson pleaded not guilty to DUI charges after being arrested in Los Angeles on August 4 on suspicion of driving under the influence.
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Ghosts, goblins, and ghouls haunted the streets of East Manchester Township on Sunday for the annual Mount Wolf Halloween parade. Huge crowds packed sidewalks to see the ghostly sights during the 48th year for the event. Parade floats began the trek down North George Street at the intersection of Sunset Drive before heading into downtown Mount Wolf. About 50 groups entered their floats into the parade. The number of entries is slightly down from year’s past and organizers believe recent rainy weather is to blame for the decrease. Despite the smaller turn out the parade went off without a hitch.
Furry friends from the York County SPCA strutted their stuff and wagged their tails for the crowd during their first year in the parade.
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The raging tempest threatens to destroy the ship, but Jesus speaks, and the storm stops.
NE STORMY NIGHT a little ship tossed about on the angry waters of the Sea of Galilee. Far from the shore it had sailed when the storm broke upon it, and the sailors feared they might never see land again. With all their strength they pulled the oars; but the great waves dashed the ship helplessly about, threatening every moment to destroy it.
Several of the sailors in that company had seen the rage of the sea at other times when storms swept over its surface. They knew the fearful power of such a storm. They knew how helpless they were in the grasp of this tempest. While they were wondering what to do, a great wave broke over the side of the ship, flooding it with water. Now they believed that they would all be drowned.
These frightened sailors were the disciples of Jesus, and they were trying to take their master across the Sea of Galilee. Darkness had come upon them, and with the darkness of night the fearful storm broke. But Jesus, tired from his labors during the day, had lain down to rest and had fallen fast asleep. He did not know about the raging tempest, which threatened to destroy the ship and its passengers. He did not know about the fright of his disciples as they battled with the storm.
But when the great wave broke over the ship, the disciples remembered Jesus, lying asleep. They rushed to him and cried out, "Master, do you not care that we perish?"
Jesus aroused from his sleep, opened his eyes, and looked into their frightened faces. Seeing their alarm he arose to his feet and asked, "Why are you so fearful? Why do you have no faith?" Then he spoke to the wind, simply telling it to be still. And at the sound of this voice the tempest ceased at once, and the dashing waves grew quiet and calm.
The disciples were surprised to see that their master had power even greater than the power of the tempest. They were surprised to know that even the wind and the waves obeyed the voice of the Son of man. And they asked each other, wonderingly, "What manner of person is Jesus, that even the sea obeys him?" They did not know that he had helped the great Father-God in the beginning of the creation, when the world was made, and the sea and the dry land were formed on the face of the earth.
After the tempest ceased, the sailors brought their ship to the land of the Gadarenes, on the other side of the Sea of Capernaum. When they stepped onto the shore with Jesus, a man came running across the country to meet them.
This man was in a pitiful state, for he was wild, living alone in the graveyard or wandering day and night through the mountains cutting himself with sharp stones and crying out in distress. Evil spirits from Satan had come to live in him, and they had made him so wild and fierce that other people were afraid of him.
Even the relatives of this wild man had long ceased trying to do anything with him. For a while they had bound him with chains; but when the evil spirits would begin to torment him he would break off the chains, tear off his clothes, and run away to the wilderness or to lonely places to cry out.
The wild man came to Jesus and fell down before him to worship. But Jesus knew that evil spirits were troubling him, and he commanded them to leave the man. The spirits talked to Jesus through the man's mouth, and begged that he would not torment them.
Jesus asked, "What is your name?"
And the spirits replied, "Legion, for we are many."
A great host of bad spirits were dwelling in the poor man. No wonder he was in such a pitiful state.
On a mountain-side near by a herd of two thousand hogs were feeding. The Jews were forbidden by the law to eat the flesh of these animals. But the people who lived in this land on the other side of the Sea from Capernaum kept many hogs for market, and they sent servants out to the fields to watch them.
The evil spirits in the wild man did not want to leave the country, though they knew Jesus would not let them stay in the poor man any longer. So they asked to enter the hogs that were feeding on the mountain-side. Jesus gave them permission to go into the hogs, and at once the great herd of two thousand ran down a steep place and fell into the Sea, where they were drowned.
The keepers of the herd were frightened, and they ran to the owners to tell what had happened. Soon a crowd of curious people came from the city not far away and saw the wild man sitting at Jesus' feet, wearing clothes and no longer acting wild and unruly. A look of peace had settled upon his face, and his right mind had come back again. Now he could speak and think and act like other men.
When the people heard what Jesus had done for the man whom they had feared so much, they were greatly surprised. But they were not pleased, because they had lost all the hogs on the mountain-side. Perhaps they had planned to sell those animals for much money. Now they did not want Jesus to stay with them any longer, for fear they might lose other things. They did not think about their sick friends, whom Jesus might heal, nor about others among them who needed to have bad spirits cast out. They were selfish people, loving their money more than they loved the people who lived about them. So Jesus saw that he was not welcome, and he turned to go away.
The man for whom he had done such a great miracle followed Jesus to the ship and begged to go with him wherever he went. How blessed it seemed to this poor man to be near the one who had freed him from the misery he had suffered.!
But Jesus said, "Go back to your home, and tell your friends what great things the Lord has done for you."
Gladly the man obeyed, and from city to city he went, telling people about the wonderful power of Jesus, until many who had never heard before came to know of the wonder-working teacher in Galilee.
Put these stories on your site.
