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Edwards had used the process 19 times, including on Hal Shimp, whose family insists it was one of the many options they were given, not something pushed on them.
As Edwards views it, alkaline hydrolysis simply accelerates natural decomposition, shrinking decades into hours. For the squeamish or those who find it tough to understand, he compares it to digestion of a meal.
“Yes, it does go down the drain, but it doesn’t mean someone is standing there behind the machine flushing,” he said.
Disposal of the liquid is a key concern for regulators, who must determine whether it can be processed by water treatment facilities under their health and environmental guidelines. Proponents argue that it’s sterile and safe.
One of the first cities to face the issue was St. Petersburg, Fla., where the Anderson-McQueen Funeral Home hopes to have a high-pressure alkaline hydrolysis system operating this summer. Last year, the city found funeral officials could dilute the liquid to make it more acceptable for discharge, public works administr...
Even if alkaline hydrolysis were it to be commonly available and legal, the industry can’t predict how many people would choose it.
The answer is at least a few, if Hal Shimp’s loved ones are any indication.
Guests at a party to celebrate his life shared memories, grabbed bags of his favorite nuts and read alkaline hydrolysis information set out by his relatives.
People, they discovered, were quite intrigued.
K&K Insurance has launched a new website offering directors’ and officers’ (D&O) coverage for not-for-profit organizations. The website offers online quoting and binding capabilities and provides an option to purchase coverage immediately when using a credit card. In response to the needs of our clients, K&K includes e...
The program is offered to organizations with a tax-exempt status as a not-for-profit organization with annual revenue of $5,000,000 or less from all sources. Organizations with annual revenue higher than $5,000,000 will be considered for coverage on an individual basis. This program is not available to government organ...
10% commission is available to insurance agents when using the new on-line binding system. Coverage is provided through an “A+” rated insurance company.
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Christina Economou sourced inspiration from her old sketchbooks of childlike doodles, fusing playful prints with a subtle Seventies vibe.
For spring, Christina Economou referenced old sketchbooks of playful, childlike doodles she compiled while in school. Collaborating for another season with Paris-based designer and illustrator Calla Haynes, the Athens-based designer reinterpreted her sketches onto printed white silk maxidresses, rompers, cropped tops a...
Economou was smart to juxtapose those fluid, feminine silk pieces with more structured silhouettes — such as boxy bomber jackets done in thick honeycomb mesh or sheer white silk with a windowpane pattern — which added a hint of boyish cool. White denim flares, wide-legged overalls and halter dresses also recalled a sub...
Cornell researcher Prof. Kenong Xu, horticulture, and Prof. Lena Kourkoutis, applied physics, were among the 105 researchers honored with the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers which will be presented by President Barack Obama, the White House announced Thursday.
The PECASE Award is the highest honor the U.S. government bestows to outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. President Obama congratulated the recipients in a White House press release.
Xu received this award from the United States Department of Agriculture for his work on the genomics of apple fruit acidity. He is the principal investigator of the project starting in 2010 and his research is currently supported by a USDA/National Institute of Food and Agriculture competitive grant award.
Xu said that this discovery not only furthers understanding of fruit acidity, but also has allowed the development of a predictive functional marker, which would help farmers identify which seeds to plant.
“Apple breeders have been using this marker to select seedlings of desirable fruit acidity levels at young stages even before the seedlings are planted, thereby considerably improving apple breeding efficiency by saving time and resources,” he said.
Xu said he is excited for what this award means for his work.
“The award will encourage us to work even harder on this project to accomplish more. This is the most significant award I have ever received and I am extremely honored,” he said.
Kourkoutis received the award from the Department of Defense for her contributions to the development and applications of atomic-resolution electron microscopy and spectroscopy, and to the discovery and control of new multifunctional materials.
Kourkoutis and her group of researchers use state-of-the-art electron microscopy techniques to study the microscopic properties of next generation energy material, according to their project website.
