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Southern sea otter pup Langly was orphaned when her mother received a fatal bite from a great white shark. Luckily, her mother was able to get Langly safely to shore, where The Marine Mammal Center's trained responders were able to rescue her.
After about a month at our hospital, Langly was joined by another young sea otter. Sprout was rescued by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and treated for exposure to domoic acid. This toxin produced by harmful algal blooms can contaminate the shellfish that both otters and humans enjoy.
Langly and Sprout immediately formed a strong bond and spent much of their time at the Center swimming and playing together.
When Sprout first arrived at our hospital, she needed a name. Thanks to kind and creative people like you, she received more than 800 name suggestions and more than 4,500 votes to determine the winning name.
Sprout not only got her name, both she and Langly got a second chance at life. Show your support for sea otter patients like Langly and<|fim_middle|> one. The personalized certificate and plushies will arrive in the mail in a few days. | Sprout by adopting them together today.
When you purchase the Langly & Sprout Adoption Package, you'll receive a personalized adoption certificate with Langly & Sprout's photo and story on the back, as well as TWO 8" plush sea otters.
Your symbolic adoption will make a difference in the lives of marine mammals like Langly & Sprout.
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Obama Should Reject Anti-Encryption Legislation and Protect Digital Security
Announcement by rainey Reitman
EFF Joins 32 Civil Liberties Organizations and Companies In Issuing a Joint Letter to the President
Dozens of nonprofit organizations, companies, and academics sent a joint letter today urging President Obama to take a strong stance against backdoors and oppose legislation that would undermine security.
The coalition effort—which included EFF, Access Now, Fight for the Future, and others— was organized after The Hill published a draft of anti-security legislation written by Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Dianne Feinstein (D-CA). The draft bill would create a new obligation on device manufacturers, software developers, ISPs, online services and others to decrypt encrypted data or offer "such technical assistance as is necessary" if ordered to do so by any court in the country.
From the joint letter:
It is beyond dispute that this bill would threaten the safety of billions of internet users, including journalists, activists, and ordinary people exercising their right to free expression, as well as critical infrastructure systems and government databases. However, it would likely to do very little to assist in investigations of crime or terrorism, since those who engage in illegal activities will have access to other means to protect their own devices and communications.
Today's letter comes 167 days after the pro-encryption petition at SaveCrypto.org surpassed 100,000 signatures, achieving the threshold for receiving an official response from the president. To date, there has still been no substantive response from the administration. The White House has "aimed" to respond to petitions with 100,000 signatures within 60 days.
Read the full letter to President Obama. Speak out against the Burr-Feinstein proposal.
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Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington, Cooper Quintin | December 24, 2022
EFF's Threat Lab Sharpens Its Knives: 2022 in Review
EFF's Threat Lab is dedicated to deep-dive investigations that examine technology-enforced power imbalances in society. In 2022 we've sharpened our knives and honed our skills in an effort to bring down the stalkerware industry, taken aim at invasive surveillance by police, raised red flags around the security and privacy...
Press Release | December 1, 2022
International Coalition of Rights Groups Call on Internet Infrastructure Providers to Avoid Content Policing
San Francisco—Internet infrastructure services—the heart of a secure and resilient internet where free speech and expression flows—should continue to focus their energy on making the web an essential resource for users and, with rare exceptions, avoid content policing. Such intervention often causes more harm than good, EFF and its partners...
Deeplinks Blog by Katharine Trendacosta, Erica Portnoy | November 8, 2022
The Filter Mandate Bill Is a Privacy and Security Mess
Among its many other problems, the Strengthening Measures to Advance Rights Technologies Copyright Act would mandate a slew of filtering technologies that online service providers must "accommodate." And that mandate is broad, so poorly-conceived, and so technically misguided<|fim_middle|>Keeping Your Smart Home Secure & Private
Here at EFF, we fight hard to ensure your security and privacy rights are maintained in the digital world. Back when we were founded in 1990, a dream of a world united by the internet was accompanied by forward-thinking visions of connected devices of all kinds making our lives more...
Deeplinks Blog by Jillian C. York, Gennie Gebhart, Jason Kelley, David Greene | April 25, 2022
Twitter Has a New Owner. Here's What He Should Do.
Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter highlights the risks to human rights and personal safety when any single person has complete control over policies affecting almost 400 million users. And in this case, that person has repeatedly demonstrated that they do not understand the realities of platform policy at scale.
Deeplinks Blog by rainey Reitman | March 29, 2022
Podcast Episode: Securing the Internet of Things
Today almost everything is connected to the internet - from your coffeemaker to your car to your thermostat. But the "Internet of Things" may not be hardwired for security. Window Snyder, computer security expert and author, joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O'Brien as they delve into the scary... | that it will inevitably create serious privacy and security risks. Since 1998,...
Deeplinks Blog by Gennie Gebhart | September 7, 2022
VICTORY: Slack Offers Retention Settings to Free Workspaces
In a victory for users, Slack has fixed its long-standing retention problems for free workspaces. Instead of holding onto your messages on its servers for as long as your workspace exists, Slack is now giving free workspace admins the option to automatically delete all messages older than 90 days....
Deeplinks Blog by Karen Gullo | August 17, 2022
Arrest of a Stalkerware-maker in Australia Underscores Link Between Stalkerware and Domestic Abuse
The ease with which bad actors can find a worldwide market for malicious apps that spy on people's digital devices is at the center of an Australian Federal Police case against a man who, starting at the age of 15, wrote a stalkerware application and sold it to 14,500 people...
Deeplinks Blog by Bill Budington | June 30, 2022
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Blues to tighten up security
Villa Roar News March 13, 2019 1 Minute
BIRMINGHAM City have promised heightened security for tonight's clash with Millwall following the attack on Jack Grealish.
Club officials have acted quickly to make sure play safety is a priority.
Blues fan Paul Mitchell was jailed for 14 weeks on Monday after invading the pitch during Sunday's derby clash with Aston Villa and punching skipper Grealish.
Millwall come to St Andrew's just three days after the incident – and Birmingham say there will be<|fim_middle|> will be putting into place extra measures at our stadium designed to help ensure the safety of players, as well as supporters.
"Whist we cannot go into specific details, there will be stricter controls of certain parts of the ground."
Blues boss Garry Monk insists his side must put the Villa game out of their minds as they aim to recover from two successive defeats.
Monk said: "We feel unfortunate to have lost on Sunday, we felt we did enough to warrant at least a point.
"The chances that we did have – that's the difference sometimes, they need to go the other side of the post.
"That margin just didn't fall our way on Sunday, we felt gutted about that.
"But we will pick ourselves up for this game here. We have to do that."
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The Microbiome's Effect on Psoriatic Arthritis
Mark L. Fuerst
Epidemiological evidence points to an intimate relationship between intestinal inflammation and joint inflammation, such as psoriatic arthritis.
The microbiome - the trillions of microbes found in the body - has become a subject of increasing interest in the etiology of inflammatory immune-mediated diseases. The microbiome has been correlated with metabolic, neoplastic and autoimmune diseases, including obesity, diabetes mellitus, gastrointestinal cancer, atherosclerosis, lupus and psoriasis. Much of the<|fim_middle|>1097/BOR.0000000000000187 | original research on the microbiome in autoimmunity was first reported on inflammatory bowel disease. Strong epidemiologic evidence suggests that there is an intimate relationship between intestinal inflammation and joint inflammation in spondyloarthritis, including psoriatic arthritis.
Research into the role that microbiota in the gut might play in the human immune system started in the late 1990s. The microbiome of the gut, also known as the gut flora, has been shown to influence autoimmune diseases, including inflammatory disorders. A poor mix of microbes (dysbiosis) in the gut may also aggravate the immune system and induce inflammation.
The revolution of high-throughput microbial DNA sequencing has advanced the knowledge and understanding of mucosal immunity and how it relates to gut microbiota. "In fact, it is now well established that the intestinal microbiota shape the immune system and modulate homeostasis in healthy states or promote inflammation when dysbiosis occurs," state authors led by Jose Scher, M.D., of New York University School of Medicine, New York, in a recent review of the microbiome in inflammatory arthritis and human rheumatic diseases.
The intestinal microbiome also appears to affect distant sites, including the joints, through immunomodulation. Research suggests that common immune-mediated inflammatory pathways seen in the "skin-joint-gut axis" in psoriatic arthritis are induced or at least mediated by the microbiome.
Dr. Scher and colleagues recently characterized the diversity and taxonomic relative abundance of the gut microbiota in patients with never-treated, recent-onset psoriatic arthritis. Using high-throughput sequencing, they compared the composition of gut microbiota in 16 patients with psoriatic arthritis, 15 patients with psoriasis of the skin, and 17 healthy, matched controls. They also assessed samples for the presence and levels of fecal and serum secretory IgA, proinflammatory proteins and fatty acids.
The researchers found the gut microbiota in patients with psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis was less diverse as compared to that of the healthy controls. The psoriatic arthritis and psoriasis patients had a lower relative abundance of multiple intestinal bacteria, and those samples from psoriatic arthritis patients had a lower abundance of what are considered to be beneficial bacteria.
They also noted that the gut microbiota profile in psoriatic arthritis was similar to that in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Changes in specific inflammatory proteins in the psoriatic arthritis patients were distinct from that in patients with skin psoriasis and healthy controls. The dysbiosis in the psoriatic arthritis patients correlated with decreased levels of both medium-chain fatty acids and RANKL in the intestinal lumen. This suggests that microbiome changes are linked to alterations in mucosal integrity and dissemination of systemic inflammation, they state.
In addition, the gut microbiota profile in patients with psoriasis was between that of psoriatic arthritis patients and that of the controls, leading the researchers to suggest that there is a continuum in disappearing intestinal microorganisms through the natural history of the disease.
Microbiome Targeting Strategies
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Since the microbiome has been implicated in inflammatory responses, researchers have attempted to modulate the composition of gut flora or their byproducts to stop inflammation. These attempts range from fecal microbial transplantation to restore a "healthy" intestinal microbiome to the use of agents such as probiotics, prebiotics, specific microbiome-derived metabolites, or molecular targets.
Fecal microbial transplantation has proven highly effective, and in some cases has even cured, patients with antibiotic-resistant Clostridium difficile infectious colitis. This treatment has been used in autoimmune diseases, most notably in inflammatory bowel disease, with some promising results in small studies.
Future clinical trials of fecal microbial transplantation that also include immune effects will determine whether this approach can be adapted to treat psoriatic arthritis. In a new review, Dr. Scher and colleagues suggest that the potential immune-modulating effects of fecal microbial transplantation in rheumatic diseases should first be attempted in previously untreated patients with new onset disease or in those with advanced disease who are not responding to any other therapy.
Another strategy relies on incorporating agents based on live organisms to modify the composition of the microbiome. Animal studies show amelioration of inflammatory bowel disease by either Bacteroidesfragilis or a cocktail of Clostridia. Other studies show a beneficial effect of Lactobacillus strains in collagen-induced arthritis. These studies are all small and only show modest, if any, effects.
Still other researchers have used molecules with immunomodulating properties, including polysaccharides, structural proteins, and short-chain fatty acids, that show some potential as treatments for inflammatory bowel disease and other systemic autoimmune disorders. Multiple pharmaceutical companies have microbiota-based approaches in the pipeline for inflammatory and autoimmune disease in both preclinical studies and clinical trials.
What's more, the microbiome may be found to be involved in pharmacokinetics of oral disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs or serve as a predictor of drug response. Therefore, it may also be used for therapeutic purposes in autoimmune and rheumatic diseases. Ultimately, researchers are looking to answer "whether we can successfully target the microbiome for therapeutic purposes in autoimmune and rheumatic diseases," state Dr. Scher and colleagues.
Changes in the composition of intestinal microbes caused by diet, intake of probiotics, or antibiotics might have an important role in the pathogenesis of rheumatic diseases. "The growing fundamental knowledge about how diet affects the composition of microbial communities and enzymatic conversion of by‑products is changing our understanding of the symbiotic relationship between the microorganisms that populate our body cavities and the biologic responses required for host adaptation," state Dr. Scher and colleagues.
They suggest the ongoing expansion in the use of big data in metabolomics, metagenomics, and pharmacomicrobiomics for personalized medicine in rheumatic and autoimmune diseases will lead to a better understanding of how the microbiome affects diseases such as psoriatic arthritis. The future looks bright for more investigations into the use of the microbiome for diagnosis, biomarker discovery, and therapeutic purposes in inflammatory immune-mediated diseases.
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Scher J, et al. "Decreased Bacterial Diversity Characterizes the Altered Gut Microbiota in Patients With Psoriatic Arthritis, Resembling Dysbiosis in Inflammatory Bowel Disease." Arthritis & Rheumatology. Vol. 67, No. 1, January 2015, pp 128–139.0
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MSc/MPhil Environmental Change<|fim_middle|>, and one that ECI plays a prominent role in through the World Weather Attribution project and several other research projects using the distributed computing framework climateprediction.net. Our involvement in extreme weather attribution spans back to the initial Nature paper co-authored by Dr Myles Allen in 2004 which suggested that climate change had doubled the risk of the 2003 European heatwave. Since then we have led, and been involved in, many subsequent event studies, and methodological papers looking at the science itself. Dr Friederike Otto now leads the team at Oxford.
Talking about the map, Dr Friederike Otto said: 'This map is a very useful resource for both scientists and practitioners. It could become a very useful tool for decision makers looking for scientific evidence to better prepare and adapt to extreme weather events'.
The map gives a clear visual picture of the three distinct outcomes of the studies: that the event is more or less likely under climate change (orange); that the likelihood of the event has not changed (yet) under climate change (blue); and that there is not enough evidence to draw any robust conclusions (grey). However Otto adds that an absence of evidence 'doesn't necessarily mean there wasn't a human influence, just that a particular analysis didn't find one.' She explains that this is why a single study should never be considered the final word on how climate change affects a given type of extreme weather. It is important that an honest picture is presented if no influence is found, because this has implications for decision makers. (More can be read on this in a Conversation piece co-authored by Otto)
The strongest relationship with extreme weather and climate change across the studies was in relation to heat, where 85% of studies found that climate change had made an event more likely or more severe. For flooding cases the link was lower, at 45%. This shows that there are differences notable between the types of events.
'Looking at the findings, the map highlights that not all extreme weather events are getting worse, but that the impact of climate change on extreme weather is very different depending on the type of events, as well as the region and season it occurs.' Said Otto.
While the evidence is mounting, there are limitations in the spread of studies presented in the map, which are far from random and by no means representative of all extreme weather events that have occurred. Thus the map cannot be assumed to give an overview of the impact of climate change on all extreme weather events. 'These events are usually studied because they happened in the backyard of the researchers or got high media attention but are certainly not a random sample.' Explains Otto.
"This map is a very useful resource for both scientists and practitioners. It could become a very useful tool for decision makers looking for scientific evidence to better prepare and adapt to extreme weather event"
Dr Friederike Otto
Carbon Brief interactive map: attributing extreme weather to climate change
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Visualising extreme weather events around the world: are they linked to climate change?
A new map showing how climate change is affecting extreme weather is making the rounds on social media after the Carbon Brief published it on 6th July.
The map visualises more than 140 extreme weather event studies from around the world and suggests that 63% of the analysed extreme events were found to be more likely or more severe due to climate change.
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Tom Watson shoots his age, 69, in 2019 US Senior Open first round
For the 13th time in his career -- 13th! -- Tom Watson shot his age or better, opening the 2019 US Senior Open with a 1-under 69.
"It's always a hoot shooting your age, especially in the U.S. Senior Open," said Watson. "That's pretty cool. You know, I was very happy about that."
Watson said he made a tweak on the eve of the championship that seemed to click on Thursday at Warren Golf Course at Notre Dame University in Indiana.
"Yeah, I figured something out yesterday," said Watson, who trails the co-leaders by seven shots. "Who knows whether it'll work for me tomorrow. I worked on my putting, and I changed something on my approach to my putting, and that seemed to work pretty well today. I made some good putts today. They were good, solid putts, and that's what I liked about it."
Watson did it playing alongside Tom Kite, who is also 69, and Retief Goosen, who, at 50, is bombing is well past both players.
For his part, Goosen was impressed.
"Tom played really well. He's very consistent. It's amazing," Goosen said. "Hopefully when I'm his age, I'll be shooting that kind of score."
Since Watson has done this now 13 times in his career, and Watson turns 70 in September, it averages out to a little more than once per year for the last decade that Watson has bested his age. In fact, the last time Watson did this was January, when Watson matched or beat his age in two<|fim_middle|>-plus circuit.
Tags2019 US Senior Open golfers shooting their age or lower Tom Watson | of three rounds at the season-opening Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai in Hawaii. This being Watson's sixth event of the year, Watson has beat his age in three of 16 rounds played in 2019.
Among the five senior majors, Watson last shot his age or better last year, when he shot 68 in the second round of the Senior Open Championship at St. Andrews.
Watson first beat his age on PGA Tour Champions in 2014, shooting a 63 in the second round of the Toshiba Classic. He did it again in 2015. He did it three times, including twice in the Shaw Charity Classic, in 2016. He tacked on another such round in 2017, and then he did it three more times in 2018 in 20 total rounds played.
The seven-time major winner's longevity is a marvel. However, he is well shy of being the golfer to most prolifically shoot their age of better on PGA Tour Champions. Hale Irwin, who holds the record for the most PGA Tour Champions wins, has shot his age of better 42 times on the 50 | 250 |
Public Health Response Officer COVID-19 at Palladium Group
Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact<|fim_middle|> at Oracle Nigeria
Ongoing recruitment at Optimal Specialist Hospital Limited | – the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved – and is committed to continuing to improve – economies, societies and most importantly, people's lives.
Job Title: Public Health Response Officer COVID – 19
Job ref.: req9998
Location: Nigeria
Project Overview and Role
The LAFIYA programme is a 7-year DFID Funded programme from February 2020 to February 2027. The programme is being implemented by Palladium and its Consortium Partners – Society for Family Health, Options Consultancy Services Ltd, CHECOD, PharmAccess, Solina and Chatham House. Lafiya will be delivered at federal level, as well as with a focus on targeted states (Borno, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano and Yobe) with activities tailored for each specific state instead of a "one size fits all" approach.
The objective of the programme is to improve health outcomes for the poorest and most vulnerable in Nigeria through i) encouraging Government of Nigeria to increase resources invested in health; ii) improving effectiveness and efficiency of public and private basic health for services and iii) reducing total fertility rate in Nigeria.
Lafiya programme is implementing FCDO support to the Government of Nigeria's COVID-19 response to facilitate a coordinated and efficient response. This support is being provided at National level and Jigawa, Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Lagos, Yobe, Borno and Zamfara States.
The three objectives of FCDO-LAFIYA's COVID-19 support are:
Objective 1: Support to the COVID-19 response in Lafiya targeted states and at national level including flexing to other states where the need is greatest.
Objective 2: Support to continuity and access to essential primary health services
Objective 3: Support to central role of health workforce in the response
The Public Health Response Officer COVID-19 will be responsible for providing technical assistance to the State COVID-19 response working closely with other technical leads to ensure programme outcomes are achieved.
S / he will coordinate interventions, activities and technical support to States in the implementation of COVID-19 response and report progress to the State C-19 Coordinator in the achievement of outcome.
As such, He / she is expected to exercise judgement within broadly defined practices and policies in selecting methods, techniques, and ongoing evaluation of programme delivery and results.
The Public Health Response Officer COVID-19 will be a member of the Borno / Yobe / Jigawa / Kaduna / Kano / Katsina / Lagos and Zamfara State team.
Master's Degree or higher in Public Health, Health Economics, Development Studies or other relevant field required.
Must be an experienced health professional.
Must have a sound knowledge on COVID-19 and Health system security situation and response
Proven experience working in Health Sector in developing countries, preferably in Nigeria
Demonstrable capacity to network and negotiates with key stakeholders across different sectors in support of health.
Strong skills in design, implementation and monitoring of program components; e.g. health systems strengthening, supportive supervision, advocacy and coordination.
Excellent facilitation and mentoring skills' supporting decentralized entities to translate policies into strategic plans for implementation
Experience with technical assistance for programs funded by DFID and / or other donor programs in developing countries, with significant Northern Nigeria experience.
Demonstrated technical depth and understanding of the health policy environment and governance in Nigeria, particularly in the Northern Nigeria preferred.
Experience in coordination and collaboration of stakeholders including government agencies / institutions, the private sector, CSOs and international donor agencies.
Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills in English required, working knowledge of Hausa and other local languages preferred
Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
Demonstrated problem solving, analytic, and evaluative skills.
Attention to detail and ability to effectively and efficiently perform multiple tasks and balance competing priorities often within a required timeframe.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
He / she will primarily support the delivery of Programme COVID-19 response support.
He / she will work closely with the State Task Force on COVID-19 and the EOC in the State, proactively working with the MDAs and key stakeholders to identify and respond to their TA needs and accordingly identify and leverage resources to be deployed in the state under the leadership of the STL / State Coordinator.
Periodically assess health threats, the state of COVID 19 referral system and support to essential health services, and the vital needs of the affected populations.
Collaborate with state authorities and health partners to coordinate and implement C-19 and other public health response activities and recommend improvements.
Provide analysis of the public COVID 19 risks, needs and capacities and advise on priority interventions for Lafiya and partners.
Monitor progress towards achievement of health security coverage; analyse social determinants of health and their impact on the COVID 19 incident management system, including identifying inequities, gaps in the delivery of health services or emergency interventions, recommending appropriate actions and innovative approaches to improve the situation.
Facilitate the implementation of effective, evidence-based policies, on C-19 and other related public health programmes and interventions
Secure information from a broad range of health sectors, analysing such and consolidating health data in trends and trends assessment, with particular attention to surveillance, monitoring and early warning.
Provide input to communications and information products (Sitreps, EOC updates and COVID 19 reports etc.) as required.
Note: Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis
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"There's Work to Do"
October 02, 2018 / Edible DC
By Lani Furbank, Photography by Rey Lopez
Hugo Mogollon is the executive director of Community Foodworks, a nonprofit rethinking the farmers market, putting it to work for more people.
After hours of packing produce, Hugo Mogollon finally has a moment to rest and watch the farmers selling stone fruit, squash and beans to their customers—many of them immigrants from El Salvador, Ethiopia or Vietnam.
As executive director of Community Foodworks, the nonprofit that runs this Columbia Heights Farmers Market and 13 like it in the region, Mogollon reflects on how the market's multicultural audience—including customers who could afford the premiums for local produce and those who could not—helped shape the organization from the start.
"The fact that the neighborhood was so mixed-income, that's what set the whole culture and our mission," he says. "This is what made us realize that everybody has to have the same access to the same produce."
Mogollon joined Community Foodworks in 2015 after moving to the United States from Ecuador. When he came on board, the nonprofit was managing three farmers markets and had just received a grant to open a second Columbia Heights market on Wednesdays and develop a community-supported agriculture (CSA) harvest subscription program for low-income residents.
On a warm evening in July, the Wednesday market buzzes with energy. Children splash in the Civic Plaza fountain while a line of people waiting to receive their Produce Plus checks stretches down the block.
The food community credits Mogollon's leadership for the market's incredible growth, but he isn't interested in taking it. "I have been lucky to have this amazing group of people that are passionate about what we do, and that's why this works," he says. "CFW is what it is because of the staff."
Providing equal access to quality produce sounds like a simple concept, but focusing on that mission helped Community Foodworks find its niche in an already robust food landscape.
Even as more markets grow their programs to serve the typically underserved, Community Foodworks' focus on residents who might not otherwise have access to local food stands out.
Lindsay Smith, a planning and food systems consultant who has worked with Mogollon for the last few years, says that's especially true "in a city with such an impressive amount of talent dedicated to improving food security."
"The heart, optimism and strategic thinking that Hugo has brought not to just Community Foodworks but also to<|fim_middle|> csa, hugo mogollon, community, foodworks | serving farmers markets nationally is striking to me," she says.
Mogollon, who serves on the national Farmers Market Coalition board, has a core belief that farmers market and local food culture should cater to customers of all income levels—which meant the organization had to rethink programs that traditionally didn't.
Mogollon looked at the disconnect between the farmer and certain residents and decided, "there's work to do." So Community Foodworks developed not one, but several unique models of distribution to connect those residents with fresh, local produce.
Mogollon's organization designed its community-supported agriculture program with flexibility to serve all members of the Columbia Heights community.
Sharing the market
Every Wednesday evening during the growing season, rows of burlap tote bags line up under pop-up tents at the market. Spring onion tops spill out of the bags, hiding a week's worth of produce—summer squash, peppers, tomatoes in the summer, Butternut squash, potatoes and hearty greens in the fall. They're awaiting pickup by dozens of participants in the Market Share program, a unique interpretation of community-supported agriculture.
"A normal CSA works in a way that you pay a chunk of money at the beginning of the year, and that way you support the farmer to do all the work for the year," Mogollon explains. "But for low-income residents, they don't have the luxury to have that amount of money and put in the chunk at the beginning of the year."
His organization has designed the program with flexibility to serve all members of the Columbia Heights community. To that end, Market Share buys wholesale from three local farms, and then grants and donations allow low-income residents to pay weekly with federal nutrition benefits such as SNAP or WIC, and receive their share at a 75% discount.
"We see that it's always this idea, 'Because you are low-income, your food is also going to be a lower quality,'" Mogollon says. With Market Share, "you receive exactly the same bag, exactly the same product—which is a prime product—at a very low price."
In addition to the hundreds of customers who pick up their produce at various locations each week through the program that began in 2015, Market Share also serves 200 seniors who are homebound by delivering a bag to their door.
"The order that we were asking the farmers to bring kept becoming larger and larger as we added more people," Mogollon says. Now, the Market Share purchases account for more than half of what farmers make at Community Foodworks markets.
This sparked an idea about how to address lack of food access in Wards 7 and 8, which are underserved by grocery stores and farmers markets because "residents don't have the disposable income," Mogollon says. He wanted to find a way to reduce the risk for farmers who might not otherwise be able to sell there.
Mogollon explains that one method of incentivizing risky markets is to pay the farmer a certain sum, regardless of what they sell. "That model has the flaw that those dollars go to the farmer, but the food goes nowhere," he says.
Instead, Community Foodworks launched a suite of solutions to serve residents in those wards: a pop-up food hub and satellite vegetable stands. "We think that all these low-income areas are an untapped market for farmers," Mogollon says. "We're not competing or taking a share of the market from other food hubs…Our clients are a different kind of client, the kind that's not being served."
The pop-up food hub operates in tandem with a farmers market, treating it as a "natural point of aggregation" and helping farmers sell more food to more people during each trip to the city.
Minimum order requirements often prevent small organizations like churches, early-care centers and clinics from procuring their food from a conventional food hub. "That's the barrier we want to break," Mogollon says. Community Foodworks compiles small orders, places one wholesale order with the farmer, and then delivers the other orders to each organization.
"The demand is huge. We started last year, and we were thinking, 'Let's find five clients,'" Mogollon says. "By the end of the year, we're working with 47 organizations."
The satellite vegetable stands also amplify sales by allowing the farmers to send some of their produce to a separate location, where a community member is employed to sell the food on behalf of the farmer. In 2016, CFW had just one farmers market in Ward 7 on a Saturday, and that year the farmers made around $11,000.
"Last year, we had three veggie stands, and they made $65,000—in the same trip, with same effort," Mogollon says. "If you work to solve food insecurity but you don't think about the farmer, you are not creating justice."
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Epic adds hot foiling service with multi-purpose Kama ProCut
By Rhys Handley, Thursday 25 April 2019
Epic Print has launched in-house hot foiling services for the first time on its recently installed Kama ProCut 76 die-cutting system in a bid to expand into the packaging sector.
The Kama ProCut 76 is capable of die-cutting, foiling, stripping and blanking
The Dorchester outfit took on the machine last August and ran it purely as a die-cutter through the remainder of 2018 as it entered a busy period. Staff were trained on the device's hot foil capabilities in the new year and the service officially launched on 1 March.
Replacing a Heidelberg SBG cylinder, the Kama ProCut 76 was "spec'd to its fullest" when it was delivered to Epic, meaning it is capable of die-cutting, foiling, stripping and blanking.
Managing director Mark Downey said: "Our main requirement was initially the die-cutting and we focused only on that because we hit a busy period and did not have the time to immediately train in hot foiling, which seemed to us a bit of a black art.
"We trained for two or three months at the start of the year and now we can use it for a number of secondary packaging applications such as boxes<|fim_middle|> | , wraps and tags where we used to buy the hot foil service through the trade.
"It also represents a meaty step up for us in terms of speed and quality after I spent three years researching possibilities to know where we should be. It is a traditionally-engineered machine with great, modern tech like the camera for registration."
Supplied by Hemel Hempstead-based Friedheim International, the £400,000 Kama ProCut 76 can apply foils onto an area of 760x600mm for substrates from 100-800gsm. At maximum performance, it can process jobs at a speed of 5,500sph.
Having previously relied on the commercial market for the bulk of its turnover, the past four years have seen Epic's focus on packaging grow to 65% of its total sales. Downey said he hoped to see the balance shift further to 80/20 in favour of packaging in the next two to three years.
Epic Print – formerly Epic Print Services – also runs a six-colour Mitsubishi B1 LED press, an HP Indigo 5600, an Autobond laminator, a Scodix S75 digital press signed for at Ipex 2014, a Duplo iSaddle stitcher, a Horizon folder and a Kluge Clamshell die-cutter on its 1,115sqm premises.
With a headcount of 23 staff, it currently turns over £2.4m.
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Q: How associativity holds on set of all bijective functions on a finite set? I came across following statement:
The set of all bijective functions on a finite set forms a group under function composition.
The proof was given as follows:
We can have identity function as $\{(1,1),(2,2),(3,3),(4,4)\}$.
Since function is bijective and mapping to same set, we can have an inverse for any function by inverting the relation (changing the mapping $a\rightarrow b$ to $b\rightarrow a$).
Since the function maps to the same set, it must be closed and associative also.
I was thinking is associativity really holds in above set. For example, consider the finite set:<|fim_middle|> holds.
| $\{1,2,3,4\}$ and two bijective functions $f_1$ and $f_2$ as follows:
Now, $f_1(f_2(1))=f_1(3)=3$ and $f_2(f_1(1))=f_2(2)=1$.
So, I feel its not bijective. Am I incorrectly evaluating associativity?
A: Your example shows that compostion is not commutative. It has nothing to do with being associative.
A: If we assume $f_1(a) = b$ and $f_2(b) = c$ and $f_3(c)= d$ then
$f_2\circ f_1(a) = f_2(f_1(a)) =f_2(b) =c$.
And $f_3\circ f_2(b) = f_3(f_2(b)) =f_3(c)=d$.
And so
$f_3\circ (f_2\circ f_1)(a) = f_3(f_2\circ f_1(a))=f_3(c) =d$
and $(f_3\circ f_2)\circ f_1(a) = f_3\circ f_2(f_1(a)) =f_3\circ f_2(b) = d =f_3\circ (f_2\circ f_1)(a)$
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Three years ago, Manville Chan launched the Story of Ramen, a pop-up where diners take an active role in preparing their own meals.
Now, he's creating a permanent home for the venture in the Mission at the former George's BBQ space. (3231 24th St. between<|fim_middle|> for one person to join a two-hour ramen party is $55, while the four-hour event goes for $115 per person.
Targeted to groups, Story of Ramen can be booked for gatherings like birthday and bachelorette parties, along with corporate team-building events. Chan said he's also hiring; visit the company's Facebook page for details and updates on its grand opening. | Cypress and Capp).
Chan, a trained chef from Yokohama's International Ramen School, told Hoodline that he'd planned to open on July 1, but the space is still undergoing minor renovations, like painting and installing new countertops.
Currently, the spot is on track to open by month's end.
"I used to live in the Mission, so I've always liked the neighborhood because there are a lot of innovative chefs in the area," said Chan. "I always feel like the Mission is the best place to find places to eat and it's close to all the transportation."
At Story of Ramen, diners learn to prepare their own noodles for a ramen course; most people sign up for a two-hour party, but Chan also offers four-hour events where attendees can assemble nearly an entire meal.
Chan said he doesn't offer cooking classes or seated dinners, but a "cooking experience with a full dinner" where attendees learn to prepare noodles and receive an education about the dish's cultural origins. So far, he offers sessions in San Francisco and in Charlotte, NC.
Attendees learn how to prepare ramen before sharing a meal.
Story of Ramen serves dishes with pork or vegetarian broth, which Chan prepares prior to each event. After the space is up and running, he said he may add more options.
Class sizes range from eight to 30 people, and customers should book three to four weeks in advance through the website, but Chan said there are sometimes last-minute cancellations. The cost | 308 |
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Everything you need to know about Argos Multilingual and trends in the translation industry, all in one place. | . It's been called the world's most precious natural resource. Which is why Valmont's Valley brand of water-saving irrigation equipment is invaluable to agribusiness and in emerging countries which are heavily dependent on agriculture. The company's center pivot and linear irrigation machines are used around the world to deliver water to growing crops, in places where crops could not be grown before. Today, Valmont is the largest manufacturer of mechanized irrigation equipment.
Since 2004, Argos has supplied translation for operating manuals, equipment decals, marketing materials, Valmont's website and the software interface for their control panels. Those translations have helped the company meet EU standards, as well as other country-specific standards. The list of languages translated numbers eleven today: Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbian, Hungarian, Arabic and Chinese.
Why Translate with Argos?
Argos has a long track record translating manuals for manufactured equipment. That made Valmont a natural fit. Translation aside, though, it's the working relationship that Valmont values the most.
"Argos is very much involved in the translation process," said Michelle Stolte, Valmont's International Marketing Materials Manager. She cites examples where Arogs suggests processes that help keep translation costs in line, "they come to me and say, 'do it this way and you'll save money.'" Helping customers save money while providing quality is an important aspect of Argos' customer focus.
Several of Valmont's translation projects have necessitated matching the previously-localized software with instructions in operating manuals. This meant asking for clarifications –"they're very good at asking questions," comments Ms. Stolte. By marrying the operator's manual with the messages on the computer screen, the result is more efficient operation of the irrigation equipment and increased customer satisfaction for Valmont Industries Inc.
One standout example of customer service is a French translation of a lengthy operator's manual that was started by a French dealer, but never completed. The writing team at Valmont was overwhelmed with the task of completing the translation, verifying the content and putting it into the company's established format. With a deadline looming, Argos was brought in.