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http://kids.christiansunite.com/Bible_Stories/Bible_Story_126.shtml
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I worked with the YMCA of Delaware, Hilliard, and Gahanna in two evidence based programs; Healthy Weight and Your Child and Delay the Disease. Both programs are evidence based programs that rely on data to run the program better and how they structure it. Having the programs backed up with data and other evidence based material, allows The YMCA to have accreditation with their programs.
Harmon, Brandon, "The YMCA and Healthy Weight and your Child Program Implementation" (2017). Masters Theses/Capstone Projects. 14.
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TOKYO, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Philip Morris International Inc will sell cheaper versions of its IQOS “heat not burn” products in Japan from Tuesday and introduce new upgraded products next month to expand market share, its chief executive said.
Philip Morris, maker of Marlboro cigarettes, was first to start selling HNB products in Japan in 2014, but it faces heated competition from British American Tobacco and Japan Tobacco Inc and its market share has stagnated in recent quarters after rapid growth last year.
The companies cut prices of heating devices earlier this year.
Philip Morris currently sells a pack of 20 HeatSticks, tobacco rolls used with IQOS devices, at 500 yen ($4.43). CEO Andre Calantzopoulos told Reuters that from Tuesday a new “HEETS” line priced at 470 yen a pack will be available.
“Clearly, for some people, spending 30 yen more, 40 yen more per day is expensive,” he said in an interview in Tokyo on Monday.
In mid-November, the company will also release upgraded versions of its “IQOS 3” and “IQOS 3 MULTI” devices. Calantzopoulos said the existing versions will still be available at current prices.
“We want to cater to the entire population. From a pricing perspective, that will help product perception,” Calantzopoulos said.
Philip Morris says IQOS has a 15.5 percent share in Japan’s overall tobacco market, including conventional cigarettes, but market share has stabilised.
“I think it’s natural in any category that you have slowdowns,” Calantzopoulos said. “We have people who adopted earlier and people who are more conservative,” he said.
PMI was spun off from Altria Group Inc, nearly a decade ago, and Altria will commercialise IQOS in the United States.
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https://uk.reuters.com/article/pmi-japan/philip-morris-seeks-bigger-japan-share-with-cheaper-heat-not-burn-tobacco-idUKL3N1WX1F3
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Is Obama ‘Abandoning’ the White Working Class?
Conservatives are completely misrepresenting a study of the electorate.
If you read Edsall’s item, it is abundantly clear that he is describing shifts in the electoral terrain, not a governing policy. There is no mention of any specific policy changes in the piece. Rather it is all about what states and demographics the Obama campaign will target.
Nonetheless, conservative pundits—who are either incapable of distinguishing between politics and policy or who choose not to when it suits their agenda—have rushed to claim that Obama is abandoning the interests of the white working class. They do not cite an iota of evidence for this assertion, because none exists.
The most egregious example, flagged on Monday by Slate’s Dave Weigel came from Fox Nation. The website’s headline for its link to Edsall’s post? “NYT: Democratic Party Operatives Plan to Abandon White Working Class.” As Weigel notes, they also inserted a photo of Obama grimacing and waving and his wife next to a headless black person with his arms folded.
On Tuesday Weigel caught two more items repeating the false abandonment meme. Former Reagan speechwriter Peter Robinson points to Edsall’s piece as evidence that Democrats are no longer looking out for working-class white voters. “The Democratic Party of Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey—the party that prided itself on championing the ordinary working American—has utterly vanished,” Robinson concludes. There is, of course, no evidence to support the statement that Democrats no longer champion the interests of working-class voters. More odiously, Robinson conflates whites without a college degree with “the ordinary working American.” Is that because African-Americans, Asian-Americans and Latinos are not “ordinary Americans”? Or is it because Robinson thinks they don’t work for a living?
It’s worth noting that the Democratic Party’s commitment to social insurance and equality applies equally to whites and non-whites. Rich non-whites would go back to paying their Clinton-era tax rates under Obama’s plan. Poor whites receive Medicaid and food stamps. Everyone receives Social Security and Medicare when they turn 65. Indeed, whites living below the poverty line remain more Democratic than middle-class whites, and for good reason. Middle-class whites have plenty of reasons to vote Democratic too, but Republicans have successfully capitalized on their cultural resentments.
McGurn repeats the “abandoning the white working class,” lie. At this point it is reaching the status of official conservative shibboleth, along with whoppers such as Mitt Romney’s oft-repeated assertion that Obama “apologized for America” while traveling abroad.
At least McGurn makes an effort to demonstrate that the objective fact that white working-class voters have been abandoning the Democratic Party has some basis in his assertion that Democrats have abandoned those voters on a policy level. Unfortunately, he falls far short of making a convincing case. All McGurn does is presume that the Republican agenda of deregulation would improve the economic lot of working-class whites. “If these citizens weren’t bitter before, they sure have reason to be now,” McGurn writes. “For the white working class, the private sector was what gave them jobs and propelled them into the middle class. Yet whether it’s drilling for oil or putting up a shopping mall, today’s Democratic Party seems opposed to most of the private-sector jobs that deliver opportunity to those without a college degree.” Aside from the fact that there are plenty of working class whites in the public sector—police officers, firefighters, sanitation workers and Postal Service workers—it’s simply untrue that the Democratic Party is “opposed” to jobs for the non-college educated. If it “seems” that way, it is only because conservative propagandists keep saying so.
