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Kraft’s Spooky Oreos
Kraft Foods, Inc. has released limited edition Oreos over the past few years to commemorate special occasions. Cool Mint and Birthday Cake are just two of the different color and flavor combinations that Kraft has created.
The limited edition cookies will be available only at Target stores. The cookies have an orange and yellow colored cream with vanilla flavored wafers. The advertising for the newly released Oreos feature the ever popular candy corn alongside the identically colored cookies.
According to some who have taste tested the scary snack the cream has just a hint of candy corn flavoring.
According to the HuffPost:
tried hard to conjure up an impression of candy corn, but all I could get was a strong vanilla frosting flavor and enough sweetness to make my hair stand on end. Taking a bite of the whole cookie together made it taste a little more like candy corn, perhaps because the two golden wafers tempered the sweetness of the frosting. But still, the overall impression I got was vanilla.
The guys at FoodBeast agree:
How do they taste? Like frosting. If no one had told you they were candy corn flavor, chances are you would have never guessed it was themed after the popular Halloween candy. There’s a slight hint of candy corn flavoring, but it’s almost indistinguishable from birthday cake frosting flavors.
The Halloween themed Oreos were released on September 10 in plenty of time for the upcoming holiday. Since the spooky cookies will only be sold by Target it may limit the availability of this edition creating a bit more interest. | <urn:uuid:844a7b7f-8f65-414e-bdc5-2600eaacdd8b> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,586 |
|One Man Show||143 songs - 0% edited||
A Great selection of songs that are easy to play
|Beatles, Paul Simon, Creedence Clearwater Revival, John Denver, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Seger, Bob Dylan, America, Neil Young, Eagles, Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash...|
|flester songbook||99 songs - 2% edited||
Mix of Irish and general songs
|Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, John Prine, Beatles, Neil Young, Guy Clark, Emmylou Harris, Misc. Traditional, Willie Nelson, Leonard Cohen, Cat Stevens...|
|Easy mostly country||74 songs - 1% edited||
For beginners who like country and some soft rock and religious tunes. Have fun
|Paul Simon, Alan Jackson, Misc. Christmas, Brad Paisley, Garth Brooks, Josh Turner, Bob Dylan, Bill Monroe, Jimmy Buffett, Ricky Skaggs, Traditional, Trace Adkins...|
|Kennys easy songs||100 songs - 2% edited||
Play at the local bar, something for all, easy to get a few free beers,lol
|Creedence Clearwater Revival, Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kid Rock, Guns N'Roses, Bob Seger, Alabama, R.E.M, Chuck Berry, Jim Croce, Otis Redding, Nazareth, Blues Brothers...|
|Svein's book||64 songs - 0% edited||
This is my favorits, and I think this is easy songs to learn, because I got it :)
|Gasolin, By The Eagles, Journey, Bon Jovi, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Ozzy Osbourne, Bruce Springsteen, Keith Whitley, , Poison, Beatles, Tom Petty...|
|Can UB40||27 songs - 0% edited||
40th birthday celebration songs
|Steve Miller Band, Van Morrison, Wheatus, Dusty Springfield, Steelers Wheel, Beach Boys, Deep Blue Something, Beatles, Kinks, Neil Diamond, Elvis Presley...|
|Gosling singalong||65 songs - 3% edited||
|by Vaquera1||Beatles, Bette Midler, Traditional, Simon & Garfunkel, Simon and Garfunkel, Elvis Presley, Neil Diamond, Ralph McTell, Don McLean, Extreme, Cat Stevens, THE TROGGS...|
|Light a Fire Songbook||77 songs - 4% edited||
For playing once a year on the shores of the Georgian Bay . . . or thereabouts . . .
|Beatles, Neil Young, Cat Stevens, Violent Femmes, Crosby Stills and Nash, Johnny Nash, Barenaked Ladies, Don McLean, Eric Clapton, Peter, Paul & Mary, THE TROGGS...|
|govandude69 songbook||84 songs - 1% edited||
these are a selection of easy chord songs I have learned over the past 6 months.some are a bit tricky but most are good first songs to learn. peace & love....
|Bob Dylan, Oasis, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Stone Roses, Bob Marley, Doors, Verve, Eagles, America, Misc. Traditional, Neil Young, 4 Non Blondes, David Bowie, Band...|
|Sweeney||81 songs - 1% edited||
|by Sweeney||Robbie Williams, Adam Green, Righteous Brothers, Madonna, U2, Sinead O'Connor, Paul McCartney, Nena, Otis Redding / Steve Cropper, John Lennon/Paul McCartney, Nirvana...|
|Ukulele-Time!||62 songs - 0% edited||
Here are songs that I love to play on my uke, have fun with them.
|Bright Eyes, Bob Dylan, Morrissey, Johnny Rivers, Beatles, Smiths, Bob Marley, Radiohead, Ray Azure, Eels, Jeff Buckley, Roger Miller, Simon & Garfunkel...|
|Paulie's Songbook||54 songs - 2% edited||
This is a small collection of fairly easy songs, with fingering set for baritone ukulele. I picked up the uke this summer (2008) because I wanted something like a guitar but easier to play. THis is kind of a hodge-podge of favorite songs, from rock to pop to folk...I hope you enjoy them!
|Moody Blues, John Prine, Cat Stevens, Jam, King Crimson, Keane, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Dan England, Talking Heads, Eric Bogle, Flaming Lips, Creedence Clearwater Revival...|
|SummerHouse||14 songs - 0% edited||
Various intermediate level songs which sound like the real thing when played right.
|Oasis, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, Bill Withers, The Doobie Brothers, Queen, Toto, Unknown, Bob Marley, Eric Clapton & Jim Gordon, Eagles, Rainbow, By The Eagles...|
|kolmogorov songbook||68 songs - 15% edited||
C. Spiff back on the road
|Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Beatles, Electric Light Orchestra, Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Who, ? 1979 Bruce Springsteen (ASCAP), David Bowie...|
|Nate's Songozations||114 songs - 0% edited||
This is a collection of Country, Gospel, and Bluegrass songs that have been favorites of mine through the years.
|George Jones, Judds, Alison Krauss, Dwight Yoakam, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, Willie Nelson, Ricky Skaggs, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Dolly Parton, Brad Paisley...|
|ida sofie||48 songs - 2% edited||
|Jimmy Buffett, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sting, Chris Isaak, Amanda Marshall, Lenny Kravitz, U2, Metallica, Toby Keith, Crash Test Dummies, Eric Clapton, Evanescence...|
|mamalaura songbook||100 songs - 0% edited||
|by mamalaura||Burl Ives, Chuck Berry, Pogues, Elvis Presley, Plimsouls, Kinks, Nirvana, Buck Owens, Violent Femmes, ROLLING STONES, John Newton, Lennon/McCartney, Roy Acuff...| | <urn:uuid:ccdd11f7-5c8c-41a3-a9a4-94294add1ff8> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,749 |
A hat is a head covering which is worn for various reasons, including protection against weather conditions, ceremonial reasons such as university graduation, religious reasons, safety, or as a fashion accessory. In the past, hats were an indicator of social status. In the military, hats may denote nationality, branch of service, rank or regiment. Police typically wear distinctive hats such as peaked caps or brimmed hats, such as those worn by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Some hats have a protective function. As examples, the hard hatprotects construction workers’ heads from injury by falling objects and a British police Custodian helmet protects the officer’s head, a sun hatshades the face and shoulders from the sun, a cowboy hat protects against sun and rain and a Ushanka fur hat with fold-down earflaps keeps the head and ears warm. Some hats are worn for ceremonial purposes, such as the mortarboard, which is worn (or carried) during university graduation ceremonies. Some hats are worn by members of a certain profession, such as the Toque worn by chefs. Some hats have religious functions, such as the mitres worn by Bishops and the turban worn by Sikhs , dated to around 3200 BC. Hats were commonly worn in ancient Egypt. Many upper-class Egyptians shaved their heads, then covered it in a headdressintended to help them keep cool. Ancient Mesopotamians often wore conical hats or ones shaped somewhat like an inverted vase.
Other early hats include the Pileus, a simple skull-like cap; the Phrygian cap, worn by freed slaves in Greece and Rome (which became iconic in America during the Revolutionary War and the French Revolution, as a symbol of the struggle for liberty against the Monarchy); and the Greek petasos, the first known hat with a brim. Women wore veils, kerchiefs, hoods, caps and wimples.
Like Ötzi, the Tollund Man was preserved to the present day with a hat on, probably having died around 400 BC in a Danish bog, which mummified him. He wore a pointed cap made of sheepskin and wool, fastened under the chin by a hide thong.
In the Middle Ages, hats were a marker of social status and used to single out certain groups. The 1215 Fourth Council of the Lateranrequired that all Jews identify themselves by wearing the Judenhat (“Jewish hat”), marking them as targets for anti-Semitism. The hats were usually yellow and were either pointed or square.
Carle Vernet’s 1796 painting showing two decadent French “Incredibles” greeting each other, one with what appears to be a top hat, perhaps its first recorded appearance.
In the Middle Ages, hats for women ranged from simple scarves to elaborate hennin, and denoted social status. Structured hats for women similar to those of male courtiers began to be worn in the late 16th century. The term ‘milliner’ comes from the Italian city of Milan, where the best quality hats were made in the 18th century. Millinery was traditionally a woman’s occupation, with the milliner not only creating hats and bonnets but also choosing lace, trimmings and accessories to complete an outfit.
In the first half of the 19th century, women wore bonnets that gradually became larger, decorated with ribbons, flowers, feathers, and gauze trims. By the end of the century, many other styles were introduced, among them hats with wide brims and flat crowns, the flower pot and the toque. By the middle of the 1920s, when women began to cut their hair short, they chose hats that hugged the head like a helmet.
The tradition of wearing hats to horse racing events began at the Royal Ascot in Britain, which maintains a strict dress code. All guests in the Royal Enclosure must wear hats.This tradition was adopted at other horse racing events, such as the Kentucky Derby in the United States.
Extravagant hats were popular in the 1980s, and in the early 21st century, flamboyant hats made a comeback, with a new wave of competitive young milliners designing creations that include turban caps, trompe-l’oeil-effect felt hats and tall headpieces made of human hair. Some new hat collections have been described as “wearable sculpture.” Many pop stars, among them Lady Gaga, have commissioned hats as publicity stunts.
A hat shop from about 1900 inside the Roscheider Hof Open Air Museum.
One of the most famous London hatters is James Lock & Co. of St James’s Street. The shop claims to be the oldest operating hat shop in the world. Another was Sharp & Davis of 6 Fish Street Hill. In the late 20th century, museums credited London-based David Shilling with reinventing hats worldwide. Notable Belgian hat designers are Elvis Pompilio and Fabienne Delvigne (Royal warrant of appointment holder), whose hats are worn by European royals. Philip Treacy OBE is an award-winning Irish milliner whose hats have been commissioned by top designers and worn at royal weddings. In North America, the well-known cowboy-hat manufacturer Stetson made the headgear for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Texas Rangers. John Cavanagh was one of the notable American hatters.[self-published source] Italian hat maker Borsalino has covered the heads of Hollywood stars and the world’s rich and famous. | <urn:uuid:d6b54e1b-ceb6-4148-a811-11d7a892a3b4> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 5,161 |
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April 25, 2012
GTA Vice City Easter Eggs and Secrets
All the Easter Eggs and Secrets found in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
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The book explores the fascinating world of pig farming within the unique context of this vibrant nation. From the historical roots of pig farming to the intricacies of breed selection, reproductive management, nutrition, and disease control, this book aims to be a comprehensive guide for pig farmers, enthusiasts, and agricultural professionals alike.
The comprehensive guide on pig production and management, provides a valuable resource for farmers, researchers, students, and anyone interested in the field of pig farming.
The book bridges the gap between theory and practical applications, offering practical insights, scientific information, and best practices that can be implemented on pig farms.
1. Brief History of Pig Farming in India 2. Benefits of Pig Farming 3. Breeds of Pig 4. Pig Reproductive System 5. Artificial Insemination in Pig 6. Reproduction Management on Pig Farm 7. Attainable Performance Goal 8. Breeding Management 9. Mating System in Pig 10. Selection of Breeding Stock 11. Housing System for Pig 12. Digestive System of Pig 13. Pig Nutrition 14. Pig Farm Management 15. Pig Diseases Glossary
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Women play larger role in Latin America's commercial urban waste management
Women in Latin America are playing a larger role in the management of solid waste in Latin America, according to research supported by IDRC.
Trabajadoras por la ciudad. Aporte de las mujeres a la gestión ambiental de los residuos sólidos en América Latina (Women workers for the city. Women contribution to solid waste management in Latina America) presents the scope of the research and describes the reality of recyclable waste management in Lima (Peru), Montevideo (Uruguay), Sao Paulo (Brazil), and Cochabamba (Bolivia). The research examines the role women play in marketing urban waste as a commercial enterprise and their important contribution to municipal recyclable waste activities.
This book describes the results of a project supported by IDRC's Climate Change and Water program, Gender Dimension in Solid Waste Management in Urban and Periurban Areas (Latin America and the Caribbean).
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The green iguanas or those which take the name of “Iguana iguana” are commonly found all over the South and Central America, in Mexico, in the southeastern part of Brazil, eastern Pacific, and the Caribbean. Breeds of the green iguana are now also spotted in Hawaii and Florida. The green iguana is popularly the largest type of lizard that happens to inhabit much of the territories of United States.
The Physical Description of the Green Iguana
In a matter of three years, the young twelve-gram green iguana can turn into a one kilogram adult green iguana. Right after they get hatched, their length varies from 17 to up to 25 centimeters. Most of the well-fed matured green iguanas come to weigh at about 4 and 6 kilograms but at times they reach the 8 kilogram weight.
The term green iguana does not stereotype these reptiles. The matured iguanas come in uniform colors whereas the younger ones vary between brown and green. Their colors can also get affected by their health, mood, temperature, and social statures.
One of the distinct features they have is the dewlap that can be found under their throats. The dewlap is much dominant in the male green iguanas rather than in the females. The laterally positioned eyes of the green iguanas are being protected by some immovable eyelids and mobile lower eyelids. The parietal eye functions as some kind of a meter for the solar energy and contributes much to the maturity of the endocrine and thyroid glands in these reptiles. Lastly, the plates or scales on their heads are much irregular and larger compared to the scales found on the rest of their body parts.
The Habitat of the Green Iguana
Arboreal lizards—these are what green iguanas are and they therefore enjoy living on top of tree canopies. The younger green iguanas tend to stay in the lower portions but the matured ones like it high above. This kind of dwelling technique allows them to do basking in the sun and they rarely go down with the exception of the time when the female green iguanas deem the need to dig their burrows so they can lay their eggs. They still prefer to have water around their habitat so that they can easily escape the predators who love to attack them. They are great swimmers so they most of the times successfully manage to avoid their predators.
The Development of an Iguana
Right after an estimated 65 days upon the mating period, the female green iguana is now ready to lay her eggs. The number and size of the eggs depend upon the size of the female iguana. Within a three-day period, about 10 to 30 pale-colored eggs get deposited into the nests. Other nests can be shared by many female iguanas especially when there is a very limited space for them. Actually, the female iguanas do not guard their nests but they do visit their eggs from time to time. The incubation for the iguana eggs last from about 90 up to 120 days. The hatchlings are the ones that crack their egg shells open by making use of their special egg teeth which are known as the caruncle. The yolks in the eggs are the providers of nourishment for the young iguanas.
Dogs are man’s best friend.
That’s what we usually hear.
But would you believe if I tell you that iguanas can be your best friend, too?
Sure, we’ve heard a lot of stories about people treating dogs, cats, birds, and fishes as best friends. But how many would want large reptiles like snakes and lizards as best friends?
If you’re an ordinary pet owner, you might take a rain check on taking care of an iguana. But you’ll never know the joy being felt by those who dared to live up to the challenge.
Let’s take a look at some of the reasons to have an iguana as a pet:
1. Iguanas are vegetarians.
If you’re a pet owner, chances are, you have to go to a pet shop and buy food. It’s bearable if you have to buy only the simple dog food or cat meal, but what if you have to buy mice? Or worms, cockroaches, crickets, and the like? Most of the time you have to hold these tiny creatures and feed them to your pet – may they be affectionate or seemingly uncaring.
You don’t have to go to a pet shop to feed your iguana. You can simply pick greens from your garden or buy fresh vegetables from the grocery. Isn’t that simple?
2. Iguanas usually hit it off with their owners.
Unlike some lizards and snakes, iguanas are known to interact with their loving caretakers. Some would sleep beside their masters – evidence that iguanas can be very close to human beings.
Some are calm when held by their owners, but would twist and bite when held by a stranger. Nevertheless, some are so tame that anyone can hold them.
Some iguanas would even allow their owners to dress them up in silly outfits.
3. Iguanas live long.
We all would like to have a pet that would live very long since you’re going to invest emotion, not to mention money for food, medicine, and veterinary services.
While rats, hamsters, or bearded dragons may live only a few years, iguanas, like cats and dogs, may live up to 20 years.
Actually, the oldest iguana on record lived up to 29 years!
4. No hair or fur will stick to your clothes or worse, get into your nose!
If you’re asthmatic, you very well know the difficulty of being around animals that would make you sick. Iguanas, however, being reptiles, have none of the fur and hair that would send you to the hospital.
5. Iguanas are very educational.
Children will learn a lot when they care for iguanas. They have to know about temperature, rainforests, animal husbandry, importance of proper care of lizards, etc.
It maybe good to take note too that these lizards are distant relatives of dinosaurs and taking care of them will provide children with a venue for study of the prehistoric creatures.
Iguanas are good subjects for Show-and-Tell, research work, and the like as well.
As you can see, there are lots of reasons to become an iguana owner. Why not live up to the challenge? Go to your nearest pet shop and get an iguana for you and your family now!
If you are considering having an iguana pet, you need to check out some tips about iguana food.
The first thing you should know is that iguanas are vegetarians and they feed on vegetable protein. The vegetables with the best nutritional value for iguanas are those that are high in calcium, contain Vitamin D3 and are low in phosphates. Vegetables known as greens are the best ones for their stable diet. Some examples of possible green food are collard greens, mustard greens, alfalfa, dandelion greens, watercress. These include -yucca root, snap peas, parsnip, papayas, okra, mango, kabocha squash, green beans, butternut squash and acorn squash. You need to be very careful when feeding your iguana pet because an improper food can eventually lead to kidney failure.
On the other hand, not all vegetables are good for an iguanas menu. For example, broccoli, cauliflower and cabbage related vegetables can cause thyroid problems, so it would be best to avoid them.
“Commercial iguana food” can be also used without fear. It provides the nutrients a green iguana needs in order to be strong and healthy. A mixture of fruit, vegetables (mainly greens) and commercial lizard food is the ideal combination. Other things to use are squash, yams and particularly raspberries and blackberries as they are high in calcium.
Besides iguana food, you pet also need a constant supply of fresh, clean water to drink from! You will daily need to change the water in your iguana cage. This kind of reptiles normally drink very little but do like to soak, unfortunately they do often use the bowl afterwards as a toilet.
Be sure that the humidity is not low. You can check this aspect by watching the quantity of water your green iguana drinks. The easiest way is to use an adjustable humidifier which will solve any problems you have.
Many people believe that iguana food can include almost everything, but this is a myth. iguana food has to be correct in order to keep your pet in a proper condition.
If you are an eccentric person, you might consider having an exotic pet, such as an amazing green iguana. You should know from the very beginning that they have a whole different set of needs than typical dogs or cats. One of the most important things you ought to know is that an iguana cage needs to fulfill certain demands in order to keep your green iguana housed comfortable. Here is a mini guide to some of the main considerations you should keep in mind while finding the perfect iguana cage.