All recipients of this award will receive their awards at a Washington, DC ceremony this spring.
Lauren Kelly is a junior in the School of Industrial Labor Relations. She is a staff writer for the news department and can be reached at lkelly@cornellsun.com.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff will serve as Acting President of the University after President Elizabeth Garrett underwent surgery related to her illlness Friday.
The Cowboys appeared to have an interception by rookie Byron Jones on a play where the ball bounced up off his shoe, but replay showed it hit the turf before ricocheting up.
That didn’t have many other opportunities after that.
Despite no takeaways, the defense still played well. They held the Giants to 13 points, excluding the scores on an interception return and kickoff return. New York totaled just 289 yards of total offense and went 3-of-11 on third down.
Malawi nationalist leader. Mr. Chiume passed away November 21, 2007.
- the full text of "Going With God. The Biography of Reverend Alexander Caseby From 1898 until 1991" Prepared and edited by his youngest son, Ronald R. Caseby, 1993. Includes photographs. Caseby was a "Scottish missionary serving in Livingstonia, Malawi from 1919 to 1933. His career falls into three parts - the Army in...
- a short account "A Story of Travel from Scotland to Livingstonia, Malawi in 1924" by Williamina (Minnie) Caseby, wife of Alexander Caseby, and Death of Minnie Caseby.
The national radio network comprises 2 stations, Radio 1 and Radio 2. Lists the daily schedule, has biographies of programs hosts and hostesses and DJs, lists the Top 20 and Top 40 hits. "Radio 2 FM [mainly in English] is a music intensity radio station operating 24 hours a day and covering almost all types of music bo...
"...the official repository of Government records as well as records belonging to private institutions and individuals..." Under the Printed Publications Act, "...every publisher in the country is obliged to deposit a copy of his or her publications with the National Archives." Based in Zomba, Malawi.
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Current news on Malawi. Managed by the UN Dept. of Humanitarian Affairs.
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Conducts applied social and economic policy research. Has Gender and Women Studies in Malawi.
"...up to 80% of people in the south use it as part of primary health care. The situation has given rise to concerns among health practitioners and consumers on the issue of safety, above all, but also on questions of policy, regulation, evidence, biodiversity and preservation and protection of traditional knowledge." ...
Brief article on the life of the physician and President-General, African National Congress, 1940-1949. Includes an account by the late Malawi President, Hastings Banda on Xuma. In two parts, by Dr. Donal Brody, antiquarian bookseller.
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By C.J. Forshaw, 1995, 42 pages. Full text in Adobe pdf and MS Word.
Donal Brody Brief article on the life of the physician and President-General, African National Congress, 1940-1949. Includes an account by the late Malawi President, Hastings Banda on Xuma. In two parts, by Dr. Donal Brody, antiquarian bookseller.
Following up on a story we’ve been following, it was just four years ago when Mitt Romney chose to float a provocative idea on Veterans’ Day. “Sometimes you wonder,” the Republican asked, “would there be some way to introduce some private sector competition” into veterans’ care?
A lot has changed since 2012. As Rachel noted on the show last night, privatization of veterans’ care is back as a Republican priority, as this Wall Street Journal report yesterday helped prove.
Donald Trump says the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health-care system is badly broken, and this week his campaign released some guidelines that would steer changes he would implement if he wins the presidency.
While short on details, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee would likely push VA health care toward privatization and might move for it to become more of an insurance provider like Medicare rather than an integrated hospital system, said Sam Clovis, Mr. Trump’s chief policy adviser, in an interview.
Veterans, however, tend to have a very different opinion on the matter.
Trump, however, is the party’s presumptive nominee. The fact that his campaign doesn’t “see anything wrong” with “some form of privatization” raises its significance considerably.
If you missed last night’s segment on this, it’s worth your time.
Including this latest payment of $1 million, the government of Guam will have paid around $75 million in refunds for 2017 income tax returns.
Some residents can look forward to checks in the mail soon, with another $1 million in tax refunds being prepared.