Said Stolte, "I sent the file to Argos. I'm glad I did. It was a mess." Argos worked with the dealer-supplied translation, proofread and corrected errors | 484 |
A new exhibition run by the School of Museum Studies has given 12 early career researchers from the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences the opportunity to take part in a creative design process to develop the skills, confidence and knowledge to present their research through a range of media and museum display formats.
'Research in Translation: Public Engagement through exhibition displays', which is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), is led by Dr Ceri Jones (pictured) from the School of Museum Studies and Dr Serena Iervolino, UCL Qatar, and will run from Monday 22 June 2015 to Friday 5 February 2016.
Dr Jones said: "Can museum practice foster public engagement and greater collaboration amongst researchers? Typically, research takes place within narrow, even artificial subject boundaries. Researchers use technical language and communicate their findings to other 'experts' in ways that are often inaccessible to the general public.
"However, universities are being asked more and more to demonstrate their social impact. Researchers are encouraged to work collaboratively across subjects, engage the public with their research and show how they reach their conclusions, thus "de-mystifying" the research process.
"Research in Translation seeks to be part of this process of change. Can museum practices provide opportunities for researchers to work collaboratively across subjects to show the relevance of their research to society? Can research be 'translated' and presented effectively to non-experts through exhibition displays?"
This exhibition presents the research of 12 Early Career Researchers working across the Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences in the UK, who collaborated with museologists, museum practitioners and design professionals to explore, take risks and think creatively about how to present their work to the public.
The displays hope to give people a glimpse into the exciting research taking place in universities today, showing its potential to open up our understanding of the past, present and future, and change perceptions about society.
On Thursday 18 June there will be an opportunity to join the team for drinks and a tour of the exhibition as they wrap up the project and think about its future. The event will also feature a presentation from the project leaders, who will talk to some of the participants and mentors<|fim_middle|>, to find out about their experiences of working on an exhibition, the impact it might have on their future research, and how they can take forward the project in the future.
The event takes place at the Learning Studio, School of Museum Studies, between 4-5pm on Thursday 18 June. | from the project | 3 |
Business | Doing the limbo
Will Beijing derail the TikTok deal?
Chinese export restrictions throw a spanner in the American bidding war for the hit short-video app
Sep 3rd 2020
INVESTORS IN BYTEDANCE have got used to being caught between superpowers. They were still taken aback on August 28th, when an update to China's export-licensing regime blocked the sale of the hot Chinese technology firm's prize asset—the American arm of TikTok, a short-video app—to American firms and investors.
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A Chinese riposte to President Donald Trump's campaign against TikTok was inevitable. He contends it could give China's Communist Party means to spy on Americans and conduct disinformation campaigns. TikTok's assurances that it does not censor content unflattering to Beijing orsend personal data to China have fallen on deaf ears. Last month Mr Trump issued two executive orders aimed at TikTok, the most recent of which will ban it in the United States if it is not in American ownership by November 12th.
Microsoft and Oracle, two software giants, put in rival bids of around $25bn-30bn for TikTok's operations in four markets—America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Oracle enlisted some American venture-capital backers of ByteDance, including Sequoia Capital and General Atlantic. It would be more hands-off than Microsoft and could let ByteDance or its founder, Zhang Yiming, reinvest in TikTok later on. A strategic sale to Microsoft would be more definitive. But Mr Zhang favoured<|fim_middle|>-minded entrepreneur has sought. He may yet have little choice but to accept it.■
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline "Limbo dance"
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From the September 5th 2020 edition | it, according to people close to ByteDance. He once worked at Microsoft and is said to admire its chief executive, Satya Nadella. Microsoft also beefed up its bid by teaming up with Walmart, a retail colossus.
Then came the Beijing bombshell. China's commerce ministry added certain types of artificial intelligence, as well as personalised information-push technology and data analysis, to a list of products critical to national security. These can no longer be sold abroad without official permission. They are also what makes TikTok tick. ByteDance quickly said it would obey the new rules.
There was always ambiguity as to whether the app's American suitors would get its algorithm. They might have bought only the brand, its users, ad-buying platform and less advanced software. But ByteDance's recommendation engine is a big part of TikTok's appeal. It has been honed for years with data from millions of users around the world and displays an uncanny ability to divine peoples' viewing tastes.
So Microsoft and Oracle structured their bids to keep access to ByteDance's code. According to a shareholder, both are offering ByteDance $5bn-10bn upfront, then another $5bn or so a year for a few years depending on TikTok's revenues and performance. In exchange, ByteDance would provide technological enhancements and updates every six months or so.
"ByteDance is over a barrel, so it has to earn the price," says the shareholder. Trying to write a brand-new TikTok algorithm in America is out of the question, says another investor. It would be as difficult as starting a new company, he says. The Trump administration appeared to accept that TikTok would keep technology ties with ByteDance, so long as data security was ensured by an American owner and the link did not last for ever.
Now Microsoft and Oracle await ByteDance's decision. They may withdraw their bids or amend them, to take account of the fresh uncertainty over what they would be getting. Once ByteDance signals its intentions and any revised bids are in, it could take 30 days to get China's go-ahead. ByteDance could then request an extension to Mr Trump's November deadline, perhaps hoping that he loses to Joe Biden in elections on November 3rd.
The risk of TikTok being blocked in America remains substantial. The Chinese government may refuse to grant an export licence and buyers could walk away. This would deprive ByteDance of billions. But that may be a price China is willing to pay to prevent America from setting a bad precedent by forcing the sale of a Chinese technology to American interests.
As for Mr Zhang, taking a stand against Mr Trump would earn him kudos, and possible rewards, at home. State approval is not something the independent | 569 |
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Twins top Rays in extras
PORT CHARLOTTE (AP) -- Sure, Desmond Jennings wants to see more pitches per at-bat. Yes, he'd like to take more walks this season. And maybe this is the year<|fim_middle|> twice batting cleanup. Arcia, Minnesota's 2012 minor league player of the year, was playing only his second spring game while working back from a pulled intercostal muscle.
Ron Gardenhire wishes his young hitter saw a few more pitches like Jennings. But the Twins manager is otherwise encouraged.
"He's a swinger, but the kid can hit," Gardenhire said. "He generates bat speed and he's fun to watch up there. He's very intense. He doesn't look like he thinks anybody should get him out."
Minnesota scored the go-ahead runs when Clete Thomas led off the 10th with a double and scored when Ray Olmedo followed with a triple. Olmedo came home on a sacrifice fly.
NOTES: Vance Worley gave up two earned runs on five hits in four innings. An offseason acquisition from Philadelphia, Worley walked one and struck out two. He has an ERA of 5.63 this spring. . Luke Scott hit his first home run on a towering shot that just cleared the fence in left. . The Twins scored the tying runs in the top of the ninth when Joe Benson and Eric Fryer tripled to start the inning. Benson scored but Fryer was stranded at third.
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Associated Press Minnesota's Vance Worley throws a pitch in the first inning against the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday in Port Charlotte, Fla.
PORT CHARLOTTE (AP) - Sure, Desmond Jennings wants to see more pitches per at-bat. Yes, he'd like to take more walks this season. And maybe this is the year he finally masters the bunt.
But the Tampa Bay Rays center fielder and leadoff man sees his job as a simple one: get on base.
He did that two more times on a Monday night, but the Minnesota Twins rallied to tie it in the ninth then won it in the 10th inning, 6-4 Monday night.
Jennings scored the game's first run when he doubled to left-center in the first and came around on a double by Evan Longoria. Perhaps more impressive was Jennings' turn at plate leading off the bottom of the third. After failing to get down a bunt on the first pitch, he worked the count full before walking.
With six free passes in 25 plate appearances, Jennings has an on base percentage over .500.
"I'm just trying to swing at strikes," said Jennings, back in the lineup and at full speed after tweaking his ankle on the bases Saturday. "I'll take my walks all day. My goal is to get on base - do whatever I can to get on base and try to zone the pitcher in on balls over the plate."
Jennings was known for his plate discipline in the minor leagues and his early stints with the Rays. But he walked only 46 times last year and his on-base percentage plummeted to .314 in his first full season with the major league club.
That won't cut it for the top of the order. He knows he needs to find ways to get on base in front of bats like Longoria's. He'll even try a bunt now and then.
The new approach is working. He's not just walking but seeing better pitches to hit after working the count.
"I don't know, you just get caught up in the moment," said Jennings of his struggles to get on base consistently last season. "I was trying to do too much instead of just doing my job. I was just . wanting to be aggressive and swing at everything instead of zoning in."
Twins designated hitter Oswaldo Arcia appeared to have found the zone as well. He had two hits ans scored | 504 |
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Hardware and Software Complex to<|fim_middle|> the strength parameters of promising carbon fiber reinforced polymers and structural elements of rocket and space equipment under different mechanical loads within the operating temperature range. The developed complex components, in particular, the multi-channel data-measuring systems and the appropriate software for measurement, acquisition of experimental data, and calculation of strength parameters of such materials have been described. The complex capacity and effectiveness have been tested.
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LED Roadway Lighting Ltd. and manufacturing/technology partner Sony UK Technology Centre (Sony UK Tec) have received the prestigious "Collaborative Partnership Award" at the annual ESTnet Awards, held March 5th at the<|fim_middle|>. 2005 - 2018. | Wales Millennium Centre. These awards celebrate excellence in Wales' electronics and software technologies sector.
Watch the video here: https://vimeo.com/120353360.
Further information can be found in Sony UK Tec's news release: http://www.sonypencoed.co.uk/news/2015/03/06/sony-uk-technology-centre-wins-industry-award/. An excerpt from their release follows.
Since 2012, Sony UK Technology Centre has worked with the Nova Scotia-based LED Roadway Lighting to relocate the manufacture, test and shipping of its street lanterns for the UK market.
The accolade recognises the successful partnership between the two companies, which has seen lead time for the products, which are used by a number of UK councils, reduced from 16 weeks to just eight weeks as well as a three per cent cost saving on each individual lantern.
Winner of the 'Collaborative Partnership Award' Ian Worgan of Sony UK Technology Centre, said: "This award is the icing on the cake for the team involved in this partnership and celebrates their hard work and effort and demonstrates our commitment to collaboration and supply chain excellence."
Huw Convery at LED Roadway Lighting, said: "This is a massive achievement, the team at Sony UK Technology Centre have worked so hard. Sony has reduced lead time by around 50% and we can attribute 50% of our current turnover to this association." More information about the ESTnet awards can be found here http://www.estnetawards.co.uk/2015-awards-winners/.
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The Nickel Plate District Amphitheater and MOKB Presents today announced Houndmouth live in concert on Saturday, June 18, 2022. This show is the first concert announced as part of the summer concert series that will take place at the Nickel Plate District Amphitheater in Fishers, Ind. Additional shows and events will be announced soon. Tickets for Houndmouth go on sale this Friday, March 11 at npdamp.com.
Additionally, the NPD AMP will continue to host the Fishers Farmers Market and local and regional live music residents and visitors have come to expect. Updates on the 2022 summer schedule can be found at npdamp.com.
"Concert season is here! We can't wait to bring a summer schedule with some old favorites, like Tuesday Night Concerts, as well as larger national acts to the NPD AMP," said Sarah Sandquist, director of Fishers Parks, which manages the NPD AMP. "With the Nickel Plate Trail opening this spring and this announcement kicking off our summer lineup, downtown Fishers should be on everybody's summer bucket list."
Houndmouth is an American alternative blues band from New Albany, Ind. formed in 2011, consisting of Matt Myers (guitar, vocals), Zak Appleby (bass, vocals), and Shane Cody (drums, vocals). Houndmouth formed in the summer of 2011. After playing locally in Louisville and Indiana, they performed at the SXSW music festival in March 2012 to promote their homemade self-titled EP. Geoff Travis, the head of Rough Trade was in the audience and offered a contract shortly after. In 2012, the band was named "Band Of The Week" by The Guardian. In 2013 Houndmouth's debut album, "From the Hills Below the City," was released by Rough Trade. This led to performances on Letterman, Conan, World Cafe, and several major festivals (ACL, Americana Music Festival, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Newport Folk Festival). SPIN and Esquire.com named Houndmouth a "must-see" band at Lollapalooza, and Garden & Gun said, "You'd be hard pressed to find a more effortless, well-crafted mix of roots and rock this year than the debut album from this Louisville quartet."
On their latest album "Good For You," Houndmouth share a collection of songs set in places as far-flung as the Alamo and the Hudson River, each populated by a motley cast of characters: fairy-tale princesses and vampires, parking-lot lovers and wanna-be beauty queens. The fourth full-length album from the Indiana-bred band—vocalist/guitarist Matthew Myers, drummer/vocalist Shane Cody, and bassist/vocalist Zak Appleby—"Good For You" is a lovingly gathered catalog of those wild and fleeting moments that stay lodged in our hearts forever, taking on a dreamlike resonance as years go by. For more information, please visit: www.houndmouth.com.
Tickets for the Houndmouth show go on sale this Friday, March 11 at 10 a.m. and will be available at www.npdamp.com and www.mokbpresents.com for $20 advance / $25 day of show. For ticketed shows the venue is an all ages facility and children ages two and under are permitted for free. Fans can also bring their own lawn chair and blankets. Additional information is available on the venue website.
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The holiday season is meant for being home with family, enjoying the warmth of company and the familiarity of your own bed. But what about those unable to stay home for the holidays? What about the children who have to wake up Christmas morning in a hospital bed? It is these kids the Vikings largely have in mind as they do their work in the Minnesota community. Players and coaches alike sacrifice their time, energy and money to bring just a little bit of holiday joy to the families who are having a hard time finding it right now.
Rhodes, Zimmer Play Santa
Xavier Rhodes has made a habit of both shutting down opposing receivers and opening up his wallet around Christmas time. For the fourth year in a row, the Pro Bowl corner brought toys and gifts for patients at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital. Rhodes said that his goal is to provide a little bit of seasonal tidings to families whose Christmas celebrations have to take place in a hospital.
Talk about shopping spree! This morning, @XavierRhodes29_ delivered a donation of toys and gifts for our families! Thanks to @target and @MyPiada for their support. pic.twitter.com/ip9L3kzdFg
— M Health Fairview UMN Masonic Children's Hospital (@UMNChildrens) December 19, 2017
Additionally, Rhodes is raising money for Fanconi anemia, a pediatric bone marrow disease. Rhodes was inspired by his college coach, Jimbo Fisher, who has a son with the disease.
Rhodes also joined a few of his teammates, Brian Robison, Terence Newman, Ben Gedeon, Harrison Smith and Kevin McDermott, to help head coach Mike Zimmer with a little project of his own. Zimmer and his players invited 25 kids from hospitals around Minnesota on a $200<|fim_middle|> Children's Hospital each year during the holiday season. This year, however, they decided to do a little bit extra: open "Kyle Rudolph's End Zone."
Kyle Rudolph with his wife, Jordan, at the ribbon-cutting for "Kyle Rudolph's End Zone." (Vikings.com)
The "End Zone" is a space designed to entertain, assist and relax children at the hospital. It contains a kitchen, television with video games, a basketball hoop, a sports simulator and areas for patients with behavioral disorders.
Kyle and Jordan have had this vision for two years and described it as "a dream come true."
Check out other stories of the NFL's work in the community by using the hashtag #MoreThanFootballFPC.
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Rams Special Teams Players Are Pro Bowl Bound | shopping spree to Dick's Sporting Goods, as well as to Chick Fil-A dinner. Zimmer also paid for a limousine bus to take them to and from the store.
Tonight MZF surprised 26 kids from Children's MN to a shopping spree with Vikings players and coach's @ DICK'S Sporting Goods, transportation by total limo and dinner by chick-fil-a. Our hearts our so full. More pics to come! pic.twitter.com/Ae3mGRsUHB
— MZFOUNDATION (@ZimFoundation) December 16, 2017
The event was funded by the Mike Zimmer Foundation, whose mission statement is:
to give back to the youth of Minnesota and hopefully branch out to greater areas in the future. We want to better lives of children in need by helping them chase their dreams, motivating them to do so and promote a healthy and active way of living as well as stress the importance of education, hard work, and teamwork.
Zimmer started the foundation in 2015 in memory of his wife Vikki, who passed away in 2009.
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With France's Sustainable Development Week taking place from April 1 to April 7, Vallourec reports on its commitment to this cause.
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Boulogne-Billancourt, 28 March 2013 – With France's Sustainable Development Week taking place from April 1 to April 7, Vallourec reports on its commitment to this cause. In 2011, Vallourec published a new Sustainable Development Charter that sets the Group's sustainable development targets, defines areas for improvement, and reinforces communication with its stakeholders. Designed for the Company's external partners as well as its employees, the Charter is in line with proposals made by the French Round Table on the Environment (le Grenelle de l'Environnement) and new regulations.
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Vallourec is a world leader in premium tubular solutions primarily serving the energy markets, as well as other industrial applications.
With over 23,000 employees, integrated manufacturing facilities, advanced R&D, and presence in more than 20 countries, Vallourec offers its customers innovative global solutions to meet the growing energy challenges of the 21st century.
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Join CEO Carl Bass and CTO Jeff Kowalski as they present how the design of the as-built world and nature are on a collision course. We will design like nature — relying on taxonomies from previous projects, leveraging generative design, and creating living designs that adapt to their environments. Witness how some combine nature and technology for the future of making things. See how solutions like A360 expand beyond the mouse/keyboard<|fim_middle|> the lab. | to scanners/cameras as we employ 3d printing/robots in both the manufacturing and AEC industries. Feel proud as architect, author, educator, and philanthropist Emily Piloton demonstrates the value that comes from making Autodesk solutions free to education.
Join Autodesk CEO Carl Bass and CTO Jeff Kowalski as they present the trends and forces shaping the future of making things. Carl will talk about new ways to communicate and even collaborate with our computers, which are blurring the lines between the digital and physical worlds. Jeff will explore how we're bringing life to design through robust design taxonomies, generative design, and our emerging power to create things that can sense, respond, and collaborate. Also appearing will be architect, author, educator, and philanthropist Emily Piloton who will explore the value of making design tools freely available to students and schools.
This just shows the difference between an Autodesk Labs Program Manager (computer nerd with a computer science degree) and someone who writes speeches for a living (technology, writing, and theater background).
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It's a lot about content marketing. Content marketing is basically the process of providing valuable and relevant content to the reader, consumer, customer, target. People are so time poor and overloaded with communications that they don't want emails they did not ask for. They don't want irrelevant material filling up their already bursting inboxes. This is why email marketing has become a tool to provide information to those that choose to hear from you – and this is good news, as it improves conversion rates dramatically. The downside is it takes a lot longer to get there.
Building up an opt in email list, or even better a double opt in email list, is hard work and a long slog. However the people that sign up, are those that want to hear from you and are interested in what you have to offer. And these are the best targets for you and the ones most likely to a) convert and b) refer to others. It's about respecting the needs of your audience and allowing the chance to choose to subscribe or unsubscribe without hassle.
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Biomet's Q3 losses widen on modest top-line growth | Earnings Roundup
April 11, 2012 By MassDevice staff Leave a Comment
Third-quarter losses mounted for orthopedic device giant Biomet Inc. as its top line enjoyed only modest growth.
Warsaw, Ind.-based Biomet posted losses of $16.5 million, on sales of $708.9 million, during the 3 months ended Feb. 29, 2012, compared with losses of $11.6 million, on sales of $678 million, during the same period last year.
Adjusted for 1-time expenses, the company's net income for Q3 came to $55.1 million, compared to adjusted profits of $212.8 million during Q3 2011.
"We reported strong and improving sales results across many of our product categories this quarter, with particularly good momentum in our large joint reconstructive and [sports, extremities & trauma] product categories," president & CEO Jeffrey Binder said in prepared remarks. "I was particularly happy with the consistency of our performance across all geographies. In addition, we are very excited about our future opportunities in the trauma market given our pending acquisition of DePuy's worldwide trauma business."
The company's modest 4.6% top-line growth was bolstered by a 16% boost in sports, extremities and trauma sales and 5% increase in large joint reconstruction revenues, which helped cushion a 5% decline in spine & bone healing and 2% dip for the dental business. The uptick for joint reconstruction sales could signal a bump for other orthopedic device makers, according to a pair of Leerink Swann analysts.
"All else equal, we're inclined to think ortho stocks (Zimmer (NYSE:ZMH), Stryker (NYSE:SYK), NuVasive Inc. (NSDQ:NUVA), Wright Medical (NSDQ:WMGI)) will react positively to the y/y growth acceleration Biomet posted in its U.S. recon division. We note that Biomet (and the rest of the hip/knee industry) is up against easier y/y U.S. recon growth comparisons this quarter, especially in knees, which likely contributed – at least to some extent – to the growth pick-up this quarter," wrote analysts Richard Newitter and Rick Wise in a note to investors.
Earlier this month, Biomet signed a binding offer to pay $280 million in cash for Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) subsidiary DePuy Orthopedics' global trauma business.
Positron's sales slump, losses narrow in Q<|fim_middle|>-year 2010 losses of $14.2 million, or 52¢ share, on sales of $13.9 million.
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Crown Point, Ind.-based nuclear imaging device maker Positron Corp. (OTC:POSC) posted 4th-quarter 2011 losses of $1.1 million, with no change to share value, on sales of $289,000 during the 3 months ended Dec. 31, 2011. That compares with Q4 2010 losses of $1.6 million, and no change to share value, on sales of $2.2 million.
For the full year losses were $6.1 million, or 1¢ per share, on sales of $6.7 million. That compares with full-year 2010 losses of $11 million, or 2¢ per diluted share, on sales of $4.6 million.
POSC shares were down 19% to 0.015¢ as of about 11:50 a.m. today. Read more
Sales slide, losses widen for BSD Medical
Salt Lake City, Utah-based heat-therapy devices maker BSD Medical Corp. (NSDQ:BSDM) posted 2nd-quarter 2012 losses of $2.1 million, or 7¢ per share, on sales of $272,000 during the 3 months ended Feb. 29, 2012. That compares with Q2 2011 losses of $1.6 million, or 5¢ per share, on sales of $444,000.
BSDM shares were down 2.6% to $1.90 as of about 11:40 a.m. today. Read more
Novadaq doubles Q4 sales, pares losses
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Novadaq Technologies (TSE:NDQ) posted 4th-quarter 2011 losses of $2 million, or 6¢ per share, on sales of $5 million in the 3 months ended Dec. 31, 2011. That compares with losses of $3.1 million, or 11¢ per share, on sales of $2.3 million during the 4th quarter of 2010.
For the full year, losses were $10.2 million, or 32¢ per share, on sales of $15.3 million. That compares with full | 518 |
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There are many benefits that assisted living provides for those who want to help keep their privacy despite having lost the ability to do some daily activities. The idea of a retirement living center is very different from the other choices in the past which were nursing homes. Hence, this concept also goes by other names including residential care, domiciliary care, community-based retirement facilities, adult homes, adult foster homes and sheltered housing. However, some assisted living fishhawk providers may also offer nursing home facilities or independent living nearby to provide what they refer to as continuing care retirement community.
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Taft Stettinius & Hollister, commonly known as "Taft", is an American, white-shoe law firm founded in Cincinnati, with offices in Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Delaware, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; Detroit, Michigan; Indianapolis, Indiana; Covington, Kentucky; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Phoenix, Arizona; and Washington, DC. Taft has<|fim_middle|> based in Cincinnati
Law firms established in 1885
1885 establishments in Ohio | been referred to as Cincinnati's most prestigious law firm.
History
Taft traces its roots back to 1885, when Worthington & Strong was founded by Judge William Worthington and Edward W. Strong. John L. Stettinius and John B. Hollister joined the firm after its founding, at which point the firm became known as Worthington, Strong, Stettinius & Hollister. In January 1923, Judge Worthington died. In the following year, a young firm headed by Robert A. Taft and Charles P. Taft II, sons of former President William Howard Taft, joined the older firm to become Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP.
In 1947, the firm's labor department, led by J. Mack Swigert, was instrumental in helping Robert Taft, who had become a United States Senator, draft and pass the groundbreaking Taft–Hartley Act that regulated labor unions.
More recently, the firm is known for its work representing West Virginians in the environmental litigation against DuPont beginning in the 1990s, which was the subject of the 2019 film Dark Waters.
Since the 1980s, the firm's expansion beyond Cincinnati has been accomplished with the aid of strategic mergers with local firms with its various branch offices, including Kelley, McCann, and Livingston of Cleveland in 2001, Sommer Barnard of Indianapolis in 2008, Kahn Kleinman of Cleveland in 2008, Chester, Wilcox, and Saxbe of Columbus in 2012, and Shefsky and Froelich of Chicago in 2014. On August 29, 2019, partners at Briggs & Morgan of Minneapolis voted to merge with Taft. The merger became effective January 1, 2020. In February 2021, Taft opened an office in Washington, DC. On December 31, 2022, Taft opened an office in Detroit, Michigan through a merger with Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss.
Practice areas
The firm's practice areas include business and finance, business restructuring, bankruptcy and creditor rights, domestic relations, employment, environmental, gaming, government contracts, health and life sciences, higher education, intellectual property, labor relations, litigation, pharmaceutical and life sciences litigation, private client, public finance, real estate, tax, technology services and more. Taft employs over 800 attorneys following its 2022 merger with Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss.
Notable attorneys
Robert Bilott, environmental lawyer
John Cranley, Mayor of Cincinnati (2013–2022)
Peter Deegan, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa (2017–2021)
Virginia Emerson Hopkins, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama
Sarah Morrison, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio (2019–present) and Administrator for the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation (2016–2019)
John B. Nalbandian, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit
Caleb Nelson, Emerson G. Spies Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law
Charles Phelps Taft II, Mayor of Cincinnati (1955–1957)
Charles R. Saxbe, former member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1975-1982) and 1982 Republican candidate for Ohio Attorney General
Robert A. Taft, U.S. Senator from Ohio (1939–1953)
Robert Taft Jr., U.S. Senator from Ohio (1971–1976), U.S. Representative from Ohio (1963–1965; 1967–1971)
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The Department of Social Science and Community Engagement at the National Institute for Medical Research-Mbeya Medical Research Center (NIMR-MMRC) works in collaboration with Principal Investigators<|fim_middle|> trials, as well as other ongoing studies at the site related to TB, cervical cancer and HIV observational research.
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The 2018 CAB refresher course took place on 27 January 2018 and involved Principal investigators, our Community Engagement Coordinator, and the site's Director. Together they provided presentations on CAB roles and responsibilities, a review of informed consent forms, an overview of HIV vaccine | 146 |
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RDM teachers are inspired by a shared belief that every child is capable of succeeding in a rigorous core curriculum. Our staff members strive to provide a high-quality, dynamic, school culture that addresses the physical, social, emotional, and academic health of your teen. Working within Professional Learning Communities, every adult on campus is focused on providing a safe and stimulating learning environment where all students can benefit from our standards-based education.<|fim_middle|> are the proud recipients of multiple awards that recognize student performance, teacher excellence, and our dedication to providing you the best public middle school in our region. | We | 1 |
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Fresh ideas, innovative solutions, intuitive flashes of insight; these are Prime fundamental tools for creating each client unique message in today complex marketplace. Everything we do is driven by one thing the desire to design outstanding, effective creative that produces results for our clients. Because of our ethical principles, we are committed to providing you the best services of digital media in Pakistan, social media marketing for your business. With a lot of experience of working in this field, we have a strong marketplace with which we provide you with exceptional services to enhance your business profitability and expand your customer's circle. Culturally our work founded on a core set of values, it's our team management that provides leadership plan participation to successfully operate your business online.
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Home Tour Ideas Destinations & Attractions Franklin Park Conservatory Grows Community Through Horticulture, Arts, and Education
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Franklin Park Conservatory Grows Community Through Horticulture, Arts, and Education
With 13 acres of lush gardens, botanical biomes, and horticulture and art exhibitions, the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens showcases the best of natural<|fim_middle|> art, or model trains, the conservatory has a little bit of something for everyone to enjoy."
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Next articlePuddicombe Estate Farms & Winery | beauty and cultural experiences. The conservatory, located in Columbus, Ohio, has over 400 species of plants from around the world in its diverse exhibits and botanical gardens.
"Franklin Park Conservatory features glass-enclosed gardens filled with exotic plant life from around the world, water features, seasonal floral displays, and special exhibitions," says Dee Ashworth, associate director of visitor experience at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens. "In addition to beautiful plant life, the conservatory is known for its permanent collection of 18 installations of Dale Chihuly glass artwork, and also houses an on-site glassblowing studio featuring local glass artists giving daily demonstrations."
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Just 2 miles from downtown Columbus in central Ohio, the botanical garden is situated east of Franklin Park and is home to the iconic grand Victorian-style glass greenhouse—the John F. Wolfe Palm House—which dates to 1895. Horticulture designs and magnificent floral displays bloom year-round in the Dorothy M. Davis Showhouse. The 2-acre Scotts Miracle-Gro Foundation Children's Garden provides an interactive experience to reconnect with nature and take in a wealth of horticulture education in a natural setting.
In addition, the conservatory hosts special temporary exhibitions throughout the year, displaying national and international artists from around the world.
Current rotating seasonal exhibitions include "Orchids, Blooms & Butterflies," "Columbus Blooms," "Harvest Blooms," and "Conservatory Aglow." There's also a wide range of workshops and classes, including gardening, cooking, fine art, and wellness that are offered throughout the year.
Hourlong walking tours educate groups on the conservatory plants, art, and history. Groups larger than 15 are eligible for group rates.
"Of course, we have an amazing plant collection, and our horticulturists are true artists in their own right; but you don't have to be a plant enthusiast to find something to love about the conservatory," Ashworth says. "Whether you love plants, | 426 |
A new light display is providing some Christmas cheer for residents at The Views. Photo by Glen Halverson
Display brightens up holidays at Comox seniors' home
Display part of St. Paul's Foundation's Lights of Hope project
Mike Chouinard
Residents at The Views in Comox are getting a little brighter holiday season thanks to a new lighting display.
The lights, shaped like stars, adorn an entrance way and are to be a new tradition for the seniors' residence called Lights of Hope,<|fim_middle|> proud to support and fundraise for The Views at St. Joseph's," St. Paul's Foundation president and CEO Dick Vollet said in a news release. "We are also happy to bring Lights of Hope to The Views and look forward to working together to grow this new Christmas tradition for the Comox Valley community."
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The Lights of Hope are similar to the familiar twinkling stars at the entrance to St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver every Christmas season since 1998. Two years ago, St. Paul's Foundation started the project to light up Providence Health Care's six long-term care and assisted living homes, as well as Mount Saint Joseph and Holy Family Hospitals, in Vancouver. This year, they brought the lighting idea over to the Comox Valley. The display was erected earlier this month.
"This is new for us here at The Views," said Jane Murphy, president and CEO of Providence Living. "They just bring a little sparkle and light."
The display aims to brighten up the season for residents at The Views. During a phone interview, Murphy talks frequently about hope, even during this darkest time of the year and in the midst of a pandemic when anyone, especially seniors, can feel socially isolated.
"It's been a challenge, particularly in long-term care," she said.
In the news release, Murphy noted the generosity of the community throughout the pandemic, which has included funding for programs, initiatives and equipment to help with resident care along with gifts such as outdoor lights and decorations.
"We've been so touched by the outpouring of support," she added. "Each gift makes a real difference and is so appreciated."
The St. Paul's Foundation, working with the Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation, will be developing "integrated, far-reaching fundraising campaigns" for Providence Living's social model of care and support for The Views redevelopment project.
RELATED STORY: Dementia village planned for former Comox hospital
The new year should be bringing more news, Murphy said. Providence expects to be finalizing its project team to move ahead on procurement for the project to establish the new dementia village at the old St. Joseph's site. The plan is to begin design work in the coming year, followed by construction at the site.
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2017 Royals Game Recaps
Hosmer's bomb lifts Royals to 3-1 win over Indians
The $200 million man comes through<|fim_middle|>1-3, by throwing six innings of three-hit ball. He struck out six and walked two, throwing 95 pitches to get his 18 outs.
Hammel out-dueled Cleveland ace Danny Salazar, who was far from his best on Friday night. Salazar allowed 10 baserunners in just 4.2 innings, his shortest outing of the year. He did strike out seven Royals, but his command was erratic. Kansas City used a surprisingly patient approach against Salazar to hike up his pitch count. It worked; he didn't make it out of the fifth. He took the loss to drop to 2-3 on the year.
The Royals added their third run in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI double by Alcides Escobar. As a team, the Royals had 13 baserunners, though just three of them scored.
The Kansas City bullpen was electric. Scott Alexander needed just nine pitches to get through a perfect seventh, collecting three ground ball outs. Joakim Soria fell behind every hitter he faced, only to recover to strike out all three of them. And then in the ninth, Kelvin Herrera finally earned his fourth save of the season, his first since April 19, by working around a two-out double.
As a unit, the bullpen faced 10 batters. Only one reached.
The Royals are 10-18. Tomorrow, they'll go for their first series victory since that sweep of the Angels back on Easter Sunday. Jason Vargas (4-1, 1.42 ERA) will oppose Josh Tomlin (2-3, 8.87), so the matchup would appear promising. It is a 3:15 pm CDT start on FS1. | !
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Less than 10 days ago, Eric Hosmer was hitting under .200. Today, he's the hero. Welcome to baseball.
Hosmer hit the furthest home run I've ever seen a Kansas City player hit at Kauffman Stadium on Friday night, paving the way to a 3-1 Royals victory over the Cleveland Indians. But it didn't always look like things were going to be that smooth.
Through the first four innings, things looked all too familiar. The Royals, or simply Salvador Perez, blew two separate scoring opportunities by striking out with two men in scoring position both times. In the top of the fourth, Edwin Encarnacion blasted a solo home run for the Indians, his fifth, to give Cleveland a 1-0 lead.
In the bottom of the fifth, Whit Merrifield and Mike Moustakas hit singles to give the team yet another scoring chance. Immediately after that, Lorenzo Cain hit into a double play. Right when it appeared the Royals were going to squander their most promising scoring opportunity yet, Eric Hosmer stepped to the plate.
Earlier in the contest, Hosmer had singled to stretch his hitting streak to nine games. In that stretch are 13 hits, 11 of which are singles. While Hosmer had been seeing the ball better as of late, it seemed like most of his hits were ground ball singles, which wasn't exactly jolting confidence into the hearts of Royals fans that he was really coming out of his slump.
Out of nowhere, Hosmer absolutely clobbered a first-pitch fastball into the upper tier of right-field fountains, giving the Royals a 2-1 lead. It was his third homer of the season, one that electrified Kauffman Stadium into the loudest it's been all week. The Royals never looked back.