Size is the first important aspect when buying an iguana cage. There is an incorrect idea many people believe in. It is a myth that says that a green iguana kept in a small iguana cage will not grow large. For instance, a healthy iguana can grow up to 6 feet in length, meaning that you will need to be able to make special arrangements such as an outdoor cage, or a dedicated room in your home where you can keep a big iguana cage. Think about the fact that your green iguana needs to be able to move and climb inside the cage.
Another important aspect is the temperature provided by the iguana cage. It is a known fact that reptiles are cold blooded creatures therefore they cannot self-regulate their body temperature. The place where you decide to put the iguana cage should be able to provide the temperature that will keep your iguana warm enough in order to stay healthy and digest food. A solution are usually the heat lights on the top of the iguana cage, but make sure first that the space is big enough for the iguana to move away from the lights if it start feeling over heated.
The third important thing you will have to take into consideration when placing the iguana cage in your house is the humidity. green iguanas come from native habitats with high air humidity, which prevents dehydration. You should know that the lack of humidity can cause skin problems, eventually leading even to death from kidney failure.
The last important aspect is the light. If your will not be able to let your iguana sit under the sun, make sure the cage provides an artificial source of the UV rays in order to keep your pet healthy and comfortable. | <urn:uuid:25ea9d37-f780-4fb9-a62f-1c2d2d67ff68> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 10,101 |
Do you have problems with your wireless router? If you have a laptop or a desktop computer that connects to the Internet, then chances are that you’ve asked yourself this question. When you have wireless Internet, all of your Internet activities are controlled by the router’s settings. You can access the Internet in a variety of ways, but the settings that control those activities may become damaged or corrupted. This article will show you how to access your router’s settings or head over to https://loginadmin.net/ for further instructions.
Most routers come with the hardware necessary to access its online settings. For most models, this setting is labeled HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunServices. This key is normally hidden, so you’ll have to search for it. To access it, you’ll need to use the Windows Task Manager. To do this, right click on the “Network Connection” icon and click “Open.”
On the “Control Panel” side panel, you’ll need to click on the “Control Panel.” The first tab that you’ll see is the “Internet Options” tab. Here, you’ll need to double click the “Content Options” link. Once you do this, you’ll need to click on the “Defaults” tab. Here, you’ll need to scroll through the list of options until you find the “HTTPD Server” option.
When you’re in the “HTTPD Server” section, you’ll find that the primary mode is set to “Automatic.” This is what enables your computer to automatically connect to a Wi-Fi network. The important thing to remember here is that whenever you change the settings of your computer, these changes are saved only to the profile. Therefore, if you were to go and change some settings, it would be saved as a new profile. If you want to know how to access your wi-fi router’s settings, you’ll need to go into the section where you can permanently modify any setting.
Let’s start off by looking at the section where you configure your computer’s security settings. There are a number of important options here, including the one for your Internet browser. Depending on what type of browser you have, you’ll have different security options. For instance, if you use Internet Explorer, you’ll find that there is a security option called “TCPS” (TCP encryption).
By clicking on this security option, you will be able to configure what type of data packets you are willing to allow through your Internet connection. If you enable this option, your Internet browser will only allow certain types of data through, and these “certain types” will be encrypted. In other words, anyone who does not have the proper software to view the information will not be able to access it. This feature is very useful for preventing unauthorized access to your computer.
If you’re wondering how to access your router’s settings, the next step is to click on the “omniaount” icon in the lower right-hand corner of your screen. This will take you to a page where you can enter your current network’s IP address. You’ll be able to see your router’s IP address in the box that follows, which should start with “oots”. Once you have the IP address, enter it into the field provided for it on the page. The settings you entered should not be sensitive, and you should leave the rest unchanged. If you don’t know what these settings are, don’t worry about it.
The final step to how to access your wi-fi router’s settings is to restart your computer and then log in again. Once you are logged in, you can access the settings from there. If you were successful in getting into your computer, the changes should be immediate. If they aren’t, try restarting your computer and seeing if that makes any difference. If you still have troubles, be sure to contact a customer service representative to get some more help. | <urn:uuid:365121ff-4631-4c36-b09e-1e97505b7be8> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 3,766 |
October 05, 2012
Anabasis (Ἀνάβασις – Greek for "going up") is the most famous work, in seven books, of the Greek professional soldier and writer Xenophon. The journey it narrates is his best known accomplishment and "one of the great adventures in human history."
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How have the shares performed?
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (MXIM) saw downtrend of -0.46% in the recent trading with $103.65 being its most recent. The current price level -0.47% lower than the highest price of $104.14 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 85.31% higher than the lowest price of $55.93 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on MXIM appeared in PR Newswire under the title “Maxim Integrated’s Essential Analog Supervisor Delivers Industry’s First Automotive Window Voltage Monitor with Built-In Self-Test for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems” on Jun-14-21.
Squeezing the time span to 30 day period shows us the stock is currently trading -0.81% below one month high and is +17.07% above of the lowest during that time. Looking into the simple moving average, Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (MXIM)’s stock stands at a SMA-50 of $96.95 while that of 5-day is reading $103.60.
Daily rise and fall of price influence many of the traders, and in order to overcome the fluctuating effect of that and to watch the stock closely, traders focus more on stock’s 200-day moving average. At various points in trading activity, investors are more likely to be making use of that measure as a strong indicator in figuring out their support and resistance levels, and MXIM’s SMA-200 as of now is $86.14.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 14 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.80 for the stock.
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. Earnings – What Happened With MXIM
Coming around sales and income figures, publically trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor. Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (MXIM) last released financial results for the quarter that ended 3/30/2021, posting a surprise factor of 10.80% for net revenue. During the reported three-month period, company’s sales were $665.03 billion while analysts on average were estimating the same to be $681.79 million.
MXIM – Maxim Integrated Products Inc. Stock Earnings Estimates
The perspective of Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM)’s current quarter earnings identifies that analysts are in consensus over the estimate of 0.74 for stock’s EPS in the current quarter. 16 analysts covering the stock at Wall Street were agreed upon that EPS consensus. Company’s EPS for the last quarter was 0.82.
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 267.89 million. MXIM does have institutional investors; and they hold 85.20% of the stock.
Maxim Integrated Products Inc. – Insider Activity and Holdings
Moreover, the latest SEC filings also revealed that stock came across 0 new insider purchases involving 0 shares. On the other hand, MXIM declared 127,071 shares have been sold in 36 insider transactions over the past three months.
As on Dec 30, 2020, Vanguard Group, Inc. (The) was the top most holder in Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM) with an ownership of 30.04 million shares of the company or 11.21% of the stake worth $2.66 billion. The filing also reveals Price (T.Rowe) Associates Inc as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 9.64% of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $2.29 billion for having 25.85 million shares in hand.
Blackrock Inc. also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 8.08% of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 903 institutions which have possession in MXIM’s shares.
Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 14 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.80 for the stock.
The liquidity is a key characteristic of any stock and is the main point of focus of both short-term as well as long term investors before start trading into a stock. In recently reported quarter, current ratio recorded by Maxim Integrated Products Inc. was 5.11 while posting a debt to equity ratio of 0.46. The count was 62.89 for long-term debt to equity ratio.
Maxim Integrated Products Inc.’s return on equity, or ROE, is 42.00%, compared to the industry average of 7.66% for Technology – Semiconductors. Although this indicates that MXIM uses its equity well, the metric will vary significantly depending on the industry.
Technical Analysis of Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (NASDAQ:MXIM) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (MXIM), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 2,294,895 shares and 100% of short term indicators are suggesting the stock as Buy. Medium term indicators at an average of 100% are spotting the stock at Buy with its 50-day average volume of 2,604,834 shares. And to end, MXIM’s 100-day average volume is 2,377,636 shares with 100% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Buy for the stock. | <urn:uuid:b5c33823-6da3-49f5-b203-df3ddb993a6d> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 6,263 |
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When Your Older Adopted Child Comes Home
"I am so interested in dialoguing with people about hosting programs. I really, really am. But, for the rest of the day, I just can’t reply well to messages telling me that they don’t agree with hosting. Today, we are just going to drive home quietly for the next 3 hours and process. Tomorrow, I’ll reply to the respectful messages as well as the criticisms. No more for today."
That’s what I shared on Facebook the day we said goodbye to the boy we snuggled, fed, bathed, tickled, and loved for a month. It was a last-minute decision to host him in our home and in our family. But, by “last minute,” I don’t mean that it was a quick decision we made without a good bit of thought. We did a lot of thinking and, ultimately, said yes because we felt like, at that time, for that child, we could not say no.
What came next was a life-changing month for two families and this one child. Finding themselves in a spot not all that much unlike the way we felt not long before, a family already with 5 children met him in our living room and felt like, at that time, for that child, they could not say no. They are working now to bring him home for good (for a whole lot of good).
We audaciously opened ourselves up in bringing a child into our home who we knew was not our own. We knew that would be messy, that days might be long, that tears would be shed, that we’d be more tired physically…emotionally. We knew we’d be more dependent on each other, more dependent on Him. We wanted to go there. Where we weren’t expecting to go as we went there was deep into conversations with friends and strangers alike about the “injustice” of hosting programs as I cradled a sweet boy who had just met the family who was making him a son.
They are conversations worth having. There are concerns inherent to programs like this that deserve our attention and discernment. I didn’t reply to the “respectful criticisms” the next day or the day after that as I promised on that Facebook post. I put it all aside for a while. In fact, it’s been months now.
But, given the asks that have been arriving in my inbox about opportunities right now to say yes to hosting over the summer, I’m re-engaging. Let’s dig into it and wrestle though it all together because there are questions worth wrestling over and through until each of us can say say, “therefore, this is where I stand.”
I asked a friend to help me. She’s a passionate woman who in addition to being a wife, adoptive mom, and nurse, founded a nonprofit. She cares deeply for vulnerable children around the world. And, she’s opposed to orphan hosting programs. She graciously agreed to write out what led her to that end for the purpose of sharing right here. And, that’s what I’m going to do. I’m cracking open our own dialogue, in a way, a conversation between two women who seek to honor each other and all children with and not yet with families.
A: Unintended negative consequences happen in the world of missions and orphan care every single day. When Christians move forward with good intentions and no sense of best practices, they cause more hurt, pain, confusion, and damage to those they hoped to love. Orphans deserve the very best that we can offer, and we as Christians do grave disservice to those we seek to love when we act out of uninformed passion. On the topic of orphan hosting, I would love to present some serious questions for you to ask yourself before hosting an orphan or vulnerable child. It is imperative that families very carefully consider if they are acting in the best interest of the child before eagerly jumping on the bandwagon of orphan hosting.
B: Absolutely. Good intentions are simply not enough. As we consider every way we can serve orphans and vulnerable children, we need to ask the hard questions and count the cost. Let’s do it.
A: What is my practical goal for hosting? Why host? Are you seeking to host a child in order to ensure this child finds permanent family through adoption as a result? Or, are you simply wanting to give an “underprivileged child” the time of his or her life for a few weeks? One goal has the long term vision of changing a child’s life forever, and the other is focused on the present and temporal and is arguably injurious.
B: This is a great first question to ask. Why host? Our hearts and motives are always complex and hard to discern. Families may be interested in an opportunity to serve as a cohesive family. Families may feel compelled to let someone use that bottom bunk or open up the door to an unused guest room. Maybe a family misses the energy of a child in their home and longs to have it again. Maybe the family has a child from the city where the child available for hosting is from and feels compelled to say yes. Maybe there is a part of their hearts that desires to be a hero. There are so many feelings all mixed into every decision we make. Some are pure and other-focused; some not so much. Some are present but are quieter than others that are louder. That’s the way our hearts are. We shouldn’t deceive ourselves otherwise. As all the motives are woven together into what ultimately drives us to make a decision one way or another, one of those motives should be for long-term permanency for the children involved. That’s what they need more than anything else.
A. As the host family, how seriously would you own the task of finding this child a permanent family no matter what your experience turns out to be? Hosting a child who is available for adoption and hosting a child so that he or she will be adopted are very different. The latter situation is active with a clearly defined goal—family permanency for a child. Families should ensure you are entering this experience with a heart full of sincere intent to adopt the child. If for some reason you determine that you will not adopt the child, a high level of assertive advocacy must happen for this child to find a permanent family elsewhere.
B. After asking the why question, this question should naturally follow. Every hosting program should ask interested families: Do you take serious your responsibility in helping the child you host find a permanent family? I would hope that programs would require a “We do” to that question before proceeding. But, I also believe we need to give grace to what that responsibility looks like. Host families do not only need to be families interested in adopting. Their commitment to advocate on behalf of a child who does not yet have a family is enough. Some host families may be well connected in churches and communities, with established social media platforms where advocacy can happen and happen well. But, if they are not already set up in these places to advocate on their own, their responsibility can look a little different (e.g., sharing pictures and stories with the hosting program and others with permission who do have a platform to advocate). Part of host family training should include best practices for advocacy and help host families have a plan in advance for how they will do this.
A. How will the child who already has a traumatic history of loss be able to process the immersion into a family then sudden loss upon return to his or her home country? No matter how joyous and lovely of a time you spend with the child, he or she will be required leave you. “Better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all” absolutely does not apply to a child who has repeatedly been let down by adults. He or she may have fun with you and may have basked in the warmth of your love for a time, but short-lived fun is not enough. When he or she is back in the exact same situation at the orphanage a few weeks later, there can be confusion, depression, grief. This is not hypothetical; it is real! The loss is just too much for adults to expect these kids to handle well.
B. Herein lies the hardest part. Yes, the child hosted will have to return to wherever he or she was before. After tasting what life in a family may be like, it is simply tragic. But…but…if hosting ultimately results in a permanent place for a child who otherwise would not know the joy of belonging, of being the apple of one’s eye, of being called a son or daughter, I believe that the added cost to that child’s heart of hosting will be redeemed.
A. There are many families who say that hosting a child was the only way he or she would have had a chance to be adopted. In these situations, especially after other adoption advocacy efforts have failed, it seems obvious that orphan hosting leading to adoption is a tremendous blessing for both the child and the family! However, families need to consider how bonding and subsequent separation affects the child’s ability to bond and trust after adoption. How will the children truly know that they won’t be leaving again at a time out of their control after adoption is finalized? It is plausible for them to think that since they had to leave before, they may leave again.
B. Absolutely. Every family pursuing adoption needs to consider what their particular child needs to build and safeguard attachment. For children who have been hosted, either by their future adoptive family or by another family, even more efforts and intentionality are needed to give that child a sense of felt safety, to teach the child the exclusivity of family, to reinforce that no one is going anywhere.
A. Furthermore, if host families have adopted prior to hosting, they need to consider how hosting will affect the children in their home who have already been adopted? What message will those children receive when your family brings a child who may even look like him or her, who may be from the same part of the world as him or her, who may have a similar story as him or her, only to send him or her back after a month?
B. They absolutely do need to consider this. If a son or daughter has a fragile attachment, perhaps that family is called to serve in another way. Hosting may be too risky for them to do if a child in their home is already struggling with processing what permanency and healthy relationships look like. Rather than host, that family may be able to help find host families, help fund the hosting cost for another willing and able family who lacks the finances to do it, make meals for another host family, provide clothing for the child to relieve another host family of that burden. There are plenty of opportunities to be involved from an arms length away if a family thinks that it may threaten the connection with other children in their home. However, families should also consider the opportunities that hosting creates to build into their attachments with children in their home. As a child without yet a family enters into their family for a time, questions will inevitably arise and doors will open to conversations you may not have had otherwise. Those sweet conversations can actually foster deeper connections for parents and children, which is what we personally experienced. Good hosting programs acknowledge both the challenges and blessings of hosting for adoptive families and can help families determine if it’s a good choice for them and support families who believe it as as they walk through the challenges and opportunities created through hosting.
A. What about alternatives to orphan hosting? There are some “reverse hosting” programs in China currently that are receiving rave reviews with positive outcomes. In these programs, people from the US are the world travelers and participate in a week-long camp where they are paired up with child in need of adoption advocacy. The week is planned out with field trips, games, crafts, food, etc. to maximize opportunities for children and advocates to get to know each other. With reverse hosting, it’s the adults from America who are the ones subjected to the cultural stress of being in a foreign country, away from all they know. The children get to enjoy a fun respite from the orphanage along with their peers, sharing common experiences that will be memories they can enjoy together after the weeklong camp is over. When advocates return, they can either move forward to adopt one of the children or get busy fulfilling their responsibility to ensure that the campers are adopted into loving families. It is a win-win.
B. Reverse hosting programs as well as team trips that enter into orphan communities offer tremendous opportunities for effective advocacy. I’ve been able to have a front-row seat to that myself, and it never fails to make me do proverbial cartwheels and clap my hands in delight when I see it work. It’s good. It’s really good. But, those programs do not need to be in place of or instead of hosting programs in the U.S. In theory, reverse hosting and teams entering into orphan communities are superior in that there is less opportunity for trauma to the children. But, the potential for trauma is very much still there as Westerners enter in with potentially mixed motives and methods. We cannot deceive ourselves into thinking these programs are without risk themselves. With good training and support that acknowledges the costs and blessings, all of these programs can be used to advocate for children who do not yet have families. We don’t need to pick only one.
A. There are families who sing the praises of their experience hosting a child and giving him or her as well as the family an experience of a lifetime. My challenge to these families is this: unless the hosting experience has somehow dramatically changed the day-to-day living situation that this child returns to, the odds are very high that your hosting experience was far more positively impactful on your life than it was on theirs. A child returning to life in an orphanage after being with your family for 4-6 weeks is extremely likely to experience depression, trauma from yet another loss, poor academic performance, behavior challenges, etc. It is entirely unreasonable to believe that one overwhelming—even if “positive”—trip is what it takes to change a child’s life forever in some fashion. Six weeks with you will become just a distant memory for him or her and quite possibly a source for pain and longing while you are still singing its praises. That is unjust.
B. We would be remiss if we did not acknowledge that there are tremendous blessings in store for families who host. Host families get to experience pouring themselves out for the sake of a child who may not ever be their own. Parents and children join arms in serving, and parents get the sweet experience of seeing their sons’ and daughters’ compassion for another child in action. Husbands and wives have the opportunity to partner together in unified purpose for the good of a child. Host families experience the joy of knowing there is a great cloud of witnesses cheering them on as others gather around to make meals, provide clothing, give words of encouragement. All of that together did make our family sing the praises of orphan hosting despite the great cost both to the child we hosted and to our family. We trust that one day that little boy who was ours for a time will also be able to say along with us that the cost was worth it when his parents help him walk through his story. Hosting didn’t just change his day-to-day living situation; it turned it upside down.
Maybe there’s more questions. I’m sure there are. I’m sure that each family has unique questions they will need to consider and wrestle through as they approach orphan hosting opportunities. But, I also know that sometimes those unanswered questions can become justifications for doing nothing, for withdrawing altogether. I urge you; my friend willing to dialogue here with me urges you. Do not withdrawal. Keep wrestling with whatever “best practices” means to you, with how your family can answer the call to be intentional for the good of others including the most vulnerable others in the world—children without families.
Therefore, this is where I stand.
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Michael T. Banker, author of “Wisteria Melancholy” and Golden Brush Award winning artist Michelle Lockamy.
Krystal Claxton, author of “Planar Ghosts” and artist Amit Dutta.
Daniel J. Davis, author of “The God Whisperer” and artist Alex Brock.
Kary English, author of “Poseidon’s Eyes” and artist Megen Nelson.
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Amy M. Hughes, author of “The Graver” and artist Taylor Payton.