What is the evidence that construction workers who would gain opportunities if we built more shopping malls would be better off under a Republican administration? What is the evidence that Democrats oppose building shopping malls? What exactly have Democrats done to prevent shopping malls from being constructed? In point of fact, it is Democrats who keep trying to put construction workers back to work on improving our crumbling infrastructure and Republicans who oppose doing so. It is Democrats who raised the minimum wage and who want to make it easier to organize labor unions that guarantee living wages for blue-collar workers, and it is Republicans who have opposed doing so. Republicans’ main contribution to the debate over how to help construction workers in recent years has been their incessant demand to repeal the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires federal contractors to pay prevailing wages on public works projects.
So Republicans would like to reduce the wages of construction workers but it is Democrats, according to conservatives, who are abandoning the working class. The most generous interpretation would be that since conservatives do not actually care about policy, they do not even recognize the difference between seeking a group’s votes and actually representing its interests. A cynic might suggest that these conservatives know exactly how misleading they are being—they just don’t care about the truth.
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https://www.thenation.com/article/obama-abandoning-white-working-class/
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Discussion in 'Wanted: Bass Players' started by Absalone, Jun 17, 2018.
I'm not sure I'm posting at the right place, so feel free to move my post in another section if not appropriate.
I'm looking for a bass player to record a part on a composition.
It's a personal composition, so there's no money or anything commercial involved.
So if anyone like that song and is keen to record a line, I'd be happy to send him the tracks.
The bass line will start at around 2 minutes, with the guitars and drums.
A melody line would be helpful.
I haven’t written any melody for the bass, but I imagined something like a pink floyd bass line.
I don't mean to speak for someone else, but I'm sure he meant... well.. there's no melody!
this sounds like a track waiting for a vocal line to go on top - or something instrumental, whatever - but it would help us bass folks to know how to fit the music best if we have a better picture of the finished product.
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2019-04-25T12:57:45Z
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https://www.talkbass.com/threads/looking-for-a-bassist-to-record-a-line.1350033/
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After poker, is gaming set to be a TV hit?
This month, millions of people have sat down at their computers and tuned in to watch. . .other people playing video games.
At first blush that may sound as much fun as watching paint dry, but in reality it’s a growing industry. Gaming channels are already a well-established phenomenon in Korea, and the trend catching on in the United States has helped the rise of professional gamers and provided an innovative outlet for charities and companies to promote their latest projects.
Justin Kan is the founder of TwitchTV, which broadcasts live feeds of players doing their thing, often with commentary from seasoned players — sort of the ESPN of this particular “sport.” He said that the site exceeds 16 million visitors per month, and is growing at a rate of around 11 percent every month.
Contrary to its name, which indicates a focus on “twitch” games such as first-person shooters that require super-fast reaction, the service provides feeds of folks playing Minecraft, Starcraft and, yes, games like Call of Duty or Halo. Users watch others play while listening to commentary from experts. Kan said he’s trying to get at an atmosphere that gamers coming of age now already know and love; sitting on the couch, watching friends play and critiquing their style.
Marketers are taking notice. Plenty of AAA titles have turned to the service for online promotional events ahead of launch. For example, 2K Games debuted a new mode on Twitch TV, and even let viewers write in and ask questions of its producers.
“2K Games chose Twitch.tv because they have done an amazing job at building a community around people who like to broadcast and watch live games, so it was a great place for us to show off The Darkness II to a massive audience,” said senior interactive marketing manager Elizabeth Tobey.
Charities holding “play-a-thons” or similar events to raise awareness and cash have also found that the site is a good way to promote their causes.
The site has over 1,000 marketing partners and an average viewing time of 47 minutes per spectator — quite the accomplishment in the online video world, where it’s difficult to capture users’ attentions for more than a few minutes at a time. TwitchTV runs commercials during natural breaks in the action — loading screens, set-up, etc. — to get ads on-screen as well.
Kan said the trend is picking up steam in the real world as well.
There are things called “BarCraft” events, Kan said, where users gather to watch StarCraft matches much in the same way sports fans gather to watch the big game.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/after-poker-is-gaming-set-to-be-a-tv-hit/2012/02/23/gIQABLC9XR_story.html
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Why should we build very large spaces when they are not necessary? We can design halls spanning several kilometres and covering a whole city, but we have to ask, what does it really make? What does society really need?
We have big, big problems – flooding, earthquake, and many foolish things which now people are doing – I mean, these self-made catastrophes. We are able to give to every man on the street the possibilities to help himself. And to fight for this was one of my duties.
Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world.
I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.
Buildings are ‘humane’ only when they promote peaceful human co-existence.
My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes… I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.
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2019-04-20T14:31:28Z
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https://www.allgreatquotes.com/authors/frei-otto/
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"We make this statement to correct certain insurance industry media publications that have reported on the Court's decision in the Lincoln action. The Court's summary judgment decision terminated Lincoln's action at the District Court level. At the time of the decision, the sole issue remaining in the case was whether three life insurance policies purchased from Lincoln in 2005 met California's 'insurable interest' standard. The District Court found that our policies complied and were valid. There was no claim for "misrepresentation" before the District Court. Although Lincoln originally filed a misrepresentation claim, that claim was dismissed with prejudice in March 2009. The District Court's decision noted that the misrepresentation claim had been dismissed. The original misrepresentation allegations were based on false information that was provided to Lincoln by others - not by us. The Court's dismissal of the misrepresentation claims is not subject to appeal - the claims are gone."