Hosmer's 458-foot blast was truly polarizing. We all know that this guy has the ability to do stuff like this. He'll go weeks hitting nothing but weak ground balls to the right side. Anything in the air off his bat is to the opposite field. And then, just randomly, he'll murder a baseball by actually pulling it in the air. We've been saying it for years, but if he ever can figure out how to do that with any taste of consistency, he's going to be one of the best players in the sport.
Aside from the homer, Jason Hammel was spectacular. He earned his first win as a Royal, improving to | 559 |
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Gamefly has opened Gamefly Digital, its new online storefront, and is celebrating by slashing prices<|fim_middle|>2K Game you've been wanting, this may be your chance to get it. | on its library of 2K Games titles.
Do you like cheap games? Of course you do! Who doesn't when you really get down to it? As far as we've heard there's no sect of gamers that gets its personal jollies from laying down their hard earned cash on a game that's full price. That in mind, if there are any titles from 2K's publishing library that you've had your eyes on, you might want to swing over to Gamefly's fancy new digital storefront where the publisher's products, including Bioshock: Infinite, Borderlands 2, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown, are currently riding a wave of heavy discounts.
Where previously Gamefly had based its business on game rental accounts, the new storefront represents the results of the company's desire to expand its horizons and join the digital sales game. The 2K sale (up to 80 percent off), in turn, was put in place to celebrate Gamefly Digital's launch. In addition to the price drops, players who buy a full-sized 2K game will receive Mafia II as a complimentary gift as thanks for their patronage.
While the internet is already pretty well filled to the brim with digital game stores, it never hurts to have another. There's no way to tell, of course, if Gamefly Digital will be a success, but now that its doors are open there's no point in overlooking the fruits of Gamefly's labor. If there's a | 304 |
A baby's skin is usually silky soft — but it may also be bumpy, red, splotchy, or pimply. Babies, especially newborns, suffer from a number of common skin problems. While such conditions may be worrisome to new parents, most infant skin problems are temporary and won't harm your baby, according to WebMD. In fact, most skin conditions, especially rashes, simply disappear with time.
Skin problems in babies have a wide variety of causes. Hormonal changes can cause them, as can blocked oil glands, especially in the scalp and face. Food sensitivities, including food allergies, can cause skin rashes in older babies. Heat can cause a bumpy rash to break out on a baby. Some late-term babies are born with dry skin. Fungi can cause ringworm. Viruses and bacterial illnesses are another common cause of skin problems in babies. In some cases, such as when newborns develop Erythema toxicum — a completely harmless that goes away on its own — the cause is unknown.
Milia is a skin condition common in newborns, according to DrGreene<|fim_middle|> problems caused by viruses or bacterial infections need treatment. Do not try to scrub your baby's skin, especially if she has baby acne or milia. This will only irritate the problem, according to MayoClinic.com. Instead, wash your baby's skin as normal with a mild soap and pat it dry gently. You should treat diaper rashes and heat rashes by exposing the area to air and by keeping the skin dry.
Some skin problems might not be problems at all, but normal variations in your baby's skin. Salmon patches and Mongolian spots are dark areas on the skin and some babies are born with them. Jaundice, a slight yellowing of the skin, is a condition that affects a little over half of all newborns. It is caused by bilirubin buildup in the blood and goes away within 1 to 2 weeks after birth, according to MayoClinic.com. | .com. In fact, over half of all newborns develop this skin problem, which appears as tiny bumps on the face. Baby acne is also commonly seen in infants and looks just like adult acne. Cradle cap is a scalp conditions that presents as areas of crusty or oily patches. Hives are red, raised swollen areas on the skin. They usually appear on the face, trunk and belly and can be an allergic response to a skin irritant or something the baby ate. Eczema is a skin condition that is often inherited. It is a rash that can be bright red, bumpy and itchy. The exact cause of eczema is not known. Diaper rashes are bright red and sometimes bumpy. They are caused by irritated skin and severe diaper rashes can bleed.
A doctor should evaluate rashes or skin conditions that are accompanied by other symptoms such as a fever, vomiting or diarrhea. These symptoms can signify a viral or bacterial infection. Blisters that develop and fill with fluid can also signify an infection. Tiny, purple specks that appear anywhere on the skin and do not fade when you press on them are called petechiae; they can indicate that your baby has a serious infection. If you see such markings on your baby's skin, get her to a doctor immediately.
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Here's a quick video on how to fold t-shirts to make them "look/appear" as if they are folded perfectly while making it easy to see what you have and maximizing space inside the drawer. I've mentioned before in previous videos that I realllllly don't like to fold. However, folding isn't as bad when you use a magic tool to help you get the fold right! In fact, it can actually be fun and the end result is a beautiful drawer of perfectly folded t-shirts.
Hi, everyone. It's Alejandra. And I'm going to do a quick video today to show you guys how to fold and organize t-shirts inside of your dresser or your closet. Now, I posted a picture on my Facebook recently of how I tackled Ed's t-shirt drawer. And I love the way it came out. There is a secret tool that I used to make all of the folds and the t-shirts are perfect or appear as if they're perfect.
Now, I am not a big folder. Actually, I hate to fold. But if you use the tool that I'm going to show you, you will get a perfect fold and your drawers will look very organized. So let me grab the camera and show you guys exactly what I did.
So this is Ed's t-shirt drawer that I recently tackled. Now, this looks like it took a lot of time to fold and to put away. This actually only took 30 minutes to do. Now, as I said before, I hate folding but with the tool I have, it just makes it go really fast. So I'm going to show you guys that tool in a minute.
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But I just want to show you that right when you open up the drawer, you can easily find the t-shirt you're looking for because all of the fronts of the t-shirt are folded upwards so you just immediately see instead of like annoying stacks of t-shirts that if you want to get to the bottom t-shirt, you have to take off the whole stack and pull it out. With this, you just like pull up.
So let me put the camera down and I'm going to show you how easy it is to pull one out. It's hard to pull one out and hold the camera at the same time. OK. So if I'm going to take a t-shirt out or take a few t-shirts out, I want to show you that the other shirts don't really fall over and get unfolded. Like they might fall over but because the t-shirts are folded so small, they don't really unfold.
So I'm just going to return like, "OK. I'm coming to take<|fim_middle|> want to make sure to flatten the t-shirt before you start folding.
Now, these t-shirts are old t-shirts when Ed and I used to travel to people's houses helping them get organized. So we have like so many of these t-shirts. OK. So the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to just fold in the left side just like that and then I'm going to fold in the right side just like that, and then I always like to turn over like that. And then you want to take the bottom part and fold the bottom part end.
See, it doesn't take very long. And then when you flip it over, you have a perfectly folded t-shirt. But I like to take it a step further. As you guys know, I always like to take it one step further and then go like that and then fold it over just like that. And then there you go. You have a t-shirt that is ready to be filed inside of your drawer.
OK. I just want to do one more to show you guys how fast it is. Like I was doing it kind of slow before because I was kind of showing you guys what to do. But once you get the hang of it and you start folding really fast, you can see that this does not take long. And there you go. You have a perfect t-shirt ready to be filed once again.
OK. So that's how I'm folding all the t-shirts in our dressers and in our closets. It's super easy to do. Like you don't have to be the best folder in the world to get the perfect fold if you just use the tool that I showed you then you can create that perfect fold that you saw upstairs in the dresser that I just showed you guys.
So if you have ideas or tips on folding that you want to share with us, leave a comment below or create a video response and show us. And I'm sure everyone else would love to see it as well. So I will see you guys soon. Bye. | this yellow shirt out. So I want to wear this." So I just take that out. Let's see. I'm going to take this one out and put it over here. I'm going to take this one out, put it over here.
Do you guys see? I took three shirts our already and nothing is really falling over. Like maybe this one fell over a little bit but it didn't unfold because these shirts have such a small fold. Can you guys see that? Do you see how small these folds are? And it's like so thick that it doesn't really unfold.
So let me go ahead and just take out one more shirt. I'm going to take this one out. And you can see that they don't really fall over. So again, if they do fall over like let's just say that falls over, it's not really going to unfold.
So this is my secret folding tool to get the perfect fold in your t-shirts. Now there's a link at the bottom of the video in the description that's going to take you to my list of my favorite organizing products that I've tried, I love, and I recommend. This product is on that list under closet products. So if you want more information, you can check out that list.
So let's go ahead and try folding a t-shirt. I'm going to go ahead and put my t-shirt down. Now, you want to have the back of the t-shirt facing up and the front of the t-shirt facing down. And you | 311 |
Telecom Namibia, Huawei bring faster wireless network to coastal towns
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(Xinhua) 09:33, March 17, 20<|fim_middle|>2007, but to meet growing business customers demand for higher throughput, the company committed to a fixed network technology upgrade that offers a transition path to LTE.
Klein said that Huawei's 4G solution for a commercial broadband network enables TN to develop and provide new product offerings capacity for a growing base of small enterprises and residential users.
Meanwhile, Klein said TN plans to replace the existing WiMAX FDD base stations with TD-LTE base stations in high density urban areas to bring enhanced connectivity to customers.
"We believe that TD-LTE services will contribute to government's vision of broadband development and building Namibia's digital economy," he added.
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WINDHOEK, March 16 (Xinhua) — Telecom Namibia (TN) in conjunction with Chinese company Huawei Technologies has completed the first phase of a time-division duplex long-term evolution (TD-LTE) high-speed wireless network roll-out in Namibia.
TN Managing Director, Theo Klein on Thursday announced the developments and said Huawei's end-to-end 4G solution has been deployed at the coastal towns, where the roll-out began, as part of the first phase.
Klein said the coastal sites with active TD-LTE equipment are Henties Bay, Swakopmund and Walvis Bay as well as Langstrand.
According to him, TN first deployed a nationwide WiMAX 802.16d network in | 156 |
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2007 Hoover Institution Board of Overseers Meeting
STANFORD—The Hoover Institution's Board of Overseers annual summer meeting featured the award-winning historian and author Michael Beschloss at its Dinner on the Quad on July 11. Beschloss addressed an audience of more than 1,000 guests in a speech based on his recent book, Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America, 1789-1989.
Michael Beschloss
Beschloss credits George Washington with setting the precedent for presidential courage. Washington, he said, supported the unpopular Jay Treaty with Britain, which angered his fellow citizens and led to him being ostracized by former supporters. Beschloss went on to say that Washington's support of the Jay Treaty, which delayed war with Britain, allowed the newly formed U.S. to build its military strength so that should it go to war with Britain, which it did in 1812, the U.S. would be victorious. In taking this risk Washington was inventing presidential courage, Beschloss said. "The expectation is that future presidents in moments of crisis are expected<|fim_middle|>arking. "Understanding the nature of future war is becoming increasingly difficult as we confront multiple sources of violence," McMaster said in his presentation, "The Problem of Future War: What Can We Learn from History and Contemporary Conflicts?"
McMaster cautioned against considering terrorism as merely a law enforcement, homeland defense, or intelligence problem. Such views, he said, fail "to address the causes of terrorism and to consider terrorist organizations' sources of strength and support." The principal lesson from the current conflicts in Iraq, Iran, and southern Lebanon may be that military campaigns must be part of a larger strategy that integrates political, military, diplomatic, economic, and informational efforts to achieve clearly defined goals. | , like the great Washington, to put themselves in jeopardy," he explained.
He said the list of succeeding presidents who demonstrated that courage included John Adams, whose opposition to war with France cost him his re-election; Andrew Jackson, who stood up to the Bank of the United States; Harry Truman, whose support for creation of Israel was criticized; and Ronald Reagan, who found common ground with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev despite opposition from hard-line anti-communists at the time. Beschloss ended by reminding the audience of Washington's last words on his deathbed – "don't be afraid."
Other speakers at the July 10–12 board meeting discussed a variety of topics that included the growth of China's economy and what it means for the United States, illegal immigration, the possible resurgence of the cold war, terrorism, and future wars.
Russell Roberts
"If you want to make the world a better place, keep buying stuff made in China – free from guilt," said Hoover research fellow Russell Roberts. In his presentation, "Robert Frost and the Chinese Economy: Is Chinese Growth Good for the United States?" Roberts noted that for economists, economics is not just observation of things; economists need to understand the connection between things. For example, trade with other countries means that some jobs in the United States are outsourced to China but the economist sees that new jobs in the U.S. are created as a result of trade, too.
Roberts questioned the view held by some that the increasing number of imports from China to the United States is detrimental to Americans. Purchasing products made in China can be beneficial to Chinese and American workers, Roberts said. When Americans buy products made in China, those purchases increase the demand for skilled Chinese workers and drive up their wages. There are opportunities for Americans, too, if you understand economics, Roberts said. For all the jobs that are lost, other jobs are created to replace them. The children of factory workers often go on to better paying jobs and more prosperous lives than their parents, he said.
Without trade, the quality of our lives would be dramatically worse, Roberts said. Those who view trade as dangerous, he said, "misunderstand the process of wealth creation and how China succeeds. Economic success is not like a race. China gets ahead by helping us." To those who want to put up barriers to trade, he quoted the poem "Mending a Wall," by Robert Frost, "Before I built a wall I'd ask to know/ What I was walling in or walling out/ And to whom I was like to give offense."
The defeat of the recent immigration reform bill was the subject of Victor Davis Hanson's talk titled "Illegal Immigration Legislation: Reform or Regression?" Hanson, the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, explained that reforming illegal immigration legislation has become an issue for several reasons. The first is that the sheer number of immigrants has made it an issue in communities that haven't been forced to confront it before. Another is that all prior legislation has failed to address the problem. The unknown number of illegal immigrants makes it difficult to quantify the issue, Hanson said, as well as competing groups that have different vested interests. It was in the midst of all the aforementioned that the immigration reform bill collapsed, he said.
Hanson suggested that probably the easiest and best way to deal with illegal immigration is to close the border, which could be done through a 750-mile fence, improved border security, fining employers for hiring illegal aliens, and issuing verifiable identification for workers who are not citizens. Stopping the flow of illegal immigration between the United States and Mexico would benefit both countries. In light of problems with past legislation in 1965 and 1986, Hanson concluded by saying that "the worst possible thing we can do is rush through a piece of legislation."
In his presentation, "Is the Cold War Back? Russia's Authoritarian Drift and U.S. - Russia Relations," Michael McFaul said that "Russia today is a dictatorship." McFaul, the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, noted that Russia has experienced a significant economic recovery but disputed the idea of associating that recovery with the growing autocracy. Instead, he said, it could be attributed to a sound economic policy. Until Soviet president Vladimir Putin, McFaul said, "the basic intent of Russian leaders was integration into the West and to develop markets, democratic institutions."
McFaul concluded that the Cold War will not resume because there is no longer an ideological component driving the competition between the two countries. McFaul remains concerned, though, at the corruption and loss of institutions that support democracy, such as media, in Russia.
General (ret.) John Abizaid
General John P. Abizaid (ret.), Hoover Annenberg distinguished visiting fellow, and Colonel H. R. McMaster, Hoover research fellow, discussed dealing with terrorism and future wars.
The focus of Abizaid's presentation, "Discussions on the Long War," was on the Middle East. Abizaid discussed his views of the region, the problems there, the challenges ahead, and the optimism he has for a U.S.-led effort that leaves the region a better place. "The alternative to shaping the region," he added, "could be our worst nightmare."
Issues that the United States must deal with in the region are numerous, according to Abizaid. They include defeating al-Qaeda and its associated movements, containing Iran and Shia extremism, gaining positive momentum on broader Arab-Israeli peace issues, preventing Sunni-Shia violence from becoming the defining conflict in the region, empowering secular and moderate power centers against the growing wave of extremism, and preserving the flow of strategic resources from the region.
Abizaid believes the first priority is stabilizing Iraq; second, contesting the safe haven for terrorists in Pakistan on the Afghan-Pakistan border; the third, stabilizing Afghanistan; the fourth, working with the Israelis; and the fifth, not allowing the Horn of Africa to become the next safe haven for terrorists. "Patience, perseverance, and steady engagement must be employed over time," said Abizaid. "I am very optimistic about our ability to shape the future of the region."
Col. H.R. McMaster
McMaster, quoting the Prussian military officer and scholar Carl von Clausewitz, said "that war should never be thought of as something autonomous but always as an instrument of policy." McMaster went on to say that Clausewitz believed that it was imperative, at the beginning of conflict, for statesmen to establish the kind of war on which they were emb | 1,351 |
Designing a better satellite
by Jeremy Schwab, Boston University
(Phys.org) —If you have ever plugged your digital camera into your desktop to download photos, then you have used what is known in computing circles as a "plug and play" interface. Basically, plug and play refers to any software program that can recognize many different hardware devices, and interface with them easily.
Plug and play has become ubiquitous in the world of personal computing, but it has yet to catch on in some loftier tech spheres, such as satellite design. A team of BU physicists, astronomers, computer scientists, and engineers wants to change this.
Based in the Center for Space Physics at CAS, the team is composed of over a dozen CAS and ENG students and faculty. The group has been working for over two years to develop a versatile, affordable satellite prototype. In January, they unveiled their creation<|fim_middle|> launches latest GPS satellite into orbit
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Here and gone: Outbound comets are likely of extra-solar origin | at the Air Force Research Laboratories (AFRL) in Albuquerque, NM.: a 30-centimeter-wide cube made of 27 smaller cubes latched together, powered by wing-like solar panels.
The satellite can easily accommodate a wide range of scientific tools in its component cubes. The "hub," a stack of computing hardware located in the middle of the satellite, contains software and hardware to command and fly the satellite, as well as manage the data from its scientific instruments. Plug-and-play technology allows the satellite's Command & Data Handling software to read and interface with experiments and instruments that are plugged into the smaller cubes.
The BUSAT program (full name: Boston University Student Satellite for Applications and Training) is an emphatically student-driven initiative. CAS Professor of Astronomy John Clarke, the director of the Center for Space Physics, believes that involving undergraduate and graduate students at the core of research projects should be a more widespread practice.
"This project is a great example of involving students at all levels in current research and development," says Clarke. "Their enthusiasm was impressive to see. This is the kind of activity that universities should be doing."
A smart design
The BUSAT team's low-cost, modular design avoids some of the flaws found in more expensive, customized satellites. For instance, the component cubes fit snugly together using interlocking wedges, or wedge locks. This is significant because the metal bolts that hold together some more expensive satellites have been known to fail under the stresses of orbit.
But the biggest advantage of the modular design, says CAS Professor of Astronomy Ted Fritz, is that it can be modified quickly to meet unforeseen needs.
"You could in days or weeks configure the satellite and get it into orbit," says Fritz, who is the primary investigator on the BUSAT project. "You could quickly plug a new instrument into it, say to meet a battlefield need, and launch it. Plug and play could be used in other satellites. It has a lot of potential."
Fortunately, research administrators at the U.S. Air Force also see the potential in BUSAT's modular design. The Air Force funded BUSAT's development with a two-year grant as part of a 10-team competition to launch a satellite into space. While the BU team did not win the competition, which ended in January, the team's presentation at the competition's final event captured the attention of administrators at the Air Force Research Laboratories.
Administrators at the AFRL agreed to fund an additional two years of development for BUSAT, at the end of which time the Air Force will decide whether to launch the satellite into orbit.
In awe of the Aurora
The BUSAT team's research goal is to study auroral activity in Earth's atmosphere by recording auroral light intensity in the northern polar region. Team members aim to create 3-D images of the aurora in order to better understand its behavior.
"If you have ever seen the aurora, it makes you very humble," says Fritz, who is also affiliated with the electrical, computer, and mechanical engineering programs at ENG. "You look up and see all those patterns swirling around, and you say to yourself 'I'm trying to explain that as a scientist.'"
Another team of BU researchers, also headed by Fritz and based in the Center for Space Physics, is creating a next-generation version of BUSAT. Using a similar modular design, the ANDESITE project is just getting off the ground. The ANDESITE team has received a two-year Air Force grant and will be competing against nine other design teams to have its satellite launched into orbit. Like BUSAT, ANDESITE will be solar-powered and consist of small cubes. However, the cubes will fly in tight formation rather than being connected to each other. Like BUSAT, ANDESITE will fly through the auroral zone to study the structure of auroras.
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In this online exclusive gallery, we offer more colored pencil drawings by spring 2008 featured artist Dee Overly.
2007, colored pencil, 8½ x 7.
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MS. OVERLY SEEMS TO HAVE A GOOD COMMAND OF THE PENCIL, HOWEVER, SHE NEEDS TO PUT MORE ATTENTION ON COMPOSITION.
1. The frog is almost lost in the firstt piece. A norrower piece of wood or a cozier nook for the frog to be hiding.
2. The water droplet is great in "Rain Beads" but a warm background and/or a darker backgroud would really make the raindrop pop.
3. Shadows are ncie in "Peaches" but the peaches are dead center and the center of interest is confusing.
4. "Seasonal compliments" is nicely done, but I would have like to see some edges or something more interesting happening in/on the green leaf.
5."Shooters and Ducks" is nice. Is that the bag they are falling out of in the top right corner? I also would like to see more reflected light coming through the marbles onto the table.
6. Slice of Life" needs a better composition. The garlic is Floating.
7. Blazing Sky is nicely done w/color, but no center of interest and not sure if it is a sky or s omething else. What is the blue shape?
Over all, The pieces get a "Good".
Keep up the good work. Don't stop creating art.
I must say up front that I'm a big fan of Ms. Overly's work. I check out her website fairly regularly. I<|fim_middle|> make a few comments about the points above.
1. I think the whole point of the piece is "Hiding." I'd say it was her intention for the frog not to be standing out.
3. What I like about her drawings of fruit is that it makes you want to reach out and pick it up. You can see the peach fuzz which I find fascinating (being a collector and not an artist myself). On her website she also has pieces with apples, pears and a lemon. The realism is amazing. I think that's what she's going for if you read her artist's statement.
7. I think the bird in the lower left center denotes it as a sky piece.
I find her work to be maturing all the time. Her figurative pieces, as you can see on her website, are amazing.
I have been fortunate enought to see Ms. Overly's work in person and, quite simply, it's AMAZING. Photographs of her work cannot and do not do it justice. Many of her pieces actually have a realistic, almost 3 dimentional feeling and the detail is unbelieveable. If you ever get the chance to see her work in person, don't pass it up.
the rain beads pic was amazing , looks like a photograph i would have never in a million years be able to pull it off! | 'd | 1 |
Amazon's Echo Show adds video news
Dan O'Shea
Amazon's video-enabled Echo Show device now features video news content from Seattle area CBS affiliate KIRO, according to a TV Technology report.
Users of the Alexa-powered Echo Show can watch the video briefings by asking the device, "Alexa, what's the news?" The TV station, a neighbor, relative-speaking, to Seattle-based Amazon, already offers audio news flash briefings via an Alexa skill developed for Amazon's Echo and Dot devices.
The video flash briefings, which are about a minute and a half to two minutes<|fim_middle|> their own skills for the Echo Show.
Since the device launched, Amazon, in typical fashion, has not said much about how it's selling, but certainly a key to healthy sales will be Amazon's ability to get the Echo Show embedded into its owners' everyday lives by offering useful capabilities. This will be particularly important as Amazon's Echo product family faces increasing competition from the likes of Apple and Google.
Amazon wants to make its Echo devices indispensable to owners and users. For the original Echo device, that means continuing to improve the platform, while giving users as many reasons as possible to use it as a device for commerce.
For the Echo Show, the key may lie in making the device a gateway to useful, informative or entertaining video content (though it remains to be seen how it might develop further as a mechanism for ordering from Amazon). The recently launched capability for connecting to cameras in a smart home is one way to make the device more useful in a practical sense. But, one way to make it more interesting for information and entertainment purposes is by working with partners that have video content that Echo Show owners will care about.
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Getting sales tax ready for 2021: Simplifying sales tax compliance for retail companies | long, are produced locally by KIRO's primary production team and news anchors. They are similar to regular TV news briefings, though video images may be altered to fit the Echo Show screen.
This is not the first time a TV station or network has developed a video skill for the new Echo Show. CNN, Bloomberg and CNBC developed and released similar news flash briefing skills for the device within weeks after Amazon made the device available for purchase.
While KIRO isn't the first news flash video skill for the device, what matters is that the new Echo iteration, less than four months old, is drawing skill development from a variety of areas (the Food Network and movie ticket maven Fandango being two others). KIRO's new skill may show smaller, more local-level businesses a way forward for developing | 161 |
The best way to put weight on a horse (beside 24/7 access to good hay)?
Beet pulp is great. It's a cool feed so your horse won't get excitable like they would on other feeds. I've also had good luck feeding it with rice bran<|fim_middle|>. It's easy to add in fat supplements and get the horse to gain weight, but in turn it's possible that you're just masking a problem. It's always great to talk to a nutritionist to make sure you're filling in all the gaps in his diet. Some horses are truly hard keepers, but in most situations with tons of good hay, the right grain, and possibly some supplemented vitamins and minerals, a horse won't need you to add fat.
We've used Beet Pulp and a 1/2 cup ish (glug) of Canola Oil. Others use Bran and Oil.
Seminole ultra bloom worked really well for my horse. | .
I've personally had very good experience with Amplify, but make sure you're getting down to the cause of the weight loss or failure to gain | 30 |
Even Jim Harbaugh's Wife Hates His $8 Walmart Khakis
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It's an sad fact<|fim_middle|> just go into any reputable retailer and spend more than eight dollars on anything. Your wife will be glad.
But Sarah did say that Jim might be amenable to some changes during the offseason. So good luck, Jim. And if you end up hoisting that trophy and feel like a new man? Hit us up, man. There's a Project Upgrade with your name on it.
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Related Stories for GQPantsGQ SportsFootballNFLSan Francisco 49ers | of life that one doesn't have to be stylish to be successful. And with his team one win away from a second straight Super Bowl appearance, San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh has decided to go the route of former athletes, dotcom billionaires, and Bill Belichick before him, by refusing to ditch those pleated, wedding train-sized dad khakis. It's gotten so bad that Harbaugh's wife felt the need to speak on the matter, to SF-area station 99.7 NOW:
"I've thrown them away many of times. I've asked him 'Please, pleats are gone. Wear the flat front.'" she explained to Fernando and Greg, "He has a flattering body."
Sarah also explained that she called in because Jim's fashion mistakes reflect poorly on her own sense of fashion.
"I do have style," Sarah explained. "I might be from the Mid-West, but I have some style."
You hear that, Jim? You're making her look bad. Now, we get it. Coaches are superstitious creatures of habit, never mind the part where they have to stand through four-hour games and summer two-a-days through the cold and rain. Comfort is a good thing. But c'mon, unless you're this guy, that's more spaciousness than any normal man needs. Now, normally we'd go into offering alternatives for our unfortunate parachute-panted friend (like this, or this), but really, this is an any-harbor-in-a-storm-type deal. Jim, | 312 |
Nobody really knows how good the Tennessee Vols will be in 2018.
Most of that has to do with rookie head coach Jeremy<|fim_middle|> Yet, I can't help but think the Vols will attempt to limit West Virginia's possession by running the ball.
Can't navigate to next page because ads cover the links. | Pruitt. We have an idea of what type of team he wants to field, but until the Vols actually play under him in a real game, we're stuck guessing.
The consensus appears to be that Tennessee will win somewhere between five and seven regular season games. Taking everything into account, that's reasonable.
But could the Vols win more?
Here are Tennessee's chances of winning each game they play this season.
This score has certainly been a slow burner.
On one hand, West Virginia returns its starting quarterback — Will Grier — and an assortment of weapons for him to throw to. Meanwhile, Tennessee's secondary is arguably the team's biggest question mark outside of quarterback.
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Mountaineers will put up 42 points and gain nearly 600 yards of offense. That's a realistic possibility.
But if there's anything we know about college football, it's that opening weekend is wildly unpredictable. Without a preseason, teams don't have an opportunity to work out the kinks in meaningless games, and let's face it, West Virginia went 7-6 last season, not 15-0.
Maybe the score is too high because it's Jeremy Pruitt's debut as a head coach, and he didn't exactly replace a juggernaut. | 260 |
This comes as a PDF file and documents numerous Strand7 benchmark models and results. Each benchmark is also included as a Strand7 file - over 300 Strand7 files are included.
Under a multi-tasking environment like Windows, there is always an opportunity to improve an application's usage of resources such as memory. Further tuning of Strand7's memory usage has resulted in improved solver performance (about 20% faster than Release 1.05), particularly for large models.
The bandwidth minimizer has been improved and now gives a new measure of the required memory, the "Maximum memory index". Minimize this value to minimize the amount of memory required by the solver.
Sometimes, due to modelling operations, the mid-side nodes of quadratic elements (Plates and Bricks) are located at positions that are outside acceptable limits, possibly resulting in a singular element. This new tool automatically places the mid-side nodes at the geometric mean of the corner nodes. It also considers curved elements: in this case, the mid-side nodes are located on a cylindrical or spherical surface as appropriate.
Master-Slave links may now be defined in any UCS. This greatly enhances the capability of the Link element. All the UCS types (Cartesian, Cylindrical, Spherical, Toroidal) are supported.
A new selection option, "Select Free Entities" is used to locate any entity that is not connected to other entities. The option is particularly useful for finding free-floating beam elements and contact elements.
The setting of the selection mode (Additive or Exclusive) is now easily accessible via a toggle button on the main tool bar.
The Nonlinear Transient solver can now automatically reduce the time step to better capture the behaviour of contact problems.
Forces between nodes connected through links can now be included in the node reaction calculation.
This is particularly important for generating stress contours of automatically generated tetrahedral brick meshes.
The two grade options shown may be applied to both plate and brick elements.
A single checkbox, "Add Undeformed" on the Displacement Scale Dialogue box now allows you to automatically superimpose both the deformed and undeformed meshes. With this option<|fim_middle|> release, DXF layers are mapped to and from Strand7 groups and DXF colours are mapped to and from Strand7 property types.
When exporting Strand7 beam models to the DXF format, a new option allows you to export the beam elements as Line, Section or Solid format. Section and Solid formats generate the full beam geometry so that it may be rendered in AutoCAD.
All the tools that support a property increment (i.e. Copy, Extrude, etc.) now allow the property increment to be negative.
The Takeup Gap can be used to simulate a takeup device. Such a device allows motion only in one direction, the free direction, as illustrated in the figure below.
This is different to the other contact types, such as Normal Gap where motion can occur in the fixed direction as long as motion has already occurred in the free direction. The Takeup Gap never allows motion in the fixed direction, irrespective of the amount of movement in the free direction. The fixed direction can be set via the Tension/Compression attribute. A more detailed explanation can be found in the online help.
All element property types now support the variation of modulus, stiffness and conductivity with time, in nonlinear transient (including heat transfer) solutions. This attribute can be useful for simulating the behaviour of structures where the material stiffness changes with time. An example is the curing of concrete.
You can now set two numeric display formats, one set for the pre-processing and another for the post-processing mode. This eliminates the need to continually change these settings whenever result files are opened and closed.
Whenever a friction coefficient greater than or equal to 1 is specified in the Point Contact property input, the frictional force transferred across the Point Contact is now not limited to the product of friction coefficient and axial force. This is a special mode that allows the modelling of contacts where once contact is established, no slip can occur.
The new Connection beam type provides a simple mechanism to link any or all degrees of freedom between two nodes via a specified stiffness. This is similar to the Master/Slave link except that the connection is flexible not a rigid one. The Connection beam can be used in both linear and nonlinear analyses. For nonlinear analysis, each stiffness value may be coupled to a nonlinear Stiffness vs Displacement table. The element supports both nonlinear elastic and elasto-plastic behaviour. Note that this is not a beam element and therefore the relationship between shear and bending (i.e. V=dM/dx) does not apply.
The Natural Frequency solver can now calculate the mass participation factor of each mode in any specified direction. This information can be used in other modal analyses such as harmonic or spectral response.
A new attribute on all the element property sets, the Damping Ratio, is now available. This is a dimensionless value (unlike Viscous Damping), that can be used to define the damping ratio for each material type. The Natural Frequency solver can use these values to determine the effective modal damping ratio for each mode. These data can then be used in other modal analyses such as harmonic and spectral response.
The axes of any result graph can now be normalised.
The "Angles" dialogue box now includes additional preset angles so that each preset now has a Front and a Back option.
The axis lables of any result graph can now be changed.
The extrude tool now provides a list of available beam properties for selecting the target of extruded nodes.
Plate offsets can now be automatically assigned by an amount equal to half the thickness. This is particularly useful for offsetting the outer surfaces of adjoining plates of different thickness as is typical in molded components.
* Undefined plies can now be inserted in the stack. These are ignored by the solver and the post-processing tools, but can be useful to insert so that a specific layer number is consistent across laminates with different number of plies.
* The engineering properties are dynamic and update automatically whenever a change is made to the lay-up. This allows easy checking and tuning of lay-ups.
* The lay-up display can be printed.
* Laminates now accept a user-defined transverse shear stiffness.
Both the Result Listings and Online Editor windows allow you to sort data in columns. It can be useful to be able to select entities with stress above a given value (say). By using the Results Listings window and sorting the data on the required column, you can then highlight the desired entities and automatically select them via the "Select Highlighted" option of the right-click popup. Upon closing the Results Listings window, these elements will be selected in the graphical display.
When offsets have been applied, both beam and plate elements can now indicate the nodes to which the element is connected, by selecting the option in the Element Display dialogue box.
In addition to the local plate (x-y) axes directions, the material axis directions of each ply can be displayed. This is available in both pre-processing and post-processing modes. Simply set the desired ply number and the corresponding material axes are shown for that ply.
All elements may now be displayed in wireframe mode, in the colour of the group.
For all tools that project to a line, the "Equi-space" option can be used to ensure that the target nodes are equally spaced along the target line. This also works with extrusions generating quadratic elements - the mid-side nodes are correctly spaced.
The Linear Static solver now allows you to select which load cases are to be solved.
The angle between the plate's local x-axis and the direction of the maximum principal stress is available in the Result Listings and in the element Peeking.
Deformed displays can now be relative to another node. This is particularly useful to visualize the local displacements that occur on a part of the structure that is undergoing a large rigid body displacement. In this case, greatly exaggerating the displacement scale is not useful, however, setting the movement relative to another node (the Reference node) clearly exaggerates the local deformations.
The new Pipe beam element allows the modelling of straight or curved pipes with circular cross-section.
* Internal and external pressure.
* Internal and external temperature.
* Arbitrary radius, effectively modelling a curved beam.
In addition to the standard material properties, pipe element properties also support a "Fexibility Factor" that reduces the flexural stiffness of the pipe, and a "Fluid Density" attribute used in the calculation of the mass of fluid inside the pipe.