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Champions Tour first winner on hand for 1000th trophy presentation
8/18/2013 (Updated 11:17:40 PM)ENDICOTT -- To help commemorate the milestone at this year's Dick's Sporting Goods Open, the tournament's first winner -- Don January -- came to town to present Sunday's winner.
It was 33 years ago when January won the Champions Tour's inaugural event back when it was the Senior PGA.
When the tour started, January and other competitors wanted a way to continue playing after they turned 50.
Winner number one cannot believe that he helped crown winner one thousand and was very animated in his discussion.
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Alumnus Jimmy Stofer, bassist, plays with The Dualistics, an indie/alt-rock band formed 1.9 years ago. The group consists Stofer on bass, Charley Hine (guitar), Tyler Despres (guitar) and Scott Russell (drums). They currently reside in and gig around the “Denverse” of Colorado.
The Dualistics initially started with Stofer and Russell writing and performing songs under the moniker while recruiting their friends Charley and Tyler to play some magic at gigs. The chemistry was evident from the beginning and the decision was made to include them as official members of the band after just two live shows. Their sound could be described as groove-oriented rock with a 90s alternative-perimeter edge/parameter.
Stofer was the touring bassist for the piano rock band The Fray. From their meager beginnings, through their chart (CD/Digital) topping success, The Fray had no official bassist since 2004. Stofer was the bassist for the local rock/funk band Bop Skizzum (which features members of the hip hop group Flobots), while a student at the University of Colorado when The Fray came calling for a bassist. At the time, The Fray had a steady local following in Denver, but their bassist had left the band to become a taxi driver. Coincidentally, Stofer had mutual friends between Bop Skizzum and The Fray, and was asked to fill-in as a temporary replacement. Stofer's talent became evident to The Fray on the local scene.
The Fray, with Stofer, left Denver as a local band, and when they returned, they were on the at the top of the Billboard charts. Stofer and The Fray began to tour locally band-driven van, and ended on up getting their own label-owned bus, with flat screens. He became a staple of the live shows with his melodic-fueled performance, along with his pairing with Joe King on vocals. He is well known as the 5th Fray member who doesn't appear in publications, or press-releases. He made an appearance in the music video for The Fray's Over My Head .
Stofer and The Fray amicably split ways in 2007 and focused his attention on his participation in The Dualistics and The Commentary.
Stofer was recognized in Bass Player Magazine .
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OTHER OUTER ISLANDS & THEIR FOUNDATIONS
We have registered foundations for each of the following sites. The ambition is that eventually these will all be active and there will be a network of islands conservation centres throughout the islands, exchanging information and staff for the benefit of conservation in Seychelles.
Remire & African Banks
African Banks lies almost 200 kilometres due west of Mahé’s southern tip and is the most northern island of the Amirantes. During the southeast trades, African Banks teems with seabirds. It holds the second largest surviving colony of Sooty Terns in the Amirantes and one of the few breeding sites for Roseate Tern, Crested Tern and Black-naped Tern in the western Indian Ocean. However, it suffers greatly from poaching and in recent years it is believed that nesting success of most birds has been very low. Rémire, to the south of African Banks has healthy colonies of Lesser Noddy and Wedge-tailed Shearwater despite the presence of rats. Rémire has an airstrip and is an access point for African Banks.
Poivre lies south of Rémire. The atoll consists of three islands: Poivre, South Island and Florentin. Poivre and South are joined at low tide by a man-made causeway. Florentin is named for the large numbers of Grey Herons found there (Florentin being the Creole name for this species). This is the largest atoll in the Amirantes group and although it was a coconut plantation before it was abandoned, in its early days its major production was cotton.
Marie Louise & Desnoeufs
Desnoeufs is famous in Seychelles as the main source of seabird eggs. Over a million pairs of Sooty Terns have been recorded here (though the present day population is about 600,000 pairs), along with large numbers of breeding Brown Noddy and Wedge-tailed Shearwater. Marie-Louise is also a haven for seabirds due to the absence of rats. There are significant numbers of Fairy Tern, Lesser Noddy and Brown Noddy, but precise data is lacking. Remarkably, it is the first island of Seychelles to be re-colonised by Red-footed Booby follwing a history of extinction on many islands since colonisation.
South of the Amirantes, it requires a journey of some 100 kilometres before the next landfall at Providence Atoll, a rather peculiar, long thin atoll oriented roughly north-south with Providence at its northern tip and Bancs du Providence at its southern extreme. The huge shallow lagoon attracts hundreds of Grey Herons, this being the only place in Seychelles where herons outnumber all other bird species. Black-naped Terns and possibly Roseate terns breed, but data is lacking.
South of Providence are the ten islands of Farquhar Atoll. Many of the trees of South Island have been turned white by the droppings of hundreds of Red-footed Boobies, which nest here. The southern tip of the atoll, Goelettes, is also the most southerly island of Seychelles. It is swept almost bare of vegetation by the strong southeasterly winds, but is a haven for seabirds, notably Sooty Terns, Roseate Terns and Black-naped Terns, a species that breeds only on coral atolls. In 2011, Aurelien Nahaboo of ICS discovered on Goelettes the first recorded colony of Lesser Noddy south of the Amirantes.
Due west of Farquhar Atoll lies Astove, part of the Aldabra Group. The coral reefs are largely intact and diving is excellent. Ashore, rats limit seabird interest, but landbirds include endemic races of Souimanga Sunbird and Madagascar White-eye.
Cosmoledo Atoll has Seychelles’ largest populations of Red-footed Booby, Masked Booby and Sooty Tern. It is also the last breeding site for Brown Booby, exterminated elsewhere in the islands. The diving at both locations is excellent and the marine life is very rich.
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Истоки индо-европейских языков: Часть I
Введение, истоки и история
My name is Andrés Muni, one of the four men in this Argentinean group. Before starting, I must duly acknowledge the following: This document is a compendium of the works by various authors: Thomas V. Gramkrelidze, V.V. Ivanov, Franz Bopp, etc. My task has been that of compiling the works by those great scholars.
Of course, I have added lots of things of my own creation. Having studied the works of those renowned authors for a long period of time, I realized how mysterious and elusive the development and evolution of Sanskrit may be. It is not something to be understood overnight, undoubtedly. In fact, one might study for many years just to catch a glimpse of that. Thus, develop patience as you advance in this study that we are about to start together. This first document will be a kind of "introduction". Through a series of documents following this one, I will go deeper and deeper into the subject.
Well, let us get down to work.
Linguistics was born from the study of the superfamily of Indo-European languages (about half of the world's population has an Indo-European language as mother tongue). During the last two centuries, the linguists have rebuilt the vocabulary and syntax of the Indo-European protolanguage. Early investigations located its origin in Europe. Those investigations indicated migratory routes by which the daughter tongues would have developed till they grouped in two well defined branches: Eastern and Western.
Here we can see the different migrations. There are three Eastern branches: toward Central Asia, India and Iran. There are mainly two Western branches: one going directly toward Greece and the other surrounding the Caspian Sea. This surrounding branch has given rise to the most of Western languages.
Latest investigations indicate that the protolanguage was born in the Eastern region of Anatolia over 6000 years ago. They also indicate that some daughter tongues were differentiating through migrations which took them firstly to the East and then to the West. The linguists try to find any grammatical, syntactic, lexical and pronunciation correspondences between the known languages in order to rebuild their immediate preceding ones, and at last, the original language. Living languages can be directly comparable to each other; in turn, dead ones that have survived in their written form can generally be articuled through inference, by relying on internal linguistic data. However, dead languages that were never written can be only rebuilt by comparing their descendants, and by tracing back, with one's attention being paid to the laws ruling the phonological changes (this is very important because the sounds are more stable than the meanings as time goes by).
Early studies dealt with languages well known by the European linguists: those ones pertaining to Italic, Celtic, Germanic, Baltic and Slavic families (since the sixteenth century, the European travelers had detected the similarity among the aforesaid languages and the "Aryan" ones from the far India).
In 1786, William Jones proposed that they all could share a common ancestor. This was called "Indo-European Hypothesis". To reconstruct the Indo-European language, early linguists relied on a law called Lautverschiebung (or "the change of sound"), enunciated by Jacob Grim in 1822. That law postulated that the consonantal groups would substitute one another regularly and predictably, in the course of time.
The rules of that law were utilized to rebuild an Indo-European vocabulary which could reveal how Indo-European-speaking people lived. The words of that vocabulary described landscapes and climates located in Europe by the linguists, on the region ranging from the Alps up to the Baltic and North seas. Nowadays, the latest data locate the probable origin for the Indo-European language in the Western zone of Asia. The archaelogical and linguistic investigations carried out so far included about a dozen of ancient languages (situated on the region ranging from Turkey up to far countries such as Tocharia --in the Turkestan--).
The landscape described by the protolanguage, as it is conceived currently, would be located somewhere on the region within the following arch: the southern coast of the Black Sea - the Balkans - the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) - the Caucasus. Over there, agricultural revolution supplied the food surplus which encouraged the Indo-European to found towns and cities. And from these very towns and cities they started migrating through the Eurasian continent 6000 years ago. Some of those migrations invaded Anatolia from the East (2000 BC) and founded the Hittite kingdom, which would conquest the region about 1400 BC.
Its official language was one of the early Indo-European tongues being written. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Bedrich Hrozný (a linguist belonging to the University of Vienna and then to the Caroline University of Prague), deciphered the Hittite cuneiform inscriptions on clay tablets found in the library of Hattusas (the capital city) --125 miles to the East of Ankara--. Some small boards with cuneiforms inscriptions in 2 similar languages (Luwian and Palaic, something like that, it is difficult to translate these terms into English, so, if you know click here and e-mail me) were also found there. The evolution of Luwian language was investigated by hieroglyphic inscriptions found later on (1200 BC), when the Hittite empire had already disappeared. To this emerging Anatolian languages family, the Lydian (closer to Hittite) and Lycian (closer to Luwian) languages were added. Both of them are known from inscriptions written at the end of 1000 BC.
The appearance of Hittite and other Anatolian languages (since 3000 BC up to 2000 BC) put an absolute end to the fragmentation of Indo-European language. Since the Anatolian protolanguage in those times was already divided into daughter tongues, it is supposed to have separated from paternal Indo-European about 4000 BC. Through data collected from the group of people belonging to the surviving Indo-European community after the aforesaid separation, this interference is proved. From that community came the languages which would survive during the time of written testimonies.
The first separated branch was that of Greek-Armenian-Indo-Iranian group. The beginning of that separation happened about 4000 BC, because in 2500 BC approximately there were already two groups: Indo-Iranian and Greek-Armenian. Some small boards of Hattusas are testimonial of a language coming from Indo-Iranian group which was spoken in the Mitanni Kingdom (Southeastern Anatolia). This language was born about 1500 BC and was different from the ancient Indian language (Sanskrit) and the ancient Iranian. Cretan-Mycenaean texts --contemporary to the Mitanni kingdom-- deciphered at the beginning of 1950 by British specialists (Michael G. F. Ventris and John Chadwick) turned out to be written in a Greek dialect unknown at that moment. All these languages proceeded --each from a different course-- from Armenian language. The Tocharian branch was another family of languages. This branch broke off from Indo-European language at an early stage.
The Tocharian is one of the recently discovered Indo-European languages (at the beginning of the XX century) in texts coming from Chinese Turkestan. Such texts were easy to decipher, because of their being written in a variant of the Brāhmī alphabet (one of the three Sanskrit alphabets, the alphabet currently used is called Devanāgarī), and also, because they were all translations of known Buddhist scriptures.
Lately, the British specialist W. N. Henning suggested that the Tocharian people were the Gutian ones, which are mentioned (in Akkadian, a Semitic language) on some cuneiform inscriptions of Babylon. Those inscriptions are a bit more than 4000 years old, when the king Sargon was raising up the first great Mesopotamian empire. If the Henning's opinions are right, then, the Tocharian people would be the first Indo-European people appearing in the historical documents of the Near East. Lexical likeness among Tocharian and Italian-Celtic languages proves that the inhabitants belonging to both of linguistic families shared the Indo-European homeland before the Tocharian people undertook their emigration toward the East.
Nowadays the diverse paths followed by the human migrations and the linguistic transformation can be traced to the extent of reaching the Indo-European protolanguage in its own homeland. The aforesaid tracing is possible as a result of the review of phonological canons. When the consonantal system of the European protolanguage was revised, the ways of transformation which produce the historical Indo-European languages were put in doubt too. According to recent investigations, the reconstruction of the protolanguage's consonants shows it is more similar to the Germanic, Armenian and Hittite languages than to those of the Sanskrit branch. These findings reverse the classic conception that the sound system of the Germanic, Armenian and Hittite languages would have gone through a continuous alteration, while the original sound system had been conserved faithfully in Sanskrit.
It is possible to learn more about the primitive Indo-European through other aspects of its reconstructed vocabulary. Some terms of its own, for instance, describe an agricultural technique which is 9000 years old.
The Indo-European terms for "barley", "wheat" and "flax", and for "apple", "cherry" and their respective trees, and for "berries" and their respective bushes, and for "grapes" and their respective grapevines, as well as the instruments used to cultivate and reap the aforesaid fruits, all of them describe a unknown way of living in septentrional Europe about 4,000 or 5,000 years ago, according to archeological data.
The landscape depicted by the reconstructed Indo-European protolanguage is a mountainous one. And that is proved by a lot of words utilized in order to indicate high summits, lakes situated between mounts and torrential rivers flowing down from mountain springs.
This depiction is not possible either in central European prairies or in the steppe of Northern Black Sea. It is to be noted that both of zones had been proposed as the Indo-European "homeland". On the contrary, that depiction perfectly fits in with the Eastern Anatolian and Trans-Caucasian landscapes, both of them having the Caucasus Mountains on their horizons.
Another important key to identify the "source" country for Indo-European language is given by the "transportation on wheels" terminology: there are words for "wheel", "axle", "yoke", "harness", "horse" and "colt". The cart parts and the bronze utensils used to cut and trim the logs in order to make the vehicles, are designated by terms which suggest "metal foundry". The stone engravings found in the area whose four vertexes are as follows: Trans-Causcasus -- Upper Mesopotamia -- lake Van -- lake Urmia; contain the early depictions of horse-drawn carriages.
The region standing as candidate for Indo-European homeland is certainly one in which the horse was domesticated and used as a draft animal 6000 years ago. From that area the wheeled-vehicles would be spread --by means of the Indo-European migrations occured during II and III centuries BC-- toward Central Asia (E), Balkans (O), and by surrounding the Black Sea those vehicles reached at last Central Europe. The carriage is a significant element for the culture mixture, because both in the Indo-European and Mesopotamian culture, it appears as taking part in funeral rites and other religious ceremonies.
The contacts with other cultures of Western Asia are also shown in some mythological coincidences, for example, the robbery of Hesperides' apples by Hercules, and other similar legends. These legends also exist in Nordic and Celtic cultures. On the other hand, both Semitic and Indo-European languages agree with one another with respect to identify man with earth. Central Anatolia as being the homeland for Indo-European languages is also proven through many words taken from Semitic, Kartvelian, Sumerian and Egyptian languages, because these cultures flourished right there.
Well, I hope you have learnt and enjoyed this study about European languages. I also hope to make your life richer with my effort. I tried to be as accurate as possible in this translation into English. The wall between English and Spanish languages is big. So, many mistakes are likely to happen. Sorry, I tried and will try my best. If you have found errors, please help me improve this website. Click here.
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Paddy's night arrived in the manner of finding a half torn fiver, initial anticipation usurped by disappointment before a chancer's edge suggested some craic might ensue after all.
A great crowd had gathered somewhere else, for under Hill street bridge there was only four young sons of Ireland, none ginger headed, not a step nor tune nor speech nor poem nor lyrical thought between them, but each an enthusiastic teenager of differing experience, serving his cider apprenticeship before graduating to black stout and eventual death. Four short arsed leather jackets lifting their doc martin feet at irregular uncoordinated rates and intervals, warming themselves by waving their arms, black invertebrate seagulls, keeping an eye on the empty railway line as it flitted and grounded their street lit shadows on an immediate metal horizon of wood, rust and dust.
“I mean God will turn up won't he ? inquired one particularly pizza faced young man.
“Furfucksake we're not in a Beckett play Benny, Shutdafuckup you'll jinx him”
Benny craved more reassurance: “Look Titch, What I mean is.. God knows we're here, doesn't he ?”
Razor approached both Titch and Benny and simultaneously slapped both of Benny's shoulders with deliberate force before sandwiching him by them.
“Benny, God has done this almost every week since Santy came, He's still going to turn up even though you're here.” He then slapped out the following on Benny's Shoulders. ‘Now' Slap, ‘Calm' Slap, ‘Yourself' Slap, ‘Down' Slap. After the final slap Razor forced Benny down onto his hunkers, where Benny knew to remain.
“Yeah Kid” endorsed Titch from a safe distance.
Short silences were sporadically punctuated by cars revving out of gear as each crossed the crest of the bridge above.
“Look Razor, am not doubting him, its just that its Paddy's night, it might be a bit more awkward than usual, what with all those drunks around the town after the parade and all that."
There was a clink of glass bottles, a rustling of bushes and a huge hulking figure slid awkwardly, unbalanced and overburdened down the worn path from the embankment. It was ''God Conlon', resplendent among the shadows in his huge black beard and long waving hair, the very features that had earned him his biblically based nickname now accentuated by gradations of the varyingly distant streetlights. He stopped himself from falling and stood erect.
Benny couldn't keep in his relief and excitement as he himself rose: “Oh ye of little faith, the lord doth bestow ‘Merrydown Gold' upon us after all.” God's descending razor-sharp glance when Benny stood up, conveyed the full bulk of God's person, who now seemed to Benny to be even bigger and more menacing than that Indian in one flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, that film Benny had seen just the week before. Benny stood shushed and static.
Razor futtered in his Jeans pocket for the assembled cash while placating God with an embarrassed smile at Benny's last remark and now stationary gobsmackedness. Razor noticed that God had an additional adornment in his hair, one that Razor certainly hadn't noticed sticking out of the top of his head before. It was one Razor was fully prepared to ignore.
"Whats with the Feather ?" asked Titch as the transaction of cider for money and money for cider seemed completed.
Benny became more rigid, he hadn't even noticed the large Feather when he made his mental photo-fit. He could see it now but his pumping heart interrupted his thinking as images of pimpled leprechauns tied to railway tracks being scalped for fun forced their way in there.
“Well Titch”, offered God, “I was stopped earlier outside the off license you know, by none other than branch detective Peter McKeown you know, and do you know what he said to me Titch ? Do you know what he said to me Razor ? Do yous ?"
Titch threw his cigarette to the ground and shuck his head. For just a split second Razor contemplated dropping all the cider from his arms.
“No God, What did dear detective McKeown say ?” inquired Titch.
“He said to me, do you know what God. There's going to be no more young cowboys drinking cider under that bridge.”
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Princess Charlotte, the youngest member of the British Royal Family, is turning one. While there will be plenty of focus from sections of the mainstream UK media on the official pictures released by the palace, much has been going on behind the scenes. Many infants say their first word around the time of their first birthday and for most people, this is when language learning really starts. But by the time Charlotte says her first word, she actually already knows a lot about language.
In fact, for hearing children, language acquisition starts in the womb. During the third trimester, the foetus can hear, and it is the mother’s voice that they hear best. Not surprisingly, then, newborns prefer their mother’s voice over other female voices, but not their father’s voice over other male voices. Sorry, dads.
But newborns’ preferences are not just about different voices. Newborns also prefer their native language over other languages. For example, two-day-old infants born to English-speaking mothers prefer listening to strangers who speak English than to strangers who speak Spanish, and vice versa. Newborns also recognise stories that were read to them in the womb and can distinguish vowel sounds that exist in their native language from those that don’t. Even the melody of newborns’ cries is influenced by their native language.