Any further questions concerning the status of this action should be addressed to our legal counsel in the Lincoln action, Jeffrey T. Makoff, Esq. of Makoffs LLP in San Francisco., (415) 789-8938.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/09/prweb2807854.htm
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Over the weekend we welcomed Kathy, straight off the plane from the UK, who will be joining us for the rest of our adventure, down the WA coast, through SA and across the great ocean road back to Sydney. Today we all setup camp at a local caravan park, took the car down on Cable Beach for sunset and generally eased Kathy (and ourselves again!) into the camping life. We have a few days in Broome to see a few more sights before we start the journey South on Friday. We all cant wait to get exploring and photographing.
While spending some time in our tents recovering from the heat and or walks of the day during our Gibb River Road adventure, here were some random thoughts on the camping life. Feel free to add your own in the comments section!
Men talk more than women at campsites – mostly about cars and gadgets!
Termite mounds can be scarily big!
I am sure there are plenty more – we will check in with our new camper Kathy in a month to add to this list!
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2019-04-19T14:47:51Z
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https://whitecoastredcentre.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/welcome-kathy-to-the-adventure/
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Under Armour , the Baltimore-based sporting gear retailer, opened its 19,000-square-foot store on Boylston Street in Boston’s Back Bay this week. Susie McCabe, the brand’s senior vice president of global retail, said it was important for them to be in Boston since it is an incredibly competitive and sports-driven city.
At the new store, a “What’s the Record” booth allows patrons to compare their jumping abilities with athletic greats using digital technology and a trampoline. Showing off a tight New England Patriots t-shirt, a giant bust of a male torso with strong pectoral and abdominal muscles sits right at the entrance. Last but not least, several well-lit action shots of Patriots quarterback Tom Brady shine down upon shoppers.
Under Armour’s Boston store is split between an 8,000 sq.ft. first level and an 11,000 sq.ft. second level at 888 Boylston St. The store’s entrance sits at the base of the adjacent Prudential Center.
Boston Properties earlier this year repositioned the base of the Prudential, which formerly housed the food court, to make room for 45,000-square-foot Italian marketplace Eataly, and to allow for street-facing retail stores at 888 Boylston.
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2019-04-21T10:39:42Z
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https://skipbillingham.wordpress.com/2016/11/12/under-armours-first-boston-store-is-a-pantheon-to-sport-pecs-and-tom-brady/
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With the Muon g-2 and Mu2e experiments, Fermilab may uncover new physics that could solve discrepancies in the Standard Model, which maps our understanding of physics in the subatomic realm. Fermilab has been building a home for the two experiments – the Muon Campus – which began construction in 2013. It is also preparing for Muon g-2 to take beam in 2017.
The lab met a major milestone last month, achieving beneficial occupancy on Dec. 9, for the Muon Campus’ underground beamline enclosure. The beamline links the muon experimentation facilities to the Muon Delivery Ring, which delivers beam to the Mu2e experiment. Beneficial occupancy is achieved when basic life safety systems, such as emergency lighting, fire alarms and communications, are in place.
The Muon Campus’ projected completion is in 2020.
The Muon Campus is south of Wilson Hall, and it will be one of several experimental campuses that use the Recycler accelerator (located in the Main Injector ring). The MC-1 facility on the Muon Campus, which houses the Muon g-2 experiment, and the beamline enclosure are currently the two areas that have beneficial occupancy.
“We’re at the peak of construction right now,” said Mary Convery, associate division head of the Accelerator Division.
Convery oversees the Muon Campus program, which is broken into several, smaller projects. Most of the construction and civil engineering projects are complete, while the accelerator upgrades and the Mu2e building construction remain.
The Particle Physics Division’s Alignment Group is using the lab’s beneficial occupancy to create a magnet alignment network inside the Muon Delivery Ring and the new beamline enclosures. The Accelerator Division is installing equipment, such as vacuum components, instrumentation cables, beamline magnets and water cooling systems. This work is beginning now and will continue for more than a year with many other divisions at Fermilab.
“It’s a lot of coordination between divisions, and it’s turning into a one-lab type of mentality,” said Consolato Gattuso, the Accelerator Division summer shutdown manager and Muon Campus installation coordinator.
The amount of time and effort that goes into constructing facilities like the Muon Campus can be daunting, Gattuso said. So the construction and installation crews manage their time wisely by planning and tackling each task in bite-sized pieces, keeping them on schedule. But challenges are also bound to arise from many areas in the construction process, since there are multiple, smaller facets to the project.
The Mu2e building, for example, has many underground spaces, with ceilings as high as 20 feet, that must fit the 80-foot long, S-shaped Mu2e detector and supporting infrastructure.
“The complex geometry of detailing and designing all the corners and walls, where everything comes together, creates a unique construction challenge for everybody involved,” Hamernik said.
For Gattuso, the biggest challenge, besides the construction itself, may be planning and scheduling everyone’s tasks.
Although there is plenty work yet to be done, Fermilab benefits from having a wealth of existing inventory to draw from. For example, the former Antiproton Source (now the Muon Delivery Ring) and approximately 300 of the lab’s magnets are being repurposed for the two muon experiments.
Construction and beneficial occupancy work are a part of the natural progression of building and innovating, Convery said, where innovation lies in gaining a firmer hold of fleeting particles such as muons.