Similarly to the beam elements, plate element edges may release their rotational stiffness along an edge, effectively generating a hinged edge connection. This simplifies the modelling of hinged connections.
When contours of Strain Energy Density are requested, the total energy in the system is now also reported.
Similarly to showing and hiding elements by property, links can now be shown/hidden based on type.
The axial translational release of beams is now available in geometric nonlinear analysis.
Links can now be easily changed from one type to another or their attributes changed by using the "Edit Link Type" tool. The retrieve option, Ctrl-Click, also works here easily enabling you to extract the current attributes of any link, make changes and re-Apply.
Any number of solutions can be placed on a batch queue for solving in sequence at a later time.
Nodal quantities such as displacement, velocity, acceleration, etc. can now be graphed relative to another node. This will make it possible to show relative displacement, velocity or acceleration between nodes.
Beam elements, when used in elasto-plastic analysis can now conform to one of three different hardening rules: Isotropic Hardening, Kinematic Hardening and hardening based on the Takeda model. Previously only isotropic hardening was supported. More information about the differences between these can be found in the online help files.
This tool is used to automatically split intersecting beam elements. It is very useful when importing frameworks constructed in CAD systems and the intersections have not been created. A single execution of the tool is able to detect and create multiple intersections occurring in any element.
Nodes can now be shown or hidden based on the visibility of groups.
The 11 and 22 axes can now be swapped to allow easier placement and orientation of BXS sections.
You can now assign a Frequency vs Factor table to each load case included in a harmonic analysis. This is used to scale the applied load as a function of frequency.
The increment labels used to define the nonlinear load increments are now available in the Result Case drop-down list during post processing.
A new 2-point option allows the arbitrary orientation of the Theta=Zero direction of cylindrical coordinate systems located on the global Cartesian planes.
The iterations in the Natural Frequency and Linear Buckling solvers can now be terminated at the end of any iteration. The result files are created at the end of the current iterations even if all modes have not converged. This can be very useful in situations where the high-order modes cannot converge whilst the low-order modes have converged.
The thickness of most attributes (e.g. node forces) can now be specified. This is particularly useful when printing to high resolution printers.
A new tool can be used to automatically create a series of beam elements where the section geometry is linearly interpolated between values specified at the ends. The tool will search the beam properties to find a beam section that matches the specific requirement - if the required section cannot be found, a new one is automatically generated.
Groups that do not contain entities can now be automatically deleted.
The file browser now gives more information about the available models, including information about available result files - this is shown graphically via a small contour legend symbol and also in the right-click popup/Information.
All screen, entity and attribute settings can be stored to a defaults file so that each new model will utilize those defaults. You can configure the default colours, including the background, the size and type of element and attribute displays and other preferences you may like to set as defaults. Multiple configuration files can exists and you can select, modify or create a new one, at any time.
In addition to the previously available velocity and acceleration vectors, you can now plot vectors of displacement.
The Strand7 Animator has received a general overhaul. In particular, the animator is now less attached to Strand7 - you can animate multiple models simultaneously and the animator window can be resized on-the-fly. In addition, you can now save a self-running animation that can be run on any computer and does not need Strand7. This will make the distribution of results to clients even easier.
When you perform cut-copy-paste operations within Strand7's internal clipboard to paste entities and attributes, you can now use the "Match Group Names" option to ensure that elements are pasted into groups with the same name - even multi-level group hierarchies are correctly mapped.
Although Strand7's general-purpose envelope function can be used to find envelopes of virtually any quantity, a new function in the Transient solver provides a summary in the log file, of result maxima over the specified time domain.
Rayleigh damping can now be specified by directly entering the Rayleigh constants. The input of frequencies and damping ratios is still available.
Plate elements (Quad8 and Quad9) in Plane Stress, Plane Strain and Axisymmetric solutions can now be under-integrated. This can be useful in Elasto-plastic analyses.
This now allows the input of 3 components. In addition to the previously available x and y values, a z value can now be entered for plane strain and axisymmetric elements. | , you can also print the superimposed display.
Previously, Strand7 launched Notepad or Wordpad as a way to view the solver log files. This approach was adequate for small files, such as those for linear static solutions, but for very long log files, such as nonlinear or transient solutions, it was often cumbersome. The new Log File Viewer provides a series of options allowing you to quickly show specific parts of the log file and hide others. In the example shown in the figure, only the convergence history for a nonlinear solution has been displayed.
Viewports define a new way to show and hide parts of the model. Viewports in Strand7 can be defined in any UCS, and any number of Viewports can be defined. For each Viewport, you can choose whether entities inside or outside the Viewport are to be Shown/Hidden. This mechanism provides a very powerful way to view different parts of the model at the same time. Viewports can be used in conjunction with or independently of Show/Hide by Group, by Selected, by Unselected and by Property.
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In the case of Novikova v. Lyzo, 2019 ONSC 264, the Applicant mother sought to invalidate a divorce granted in Russia, an increase in temporary spousal support, and an increase in temporary child support. The Respondent father asked that summary judgment be awarded to uphold the divorce, terminate the spousal support obligation, and reduce child support.
The parties commenced cohabitation in September 2005 and married three years later in the Russian Federation. They separated on December 1, 2015. They share two children together, ages 5 and 8. The parties and their children are permanent residents in Canada.
While in Russia visiting his mother, the Respondent father filed for divorce. The Russian divorce was finalized on June 8, 2016, with an appeal period of 30 days. The Respondent father remarried in July, 2017.
The Respondent father argued that the Russian divorce was properly obtained and should be validated. He relied on Section 22(3) of the Divorce Act and said he had a "substantial connection" with the Russian Federation. He further argued that the Applicant wife received appropriate notice of the divorce because the paperwork was sent to her registered Russian Federation address by registered mail. The Respondent father also claimed that the Russian divorce extinguished the Applicant mother's entitlement to spousal support. He sought that child support be adjusted on the basis that the children resided with him half of the time.
The Applicant mother, on the other hand, took the position that the Russian divorce was improperly obtained and should not be recognized. The Applicant mother's parents lived at the address on record with the Russian Federation, however, they refused to accept the registered mail as it was not addressed to them. The Applicant mother alleged that the Respondent obtained the Russian divorce to purposely extinguish her right to spousal support.
In Russia, the parties' divorce was adjourned due to no proof of service. It was then adjourned a second time because of the non-appearance of the parties. Finally, on June 8, 2016, the Russian Tribunal granted the divorce.
Both parties relied on correspondence from lawyers in Russia. Rule 16(5) of the Family Law Rules, which deals with all evidence on summary judgment motions, states the following:
If a party's evidence is not from a person who has personal knowledge of the facts in dispute, the court may draw conclusions unfavourable to the party.
Based on Rule 16(5), the judge noted that there was nothing in the correspondence from the lawyers setting out the Russian law as to whether or not the Applicant mother would be entitled to<|fim_middle|> the Respondent father did not remarry until more than a year after the separation of the parties, one can assume that he obtained the divorce in Russia to defeat the Applicant mother's claim to spousal support. Furthermore, based on the lack of notice provided to the Applicant mother, the judge ruled that the Russian divorce must be set aside.
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The correspondence from the Respondent father's lawyer explained his opinion of the applicable law, however, the law itself with a translation was not appended. The judge also noted that the Respondent father knew precisely where the Applicant mother was living at all times in Ontario. He had an obligation to serve her with the documents but failed to properly do so.
The judge found that since | 81 |
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on the kickoff to the 2016 New York Auto Show Volkswagen debuted its 2017 Golf all-wheel-drive edition called Alltrack, which is baded upon the Golf SportWagen.
Alltrack's defining characteristic is the 4MOTION® all-wheel-drive system found on other stablemates. The 4MOTION all-wheel drive system uses the latest generation Haldex-5 coupling, activated via an electro-hydraulic oil pump. In normal driving, the Alltrack acts like a front-wheel-drive car for better fuel economy, but as soon as the system detects wheel slip, up to 50 percent of the drive torque can be shipped to the rear wheels.
In addition to the Haldex coupling that acts longitudinally, electronic differential locks (EDL) at the front and<|fim_middle|> 1,500 copies to be built with such enhanced features as a custom-designed aero kit with a rear spoiler and side fender garnish, TRD Quad Tip Exhaust System, TRD lowering springs and Smart Key with Push Button Start and Yuzu exterior paint color.
The series offers either a 6-speed manual or a 6-speed automatic transmission with paddle shifters and Dynamic Rev Management® technology. The manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) will start under $30,000, excluding the delivery, processing and handling (DPH) fee of $755.
Each vehicle will feature its sequential release series badge (1 of 1500) on its brushed aluminum shifter surround plate. The cars are expected to arrive in dealerships in August. | rear axles act laterally in concert with the electronic stability control system. The system briefly brakes a wheel that is slipping, enabling uninterrupted and stable transfer of drive power to the wheel on the opposite side. The Golf Alltrack also features nearly an inch higher ground clearance over the SportWagen.
When the New York Auto show debuts, the Toyota FR-S will be shown off as the Toyota 86, boasting interior and exterior changes with suspension and powertrain upgrades. The new 86 will go on sale this fall.
The Honda fans have been waiting for a hatch to rival the old days for a while and the automaker has put out a teaser photo of just what they may see in showrooms.
Honda said the Honda Civic Hatchback Prototype will make its North American debut in New York on March 22, just ahead of the 2016 New York International Auto Show. The Civic Hatchback Prototype showcases the new design of the 2017 Civic Hatchback, launching late this year as the third new Civic variant in what is billed as the sportiest and most expansive Civic lineup ever, including the 2016 Sedan and Coupe and still-to-come Civic Si variants and radical new Civic Type R.
Motorists will note that the current Honda Fit and the Honda CRZ are hatchbacks as well.
Additional details about the Civic Hatchback Prototype will be available on YouTube at www.youtube.com/honda on March 22 at 2:20 p.m. EST. For the latest information about the 10th-Generation Honda Civic Sedan and Coupe, please visit http://hondanews.com/channels/civic.
TORRANCE, Calif., March 18, 2015 – One look at Scion won't be enough for guests attending the New York International Auto Show. It will take two looks (or more) to see the World Debuts from Scion. Both the Scion iM and the newly named Scion iA will be revealed on the eve of the show, March 31, 2015.
The Scion iM is a 5-door hatchback that combines maximum versatility with a sporty design and a fun-to-drive experience.
Meanwhile the Scion iA sedan is designed to appeal to young people who need a little more practicality, but still want engaging styling and outstanding driving dynamics.
The "i" in the models' names can stand for intriguing, individual, and easy on customers' income. The "M" reflects the hatchback's modern style and multi-faceted uses. Meanwhile the "A" for the sedan denotes the accommodating trunk and the aggressive styling.
There's some interesting news out of New York with Ford and its chairman, Bill Ford, spoke with Bloomberg TV's Matt Miller about the new Mustang and F-150.
Below follows some parsed remarks on several tops for a quick hit and here's a link that will take you to the interview, courtesy of Bloomberg TV.
On the succession plan at Ford, he said "One of the things that Alan and I have talked about really since he hired in is how important it is for a great CEO to also have a great transition…the final act of a great CEO is having a great transition." He declined to say if Mark Fields would succeed Mulally.
"We're going to reveal that one a little bit. And by the way, I've signed all 1,964 — well, they are on a plaque. I signed the plaque. And then each plaque will be numbered so you will know what number you have and it will be very cool.
"We have got a great team. One of the things that Alan and I have talked about really since he hired in is how important it is for a great CEO to also have a great transition. And so we feel our team is really good and really deep and very experienced. So and it is interesting, a lot of great CEOs leave and then there is chaos behind them. And Alan and I have talked about that, the importance of the final act of a great CEO is having a great transition.
There's little surprise, really, that after the successful launch of the Toyota FR-S/Subaru BRZ that a more sporting edition would eventually arrive. Today, it has.
Scio, aka Toyota's hip-hop happening' arm, added some of Toyota's Racing Development or TRD tweaks to reveal the FR-S Release Series 1.0 at the NY Auto Show.
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... Then I realized I wasn't a fan of the baseboards that didn't go with the white trim of the new windows<|fim_middle|> resurrect the cabinetry. It was all original to the house, and due to a time crunch, we opted to restore them to their original state and shine. You can see a peek of their result in the top right corner. Light just bounced off the surfaces, and seemed to follow us throughout the room.
With the exception of touching up paint, the remodel is finished! Tomorrow I'll post the final tour. | , and the doors were lacking the 6-panel aesthetic we prefer.
... Next came Landen's bedroom and the bathroom makeover. Now, we're wrapping up our project list and closing in on the satisfying finish line.
1. Painting the downstairs 3/4-bath. It was yellow. Still completely functional, and we opted to keep everything as you see it, except for the color scheme.
I'm not afraid of color, but this sunny bathroom wasn't cohesive with the rest of the house. With leftover paint, I gave it a familiar gray hue. And bonus - since the vanity and baseboards were already white, a quick touch-up was all that was needed.
After about two days, we had this. A pair of sunglasses is no longer needed!
2. New flooring in the entry/kitchen/dinette. I love this flooring. I love it so much I'm going to keep a sample and install it in every house I live in from here on out. Hopefully it's never discontinued, because I'm not joking.
Still a mess, but THOSE FLOORS!
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Air pollution remains a silent killer in the capital, with deadly particles contributing to diabetes, dementia, heart disease and causing problems for children in the womb. Munira's petition called on the Government to take the dangers of air pollution more seriously, by bringing the UK's air pollution targets in line with 2005 World Health Organisation standards.
This comes with the launch of a nationwide survey to understand how air pollution has impacted the public all over the country.
Munira said:
"The Conservative Government has continuously failed to tackle air pollution which disproportionately affects the most vulnerable in our society. The fact they haven't dropped plans to expand Heathrow airport shows there is little substance behind their promises to tackle the climate emergency and cut air pollution.
The success of my petition has shown that introducing safer air pollution limits has proved popular across Twickenham. It's a crucial step forward to improve the health and lives of people locally as well as millions across the UK.
The people of Twickenham should not have to put up with inadequate Tory policies that are failing to protect their health. This debate I will be leading in Parliament on behalf of local residents is a step forward towards a cleaner, healthier future."
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The Arctic Ocean is of great<|fim_middle|>ating and holidaying, to play our part in protection the waters that give us so much joy and pleasure. | importance to us here at Nanaimo, as it is linked with the North Pacific which we enjoy daily, via the Bering Sea. So, we wanted to take some time to look at one of the greatest challenges the Arctic is facing at the moment; plastic.
Now this of course, is not a new problem. But it is one that is becoming increasingly pressing, and increasingly widespread. In September, a research team from Exeter University in England, found that plastic is polluting even the most remote ice flows of the Arctic.
The Arctic Mission party discovered blocks of polystyrene in areas of ocean covering hundreds of kilometres, which was recently covered by ice all years around. Take a moment to let that image sink in. This unfathomable find was merely 1000 miles from the north pole. Once where ice dominated, now the highly irritating and environmentally cataclysmic poly-plastic stands. Incomprehensible. Plastic is so threatening to the oceans ecosystem because it breaks down into microplastics which are ingested by creatures large and small, which we as humans then eat. This plastic catastrophe is literally affecting every living organism in the world.
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Posted by ✓ Sariah Amelie Holloway ~Admin~ on November 11, 2019 at 21:46 in Complete/Keep Roleplays
It had been about an hour or so since she first arrived at the bar, makeup done, nice dress, really making an effort for a girl's night out. Flashback to earlier in the day and Sariah had been complaining about how she didn't want to leave the house but her friend Holland had convinced her that she spent far too much time being a homebody and convinced her to come to this karaoke bar. Thankfully the drinks were on 2 for 1 all the night most of the cocktails tasted really great so it had been easy-drinking tonight but Sariah still kinda felt out of place in a bar of all places.
The singing had been hit or miss, a few people who were really good and got the crowd going but then there were others that kinda gave her a headache but she found herself singing along to the songs most of the night anyway, it wasn't the worst way to spend an evening, her slightly tipsy mind had decided but about an hour in her friend was nowhere to be found. She knew better than to go and look for her considering she had been eyeing some guy from across the bar for most of the evening and he was conveniently out of sight too so the blonde decided she would need to entertain herself.<|fim_middle|> the date being blind is probably never a good foot to get off on" she admitted with a shrug of her shoulders, she found most people who went on those kinds of dates were looking for one thing and when they realized they weren't going to get it, they moved onto the next available person. "I think the only one of those which worked out for me was because my friends organized and they knew he was a decent guy" she laughed under her breath slightly "Unfortunately it turns out you actually have to leave your house if you want to find a good date" she pouted a little because she much preferred the comfort of her own home. "Sure I'll take a cranberry vodka" she responded as she wanted the other blonde saunter off in the direction of the bar and laughed to herself, making herself comfortable against the bar stool.
"The only problem with finding someone good is that you constantly feel like it's some kind of trick, like something is going to come along and ruin it all" and she was probably justified to feel that way considering the number of times that something had come between her and Orion already, she had learned over the past year how hard it actually was to make a relationship work and yet here she was clinging to it as tightly as she could. It occurred to her that Sofi was very stubborn and headstrong, she wasn't sure whether it was the alcohol or just her personality talking but here she was up on the stage with the beginning music to the song playing, glaring at the blonde with an unimpressed look. Still, she started singing along with the track, it was just about in tune but there was no way she could ever do the classic the justice it deserved so she was flustered pretty much the whole time, thankfully most of the tables were just singing along to the music though which set aside her nerves just a little.
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Hello, you need to enable JavaScript to use Eternal City RP. | She had considered going up to sing herself but changed her mind deciding she wasn't nearly drunk enough for that.
She got to her feet, dancing her way through the crowd of the people at the bar and ordering herself another two glasses of the passionfruit cocktail she'd been drinking all evening when she spotted a familiar face sitting by herself on the other side. Sariah wasn't exactly close with any of the other ambassadors but she had spent enough time with them to know them on some level and Sofi seemed a little down. Perhaps her better judgment would have left the Initia ambassador be and gone to dance alone but Sariah figured if anyone could understand her need to wind down it was another ambassador.
She headed over to where she was sitting and hopped up onto a barstool next to her before tilting her head slightly to the side "I was going to make some witty comment about being at a bar all alone on a Saturday night and then I had a second thought" considering she had now been ditched by her friend she was technically in the same boat. "So I've decided we are going to make a pact to not look like sad lonely people together" she spoke as she slid her second drink she bought in front of her as a peace offering "What do you say?" well it wasn't exactly the way she intended to get to know the Initia ambassador outside of work but it seemed like a logical plan to her in her slightly tipsy mind.
InitiaPermalink Reply by ✓ Sofi Zahara ~Admin~ on November 17, 2019 at 7:40
The last thing anyone would expect to find the Grand Master of the Initia tribe to do is wasting herself at a bar. Well, technically, she wasn't wasting herself out. Sofi wasn't that drunk, albeit slightly tipsy but the blonde could still think properly and rationally which meant everything was still fine and under control. The last place anyone would find her to be at, of all days, is here, right where she is at; a bar. Why not today? Because it's the anniversary of her lover's death. Her first one, someone who never escaped her thoughts even when it's been over 20 years of passing. So venturing off to one of the bars in the eternal city to drink her sorrows away on a very sad night where she had once found her lover's dead body after coming home. The past few weeks had been unsurprisingly hectic and busy for the Psychic Master, who had found not one, but two potential diversified Initia students who wished to train in the arts of the Psychic element. Of course, Sofi being Sofi wouldn't say yes outrightly without having them take her test first.
She had also called upon the council and discussed with them regarding her idea of modifying their training system, especially for the younger ones who had not yet gone through their initiation ceremony and those who have. To nurture them from a young age is one of the goals she had written down. Thankfully, the meeting was then dismissed with a few good ideas from the others who was also under the impression that change must come slowly for it to become a norm in the future. So Sofi had been working on other ideas while also checking out the new place in Evermore General that would serve as her office once she checks in as their new neuropsychologist. It was a hectic work line, she knew that. But Sofi wasn't about to sit back in her office at the faction house 24/7 only. She needed a few things that would disseminate the good factors of herself while not focusing on one place only. Returning to her line of work as a neuropsychologist gave her that sense of normalcy. So long as she gets to manage her timetable, it should be fine.
It was why she was fiddling with the fries that was still untouched, staring at the table as if it would crack in half anytime soon. She did bother to dress up a bit since it was supposed to be a spontaneous trip to the bar. Sofi had donned a sleeveless dress which would have revealed her shoulders if it wasn't covered by her coat still, though that one was nearly off her body with how she was mulling. The sudden intrusion for the night wasn't surprising nor was it to be unexpected, though what really did make it unexpected was the person sitting across her just so happened to be the human ambassador. "What if I'm not a sad lonely person?" she raised her eyebrows questioningly before averting her gaze to the glass that was still yet to be filled again, "Okay… maybe for tonight that's true." There was no harm in this, right? Instead of drinking the night away and going home with a potential one night stand, she could take the chance to get to know the human ambassador better. "Fine." She made a gesture with her hand, indicating that Sariah was welcomed to join her. "What is the human ambassador doing in a bar on a Saturday night though? That's what I'd like to know."
HumanPermalink Reply by ✓ Sariah Amelie Holloway ~Admin~ on November 17, 2019 at 14:46
Anyone that said Sariah didn't really fit in with this particular setting was probably right, she had never really been a party girl, but she had to admit she did like having the excuse to dress up in one of her favorite dresses and have fun. Well she was having fun until her friend had upped and left her for some guy anyway, she couldn't really be mad considering how long Holland had been single though, she deserved it but the human ambassador wasn't exactly the best at being a social butterfly and talking to strangers. Sofi though, she knew her, not very well really because they'd only spoke in ambassador meetings but she knew how to recognize someone who looked sad and needed a little cheering up and Sariah had always been pretty good at doing that.
"You sound about as convincing as I would saying that" she spoke in a teasing tone as she sat herself on the stool and then smiled as she raised her drink to her lips and downed a decent amount of it "But no shame in it, with the lives we have to lead, I feel like alcohol is more of a necessity than a nicety" she shrugged slightly, she was definitely impartial to a glass of wine after work, that was for sure. "The human ambassador was dumb enough to let a friend convince her they were here for a girls night out, only to be ditched a few hours in because an attractive guy came along" she laughed because that sounded so like something that would happen to her and almost made her want to roll her eyes "But hey, least she's having fun" she commented with a wry grin.
She leaned against the bar and considered how to return the question, honestly Sofi looked really tired and upset tonight so she didn't want to be insensitive "I hope you don't mind a distraction, I mean I thought maybe you might want one since you were kinda looking around like you hoped the world might swallow you up" she nudged the drink she bought closer to her to imply she should take it before she was tempted to steal it back and then took another long drink of her own cocktail. "I am not very good at phrasing things normally and when alcohol gets in my system I lose the little ability to control it that I have" she smiled innocently hoping she wouldn't take the babbling too much to heart. She decided to randomly change the subject in the hopes to lighten the mood a bit "Cat person or dog person and why?" she narrowed her eyes at Sofi as though she expected an answer.
InitiaPermalink Reply by ✓ Sofi Zahara ~Admin~ on November 18, 2019 at 15:02
Finding the human ambassador in the bar she ventured to for tonight's occasion is definitely not what she expected at all. Outside of her usual formal setting, Sofi has never met any of the ambassadors in the eternal city so casually. They've probably met a few times because of the formalities but other than that, Sofi doesn't even venture much outside of the faction house. It was the same routine she had managed to keep on, strolling around to see how the Initia were progressing, sometimes tuning in to see how the practices go like any older sister. It had been a while since she assumed the seat as Grand Master so some people already knew who she was by now, though she made sure to keep a cool image of being their older sister rather than a leader they have to follow. To maintain a good relationship with them is her utmost priority. Meeting Sariah Holloway of all people, in the bar tonight? That was something to write in her journal.
She wasn't sure if she should pay attention to every word the human ambassador said or not but eventually listened to her properly. She may not owe her anything but hey, if she wants to take her mind off tonight, why not? Sofi will entertain her on that. Judging from the way Sariah was dressed, it gave her the impression that she was there for an occasion. But then again, so is she. Kind of. "True, alcohol is a nicety to us. I totally stoked a cabinet with a few bottles just to keep myself going." Guilty. She remembered when Rowan was helping her find the documents she needed and totally stumbled across her own stash. Sofi didn't have to say much though, because the two of them ended up drinking together that night. That's the best part about being friends with Rowan, he knows her well and she didn't need to explain herself to him. A chuckle escaped her when the human said she was ditched by a friend who dragged her here only to go off after being snatched, "Right. Can't blame her, huh? But if she's having fun, then what about you? Are you having fun? Sipping on cocktails doesn't count, by the way" she quipped cheekily and pointed at the glass she held.
She shook her head gently when she heard her, "Nope, I don't mind a distraction. I need one, for all we know I do not deserve to drink alone" Sariah wasn't the first person that comes to her mind when she thought about chatting her night away with, but she's not picky. And she seems like a good company. Sofi accepted the glass the human had pushed towards her and finished it quickly, thanking her faintly. The tipsy human ambassador was definitely in her cute zone right now and Sofi felt inclined to grin because it was so lighthearted, it felt like the other female had no worries. When asked whether she's a cat or dog person, Sofi narrowed her eyes slightly and shrugged, "Dogs. Because they're good companies and wouldn't scratch my eyes out while trying to bathe them. And they like belly rubs… cats would literally jump on me for trying to give them affection. You?" She started munching on the fries that was left untouched earlier, pushing it to Sariah, offering it to her if she wants them.
HumanPermalink Reply by ✓ Sariah Amelie Holloway ~Admin~ on November 19, 2019 at 0:12
She had to laugh when Sofi admitted that she kept some alcohol by for the stressful days "It's a wine subscription for me" she admitted with a laugh, though she always ended up drinking them not long after she got them and then having to buy more at the store later in the month. Quality wasn't quite the same but did the job well enough. Being an ambassador definitely had a toll on people, not just because the work was high stress and often involved having to fight metaphorical fires but also because you were constantly being watched and scrutinized for your work and that could make you self conscious, Sariah was especially bothered by the way the tabloids had taken to judging her personal life too. Sariah gave her a sheepish grin when she asked her if she was having fun "Not usually a party girl" she admitted with a gentle laugh "but the fruity drinks are definitely the highlight of the night so far which says a lot" with that she took another long drink of it.
"Good, because I should probably stay in case my friend gets herself into trouble but dancing by myself is also kinda miserable" curse her being a good person and wanting to stay out of duty but perhaps this would be her chance to get to know Sofi a little away from the formality of the ambassador meetings which were hardly the place for casual chats. Thankfully her and the Initia Grand Master had never really clashed on most topics. She widened her eyes when Sofi went to down the entire drunk she gave "Careful that's like 17%..." he paused before it was too late and she had already down the whole thing "Rum" she finished and pressed her lips together.
Sofi's answer to her question made her grin slightly, she liked animals but never really saw herself as an animal girl, she was sure most people like animals though unless they were afraid of them "Cats" she responded guiltily and grinned slightly "Never thought I'd be a cat person until I found a little one left on the side of the road last winter and brought her home, bane of my existence sometimes with her independence but I wouldn't be without her" Ada had come into Sariah's life at a good time "Though if I was going to choose a favorite animal it would be a penguin because have you seen how cute they are and they're a bird who totally suck at being a bird, which kinda reminds me of me sucking at being a human" she grinned slightly realizing she was overtalking again and went quiet.
"Fancy girl, I'm guessing" she shot playfully, wine seemed to be good but Sofi always found herself resorting to the harder case of the two because sometimes all the Initia Grand Master wanted to do was just to drink away and let loose. So she won't have to think about anything in that head of hers for that day. She was guessing that, Sariah, out of all people, would understand how stressful and pressuring an ambassador's duty can be to a person. Though, judging from tonight alone, Sofi could see that the human looked like she was about to have fun one way or another, which was a positive outlook of things too. She has only been here in the eternal city for a few months, give or take, and she was already tired out, which made her wonder how the woman sitting across her could juggle the work so effortlessly. It may not be as easy as she makes it out to be but it sure looks like she's doing a whole lot better than her.
When she said she wasn't a party girl, the blonde snorted and leaned her head against the side because that drink she took earlier was definitely slowly taking up her head right now, "You don't say." Oh, she's still fine. She thinks. "You look like you were about to party the entire world down though, nice dress" she chuckled, the dress looks good on her. "You can easily find someone to dance with, trust me you're that attractive enough to get a guy rolling on the floor, or girl" she turned to the side and then pointed to a few people having the time of their lives by dancing around the tables. Wild night, indeed. 17% rum? Sofi's eyes widened and made a small realization note as she murmured a soft "Oh." No wonder it felt heavy earlier. "I… I'm still fine, yeah" She reassured but why does it feel like she was trying to reassure herself instead of the human?
Animals are always such a comfort, Sofi brought her golden retriever puppy with her back home, the one she found shivering in the cold in front of the faction house a month ago. Though, she still has yet to name her. "I love dogs but I could never really have one until recently. I was always travelling around and bringing a pet along with you? It feels like too much work and it would be torturous for the little one too, I can't put them through that" The Psychic Initia was always moving around, learning and diversifying her own style so she could get a better hold on her element. Sariah's explanation to justify why she picked penguins as her favorite animal and why she wanted to be one was definitely the highlight of her night. "Tell me, how drunk are you to be talking about penguins? Better yet, are you drunk enough to be doing something you probably would be caught dead doing? If not, how drunk do you need to be?"
"Or future boozy housewife in the making" she countered her remark with a soft laugh, she liked what she liked and she didn't really mind what other people thought out about it "Kidding" she stated afterwards a playful glint in her eyes "I don't think I could take being at home all day, I'd go crazy, my mom always said I was so restless when I was younger, always wanting something to do, never shook that" which was probably why being an ambassador kinda fitted her really well, she was constantly working on something and really there were no quiet days where she was left twiddling her thumbs. It was exciting in a strange way, especially when you considered the danger and risk involved with the job role she did but Sariah felt up to the challenge and protecting this city, make it better bit by bit, it was fulfilling and she got the feeling that perhaps Sofi was a lot like her in that way.
"What's that supposed to mean?" she questioned when she said she was about to party the world down sarcastically "Are you suggesting I'm boring?" it was clear from her tone that she was joking around with the Initia ambassador because she wouldn't say she was exactly wrong if she answered yes to that question. "Thanks" she responded when she complimented her dress "It was kinda nice to have a reason to wear it I guess" she had a few more formal dresses but not a lot of occasions to wear them out so she had decided to take the opportunity when she could. "Oh I know, but I'm not single and I'd rather avoid any weirdness" she commented with a laugh, she would have invited Orion to come but firstly she thought it would be a girls night so she didn't want Holland to feel like a third wheel and second he was busy doing a security job tonight anyway. Sariah glanced down to the drink when Sofi insisted she was okay and then grimaced slightly "If you say so…" she chuckled "People always give slack to these drinks but they're stronger than people expect" as evidenced by the Initia ambassador downing the glass in one go.
"Oh no I definitely get that, I never even thought about a pet before cause you know, busy life means not enough time to really appreciate them but Ada isn't too needy, she just wants cuddles when I go to bed and food a whole lot, she'll wake me up meowing if she'd hungry" she pouted a little but laughed softly, man her experience with getting a pet had definitely been a ride but she wouldn't change it for the world. Sofi's reaction to her talking about penguins in far too much detail made her grin slightly "Clearly you've never met me, or I mean you've met me but what I mean is that you've never spent enough time around me to know that words just don't work for me and then I keep talking because I don't know if I got my point across right" she laughed softly when did finally stop because she was stupidly proving her own point "Something I wouldn't be caught dead doing?" she raised her brows "Why does that sound incredibly ominous"
InitiaPermalink Reply by ✓ Sofi Zahara ~Admin~ on December 2, 2019 at 17:34
She shook her head and chuckled at her remark about being a future boozy housewife in making, Sariah was funny, she had to give her that. Surprisingly, she was talking a lot and she figured it was all the booze getting the human ambassador sitting across her. Understandable. Sofi had nothing better to do tonight anyway, so why not stay and entertain this girl? What could go wrong? What's the worst that could happen when she was within the human's vicinity, anyway? She probably shouldn't have jinxed it but the Initia was way too tipsy to even comprehend her words. Sariah wasn't wrong, the rum in the drink earlier was pretty much making her think twice about everything right now. Okay, note to self, don't drink recklessly. "I can relate… I can't sit tight and do nothing without going crazy. One time my father tried to teach me to meditate, it failed miserably and I ended up sneaking up the next twenty minutes because I could no longer take such a torturous session anymore…" This was ironic considering how well Sofi adapts to yoga and meditation now.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, maybe. Tonight, there were no positions or roles to tie them up. Instead of being human and Initia ambassadors facing one another in a bar, they were two females just letting loose for the night. Sariah Holloway and Sofi Zahara. Maybe she could see what the human ambassador would never show, drunk people are sometimes honest and Sofi was sure they had no capacity to muster up a lie. Not tonight. "Pssh, how could I ever suggest you're boring," he noticed the teasing lacing her tone and decided that two can play at this game. "The last time I wore a dress that's not today was when I was trying on dresses for the sake of attending a formal event… only to spend the day sitting in a tub of ice cream because my date was a total geezer."
Oh, she'll never forget that iconic day when she actually gave him something to remember her by. A nightmare. Let's just say it was exactly why people would way 'Don't piss off a Psychic.' Sofi drawled a knowing nod when the human admitted she wasn't single, "Commitment" she scrunched her nose up and shook her head in disgust, "Ugh… being single is so fun but so tiring…" She was definitely drunk. "I probably should have asked what's in the drink before drinking it… Oh my god, people can poison me easily…" Well, thankfully due to her Metal Master position, she was immune to poison. Thank god for that. "Mine would just lay itself on me until I wake up and feed him… and I tell you, I kid you not… He's one heavy dog…" Cute, but he grew up so fast and gained weight twice as much. Still very healthy, thankfully. "I didn't mean it literally, but now that you've said it I'm curious… is there anything you would be caught dead doing? Answerrrr"
HumanPermalink Reply by ✓ Sariah Amelie Holloway ~Admin~ on December 3, 2019 at 8:27
Sariah definitely had a problem with sitting still, she hated the feeling like she wasn't doing something productive which meant her mind was always occupied with some problem to solve or story to read, so she definitely related to Sofi's stories about mediation being no use to her "Honestly my best medicine is having a good distraction, if I can sit down with a good story or sing along to some music then all my worries start to fade away" that was one thing she was pretty good at doing, putting work down when she got home and just thinking about quite literally anything else "I was always pretty nerdy at school but I was literally always in trouble with the teachers for fidgeting, I just couldn't stay still while they droned on about the same thing over and over again" which may have been a sign that she was too smart for the subjects they were learning at the time too but it was frustrating constantly being told to stay still.