Take a loud yellow drum
So, what exactly does the foetus hear in the womb? The womb itself is quite loud, dominated by the sound of the mother’s heartbeat and all sorts of fluids flushing by. So the foetus does not hear language in the same way as a newborn does. Mostly, what is audible in the womb are vowels as well as the melody and rhythm of language. And it is the melody and rhythm of language that play an important role in an infant’s journey to their first word.
Before infants get there, they need to overcome some challenges. One problem is that we do not pause after every word that we say to an infant. So if the Duchess of Cambridge were to say “the yellow drum is loud”, it would sound more like “Theyellowdrumisloud” to little Charlotte. What infants need to find out is where one word ends and the next one begins. At around six months of age, infants embark on this task. And words’ stress patterns help a lot.
When we say “the yellow drum is loud”, not all syllables are said with equal emphasis. Some syllables are louder, longer, and more clearly pronounced. These are the stressed syllables. So to Charlotte the sentence would actually sound something like “TheYELLowDRUMisLOUD”. And by about six or seven months, infants who are growing up with English seem to go by the simple rule that a stressed syllable marks the beginning of a word. This works pretty well for the above sentence as it gives us “The YELLow DRUMis LOUD”.
In fact, it works pretty well in English overall since over 90% of content words in spontaneous conversation in English have stress on the first syllable. So, English-learning infants get a lot of mileage out of this simple rule.
But the rule doesn’t work so well in French, where stress is typically on the last syllable of a word. In fact, French-learning infants know enough about their language that they do not employ this rule. Of course, the rule isn’t foolproof for English either. It works a little less well for a sentence such as “TheYELLowguiTARisLOUD”, which gives us “The YELLowgui TARis LOUD”.
By about ten or 11 months, infants can combine several cues to word boundaries. They already know some highly frequent words and have some knowledge about which sounds can go together within a syllable – for example, that gr is okay in English, as in great, but gt is not OK. So, when we hear g followed by a t, we know that there must be a syllable boundary, as in pigtail.
Infants can also track transitional probabilities between syllables, which is the likelihood that one particular syllable is followed by another particular syllable. Such transitional probabilities are higher within words than between words. For example, the likelihood of hearing ba and then by in a stream of speech is higher than that of hearing ba and then is. We hear ba and by together every time somebody says the word baby. But bais is not a word, and so we only hear these syllables together if a word ends in ba and the next word happens to start with is, for example, in the sentence The bay is nice.
Equipped with all this knowledge, older infants can correctly segment “TheYELLowguiTARisLOUD” as “The YELLow guiTAR is LOUD”. So by the time infants say their first word, they are quite skilled at segmenting the stream of speech that they hear into individual words and they know some familiar words.
But saying one’s first word is not just about identifying words in the stream of speech. Infants also need to be able to say the words. And by their first birthdays, they have been practising for months. This practice comes in the form of babbling. Starting at about six months of age, infants start producing seemingly random syllables such as na-na and da-da. Later, these are more variable, such as kadabu, and can sound like whole sentences made out of nonsense syllables. However, these syllables have no associated meaning. So, a babbled da-da does not really mean daddy.
Initially, researchers thought that babbling had no linguistic purpose. But we now know that babbling reflects infants’ knowledge about the language they are acquiring. For example, English and French-learning infants babble differently, in ways that match the languages that they are learning. Infants’ babbling may even reflect idiosyncrasies of their parents’ speech. So babbling clearly reflects the language or languages that infants are hearing.
In the transition from babbling to the first word, infants start to associate forms with meanings, for example, associating na-na with the kind of fruit that we call a banana. So when Princess Charlotte says her first word, this is an important milestone in her language development. But it is far from the beginning of language acquisition. Rather, she will have been listening, observing, finding patterns, and practising for months. The first word is the culmination of all this learning and marks the beginning of an infant’s ability to use language to communicate. | <urn:uuid:168cd28b-cdd5-4489-af7a-c57d1bf40b7c> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 6,289 |
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This was our first time camping along the Guadelupe River. In this park, most of the sites are right on the river - terrific view! Most of the sites have shade and are level. The staff are friendly. For kids, there is not much to do at this park other than float in the river, however, Canyon Lake is close and San Antonio and some state parks are less than an hour away. There is also a camp store, which came in handy. The sites are not too close together, but most of the even numbered sites do not have the electric/water hook-ups on the right side. This means you need an extension cord for power and another hose - and you have these hoses/cords all over the campsite. Luckily, we were able to borrow one from the office, since we didn't have any. We stayed over Labor Day weekend, and there were a lot of families, but also people who really wanted to party (loud music until late). Guess this is to be expected on a holiday weekend. There are no full hook-ups and only one dump station, so make sure you leave early on the day you head out.
This campground has it all - friendly staff, plenty of activities for the kiddos, great transportation around the enormous campground plus ferry / buses to the all the Disney attractions. It poured our first day and no water pooled at our site - they have done a good job with drainage. Reason for an "8" instead of a "10" - the sites are super tight for maneuvering longer trailers. We have a 35' and for a short time we literally thought we would not be able to get the trailer in the spot. The location was long enough, but with the narrow road combined with the recycling stations and posts, there was very little room to back up without hitting something. We stayed in loop 300. If I were to reserve here again (which we most certainly will) I will ask if some of the others loops have a bit more space. It seemed that loop 400 might have been better for our trailer. Also the food in the dinner buffet was mediocre and the service was slow (come on - all you have to do in clear the plates) and it was $$$ with a 18% gratituity added on top. Otherwise a top notch campground, we loved our time here.
We stayed here for one night with 3 small children - wish it could have been for longer! This is a beautiful park that is well maintained. The host was super friendly, even offered to help us back into the site. We stayed in site 25, perfect length (we didn't need to disconnect our 35' trailer) with lots of privacy. Playground was great for my 3 and 5 year olds. Wish we could have explored the trails and beaches, but we didn't have time. Definitely a good value - just need to make sure you reserve early for this gem of a park.
We stayed here for one night with 3 small children. Park is clean and tidy, staff was friendly - we were shown to our site. Playground has old equipment, but well maintained in working order. Quiet, about half of the sites were unoccupied. Several sites have abundant shade, our site had none. Main reason for the low rating: (1) site was horribly unlevel, which I find unacceptable for the given price range and (2) there were gnats everywhere, it was unbearable to be outside for more than a few minutes. Wish we could have had a better experience.
We stayed at this park over the 4th of July weekend, every spot was full. Pros: location close to the beach, well lit inside the park, family friendly. Cons: located near a water treatment plant, funny smell from time to time as a result. Our site did not have any relief from the sun from 5pm until sun set. Other "premium" sites looked like they had much more shade.
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We’ve all been there…
You see a guy you really like. Whether it is in a bar or a club, on your way to work, maybe even at work or wherever.
You’ve set your mind on this one guy and you’ve been thinking about how to get to talk to him as he seems to be shy or doesn’t seem to have even noticed you.
You keep seeing him and you start to get impatient, thinking about how to approach him.
One day you decide to make the first move. Men love confident women right? We live in the 21st century, women and men are equal, right?
Erm, not quite…This is one of the biggest wrong assumption women have about men! Women and men are equal but they are NOT THE SAME!!
Walking up to a guy asking him for his phone number or out on a date is a mistake!
Why? Because you are presenting yourself to him on a silver plate. For him you will look like you are needy or desperate. There is no question for the guy whether you like him or not. He then knows that you are into him.
But what if he is just shy? I hear you asking.
When he seems to be too shy to approach you, it usually means he is not interested in you. I’m afraid, that’s the hard truth. However, there are ways to find out whether he is actually shy or he is not interested. But it is not to approach him and to ask him for his number. You need to do it in a feminine way, by giving him signs, suggesting that you MAY be interested. That you won’t bite his head off when he comes over to talk to you but
I’ve seen it so many times during my time working as a barkeeper. A girl has set her eyes on a particular guy but he doesn’t make any effort to approach her, so she walks over to get his phone number as she believes he is too shy to approach her. Then the girl leaves and I see the same guy approaching other girls in the same night…
So trust me on this. He is not shy.
There are three reasons why you should never pursue a guy.
Reason number one:
With you approaching him first you are taking away all the fun for him. You are taking away the challenge to get you. For a man to really fall for you, you need to be a challenge!
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If you are pursuing the guy you will not be able to see his level of interest in you. Would he have sex with you? Most likely yes. Would he invest in you to be in a long term relationship with you? High likely no. Even worse, chances are that he will not take you serious neither will he treat you with respect.
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Knowing his level of interest is crucial and the only way to find out whether he is playing with you or if he is only interested in getting in your pants.
So please, please, please spare yourself from unnecessary heart break. If you see a guy you really like don’t pursue him! Only give him little hints so he can never be too sure that you are actually into him!
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On Tuesday, June 8, 2010, Ambassador Teresita Schaffer, Director of the South Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, will hold a conversation with Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asia Affairs Robert Blake on U.S.-India relations after the June 3 Strategic Dialogue. The discussion will be moderated by Philip J. Crowley, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Public Affairs. The event will be streamed live on DipNote, the Department of State's official blog at 9:30 a.m. (EDT). You will have the opportunity to participate through the submission of questions, some of which will be selected for response during the live broadcast. Submit your questions now on DipNote.
This feature is part of the new "Conversations with America" video series recently launched by the Bureau of Public Affairs in which the State Department's senior leadership hold monthly conversations live, online, with leaders of prominent non-governmental organizations. Discussion topics will include foreign policy and global issues. These forums provide a view of how leaders from the foreign affairs community engage the Department on pressing foreign policy issues and how both the U.S. government and civil society are working across the globe on issues that concern Americans most. | <urn:uuid:b3be51b2-1db1-49ad-8e90-2c444fa75d91> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,358 |
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Tennis: Lithuanian teen star Grigelis lays down Irish marker ahead of Davis Cup tie
LITHUANIAN teenager Laurynas Grigelis has sent an ominous warning that his country will be no pushover when they face Ireland in their second-round Davis Cup tie in Dublin from July 9-11.
Earlier this month, 18-year-old Grigelis provided major evidence of his ability when defeating Daniel Evans in the tie-deciding fifth rubber in the first-round contest against Great Britain in Vilnius.
And on Monday, 518-ranked Grigelis scored an emphatic victory over Ireland's 500-ranked James McGee in the last round of qualifying in the ATP Challenger Tour event in Jersey.
Castleknock man McGee came badly unstuck against Grigelis, exiting from the tournament on a 2-6 2-6 scoreline.
National No 1 Louk Sorensen is almost certain to have recovered from the hamstring injury which sidelined him for the Turkey tie to feature against the Lithuanians, and thus ensure that McGee is confined to court action in the doubles match.
But Grigelis is still likely to provide both Sorensen and Conor Niland with a stiff challenge in the individual battles.
In the women's equivalent of the Davis Cup -- the Fed Cup -- Ireland have received a major boost to their promotion prospects for next month's competition in Egypt.
Fed Cup team boss Garry Cahill has succeeded in persuading Australian-born Julia Moriarty to throw in her lot with this country in the 10-nation Europe-Africa Zone Group Three event in Cairo from April 19-24.
Moriarty (21) plays on the full-time circuit, and she holds a current singles world ranking of 695. The Adelaide-born right-hander qualifies to represent this country through her parents, who both hail from Co Kerry.
Meanwhile, John Morrissey and Sam Barry provided Irish tennis with a further shot in the arm by reaching the boys' doubles final in the ITF U-18 Grade One event in Kuching, Malaysia -- on opposite sides.
Dubliner Morrissey shattered Limerick native Barry's hopes of a second world ranking doubles title in the space of just two weeks, by partnering Australia's Ben Wagland to a 7-5 5-7 10-7 (champions' tie-break) victory over Barry and New Zealand's Ben McLachlan. | <urn:uuid:dbbf53fc-29cf-46e9-8939-fc5de6e8b6d8> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,180 |
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My youngest son got a book for his birthday called The Legend of Spookley the Square Pumpkin. The story reminds me of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. Spookley doesn’t look like the other pumpkins, but he ends up saving the day because of his differences.
A big gust of wind swoops in while all the round pumpkins are making fun of poor Spookley for being a square. The gale snaps the fence surrounding the pumpkin patch. All of the round pumpkins start rolling out into the bay through the hole in the fence. Spookley, in all his “squareness”, blocks the gap in the fence and all of the other pumpkins are saved.
The next year, the farmer sows seeds from Spookley and gets pumpkins in all shapes and colors.
It’s a cute story, but it is also a good lesson in gardening.
Spookley is a hybrid. He’s not like other pumpkins in that he is square. Hybrids are known for adapting to overcome environmental challenges…exactly what Spookley did.
A hybrid is a cross between two different plant types. This cross can be created by two varieties of the same plant cross pollinating, or by human intervention in order to get the best traits from two related plants.
The offspring of the hybrid plants will not necessarily produce true to type. This is why in the story, all of the pumpkins grown from the seeds saved from Spookley are different shapes, sizes and colors.
It is important to note here that hybrids are not genetically modified organisms (GMOs). A GMO is “an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques” in a laboratory…not in nature or in the back yard (Wikipedia). For example, corn and soybeans have been genetically engineered to be resistant to Round-Up.
A hybrid is a cross of different varieties of related plants while a GMO can be a cross between two completely unrelated organisms like bacteria with a plant.
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When you feed your dog in a bowl, you generally either have a dog who scarfs down the food very quickly or one who grazes on it throughout the day. There are so many more fun, creative ways to feed your dog that also give your dog mental and physical exercise. Here are a few ideas to get you started.
Food Maze Game
This is a food activity game that children in your family can play with you and your dog. First, have your dog in a stationary position/stay, tethered, or out of the room. Then create a trail of food that goes in and around your furniture, and release your dog to find it. You can make this more challenging by then creating food stations in a trail where your dog has to do something to get the food. See the video below for an example.
Tennis Balls To Make Meals Fun
Do you have tennis balls? How about a muffin tin? The dog muffin tin game is a fun way to feed your dog that engages his/her sense of smell. Don’t have a cupcake tin? Try filling a box with tennis balls and hiding food underneath. Watch the video below for an example.
I’d love to hear how your dog likes these games in the comments below.
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The season ended on a sour note, but the Ohio State baseball team will get its second season started in Omaha tomorrow against Purdue.
Ohio State Baseball Is No. 7 Seed In B1G Baseball Tourney
The Ohio State baseball team lost two out of three on the road in East Lansing, but it now gets a chance to bolster its postseason resume by making a run in the Big Ten baseball tournament.
The middle of the Big Ten is so jumbled up that the Buckeyes entered the last weekend regular season tied for fourth place in the league, only to fall all the way to the No. 7 seed after losing a just a couple.
However, Ohio State still sits in pretty good shape when it comes to getting a shot at the NCAA tournament, but it can’t afford to lose straight out of the gate against No. 2 Purdue to make things interesting.
The Boilermakers have been on a tear lately, going on an incredible run of winning 18 of its last 20 games to catapult up the Big Ten standings into second place.
If there’s good news for Ohio State, it’s the fact that the two losses came at the hands of the Scarlet and Gray at home just a week ago. Now the two will tussle again in TD Ameritrade Park in Omaha on Wednesday at 1 PM Eastern. The game will be carried by BTN. | <urn:uuid:1dff6574-89cf-4e74-9c13-8229fb56d2a1> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,228 |
The trick is for a guy to walk in with the sole goal of having fun, says the report on men's dating tips.
San Mateo, CA (PRWEB) December 04, 2012
With the ambient lighting and cheer in the air, the holidays are a perfect time for a man to woo and seduce women into his life and the focus of the latest report by Dating Expert Carlos Xuma.
“Smart men know that the excitement and joy in the air around the holidays are the perfect time to show their playful and romantic sides to women,” Xuma says in the report on dating tips for guys. “The ability to leverage these good feelings and this festive environment is the difference between success and failure.”
One great thing about the holiday season, as Xuma says in his report, is the abundance of parties and other social opportunities to be taken advantage of.
“This often is the busiest social time of year for many people,” says Xuma. “A guy who wants to meet women needs to make sure he is putting himself out there as often and as widely as possible.”
A festive environment also usually means that people are in a good mood and ready to be entertained.
According to Xuma, “A guy who can bring that spark into a room is going to stand out from the other men milling around trying to get up the courage to approach a cute girl. The guy who is going to be the most successful in that type of environment is the guy who walks into the room ready to have a good time. That sort of demeanor and attitude is always contagious.”
In other words, says the report on men's dating tips, the trick is for a guy to walk in with the sole goal of having fun.
“Sometimes if a guy internally takes the pressure of himself to meet someone, he will actually be much more successful if he had that as his goal in the first place,” says Xuma. “It sounds counterintuitive, but it really works. It’s all about charisma and the ability to attract others through the way a guy holds himself.”
In Xuma's new report on dating tips for men, the role charisma plays in attraction is emphasized as essential, as is the ability of even the most shy guys to develop this attraction builder.
“It’s a little bit like having a secret weapon,” Xuma says. “But the good news is that it’s not just for the superheroes. Any guy can develop this tool or weapon to us.”
Carlos Xuma has been a dating expert and attraction adviser for more than 10 years and has appeared on ABC and CBS television, as well as Playboy radio. He has been recognized for his work sharing dating advice for guys; tips on pick up artist techniques, alpha male behavior, and how to talk to girls. He also is the author of The Bad Boy Formula, Secrets of the Alpha Male, the Girlfriend Training Program, and numerous other books and articles. He has spent years teaching hundreds of men how to attract women and when to call women on his website at http://www.carlosxuma.com.
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VIENNA— A group of computer programmers and hackers in Austria is creating a low-cost way of spreading Internet access across communities. "FunkFeuer" which means "network fire" in German, uses everyday technology to create a wireless network, called a "mesh," that can transmit data from person to person, without involving companies or governments.
A group of computer programmers and hackers in Austria is creating a low-cost way of spreading Internet access across communities. "FunkFeuer" which means "network fire" in German, uses everyday technology to create a wireless network, called a "mesh," that can transmit data from person to person, without involving companies or governments.
For most users, Internet access is a utility, like phone service and electricity. Customers pay a company to access the Web through phone service or cable TV lines. But FunkFeuer's equipment on Vienna rooftops is a different.
It provides wireless network access across large areas using the same open radio spectrum as WiFi. But unlike traditional WiFi, responsible for small wireless networks in homes and offices, the FunkFeuer mesh operates over much bigger distances.
"You could do the same, of course, in a road, from window to window, and just sort of bounce along the road," explained Aaron Kaplan, a founder of the FunkFeuer mesh network. "Then you don't need these complicated, big-looking antennas. You can take just small ones just like this and just put it in your window."
The key is to have enough users to put routers and antennas out in the open, so that every user becomes another provider, further extending the network. If one node has access to the Internet, all of the FunkFeuer users on the network do too.
Many look at the technology as a way to circumvent government Internet controls.
"It's very hard to shut them down, because you have to go after each single node, every single node owner," Kaplan explained. "So it's not easy, it's not as easy as it was in Egypt, where you go to one ISP (Internet Service Provider), which has all the Internet cables going through one building, and you just call them and say you need to shut this down. This is not possible anymore because it's so distributed."
Metalab is a so-called hackerspace in Vienna, where tech enthusiasts collaborate on projects like computer networks as well as radio.
Adrian Dabrowski was one of the first to work on FunkFeuer. Dabrowski recalled first playing with the then-new WiFi possibilities.