Refund checks were being processed and printed on Friday, Aug. 17, said Oyaol Ngirairikl, the governor's spokeswoman.
Details including when the checks would be mailed, and the filing dates this batch covers, were unavailable as of 1 p.m. Friday.
The previous batch of tax refunds was mailed on Aug. 10. That batch totaling $2 million covered all remaining error-free filings made on Feb. 14.
Including this latest release, the government of Guam will have paid around $75 million in refunds for 2017 income tax returns.
The government of Guam is under federal court order, as a result of a taxpayer lawsuit, to pay refunds for all error-free returns within six months of the filing deadline, or mid-October.
THE D. CASE The Truth About the Mystery of Edwin Drood. By Charles Dickens, Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini. Italian chapters translated by Gregory Dowling. 587 pp. New York: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book/ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $23.95.
FEW riddles can compete with a great novelist's unfinished murder mystery. Charles Dickens had written half of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" when death interrupted him at the age of 58 in June 1870. He left us an artistic fragment not quite as haunting as Kafka's "Amerika" or Shelley's "Triumph of Life," but infinitely ...
A whole literature has grown up around "Drood," including periodic attempts to produce a plausible conclusion for the book, whether in a pastiche of Dickens's style or in some contemporary idiom. In 1985, a Broadway musical based on "Drood" opted for a post-modernist solution: at each performance, the audience determin...
Dickens's manuscript breaks off shortly after the disappearance of the title character. Drood, a nice young man, and Rosa Bud, the last in the line of "amiable, giddy, wilful, winning little creatures" in Dickens, have been pledged to one another by their deceased parents. The two are not in love and decide to call off...
The little evidence we have of Dickens's intentions suggests that the book would have ended with Jasper's confession in a prison cell, perhaps in an opium reverie, perhaps under hypnosis, but this likelihood has scarcely deterred armchair sleuths from coming up with ingenious alternatives.
The detectives in "The D. Case" are really literary critics in disguise. They seem to favor an intertextualist approach to "The Mystery of Edwin Drood," and it is shrewd of them to observe that Dickens had set out to top his former friend and current rival, Wilkie Collins, who two years earlier had published "The Moons...
Mr. Fruttero and Mr. Lucentini use their detectives as spokesmen for various hypotheses. Edmund Wilson in "The Wound and the Bow" (1941) advanced the theory that Jasper, the novel's dominating presence, is properly to be understood as a prototype for such Jekyll-and-Hyde split-personality protagonists as Raskolnikov in...
Most theories about the Drood case assume Jasper's guilt. In 1964 the English actor Felix Aylmer made the revolutionary suggestion that Drood, alive and in hiding, mistakenly supposes that his uncle attacked him when what has really happened is that Drood was attacked by a hired assassin who was then killed by Jasper. ...
"The D. Case" is diverting and valuable, an easy way to bone up on Droodiana, even if the authors don't capitalize fully on the cleverness of their critic-as-detective conceit. The sleuths are there basically for decor, and some are reduced to crude stereotype; Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer are interchangeable as oafis...
Mr. Fruttero and Mr. Lucentini clearly cast their lot with the school of Agatha and artifice. Poirot trumps everybody when he asserts, as "The D. Case" comes to a close, that Dickens's own death was not so innocent as it looked. Was Dickens murdered by the one person who wanted at all cost to prevent him from finishing...
The status of "Edwin Drood" as a crime classic is resented by some of Dickens's fervent fans, who argue that the book is misread if considered a whodunit rather than a psychological drama. It is certainly the case that here, as elsewhere in Dickens, the vagaries of the plot are secondary in interest to the mysteries of...
Well, here we go. The media has located Edward Snowden’s (the NSA whistleblower) alleged girlfriend. What does she have to do with any of this? Nothing! But this is America, and we love making something out of nothing and somebodies out of nobodies.
Much to the media’s delight, the woman is a dancer and writes a blog. Those items alone will give them fodder for months.