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2019-04-25T13:47:31Z
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https://sciencesprings.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/from-fnal-muon-campus-beamline-enclosure-achieves-beneficial-occupancy/
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – West Virginia revenue collections have surpassed tax estimates for nine consecutive months.
Gov. Jim Justice announced Tuesday that collections in December were $44.8 million above estimates. That pushes year-to-date collections to $186 million above estimates.
Justice has projected the surplus will grow to $300 million by the end of the fiscal year. State code mandates half of any surplus must go into the state’s rainy day fund. Justice also plans to give state teachers and other public employees a 5 percent pay raise this year while infusing $100 million into their insurance plan.
When Justice took office two years ago, state government was looking at a projected budget deficit of $500 million in the next fiscal year.
On Wednesday, the Legislature’s regular session begins and Justice will give his annual State of the State speech.
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2019-04-19T11:09:38Z
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https://woub.org/2019/01/08/w-va-tax-collections-above-estimates-for-9th-straight-month/
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Course is within the Professional Sequence.
See Professional Semester for prerequisites and requirements.
A student enrolled in Elementary Student Teaching will assume the daily teaching schedule of the cooperating teacher.
Elementary Student Teaching (EDU 408 Elementary Student Teaching III) is to be taken during the student’s senior year. Seminar in Elementary Education and Human Relations (EDU 403 Seminar in Elementary Education and Human Relations) is to be taken concurrently with Elementary Student Teaching. A passing score on the Content Area Assessment is required before enrollment in EDU 403 Seminar in Elementary Education and Human Relations or EDU 408 Elementary Student Teaching III.
Course work during the professional education semester is usually limited to EDU 403 Seminar in Elementary Education and Human Relations and EDU 408 Elementary Student Teaching III. Petition for any additional course work must be submitted to the Education Department in the semester prior to Elementary Student Teaching.
The elementary major must also select one area of concentration from a possible set of six areas to broaden one’s expertise in at least one area. The requirements for each subject concentration are determined by the MWSU Education Department in consultation with the various academic departments.
English Language Learners (ELL) (K-12).
The General Concentration will consist of 12 total credits of coursework with 6 credits in Education that is not part of the elementary major requirements and 6 additional credits of any coursework not already counted as General Studies or elementary major coursework.
NOTE: Candidate applies for certification after 2 years of classroom teaching experience.
Earn a grade of C or higher in all major and concentration coursework.
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2019-04-22T18:03:53Z
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http://catalog.missouriwestern.edu/undergraduate/professional-studies/education/elementary-education-bse/index.html
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Where the states of Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky meet, so do the Wabash and Ohio rivers. At this junction, the Ohio picks up water from the Wabash and continues flowing generally southwest until it joins the Mississippi River near Cairo, Illinois. Here, the Ohio River adds a tremendous amount of water to the Mississippi River, making the Ohio River a major source of freshwater that ultimately reaches the Gulf of Mexico.
The connections in this drainage system, or watershed, is why the heavy rains that spurred flooding in the Midwestern United States in late February 2018 ultimately led to flooding in Louisiana in early March. What happens downriver is largely affected by what happens upriver. The pulse of floodwater on the Ohio helped deliver freshwater and a sediment plume to the Gulf of Mexico.
The recent flooding at the confluence of the Wabash and Ohio rivers is visible in this image, acquired by the Operational Land Imager (OLI) on the Landsat 8 satellite. The image is a composite, showing floodwater on March 3, 2018, combined with an image acquired on November 7, 2017, that shows the typical widths of the rivers. It is false-color (bands 6-5-3) to better distinguish flooded areas (blue) from the surrounding land (tan).
John Sloan, a watershed scientist at the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, pointed out that smaller tributaries on the west side of the image have narrower floodplains that become successively larger as the watershed becomes larger. Major rivers, such as the Ohio, have very wide floodplains. This image shows the widespread flooding that can occur in the area around the confluence of major rivers like the Wabash and Ohio rivers.
Floods can speed up the processes of erosion and sedimentation, increasing the volume and speed of the water flowing through an existing channel. During a flood, water and sediment can spill over a river’s natural banks and flow into the adjacent floodplain. In the image above, the blue area shows both the river channel and the portion of the floodplain that was flooded in early March.
As the floodwaters slow and recede, they usually leave most of their sediments behind on the floodplain. Sometimes these add organic matter and fertility to the floodplain. In other cases, land is scoured and thick sand deposits are left behind-for instance, when a levee breaks and water rushes across the floodplain.
Major flooding most often occurs when heavy, persistent winter rains coincide with snowmelt because the still-frozen ground makes water run off the landscape rather than soaking into the soil. The flood this winter along the Ohio River was the worst in two decades, according to news reports, but not the worst on record.
“The winter flood of 1937 on the Ohio River was one of the worst to hit the Ohio River Valley, and the Wabash basin was a big contributor,” Morton said. Waters rose to “major” flood stage north of the Ohio-Wabash confluence and inundated Evansville, Indiana. They crested well above major flood stage south of the confluence in Shawneetown, Illinois, and destroyed most of the town.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Kathryn Hansen, with image interpretation by John Sloan/National Great Rivers Research and Education Center, and Kenneth Olson and Lois Morton/Iowa State University.
What happens downriver can be largely affected by what happens upriver in the floodplains of major rivers.
NASA Earth Observatory (2018, March 10) Sediment Plume off the Louisiana Coast.
NASA Earth Observatory (2018, February 28) Flooding in the Central and Southern U.S..