It was nice to take the chance to get to know the other ambassador a little as a person, often they addressed one another as figureheads and spokespeople rather than others who had personal involvement in the future of a species. They weren't just representing their factions, after all, they were a part of them too. She nudged playfully against the elder blonde's shoulder when she once again implied she was boring "I'll have you know I got to parties at least…" she paused as she tried to recall the last time she went to a party "Every six months?" okay, definitely not winning her case her but she was drunk, hardly an easy job to put together a decent defence while drunk. Sariah winced when Sofi talked about buying a nice dress for a date only for it to turn out terrible "And that is why you wear the dress for you and not the guy" she laughed and pointed out the one she was wearing and gave an approving nod "You kill it too by the way" she complimented with a grin, though it was hard to see the full outfit because Sofi had been sitting at the bar the entire time.
Sariah giggled slightly when Sofi turned her nose up at the idea of commitment and she shook her head slightly "Oh it's that bad huh? Believe me I know the bad dating game, if there was a bad boy, asshole who would cheat on me or just a dick in general I somehow found him" she shook her head a few times "One time I went on a date with a guy only for him wait for me to pay for dinner and then hit on the waitress right in front of me" now she didn't mind paying but that was definitely a no to a second date for her. Sofi's reaction to the drink made her laugh again "But it tastes so good….and technically it is poison, just...tolerable poison, a poison of the least toxicity" she grinned "and delicious too" she sipped her drink just to make a point. "You have a dog? Oh my gosh I love dogs too, when I was little, my mom used to say we'd never get anywhere cause I was busy trying to pet every dog" she grinned a little sheepishly, she loved a lot of things when she had been drinking admittedly "Caught dead doing?" she contemplated it for a moment "Trying to sing Bohemian Rhapsody in front of a bunch of people?" one could only embarrass themselves greatly if they tried that after all. Realizing what she just said she raised a finger up in warning to the other female "No" she stated forcefully "Absolutely not, never" she shook her head slightly.
InitiaPermalink Reply by ✓ Sofi Zahara ~Admin~ on December 21, 2019 at 13:13
Honestly, it wasn't the drinks in her system. At least, that's what Sofi told herself throughout the entire time after she quite literally just downed that glass of alcohol that had a mixture and totally sent the Initia back to the alphabet Z so she could start over. It was hard enough for her to comprehend anything with a rational mindset right now but she's not that drunk to not know how to behave properly like a normal human being. Sariah was probably going to be a company she ends up remembering at the back of her head until she eventually wakes up the next morning with a killer headache, knowing she'd probably spent half an hour to an hour in the bathroom. "How fun… to have your worries fading away, kinda wished that would actually be true for everything else" How convenient would that be? When she mentioned that she had a hard time sitting still even back in school, the blonde raised her eyebrows questioningly and leaned close, "Do you have any tics? ADHD maybe? That could be the reason for your slightly erratic behavior? Something triggered it for sure. You're also easily bored, which makes sense" People with disorders always ended up being one of the geniuses.
"Every six months? Really? God you are worse than boring... " she teased. Her bright optics clearly painted the picture of a very surprised and dramatic person who just found out her sister stole her dog. That's the equivalent of it. Sofi nodded in agreement when Sariah said you wear the dress for you and not the guy, "That's why I'm wearing a dress for myself today" she shrugged, nothing could go wrong with that. From the human's peripheral vision, it was probably hard to see her full outfit which made her cheeks flushed from the amount of alcohol she'd consumed over the past hour. "Yuck… hitting on a waitress right in front of his date? I mean total douchebag who somehow got away with not paying his part… that's so shitty" she grumbled and shook her head in disgust. Some people really do deserve better. Riah had a point, it was the good kind of poison, one she would gladly drink any other day, honestly. Because why not? Sometimes we do need some unwinding to do.
"You're right it is good" She was cute gushing over dogs which only made her tipsy state even more endearing, Oh god you're so cute" he giggled and buy something to remember her by. Once the human had literally just outed herself to Sofi who had a mischievous grin curving her ruby red lips, she knew she was definitely going to hear some of that Bohemian Rhapsody today. "Nope… no take backs. It'll be fun" she coerced, tugging on her arm gently as she dragged her with her to find the DJ who wasn't in his place. "Never say never" she purred and actually stumbled on her steps while searching for the person who could give then a live mic for that. "Come on… live a little. Going Bohemian Rhapsody may be just what you need tonight…"
HumanPermalink Reply by ✓ Sariah Amelie Holloway ~Admin~ on December 22, 2019 at 10:52
She laughed softly at the mention at wishing everything could be so easy to push aside "Well the problem is that it's always temporary, just because you forget for a little doesn't really mean it actually goes away" she chuckled, nope if you wanted to handle your worries when you had to actually deal with them the old fashioned way, unfortunately "Though I do have a massaging pillow I use sometimes which really does feel like it steals my worries away" she giggled slightly and shrugged "Yeah I have ADHD, always had to take meds for it, my attention is always all over the place, it's hard to keep me interested in one thing for too long" but she had managed to deal with it in her own ways so it didn't really impact her life all that heavily anymore, her main issue with school had been their lack of ability to keep her engaged in the subjects because they were too easy.
She opened her mouth to argue with Sofi when she said she was worse than boring but then she closed it again because who could really disagree with that statement when she rarely went out to do things with friends at all and she didn't really have much excuse considering she had many of them "God you're right" she responded as she dramatically put her hands over her face and then dropped them with a laugh. She smiled softly when Sofi said she was wearing the dress for herself today the Initia grandmaster definitely had a certain air about her which made Sariah think she could quite literally wear anything and pull it off. "Believe me if we were to list out every bad date I ever had we'd actually probably be here all night" she shook her head in an exasperated manner "But there are some good ones out there, don't give up all hope" she laughed softly and smiled, she had been lucky to meet Orion and he had changed her perspective greatly.
When Sofi called her cute she blushed slightly and shook her head "Oh stop, you're feeding my ego and she likes compliments far too much for her own good" she just loved everything cute really and her definition of cute was pretty broad, she loved animals a whole lot that was for sure, she remembered always begging for a pet when she was younger but because her dad was allergic is was always a no. Before she knew it she was being dragged across the dance floor towards the DJ booth "Nooooo I am not a good singer, people will put their hands on their ears" she protested but there was little point trying to fight the Initia who was evidently stronger than her. When Sofi stumbled Sariah also stumbled over her heels before just about managing to stay upright and then staring at her in horror "No one needs that in that life" she whined but it was clear she was going to relent at the other ambassador's insistence "If you film it I swear I will haunt you in the future" she glared playfully before the guy set up the track and she found herself getting pushed up on the stage.
Sofi quirked her eyebrows questioningly towards the human female, wondering what she has to say about it, "Sounds like a tiring thing to do... " She has worked as a neuropsychologist for years and yet there only seemed to be theories and medicinal remedies that she knew wouldn't work on everyone, especially her. Her head is quite possibly the hardest to crack into, even on her own discretion. There seemed to be endless pile from where that came from and the Initia wasn't sure if she could figure it out before another appears on her plate. "So… I should go and get myself a good massaging pillow top, got it" she hiccuped and giggled because it was very likely to see her do that, especially when the blonde was already pulling out her phone from her pocket and searched for a massaging pillow, "Which one would you recommend for me?" she murmured faintly, it does seem that the tipsiness had gotten to her, enough to influence her to recklessly shop tonight. Online shopping is dangerous, they said.
Sofi nodded understandingly upon hearing Riah confirm she had ADHD, a part of her feel proud for being able to pinpoint that but then again, drunk her would feel proud right about anything. There was no actual treatment for disorders such as that, only therapies to help them curb it or control them so even if the Initia wanted to help, she knew the other female would not like to have her pull a presentation slide there and there. "So I'm not the only one with bad luck when it comes to blind dates then, good to know" she chuckled and tried to see if she could get herself more drinks because she was in need of one. "I need to get myself some drinks… do you want one?" Seeing as she already downed the glass Riah offered the first time with one chug, Sofi couldn't sit there and do nothing. Regardless of the human's answer, she was already making her way to the counter to get her fill before shortly returning to their table.
Judging from the way she talked about not giving up, she sensed that the other ambassador is quite content with her relationship. When you're an ambassador in the city, a public figure, a few of your details were bound to be spilled, as is Sariah Holloway's beau; Orion Valkyrie, another ambassador from the therian faction. "Well, at least you're lucky enough to score yourself a good guy" The same couldn't be said for her, unfortunately, considering her previous lover is titled late for a reason. "Everyone likes to be complimented" she teased, the sight of the other female giggling to herself was surely quite an amusing sight, but so was the sight of getting to hear her belt out Bohemian Rhapsody on the stage. Despite Riah's incessant efforts to thwart her tries to get her on the stage, Sofi still stood by her decision, "Oh please, you'll be fine" she reassured and pushed her slightly, "Half the people in here are tipsy or drunk off their assess, they won't care" she slurred and clapped happily when the human relented. When she was warned not to film any of the scene before her, Sofi giggled and made a half-assed attempt to cross her fingers, "Cross my heart. Now go" she ushered.
Sariah shrugged when Sofi said it was tiring "Life, in general, is tiring and yet we all find a way through it, do we not?" he raised her brows slightly, she for one believed that people who were often tired probably lived their lives to the fullest, unless all that time was spent working in which case it was the exact opposite. "Yes, you absolutely should, and make sure to use it often, preferably with a glass of wine and a good book you like but not enough that you couldn't fall asleep to it" oddly specific but she found all those things really helped her to relax in the evenings after a long day the office. She had to laugh when she saw that Sofi had pulled up a bunch of options for buying on her phone "I have that bottom one, though I did see there's a newer model out which has additional heating capability" she pursed her lips for a moment because the last time she had been drunk and browsing Amazon some very interesting things had shown up the next day.
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Steve: Fragmentation of candidate sources in the recruitment market. The way people are sourcing candidates is changing now, what's your view?
Will: The space we work in at Launchpad is really volume recruitment by in-house recruiters and RPOs, and we're seeing huge changes in the way that people are looking to engage and source talent, using a range of new technologies that are moving away from traditional channels of job boards to other channels. Which then raises the questions – how do you then engage with that talent once they apply?
Steve: Who do you think the new winners will be?
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We know that the typical ATS is going have a 90% drop off rate, once the candidates begin the apply process.
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UA men not chosen to win the SEC title
Published: Friday, October 26, 2018
Photo by Andy Shupe
Arkansas coach Chris Bucknam watches Saturday, April 22, 2017, during the John McDonnell Invitational at John McDonnell Field in Fayetteville.
FAYETTEVILLE -- For a change, the University of Arkansas men's cross country team isn't everyone's pick to win the SEC title.
Flotrack, a website devoted to the coverage of cross country and track and field, predicted earlier this week that Ole Miss will edge the Razorbacks 48 to 52 for first place at today's SEC Championships at Indian Pines Golf Course in Auburn, Ala.
SEC CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPIONSHIPS
WHEN Women's 6,000-meter race, 9 a.m. today; men's 8,000-meter race, 10 a.m.
WHERE Indian Pines Golf Course, Auburn, Ala.
DEFENDING CHAMPIONS Men: Arkansas. Women: Arkansas
STREAKS Arkansas' men's team has won eight consecutive SEC titles and the UA women's team has won five consecutive.
Alabama was picked first in a preseason SEC coaches' poll, just ahead of Arkansas.
The Razorbacks have won 25 of 27 SEC cross country titles since joining the conference, including the past eight.
"We're just kind of hanging around, but that's fine," Arkansas Coach Chris Bucknam said. 'There's no pressure on us.
"I feel confident in the fitness of our team and feel we can handle any kind of course or any kind of conditions. We're going to go in there and try to contend for a title."
Bucknam managed a chuckle when asked how it feels not to be favored to win.
"I don't like it, but that's the way it is," he said. "I guess you call it a market correction. I'd like to be the front-runner, but it looks to be Alabama and Ole Miss right now, so we're going to do a little chasing<|fim_middle|>more (24th).
Arkansas junior Gilbert Boit, a transfer from Tennessee Tech, will run in his first SEC cross country meet. Senior Colin O'Mara, who was 51st at last year's SEC meet, and redshirt freshman Ryan Murphy round out the Razorbacks' lineup.
"We've got really solid kids," Bucknam said. "We've got a great culture of hard work and competing when it counts the most."
Getting all defensive: Hogs want similar showing vs. Commodores
SEC on mind of Baton Rouge OL
UA women going for 6th title in row
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A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators, Volúmenes1-2
Por Edward Vaughan Williams
his renuncia An executor cannot in part refuse. He must refuse tion cannot be in part :
entirely, or not at all (s). An exception has been supposed to exist in the case of his testator being executor to another person; for there, it has been said, he might well assent to be executor to the one testator, and refuse for the other. But the established practice of the Prerogative Court is to
the contrary (t). The renuncia- It is the practice of the prerogative office of Canterbury, tion will not be received not to receive the renunciation of a party, unless it be panied by the accompanied by the original Will of the deceased, probate of Will.
which it purports to renounce (u).
SECTION II.
The consequence of Renunciation by an Executor.
The renuncia- An executor, who has renounced, may, at any time before tion may be retracted at
the grant of administration cum testamento annexo has any time be
passed the Seal of the Court, retract his renunciation (x). fore administration And even an executor, who had renounced in order to granted.
become a witness in a suit commenced touching the validity of the Will, might, at the termination of such suit, retract his renunciation, and take probate of the Will(y): but this could not be done without the consent of all parties in
Court (2) Where there is
If there be a sole executor appointed who renounces, or a sole executor, several executors, who all renounce, administration cum or several, who
the executor neglects probate for a Harrison, 4 Notes of Cas. 455,
year, this is a refusal irrevocable 456. 1 Robert. 419,
in the civil law: Bewacorne v. (y) Thompson v. Dixon, 3 Add.
Carter, Moor, 273.
(8) Paule v. Moodie, 2 Roll. Rep. (z) 3 Hagg. 216. Sir John Ni-
132. 11 Vin. Abr. 139, pl. 10. choll observed, that the admission
(t) Ante, p. 242, note (7). of the retractation in such a case
(u) In the goods of Fenton, 3 had always presented difficulties to Add. 35,
his mind: The executor was allowed (2) McDonnell v. Prendergast, to renounce, for the purpose of 3 Hagg. 212, cited and recognised being examined as a witness, to by Sir H. Jenner Fust in Harrison forward the ends of justice, and
testamento annexo will thereupon be granted to another (a), all renounce,
and adminisand the sole executor in the one case, and each of the tration is several executors in the other, thereupon become incapable granted : of being at any time afterwards admitted to the executorship (b). It has indeed been said, that such incapacity lasts only during the life of such administrator, and that after his death, the renunciation may be retracted (c). But in a the renuncia
tion can never modern case, where there were two executors, who had both be retracted : renounced, and administration cum testamento annexo had been granted, one of the executors, upon the death of such administrator, wished to retract his renunciation, and to be admitted to take probate as executor; and in support of the motion for that purpose, it was urged, that an executor, after renunciation and administration granted, had still a right to probate whenever a vacancy occurred in the representation of the deceased : But the Court refused to accede to the motion, on an objection of the inconvenience that might occur in other quarters from chains of executorship once broken being thus suffered to revive : Should this deceased, for instance, have been the surviving executor of other testators, and should administrations have been granted of their effects on the renunciation of his executors, if the chain of executorship were to revive, as proposed, there would be double and conflicting representation of such testators; the one by grant<|fim_middle|>).
If a debtor makes his creditor and another his executors, and the creditor neither intermeddles, nor proves the Will, he may bring an action against the other executor (n).
An executor
who renounces
may sue his
co-executor.
Wms. 309, and Keates v. Burton, they have renounced the only cha-
14 Ves. 434, (which is cited by Sir racter in which it was competent to
E. Sugden.) In the latter case, a them to exercise it," See Ford v.
power was given to "my said Ruxton, 1 Coll. 407.
trustees and executors," and one (m) Granville (Earl) v. M'Neile,
of the executors died and the other 7 Hare, 156.
renounced, without exercising it: (n) Dorchester v. Webb, Sir W.
Sir W. Grant observed, "The Jones, 345. Rawlinson v. Shaw,
power is given to the executors, 3 Term Rep. 557.
but they have not exercised it, and | of administration, as above; the other by the revived chain of executorship (d). then was allowed to retract for the sequence merely of the default of benefit of the estate: Ibid.
the executor to come in to prove (a) If there are several execu- the Will on the above-mentioned tors, they must all duly renounce, process of citation, he has a right before administration with the Will at any future time to appear and annexed can be granted : 1 Roll. prove the Will, and cause the adAbr. 907, pl. 6. Toller, 44.
ministration to be revoked: Go(6) Broker v. Charter, Cro. Eliz. dolph. Pt. 2, c. 31, s. 3. Wentw. 92. S. C. Owen, 44. Moor, 272, by Off. Ex. 92, 14th edit. Baxter and the name of Bewacorne v. Carter, Bale's case, 1 Leon. 90. 1 Leon. 135. Wentw. Off. Ex. 95, (c) Toller, 42. 2 Roberts. 14th edit. Hensloe's case, 9 Co. Wills, 171. 37, a. Touchst. 466. Robinson v. (d) In the goods of Thornton, Pett, 3 P. Wms. 251. But if ad- Add. 273. mini ation be committed in con
but where But where there are several executors, and some renounce there are several executors,
before the Ordinary, and one or more prove the Will, the and some re
renunciation is not peremptory: such as refuse, however nounce, and others prove
formally, may, at a subsequent time, come in and admithe Will :
nister (e): and although they have never acted during the
lives, they may assume the executorship after the death, of the renuncia
their co-executors (f). And it has been considered that if tion is not
administration be committed to another, before refusal by peremptory :
the surviving executor, such administration will be void (g). it may be re- But it appears that this position is at variance with the long cording to the established practice of the Ecclesiastical Court; according
; practice of the to which it has never been deemed necessary that the surcivilians, at any time before viving executor should be called upon a second time to an actual grant of administra
renounce or refuse, before letters of administration are tion de bonis
granted to another. And it has lately (h) been deliberately non, but not afterwards. held by Sir H. Jenner Fust, on an elaborate review of the
authorities, that this practice is right, and that though the surviving executor is entitled to come in and retract his renunciation, if he thinks proper so to do, at any time before the grant of administration de bonis non has passed the seal, yet if he has not retracted, and his renunciation still remains recorded against him, it is not requisite that he should
(e) Swinb. Pt. 6, s. 3, pl. 22. Bro. Executors, pl. 117. 1 And. 27. Godolph. Pt. 2, c. 19, s. 4. Wentw. Off. Ex. 96, 14th edit. Hensloe's case, 9 Co. 37, a. Middleton's case, 5 Co. 28, a. Brookes v. Brookes, 1 Salk. 3. 4 Burn, E. L. 244. Treatise on Eq. Bk. 4, Pt. 2, c. 1, s. 2. Creswick v. Woodhead, 4 M. & Gr. 814, per Tindal, C. J.
(f) Pawlet v. Freak, Hardr. 111. Brooks v. Stroud, 7 Mod. 39. Wankford v. Wankford, 1 Salk. 307. House v. Lord Petre, 1 Salk. 311, Rex v. Simpson, 3 Burr. 1463. S. C. 1 W. Black. 456. Hayward v. Dale, 2 Cas. temp. Lee, 333. Arnold v. Blencoe, 1 Cox, 426. Cottle v. Aldrich, 4 Mau. & Selw.
177. Strickland v. Strickland, 12 Sim. 253, 259. See also in re Deichman, 3 Curt. 124, ante, p. 215. According to the older practice of the civilians, if there were two executors, and one refused, and the other took probate, he that did refuse the executorship could not assume the office after the death of his fellow-executor: Anon. Dyer, 160, b. Godolph. Pt. 2, c. 7, s. 4. Wentw. 96, 14th edit. 1 Salk. 311.
(9) Wankford v. Wankford, 1 Salk. 307, 308. House v. Ld. Petre, ibid. 311. Fonblanque's Treat. on Eq. Bk. 4, Pt. 2, c. 1, s. 2, note (d).
(h) Harrison v. Harrison, Prerog. H. T. 1846. 4 Notes of Cas. 434 ; S. C. 1 Robert. 406.
renounce a second time, or that he should be cited, before a good and valid grant of administration de bonis non to another can be made : And that the executor, after such a grant has been made, cannot procure it to be revoked and obtain a grant of probate to himself, on a retractation of his renunciation made subsequently to the actual grant of administration de bonis non.
This decision was afterwards fully discussed, and, after a careful consideration of all the authorities and doctrines bearing on the subject, confirmed and adopted by the Court of Exchequer, on the ground that though the stat. 21 Hen. VIII. c. 5, s. 3, requires a refusal by the executor before any grant of administration can be made, yet it is silent as to the time when the refusal is to be made ; and the Ecclesiastical Court have invariably treated a formal refusal made in Court at any time after the testator's decease as binding, unless the refusing party afterwards, of his own accord, comes in and retracts his refusal; which practice the Barons considered as consistent with the statute, and perfectly reasonable, and not conflicting with any positive decision in the Temporal Courts (i).
It is said by very eminent writers, that where a power is Whether exegiven to executors, they may exercise it, although they after renounc
ing, exercise a renounce probate of the Will (k). But with the greatest power. deference to their authority, it may be doubted whether the position is true, unless when the power is given them in their proper names, and without reference to their office as executors (I).
If a power has been conferred on a party to a deed, his
() Venables v. The East India are certainly named, so that it apComp., 2 Exch. 633.
pears the Will of the testator is, (k) 1 Sugden on Powers, 138, that they shall sell, whether they 6th edit. 2 Prest. on Abstr. 264. refuse or not. But otherwise it
(1) See Perkins, No. 548, where shall be (as it seems) if he will, the distinction is thus taken: "If that his executors shall sell, witha man will that A. and B., his exe- out expressing their names, and cutors, shall sell, &c., and they re- they all refuse before the Ordinary, fuse before the Ordinary, yet it they cannot sell." See also the seems they may sell, because they cases of Yates v. Compton, 2 P.
cutors may,
executors, administrators, and assigns, and he dies, having appointed several executors, one of whom renounces, the others who act may well exercise the power (m | 1,908 |
The "Druid's Prayer" () or "Gorsedd Prayer" (Gweddi'r Orsedd) is a prayer composed by Iolo Morganwg which is still a staple in the ritual of both gorseddau and Neo-Druidism. Neo-Druids sometimes substitute the words y Dduwies ("the Goddess") for the original Duw ("God").
Versions in Barddas
In the volume Barddas by Iolo Morganwg (edited and compiled by Reverend John Williams ab Ithel), there are six versions of the Gorsedd Prayer, both in Iolo's original Welsh and in English translation (the word gwynvyd, roughly corresponding to "heaven" is left untranslated).
Version One
Llyma Weddi'r Orsedd, a elwir Gweddi'r Gwyddoniaid (O Lyfr Mawr Margam)
Duw dy nerth, ag yn nerth Dioddef;
A dioddef dros y gwir, ag yn y gwir pob goleuni;
Ag yngoleuni pob Gwynfyd, ag yngwynfyd Cariad,
Ag ynghariad Duw, ag yn Duw pob daioni.
The Gorsedd Prayer, called the Prayer of the Gwyddoniaid (From the Great Book of Margam)
God, impart Thy strength;
And in strength, power to suffer;
And to suffer for the truth;
And in the truth, all<|fim_middle|> y cyfiawn;
Ag yngwybod yn cyfiawn, ei garu;
Ag o garu, caru pob hanfod;
Ag ymhob Hanfod, caru Duw.
Duw a phob Daioni.
The Gorsedd Prayer, from another Book
Grant, O God, Thy protection;
And in protection, strength;
And in strength, understanding;
And in understanding, knowledge;
And in knowledge, the knowledge of justice;
And in the knowledge of justice, the love of it;
And in that love, the love of all existences;
And in the love of all existences, the love of God.
God and all goodness.
Notes
References
Williams ab Ithel, Rev. John ed.: Barddas; or, a Collection of Original Documents, Illustrative of the Theology, Wisdom, and Usages of the Bardo-Druidic System of the Isle of Britain: Longman & Co. (1862)
Eisteddfod
Neo-druidism
Prayer
Welsh-language literature
:cy:Wikisource:Gweddi'r Orsedd | light;
And in light, gwynvyd;
And in gwynfyd, love;
And in love, God;
And in God, all goodness.
Version Two
Llyma weddi'r Orsedd o Lyfr Trehaearn Brydydd Mawr
Dyro Dduw dy Nawdd;
Ag yn Nawdd, Pwyll;
Ag ymhwyll, Goleuni;
Ag yngoleuni, Gwirionedd;
Ag yngwirionedd, Cyfiawnder;
Ag ynghyfiawnder, Cariad;
Ag ynghariad, Cariad Duw;
Ag ynghariad Duw, pob Gwynfyd.
Duw a phob Daioni.
The Gorsedd Prayer, from the Book of Trahaiarn the Great Poet
Grant, God, Thy protection;
And in protection, reason;
And in reason, light;
And in light, truth;
And in truth, justice;
And in justice, love;
And in love, the love of God;
And in the love of God, gwynfyd.
God and all goodness.
Version Three
The below version is that usually adopted by various druidic groups, notably the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids (OBOD) albeit in a different fashion.
Llyma weddi'r orsedd o Lyfr arall
Dyro Dduw dy Nawdd;
Ag yn nawdd, nerth;
Ag yn nerth, Deall;
Ag yn Neall, Gwybod;
Ac yngwybod, gwybod | 338 |
Description: When the first four-page issue of the Phoenix Arizona Republican appeared on May 19, 1890, few could have imagined that in the next century it would cover a major metropolitan area and become Arizona's largest and most influential daily newspaper. Phoenix was a dusty, remote desert village of 3,000, and it had only become the territorial capital the previous year. The first editors, Charles. O. Ziegenfuss and Edwin S. Gill, began the daily as a partisan political organ to promote Lewis Wolfley, the territorial governor. There were already two other established daily newspapers in Phoenix, and the Arizona Republican struggled to survive financially. The Arizona Republican also published the Arizona Weekly Republican in 1890, which about a year later became the Weekly Republican. From 1892 to 1899, it called itself the Arizona Weekly Republican followed by a one-year stint as the Republican Herald. From the end of 1900 until May 1901, the weekly was renamed simply the Arizona Republican, before returning once more to the Weekly Republican. Arizona journalism was often sensationalistic, combative, and sometimes dangerous. There were few professional boundaries, and editors were blunt and colorful as they sparred with each other as entertainment to sell newspapers. In 1890, for example, Republican editor Gill attacked a Prescott newspaper editor as a "degraded reprobate." At the same time, ex-Governor Zulick sued Gill for calling him a "swindler and a crook," while the former territorial chief justice impatiently took a shot at Gill on a Phoenix street. Nonetheless, the Arizona Republican boasted full Associated Press coverage, attempted to cover news from throughout Arizona, and circulated throughout the territory. In 1895, the Republican introduced the first linotype machine in Arizona. The economic panic of 1893 aggravated the paper's financial situation, however; advertisements were paid in barter with food tokens from a local restaurant. Frank M. Murphy, a railroad president, mining executive, and Phoenix developer purchased the Republican in 1896. He hired Charles C. Randolph, editor of the<|fim_middle|> owner with Sims Ely as his editor. The paper supported the interests of the Republican Party and its head, Phoenix hotel owner, John C. Adams. Prominent on the Republican's front pages was the political struggle that culminated in statehood for Arizona in 1912. Phoenix businessman and community leader, Dwight Heard, and his manager Charles A. Stauffer, purchased the Arizona Republican in 1912 to promote the cause of Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party. Heard brought political independence and more fairness to news coverage. He vigorously devoted attention to public service and promoted the development of Phoenix and the new state by championing improved government, paved roads, parks, and water systems. Heard ran the Republican until his death in 1929. Newspaper magnate Eugene Pulliam purchased both the Arizona Republican and its rival the Phoenix Gazette Pulliam changed the title to the Arizona Republic, its current name, at a time when registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans in Arizona five to one. | New York Times Washington Bureau, who gave the Republican new life and brought the beginnings of modern journalism to Arizona. A former territorial official, Dr. George W. Vickers purchased the Republican in 1900, and in 1909 Dr. Stephen Weaver Higley became | 59 |
UNRWA and OLPC have been working together in Gaza and the West Bank to implement community laptop programs this year. In many schools in such as this one in Ramallah, students use their XOs in class and out. These girls are on their way home.
Lessons don't last all day, and children from the nearby towns often spend time outside reading and playing (and sometimes laughing) once school lets out.
This year Ramallah held an XO Summer Camp<|fim_middle|>000 children and teachers took part in the deployment, and hundreds of people took part in the summer festival and demonstration. Teachers at others schools came to learn how they could get involved. | to help hundreds of students learn how to use, repair, and teach with their laptops. Here two members of the Boys School take a rest in the shade.
In Gaza, the Rafah Refugee Camp saw an intensive and joyful deployment of XOs in the Spring. It took 10 months to get approval to deliver machines, but only 12 weeks for students and teachers to define their own projects and get families involved, and to hold a delightful public demonstration.
Over 2, | 98 |
· Categories: Biology, Chemistry
"Ubiquitin: It's everywhere you want to be (and several places you don't)."
This is one of those times where you can learn about science by knowing a little English. Like how you figure out the dinosaur brachiosaurus was made out of grandma candy, or that the element proactinium will cure your acne, probably.
Sorry. This time will be better. I promise.
The protein "ubiquitin" was so named, back when it was discovered in the 1970s, because it was ubiquitous — in other words, everywhere. Every tissue scientists studied, every microscope they looked in, ubiquitin was there. Probably with enormous lapels and feathered hair, humming Jim Croce ballads. But it was there. Ubiquitously.
But what is it, exactly? Ubiquitin is a small protein that's now been found in nearly every eukaryote — that is, most anything more evolved than a bacterium. It's in most every type of tissue, and its job is to be glommed onto other proteins as a sort of targeted messaging system. Think of ubiquitin as the "Kick Me" sign of the cellular schoolyard.
Basically, it works like this: special proteins produced in our cells latch onto ubiquitin proteins and activate them — like writing the message on the sign. Then the<|fim_middle|>itin's not bad; sometimes it's just attached that way.
Ubiquitin thus plays a whole set of important roles in cells — keeping materials moving, cleaning up waste and flipping switches throughout a cell's development. That makes it crucial for survival, and also something for infectious agents (like the flu virus) to try and exploit.
For figuring out the ubiquitin signalling pathway leading to protein degradation, three scientists were awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Two of them were from Israel, and the third was a researcher from the United States.
Because of course he was, right? Those guys are everywhere.
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· Tags: degradation, etymology, Kick Me, Nobel Prize, Post-Its, proteins, regulation Charlie Hatton October 26, 2014 | ubiqiutin is hooked onto a different specialized protein in a process called "conjugation". This gets it ready for the final step, like attaching a piece of tape to the top of the sign.
(Hey, genetics was invented before we had Post-It notes, all right? If you wanted to stick a sign to something back in the old days, attaching the tape was a separate step.
And yes, we walked uphill in the snow to do it, and we liked it. Shaddup.)
The final step, ligation, sticks the ubiquitin to whatever target protein is supposed to receive the message. Sometimes one ubiquitin is slapped on; sometimes, it's a whole chain, like a bunch of latched-together plastic monkeys. Depending on which, and exactly how they're hung on, determines exactly what fate lies in store for the poor unsuspecting tagged protein.
The most well-studied kind of ubiquitination (or ubiquitylation, if you're really going for the Scrabble words, Einstein) involves a chain of ubiquitins strung together in a certain way, then tagged onto a protein. The result? That tagged protein is doomed to destruction. The message here is "Kick Me, Hard", and the intracellular bullies are happy to comply.
But ubiquitination isn't always a Mafia-style kiss of death. Some ubiquitin tags lead to a protein's activation, or to being transported to a different part of the cell. So "Kick Me On", or "Kick Me Over There", if you like. It all depends on the message, and how it gets delivered. Uniqu | 333 |
Nubra valley: The Mongolian Camels of Ladakh
August 9, 2022 by Ground report
Many times we have heard stories about Arabian or dromedary camels during our childhood, but have you heard about the Bactrian camel that lives only in Asia, specifically in the Gobi desert, northwest of China and India's Ladakh?
It is said that these camels, called Bactrian camels also known as the Mongolian camel, have Mongolian origin and were used to make the silk route. When this was interrupted, a colony remained in these dunes and here centuries have passed.
The first thing we wanted to see first-hand was whether the animals were well cared for. You don't have to look too far to see the problem in India (and elsewhere) with tourist elephants and the poor conditions in which they live.
In fact, camels have been one of the main means of transportation in Ladakh for centuries and were used for transportation in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries on the historic Silk Road. Today, they thrill tourists with their peculiar features and the excitement they bring.
Unlike the rest of India where you will come across single-humped camels, Ladakh camels are double-humped and are popularly known as Bactrian camels. They are one of only two surviving species of camel and are recognized as critically endangered.
Wild Bactrian camels are different from the domesticated form. The wild population descended from a different ancestor, while the wild line of the domesticated form is lost today.
Wild Bactrian camels today face many threats. The main threat is illegal hunting to meet the demand for bushmeat. In the Gobi Reserve Area, Mongolia, 25-30 camels are reported to be poached each year. Hunters kill camels by placing landmines in the saltwater springs where the animals drink.
Mongolian Camels Ladakh, Photo: Wahid Bhat (Ground Report)
Other threats include limited access to water, attacks by wolves, and hybridization with domesticated Bactrians, leading to the risk of loss of genetically distinct populations or the prevalence of infertile individuals.
g winter seasons (December to March). Bactrian camel is a valuable animal as its demand for riding purposes is high. An untrained adult male fetches around INR 50,000–70,000; whereas a trained (for camel riding) male camel costs around INR 100,000.
The value of an adult trained female camel is more than the trained adult male camel (about INR 120,000), though males are generally preferred over females. Thus, camels play an important role in the local economy as for several families in the valley, camel-based tourism activities are the major source of income. Other sources of income include government jobs, agriculture and animal husbandry (yak, sheep and goat) and other allied professions.