"There were these experiments, make an own antenna and get not 20 meters but get 100 meters or get 200 meters and yeah, it was very interesting and suddenly you could build networks over a whole city and it was like a whole new world," Dabrowski recalled.
And here, collaboration with ham radio operators like Clemens Hopfer has led to a new breakthrough that has allowed them to send data by shortwave radio to receivers up to 200 kilometers away.
"If you want to spread links across a big country, it's not that easy to do it, but, it is possible," Hopfer said.
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Maintenance of skeletal muscle mass during FOLFIRINOX is a favorable prognostic factor in pancreatic cancer patients
BMC Research Notes volume 14, Article number: 272 (2021)
The study aimed to investigate the effect of body composition changes during chemotherapy on clinical outcomes in patients with pancreatic cancer.
In patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer (LAPC), the cross-sectional area of skeletal muscle (SM) and adipose tissue (AT) at the level of third lumbar vertebra was measured. The SM and AT ratios indicated the changes during chemotherapy. The patients were classified into three groups based on these ratios: group 1, ≥ 1.00; group 2, 0.85–0.99; group 3, < 0.85. The overall survival (OS) and surgical resection rates were estimated. Fifty-eight patients with LAPC who received first-line FOLFIRINOX were analyzed. Fifteen (25.9%) patients who underwent resection showed maintained BMI, SM, and AT as compared to the patients who did not undergo resection. As the SM ratio decreased, the risk for death increased significantly. Further, the resection rate was significantly higher in patients with maintained SM compared to those with low SM ratio. On the contrary, the change in AT ratio was not associated with OS and resection rate; however, significant decrease in AT more than 15% showed poor clinical outcomes. Maintenance of SM during chemotherapy is a reliable prognostic factor indicating longer OS and higher resection rate.
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer-related deaths and has been projected to increase dramatically to become the second cause of cancer-related deaths by 2030 in the United States (U.S.) [1, 2]. Patients with cancer are at an increased risk for muscle loss via two distinct mechanisms: sarcopenia, defined as the muscle atrophy that occurs with aging or immobility, and cachexia, defined as cytokine-mediated degradation of muscle and adipose tissue. Both wasting disorders are prevalent; among patients with cancer, 15–50% are sarcopenic and 25–80% are cachectic . Cancer cachexia, which is characterized by weight loss, muscle wasting, and fat tissue depletion is commonly observed in patients with PC . The loss of skeletal muscle (SM) and adipose tissue (AT) has been shown to adversely affect the patient survival in many cancers [5,6,7]. It has also been reported that sarcopenia at presentation is associated with an unfavorable prognosis in patients with both resectable and advanced PC [8,9,10]. The aforementioned reports suggest that a series of anthropometric changes during chemotherapy may provide an important information for prognosis in patients with PC. In most studies, the estimates of body compositions have been derived from the cross-sectional data, and not from the longitudinal data. At least one third of patients are diagnosed with locally advanced PC (LAPC) with extensive vascular involvement. The treatment for patients with LAPC primarily involves systemic chemotherapy, such as gemcitabine plus nab-paclitaxel or FOLFIRINOX [11, 12]. Therefore, in the present study, we investigated the effect of the longitudinal changes in body composition during the first-line FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy on the prognosis of patients with LAPC.
Patients with LAPC who were treated with first-line FOLFIRINOX at Seoul National University Bundang Hospital (SNUBH) from April 2012 to June 2016 were enrolled. The current study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of SNUBH (IRB approval number: B-1807–481-102).
The inclusion criteria for patients in this study were: (1) pathologically proven adenocarcinoma; (2) clinically diagnosed with LAPC according to the International Study Group of Pancreatic Surgery criteria ; (3) received first-line FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy; (4) Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance score of 0 or 1; and (5) availability of two computed tomography (CT) scans (one at the time of diagnosis and another after 6 months of FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy). The following patients were excluded from the study: (1) patients who did not receive FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy; (2) patients with the recurrence of tumor; and (3) patients with poor performance status (ECOG ≥ 2).
Chemotherapy regimen/dose and follow-up
The FOLFIRINOX regimen was administered to the patients at the following doses: oxaliplatin, 85 mg/m2; irinotecan, 180 mg/m2; leucovorin, 400 mg/m2; and fluorouracil, 400 mg/m2 given as a bolus, followed by 2,400 mg/m2 given as a 46-h continuous infusion, every 2 weeks. Modification of the dose was determined by the clinician based on toxicity and patient preference. Treatment response was evaluated by CT scan after an average of three cycles of FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumours (RECIST) criteria, version 1.1. The cumulative relative dose intensity (cRDI, %), which considered the modification of dose intensity as well as cycle duration, was calculated using the RDI calculator at http://www.hwang-lab.com.
Initial anthropometric values, including height and body weight, were retrieved from the medical records, and were used to calculate the body mass index (BMI, kg/m2). Serial CT scans at the time of diagnosis and after 6 months were used to quantify body composition, including the SM and AT areas. The boundaries of the body composition area were drawn manually on the serial cross-sectional CT images at the level of third lumbar vertebra (L3) and measurements were recorded using SliceOmatic software (v5.0; Tomovision, Canada) (Fig. 1). The anthropometric data were used to calculate the ratios by dividing the post-chemotherapy values by the pre-chemotherapy values. SM and AT ratios were classified into three groups as follows: group 1, ≥ 1.00; group 2, 0.85–0.99; and group 3, < 0.85. The overall survival (OS), based on the SM and AT ratio groups, was estimated.
Categorical variables are presented as frequency and proportion, and continuous variables as mean ± standard deviation. Continuous variables with normal distribution were analyzed using the Student’s t-test. Differences among the groups were tested using the chi-square test, or paired t-test. Survival time was estimated using the Kaplan–Meier survival curves and compared using the log-rank test. Hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CIs) for the univariate model of OS were calculated using the Cox regression analysis. A two-sided p-value of < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. The statistical analyses were performed using the IBM SPSS, version 22 for Windows (IBM Inc., Armonk, NY, USA).
In the present study, initially 58 patients with LAPC were recruited from April 2012 to June 2016. The CT images before and after the administration of FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy were analyzed. After chemotherapy, 15 (25.9%) patients underwent surgical resection.
Table 1 summarizes the demographic characteristics of the participants. The median age was 62.1 years, and 34 (58.6%) patients were men. The median tumor size was 3.8 cm and the tumor was located in the head and/or neck of the pancreas in 39 (67.2%) patients. At first presentation, the anthropometric data were as follows (mean ± standard deviation): BMI, 21.7 ± 2.9 kg/m2; SM area, 111.8 ± 24.9 cm2; and AT area, 202.1 ± 85.6 cm2. All variables measured at the time of diagnosis showed no statistically significant differences between the resection group and the non-resection group.
The patients received an average of 9 (range, 1–20) cycles of FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy. The resection group received more cycles of FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy than the non-resection group, but the difference was not statistically significant (11 vs. 8 cycles; p = 0.193). The cRDI also did not show significant difference between the resection and non-resection groups (72.6% vs. 66.4%; p = 0.164).
Anthropometric changes during the FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy
As shown in Table 2, the body compositions changed after the FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy. During the 6 months of chemotherapy, BMI, SM area, and AT area decreased by 0.5 kg/m2, 12.6 cm2, and 24.1 cm2, respectively. Among the 15 (25.9%) patients who underwent surgery after chemotherapy, these three indicators were maintained or increased (BMI was the same; SM area increased by an average of 0.3 cm2; AT area increased by 3.2 cm2). However, these three anthropometric indices were significantly reduced in the unresected group (BMI decreased by 0.7 kg/m2; SM area decreased by 17.1 cm2; AT area decreased by 33.6 cm2).
Effect of anthropometric changes on the clinical outcome
Additional file 1: Table S1 shows the effect of anthropometric changes during FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy on survival and resectability. The median OS of all 58 patients with LAPC was 16.1 months during a median duration of follow-up of 22.1 months. Regarding the SM ratio, 7 (12.1%), 31 (53.4%), and 20 (34.5%) patients were in group 1 (≥ 1.00), group 2 (0.85–0.99), and group 3 (< 0.80), respectively. The median OS (95% CI) based on the SM ratios was as follows: group 1, not reached; group 2, 19.1 (12.4–25.7) months; and group 3, 12.0 (9.0–15.0) months (Additional file 2: Figure S1a, Additional file 3: Figure S2a). As the SM ratio decreased, the risk of death increased significantly (group 1, reference; group 2, HR: 4.871, 95% CI: 1.136–20.882; group 3, HR: 11.212, 95% CI: 2.527–49.738; p < 0.001). The likelihood of resection was significantly higher in patients with maintained SM as compared to those with low SM ratio (group 1, 71.4%; group 2, 32.3%; group 3, 0%; p < 0.001).
Based on the AT ratio, there were 16 (27.6%), 20 (34.5%), and 22 (37.9%) patients in group 1 (≥ 1.00), group 2 (0.85–0.99), and group 3 (< 0.85), respectively. The median OS was not significantly different between group 1 (19.1 [11.5–26.7] months) and group 2 (17.5 [7.1–27.9] months) (HR: 1.282, 95% CI: 0.576–2.856) (Additional file 2: Figure S1b, Additional file 3: Figure S2b). However, if the AT ratio decreased by more than 15% (group 3), OS was significantly less (12.2 [11.1–13.3] months) (HR: 2.333, 95% CI: 1.067–5.103) than the group 1 (reference). Moreover, no statistically significant differences were observed in the resection rate among the different groups based on AT ratio (group 1, 31.3%; group 2, 35.0%; group 3, 13.6%; p = 0.243).
The present study showed the longitudinal changes in body composition and the associations of these changes with clinical outcomes in patients with LAPC during the first-line FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy. The principal findings of this study are: (i) the patients with well-maintained SM during chemotherapy were associated with higher resectability and longer OS than those with low SM ratio, even though cRDI was not different. (ii) The AT change during chemotherapy was not correlated with clinical outcomes; however, significant decrease in AT ratio showed poor clinical outcomes.
The sarcopenia at the time of diagnosis has been reported to be an independent prognostic factor of reduced survival in PC patients as well as in several cancers [5,6,7,8,9,10, 14,15,16,17,18,19], the underlying mechanism that links sarcopenia with poor survival has not been fully elucidated. A decrease in SM leads to aberrant energy homeostasis, impaired cell growth, insulin resistance, and immune dysfunction [20, 21]. In patients with PC, as well as nutritional deficiency, the insufficiency of pancreatic exocrine and endocrine functions, infection, and other metabolic factors can also contribute to the sarcopenia. The results of the present study showed that SM decrease during chemotherapy may be an important prognostic indicator for OS. SM decrease during chemotherapy may be a more important prognostic indicator than sarcopenia at the time of diagnosis. Many studies have reported that sarcopenic patients at the time of diagnosis have poor long-term outcomes [22,23,24]. The inability to maintain SM causes progressive functional impairment and a decreased quality of life, which in turn increases morbidity and mortality [25, 26].
Further, the findings of our study suggest that AT loss was not significantly associated with prognosis. The significant fat loss is associated with decreased survival in patients with PC, and this finding is consistent with the previously published data [27, 28]. Previous studies have shown that sarcopenia, sarcopenic obesity, and myosteatosis at the time of diagnosis are associated with decreased survival in patients with PC [29, 30]. However, owing to the complexity of PC, it is difficult to fully elucidate the underlying mechanisms associated with AT reduction and poor clinical outcomes.
Furthermore, a study has implicated tumor Fn14 (tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member 12A; TNFRSF12A) as an inducer of cachexia in mice models, and it was shown that the antibodies against Fn14 prevented tumor-induced cachexia and extended lifespan without chemotherapy . This suggests that regardless of chemotherapy, survival time can be prolonged if cachexia and sarcopenia are prevented. The efforts to maintain SM, including dietary or physical rehabilitation programs, concurrent administration of nutritional supplements, and/or drugs targeting chronic inflammation and cachexia may represent a critical adjuvant strategy during chemotherapy .The determination of body compartments is an easy and quick tool that can be added without additional radiation exposure or cost. Anthropometric information can be easily applied in clinical setting with the potential to improve nutritional care and chemotherapy dose calculation.
In conclusion, the anthropometric changes during the first-line FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy were associated with the clinical outcome in patients with LAPC. The findings of our study suggest that the patients with well-maintained SM during chemotherapy have longer OS and higher resectability.
The present study has some limitations. First, owing to its retrospective nature, we were unable to identify a causal relationship between sarcopenia and poor survival, and only revealed an association between them. Second, the information on standardized nutritional counseling during chemotherapy was missing. Despite these limitations, this study has several strengths. First, the longitudinal assessment of serial anthropometric measurements was used throughout the course of chemotherapy in patients with PC. Progressive loss of SM during chemotherapy was more closely related to shorter OS than pretreatment sarcopenia. Because, SM volume decreases over time with the tumor progression, it should ideally be evaluated longitudinally. Second, body composition can be evaluated by CT scan, which has the potential to become a feasible and clinically relevant measure.
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Median overall survival, resection rate, and chemotherapy dose according to anthropometric changes during FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy.
Anthropometric changes during six months of FOLFIRINOX chemotherapy (a) changes in the skeletal muscle mass (b) changes in the total adipose tissue mass. The resection group is indicated by red color and non-resection group is indicated by gray color.
Kaplan–Meier curves showing the relationship between anthropometric changes and overall survival (OS) (a) skeletal muscle (SM) ratio and OS (b) total adipose tissue (AT) ratio and OS.
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Shin, D.W., Kim, M.A., Lee, Jc. et al. Maintenance of skeletal muscle mass during FOLFIRINOX is a favorable prognostic factor in pancreatic cancer patients. BMC Res Notes 14, 272 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05681-x
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What does Cnidaria literally mean? – Related Questions
What are the two types of Cnidaria?
Cnidarians have two body forms—polyp and medusa—which often occur within the life cycle of a single cnidarian.
What are 5 facts about cnidarians?
Fast Facts: Cnidarians
- Scientific Name: Cnidaria.
- Common Name(s): Coelenterates, corals, jellyfish, sea anemones, sea pens, hydrozoans.
- Basic Animal Group: Invertebrate.
- Size: 3/4 of an inch to 6.5 feet in diameter; up to 250 feet long.
- Weight: Up to 440 pounds.
- Lifespan: A few days to more than 4,000 years.
- Diet: Carnivore.
How do zooids form?
A subset of ascidian species are colonial and grow by repeated rounds of asexual reproduction (budding) that eventually give rise to a colony of genetically identical individuals, called zooids, arranged within a common tunic.
How do zooids work?
Zooids are multicellular units that develop from a single fertilized egg and combine to create functional colonies able to reproduce, digest, float, maintain body positioning, and use jet propulsion to move. Most colonies are long, thin, transparent floaters living in the pelagic zone.
What are the 5 classes of phylum Cnidaria?
The five main classes of cnidarians include:
- Class Anthozoa. Corals and sea anemones. Polyps that often coexist with symbiotic species of fish and algae. …
- Class Hydrozoa. Hydra and Portuguese man o’ war. …
- Class Cubozoa. Box jellyfish. …
- Class Scyphozoa. True jellyfishes. …
- Class Staurozoa. Stalked jellyfish.
What are the 4 classes of phylum Cnidaria?
There are four major groups of cnidarians:
- Anthozoa, which includes true corals, anemones, and sea pens;
- Cubozoa, the amazing box jellies with complex eyes and potent toxins;
- Hydrozoa, the most diverse group with siphonophores, hydroids, fire corals, and many medusae; and.
- Scyphozoa, the true jellyfish.
What are zooids in Cnidaria?
Cnidaria produce colonies composed of polyp-like zooids. Zooids help in defense, reproduction and catching of prey. Example: In Obelia, gastrozooids are capable of asexual reproduction and gonozooids are sexually reproducing.
Do cnidarians have brains?
Cnidarians do not have a brain such as mammals do. Instead, cnidarians possess a network of nerve cells called a nerve net also referred to as a diffuse nerve net.
What are 4 main characteristics of Cnidaria?
Cnidarians Body Forms. 2) They are exclusively aquatic and marine. 3) They are radially symmetrical and diploblastic animals. 4) The ectoderm of Coelenterates is provided with a special type of cells called cnidoblasts or stinging cells. These cells have to hypnotize, used for defense and paralyzing the prey.
Are octopus cnidarians?
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1975 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible -Hagerty Valuation in #4 condition is $10,300
- Condition: Used
- Make: Cadillac
- Model: Eldorado
- Type: convertible
- Trim: top line caddy convertible - rare 1yr only color
- Year: 1975
- Mileage: 78,xxx
- VIN: 6L67S524Q0062
- Color: Mandarin Orange
- Engine size: 500 CID 8.2L v8
- Number of cylinders: 8
- Power options: Power Locks, Power Windows, Power Seats
- Fuel: regular unleaded
- Transmission: automatic
- Drive type: hydra-matic front wheel drive
- Interior color: Mandarin Orange leather
- Safety options: It's really big!
- Options: Leather Seats, Convertible
- Vehicle Title: Clear Want to buy? Contact seller!
1975 Cadillac EldoradoWith a heavy heart, am offering up a Bully '75 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible. This is a tremendously fun Eldo convertible and one of the last of the big floaters! This car is an eye catcher and it is impossible to drive without getting lots of thumb's ups, equests to share information and requests to take pictures with it. This car is NOT for shy people. It makes a statement with a factory length of about 18.7' and a bit of extra length provided by the huge steer horns attached to the hood with very strong, igh quality wrought iron. The color combination is great for anyone looking for a mid-70's Eldo in a unique color (don't you get sick of all the white, ed and black caddy's?) and is particularly fitting for anyone with connections to the University of Texas as this is the ultimate in "Hook 'em Horns" pride. What a fantastic ride for a fraternity, lumni association, r for the current student looking to travel in style and with all his/her friends! And, his is a great cruiser for any Caddy enthusiast or family looking for that special ride to take the ice cream parlor, nter in parades or just have fun cruising in style!! This is a massive 6 seater with plenty of room for all your friends and luggage!
This is not a perfect show car. It appears to have been repainted in its original mandarin orange color 1x before and shows some age but still presents well. The leather interior is also in "ok" shape with two tears in the drivers seat (one on seat bottom and one on seat back) and a tear that was repaired once in the middle of the rear seat at the top. Otherwise the leather is really in quite nice shape and looks real nice. It came to me without the heat or AC and the clock does not work. The radio/8track works "sometimes" and the car will come with an 8track of Elvis. The power locks work, ower windows work though the rear right quarter window is off the track right now (all parts are there, t just skipped the track recently). The power "scissor-style" top goes down effortlessly but sometimes needs a bit of help coming up. It is pretty heavy, fter-all. The top is in decent condition but does have 1 tear about 5-6" long on rear drivers side in the same spot that seems to plague these GM big boats. I do have a new top in the trunk ready to be installed. The power antenna does not work right now and I have never tried to fix it so it might just need some grease. As for other known imperfections, he passenger ash tray cover is present but does not stay closed and in addition to the seat imperfections noted and shown in pics, here is a tear in the drivers side door card vinyl. The steering wheel is in ok shape but some of the "wood inlay" has cracked off. The car generally runs pretty good but sometimes idles rich. Normal leaks present relative to oil and trans fluid. The horn is currently disconnected and the speedometer just started acting up a bit. The car has great power seats, djustable mirrors, "remote" trunk release in the dash, oft-close trunk deck, n outside thermometer built into the drivers side-view mirror, ainted hubcaps, nd the rare fiberglass color-coded parade boot is present and really finishes off the car nicely. I have added a new 12v receptacle to power a phone charger or other accessory and the car will come to its new owner with an original owners manual and a very nicely crafted outdoor car cover big enough to keep this land yacht under wraps.