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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/91839/floodwaters-at-the-confluence-of-the-wabash-and-ohio-rivers
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The Rev. Cameron Madison Alexander always wanted to keep Antioch Baptist Church North nestled in the city of Atlanta.
There, he felt, the historic African-American church could have the greatest impact and serve people who needed help the most.
Alexander, who would have celebrated five decades in the pulpit at Antioch next year, died Sunday after a brief illness.
Under his leadership, Antioch became a beacon of hope in the community. It has a much-needed food, housing and clothing ministry and a recovery program for people fighting addiction.
While other pastors may have been hesitant to reach out to those battling HIV and AIDs, Alexander greenlighted a program to help.
He often guided others who wanted to become pastors. By one count, he trained 600 ministers and, of those, 150 are pastoring churches around the world.
Alexander served 29 years as president of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, which cites a membership of more than 600 churches. He’s a former vice president of the National Baptist Convention, USA and former dean for the Sunday School and Baptist Training Union Congress, an auxiliary of the state convention.
Alexander was invited to submit one of his inaugural sermons to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. The sermon became part of the oral history and spoken word collections that preserve Americans’ accounts of and reactions to important cultural events.
According to the church’s website, Alexander became pastor in 1969. While on vacation in Atlanta, his father — at the request of a member of Antioch — asked the younger Alexander to fill in one Sunday while the church prepared to vote on a new pastor. After preaching “A Man Is in Town,” the church offered him the position on a write-in vote.
At the time, Antioch had about 600 members. During his tenure, it would reach a high of 14,000.
Alexander was also a prominent community leader. He helped lead a bus boycott that integrated the Bibb County transit system during his pastorate in Macon. He participated in lunch counter sit-ins. And, while a pastor in Savannah, he formed a partnership with C&S Bank President Mills B. Lane to improve 109 blocks of real estate in Savannah.
Activist Joe Beasley is a deacon at Antioch and ran the church’s urban ministries program and, later, served as human services director.
That compassion sometimes meant personally doing without.
“He consistently turned down salary increases,” said Cameron Eric Alexander.
A second generation preacher, Alexander was born in Atlanta - a “Grady baby.” He graduated from Booker T. Washington High School and attended Florida A&M University, where he played saxophone in the much-heralded “Marching 100.” He later earned a degree from Morehouse College. He also earned a master’s of divinity degree from the Morehouse School of Religion 1968 and doctorate of divinity degrees from the United Theological Seminary (Louisiana) and the Morehouse School of Religion 1990.
Not only did he play with the FAMU band but also played in the band while in the U.S. Air Force.
In later years, when he began pastoring a church, he didn’t play, although he still loved jazz, listening to the likes of Charlie “Bird” Parker, Miles Davis and Jimmy Smith.
“He was more than a pastor to me,” said Atlanta poet Hank Stewart, who has been a member of Antioch for more than three decades.
Another son, the Rev. Kenneth L. Alexander serves as Antioch’s co-pastor.
He later realized that many of his father’s friends were actually prominent leaders in the church community and in civil rights. People like the Rev. Jesse Jackson, the Rev. A.D. King and the Rev. Martin Luther (Daddy) King Sr.
As he got older, Kenneth Alexander realized his father was just as prominent. He once attended a board meeting of the National Baptist Convention. A heavy and sometimes heated discussion was taking place. “Daddy got up, got the mic and everybody got quiet,” he said. “The meeting got productive.” What did his father say?
He said people may not realize how much his dad could use humor in his sermons and to get his point across.
“If Dad had been a comedian, we would have been rich,” he joked.
Funeral services are pending. Alexander is survived by his wife of 64 years, Barbara J. Alexander; three children, Cameron Eric Alexander, Kenneth L. Alexander and Barbara Maria Hunter; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. A son, Gregory Alexander, preceded him in death.
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https://www.ajc.com/news/rev-cameron-alexander-prominent-atlanta-pastor-dies/2XMxKd1VcVVMLEJWgG1UpI/
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We consider unitarity and causality in a higher-derivative theory of infinite order, where propagators fall off more quickly in the ultraviolet due to the presence of a transcendental entire function of the momentum. Like Lee-Wick theories, these field theories might provide new avenues for addressing the hierarchy problem; unlike Lee-Wick theories, tree-level propagators do not have additional poles corresponding to unobserved particles with unusual properties. We consider microscopic acausality in these nonlocal theories. The acausal ordering of production and decay vertices for ordinary resonant particles may provide a phenomenologically distinct signature for these models.
Carone, Christopher D., Unitarity and microscopic acausality in a nonlocal theory (2018). PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 95(4).
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2019-04-20T20:55:08Z
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https://scholarworks.wm.edu/aspubs/241/
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Circuitboards are tossed into landfills by the ton; one of the most consistent computer remnants that aren’t easily recycled. These easily recognizable bland green boards aren’t always so boring, and some intrepid artists have come up with eye-catching and creative techniques to cut back on waste.
While these shoes don’t seem very comfortable, they have enough computing power to walk you down the street and back (kind of). Created as a piece of art rather than a functional piece of apparel, these Nike branded circuitboards are an interesting idea for future recycling projects.
Some artists have melded the technological and the spiritual worlds by creating circuitboard based portraits of religious icons, such as the Virgin Mary. One doesn’t usually consider religion and technology as a perfect match (though there’s nothing inherently separating the two), so these icons are quite unique.