Farming of double-humped camels may be started in other parts of Jammu and Kashmir as well where conducive environmental conditions exist. Their widespread use in tourism activities may help secure the livelihood of the people as well in the conservation of these camels.
Due to increasing human populations<|fim_middle|> region has reduced the utility of the animal to a tourist attraction in the Nubra Valley. Camel riding is a popular activity on the sand dunes, which stretch over an area of a few kilometers into the valley.
This camel is of great interest to researchers as it can withstand temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius; has high resistance to diseases; and has very high feed conversion efficiency.
Furthermore, the double-humped camel can reproduce naturally, roaming and grazing on grasslands throughout the year, without supplemental feeding. The local herders in the valley have found no use other than as a tourist attraction.
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What is Langya Virus found in China, is it deadly? | , feral camels migrating in search of grazing land may compete for food and water sources with introduced domestic livestock and sometimes end up being killed by farmers.
The only extant predators that regularly attack wild Bactrian camels are gray wolves, which have been seen to chase weaker, weather-beaten camels as they try to reach oases.
Due to increasingly dry conditions in the species' range, the number of cases of wolf predation on wild camels in oases has increased.
Unlike the rest of India where you will come across single-humped camels, Ladakh camels are double-humped and are popularly known as Bactrian camels. They are one of only two surviving camel species and are recognized as critically endangered.
Wild Bactrian camels are different from the domesticated form. The wild population was descended from a different ancestor, while the wild line of the domesticated form is lost today.
Wild Bactrian camels face many threats today. The main threat is illegal hunting to meet the demand for bushmeat. In the Gobi Reserve Area, Mongolia, 25-30 camels are reported to be poached each year. Hunters kill camels by placing landmines in the saltwater springs where the animals drink.
The double-humped camel is native to the Gobi desert and is found in a vast expanse of cold desert areas in Mongolia, China, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and parts of Afghanistan. Although in ancient times it was a beast of burden, the advent of modern transportation in this remote and cold | 323 |
We've been shortlisted for a Recruiter Award!
Lauren Howard | March 01, 2017
After keeping the news hush-hush for a few weeks, we are delighted to announce that our Managing Director – Matt Ellis – has been shortlisted for "Recruitment Agency Leader of the Year 2017".
Put forward for this prestigious award by his employees at Executive Network Group, Matt has been shortlisted because of<|fim_middle|> people. Fancy award nomination or not, the consultants and support team agree that Matt and his leadership is a huge part of why they love working at ENG!
A huge congratulations to Matt and the whole team at ENG – we cant wait to attend the Recruiter Awards. Win or no win, it's bound to be a fantastic evening celebrating the talents and achievements of the recruitment industry. | his continuous commitment to ENG and the recruitment industry. Here at ENG we felt it was time he was recognised for his achievements, and although we may have given him a slightly inflated ego and a conversation starter for a while we are thrilled he has made it to the shortlist in such a competitive award sector!
Those of you who have met Matt will surely agree that he is a down to earth, inspiring leader who hugely invests in his | 87 |
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La Corniche
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A commendable effort to showcase the traditional Romanian way of life that is depicted in the Village Museum. The open air museum houses about 300 buildings related to various aspects of history such as churches, mills, workshops, furniture shops, pottery and clothing that are all laid out in a natural environment. Various cultural festivals are also hosted by the museum for tourists to experience...
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1.Melbourne Aquarium The ocean is an enchanting place with vibrancy in life which varies from clime to clime and geographical area adding a certain mystery to the wonders of the sea. Australia which by virtue of its location is home to some of the most wonderful sea life found anywhere in the world. And although many of us would love to see it first hand, that is not always possible. | 461 |
A Map of the District of Columbia and the Surrounding Country.
[Washington, DC.] [Handkerchief Map.] Burrage, Mildred G.
[Washington, DC]: Published for the National Park and Planning Commission. <|fim_middle|> folders of her correspondence about the handkerchief map. [ICN 7645.].
See all items by DC. Washington, Mildred G. Burrage, Handkerchief Map. | 1933. About 26 x 25." Printed in green on lightweight linen. Overall very clean and bright with a few small, faint stains and a small loss of the stitched hem at lower right. There are small pin holes in the corners of the handkerchief. Item #3690
This charming handkerchief map of the District of Columbia and surrounding area was designed by Maine artist Mildred Burrage. The map was sold by the National Capitol Park and Planning Commission to raise funds for the construction of the George Washington Parkway between Mount Vernon and Great Falls, Virginia.
The map was printed on paper as well as linen; the linen version was offered in six different colors (red, blue, green, plum, brown and terra cotta). The design of the handkerchief shows the area of the L'Enfant plan surrounded by a border of views of prominent landmarks. The map is found in surprisingly few institutional collections according to OCLC -- three institutions hold an example of the map printed on linen and only one has a paper example. Ms. Burrage's papers are held at the Maine Historical Society in Portland and include several | 236 |
The Franconia Range, New Hampshire. Photo taken from the Kinsman Range looking east.
At Liberty Shelter: Franconia Range
On the seventh we started out from Little Sunapee, cobalt blue and fringed with scarlet wind-tossed maples and dark pines and spruces–on a curving road over gold-prinked hills, among the draping boughs and fiery leaves. It was up beyond Plymouth when sunset overtook us, a marvellous and bewitching sunset, which we caught glimpses of from time to time. First we saw it over Newfound Lake with its two green islets–there we saw a long low bank of yellow-russet clouds, edged on top with a brilliant gold cloud of sharp mountain-peaks. The sky had a rosy glow above the clouds, and in the north and south were high narrow tiers of pink. We longed for it, but we could not wait–it vanished behind dark trees. Suddenly they broke for a moment–we saw another and an entirely different sunset. Now the west was a maze of fire, and nearer us, partly covering it, were dark purple clouds–drifting about and changing. Again we saw it–there were brilliant russet tiers in the north–but the west was almost concealed by those same violet clouds, much thicker now, and breaking open sometimes and showing through arching windows the fire and glow and rosiness. Now gone again–and for a long time we had no more glimpses, but at last, when we thought it must be over, the trees broke, and lo! all was changed–the deep violet clouds had vanished–now there were long narrow tiers of dark yellow in the west, blended with tiers of dusky blue<|fim_middle|> the sunlit late–magic to someone parched from too much New York. After a while I saw white beach ahead of us, and the green canoe scraped sand gently.
A small green island. A pine dipping graceful branches over a flat boulder that stood half in the rippling lake, half on land. A tiny stone fireplace on top of the boulder. Golden rippled reflections wavered on the sand at the lake's edge; silver ones shimmered on the under sides of the pine branches. The world smelt of sun, and bay leaves, and pine-needles. The brightness was almost unreal. The sun wrapped us in gleaming shawls of warmth.
We drew the canoe up. Nick parted the bay-bushes and revealed a little path, hardly more than would be made by a rabbit. Five or six yards back, on a knoll screened with bushes, was our house–a brown tent, not more than six feet square.
"This is it," Nick announced. "This is home."
I wanted nothing so much as to swim, although I soon found that muscles that had been in the city for two years had forgotten some of their rhythms. Then I sat, dripping, on the big boulder, long hair cascading down my back. I felt very white in this summer-time world where the human body ought to be brown.
Nick brandished a pair of scissors. "Off with it!"
I put up my arms in self-defense. "No — no!"
"Yes! Absolutely! You can't walk two thousand miles with that yard of hair, child. It'll get wound up in the blackberries. It'll collect whole hay-ricks. Bats will nest in it."
"But, Nicky, I like my hair. And I don't object to bats."
"I like it, too. But I don't like what you do to it–tying your face to the back of your neck with it. I want to see it wave in the wind. That's really why I married you. And anyway, you can grow it again."
I wavered. "It would be more comfortable, of course …"
Snip!
"Don't, Nicky — !"
"Too late now. Got to go on with it."
Snip! Snip!
The air was full of flying fragments. Reddish fluff covered the boulder. A great weight was vanishing from my head. What hair I had left began to stand on end in the joy of its freedom. For the first time in years, it was waving in the wind.
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We passed the glorious green field from where the Franconia Ridge looms up, and we could feel dimly the presence of those sometimes terrible and awesome mountains–or smiling–sparkling–but always proud.
The Dartmouth Outing Club cabin is near the Moosilauke Brook–a rushing river which thunders over slippery boulders. In places it seems glassy black, ruffled with the white of eddies–sometimes they are strange foam-yellow–sometimes the whole great brook comes rushing through a deep crack a foot wide, with a mysterious crash and whirling foam. Sometimes a black glassy pool surges out from high crags and swings down a green cascade.
There are marvellous rocks to explore on, rocks full of mysterious pools with sheer walls. Often these pools carry several big stones–strange mottled mineral effects, sparkling with mica–all the stones smooth and oval or round. I discovered a tiny cave above a large rock pool, a cave set with stunted spruces and other shrubs. Just below there the stream ran silver and blue with sunlight, through a dark grove of solemn green hemlocks touching their foreheads to the cloud-fringed sky.
If only I had waked Daddy up I should have prevented a disaster. Why didn't I? There is no adequate reason. I wasn't in the habit of waking people up–and I wanted to explore the brook. If I had only thought one minute longer than I did!
We broke camp as quickly as possible, and started for The Flume–from there we were to proceed up the Flume Trail, and up the slide, and on over the peak of Flume, down into the col between Flume and Liberty, then up and over Liberty's shark-tooth peak, and down to the little shelter on its flanks just below the summit.
The long stretch of green field was fresh and sparkling, and there above it were the mountains we were going to climb–here many hands have failed–here is an invincible challenge–for me mountain-fever is not an illness–but an indescribable longing.
First, way off to the right of the range, was Osseo, that low long mountain, and its sudden deep blue peak with sheer crags was seen behind the shoulder of a flaming hill; then Flume, gashed with its stupendous slide, the peak showing to the left of the same hill; then the green-flanked Liberty, with its summit wavering with sharpness, prinked with great brown crags; then dark-peaked Haystack, not showing far above its ridge; then far-off dreaming Lincoln; and Lafayette in its fringey mantle of white mist.
When I had been on my first northern mountains it was hard to believe where I was. I had heard Chocorua and Moosilauke spoken of, and I knew that I was going to climb them, but when I was really there I could hardly believe it. I have overcome that–all I feel now is an indescribable sublime isolation–I feel the character and spirit of each mountain upon me like a strange dark-eyed thought.
We pushed on through the crimson-draped roads–and often we saw Liberty before us, dull green, with bubbles of rock near the peak–Liberty with its arch of blue sky. Clouds were well down on Lafayette–now Lincoln was among them, too. We reached the Flume House, parked our car, and struggled into our packs, then strode into the driveway that leads to the Flume gorge. All during that trip my pack seemed to grow lighter, not heavier, but at first I wondered whether, going up the great white slide, it wouldn't really pull me over backwards. I was worried about Daddy, too. His load seemed tremendous–I could barely lift it; it crumpled him up somewhat–and, well, could he carry it up the slide?
The first spectacular thing in the Flume was a long, undulating, but very smooth rock or rocks, over which the Flume brook runs in flood-time. Oh, it was slippery, even though dry! Our hob-nails slipped disgracefully on it, with no more hold than wet rubber soles could have given. If the slide was going to be as slippery as that–well, never mind what I was thinking!
The board walk began to grow steeper, foot-braces about a foot apart appeared–it was wet and the foot-braces were needed very much. Then I saw where I was. The echo of the brook beneath filled the air, leaped about and roared and thundered. My voice was feeble, and my thoughts could not hear themselves. The sky had narrowed to a small slit of blue, and on both sides of me were high dark walls of rock, covered in places with moss and little climbing ferns. It seemed to be raining slightly–the air was full of wetness from the lashing captive brook and dripping precipices.
"What is this famous Flume?" I had said before to Daddy.
"Oh, just a little gorge where the Flume brook comes through."
"Well, then, what are all these people crazy to see?"
"They get wild and excited about almost anything, because other people do, that's all."
I had to be content–naturally I didn't expect much. In fact, when we had come to the long smooth rock I had thought it was the climax.
"Are there any falls in this gorge?" said I.
"Oh, I think there's a nice little cascade there."
When we came to that long rock, I had said: "Is this it?" I was amazed even at that.
He was looking mischievous. "Part of it." I was excited.
At the head of those great walls were two dazzling, thundering silver cascades.
The Flume Cascade postcard
We left the grim rock walls a-whirl with their water echoes. We filled our canteens at a whirling pool of the same brook, where so many canteens have before been filled. Again a strange feeling–the anticipation of mountainous isolation was upon us, we felt it drawing tighter like a shadow as we strode up the beginning of the leafy trail towards purple-gleaming Flume and green Liberty. Sometimes we saw the slide ahead, steep–oh, steep! After quite a little walk, when we were near the foot of the slide, we sat down on a mossy rock and ate soft bread and butter and cheese–the bread left over from supper at the Agassiz Basins cabin. Then we had chocolate and small sips of icy cold water. A royal dinner could have tasted no better.
In the summer of 1932, eighteen year-old Barbara Follett and her "semi-platonic" friend Nickerson Rogers quit New York City and headed to Maine with the plan of following (or semi-following) the nascent Appalachian Trail from its northern terminus at Katahdin as far south as they could get before winter set in. To make matters tricky, the AT had not yet been cut in Maine, so bush-whacking and guesswork were in order. Travels Without a Donkey recounts their adventures from Katahdin to Lake Umbagog on the New Hampshire border. They then continued their walk over the White Mountains and down Vermont's Long Trail to western Massachusetts. They had been planning to hitch-hike to Tennessee to continue their journey along the AT, but something changed their minds and they sailed to Majorca instead, spending the winter of 1932 and most of 1933 exploring southern Europe.
Barbara camping on the Appalachian Trail, summer of 1932, photo by Nickerson Rogers
"It's spring," Nick said.
In the very shadow of New York's skyline, one solitary white crocus had blossomed in a scrawny patch of grass.
"What shall we do about it?" he demanded.
"What does anybody in New York do about it? Grin and bear it."
"Come on, Bar–show a spark of life, old gal. I'm getting out of here this summer."
"But — "
"Getting out. Leaving the office. Going into the north woods. Mountains. It's spring, child!"
I looked at him to make sure he was serious. In these depressed times, one didn't leave good jobs in order to run away to the north woods. His brown eyes sparkled. But then, they always did. He was the one person in New York whose eyes always sparkled.
"All right — I wish you joy."
He fished in various pockets and finally produced a little square of white metal, with a monogram and the words: "Appalachian Trail – Maine to Georgia."
"That's what I'm going to do," he explained. "I haven't had a walk for ages. Well, I'm going to have a real one now."
"Not from Maine to Georgia!"
"Why not? It's only two thousand miles or so."
"It'll take all summer."
"Can you think of a pleasanter way to spend the summer?"
I looked at the solitary white crocus in the scrawny patch of grass. "No," I said. "I can't."
Over lunch that day, he told me about this Appalachian Trail. It is a footpath, starting at Katahdin, that grand old mountain in Maine, and ending at Mount Oglethorpe way down in Georgia, after having crossed the highest and handsomest country of all the states between. Now, owing to the diligence and energy of walking clubs in various parts of the country, only a few miles of trail remains to be broken. But two years ago, when Nick told me about it over our luncheon, a large part of the trail, especially in Maine, was still theory–a dream, an ambition. Where it had become an actuality, it was marked with metal squares like the one he had shown me.
Quite a grand project, it sounded. I just sat staring and smiling, while he talked.
"Bar," he began again, "I think I'd like you in shorts."
"Shorts!"
"With your hair cut, flying in the wind–your swell red hair."
"Cut my hair!"
"Your freckles are out-of-doorsy. You belong out-doors."
"I haven't got freckles," I protested.
"Yes you have–very swell ones."
"I know I belong out-doors," I agreed. "I get mountain-fever. Got it now–something awful. I want to climb Wildcat."
"We will," he said happily. "I didn't want to walk all the way to Georgia alone, anyway."
"Are you asking me to come with you?"
"Of course! What else?"
"But I can't — "
"Nonsense. We start up north the first of July. You give 'em notice."
"But, Nicky — "
"'But' isn't worthy of you, Bar. Not in spring."
Some friends had a camp on a New Hampshire lake. It was there that Nick met me, promptly on the first of July. He was sunburned and smiling, comfortable in old clothes. Without stopping a minute, he deposited me and my pack in a borrowed canoe.
We paddled vigorously into | 2,338 |
Bipartisan Bill to Protect Columbia
and Snake River Dam Passes House
by Madison Meyer
iFiber One, April 25, 2018
"... this legislation to save our dams on the lower Snake and Columbia Rivers."
-- co-sponsor, Represenative Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
A bipartisan bill which will protect the lower Columbia and Snake River Dams passed in the House with a vote of 225 to 189 Wednesday, April 25.
Along with Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) alongside Reps. Dan Newhouse (R-WA), Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA), Greg Walden (R-OR), and Kurt Schrader (D-OR), all introduced the bill to protect dams by codifying the 2014 Biological Opinion, an agreement on how to manage river systems to protect fish and support clean, renewable energy.
Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA)
"I have heard from countless constituents expressing strong support to defend the clean energy and many economic benefits provided by the dams in Central Washington, which is why I introduced this bipartisan legislation with Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Pacific Northwest colleagues. The current Biological Opinion was negotiated with input from a diverse group of local stakeholders and provides a collaborative framework for dam operations that balances energy production with fish recovery efforts. I strongly encourage my colleagues in the U.S. Senate to act to preserve our dams and maintain low energy rates that families rely on in the Mid-Columbia region. I am grateful for the support from my House colleagues on both sides of the aisle in approving this legislation to save our dams on the lower Snake and Columbia Rivers."
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
"Dams and fish can coexist, and after more than two decades in the courtroom, let's let scientists, not judges, manage our river system and get to work to further improve fish recovery efforts,"said McMorris Rodgers . "When the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow, our dams provide critical baseload energy to power homes and businesses all across Eastern Washington<|fim_middle|> and our communities will likely pay the price in higher power rates. This legislation provides needed certainty for power generation and river operations while federal agencies update the biological opinion and court proceedings continue. This is important for our ag communities, renewable energy generation and power users across our region. I was glad to work with my colleague from Oregon, Kurt Schrader, to pass this legislation through the House, and I hope the Senate will act promptly on this bipartisan plan."
In March of last year, the U.S. District Judge Michael Simon issued a court order that required federal agencies to increase spill over the two (bluefish corrects: eight dams total, four on Lower Snake and four on the Lower Columbia rivers) dams in consideration.
The order, which began April 2, is expected to cost taxpayers about $40 million overall. Scientists content that spills can lead to increased dissolved nitrogen and other gases in the water that can kill fish.
This report comes from our Wenatchee news partners, Newsradio 560 KPQ.
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read the script | and the Pacific Northwest. Not only that, they provide transportation and irrigation benefits for our farmers, flood control for our communities, and recreational opportunities that fuel our economy. This isn't about the merits of protecting salmon, we all agree on that. This is about providing certainty and letting experts and scientists in the region, who know the river best, work collaboratively to meet that goal. I'm proud to usher this legislation through the House."
Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-WA)
"There's only one sensible way to balance the health of our salmon runs with residents' need for low-cost, hydropower energy in the Northwest – and that's to restore a scientifically-backed operations plan," saidHerrera Beutler. "On behalf of our salmon, our Northwest ratepayers, our economy, and our environment, passing H.R. 3144 is vital to ensure that we're relying on collaboration and science to best manage our river system."
Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR)
"Our bill finally codifies that science, not politics or the courts, should dictate the best way to balance fish recovery and the power needs in the Pacific Northwest," said Schrader. "Scientific experts steeped in fish recovery and clean renewable energy will be able to do their job based on good science rather than an ideological crusade to eliminate dams on the river system resulting in the loss of our region's best carbon free energy asset. Simply put, the Columbia River Power System will be managed according to the 2014 Obama Administration approved biological opinion until a new BiOp can be completed by 2022, saving ratepayers millions of dollars. I am pleased to have worked with Rep. McMorris Rodgers, and our Pacific Northwest colleagues, on this bill to bring science back into the equation for our Oregon and Pacific Northwest Salmon recovery efforts."
Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR)
"In Oregon and throughout the Pacific Northwest, we are blessed with a river system that allows goods to flow to market and provides renewable hydropower that generates 43% of electricity in our state," said Walden. "River operations that have been guided by years of research by federal agencies, tribes and other cooperators have now been threatened by court order, and Northwest families | 468 |
We normally think of Budgeting in the context of our own personal finances. However, this is an important skill in the workplace as well. Why? because all businesses have a budget.
noun: An estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time.
verb: Allow or provide for in a budget.
We are more concerned with the verb however, in order to do this, you first need to understand what a Budget is and why it is important to your employer (and why it is important to you). If you are a business owner or in management 'a budget' should be a familiar routine and you may already be directly responsible for preparing a budget. However, understanding a budget and how it affects you is important for everyone.
it helps you plan to reach goals and targets (both corporate and personal).
it helps manage your cashflow by monitoring your expenses and income.
it helps you plan your finances in advance.
it helps you prioritise spending.
if you charge by the hour it helps you assess your fees.
it will help identify wasteful expenditure.
it helps allocate funds to specific projects.
it helps outline the needs of the business and its departments.
it helps plan ahead for future growth.
it helps<|fim_middle|> you can learn more about the budgeting process.
Action Point: Add TWO specific actions to your career development plan that you can undertake in the next 12 months to boost your knowledge of budgeting and financial management.
If you are struggling to find something to do to help boost this skill – make it personal write your own budget for your personal finances. Make budgeting less scary by learning the terminology.
This entry was posted in A to Z of Skills Development and tagged Skills Development. Bookmark the permalink. | assess funds for investment e.g. in training, in technology, in new staff, in equipment etc.
Action Point: Consider why these are important to you in your current role and how they affect your job. If you are going for a promotion consider why they are important in that role as well.
Whatever your role you need to be able to budget and understand your corporate budget. While you might not use 'budgeting skills' practically in your day-to-day job an understanding of where you fit in the circle of life, your ability to incorporate the corporate budget into your business development plan, your ability to be mindful of budgets when working on projects or charging for work (or doing work if you do fixed fee work) is all part of succeeding at your job.
How can you show you have this skill?
Unless you are in a finance team, accounts or a manager it is unlikely to be a specific requirement of your job.
For the rest of you your ability to budget can be demonstrated while to are giving examples of your other skills such as time-management (ability to complete things on time and on budget), problem-solving, efficiency and improving working processes.
Do you have any responsibility for finances? Think about how you can incorporate some numbers into your routine – whether this is managing your own billing/invoices, preparing a budget for your team, helping to manage your clients finances or offering to assist someone else so | 281 |
For the first time, we implemented a practical part into our Global Health Summer: The Campaign Skills Lab aims to link theory and practice.
Over the last decades, the diversity of digital technologies has broadened the opportunities to activist enormously. Using digital media gives us the chance to spread social/political messages in a completely different way and mobilize people all over the world. Therefore we<|fim_middle|> on the Summer School topic by themselves with full support from campaign experts. | need skills in communication strategies and creative ways of expressing a message. Beside this theoretical level successful campaigning and activism needs a broad knowledge of digital technologies and social media. In our skills lab we both worked on the theoretical and practical level of how to develop a successful campaign.
While students gained knowledge about Global Health in general and pharmaceutical industry in particular during the Summer School and Conference, they had the chance to become active themselves in a three-days full-time Skills Lab. The objective was to give an introduction to activism and campaigning – including soft skills (basics in activism, criteria of a good/bad campaign) and hard skills (digital tools, new media). The Skills Lab aimed to answer the question: "What are the tools and trends, the opportunities and challenges of activism both on a practical and theoretical level"? By the end of the workshop participants created a campaign | 172 |
Field service and maintenance specialist CP Automation has appointed long standing industry expert Jennie Gordon to the role of product sales manager. The new position will encompass both the CP brand and sister company Euroserv. Gordon has been in the automation industry since 1989, a time when there were few women in this niche of the once male dominated engineering industry.
Before joining CP Automation, Gordon worked for Betech Systems, a UK distributor for Baldor. Gordon explains, "I first joined Betech in telesales. But I take pride in knowing all about<|fim_middle|> West Yorkshire and holidays in England. She believes that even as a sales engineer who constantly travels the UK, there are still countless sights to be seen within the country, further reinforcing her green credentials. | the thing I'm selling, so in the evenings I used to read American electric motor manuals. After three months I was offered a job as an internal sales engineer and later I moved into external sales, where I spent twelve years. My last role was as corporate sales manager." Gordon went on to work for Coulstock & Place Engineering, her last position before joining CP Automation.
Gordon believes that the biggest highlight of her career has been making men understand, at board and shop floor level, that women have valuable engineering expertise to offer. "When I first moved into the automation industry, I encountered untold opposition. At that point there simply wasn't the quantity of female engineers that we have now. Today, most people think it's unusual to encounter a female engineer of my age but that hostility has gone in most places." Gordon also includes tripling turnover at Betech amongst the experiences that have stayed with her throughout her career.
Gordon is a funk jazz fan, and has a broad ranging interest in other kinds of music. Despite originating from Lancashire, she lives in Halifax, | 217 |
austrianalpine.com: May & June Training, Nutrition, etc.
My training in May and June centered around gaining strength. A short term negative side effect of strength training is weight gain. This comes through muscle hypertrophy and some extra body fat. towards the end of June I have concentrated on getting my overall weight back down, and hopefully retaining the increased muscle that I built up in the last six weeks.
In April, I calculated my lean body mass at 64 kg. 2 months ago, with about 10% body fat, my weight was between 70.5 kg. and 72 kg. At the beginning of June I had increased my weight to almost 74 kg. but my body fat did not go above 11.3%. The math than indicates that during my<|fim_middle|>. Always trying, experimenting, evaluating, being open minded, knowing that you are fallible, and fully embracing change and evolution. Because once one starts behaving in a way of repeating the same things, trying to repeat the past and fearing change, then training as well as life rots away, becoming boring, depressing and full of frustration. | strength phase my lean body mass increased to about 65.5 kg., which means an increase of 1.5 kg. in muscle gain.
That sounds all well and good, but for all practical purposes that extra 1.5 kg. was simply what I call "dumb muscle". In other words the newly gained muscle had to be converted into usable strength in all types of climbing applications.
The goal in body composition for climbing is the highest degree of strength at the lowest weight. Additionally, you want to be able to recruit the highest possible percentage of muscle fibers when you exert force. So to paraphrase a cliche, quality of muscle over quantity.
In May and June I had around 80 hours of training each month with over 30 training sessions. I averaged 3,000 meters of elevation gain per week in my endurance training. I did a lot of supplemental strength workouts paired with basic endurance climbing. Along the way, I had a few days were I could test my fitness and effects of my training and diet.
First, my diet: I have been eating a lot of protein to gain the extra muscle. Secondly, I have been trying to condition my body to burn fat stores for energy. I eat very little carbohydrates, and the carbohydrates that I do eat are complex carbs made up of mostly leafy green vegetables, nuts and seeds. I do not eat grains or simple sugar. I have almost stopped eating fruit to limit fructose as well.
I have been doing a lot of training in a fasted state, trying to force my body to burn fat stores to fuel the exercise. I have also restricted the amount of water that I drink during training The purpose of these two practices is to physically and mentally adapt to functioning in a depleted state. On long alpine outings, you can not possibly carry enough calories or always be well hydrated because of the weight of the food and water, or the time it would take to melt snow or cook.
I had a few different "test" days to evaluate how things were progressing. The following are a few examples across a broad spectrum. Basic alpine endurance was tested by climbing the Hochkalter (2600+m) over the Blaueis glacier route with a moderately heavy pack and doing "sprint" intervals at the upper part of the glacier where it steepens to 50 degrees. I did 1900 meters of elevation gain in four hours and completed the descent to finish the training in under seven hours.
I did trail runs at a pace of 850 to 1000 meters of elevation gain per hour. I did the standard hiking route to the top of the Höher Göll (2500+m), doing about 1500 meters of elevation gain (over a long distance) in 2.5 hours in a fasted state without food or water - though I had a real dropping spell on the descent and had to back off the pace.
Lastly, I was able to do a classic alpine rock climb with my friend Alex in the Reiter Alpe (Berchtesgadener Alps). We did the Direct South Ridge on the Mühlsturzhorn (Hinterstoißer/Kurz, VIII-, VI+/A0, 350m) including a long approach with 1000 meters of elevation gain. I did the 11 hour outing in a fasted state with just drinking about a liter of water during a very hot day. I had one spell of mental tiredness during the climbing, but overall felt really good and strong all the way through the descent.
Other small indications that I am on the right track with training and nutrition are the overall strength increases in pull ups, presses and fingerboard holds. What has really shown improvement is my ability to generate power in climbing and running/hiking. I feel a lot more dynamic while climbing and feel a "springiness" in my legs.
I could on-sight my first 7a in the gym about a week ago. I have been able to climb 450 to 500 meters in the climbing gym on endurance days. I am in a phase of power endurance training in which I do climbing sets of up to 8 route laps without rest. I have been able to push this up to 6c+.
I still have not reached my body composition goals with a standard weight of 68 kg.. (going down to 66kg. for hard sport climbing) and a body fat percentage of 6-7%. I am now at about 70 kg. and 9-10% body fat, with my plans to reduce this further during my six-week stay in Kalymnos as I train hard sport climbing and off-day trail running. I feel that I am primed to make some major advances in my sport climbing grades.
What is most encouraging to me is that I still can improve a number of elements of my training and nutrition, which will produce further benefits. I always think there are ways of tweaking, balancing and adapting that bring about new physical and mental stresses that cause further gains. I feel there are so many different elements in how I train, eat and live that I want to slowly adjust to get everything in harmony and working in a synergistic manner.
I have always loved jazz guitarist Pat Metheny. In the 1980's, I first heard the Pat Metheny Group recordings. There is a song of his on the American Garage album called, "The Search". The tune fits into the fabric of the album as a part of the concept of the musical energy of young, idealistic, garage bands in the American mid-west. The music is an aural metaphor of a basic philosophy of how to go through life | 1,186 |
Sean Bowen, CEO of Push Technology, explains: "With our latest release we are delivering an Enterprise-grade, data streaming and messaging solution which is simple to deploy and provides customers with the flexibility to start small and add functionality as their requirements expand. Developers no longer need to spend time building<|fim_middle|> for complicated data transformations.
Push Technology earned its blue-chip reputation in sectors where real-time data delivery is critical to successfully execute time-sensitive and business-critical financial transactions. eGaming and financial services were early adopters of the company's technology.
Today, Diffusion processes £5.2 billion (€5.83 billion) in bets annually for leading gaming industry brands, a huge volume of trading data for financial institutions, and manages data for IoT applications in the healthcare, media, energy, transportation, and many other markets across the IoT. | real-time data management for their applications because everything they need is available in Diffusion 6.0.
The new Diffusion release includes two add-on modules plus enhanced features to further offload development team tasks with out-of-the-box functionality.
The Scale & Availability Pack and the Auto-Scale Pack are designed to allow application developers to select enhanced Diffusion functionality specific to their application use case(s) requirements, as they scale and grow. The Scale & Availability Pack offers functionality including clustering, fan-out, and persistence – focused on addressing the challenges of resilience, application Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and bandwidth constraints.
The Auto-Scale Pack integrates Kubernetes and Prometheus to facilitate fast, simple, application deployment which enables Diffusion applications to be conveniently "containerised," and easily managed, monitored and scaled.
Time series data. Time series are ordered series of events. Effective management of time series data is useful for tracking account history, managing inventory or logistics, and for collaborative applications, e.g. chat.
Persistence. Data persistence preserves the state of data when a server is closed and then restarted. It is particularly useful for maintenance, update, or an unplanned outage. Persistence eliminates the need for the server to reload the data model when it starts.
Typed request-response messaging. Diffusion now allows applications to send request messages or data to a client, a set of clients, or a message path and the recipient of the information can respond directly to the request. Diffusion takes care of data conversion, allowing applications to pass instances of the data type directly to and from the API. Importantly, this allows customers to co-ordinate messages sent with messages received enabling proper transactional interactions.
Support of new data types. Diffusion now supports int64, string, and double. This new support enables developers to efficiently build applications without the need | 368 |
The story of this addition is the story of them: a family with five young children that needed breathing space, that needed an addition whose architectural functionality would change their lives. The parents wanted to be able to see the children at all times, yet foster their independence; a 21st century lifestyle; and more natural light into the rather dark house. They loved their farmhouse, but were bursting at the seams in the 2,400 s.f. home. And this project was about getting the most square footage possible.
The addition doubles the size of the farmhouse, and ties into the old house seamlessly: we did not want the addition to eat the house. The sequencing blends the old with the new. Upstairs, bedrooms and bathrooms were added. On the main floor, the new kitchen/breakfast room/gathering room all flow into one contiguous space.
Architecture affects how time is used, and punctuality is king to a family with five young children. The family center serves as the landing pad. It was an important design consideration that the children have to go through the family center from the garage, to enter the house. There, the children deposit their sports equipment, school bags, and detritus<|fim_middle|> children as they play, and keep an eye on their exotic chickens.
The addition doubles the size of the farmhouse, respects the character of the original house, and the needs of today's family. | from their day. There, laundry is done while Midnight takes hernap .Another way to sequence from the garage to the house is only for the parents.
The homeowners were reluctant to build the traditional back porch, but came to realize that the porch mediates how their home transitions to their backyard. The large steps leading to the back porch mimic theatre style seating. There, the parents sit and watch their | 80 |
Has Derby County summer signing Tom Huddlestone been a hit, a<|fim_middle|> can find that balance long-term from within the current squad is open to debate.
I am not sure that other type of midfielder they might need is in the squad and that is why it would not come as a surprise should manager Gary Rowett make a move in the January transfer window. | miss, or simply misunderstood?
Tom Huddlestone has played every minute of Derby County's 15 Championship fixtures.
He and Curtis Davies, who both signed from Hull City in the summer, are the only two outfield players to have done so for the Rams this season.
Davies has settled into the back four and he has formed a first-choice centre-back partnership with skipper Richard Keogh.
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They have helped the team to record five clean sheets, although the top six sides have all conceded fewer goals and played a game more than seventh-placed Derby.
The defence has a settled look to it - unchanged in the past seven games - but question marks remain over the balance in midfield, which is Huddlestone's domain.
The former England international has come in for criticism from some fans.
Has Huddlestone been a hit or a miss, or is he misunderstood as a player?
The Tom Huddlestone I am seeing is no different to the one I have seen over the years.
Nor is he different to the Huddlestone I expected when he came back.
Whether other people expected or are expecting other things from him is very much for them to think or say.