This is a really fun ride and is definitely not something you see every day. I've tried to describe the car as accurately as possible. Please feel free to inspect and ask questions. the car is offered for sale without any reps or warranties and the buyer will need to arrange shipping. I will try to help as best I can. The car is kept in a garage and driven only on nice days. In addition to the new convertible top that is in the trunk, also have a new drivers side convertible top latch as the one that came with the car is not original stock and a '75 Caddy users manual. Mileage is approximate and I have no idea whether it is original or whether the odometer has "turned." Fun, un car that gets lots of attention and is a blast to drive, how and own.
$1500 deposit due within 48hrs from end of auction. No shipping until full payment received and cleared. Funds due to seller within 3days of auction. This car is listed for sale locally and through other venues and will continue to be shown for sale and fun at local car shows. As such, eller reserves the right to cancel this auction at any time, or any reason and with no recourse. While I have tried to describe the car as best as possible and will gladly answer any questions and make the car available for inspections, am not a professional car guy and I make no representations or warranties relative to the car, ts mechanical condition, tc.
If you want to end the auction early, eel free to make me an offer via ebay messenger.
More pics at the link noted in sellers notes. If you can't find the link to the additional photos, end me an ebay message and I can send the link to you. The pics show that the car shines up pretty nice. The last couple of pics were taken after the car was sitting in the garage for winter storage collecting dust and therefore were included to show the car at its worst in comparison to the earlier photos that show it during normal summer cruising time. It will shines up pretty nicely after a wash and wax. Again, end me a message and I can send you the link as Ebay does not allow me to post it in the description.
This 1975 Eldorado Convertible is being sold AS-IS, HERE-IS with NO representations or warranties - expressed, ritten or implied. My descriptions are for identification purposes only and are not to be construed as a warranty of any type. It is the responsibility of the buyer to have thoroughly inspected the vehicle and to have satisfied himselfherself as to the condition and value and to bid based upon that judgment. I have done my best to try and represent it as accurately as possible and to disclose any known defects associated with this vehicle. Seller assumes no responsibility for any repairs. Seller does not warranty anything that may or could happen after sale. Any inspections are to be completed before the end of sale, ot afterward. NO EXCEPTIONS. Winning this auction does not entitle you to come inspect the car and decide if you want to buy it, ut OBLIGATES you to complete the purchase
Info about the '75 Caddy Eldorado:
1975 Cadillac Eldorado Convertible
Acknowledging Its Heritage
The ’75 Eldorado was introduced on September 19, 974. Of the 44,752 Eldorado’s produced for the 1975 model year, 950 were convertibles and were introduced at a base price of $10,354 which represented Cadillac’s first foray into five digit pricing. This pricing would increase two times during the model year to end at $10,783 by the end of the 1975 model run. Mandarin Orange was only offered as a color during the 1975 model year.It would appear that the U.S. auto industry just couldn't get a break during the 1974 and 1975 model years. After Cadillac experienced two record setting years in a row for 1972 and 1973, t got hit with sluggish sales due to the oil scare that caught America off guard just as the new '74 models appeared in dealer showrooms. When the oil scare ended in spring 1974, ales began to pick up again, nly to fall off during the 1975 model year due to the worst economic recession since 1958! While overall sales were better for Cadillac in 1975 than they'd been the previous year, ales of the Eldorado Coupe were up just a few thousand units and the Eldorado Convertible didn’t fare much better, ith an increase of less than 2000 cars. The 1975 Lincoln Continental Mark IV wasn’t doing as well for 1975 either, s sales had dropped from ’74 numbers. Part of the reason for this could be the substantial price increases many luxury cars passed on to consumers. The Eldorado Coupe jumped $875 for 1975 and the Eldorado Convertible passed the five-figure bracket for the first time. With an introductory base price of $10,354, t was priced $917 higher than in 1974. As noted above, ricing would increase to $10,783 during the year. Part of the responsibility for the increase in base price lies with the new catalytic converters that had found their way onto most 1975 models, ncluding the Eldorado. They allowed engines to be retuned for improved performance as they aided in the clean-up of vehicle emissions which allowed engineers to removes some of the emissions duties engines had been saddled with the last few years. The catalytic converters were expensive, hough, nd that cost was passed on to consumers. Cadillac and Lincoln both loaded up their personal luxury models with features that had previously been optional at extra cost and that increased the base price as well. That meant things like an AM/FM stereo radio and power door locks were now standard. In a strange move, incoln ended up making many of those things optional again in 1976 in an attempt to offer the lowest possible base price, ut it really didn’t matter much in the long run as most luxury car buyers opted to equip their cars with them anyway. Psychologically, hey probably thought they were getting a better deal with the more affordable base price. Part of Cadillac’s efficiency included offering owners a high resale value at the time of trade-in, s well as low maintenance costs during their time of ownership. Cadillac led the luxury car market in owner loyalty at the time, s it had for many years, nd there was a growing trend for original owners to retain their cars for a longer period of time which may have had a small impact on repeat sales each year. Eldorado recognized and acknowledged its heritage in 1975 by refining its styling to better reflect the first generation Fleetwood Eldorado that dated back to 1967. Few would disagree that the original styling was one of General Motors finest styling efforts ever. It ranks right up there with first Cadillac Sixty Special Sedan and Coupe deVille, he 1963 Buick Riviera, he 1963 Corvette, nd all the other legendary designs that have come forth from GM over the years.
1975 CADILLAC ELDORADO SPECIFICATIONS:
Displacement: 8.2 Litres, -8 (500 CID)
Bore and Stroke: 4.30 x 4.304
Compression Ratio: 8.50 to 1
SAE Net Horsepower: 190 @ 4000 rpm (HP went down each year ’71-’76 due to stricter emission laws in US but performance remained about the same)
Carburetor: Rochester 4V "Quadrajet" M4ME
Optional Induction System: Electronic Fuel Injection
TRANSMISSION: Turbo Hydra-matic
Front wheel drive
Drive Ratio: 2.73:1
Brakes: Power with self-adjusting feature
Front: Disc Rear: Composite finned drum
Length: 224.1" (excluding the horned hood ornamentation)
Trunk: 13.6 cubic feet
Weight: 5,167 lbs (please don’t call her “heavy”!! She is just big boned…)
Tires: LR78-15 Steel-belted radial tires, hite sidewall
Optional: LR78-15B Steel-belted radial tires; wider stripe whitewall
Wheelbase: 126.3 inches
Front Tread: 63.7"
Rear Tread: 63.6"
Steering: Variable-ratio power steering
Overall ratio: 20.0 to 1
Fuel Tank: 27.5 gallons
Fuel Type: Regular Unleaded
Mileage: Don’t ask! (anywhere from 8mph to 18mph depending on one’s “touch”)
Cooling System: 21¾ Qts. (23¾ Qts. with Air Conditioning)
Washer Fluid Reservoir: 2½ Qts.
Engine Oil: 6 Qts. with Filter Change
Transmission: 5½ Qts. with Filter Change
Seats 6 comfortably
1975 new standard equipment items:
1. High Energy Ignition System
2. Six-Way Power Adjustable Seat
3. Power Door Locks
4. AM/FM Signal-Seeking Stereo Radio
5. Steel-Belted Radial Ply Tires
6. White Sidewall Tires
7. Automatic Climate Control with Economy Setting
8. Tinted Glass
9. Lamp Monitors
New options for 1975:
1. Electronic Fuel Injection
2. Illuminated Entry System
3. Glass Dome Astroroof
4. Passenger Recliner Seat
5. Air Cushion Restraint System
6. Authentic Longhorn hood ornamentation!!! Hook 'em Horns!!
Mandarin Orange exterior with matching leather interior and painted wheel covers
(1975 was the only year for the color of Mandarin Orange)
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"Eighty-three years ago, Virginia Yañez and her siblings suddenly
found themselves in a foreign land, impoverished and unable to speak the
language. "It was just the worse... what we suffered. It still hurts," Yañez, now 89, said in Spanish as she recalled the move. Yañez, 6 at the time, was one of thousands of U.S.-born children who in
the early part of the 20th century found themselves uprooted from their
homes and driven to an unrecognizable place – Mexico." - Cindy Carcamo, Orange County Register, Feb. 28, 2012.
"Virginia Yañez looks at the memorial, which was unveiled at the ceremony
for the state of California's acknowledgment of the forced removal of
Mexican Americans during the great depression at La Plaza de Cultura y
Artes in Los Angeles on Sunday. Yañez, 6 years old at the time, was one
of thousands of young U.S.-born children who in the early part of the
twentieth century found themselves uprooted from their nation, driven
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I miss Sarah but I am excited about the european adventure she is on.
I first met Sarah at the Gallery Pub at UBC during the weekly open mic nights as mentioned previously. She has a fabulous singing voice and was awestruck when I first heard her combine it with marvelous guitar playing and her unique lyrics. Over the past few years we have developed a marvelous friendship.
She has always been super supportive whenever I needed someone to help me unload some emotional baggage. Sarah always manages to laugh at my foibles in just the right way so as to make the tough parts seem less ominous and the good parts worth holding on to. And she is super fun to hang out with.
I am not usually one to offer a quote, but I think this one describes my experience with Sarah quite well. It was originally composed by Dinah Craik in her book A Life for a Life, published in 1859.
Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Sarah is off in the UK now completing graduate studies at the London School of Economics and is still making marvelous music in her spare time.
What little running I had undertaken before this Run to End Poverty business was substantially done with Sarah. Last year we did the Sun Run together dressed as garden fairies. This morning I went for a 6.1 km run along one the routes she and I used to take. I stopped at a fountain we used to pass by for a quick photo. It felt like a good way to wrap up the 25 km I have been running for her. | <urn:uuid:fcd3fb77-d474-4e0e-8309-96209f292cdc> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,755 |
Addu, Maldives: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his address to the 17th SAARC Summit has stressed on better economic cooperation in South Asia.
Here is the full text of the Prime Minister's speech:
"I am delighted to be here in the Maldives - a country of breathtaking beauty. There can be no better setting for our Summit than this exquisite Addu Atoll. I convey our deep appreciation to the Government and people of Maldives for the excellent arrangements and their warm hospitality.
I wish to join my other distinguished colleagues in congratulating you, Mr. President, on your election as the Chairperson of SAARC. We look forward to your dynamic leadership of our organization. I assure you of India's full cooperation.
I wish to thank His Excellency the Prime Minister of Bhutan for his exemplary stewardship of SAARC as the outgoing Chairman.
As someone who has had the privilege of attending the last four Summits of SAARC, I can see the impressive progress we have made as an organization in recent years. The momentum and scope of our cooperation have undoubtedly increased. Since our last Summit alone, our Ministers of External Affairs, Home, Finance, Transport, Tourism, Commerce, Energy and Environment have met. Greater exchanges and communication among ourselves should be followed by concrete outcomes.
In my discussions with the leaders of South Asia, I sense today a collective commitment and desire to give greater meaning and content to SAARC. Admittedly, there is a lot to be done but the political will is there. We have all come to believe that regional cooperation in South Asia is good for each one of our countries.
I reaffirm that India will do whatever is within our capabilities to make SAARC an effective instrument to deliver on our vision of common peace, shared prosperity and cooperation in South Asia.
Our Summit takes place at a time when the global economy is under acute stress. This has imposed a fresh and entirely uncalled for burden on our development efforts. We hope that the leaders of the major economies, particularly those in the Eurozone, will show the wisdom and will that are required to revive the global economy.
However, the world economy is going to take time to recover. In the meantime developing countries like ours will be squeezed for capital, investments and markets for our exports.
We should seek imaginative ways to create new avenues and sources of growth and investment in South Asia, and this is indeed an imperative necessity. I believe, if we can create favourable conditions for development at home, there is no reason why our investors should seek greener pastures elsewhere. The complete normalization of trade relations in SAARC will create huge opportunities for mutually beneficial trade within South Asia.
We should work to create a climate whereby the wealth generated by us is invested back into our own region of South Asia. This will be the most ringing endorsement of our collective vision of a regional economy without boundaries.
There are promising signs that South Asia is increasingly getting plugged into the growth dynamic of Asia. Despite all the difficulties, we have been able to maintain a respectable growth rate in the last few years.
This encouraging trend has coincided with the growing pace of integration of SAARC. This shows that we are on the right path.
I believe the process should move much faster, though at a pace we are all comfortable with. I recognize that India has a special responsibility that flows from the geography of our region and the state of our economy and market.
I am happy to announce that, in a major trade liberalization effort, the Government of India has issued a notification to reduce the Sensitive List for the Least Developed Countries under the South Asian Free Trade Area Agreement from 480 tariff lines to just 25 tariff lines. Zero basic customs duty access will be given to all items removed with immediate effect.
I recognize that non-tariff barriers are an area of concern. India is committed to the idea of free and balanced growth of trade in South Asia. Competition begins at home. Our industries have to learn to compete if our economies are to have a future in this globalised world that we live in.
We can all benefit from our respective comparative advantages. These include our hydropower and natural resource endowments, possibilities of earnings from transit, marine resources, our scientific and technological base and above all our youthful population which will drive consumption and investment in the years ahead.
We should expedite the finalization of the SAARC Agreement on Investment flow.
The theme of this year's Summit is "Building Bridges". This eloquently summarizes the imperative of greater regional integration, and is an objective to which India is fully committed. One such initiative taken last year was the launch of the South Asia Forum that has brought together eminent South Asians from different walks of life about the future cooperation in South Asia.
In our Summit in Dhaka in 2005, I had suggested a reciprocal initiative to provide unrestricted access to airlines from SAARC States to our four metropolitan cities, and to 18 other destinations in India. Connectivity has partially improved since then. But we must take this further.
We should aim to conclude a regional Air Services Agreement, for which India would be happy to host a meeting of officials next year.
We have been talking of a Regional Railway Agreement and a Motor Vehicle Agreement for a long time. Let us agree to conclude these agreements as a matter of priority. India, Maldives and Sri Lanka are in the process of developing regional ferry services. We should replicate many more such connectivity arrangements in other parts of our sub-continent.
I commend the Postal Administrations of SAARC countries for agreeing to establish a South Asian Postal Union. India is happy to host the ad hoc Secretariat for the Union, and to sponsor training courses at our Postal Staff College to train upto ten SAARC officials per year, belonging to interested Member Countries.
I suggest, we follow up this agreement by improving our telecommunication linkages to reduce call rates and telecommunication tariffs and interconnection termination charges. India will be ready to facilitate the development of a regional telecommunications infrastructure to improve the quality of connectivity for our economies.
We should encourage greater broadcasting, television and film exchanges among our countries. It is time that we overcome the information deficit among the SAARC countries. We should encourage our people to know more about each other.
In this spirit, I wish to announce the following initiatives that India will take.
We will host a conclave of the top dozen tour operators from the SAARC region to boost tourism exchanges.
We will take the initiative to establish a travelling exhibition on the ancient history of South Asia. This could comprise a hundred archeologically-significant pieces per country to be selected by member States. The exhibition can be hosted in each of our national museums in turn for a period of three months.
Post-graduate courses in the South Asian University have started in July 2010. India will increase the number of SAARC Silver Jubilee Scholarships for the South Asian University from 50 to 100. 75 of these 100 scholarships will be at the Masters level and 25 at the doctoral level.
Protecting our environment even as we pursue rapid growth is essential and Prime Minister Thinley has made a very eloquent presentation on the concept of sustainable development. The India Endowment for Climate Change which I had announced last year has been established. We look forward to receiving project proposals from our SAARC partners.
We will provide a total of ten scholarships per year to SAARC Member States for post-graduate and doctoral studies in forestry courses at the Forestry Research Institute of India, Dehradun.
The destiny of South Asia lies in our own hands. SAARC provides a unique platform for us to put aside our differences and work towards a higher calling. We have a long way to go, but I am confident that we can realize our true potential through sustained effort.
We have to learn to trust each other and to learn from each other. The security and stability of our countries are closely interlinked. None of us can prosper in isolation to each other. We cannot afford to allow the many problems we face to stand in the way of our ambitions and our dreams.
Let us challenge ourselves to do even better. I thank you." | <urn:uuid:d0db5da5-5309-49b5-9f4e-43db2ae10c32> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 8,611 |
I've been made redundant twice, both when my departments were closed leaving me with no job. First time was from a job I hated so wasn't unhappy to leave, second time was a job I really did like so it was a harder hit. Both times I immediately treated the job as old news and got on with my life, both times led me into far more interesting career options so they were actually external prods to go do something better.
As I see it, you have two options:
1. Make yourself bitter and nearly unemployable by spending your time appealing then suing for a job you're not going to get back. Even if you win, you'll get a small payout of a few thousand pounds but you'll have a public record of suing and if you're in a small industry then you're essentially going to self-blacklist. It's a nasty old world out there in employment and it's nowhere near as black/white as the unions would like you to think; even if you win, you're not getting your job back and could seriously hurt yourself in the long term.
2. Treat it as a kick up the bum to go do something else. Treat job hunting as a full-time job. If you're doing less than 6-7 hours a day job hunting then you're slacking and need to kick yourself. If you can't find job hunting tasks to occupy 6-7 hours a day then you don't know how to effectively job hunt and need help, speak to your union or one of the freebie job advisory services. Get yourself on a CV rewrite course somewhere, the JobCentre should be able to help with this.
On option 1, it's a particularly stupid public authority these days that sacks someone without building a bulletproof dossier and having legal opinion. When I sacked someone last year in my former role as Chairman of my local council's HR Committee, we had pages of legal opinion and validation of our approach at every warning stage up to final dismissal leaving absolutely no avenue for credible appeal or law suit. You also need to remember the role of a solicitor, their paid day-job is to sue, there's no money in it for them to say "Sorry Mr Bleep, you've no case and I can't help you", if they win they get paid, if they lose they get paid. If you really must sue then ask your union to pay the legal fees, if they won't do this then you have to ask yourself why not. | <urn:uuid:cb5f990b-1066-4361-a5f6-e3e0f6d04d0e> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,260 |
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To continue with my summer book reviews, here’s my next pick…
Night Road is one of my favorite books from one of my favorite authors, Kristin Hannah, a NY Times Bestselling author, whom I’ve had the pleasure of meeting at a few book signings. The first novel of hers that I read was Firefly Lane (click here for my review), which was fantastic. I quickly became hooked on her books and have read many more. But I have to say that as the helicopter mom that I am, this book really touched my heart, because it was beautifully written.
Night Road by Kristin Hannah (synopsis)
For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children’s needs above her own, and it shows—her twins, Mia and Zach—are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill moves into their small, close knit community, no one is more welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly becomes Mia’s best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three become inseparable.
Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college and out of harm’s way. It has always been easy– until senior year of high school. Suddenly she is at a loss. Nothing feels safe anymore; every time her kids leave the house, she worries about them.
On a hot summer’s night her worst fears come true. One decision will change the course of their lives. In the blink of an eye, the Farraday family will be torn apart and Lexi will lose everything. In the years that follow, each must face the consequences of that single night and find a way to forget…or the courage to forgive.
Vivid, universal, and emotionally complex, Night Road raises profound questions about motherhood, identity, love, and forgiveness. It is a luminous, heartbreaking novel that captures both the exquisite pain of loss and the stunning power of hope. This is Kristin Hannah at her very best, telling an unforgettable story about the longing for family, the resilience of the human heart, and the courage it takes to forgive the people we love.
So, pickup a copy of Night Road or download it to your e-reader, and enjoy a great summer read.