If you were a real tech geek, your car would be slathered in circuit boards as well. The aesthetic is definitely interesting, and it’s certain that the driver loves all the attention.
There’s something inherently beautiful about the printed patterns on circuitboards, and some artists have capitalized on that feature by creating gorgeous and functional art. These boxes would be impressive if they were designed without the use of circuitboards, so the fact that they were recycled makes them that much more amazing.
Artists who enjoy the implications of circuitboards as representations of technology enjoy utilizing them as foundations for their mixed media artwork.
Microchip art isn’t visible by the naked eye, so one is unlikely to randomly stumble upon it. Created during the manufacturing process, these images are typically etched in a corner of the chip that is unused, as a kind of signature of the designer. Anything from animals to famous television characters can be found lurking amongst the transistors.
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2019-04-20T03:19:05Z
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https://weburbanist.com/2010/12/09/circuitboard-artwork-a-gallery-inside-your-computer/
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COLUMBIA, Mo. – A Missouri man told police he thought the state’s new ‘stand your ground‘ gun law would protect him after allegedly shooting another man Monday, according to police.
Henson, who faces charges of armed criminal action and first-degree assault, told police “the only reason I thought it was okay to shoot at him while he was running away was because of what happened with the new year with the gun law change,” wrote officer Spirit Stevens.
Missouri instituted the ‘stand your ground’ law in January, 2017, after the state legislature guaranteed the passage of Senate Bill 650 in September, despite Governor Jay Nixon’s earlier veto.
The law allows people use deadly force instead of running away, as long as they believe deadly force will be used upon them.
On Monday afternoon, Henson met up with a 20-year-old man who wanted to buy an iPhone 7 from him, according to the Columbia Daily Tribune.
While examining the phone, the 20-year-old allegedly took off with the device, running behind a duplex in a cul-de-sac on Riva Ridge Court in northern Columbia.
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2019-04-18T22:44:58Z
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https://kfor.com/2017/01/26/missouri-man-accused-in-shooting-thought-new-gun-law-protected-him/
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Campus Expands Landholdings; Dordt Invited to Oral Interpretation Seminar; Science and the Christian Faith; Chemical Research; Pardon Us, Please, Library Construction; No Vacation for Practice Teachers; I-M Gems; Spectrum; Pre-Sem Club Report; Crossfire; The Student Council Reports; Yes, You!; Political Science; Editorial; Progress Report; Is it too Late?
Dordt College, "The Diamond, January 27, 1966" (1966). Dordt Diamond. 460.
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2019-04-20T22:26:27Z
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https://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/dordt_diamond/460/
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Week of Apr 15, 2019: You are not alone on Monday. You have your troops behind you at every juncture. You are powerful, although you are choosing to exert your power in benevolent, beneficent ways. Tuesday and Wednesday are unexpectedly complicated days, and you get a bit disoriented in the maelstrom, but by Thursday you'll be sailing toward smoother waters and clearer skies. Friday is also sunny -- metaphorically and perhaps literally -- which everyone seems to interpret as a reflection on you. Saturday and Sunday, you may be sidetracked by someone else's needs, but you're happy to exercise compassion.
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https://www.astrology.com/horoscope/weekly-overview/aquarius.html
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U2 fondo de pantalla. . HD Wallpaper and background images in the U2 club tagged: u2 rock band bono the edge larry mullen jr adam clayton wallpapers.
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2019-04-24T12:32:09Z
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http://es.fanpop.com/clubs/u2/images/8998430/title/u2-wallpapers-wallpaper
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Reredos in gothic revival style, comprising painted & gilded figures of Christ, enthroned between twelve standing apostles, each figure framed within an ogee arch, above which, are spandrels filled with foliated tracery. Angel, carrying a carved candelabrum, stands at each end of back section & forward ends of side sections. Associated list of names carved on alabaster framed panels, located at the rear & to the sides of the High Altar.
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2019-04-24T04:16:50Z
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https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/37818
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The Office of International Medicine Programs (IMP) established its continuing medical education program to keep healthcare professionals up-to-date with the latest advances in medicine and the changes in the methods of delivery. For over 8 years, this program has trained over 6,000 healthcare professionals to maintain competency and learn about new and developing areas of their field. These activities may take place as live events in host countries or via videoconferencing. The content of these programs is developed, reviewed, and delivered by faculty who are experts in their individual clinical areas. Currently, GW has provided over 120 CME courses to sites in the Middle East, Asia and Central America providing American Medical Association approved credit to thousands of health care professionals. Topics vary in content and duration and can be customized according to the needs of the medical institution.
Click here to see previous CME courses.
IMP has served over 10,000 physicians through continuing medical education courses since 1994!
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2019-04-22T15:58:45Z
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https://smhs.gwu.edu/imp/continuing-medical-education
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50 Greatest Gadgets | Mobile Gadgets, etc.
PC World has ranked the 50 Greatest Gadgets in the Past 50 years. Gadget nominations were submitted by PC World editors and then were graded on certain factors. Check out the article and the pictures, you’ll be amazed at how many of these you’ve actually owned.
Thanks, your blog just helped me think of a new gadget. A car stereo with a USB port plug built-in. It would accept DiskOnKey’s and other portable MP3 storing devices. The LCD would show the MP3 information and graphics (if available). No hassle with iPod transmitters and weighs less than the Nano! Should we go in business together?
Hi Thanks for your interesting blog. I also have a blog/site, covering gps satellite related stuff. Feel free to visit my gps satellite site.