Will all of this unnecessary attention ruin this woman’s life? Yes! But please, don’t bother the media with ethics when it’s busy creating a celebrity.
U.S. Tests Teens A Lot, But Worldwide, Exam Stakes Are Higher American students take an alphabet soup of mandatory and voluntary exams: SAT, PISA, AP. Sure it's a lot, but in places like Japan and England, tests are incredibly high-stress and life-defining.
Students in Manchester, England, celebrate the results of their college entrance exams.
High school students in the U.S. take lots of standardized tests. There are state tests, new Common Core-aligned field tests, and an alphabet soup of others like the PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) and NAEP (National Assessment of Educational Progress) exams, the SAT, ACT, AP and IB.
It's a lot by any objective measure. Parents and teens often charge that America tests its students more than any other nation in the world. But really, how does the U.S.'s test tally compare with what kids are taking elsewhere in the world?
Dylan Wiliam, a professor emeritus of educational assessment at the University of London, studies testing. "At the age of 16, almost every child in England will take probably about 15 or 20 substantial examinations," Wiliam says.
They are all part of one test. And how well kids do helps determine whether they finish high school. Not college. High school. Talk about high-stakes testing.
For those who do well and go on, they get two more years of high school. And each of those years ends with another big round of tests, saving the worst for last.
What Are Tests For, Anyway?
"And your grades on those examinations will determine which universities you're offered places at," Wiliam says.
Unlike in the U.S., grade-point average won't save an English student who has a bad test day. GPA just doesn't matter.
Finland has only one standardized exam at the end of high school, says Pasi Sahlberg, a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an expert on testing in Finland.
But while Finnish teens have just one test to worry about, it involves roughly a half-dozen, daylong exams — so that one exam can mean some 40 hours of testing. Sahlberg went through the system and says he remembers the stakes.
"It was very clear for everybody that unless you do very well with this one examination, that some of these dreams that you may have for the future will become very difficult to fulfill," he says.
In other words, bomb this test, kids, and you can kiss your dreams goodbye.
And students' stress doesn't end there. Sahlberg says Finnish universities generally have their own entrance exams, too.
The good news for Japanese students: The end of high school does not bring with it a big, high-stakes test. The bad news: As in Finland, Japanese universities generally require their own exams. And it turns out that many Japanese students also have to take entrance exams just to get into high school.
"It's a lot of pressure," says Akihiko Takahashi, an associate professor of math education at DePaul University who knows the Japanese testing system well. "If you do not pass exam, you cannot go anywhere, even high school."
Wiliam says that when it comes to getting into college, the story is similar across the globe. "This is true for most countries apart from the U.S. There's no teacher contribution to the decision," he says. "Basically, it's how well you do on those exams."
In the U.S., only about half of states have anything resembling a high-stakes, high school exit exam. And American colleges and universities do consider report cards, teacher recommendations and those obligatory application essays. In fact, hundreds of U.S. schools no longer require test scores at all.
So do American teens take more tests than kids overseas? It's distinctly possible. But those kids overseas would argue: When it comes to stress, it's not the quantity of tests that matters but what's at stake when the clock starts ticking.
Saori Akizuki, 18, talks to her father, Hiroshi, as she writes her wish to pass a college entrance exam on a wooden plaque at a Tokyo shrine in 2011.
This is the second of a three-part series.
Sergeant Frank Copeland represents all that is good in a police officer. He is inquisitive, smart and alert.
On the night before the Cussins and Fearn break-in, Sergeant Copeland was on patrol in the west end of Wilmington when he noticed a suspicious truck sitting in a nearby used car lot. He peered inside the window and saw a rifle on the front seat.
Sergeant Copeland immediately wrote down the truck’s license number. The following day, he learned the truck belonged to Everett Crum.
Sergeant Copeland then contacted the Hillsboro Police Department and asked the officers if they were familiar with Crum.
“Oh, yes. We know Everett well,” they replied in unison.

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