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Obsidian Entertainment is an American video game company located in Irvine, California, founded in 2003. The business was created by Chris Avellone, Chris Jones, Feargus Urquhart, and Darren Monahan. The maker produced PC games including Star Wars, The Sith Lords, Knights of the Old Republic II, Neverwinter Nights 2, The Outer Worlds, and Fallout
New Vegas and Microsoft revealed at the Xbox X018 case that it would be buying the company along with another related project, InXile.
Recently, the inclusion in Xbox Game Studios of Obsidian Entertainment was expected to involve a significant producer, an RPG story expert. He has created fantastic jewels, including his new creation The Outer Worlds. Although the first project he does at Xbox Game Studios is multi-player survival, Grounded appears to be focusing on a different idea. An upgrade to the website has discovered a new Obsidian Entertainment idea.
The positive news is that a recent Obsidian Film project is listed on its website, but not so many specifics are available about this project. But the one found can raise different theories. Since it is already a Triple-A project with an obscure RPG, we might look at a new implementation of the Outer World series, or a project in a region occupied by this research. | <urn:uuid:072afa8d-e535-416e-88f6-cb5a55333e86> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,280 |
We would like to start by thanking every school, pupil and member of staff who took part in June’s Olympic Roadshow. Sophie and I were overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and embracement demonstrated by each pupil we met. What impressed both of us was how each school’s ethos reflected the values of the Little Dragons and of the Olympic Games.
This year we are proud to have launched The Education Programme’s Olympic Cup, in partnership with Sophie, for schools who took part in last year’s Olympic Roadshow. Many congratulations to Corpus Christie R.C. Primary school and Canon Johnson C of E Primary school on receiving their trophies!
Thank you also to all of the pupils and members of staff who kindly took the time to write to us with their lovely comments and positive feedback. Unfortunately, due to the high volume of letters we received, we are only able to post a small selection but we hope you enjoy reading some of them in the section below.
Finally, Sophie and I would like to wish everyone who took part, all the very best in their futures and we look forward to seeing you all, with a new and exciting Olympic Roadshow next year! Don’t forget to book early to save disappointment. Please contact Richard on: firstname.lastname@example.org.
Peace and Respect
Richard & Sophie
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Residents of Bunyala Central ward have threatened to take the law into their own hands after their plea to the Kenya Wildlife Service to tame a stray hippo hit a snag.
Led by Jentrix Mahaga the angry residents blamed the KWS for failing to address their grievances which have lasted for more than two years.
“As farmers, we have complained but nobody is taking action,” she said adding that the animal should be killed.
Mahaga stated that the community was suffering great loses and spending sleepless nights over laxity among the KWS officers.
Margaret Auma, another victim lamented that the stray animal has destroyed her crops for three consecutive seasons.
Mundere/Sisenye village Administrator Christopher Masiga urged the Kenya Wildlife Officers from both Kakamega County and Samia Sub County to intervene before the local residents swung into action.
‘As leaders we have engaged the local KWS office but received minimal assistance,’ he said adding that there is need for joint efforts in addressing the issue.
Masiga argued that if immediate action is not taken, the situation may lead to loss of human lives adding that five cows have already been killed by the stray animal.
‘In Sisenye village, two cows have died while three others have been killed in Mundere,’ he said.
Bunyala Deputy County Commissioner Grace Ouma said that the KWS officers shot at the animal thrice late last night and it escaped with the bullets back to the water.
‘The officers visited the area this morning up to around 11.00 am but they did not see the animal,’ she said urging the locals to be cautious.
Ouma added that the KWS officers are still monitoring the situation until tomorrow to confirm whether the wounded animal has died.
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Rotavirus Current Affairs - 2020
The Government of India will expand the 3S programme-Smart Safety Surveillance of WHO in the country. The expansion is being done to make sure the vaccines distributed under universal immunization programme are safe and also to optimize post-marketing surveillance of priority drugs.
3S Programme in India
The programme was introduced by WHO (World Health Organization) in India considering limited safety data on vaccines in the country.
Under 3S programme, India is currently evaluating rotavirus vaccines. The Government is also planning to collaborate the key stakeholders of the programme to ensure high levels of vigilance. The key stakeholders of 3S programme include Ministry of Health and Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO).
GoI will also expand the coverage of PCV (Pneumonal Conjugate Vaccine) to all states by 2022 under 3S programme.
According to ministry of Health and Family Welfare, often new medical products that enter Indian markets are with limited safety data from clinical trials. Also, they are pertinent to small controlled population and therefore difficult to track. Hence, it becomes essential to monitor post-marketing of immunization programmes.
The PCV project was launched in India in 2017. Even after 2 years, the Health ministry has not yet launched an impact study about the programme. Such shortcomings are to be addressed under the new expansion programme.
Also, it is essential to have impact evaluation of newly launched vaccines for further policy decisions.
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Rotavac became first Indigenously developed vaccine from India to be pre-qualified by World Health Organisation (WHO). It means that vaccine can be sold internationally to several countries in South America and Africa.
So far, several vaccines from India have been pre-qualified by WHO, but Rotavac is first vaccine entirely developed locally to get this status in safety and efficacy.
Rotavac conceived and developed by the Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech Limited. It protects against childhood diarrhoea caused by the rotavirus. It was developed under the joint collaboration between India and United States in area of medical research.
It was developed under public-private partnership (PPP) model that involved Ministry of Science and Technology, institutions of the US Government and NGOs in India supported by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The vaccine was built on strain of the virus isolated at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi over 30 years ago. It has been included in India’s national immunisation programme. The vaccine was tested in field for over a year, have not shown any negative effect.
This recognition signifies credible industrial, scientific and regulatory process in place to develop vaccines in India. It paves the way for health and humanitarian organizations such as UNICEF, GAVI and Pan-American Health Organization to procure Rotavac for public health vaccination programmes across the world.
It is a most common causative agent of moderate-to-severe diarrhoea (MSD) among infants below 11 months age group in India. It spreads from person to person due to bacterial and parasiting agents that are primarily transmitted through contaminated food or water. It is responsible for estimated 36% of hospitalisations for childhood diarrhoea around world and for estimated 200,000 deaths in low- and middle-income countries. In India, diarrhoea caused by rotavirus, kills nearly 80 thousand children under age of 5 years and up to 10 lakh hospitalizations each year. | <urn:uuid:5347d7b0-623b-4d23-99da-094a67b31787> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 3,658 |
I recently went Googling for examples of calculator programs (sketches) for my Arduino Nano. I found a number of examples on how to interface an Arduino to the keyboard of an old calculator, but did not get any hits of pre-written sketches for turning an Arduino into a scientific calculator... you know, the ones with Sin, Cos, Tan, and etc. (Excepting one clever implementation of a full version of an HP 45 but it required a massive IBM PS/2 keyboard.)
Why would anyone want such a thing? The answer to this question is probably why I could not find anything on the Internet! But I had my reasons and so I was forced to write my own sketch. I sat down with paper and pencil and wrote down (while looking at my old HP instruction manual from college) and came up with a list of things I wanted: the obvious +, -, *, and / (add, subtract, multiply, and divide) and the more involved ones: Sin, Cos, Tan, SQR, Log, and so on. Then there were the nice to have power functions. Then the arcSin, arcCos, and arcTan stuff. The list got a bit long... too long to assign a single keyboard character to each operation.
Then there was the concern about how to get my input into the Arduino. Generally, one types in something and presses the Enter Key to confirm that they are finished with that entry. Then the next bit, and then the next bit... each followed with that Enter key. I'm not particularly fond of the Enter key so I wanted to send everything to the Arduino at one time: The operation to perform and one or two numbers as required. All I wanted the Arduino software to do was spit back the answer! After finishing the program, the bulk of the code is in the area of sending back things that I really did not want... for testing and such. So, I created two ways to build the application, one with all the voluminous output and one with just the answer; I call this verbose mode and the obvious non-verbose mode. Verbose mode is useful if you want the operator prompted for each value and for viewing settings such as Decimals and Degree-Radians. | <urn:uuid:5416fe71-f113-49ff-bd5f-aed1233ca797> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,048 |
This special report - presented as part of the process evaluation of the 11 demonstration sites of the Safe Start initiative - addresses one of the challenges identified in the process evaluation, i.e., the challenge of engaging and retaining families (particularly low-income families) for participation in non-mandated mental health and family services that can address the Safe Start priority of serving children exposed to violence.
Although programs and evaluations on how to improve the engagement and retention of families in services is in the eary stages, useful principles have emerged. Thoughtful planning that responds to the perspectives of the target population; cultural competency; relationship building; and relationship leveraging that uses familiar, informal social networks are key to engaging and retaining families. Providing practical support in familiar places enables many families to benefit from services and programs designed to strengthen and build upon their ability to protect their children from harm. Understanding that low-income and racial minority families may be particularly likely to stigmatize mental health services, mistrust mainstream service providers, and experience cultural incompetence in service design and delivery is an important consideration for those in the early stage of designing and planning initiatives like Safe Start, which targets violent interactions that affect children. This study reviewed studies of strategies used to increase attendance at initial appointments and treatment retention for children and families seeking mental health services; studies of effective recruitment and retention for parenting programs; and studies that examine social support networks in different cultures. Relevant websites were also examined for suggested strategies. 18 references and an index of engagement and retention strategies
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Program Description (Demonstrative)
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“Solar energy systems can satisfy much more of our hunger for electricity, at not much more cost than what we currently have,”
Concentrating solar power (CSP) could supply a large fraction of the power supply in a decarbonized energy system, shows a new study of the technology and its potential practical application.
Concentrating solar power (CSP) could supply a substantial amount of current energy demand, according to the study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. In the Mediterranean region, for example, the study shows that a connected CSP system could provide 70-80% of current electricity demand, at no extra cost compared to gas-fired power plants. That percentage is similar to what a standard energy production plant, such as a nuclear plant, can provide.
“Solar energy systems can satisfy much more of our hunger for electricity, at not much more cost than what we currently have,” says Stefan Pfenninger, who led the study while working at IIASA. He is now a Research Postgraduate at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London.
The study was the first to examine the potential of CSP as a large-scale energy production system, in four regions around the world. “In order to address climate change we need to greatly expand our use of renewable energy systems,” says IIASA researcher Fabian Wagner, who also worked on the study. “The key question, though, is how much energy renewable systems can actually deliver.”
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Emperor: Battle for Dune
When Westwood and Electonic Arts announced that they were busy with a new strategy game based on the Dune-license, alot of people were thrilled. Even more when they heard that the game would have a real 3D engine (a first time ever for Westwood) and that the game would be released in just a few months after the announcement.
Now, Emperor:Battle for Dune has been released for some time already and although sales aren’t bad, they are not what some people expected.
Let’s see why…
Emperor:Battle for Dune gives you the power to command the armies of the Ordos, Atreidis or Harkonnen, just like in the first Dune RTS by Westwood. Of course, as time evolved, also your units have changed a bit. Depending on the house of your choice you get engineers, footsoldiers, tanks and airplanes with enough variety to get you going to destroy your opponents by every means possible. A nice touch is that several units like the Sonic Tank, Devastator and Ornithopter have come back from the original Dune game and I must say that the Harkonnen’s Devastator is one hell of a machine to play with
The story is pretty nice although not really original. The spice is still the most precious thing in the universe and of course everyone wants to be in control of Arrakis where the spice can be found.
The Guild (some kind of church dudes that rule like the Pope does) decides that all three houses should battle each other to gain control over Arrakis, and so the war begins.
During your missions you’ll have the chance to allie with native tribes giving you some extra options for building units, but you will not get spared from backstabbing and treatury. I’m not going to enlighten the storyline any further, otherwise it won’t be much fun.
Westwood has created a 3D engine that can give you an isometric view on the battlefield, but to be honest you won’t use it much if you want to keep a good overview of the fighting. The way you’ll play it will be just like how you would play Command&Conquer or Red Alert and it seems the 3D aspect is purely aesthetic beauty.
What Westwood did with Emperor:Battle for Dune looks like putting their old game concept (Dune 2, C&C, RA, …) in a new jacket of a 3D engine and see wether it becomes successful so they might use it again for future games.
Does that make Emperor a bad game ? No, it doesn’t.
The storyline is pretty nice, the graphics are cool and and the overall game is nice to play. However, it does feel less compelling than for instance Red Alert 2. Why ? Not so simple to say…
It’s just a feeling actually. I was really looking forward to Red Alert 2 and when I finally got my hands on it I was really nicely surprised by the units, the way the game played and the storyline. With Emperor, I feel like I’ve seen it all before. The units are nice but nothing extraordinary. Also the mission types are almost always the same : defend base, destroy other base.
With RA2 you had at least some sniper missions to give you some diversion.
Also, you can forget about putting your units into a certain formation. That’s a “no-can-do”. Pathfinding AI is not so good aswell. For instance, if you’ve got about 25 units heading for a certain direction, there’s a good possibility that half of those units will not choose the best route but take a longer route, making your life alot harder if you’re sending them into battle…
I haven’t really gotten into the multiplayer part of Emperor, but from what I’ve seen, I would say you shouldn’t buy it for that. It’s pretty dull and doesn’t give much variation.
All in all, Emperor:Battle for Dune is a nice real-time-strategy game built by the crafty people from Westwood, but it looks like they’ve tried to do some tests with a 3D engine (which you hardly use, it only makes the system requirements alot bigger) and put a nice robe around it to get it sold.
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Multicolored Asian lady beetles congregate in huge numbers. The look like the ladybugs we remember from our childhood, but are much more invasive and less desirable. Luckily, those huge numbers of bugs generally don’t chew or burrow into housing materials or human possessions, and they don’t carry diseases or bite (much). But did I mention that they congregate in huge numbers clogging up window screens, making life unpleasant, and some smell horribly when you squash them? That’s why you want to get rid of them.
Benign though they may be, it’s unpleasant seeing so many bugs in one place, not to mention being occasionally dive-bombed by hard little insects or finding them meandering over your salad or floating in your mojito. Plus, when you startle or squish them, you discover their one destructive power: it’s called reflex bleeding, and it involves emitting a foul-smelling yellow substance from their leg joints. Outdoors, this makes them less palatable to predators, but indoors, it can stain surfaces or excite allergic reactions. If the fact that they congregate in huge numbers wasn’t enough to convince you, reflex bleeding is another excellent reason to keep Asian Lady Beetles out of your home — as hard as it may be.
Where Did All the Asian Lady Beetles Come From, and Why Are There so Many?
Unfortunately, as with so many things, the original intentions were good. We imported Asian Lady Beetles from — you guessed it — Asia. We wanted them to help control native pests in our greenhouses. This was nearly a century ago.
But the beetles quickly escaped the greenhouses and proliferated like crazy. Their rate of expansion and invasiveness was for a long time a thing of curiosity. Then, a study published in the Science magazine shed some light on the beetles’ incredible virility. The beetles appear able to infiltrate native pests with fungus-like parasites, which causes the natives to die and the beetles to take over the area. They begin total domination of the food supply, and expand at will.
In short, they are not going away anytime soon.
What are Multicolored Asian Lady Beetles?
The multicolored Asian lady beetle is neither the lady bug–native to America–nor is it the Japanese beetle. Its scientific name Harmonia axyridis, is a lot like lady beetles native to North America. They are similar, though not identical, in appearance, and both are helpful in getting rid of aphids and other small garden pests.
The most significant difference between them is that while North American ladybugs spend the winter outdoors, Asian lady beetles have evolved to hibernate in light-colored cliffs in their native East Asian habitat. Transplanted here—intentionally by agricultural scientists as more aggressive aphid-eaters than our native lady beetles, and accidentally in the course of global commerce—Asian lady beetles are drawn to overwinter in buildings instead.
If you see a lot of ladybugs gathered on or in a building, you can assume they are multicolored Asian lady beetles. If you want to positively identify them, look for the distinctive black “W” or “M” mark just behind their heads, which native ladybugs don’t have. A multicolored Asian lady beetle can have any number of spots, or none at all, and can be any color from red to yellow. Hence the name.
Best Methods for Controlling an Asian Beetle Infestation
Inspect the outside of your house for cracks and gaps in the walls, siding, or foundation, and fill or repair any you find that are wider than 1/16 of an inch. Eliminate spaces around doors and windows, and don’t forget to caulk around cables, pipes, and hoses that enter your house from the outside. Asian lady beetles don’t reproduce indoors, and are only interested in your house as a warm place to spend the winter. They usually start searching for a place to hibernate in October, so if you have your house sealed against tiny intruders by late September, they’ll be forced to overwinter in the neighbors’ walls instead.
Use Window Screens
Screens are an important defense mechanism against Asian lady beetles. Make sure you have them on all your windows, bathroom and kitchen ventilation fans, and attic vents. It’s a good idea to check these in the late summer or early fall for holes, gaps, or tears, and repair or replace damaged screens before the Asian beetles can take advantage of them.
If you find tears or holes, patch them up. Doing so will help you avoid other pests, too, like boxelder bugs and even mice.
The patch we like is a ScreenMend. It comes in small, 5 inch by 7 inch sheets, and is large enough to patch most holes. It tends to stay on longer than the screen repair tape which can come off in certain conditions. Find ScreenMend here.
Paint Your House a Dark Color
If you really want to keep Asian lady beetles away, you might consider changing the color of your house. The beetles are most attracted to buildings that are light in color, especially whites and yellows, so painting darker colors over your outside walls and trim would make them a less attractive landing place. It’s possible that this would be a tiny overreaction to a basically harmless insect, but I’m not here to judge.
Seal Cracks and Gaps
Sealing cracks and gaps in the walls inside your house will keep any Asian lady beetles that manage to sneak into your wall cavities from accidentally exiting into your living space. Since Asian beetles spend most of their time in your home hibernating out of sight, you’ll often see them in the spring, when the weather is warm enough that they’re looking for a way outside. They don’t actually want to be in your bedroom anymore than you want them there.
Don’t just focus on the interior — the exterior is probably more important. If a bug gets into your wall cavity, it can live there for a long time and come out months later. Inspect the area around doors and windows, and use a bug-proof caulk to patch smaller holes….. and steel wool and caulk to patch larger ones. This will have a positive bi-product of getting rid of mice, too.
Our favorite is probably the Gorilla Paintable Caulk, here on Amazon. Caulk, let dry, and paint over it. It creates a nice barrier.
Our secret weapon when it comes to bug infestations indoors is a simple vacuum.
When you do see Asian lady beetles indoors, the best method of getting rid of them is to simply vacuum them up, especially using the hose attachment. Smashing, swatting, or even sweeping them will trigger reflex bleeding and leave yellow stains on your stuff. If you would rather release the Asian lady bugs outdoors than have them die inside your vacuum cleaner, you can slip a knee-high nylon stocking inside the hose attachment on the vacuum cleaner and secure it with a rubber band around the opening. The suction will pull the beetles inside the stocking without killing them, and you can take the stocking outside to humanely release the insects.
There are bug wands sold, like this one on Amazon, that do the trick and are less cumbersome than bringing the vacuum out.
Controlling Asian Beetles with Pesticides
Chemical warfare is not the most effective way to deal with an Asian lady beetle infestation. Fogging or spraying indoors will kill only a minimal number of the beetles because the majority will be hiding inside your walls or crawl spaces, where the pesticide can’t reach them. What fogging and spraying will do is leave a bunch of nasty chemicals to circulate in your closed-up house all winter. Once a population of Asian beetles has gotten into your house, your best option is to vacuum up any beetles you happen to see and wait for the rest to leave on their own in the spring.
Then, when fall comes again and you’re busy fortifying your house against another invasion of Asian lady beetles, you can use insecticides as an additional protective layer. In this application, timing is crucial: in late September, just before the beetles start looking for places to overwinter, spray a residual pyrethrin-based insecticide like Demand or Demon WP on the outside surfaces of your house. Concentrate on the sunny south and west sides of the house, and around possible entry points like windows, doors, and soffits. Since Asian beetles often fly to their hibernating places from a distance, spraying your yard or trees won’t noticeably affect their numbers. Just apply the insecticide to the house itself, where it can play a direct role in repelling Asian lady beetles.