His strengths are his strengths, and they have always been his strengths - composure on the ball, vision and passing over varied ranges.
Tearing around the pitch, closing opponents down, winning the ball back quickly and winning headers have never really been his strengths.
His role is one of a controller, providing direction and shape to Derby's possession.
I keep harping back to this point but I said and I wrote on the day he signed that in order to see the best of Huddlestone, the balance in midfield has to be right.
He needs legs in there with him, he needs a scrapper, somebody to hurry opponents and recycle the ball.
Balance is important in all areas of the pitch - it is not exclusive to the midfield - but it is absolutely key to that particular department.
Joe Ledley's arrival has helped to an extent, and has helped Huddlestone.
Derby won four and drew two of the six games in which the pairing has started and Ledley's influence was noted when he missed Saturday's 4-2 home defeat by Reading through injury.
Virtually every player had an off-day against Reading but Huddlestone played a full role in the back-to-back wins at Norwich and at Leeds only days earlier.
However, the balance in midfield has not felt quite right for much of the season and I believe Huddlestone has suffered at times because of this.
Whether Derby | 533 |
Bashford House
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The 1891 catalog of C.S. Ransom and Company of Cleveland, Ohio, features the 1885 patented invention of Moses Younglove Ransom known as Moorish Fretwork. Ransom's "design" patent covered the way that his milled helical moldings could be interwoven in multiple patterns. The wooden solarium screens in the Bashford House feature Moorish Fretwork and also incorporate stick and ball patterns which were quite popular in fretwork grilles in the 1880s and 1890s.
Another feature is the fireplace with hand carved designs and unique tiles. An 1891 photo shows the non-functional fireplace with encaustic tile made in Ohio at the Rookwood factory.
On display is a sample of the original wallpaper which had cheesecloth backing and was attached to the wall with large tacks. In 1890 such embossed wallpaper was made in France. Two wallpaper historians have indicated that it came from Paris due to the "fleur de lis" in the design.
William Bashford resigned from his mercantile business in 1895 to direct his energies to mining investments. He and his family moved to California in 1905.
Later, other owners of the house made additional changes, lengthening the porch to run completely across the front and building a new solarium. In the late 1920s and early 1930s, other changes were made, including new walls, additional kitchens and bathrooms to create six apartments in the house.
The house sat at its original location — 403 East Gurley Street — until its move to the Sharlot Hall Museum in 1974. In April 1974 over a period of several weeks, house movers managed to jack the 160-ton house onto an enormous flatbed trailer and transport it a half mile west to its present site.
Two years later in May 1976, the restored Bashford House was dedicated and opened to the public during the Museum's annual Folk Arts Fair.
In 2010 a marble urn (jardiniere) that had belonged to the Bashfords was acquired by the Museum and re-installed in the solarium thanks to the generosity of the Toci family (which once owned the house) and several civic associations. The Museum's Facilities Department reinforced the floor to once again accommodate the beautiful 800-pound urn.
Today, the Bashford House has museum members and visitors coming to view the stained glass front doors, ornate fireplace and solarium fretwork on the last point of their tour. Since the house serves as the Museum Store, books and Arizona handicrafts enlarge the museum experience. | images property of SHM Library & Archives
Bashford house, Gurley Street, Prescott, Arizona. Before moving to Museum in 1974.
The Bashford House is connected to some of Prescott's earliest residents. Coles Bashford, a former governor, attorney general, and senator from Wisconsin, came to Arizona with the party of the first territorial governor, John Goodwin. Mr. Bashford was the first lawyer admitted to practice (1864) in the Territory of Arizona. He was later appointed secretary of the territory by President Grant in 1869. The elegant Victorian home is named for his son, William C. Bashford.
Born in Wisconsin in 1853, William C. Bashford came to Prescott in 1874 to make his fortune in the mercantile business. He later became a partner with his brother-in-law in the Bashford-Burmister Store, at that time well known throughout Arizona and the Southwest. Bashford contributed greatly to the development of Prescott, as he helped to organize the Prescott National Bank and served as one of its directors. He also served as Yavapai County treasurer and as Prescott City treasurer.
William Bashford married Mary Louise Evans in 1876. Two years later, he bought from Samuel Baker an almost new house on the corner of Pleasant and East Gurley streets. The price was $2,000. It was a simple house with two stories, rectangular in shape, with an outside stairway. The young couple enlarged | 316 |
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How to Self-Isolate in a Shared House if You or Someone You Live With Has Coronavirus
Yes, the six-feet rule applies to your own home sometimes, too.
By Leah Groth
As the number of COVID-19 cases continue to climb, most people are practicing the preventive methods recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the World Health Organization, and other agencies—social distancing, self-quarantining, and self-isolating (in addition to other hygienic practices)—to avoid coming into contact with or spreading the coronavirus. But what happens when you or someone you live with is diagnosed with COVID-19?
While much about the novel coronavirus is still unknown, researchers seem to know one thing for sure: The infectiousness of COVID-19 seems to make it a family affair. "While we in the US are still learning a lot about the disease, data from China suggests that intrafamily spread is common and responsible for clusters of outbreaks within communities," Jaimie Meyer, MD, a Yale Medicine infectious disease specialist, tells Health.
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This is mostly due to the fact that S<|fim_middle|>, prescription filling, and other personal needs as well as monitoring their symptoms and communicating with their healthcare provider if they are getting sicker—they should be making very little, if any, physical contact with them. In that case, sharing a room with someone who is sick is not a good idea. "If possible, designate a bedroom and bathroom for their use only," Dr. Meyer instructs, adding that good air flow is also key. "Close the door but open a window to improve the ventilation of the space."
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If you are a caregiver and do have to come into contact with a person showing symptoms of and diagnosed with COVID-19, make sure the individual has their mouth and nose covered, preferably with a surgical mask. "If you can't get your hands on one (they are hard to find these days), a scarf or shirt can work just fine as make-shift masks," says Dr. Meyer.
It should go without saying that you should also avoid using the same household items as the infected person. "You should not share dishes, drinking glasses, cups, eating utensils, towels, bedding, or other items," instructs the CDC. "After the patient uses these items, you should wash them thoroughly." And, if you must clean the patient's room or bathroom, extra care should be taken to sanitize potentially contaminated surfaces, per the CDC. The same goes for washing the clothes or bedding of the infected person, which should be immediately removed and washed if they're contaminated with any bodily fluids (blood, stool, saliva, mucus, etc.). All of this should be done while wearing gloves, per the CDC, which should be disposed of after use, so you can wash your hands immediately.
Also important: If you are the individual isolating, make sure you take care of your health. "Drink plenty of fluids, rest, and take acetaminophen or ibuprofen as needed for fevers or body aches," says Dr. Meyer. "Pay attention to your symptoms, and call your doctor if you have difficulty breathing."
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These precautions are (luckily) only temporary for as long as you or the person in your household is ill. "[People] can come out of isolation when at least seven days have passed since symptoms first appeared, it's been at least three days without a fever (without use of medications), and respiratory symptoms are improving," says Dr. Meyer.
This is important, she says, since many people feel that they can come out of isolation as soon as they start feeling better. "It can be tempting to end isolation too early," she explains. This is especially problematic in COVID19 because people can continue to "shed" the virus in droplets for weeks after the acute illness. "You can protect your household and other people in your community from becoming ill if you see the isolation period through completely."
The information in this story is accurate as of press time. However, as the situation surrounding COVID-19 continues to evolve, it's possible that some data have changed since publication. While Health is trying to keep our stories as up-to-date as possible, we also encourage readers to stay informed on news and recommendations for their own communities by using the CDC, WHO, and their local public health department as resources. | ARS-CoV-2—the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 disease—is spread primarily from person to person through droplets that become aerosolized and propelled when someone coughs or sneezes, says Dr. Meyer. Because the virus can also survive on various surfaces for certain periods of time, it is also thought to spread from person to person through direct contact with those surfaces. Both of those things make the home of someone living with COVID-19 a hotspot for others to pick up the disease.
That's why—while it's entirely possible for those who are asymptomatic to spread the disease—it's crucial for those showing symptoms to self-isolate. "If you are feeling ill with symptoms of COVID-19 or have been diagnosed with COVID-19, it is important to stay home to prevent transmitting the virus to people in your community and to stay isolated within your home to prevent transmitting the virus to other people in your household," says Dr. Meyer.
Of course, that's easier said than done. "Isolating can be really hard, especially when you live with other people or in smaller spaces," she adds. While she doesn't think people are intentionally disregarding isolation procedures, she points out that it can be logistically challenging and potentially confusing as guidelines are changing so often. "Isolation can also be psychologically challenging and distressing, especially if you don't feel well."
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So, how do you self-isolate in a shared home?
Dr. Meyer points to the Centers for Disease Control's very clear guidelines on how to care for and cohabitate with someone who is sick with novel coronavirus. One of the first, is basically locking down the home by not allowing visitors in unless they have an "essential need" to be there.
The CDC explains that while a caregiver can help the patient with their basic needs in the home—grocery getting | 399 |
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Metro Schools music teacher receives Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award
Rita Black, a music teacher at Eakin Elementary School, is one of 10 music teachers across the country to receive the 2017 Yale Distinguished Music Educator Award.
Awardees were identified and nominated in partnership with the National Association for Music Education and the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. They were selected in recognition of their innovative approaches to music education, their dedication to their urban communities and their desire to make a substantial difference in the lives of students and families.
"The Yale School of Music is continuing its tradition of recognizing exceptional music teachers working in schools across the United States," YSM Associate Dean Michael Yaffe said in a press release. "This year, we're focusing specifically on the leadership of educators in city schools, whose work is made more critical by a growing disparity in opportunities for music making in America's cities."
Black holds a bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Central Oklahoma and has taught general music and choir for 13 years. In addition to being a music teacher, she also mentors pre-service teachers, directs theater and choir and presents workshops for educators.
She is a member of the National Association for Music Education and the American Orff-Schulwerk Association, having served as a committee co-chair in 2014. She is an adviser for music curriculum and serves as a peer reviewer for the Tennessee Fine Arts Growth Measures System. She is also a 2016 Teaching Fellow at Tennessee's State Collaborative on Reforming Education, where she focused on education policy issues, and was named a Music Teacher of Excellence in 2016 by the Nashville Public Education Foundation and the Country Music Association Foundation.
Recipients of the 2017 Yale Distinguished Music Educator Awards were invited to New Haven to attend this year's Symposium on Music in Schools, which focused on the role that music-making plays in America's city schools.
Congratulations to Ms. Black on this impressive accomplishment!
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Game thread: New York Knicks @ Toronto Raptors 7:30 3/18/2019 [Game #71]
Thread: Game thread: New York Knicks @ Toronto Raptors 7:30 3/18/2019 [Game #71]
Mar 18, 2019, 16:53 #1
(14-56) -- (49-21)
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Probable starters:
New York Knicks Toronto Raptors
Frank Ntilikina - Sore groin (OUT) Kyle Lowry - Sprained left ankle (QUEST)
Dennis Smith Jr. - Sore lower back (OUT) Kawhi Leonard - Rest - load management (OUT)
Noah Vonleh - Sprained right ankle (OUT) -
The New York Knicks scored a dramatic 124-123 win over LeBron James and the visiting Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday, which shows that there can be highlights even in the most dismal of seasons.
The Knicks, who have the worst record in the league at 14-56, will try to improve on that rare success Monday night when they visit the Toronto Raptors, the NBA's second-best team at 49-21.
The Raptors, who easily handled the Lakers on Thursday night, are coming off a 110-107 loss on the road to the Detroit Pistons on Sunday.
The Raptors will be facing a Knicks team on a high after Mario Hezonja blocked a shot by James with 2.3 remaining to seal the win. The Knicks rallied from an 11-point deficit with 3:45 to play to end an eight-game losing streak.
"They were pumped,'' Knicks coach David Fizdale said. "All of them were pumped for Mario, since he has been going through his ups and downs.
Lance Thomas, the longest-tenured Knick, is familiar with the way the season is ending but said there is a difference this time.
"Right now we're building,"' Thomas told the New York Post. "We're trying to keep our guys fighting, building a culture and having guys finish the season the right way.
"This is the first season since I've been a Knick where everyone's been completely focused on the season. What we<|fim_middle|> let Jeremy Lin get 20 against you. He's been horrible since joining TOR.
Originally Posted by jimkcchief88
Boy when the Knicks mail it in they mail it in Suns playing a lot better these days...our Knicksv um um um
The boys got lucky winning that game against the Fakers. When was the last time LeBron ever failed at hero ball, except for yesterday it never happens, think I read that was his worst 4th qtr ever.
Yeah, these kids burnt out. I'm not even sure Fiz has a system or structure. It fees like Lord of the Flies, sometimes.
I bet we win 2 games tops the final 11 games.
There aren't words I can type that can overstate the importance of the upcoming lottery and what that entails for this franchise moving forward.
Think Curry for GSW; Towns for Minny; LeBron and Kyrie for CLE...
If Knicks get Zion... you can't imagije the impact, unless you recall 1985 (Ewing). What he'll do for the franchise.
RJ and Jay could possibly have similar impact.
I've come around in Coby White... he could be special... however, the mocks are all over on him.
The kid from Gonzaga would be a solid pickup, to play with MRob, KD, KI... but he's not a franchise altering selection.
So, feel good that the end is near... now, the only question is where are we now? Is this 1985 or 2010? Will we get a Ewing and a 15 year playoff run? Will we get a Melo/Amar'e and just be sort of relevant?
I can't imagine how nervous I'll be when they reveal the 5th pick in the lottery... praying we don't see our logo. Then the 4th... with Zion as the prize... the 3rd pick... then, imagine if we still alive... the 2nd pick.
Will we scream or have our knees buckle?
Kiyaman
Be happy like me for Frank not being a part of the Knicks history Wreck season ..
I'm sorry to say, butt Fizdale does not belong in a head-coaching job position in the NBA or NCAA ..
The Fizdale's so-call development coaching of young players has been the pits of PITS!
I wouldn't be surprise to find out at a later date that Frank also asked to be traded the same time KP asked.
A 36 point BLOWOUT tonight .. David Fizdale CAN'T COACH !!!
Originally Posted by Kiyaman
Yeah I'm kinda starting to agree; Suns playing better while our guys, not so much. We can't keep hiring and firing coaches, FIZ needs to be on a short leash. Hard to see the playing Knicks playing this bad under Mark Jackson.
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game thread, toronto raptors | 're doing is definitely working... from a team standpoint. I'm definitely looking forward to the future."
That has not always been the case, according to Thomas.
"There's been instances where the losing takes a toll on certain guys,"Thomas said. "With this team here, obviously the record isn't what we want it to be, but the morale is high."
Fizdale said Dennis Smith Jr. (sore back) and Noah Vonleh (sprained ankle) are day-to-day.
Meanwhile, the Raptors guard Fred VanVleet, who missed 12 games with a thumb injury, scored 17 points in his return. But that was not enough against the Pistons, whose coach, Dwane Casey, was fired by the Raptors at the end of last season. The Pistons swept the three-game series with the Raptors for the first time since the 2008-09 season.
The Pistons outscored the Raptors 32-23 in the fourth quarter. Toronto has lost four of its past seven games.
With Kyle Lowry out for the second straight game with a sprained left ankle and questionable for Monday, Jeremy Lin started at point guard Sunday with VanVleet coming in off the bench.
"What do we miss when we don't have Fred out there? We miss a pretty solid shooter, we miss an offense organizer, we miss a good communicator on D, and one of my favorite things is he seems to be a bit of a bail-out bucket-maker," Raptors coach Nick Nurse said. "When things aren't going well in the offense or when the shot clock's running late, he can fill in a few of those buckets for us, too."
Kawhi Leonard scored 33 points and had 10 rebounds Sunday, but he has not been playing both ends of back-to-back games this season.
Serge Ibaka will not play Monday as he completes his three-game suspension for fighting in Monday's loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Raptors have won both games against the Knicks this season.
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Thanks, Rady.
Not sure anything that anyone does in this final stretch means anything. Very small number of guys are signed to this team for next season and some of those guys could be traded in the offseason. Most important thing remains that guaranteed top 5 pick.
Ntilikina to be "evaluated" again tomorrow. I think his season is done and his time as a Knick is done. Guys have had their parachutes not open when skydiving and have come back faster from injuries than this.
Down 12 in the 1st quarter. Toronto looks intent to not let us compete in this one.
jimkcchief88
Yeah Knicks pulling a no-show tonight after yesterday's come from behind win.
12th man
Originally Posted by htr10
The French Bargnani.
Talk about a groin injury... suffering from
a grade-A ego strain?
Hey, on a lighter note, we might lose by 50 tonight!
That foul on Lowry by MRob is way more harmful than that flagrant Trier committed on Caruso last game but they never call a flagrant for it, Lowry visibly hurt. Both fouls were unintentional but Trier got called for a flagrant.
Nice spin move and layup by Ellenson, I'd like to see more of him with Vonleh perhaps leaving in FA next season. Nice handle for a big man.
Mar 18, 2019, 20:41 #10
Boy when the Knicks mail it in they mail it in Suns playing a lot better these days...our Knicks um um um
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Friends with Boys by Faith Erin Hicks is a YA novel about the adjustment period of attending public school after years of homeschooling. Maggie McKay is going to high school, following in the foot steps of<|fim_middle|> it's nicely done, it's not as remarkable as the events in Brain Camp by Susan Kim and illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks.
There is a side story, though, about a ghost in the graveyard which serves as a short cut to the high school. She appears at the beginning of the book and at the end but there is no "meloncholy mystery" as the blurb would have one believe. Instead, it's just filler. I really had hoped to see more emphasis on the ghost plot and less on the brothers / sister relationship. | her brothers.
For the most part, Friends with Boys is a roman à clef in graphic novel format. As Hicks explains in her blog, she was home-schooled and has three brothers. While the author is from British Columbia, the book is set in Nova Scotia.
The going to high school part of the book is pretty standard. There are the usual problems of making friends, as well as the competition and sibling strife. While | 88 |
The Diving Bell and the<|fim_middle|>3
Original Language: FRE | Butterfly (2007)
Format: DVD Genre: Drama, Biography
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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Suffering a massive stroke at the age of 43, Elle Paris magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby was left paralyzed. With only his left eyelid being able to move, Bauby proved he was only limited by his imagination, writing a novel through the use of a series of blinks developed by him and a dedicated speech therapist. Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Max von Sydow star in this fanciful true-life drama from director Julian Schnabel. 112 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English. In French with English subtitles.
Olatz Lopez Garmendia
Patrick Chesnais
Isaach de Bankolé
Michael Wincott
Director: Julian Schnabel
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"Truly groundbreaking" was the description today from Unity Festival officials, as they announced the booking of the Passion Worship Band, featuring Kristian Stanfill<|fim_middle|>uenthal Theatre in Muskegon. | for Thursday, August 8th on the Unity Main Stage, presented by International Aid. The modern worship band trendsetters will be paired with previously announced headliner Hillsong LIVE! and opening acts Reilly and The Neverclaim to round out a lineup that is poised to be the largest worship event of the year and the biggest worship themed night in Unity's 13 year history.
The Passion movement, led by pastor Louie Giglio from Atlanta, has launched the musical careers of Chris Tomlin and others. In addition to an annual tour of sold-out arena shows each year, the Passion records have sold over 3 million copies and their modern renderings of classic Christian hymns are sung in churches worldwide each Sunday. Writing original songs and also putting a fresh and contemporary arrangement to well-known standards, the Passion Worship Band has found a recipe for reaching the current generation. "The exciting thing about this lineup", Newton said, "is the way that all these bands have succeeded in bringing the worship experience to this generation and making it alive and fresh for our culture. Life in Christ is about being truly and fully alive and people will get a taste of the power and presence of God when they join us for this event".
The Unity Christian Music Festival is entering its' 13th year and is the largest Christian event in Michigan and one of the largest in the nation. Unity is known for booking the top Christian artists in multiple genres and for it's family friendly atmosphere and affordable pricing project plan. Headline acts for all 4 nights have now been announced, though some slots are still being filled in the next few weeks. "This year's lineup is outstanding, top to bottom. When we look at the list, we are so grateful. We have come a long way from the early years, while maintaining the "feel" of a true family event", Newton commented.
The 2013 lineup includes Wednesday, August 7th headliner Crowder, plus Everfound and All Things New. Friday, August 9th features supergroup Casting Crowns, with Plumb, Rhett Walker Band and more. Unity will close out its' 2013 event on Saturday, August 10th with Jeremy Camp, Matthew West, Colton Dixon, Citizen Way, Jennie Simmons and more.
Rap, rock, alternative and dance music will be featured on the Unity A-Stage, presented by West Michigan Youth for Christ. The A-stage area will also be home to the Unity Pinball Tent, the Hideout Youth Lounge and many other new features for 2013.
Unity also features a large children's area, Inflatable games, Camp Unity by Grace Adventures and many other non-musical events and activities for all ages. The complete lineup and other festival information is available at www.unitychristianevents.com or the Unity Facebook page.
Unity tickets are available now at www.unitymusicfestival.com , by calling 1-800-585-3737 or at any Startickets outlet, including the Fra | 625 |
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Cheyenne Indians (<|fim_middle|> and archaeology, mostly in North and South America. He also worked with the F.B.I. frequently to aid in homicide investigations, and worked extensively with the U.S. Army to identify skeletal remains from the Korean War in Operation Glory. The Thomas Dale Stewart Papers primarily deal with his life and career at the Smithsonian, particularly his research projects and publications between 1931 and 1991. Materials consist mainly of correspondence, photographic material, dossiers based on writings and research projects, and administrative files.
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The collection measures 45.7 linear feet and and documents the life of American abstract artist, writer, poet, and illustrator Charles Green Shaw. The papers date from 1833-1979 with the bulk of the material spanning 1909-1974 and a single item of ephemera dating from 1686. Records include biographical information and correspondence with family, colleagues and several artists and writers. The papers also contain writings and extensive diaries, sketchbooks and scrapbooks spanning Shaw's entire career, scattered financial records and other printed material.
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The Donald J. Ortner Papers, dated 1963 to 2013, document his research and professional activities while working in the Division of Physical Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History. They primarily deal with his contributions to the field of paleopathology and his work with specimens from Bab edh-Dhra, Jordan and Chichester, England. The bulk of this collection consists of correspondence, files related to Ortner's publications, specimen observations and analysis, and photographs.
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The papers of C. Malcolm Watkins provide comprehensive documentation of his professional career from 1934 to 1980. The collection documents his interest in early American culture; his research on ceramics, historic archeology, and early California history; his curatorial and administrative activities in the Department of Anthropology, USNM, ... | 4)
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Harrington, John Peabody, 1884-1961
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Harrington was a Bureau of American Ethnology ethnologist involved in the study of over one hundred American tribes. His speciality was linguistics. Most of the material concerns California, southwestern, northwestern tribes and includes ethnological, archeological, historical notes; writings, correspondence, photographs, sound recordings, biological specimens, and other types of documents. Also of concern are general linguistics, sign language, writing systems, writing machines, and sound recordings machines. There is also some material on New World Spanish, Old World languages. In addition, there are many manuscripts of writings that Harrington sketched, partially completed, or even completed but never published. The latter group includes not only writings about anthropological subjects but also histories, ranging from a biography of Geronimo to material on the history of the typewriter. The collection incorporates material of Richard Lynch Garner, Matilda Coxe Stevenson, and others. In his field work, Harrington seems sometimes to have worked within fairly firm formats, this especially being true when he was "rehearing" material, that is in using an informant to verify and correct the work of other researchers. Often, however, the interviews with informants (and this seems to have been the case even with some "rehearings") seem to have been rather free form, for there is a considerable intertwining of subjects. Nevertheless, certain themes frequently appear in his work, including annotated vocabularies concerning flora and fauna and their use, topography, history and biography, kinship, cosmology (including tribal astronomy), religion and philosophy, names and observations concerning neighboring tribes, sex and age division, material culture, legends, and songs. The fullness of such materials seems to have been limited only by the time Harrington had to spend with a goup and the knowledge of his informants.
Virginia Drew Watson papers
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Virginia Drew Watson was a cultural anthropologist best known for her work in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Her papers attest to a variety of interests related to culture and culture change, drawing on resources both archaeological and ethnographic. This collection contains catalogs, correspondence, drawings, field notes, grant proposals, manuscripts, maps, photographs, publications, reports, and slides. The majority of the field work relates to her work in Papua New Guinea, both with her husband (James B. Watson) and with J. David Cole, but there are also materials related to her work in Brazil.
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Kaplan, Flora S.
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The Flora S. Kaplan papers document her field work, research, and professional activities from 1951-2012 (bulk 1969-2012) and primarily deal with her work as the director and founder of New York University's Museum Studies program and her field work in Benin and Mexico. The collection consists of correspondence, research files, book files, photographs, sound recordings, ephemera, and writings.
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The collections consists mostly of original and copy prints. There are also some negatives, artwork, photographs of artwork, and printed materials. Included is a large miscellany of ethnological, historical, and some archaeological subjects collected by the Bureau of American Ethnology from a wide variety of sources. To these have been added some p...
Thomas Dale Stewart Papers
Stewart, T. D. (Thomas Dale), 1901-1997
Thomas Dale Stewart was a physical and forensic anthropologist and worked at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History from 1931 until his death in 1997. He worked under Ales Hrdlicka until 1943, became the head curator in 1960, director of the museum in 1962, and retired in 1971. Stewart's research interests included physical and forensic anthropology | 1,138 |
Smaller turkeys may be hard to find as COVID-19 shrinks Thanksgiving plans
By Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press
DETROIT — The more intimate Thanksgiving gatherings expected this year because of the COVID-19 virus pandemic is driving up demand for smaller turkeys and leaving bigger birds sitting idle in store freezers.
While there is no turkey shortage across the board, Brian Weberman, director of poultry for Kaps Wholesale, a distributor in Detroit's Eastern Market district, said consumers can expect to face a harder time finding smaller turkeys.
Most small turkeys are hens or female. Larger turkeys, those that weigh more than 16 pounds are male and called Toms. About 40 million turkeys are eaten each Thanksgiving, according to the National Turkey Federation, an advocate for the turkey industry.
"There's no need for a 28-pound turkey," Weberman said. "Stores are anticipating consumers are looking for smaller turkeys."
Weberman predicts the larger size turkeys will be the last ones left on store shelves.
Turkeys that are 10-14 pounds to begin with, he said, often are scooped up by charitable organizations to hand out because of their size. And this year, calls are coming from new organizations looking for turkeys.
"Everyone is asking for 10-14 pounds and we tell them we have other options," Weberman said.
"You might have to buy a larger turkey than anticipated," Weberman said. "Who doesn't like a turkey sandwich that day after ( Thanksgiving)?"
The COVID-19 virus is not totally to blame. Over the years, Weberman said, the industry has been reducing the flock size of the turkeys. The amount of turkey they grow for Thanksgiving is not what it used to be, he said.
The change in flock size cumulated in 2020, according to Russ Whitman, senior vice president of Urner Barry, a New Jersey-based commodity market research firm specializing in wholesale proteins.
"Because of circumstances that preexisted before COVID-19, the supply side of turkeys was already going to be small in 2020," Whitman said. "All of sudden, COVID-19 comes along and amplified the level of demand."
A trend toward placement of fewer baby hens, called poults, started happening in 2018 and was already in play, he said.
Grocery store prepared with options
Using its own data, Kroger found 43<|fim_middle|> I had too many large turkeys," she said.
Turkeys there start around the 18-pound range and go up to 22 pounds or larger.
Roperti's fresh turkeys are $3.79 a pound and she expected to sell 4,000 turkeys this season.
At Peacock's Poultry Farm, it's business as usual, according Cyndi Peacock, who co-owns the farm in Troy with her sister and mother.
"As far as our orders, our customers are steady," she said. "I don't think anyone has changed."
Customers are telling Peacock's they will order the same as last year.
Peacock's turkeys range from 8 to 12 pounds all the way up to 28 to 32 pounds. The farm orders its flock in June from an Amish farmer.
"We tell our Amish farmers we need X amount of turkeys and they begin to raise them," Peacock said. "And we just pray that each flock weighs what they are expected to. It's worked that way for us well for 92 years. "
The farm expects to sell, both retail and wholesale, around 40,000 turkeys between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Peacock said.
An alternative
Paul Buonbrisco, owner of Cheech's Chicken at Gratiot Central Market in the Detroit Eastern district, agrees there is a shortage of small turkeys.
"I order four months in advance and I am still going to (have a) shortage," Buonbrisco said. "Because of COVID, a lot of people are going to have smaller parties. "
Buonbrisco added that turkeys in the 8- to 10-pound or 10- to 12-pound range will be harder to get. And plan on paying more for those smaller turkeys, Buonbrisco said,
But if you want to replace turkey with something similar, Buonbrisco suggests trying a roaster capon. A capon is a castrated young rooster. Its size, around 6 pounds and up, makes it ideal for a smaller gathering.
"The skin tends to be yellow because they feed them corn," Buonbrisco said. "You bake it like a turkey, it's very tender and phenomenal."
Kroger is also anticipating that first-time holiday cooks may forgo turkey and opt for proteins like ham, beef, pork roast and seafood, according to aspokeswoman.
The nationwide grocer is also meeting the growing demand for vegan and vegetarian items including meatless roasts.
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Your first food project of 2021: homemade gravlax | % of its shoppers plan to celebrate Thanksgiving with only those in their immediate household. To accommodate smaller gatherings, the national supermarket chain said it has purchased all sizes of additional turkeys.
While Walmart said its stores will have plenty of whole turkeys, in a blog post, it announced it has upped assortments of bone-in and boneless turkey breasts by 20%-30% in stores across the country.
Meijer is expecting the same turkey assortment, but it is anticipating more turkey breast purchases because of smaller gatherings, according to a spokeswoman for the Michigan-based retailer.
Todd Robinson, vice president of marketing at Busch's Fresh Food Markets, says turkeys are booked by the chain in January for Thanksgiving using previous sales trends for accuracy.
"Because we booked prior to the pandemic we will more than likely see a shortened supply of smaller birds," he said. "Nobody has a crystal ball at this point and we are all guessing. People could decide to cook a regular-size bird."
What happens with Thanksgiving is there's a normal pattern and people had a different up-front process back in January. But, Robinson said, the pandemic upended that pattern and left grocers guessing.
"COVID came along and changed things around," he said. "We think there will be smaller gatherings so people might want smaller birds or a turkey breast or little hams."
The bottom line is there will be lots of turkeys in various sizes, but if you're looking for smaller turkeys, Robinson advises to book them in advance. Or look at buying them now.
And if you end up with a larger turkey or getting the same size to serve less people, he said, plan on leftovers and freeze the rest.
"Turkeys are relatively inexpensive," Robinson said. "Most of the retailers pay for most of the cost of the turkey. It is a loss leader for us. "
Robinson expects customers will see a 10-cent-per-pound increase over last year. However, Robinson's wholesale costs were up 20 cents this year.
Local farms prepared
At Roperti's Turkey Farm in Livonia, owner Christine Roperti ordered her turkey flock later this year so the birds would be smaller. She's expecting the fresh turkeys to weigh 2-3 pounds lighter this year. The typical turkey Roperti's sold in the past was 22 pounds or larger.
"I will just have more of a variety of them. Last year, | 496 |
Sheep Rock Unit, John Day Fossil Beds National Monument
Oregon > John Day Fossil Beds National Monument > Sheep Rock
Largest of the three units of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument; eroded, bluish badlands along the John Day River with several fossil sites, plus a historic homestead
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The largest and most visited of the three sections of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument is the Sheep Rock Unit, occupying several miles of the upper John<|fim_middle|> the eroded peak of Sheep Rock, formed of variegated layers of the John Day Formation
Story in Stone 0.25 40 From a parking lot at the end of a short side road in the Foree Area, this wheelchair-accessible trail climbs slightly across open land of small washes and bluish hills, to a viewpoint of eroded cliffs. Along the way are interpretative notices and exhibits, though no fossils
Thomas Condon Overlook 0.25 40 Beginning at the parking lot beside the Thomas Condon Paleontology Center, this easy path crosses a grassy hillside to a viewpoint looking up and down the John Day River valley | Day River valley. US 26 crosses the south end of the monument, and for 2 miles runs right next to the river through a deep, enclosed canyon (Picture Gorge). Highway 19 forks off and follows the river northwards, passing several trailheads, overlooks, the visitor center/museum and an old ranch house. The valley at this point is quite wide, bordered by steeply sloping hillsides containing frequent outcrops of colorful rocks - deep red in a few places, like the badlands of the Painted Hills Unit, and bluish-grey in others. Many of the hills are topped by multiple layers of weathered black basalt, residues of ancient volcanic eruptions around 16 million years ago, and all the land is little vegetated, with trees found only along the river corridor.
Ranch and Visitor Center
Driving north, the first site is James Cant Ranch, an elegant, three storey, white-painted wooded building, constructed in the early 20th century by Scottish immigrants James and Elizabeth Cant. The restored house now serves as the NPS headquarters and contains a small museum about the history of settlement in this remote, high desert area. Surrounding the ranch are extensive, well kept lawns, large trees, flowerbeds and various outbuildings including a large barn, open to visitors when the area is staffed. There is also a collection of old farm equipment, including wagons, plows and a hay stacker. Short paths lead to the river and to a viewpoint of Sheep Rock itself, a prominent summit rising above the east side of the valley, once home to a flock of big horn sheep. Opposite the ranch, Thomas Condon Paleontology Center contains a fossil museum, bookstore and park information center.
Blue Basin; above the south fork of the ravine through the badlands
Geological Sites
A little way north, the road reaches Blue Basin, the main hiking area, centered on a branched ravine through heavily eroded blue badlands. A three mile trail climbs high above and circles the whole area, while a shorter path enters the lower end of the ravine, passing several in situ fossils. For the next few miles the road crosses private land, passing a prominent, multi-layered cliff face (Cathedral Rock), which causes the John Day River to bend by 180°, then enters a smaller, detached section of the national monument, the Foree Area. This has a picnic area and two very short trails to viewpoints of cliffs and badlands; after here, Hwy 19 stays beside the river for many more miles, encountering similar arid scenery, and eventually reaches the tiny town of Fossil, from where the Clarno Unit of the monument is 16 miles southwest.