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2019-04-25T09:48:14Z
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https://mobilegadgetsetc.wordpress.com/2005/12/29/50-greatest-gadgets/
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In order to manage some of the greatest places on earth, Parks Canada is turning to outer space. The agency has established an ongoing partnership with the Canadian Space Agency and the Natural Resources Canada’s Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS), seeking expertise in the use of orbiting satellites to collect information about what is happening on the ground.
The collaboration, called ParkSPACE, runs from 2008 to 2012. It is exploring the capabilities of hardware found on the latest generation of earth-observing satellites, as well as developing software and methods that could extract details about environmental change from the resulting data.
Canada, which has a track record in space going back to the early 1960s, has continued to rank among the world’s leaders in this field. Since 1995, for example, Canada’s Radarsat-1 has been acquiring detailed images by day or night, regardless of whether cloud cover, smoke or haze is in the way.
Such all-season, all-weather observation appeals to Parks Canada, which now has 72 per cent of its land total holdings in roadless regions of Canada’s north. Getting people into these isolated settings remains expensive and difficult, even when weather permits. Nor can this approach cover more than a tiny portion of these massive areas.
Nevertheless, Parks Canada Agency is required to report to the federal government on the ecological status of these parks, exercising a responsibility to oversee their ecological integrity.
This concept, which lies at the core of the Parks Canada mandate, makes it necessary to demonstrate an awareness of the plant and animal species that live in parks, along with any changes in the ecological processes that sustain these inhabitants.
According to Robert Fraser, a research scientist with the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, it may be all but impossible to achieve this kind of understanding for vast areas from the ground alone. Many corners of the country’s north have seldom been studied in the necessary detail even to start this kind of inquiry from the ground.
In this way, the ParkSPACE aims to further develop and then apply satellite-based monitoring, reporting and quantifying changes in Canada’s northern national parks. The value of doing so has already been shown by an earlier collaboration, which assembled the same partners for an initial consideration of how well satellite monitoring performed for southern parks says Jean Poitevin, project manager and initiator of this collaborative agreement between Canada Space Agency, CCRS and Parks Canada Agency.
Parks Canada ecologist Donald McLennan and his team helped to spearhead that work, which satisfied him of the feasibility of this strategy. For example, satellite data archives documented a major decline in forest cover around one park over a period of decades. To him, this reveals how even older remote sensing systems could provide invaluable findings.
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2019-04-19T09:19:39Z
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https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/nature/nord-north/td-rs/td-rs2
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Whether you have a few hours or a whole week to give, we can connect you with a meaningful service opportunity. Find a program or an event that'll help you assist people in need locally and in other areas of the nation.
Connect your skills with those who need them most.
We couldn't agree more with what professional boxer and social activist Muhammad Ali famously said, "The service you do for others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.” If you have time to give, we can help you find the volunteering fit that syncs up with your skills, availability or personal interests. Or, if you're part of a local nonprofit program or organization, learn about a potential community partnership with the University of South Carolina.
The Big Event is a unified day which mobilizes UofSC Columbia students to preform service projects in the surrounding community. The primary goal of the Big Event is to simply say “Thank You” to the surrounding Columbia community and to improve social sustainability within the City of Columbia.
Once a month, you'll find good-hearted gamecocks all over Columbia. For this half-day volunteer adventure, you just register, pick a site during sign ups and serve. We'll provide your transportation and lunch, too!
Transform your fall, winter or spring break into a unique opportunity. Spend your break helping others in need through the university's Alternative Break program.
Our on-campus pantry provides up to 15 food items plus supportive resources to any current student dealing with temporary or ongoing food insecurity.
This campus experience for elementary school students is designed to introduce them to college life, the experience of being on a campus, and to spark their interest in higher education.
The University of South Carolina has built relationships with a number of community agencies so students can learn about the struggles and shortages many communities and fellow residents face in everyday life.
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2019-04-21T06:39:26Z
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https://www.sc.edu/about/offices_and_divisions/leadership_and_service_center/service_opportunities/volunteering/
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Society
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Romance Author Hotspot is featuring an interview with FFD! I’ve been working on new covers, banners, and posting like crazy. If you are an author and wish to enter your name in a draw for an author package which consists of a header for your blog, banner, button, and bookmark, then leave a comment at Romance Author Hotspot on October 6th.
Jadette Paige’s M/M romance, Blue Heaven is coming soon to Siren Publishing.
A new romance site has just launched! Romance Author Hotspot created by Clarissa Yip.
Here are some of the designs I did for her new site, and Fantasia Frog Designs will be featured in an interview at this fabulous site October 6th, 2010. I hope to have some new designs up here to show.
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2019-04-22T21:06:33Z
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https://fantasiafrogdesigns.wordpress.com/2010/09/
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erowid
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Lavender, there is much to say about it. It's use has been recorded and used throughout history as far back as biblical days. It has a relaxing feel to it. No matter if I sniff the oil as aromatherapy, or smoke the herb itself, which is what I have been doing lately.
Ok so I smoke the english lavender like smoking weed and amazingly it is relaxing. It gives a clear high, similar to weed. The more I smoke, the higher I get, just like with weed. I'm not saying that it is a substitute for weed, but it does feel great, at least to me anyway. I have just smoked the leaves, not the flowers. Anyway, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. The effects last about 20-50 mins. depending on how much I smoke.
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2019-04-23T02:33:44Z
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https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=55550
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