Sheep Rock Trails
Blue Basin and Island in Time Trails
3.8 miles, 600 feet
Tour of the spectacular Blue Basin badlands
Sheep Rock Photographs
9 views of the Sheep Rock area
16 views of the Blue Basin area
Flowers at James Cant Ranch
Sheep Rock
Flood of Fire Trail
Island in Time Trail
Map of the Sheep Rock Unit
Trail Length
(one way)
Elevation Change (feet) Trail Description
Blue Basin Trail 3 600 The longest and best trail in the national monument climbs high above the eroded badlands of Blue Basin, giving spectacular views of the fractured ravines below, and of the John Day River valley
Flood of Fire 0.25 50 The Flood of Fire Trail ascends a bushy slope to a viewpoint on the edge of an eroded ravine, looking across the John Day River valley to the volcanic layers of Picture Gorge Basalt on the hills beyond
Island in Time 0.8 200 This, the most popular trail in the national monument, enters the lower end of a deep ravine through stark, eroded, blue-green claystone hills. En route are information notices and three in situ fossils
River 0.3 level The wheelchair-accessible River Trail begins at James Cant Ranch and crosses a field to a viewpoint along the John Day River
Sheep Rock Overlook 0.3 level This short path heads southeast from James Cant Ranch, ending at a riverside viewpoint below | 891 |
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Tickets for Verve Festival of Poetry and Spoken Word, Hit the Ode, and UniSlam 2022 are on sale now and can be purchased This February and March, Birmingham Hippodrome's Patrick Studio will host a season of poetry and spoken word events, seeing the return of three popular events and a new exhibition from poetry-loving photographer and film-maker Paul Stringer.
Running from Wednesday 16th–Sunday 20th February Verve Festival has become synonymous with a lively and celebratory approach to programming poetry of every different kind, taking over studios, spaces and foyers at Birmingham Hippodrome.
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This February and March, Birmingham Hippodrome's Patrick Studio will host a season of poetry and spoken word events, seeing the return of three popular events and a new exhibition from poetry-loving photographer and film-maker Paul Stringer.
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Running from Wednesday 16th–Sunday 20th February, Verve Festival has become synonymous with a lively and celebratory approach to programming poetry of every different kind, taking over studios, spaces and foyers at Birmingham Hippodrome.
Festival goers can expect everything from raucous performance poetry and quiet reading events to studious workshops, mind-blowing dramatic poetry, collaborative work and open mic poetry, with attendees encouraged to join in, create, listen and learn.
One month later, national student and young people's poetry showcase, and the UK's largest team slam event UniSlam returns home to the Hippodrome after a digital edition in 2021.
UniSlam opens on Friday 18th March with workshops for competing teams, followed by a special edition of Apples & Snakes and Birmingham Hippodrome's seasonal poetry night Hit The Ode, featuring world class spoken word artists, resident DJ Psykhomantus and an open mic.
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Recognize those things you worry about that are completely out of your control. Realize that thinking about them constantly will not make a difference and that it will only contribute to your health and happiness to LET GO.
I hope these things make a difference for you! If you have any other tips, I would love to hear about them and share them with our readers. Let us know in the comments below! | ruminate is defined as follows: to bring up and chew again what has already been chewed and swallowed. This is what cows do when they chew their food over… and over… and over again.
Most of us call it overthinking.
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When you start beating yourself up over one thing or another, remember this: IT IS OKAY TO MESS UP! You are perfect, whole and complete just the way you are. Your life and the universe are unfolding as they should. Life is not about living up to the expectation of being what society deems as "perfect." Be kind to yourself. Start treating yourself as you treat the people you love most in your life.
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Centennial's Lauren Sease carded a 3-over-par 40 on the front nine to earn medalist honors for the fourth time this season. She played the last five holes in even par, highlighted by a birdie on the par-5 No. 8 hole.
Megan Lazear was the runner-up with a 51. Lexi Simpson shot a 52, Claire Beath had a 56, Grace Meter fired a 60, and Morgan Kinch added a 64.
"One thing I've learned about coaching golf–I'm happier than the players are about the way they played," Petersen said. "Golf is a sport that everyone wants perfection, but nobody can achieve perfection."
Centennial will compete in the Central Conference meet on Wednesday at Jester Park, beginning at 8:30 a.m.
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Ankeny Centennial's Lauren Sease hits a chip shot on the No. 1 hole during a dual meet against Ames on April 16 at Briarwood Golf Club. Sease shot a 40 on Monday to lead the Jaguars to a 199-227 victory over Urbandale at the Urbandale Golf and Country Club. (Photo by Dan Holm)
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January 16, 2012 by thoughtsonfilms
Broken Contract – 23:59
A genre is a contract made between the filmmaker and the audience. Well, at least that's one definition of it, for there is always more, but for all intents and purposes, it is a promise. If, for example, you walk into a film billed as a comedy, you expect a fun and funny time. It's a part of the reason why certain films are judged differently to others, because they all have different objectives.
With regards to '23:59′, this film is billed as a horror film. That was the promise made to me (and my girlfriend and my mom and my stepdad): that, in watching this film, you would be scared. It would be nothing more than a simulation of the real thing, an experiment or exercise in exorcising our worst fears and nightmares.
Going beyond that, this is also a Singaporean film. Quite frankly, it's been quite a while since I last saw a Singaporean film. Surprising, that, because I thought I had seen one recently. Upon further reflection, I remembered that 'Homecoming' is also a Singaporean film (albeit at Singaporean-Malaysian co-production). Of course, co-productions are a lot trickier to define, but for official intents and purposes, that was the Singaporean film I saw.
Someone heading up...
Different films, different contracts, but a familiar face pops up: 'Homecoming' had Mark Lee in it, and he is in this film as well. Thank God, because otherwise I probably would have ripped my hair out in boredom.
'23:59' concerns a bunch of national servicemen stationed somewhere in Singapore. The title itself refers to the spirit of a mad woman who haunts the soldiers at that exact time. Of course, the film opens with a bunch of the recruits seated together in a circle and telling each other that story at that exact same time. You'd think that the timing and the actions could be better thought through; after all, when things are already ominous, why on earth would you want to push your luck? If, for example, it is near midnight, then it's best to be tucked up in bed rather than messing around with Ouija boards.
Mess around they did, and one recruit, Tan (Tedd Chan), is jumpier than most. It didn't help that he did get pushed around a lot by the resident mafiosi wannabe, Dragon (Lawrence Koh). Luckily for Tan, Jeremy (Henley Hii, also known as the good looking one), often comes to Tan's rescue. He tries to help Tan even on the final march through the forests before they can graduate, but of course, on the march itself, strange things happened…
Problems start when you didn't pack your compass. Sigh.
…which, of course, should not have happened. This is where the film loses some marks from me. While I can appreciate the tendency to throw realism out of the window, it just doesn't seem logical that such an event (a final march with quite a number of recruits) would be done in such a haphazard manner. The recruits' commanding officer, Sergeant Kuah (Mark Lee), serves as the comedy point of the film, and though that may be a blessing in itself (more on this later), I wouldn't<|fim_middle|> one job they were tasked with, the unwritten contract signed to scare people out of their wits, was decidedly broken.
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Follow Thoughts on Films on WordPress.com | have picked him to be in charge of a whole platoon like this. In fact, his ineptitude, inefficiency and lack of foresight is something I would associate with a more junior officer.
This might be a small thing to squibble on, but it's exactly what I'm going to do, because…well, because the film gave me ample opportunity to do so. The film nearly bored me into submission. Perhaps boredom is not quite the right word to use (because it doesn't mean that I only think about the films that are boring), but there probably should be a shorter distance between thinking and feeling.
We come back to the contract: being scared shitless. A horror film should, in effect, render you less able to think things through throughout the film. The focus should be on the feel, but I did not feel enough, unfortunately. Maybe it's just me, but because of this, I was able to spend more time thinking about the spiritual and the 'real'. This is somewhat represented between Tan and Jeremy, who, in spite (or perhaps because of) of his personal experiences, strongly favours the latter. Perhaps another ideological divide can be inferred between Sergeant Kuah and his superior Captain Hong (Benjamin Lim). The latter, clearly more fluent in English, perhaps even with a Western education, while Kuah is presented as someone who still believes in hocus pocus; at one point he even wanted to bring in a medium to purge the camp of evil spirits. Throughout this film, it is this (imaginery?) conflict between the West and East, science and local hocus pocus, the elite snobbery of those more fluent in non-ASEAN English and those who aren't. That kept me entertained.
For the heavy ones, it makes them feel 'lighter'. Ho hum.
Someone who did was Kuah himself. I suppose this is the very quality that settled Mark Lee for this film, but my goodness, he is a very funny guy. Watch it, then, only for Mark Lee. Though he wasn't exactly supposed to be one of the leading characters, his humour and comic timing was top notch, so much so that I find myself looking forward to the next time he comes into a scene. "
Here, less is indeed more.
Quite frankly, the film is incredibly predictable. It repeats almost every single bloody trick in the book. This is not just me speaking, my mother, with whom I was having a double date (it's fun, you should try it with your parents), expressed her lack of satisfaction in the drive home afterwards.
She and I kept coming back to the Korean film Guard Post. That had a similar premise, with soldiers dealing with somewhat-spiritual elements. However, that film took a different approach, one that rewards those that remained till the end. Here, it's a different case altogether. I think the technical package is quite good, actually, and the consistency from one shot to the next is quite alright. It is clear that, on paper, at least, the filmmaking team took a great deal of care with regards to the presentation of the film.
It is unfortunate that the film had little else going for it beyond that. I only wished that Gilbert Chan had thrown the rulebook out of the window. I wish he had made the title more significant. I wish he had actually made a scarier film, one that is actually scary without me willingly lower my defence.
I kept myself going by dealing with issues that I didn't think the filmmakers really intend for many to consider, but the | 727 |
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Locke, MIFF 2014
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Aside from the opening shot, Steven Knight's Locke is shot entirely in or around the BMW of title character, Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy), as he makes the motorway trek from Birmingham to London. Ivan is composed, the traffic is okay, but his personal and professional lives will be in tatters by the close of the film. The drama is delivered throughout the car ride in the form of phone calls to and from Locke, who manages to single-handedly destroy his reputation as a good man via his phone's Bluetooth. The whole single-subject, single-location aspect may seem like a gimmicky touch, but Locke surpasses the potential for tackiness; it is nail-biting, engrossing and genuine.
Without knowing too much about Locke, the first guess might be that he gets caught amidst some crazy Statham-esque occurrences. By contrast, the content of the film is truly ordinary, and yet you still find yourself swept up in it, agonising over who it might be on the other end of that robotic "call waiting" voice.
The real spectacle of Locke is the titular character; a good (?) man who is fixated on his black-and-white interpretation of good and bad, unapologetically resolute in the aton<|fim_middle|> sparse setting, and keep us on our toes until that last phone call.
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Alexandra Schnabel exclusively watches high-concept documentaries, arthouse films and Law and Order: SVU re-runs (Stabler era only). She reviews two of three here sometimes. | ement that he is journeying towards. Hardy is absolutely enthralling as Ivan Locke; the attention to detail in his reassuring Welsh burr and pained expressions at odds with both the gravity of the situation and his unyielding allegiance to the decision he intends to follow through with. The result is an enigmatic character that we yearn for more of, who we marvel at as the ramifications of his decision continue to unravel. It's a testament to the actor, who has played such outlandish characters as Charles Bronson, Bane and Handsome Bob, that he can produce the same awe-inducing effects with so little. It truly is a pleasure to watch Hardy revel in the single-subject, single-location method of filming.
Locke is expertly paced, whetting our appetites for knowledge and resolution as the reality of Locke's present situation unravels precisely and organically. Every step in the chain of events feels real, even the scenes where Locke faces his deeply personal reasons for carrying out this destructive decision. In these moments, Locke breaks his composed telephone persona to confront the demons of his past in the rear-view mirror. Taking a step back, these scenes could appear somewhat ridiculous, but Hardy gives them life, his restrained madness resonating with the powerful diction of Daniel Day-Lewis as oil tycoon Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood.
At times slightly bogged down at times by laborious visual effects, Locke is bolstered by a fascinatingly restrained script (although you would expect no less from Knight, screenwriter of the brilliant Eastern Promises) and a superb supporting cast. The incoming and outgoing callers are emotionally masterful and at times darkly comic, bringing us a familiarity that may have seemed impossible given their faceless roles.
Locke is a character piece of an intriguing and perplexing man, who believes he is good and moral, yet doesn't utter an apology until he has driven almost a hundred miles away from his family and career. It fleshes out the difference between good and bad, and the importance of doing what's right no matter the cost. Locke is ultimately blown out of the water by a powerhouse performance from Hardy, who manages to breathe a boggling amount of life into such a | 454 |
Townsend: "Get through it and work hard"
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CT: I think you can do running with it disguised into games. The games we do with the footballs are still hard work, it's not like that's your respite. It was nice to get them out on the first day and hopefully it will stay that way.
CT: It's obviously one of them things you have just got to get through and work hard. Going into the season you need these five-to-six weeks of hard work, so I think all the lads are looking forward to getting stuck in and being fit and healthy come the end of it.
CT: It will be nice to get back out there and start playing properly. That's where you get your fitness from. You can do all the runs in the world, but when you play your games is when you start feeling better in yourself. I think it's a pretty quick turnaround for a game, but it should be good and get us | 190 |
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New Overview of Robert Langs' Communicative-Adaptive Model of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
John White, MA, PhD - psychotherapist, philosopher, and analytic candidate with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts - has published a comprehensive overview of the work of Robert Langs on Wikipedia. Langs is a prolific author (more than 175 scholarly articles and 47 books) on a variety of psychoanalytic subjects and the founder of the "communicative-adaptive" school of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The overview surveys the<|fim_middle|> (1960). The Ego-Self Paradox. Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 5, pp. 3-18
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Heinrich Racker - The Impact of the Analyst's Coun... | four major phases in the development of Langs' work as well as summarizing important concepts in Langs' model and his recent directions. The article can be viewed at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Langs. White's overview is a useful addition for those desiring to gain a better understanding of Langs' work and his significant contributions to the field of psychoanalytic thought. Langs is perhaps best known for his rigorous emphasis on establishing and maintaining a secure frame for analysis, his development of the concept of the bi-personal field, and his extensive documentation of encoded transference derivatives in the analytic interaction.
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Irwin Hoffman - The Patient as Interpreter of the Analyst's Experience
"The therapist's analytic task, his tendency toward understanding on the one hand, and his countertransference reactions on the other, often create a sense of real conflict as part of his total experience of the relationship. I think this conflict is invariably a part of what the patient senses about the therapist's response. In fact one subtle type of asocial conception of the patient's experience in psychoanalysis is one which implies that from the patient's point of view the analyst's experience is simple rather than complex, and unidimensional rather than multifaceted. The analyst is considered to be simply objective, or critical, or seductive, or threatened, or nurturant, or empathic. Any truly social conception of the patient's experience in psychoanalysis grants that the patient can plausibly infer a variety of more or less harmonious or conflictual tendencies in the analyst, some of which the patient would imagine were conscious and some of which he would think were unconscious. In such a model, the patient as interpreter understands that, however different it is, the analyst's experience is no less complex than his own." (p. 420)
Irwin Z. Hoffman (1983). The Patient as Interpreter of the Analyst's Experience. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 19, pp. 389-422
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Kenneth Lambert - Comparison of Psychoanalytic and Jungian Views on Resistence
Summary of the Psychoanalytic Development
"In psychoanalysis then, the development of the concept of resistance has proceeded in the following order:
1. Resistance is a defence against anticipated emotional discomfort expressed by a refusal of the method of freeassociation, a refusal of interpretations and adherence to 'loving' transference used as a defence against free associating and any serious consideration of the analyst's interpretations.
2. Resistance is mobilized as a defence against the loss of primary and secondary gains from illness and against any modifications of the power of id and superego.
3. Resistance uses the defences described by Anna Freud against interpretations feared as likely to disturb the status quo or the basic equilibrium of the patient.
4. Resistance is described by Glover in terms of methods employed by the patient defined as I. Crass resistance and 2. Unobtrusive resistance. The latter would also include the 'head-resistance' first described by Helen Deutsch.
5. Object relations theory and the work of Klein and Winnicott directs the study of resistance into analysis of the transference-countertransference in respect of the analyst resisted as a part-object and later a whole person.
6. Resistance is defined by Schafer as the patient's response not only to paternal but also maternal authority, as well as any activity of the analyst that might disturb the totality of the patient's personality. The analysis of the patient's resistance should give full recognition to its affirmative as well as its negative aspects.
7. Racker's study of resistance/counter-resistance brings out the importance of the analyst's counter-resistance in helping him to understand the resistance of the patient particularly when it operates as a support to inte-grative processes within the latter's personality as a whole.
8. Winnicott, indebted to both psychoanalysis and Kleinian psychology, has shown how different is the significance of resistance in the case of deeply regressed patients where the release and nurture of the true self is essential. At this point the paradox is that to resist the normal interpretative efforts of the analyst may indicate a real cooperation with him at the level that matters."
Summary of Jung's View of Resistance
"Jung's description of resistance is less full and differentiated than Freud's— not distinguishing defence and resistance and sometimes speaking of a continual mood of the latter as a life-style. Nevertheless we find him early in his development emphasizing resistance to the analyst as a person. This personal aspect pervades the whole of Jung, as does the tremendous importance of resistance and the need not to attempt to break down the resistance but rather respect it. His emphasis was that resistance is an indication that a faulty attitude or approach or view of the patient's problem is being held or made by the analyst. He also respected the patient's resistance to the transference when it was archetypally determined and felt to be overwhelming.
Jung, as is often the case, is strong where psychoanalysis has been slower and more fumbling—namely in terms of his emphasis upon the resistance as that of one person, the patient, to another, the analyst, and the need to respect and carefully analyse the homeostatic and other aspects of resistance. He is less strong in the detailed study of resistance in terms of method and content, that has been carried out by the psychoanalysts. On the other hand his emphasis upon the resistance of unconscious archetypal potentiality to analysis and consciousintegration represents a unique contribution to the subject." (pp. 177-178)
Kenneth Lambert (1976). Resistance and Counter-Resistance. Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 21, pp. 164-192
Wilfred Bion - Influence of Projective Identification in Group Analysis
"In group treatment many interpretations, and amongst them the most important, have to be made on the strength of the analyst's own emotional reactions… these reactions are dependent on the fact that the analyst in the group is at the receiving end of what Melanie Klein has called projective identification . . .The analyst feels he is being manipulated so as to be playing a part, no matter how difficult to recognize, in somebody else's phantasy… the experience consists of two closely related phases: in the first there is a feeling that whatever else one has done, one has certainly not given a correct interpretation; in the second phase there is a sense of being a particular kind of person in a particular emotional situation. I believe ability to shake oneself out of the numbing feeling of reality that is a concomitant of this state is the prime requisite of the analyst in the group." (p. 149)
Wilfred Bion (1961). Experiences in Groups. London, Tavistock
James Strachey - Comments on Mutative Interpretation
"I shall first of all give a schematized outline of what I understand by a mutative interpretation, leaving the details to be filled in afterwards; and, with a view to clarity of exposition, I shall take as an instance the interpretation of a hostile impulse. By virtue of his power (his strictly limited power) as auxiliary superego, the analyst gives permission for a certain small quantity of the patient's id-energy (in our instance, in the form of an aggressive impulse) to become conscious.11 Since the analyst is also, from the nature of things, the object of the patient's id-impulses, the quantity of these impulses which is now released into consciousness will become consciously directed towards the analyst. This is the critical point. If all goes well, the patient's ego will become aware of the contrast between the aggressive character of his feelings and the real nature of the analyst, who does not behave like the patient's 'good' or 'bad' archaic objects. The patient, that is to say, will become aware of a distinction between his archaic phantasy object and the real external object. The interpretation has now become a mutative one, since it has produced a breach in the neurotic vicious circle. For the patient, having become aware of the lack of aggressiveness in the real external object, will be able to diminish his own aggressiveness; the new object which he introjects will be less aggressive, and consequently the aggressiveness of his superego will also be diminished. As a further corollary to these events, and simultaneously with them, the patient will obtain access to the infantile material which is being re-experienced by him in his relation to the analyst.
Such is the general scheme of the mutative interpretation. You will notice that in my account the process appears to fall into two phases. I am anxious not to pre-judge the question of whether these two phases are in temporal sequence or whether they may not really be two simultaneous aspects of a single event. But for descriptive purposes it is easier to deal with them as though they were successive. First, then, there is the phase in which the patient becomes conscious of a particular quantity of id-energy as being directed towards the analyst; and secondly there is the phase in which the patient becomes aware that this id-energy is directed towards an archaic phantasy object and not towards a real one." (p. 283)
"I shall have occasion to return to this point for a moment later on, but I must now proceed to the mention of one further quality which it seems necessary for an interpretation to possess before it can be mutative, a quality which is perhaps only another aspect of the one we have been describing. A mutative interpretation must be 'specific': that is to say, detailed and concrete. This is, in practice, a matter of degree. When the analyst embarks upon a given theme, his interpretations cannot always avoid being vague and general to begin with; but it will be necessary eventually to work out and interpret all the details of the patient's phantasy system. In proportion as this is done the interpretations will be mutative, and much of the necessity for apparent repetitions of interpretations already made is really to be explained by the need for filling in the details. I think it possible that some of the delays which despairing analysts attribute to the patient's id-resistance could be traced to this source. It seems as though vagueness in interpretation gives the defensive forces of the patient's ego the opportunity, for which they are always on the lookout, of baffling the analyst's attempt at coaxing an urgent id-impulse into consciousness. A similarly blunting effect can be produced by certain forms of reassurance, such as the tacking on to an interpretation of an ethnological parallel or of a theoretical explanation: a procedure which may at the last moment turn a mutative interpretation into a non-mutative one. The apparent effect may be highly gratifying to the analyst; but later experience may show that nothing of permanent use has been achieved or even that the patient has been given an opportunity for increasing the strength of his defences. Here we have evidently reached a topic discussed not long ago by Edward Glover in one of the very few papers in the whole literature which seriously attacks the problem of interpretation(1931). Glover argues that, whereas a blatantly inexact interpretation is likely to have no effect at all, a slightly inexact one may have a therapeutic effect of a non-analytic, or rather anti-analytic, kind by enabling the patient to make a deeper and more efficient repression. He uses this as a possible explanation of a fact that has always seemed mysterious, namely, that in the earlier days of analysis, when much that we now know of the characteristics of the unconscious was still undiscovered, and when interpretation must therefore often have been inexact, therapeutic results were nevertheless obtained." (p. 286)
James Strachey (1969). The Nature of the Therapeutic Action of Psychoanalysis. International Journal of Psycho-Analysis, Vol. 50, pp. 275-292
Editor's Note: This paper was originally published in the Int. J. Psycho-Anal. (1934), 15, 127–159
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John Haule - Development of the Self
"Probably the self becomes established, in most cases, through a participation mystique with the mother. A child is born into a space and time in which every person, object, and event is saturated with the feeling-tones of the mother's world. The pre-imagistic ground of the child's world will be established when the child is allowed to be a co-agent in the life-world in which it mystically participates with the mother. This will inevitably involve the 'grandiose fantasies' of which Kohut speaks, for in 'the archetypal world of childhood' (as Neumann calls it) to be a co-agent with the mother is tantamount to being vice-regent with God (in Islam, the dignity of the human individual rests in great part, on his being God's vice-regent, kahlifah, in completing the work of creation). For the co-agent, the participated world is a secure space/time continuum in which achievement, self-realisation, loving encounter, and all the normal human functions are learned." (p. 264)
John Haule (1983). Archetype and Integration. Journal of Analytical Psychology, Vol. 28, pp. 253-267
Mary Tennes - The Transpersonal Dimensions of the Psychoanalytic Encounter
"My interest is in the inherently transpersonal dimension of the psychoanalytic encounter itself. Contemporary approaches are, I believe, reaching toward the recognition that there are aspects of the psychoanalytic relationship that only a transpersonal context can contain. My purpose, therefore, is neither to highlight particular content which our patients bring in nor to supplement psychoanalytic theory with spiritual traditions. Rather, my hope is to expand the lens through which we view our work so that we are able to see more of what is already there. In this sense, the transpersonal dimension could be said to be "the unthought known" (Bollas, 1987) of psychoanalysis itself—that which lies beneath the surface of what can be expressed and so is deeply embedded in all that we do yet simultaneously is not within our consciousness. Having chosen as our professional activity the pursuit of the unknowable and the unthinkable, we must take the opportunity to explore that which in ourselves and in our field lies only on the cusp of awareness.
To locate the transpersonal dimension within a psychoanalytic framework, it is useful to examine the history of psychoanalytic constructs describing the relationship of self and other. represents a necessarily oversimplified attempt to portray this development visually. Each figure within the diagram conveys a theoretical assumption about relational experience, about the nature of the self, and therefore about the therapeutic relationship as well. The theoretical evolution portrayed by the first four figures reveals the significant conceptual shifts that have marked recent decades. Whereas classical approaches (Figure 1) established a firm boundary between self and other, contemporary
Diagram 1
theory (Figures 2-4) has moved progressively toward the notion that self and other cannot be so neatly delineated. Yet, as the diagram indicates, despite an increasingly nondualistic conceptualization of the relationship between self and other, the need to place a firm boundary (as represented by the solid line) somewhere characterizes all four models. Even intersubjective approaches (Figure 4), with their attention to the permeability of the therapist's subjective experience, maintain a boundaried notion of the field by focusing their lens on that which is created and evoked between therapist and patient, but not beyond them. And it is this need for a circumscribed view of selfhood—perhaps the most powerful remnant of both the classical ideal and the Newtonian world view within which it developed—that defines the edge of our current paradigm. For as long as our theory requires that the boundaries of the self must to some extent be absolute, it cannot adequately encompass the full range of the analytic mystery. Thus, while leading us into new territory, our theory is at the same time restricted in its capacity to describe the landscape.
Figure 5 is an attempt to portray visually a model of selfhood that resists this need for certainty. Of course, such a model, like language itself, can never adequately convey the vast, mysterious, and indefinable nature of the transpersonal and so becomes inevitably reductionistic. I use it, therefore, primarily in an effort to highlight what is missing within the contemporary paradigm, specifically a model in which self and other, subject and object, both are and are not separate. The figure is meant to point to the radical leap involved in entering into transpersonal territory, namely, the willingness to move out of identification with the personal psyche alone. To be most accurate, these five figures, rather than being distinct, could be visualized as superimposed so that each is inherent in the other, reflecting a particular dimension of self-experience. The transpersonal, in other words, is not a separate dimension, as this figure might seem to imply. My purpose in delineating it is purely as a conceptual device so that we may examine more directly what is outside of the scope of our current theory.
Within a transpersonal framework, then, we move beyond intersubjectivity into a larger and more encompassing field. While acknowledging that we can never escape the structures of our own subjectivity, the transpersonal paradigm points as well to an objective ground of being that requires our recognition. In the same way that, at a personal level, the self must move past its own omnipotence into an encounter with the externality of the object, at a transpersonal level, the personal self must encounter ontological otherness—that which is beyond the personal altogether. From this perspective, personal selfhood is not the center of the psychological universe but is, rather, an individual manifestation of the transpersonal ground of being that always exists apart from, yet informs, any individual identity. As a symbol of infinity itself, Figure 5 points to the inevitably paradoxical and dialectical relationship that exists between the limited, finite, and subjective self and the unlimited, infinite, and objective ground of being of which it partakes.
Thus, in contrast to established psychoanalytic models that see the idea of ontological otherness (and its subjective manifestation in spiritual experiences of God) as a product of subjective structures, the transpersonal model sees the recognition of an objective ground of being as the only means to orient the self adequately in its development. Of all psychoanalytic writers, Bion came closest to this view in his description of O, or ultimate reality...
Contemporary psychoanalytic theory, with its description of the field between patient and therapist as a "third" presence, acknowledges at an intersubjective level the need to orient toward something "other." Within the literature examples abound of therapists who discover the surprisingly direct correspondence between that which arises within the field and the patient's developmental requirements. Recent approaches have led us to recognize that the patient's capacity to shed the deeply compelling patterns of his or her history depends on the therapist's awareness of the field as well as his or her capacity to relate to whatever arises within it as inevitably meaningful.
But our theory has stopped short of the leap that must be taken if we are to do justice to this recognition: namely, to see the direct correspondence between internal and external worlds as they meet each other in an all-inclusive field. When absolute boundaries drop away, all the factual realities that the patient must encounter, including the therapist's idiosyncratic self-structure, the specific circumstances of the analysis, and the patient's particular life situations, paradoxically provide both access to and means out of entrenched object relational binds. Thus, in contrast to the postmodern view that circumstantial realities achieve meaning only through our subjective constructions of them, the transpersonal model holds that meaning also arises as we are able to surrender (Ghent, 1990; Tennes, 1993) to the particular circumstances of our fate. Not only does the self use the environment to find its fullest expression, but, at the same time, the environment leads the self toward that which needs to be known. The mystery at the heart of psychoanalysis resides in this interchange between inner and outer domains." (pp. 512-516)
Mary Tennes (2007). Beyond Intersubjectivity: The Transpersonal Dimensions of the Psychoanalytic Encounter. Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Vol. 43, pp. 505-525
Heinrich Racker - The Impact of the Analyst's Counterresistance on Interpretation
"This paper deals with the resistances which may arise in the analyst against communicating to the patient points he has observed or comprehended. These "counterresistances" indicate (as do the patient's resistances against communicating certain thoughts) the most important conflicts within the patient. For the counterresistances are as a rule the expression of the analyst's identification with the patient's resistances, even though they may at the same time be related to a conflict within the analyst.
The patient's resistance to an interpretation shows, according to Freud, that the latter has been incomplete. Analogously, the counterresistance to giving an interpretation means that the understanding it embodies is as yet incomplete. The cause of these counterresistances thus often lies in the fact that the understanding in question embraced only part of the patient's personality. The understanding may, for instance, have referred to the id, without having taken the ego sufficiently into consideration, or may have referred to an aggressive tendency of the patient's without having included the reaction of his libidinal wishes.
The importance of the analyst's perceiving these counterresistances and overcoming them may be essential, for they are usually responses of his to decisive transference conflicts within the patient. Besides, the postponement of interpretations, deemed premature, also frequently is due to these counterresistances. In such cases, these interpretations are not really "premature, " but simply incomplete. By completing them, considerable loss of time may be avoided.
The means whereby such counterresistances are to be overcome follows from the above: discovering what had been overlooked in the patient's personality, i.e., the cause of the patient's resistance which the analyst had already sensed and echoed in his own counterresistance." (p. 221)
Heinrich Racker (1958). Counterresistance and Interpretation. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association,Vol. 6, pp. 215-221
Edward Edinger: The Ego-Self Axis
In what follows we shall be using three terms repeatedly to describe different forms of relatedness between ego and self. These terms should perhaps be introduced at the outset. They are: ego-self identity, ego-self separation, and ego-self axis. The meaning of these terms is indicated by the following figures representing progressive stages in the relationship between ego and self.
FIG. 3 Fig. 4
These diagrams represent progressive stages of ego-self separation appearing in the course of psychological development. The shaded ego areas designate the residual ego-self identity. The dotted line connecting ego-centre with self-centre represents the ego-self axis—the vital connecting link between ego and self that ensures the integrity of the ego....
Clinical observation leads one to the conclusion that the integrity and stability of the ego depend in all stages of development on a living connection with the self....
Damage to the ego-self axis leads to ego-self alienation. In this condition the ego loses, to a greater or lesser extent, its vital contact with the self—the ego's origin and source of energy and stability. Although ego-self alienation and ego-self separation often occur together, I think it is important to make a clear distinction between them. Ego-self separation ideally leads to a progressive reduction of ego-self identity without damage to the ego-self axis and eventually to consciousness of that axis. Ego-self alienation, however, damages the ego-self axis and causes an arrest or hindrance of growth....
Although for descriptive purposes it is helpful to distinguish ego-self separation from ego-self alienation, in practice they always occur together in some measure. This may be due to the fact that in early phases of development the ego-self axis is completely unconscious and therefore cannot be distinguished from the area of ego-self identity. Thus, any disturbing confrontation with reality that alters the latter is likely to affect the former. On the other hand, in psychotherapy, when the ego-self axis is undergoing repair, this simultaneously activates the remaining ego-self identity.....
I have attempted to differentiate two aspects of the relationship between ego and self. One aspect, strictly speaking, is not relationship at all but rather primitive inflated identity of ego and self deriving from the original infantile state of wholeness. The other aspect has been called, after Neumann, the ego-self axis and refers to the vital connecting link between self and ego which maintains the latter's functional autonomy. The process of psychotherapy and psychic development in general seems to alternate between (i) manifestations of ego-self identity, which require reductive criticism, and (ii) the need for enhancing or repairing the ego-self axis, which calls for a synthetic supporting approach.....Since ego cannot exist without the support of the self and the self apparently needs the ego to realize it, psychic development can be considered a continuous process of dialectic between ego and self leading paradoxically to both greater separation and greater intimacy.
Edward Edinger | 5,318 |
Judicious marketing means British Gas's 'Hive' smart thermostat is becoming a recognisable brand in the UK. That said, I wasn't overly impressed.
On its default setting Hive is little more than a thermostat and hot water heater that you can control remotely from a phone or web browser. This gives you easy access to scheduling, but otherwise offers little benefit compared to a standard thermostat.
Dig deeper into settings, however, and this changes. Hive can<|fim_middle|> quick and painless, and I like the fact hot water control is included as standard, even if it's not a control you'd fiddle with as often as space heating.
The IOS app is fairly fast, easy to use and has recently been updated so you can set as many as six different heating schedules across each day. The geolocation feature works well enough, sending you a push notification on your phone when you leave or arrive in a fixed radius from your home, but requires too much human intervention. Every time I cycled to work it would ask me if I was leaving home, which became an irritant so I switched it off in the end. Also in the negative column, the wall-mounted thermostat is dowdy and not the world's most intuitive. | track homeowner locations and adjust heating accordingly, but British Gas has disabled it by default saying it wants customers to actively opt in if they want their location to be monitored. That said, even switched on it lacks the intelligent learning of Nest and Tado (more next) and looks plain.
Like all models, except Nest, Hive also requires a dedicated 'internet bridge' – a separate box, which is physically wired to your router at all times, to provide the thermostats with an internet connection. Nest avoids this by having Wi-Fi built into the controller.
On the plus side Hive is cheap and it does bring savings – around 15% during our three months using it – and we suspect more could be found from owners with fixed routines. Still we'll end with a negative: there is no British Gas tariff integration and that's plain boneheaded.
Another view on Hive, from Adam Vaughan: I've not tried the alternatives, but I've been largely impressed by Hive. Installation by the British Gas installers was | 205 |
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