Disclaimer: Using pesticides or insecticides indoors is not recommended. People who are smarter than us have concluded that there are safer ways to get rid of bugs inside.
Best Natural Asian Beetle Control Methods
A light trap takes advantage of the multicolored Asian lady beetle’s affinity for light. If placed in a dark part of the house or turned on at night, the bulb in a light trap tempts beetles toward it and into a jar. The beetles can’t escape from the jar and remain alive inside it until you either empty it outdoors or fill it with soapy water to kill the insects. Instructions for making your own light trap are easy to come by, or you can buy one. Some commercial versions include pheromone bait as an additional attractant for these group-loving insects. You can get this Dynatrap pesticide/odor free trap at Amazon.
Camphor and Menthol
Camphor and menthol have been shown by some studies to repel multicolored Asian lady beetles. They reportedly work well until they evaporate, which happens relatively quickly. This makes them less practical than other repellants, but for short-term control, or with repeated applications, they may help. If you’re worried about evaporation, then Amazon sells Camphor Block tablets that will last longer.
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These homemade dunkaroos are the BEST. Dunkaroo Dip (Funfetti Dip) tastes just like real dunkaroos when paired with these homemade graham crackers!
I’m always on the hunt for sweet and savoury recipes that are great for entertaining. Things that are simple to make and that your guests can snack on throughout the evening. When it comes to sweet things I like to keep the portions very small. That way, even someone with a mild sweet tooth will have just one, and somebody who loves sweets can have 10! Mini cupcakes, mini cookies, mini tarts…that sort of thing. This week, I wanted to make mini cookies with a twist. The first thought was mini cookies with some sort of dip and then it occured to me…’hellooo, that’s a dunkaroo!’ So here they are: my take on homemade dunkaroos! A delicious and simple dunkaroo dip (aka. funfetti dip) paired with amazing homemade graham crackers.
Did you ever eat dunkaroos when you were young? Admittedly, I only had them a couple of times but what’s not to love? I keep calling these ‘adult dunkaroos’ but it’s only because I’m at that age where baking anything at home still feels very ‘adult’ to me (in denial grown up/typical millennial). Keep reading for the best dunkaroo dip recipe!
In true dunkaroo fashion, I went for graham crackers and a funfetti dip. I adapted this homemade graham cracker recipe from one on Smitten Kitchen.
This recipe makes approximately 150 1″ round homemade graham crackers. Half of the batch is shown in these photos and I found that half was a good amount for the dip. You could certainly make half of the cracker recipe or double the dip but these crackers are so delicious that I may recommend making the full recipe of them regardless!
Homemade Graham Cracker Ingredients:
-2 1/2 cups flour
-1 teaspoon baking soda
-3/4 teaspoon salt
-1 cup brown sugar
-1/2 cup unsalted butter cubed and chilled
-2 tablespoons vanilla extract
-1/3 cup milk
-1/3 cup honey
Dunkaroo Dip Ingredients
-2 cups plain greek yogurt
-1 cup whipping cream slightly whipped(1 small carton)
-1/2 bag Betty Crocker Party Rainbow Chip Cake Mix (aka funfetti cake mix!)
Combine thoroughly all of the dry ingredients in a bowl – the salt, baking soda, and sugar. Cut in the cubed butter until the mix is consistent. Combine in a food processor or with an electric mixer. Like always, I kept things very 1910 and I cut the butter in with two knives and then used my hands to combine completely. One day I will buy a food processor, I promise, but for now I’ll remain a good example of how to do things even in the most modestly supplied kitchen! Regardless of mixing method, ensure that the mixture is consistent.
In a separate bowl, combine the wet ingredients – honey, milk and vanilla. Once combined, add in the dry ingredients and mix totally. The mixture will be soft, sticky, and smell delicious!
Flatten the dough into a rectangular slab that is approximately 1″ thick. Cover it with saran wrap, and chill. Once chilled, roll out the dough on a floured surface. This dough is quite sticky and I found that I even needed a fair bit of flour on the top so that the rolling pin did not stick. Once your dough is rolled out it is time to cut your shapes.
I wanted my crackers to be small for perfect dunkaroo dip dunking. I used a shot glass as my cookie cutter…continuing with my ‘use what ya got and make it work’ kitchen trend. Yes, it worked perfectly! Evenly space your crackers on a cookie sheet that is either lightly greased or has a layer of parchment paper. Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees and bake your crackers until golden. The cookies were well cooked in under 10 minutes because they are small, so carefully watch! Keep the remainder of your dough chilled until you want to use it. I even chilled the cookie sheet with the cut forms on it for 15 minutes before baking them. Chilling is very important with this recipe!
Whip 1 small carton of whipping cream. The whipped cream does not have to be fully whipped and just slightly thickened is fine. Obviously (do I even need to say it at this point?) I did this with a whisk, you can also whip the cream with a hand mixer. Combine the yogurt, cream, and cake mix in a bowl and stir until combined. Chill the dunkaroo dip for an hour before serving. If you’re feeling fun – top it off with sprinkles ;). Serve these homemade dunkaroos at your next party and wait for the nostalgic childhood lunchtime stories to come out!
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Winning poker is the science and the art of taking more money that what you put on risk on the poker table. You risk your money in very calculated ways and aim to end up with more money than when you started the game.
Some players will say that they are not playing for money, then they might be playing for something else, like their ego or some other goals.
Self confidence is vital in winning poker while playing to feed your ego will not do your game any good.
You really do not have to care why other players play poker but if you want to win and make most out of your game, you need to be honest and be motivated to play for money. Your ego should be somewhere else so you will not be distracted while playing. Playing for ego is wasting your time when you can be winning spendable money all along.
People who are reading this right now may also think playing for money does not conflict with playing for ones ego. But you should remember that the right thing for your ego might not be the right stuff for your bankroll. When you play for your ego, you will have the tendency to play way above what your bankroll can take, play too long, defend blinds against specific opponents, or acting differently against some opponents.
What is important is that you play poker to win.
Perfect Your Observation Skills
Coming from any angle, you will be playing a lot better if you only know what other players could be holding. It is critical that you hone your observation skills while playing the game. It is a long-term investment which can spell profits for you.
The basic idea is that poker players are also creatures of habit. Over and over again, they will most likely play the same way when they hold the same set of cards.
Doing the research while out of hand
When you have your cards and into the action, focus and concentrate on how you can make your cards bring some money for you. Go for the best outcome possible. You do not think about how you can play the person when you meet again in the future.
Applicable to the average players
Observing behavior works for the big bulk of average players. It does not help you against the worst players since they themselves do not have an idea of what they are doing so you cannot rely on an information you pick up from them.
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When the assessee has sufficient own funds, no disallowance can be made for the interest paid on borrowed funds, for the amount given on loan as interest free even though the assessee cannot show the nexus of interest free loans with the owned funds.
The availability of interest free funds as given in the earlier part of this order is not in dispute. The Assessing Officer has proceeded on the assumption that the assessee did not establish the nexus between the interest free funds available with the assessee and interest free loans given to the sister concern. In this regard we find that the Hon’ble Bombay High Court in the case of CIT Vs. Reliance Utilities & Power Ltd., 313 ITR 340 (Bom) had an occasion to examine the question with regard to disallowance of interest, where the assessee is in possession of both interest free funds as well as borrowed funds on which interest was paid by the assessee.
The Hon’ble Bombay High Court held that if there are interest free funds available to an assessee sufficient to meet its investment (in the present case investment have to be read as interest free loans to sister concern) and at the same time assessee had raised loans it can be presumed that the investments were from the interest free funds available. In the present case we have already seen that the total interest free funds available with the assessee was about 12.88 crores, the total interest free funds advanced to the sister concern and others were only Rs. 4.16 crores. Thus prima facie interest free funds available were much more than the interest free advances given by the assessee. In such circumstances there is no basis for the Assessing Officer to presume that interest bearing funds were advanced to the sister concern as interest free loans. As laid down by Hon’ble Bombay High Court the presumption should be that the interest free funds were used to give the interest free loans to the sister concern. On this ground, we are of the view that the disallowance sustained by the CIT(A) should also be deleted. The decision relied upon by the CIT(A) to sustain disallowance are no longer applicable.
1. CIT vs. Abhishek Ind. Ltd. 286 ITR 1 (P&H) relied by CIT(A) has now been by the Hon’ble Supreme Court decision in Munjal Sales Corp. 298 ITR 298(SC)
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Given a binary search tree and the lowest and highest boundaries as
R, trim the tree so that all its elements lies in
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Input: 3 / \ 0 4 \ 2 / 1 L = 1 R = 3 Output: 3 / 2 / 1
trim(node) be the desired answer for the subtree at that node. We can construct the answer recursively.
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Time Complexity: , where is the total number of nodes in the given tree. We visit each node at most once.\n
Space Complexity: . Even though we don\'t explicitly use any additional memory, the call stack of our recursion could be as large as the number of nodes in the worst case.\n
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Anthony's HomePort - Kirkland
135 Lake Street South
Kirkland, WA 98033Neighborhood:
SeafoodPrice: $30 and under
Anthony's HomePort - Kirkland
- Dining Style: Casual Elegant
- Website: http://www.anthonys.com/restaurants/detail/anthonys-homeport-kirkland/
- Phone: 4258220225
- Hours of Operation:
Dinner: Monday - Thursday: 5:00pm - 10:00pm, Friday & Saturday: 5:00pm - 11:00pm, Sunday: 3:00pm - 10:00pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Carte Blanche,Diners Club,Discover,JCB,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Seafood, American, Northwest
- Executive Chef: Louis Morales
- Dress Code: Smart Casual
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Beer, Full Bar, Gluten-free Menu, Happy Hour, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Patio/Outdoor Dining, Takeout, View, Weekend Brunch, Wheelchair Access, Wine
- Private Party Facilities: Anthony’s HomePort Kirkland is located on the Eastern shores of Lake Washington, and its private dining room offers stunning views of Hunts Point, Sand Point, and the Seattle skyline. It has an intimate waterfront setting for all of your events and meetings.
- Private Party Contact: Mary Beth Nance 8774522811
- Cross Street: 2nd Ave. South
- Parking: Private Lot
- Parking Details: Complimentary valet parking is available while dining at Anthony's (located on the upper parking level of the restaurant building) Self parking is available while dining at Anthony's (located on the lower parking level of the restaurant building)
A word from Anthony's HomePort - Kirkland
Serving fresh Northwest seafood complimented by 'Best of the Season' produce, Northwest wines and microbrews. Anthony's HomePort Kirkland is located on the Eastern shores of Lake Washington with stunning views of Hunts Point, Sand Point and the Seattle skyline, making this the perfect restaurant to enjoy a quintessential Northwest dining experience!Continued
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Anthony's HomePort - Kirkland reviews from OpenTable diners
83 reviews since May 24, 2014
- Ambiance4.3Noise LevelModerate
scenic view (70)special occasion (44)great for outdoor dining (27)good for groups (22)neighborhood gem (21)romantic (17)great for brunch (16)fit for foodies (12)great for lunch (9)notable wine list (8)kid-friendly (7)hot spot (4)vibrant bar scene (3)late-night find (3)Show More
- Always SatisfyingAlbannachDined on 9/13/2014Kirkland Anthony's Homeport has been our destination for birthdays and fine seafood meals for years. September 13th was no exception. We'll be back!Special Features:
- Yum!BellevueSteveDined on 9/13/2014My wife and I wanted to go out for a nice romantic dinner. You can't beat the view from Anthony's in Kirkland, especially in the evening as the sun goes down. The service and the food were both excellent. I had the King Salmon Medallion with garlic mashed potatoes and green beans. My wife had the chop salad with crab. It also comes with shrimp but my wife substituted more crab - the waitress had them give her plenty. The salmon was cooked perfectly. The sauce added just the right flavor so that every bite was a delight. The garlic mashed potatoes were perfect and the green beans an added treat. My wife's chopped salad was brimming with crab meat. It was as festive to the eye as to her palate. She delighted at every bite. Wonderful.Special Features:
- Great restaurant!OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 9/12/2014Always a good choice for dining out. I had the mussels and fries; they were awesome!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Anthony's HomePortschooveDined on 9/8/2014The food was good, but took a long time to get it. The service was pretty poor. The couple next to us voiced a complaint about it to the manager. We were there over a hour and a half and did not get our water glasses refilled till the very end. Our waiter did not check on us for the entire wait or meal period. They do have really good specials in regards to seafood, but so does every other place in the area.Special Features:
- Stick to seafoodJudyDined on 9/7/2014Five of us went for a Sunday early lunch. The ambiance is good, with a nice view, and our server was very pleasant. A basket of yummy coffee cake arrived, and a plate of fruit. Unfortunately, that's where things started to fall apart. My daughter's cappuccino tasted burned so she asked for a plain cup of coffee. Three of us had bacon and it was so under-cooked that it was inedible. They did take the cappuccino off our bill and brought our daughter's bacon back--burned to a crisp this time--so the rest of us didn't bother asking and just didn't eat ours. We've been eating at various Anthony's restaurants for years and will continue to do so, but will probably stick to seafood entrees in the future.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- OpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 9/6/2014Outstanding view and good food. Excellent service.Special Features:
- RAZ1Dined on 9/6/2014Consistently delivers fine food and atmosphere at reasonable pricesSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- One of my favorites in KirklandjohngrinsVIPDined on 9/6/2014Consistently good food and service; stunning view, especially at sunset. They offer a sunset dining menu during the week, smaller portions, smaller price. AND Fish Tail Organic IPA !Special Features:
- Great Service!Tedster49RDined on 8/31/2014We've eaten at Anthonys Homeport several times in the past. The brunch menu is always great along with its selection. What made this experience one of our best was the service. Our waitress was Ann and she is fantastic. She sasw that our every need was taken care of. The coffee cup never emptied and whatever we needed, we were given. Sometimes, in the past, the service was not so great, thus taking away from the meal. Ann is very personable, friendly and what a beautiful smile!!!!! Puts me in a good mood immediately!Special Features:
- Good for dinner with a viewOneBiteataTimeDined on 8/29/2014Anthony's consistently delivers good food, reliable service, and the views of Lake Washington and Seattle are great.Special Features:
- Great meal tonightGreenbeanDined on 8/23/2014Everything was delicious. Shrimp cocktail was superb!Special Features:
- KBDinerDined on 8/12/2014Normally Anthony's in Kirkland is a family favorite. They must have been having a bad night. Only one of the 4 meals turned out well. Manager did a great job of trying to make it right. So disappointing.
- Do not order the troutNoinouanneVIPDined on 8/9/2014First of all I would like to thank the staff for giving me a window table as I requested when I booked the table. I have had very good meals at Anthony's in the past but Saturday's was not one of them. I had clam chowder for starter. It was good but not memorable. I then had trout. Ok, this is not seafood but it is fish. The trout was coated with panko as advertised on the menu which was good but it had been fried in margarine. I could taste that it hadn't been done in oil or real butter so I was very disappointed. Also, the green beans were undercooked. I like my vegetables crunchy but those were just not cooked enough. As I said I have had amazing food in the past at Anthony's and I will go back. Just don't order trout.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great view and FoodCraiggoDined on 8/8/2014Celebrating with some friends. Early bird special was an excellent choice. Rock fish and salmon was ordered. Outdoor seating and the view was awesome. Food was excellent and as ordered.Special Features:
- Birthday CelebrationSmokeystellaDined on 8/8/2014It was my mothers 99th Birthday and we had a wonderful time. Our service was perfect and my mom was treated like Queen, she was thrilled. It was and absolutely perfect evening.Special Features:
- Stunning view & excellent food!NWExplrDined on 8/6/2014We enjoyed a delicious outdoor dinner on a perfect summer evening. The salmon was excellent and the fresh peach ice cream was fabulous!Special Features:
- HarnerDined on 7/30/2014Service and view was great, food was poor. Had read reviews that the salmon was not so good - I agree. The recent review likening the food to Safeway takeout was spot on for me.Special Features:
- Good foodKikihiVIPDined on 7/30/2014Overall, a good experience. Sunset dinner options are good and tasted fine. They could use some sun-blocking window screens - the kind you can see through. It was quite warm and sunny.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- cherylDined on 7/26/2014The restaurant has a beautiful setting and the service was very good. I had ordered alder plank smoked salmon which was disappointing. it tasted like a salmon baked in an oven. It was not outstanding in any way, and was expensive. When I inquired about it, they said it was baked in the oven on a alder plank, but if it was, there was no trace of taste. We love salmon that is alder or cedar smoked, and while this was listed as alder plank smoked, it sure didn't taste like it. The accompanying corn pudding was also very tasteless. Overall we were not impressed with the food, but loved the view.Special Features:
- OpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 7/25/2014Anthony's is always dependable, great view on Lake Washington, seafood always excellent and we have never experienced anything but the best in service. My wife had seafood fettuccine and I had scallops...both great.Special Features:
- jimhorn1Dined on 7/9/2014Had a great sunset dinner with our friends. Great evening.Special Features:
- MothergooseDined on 7/6/2014Enjoyed our experience at Anthony's. I especially enjoy brunch. I had the San Juan scramble and it was very good. I enjoy the wonderful fruit and coffee cake. We love the waterfront.Special Features:
- A very good experienceDutchsistersDined on 7/4/2014My sisters and I enjoyed the food very much and liked the service. We enjoyed watching the fireworks as well. It was quite noisy when we first came in but it became quieter later. We liked it a lot.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Pleasant evening..Suedu56Dined on 7/4/2014We had a great table right near the window. It was quite busy but our server did not make us feel rushed.Food was good. Our salad had a little too much dressing and the vegetable were overcooked, but the seafood was fantastic.Special Features:
- Reliable food, good service, view.foodloverDined on 7/4/2014Been at Anthony's HomePort several times and every time we are satisfied with the food, good service, and scenic view of the restaurant. Will keep coming back!Special Features:
- Great food & serviceyum916Dined on 7/1/2014I have been to the Anthony's in Seattle's waterfront and Bellingham and this was my first visit to Kirkland. It is a keeper and I am definitely coming back! The food was delicious and service was amazing!Special Features:
- BirthdayDined on 7/1/2014very nice experience. Anthony's can be counted on for great food, especially seafood. The service is always very good and the pricing quite fair. Anthony's is my "Go To" restaurant.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- PSmileyDined on 6/30/2014We went to Anthony's in Kirkland for our 41st Anniversary. I ordered the Alaskan Cod which was fine. My wife ordered the lobster. I am from Bangor, Maine and we were very disappointed with the lobster. It had been frozen and was not a Maine lobster. At a price of $49 for the lobster I think it should have been better. I thought Anthony's was too pricey, but the service was good and the view of Lake Washington and the Kirkland marinas is terrific. There are a lot of places to enjoy a dinner in Kirkland and Seattle. I surely would not order the lobster at Anthony's again.
- Great place for celebrationsgallagrrrrDined on 6/28/2014Celebrated an anniversary here. Had a great table by the window. Fantastic view of the lake. The steak was very tender. The King salmon was delicious, as it should be. The dessert menu is one of those that makes you want to say "I'll have one of each!" The server was very helpful in narrowing the list to the strawberry sorbet. We will be back and we won't wait for an anniversary!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Outstanding servicerelaxedDined on 6/28/2014Went way out of the way to accommodate and personalized our service and the food was very good, and good selections.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Excellent meal and serviceTammyDined on 6/27/2014Our server Iryna was terrific, very friendly and helpful. Her charming grace really shown as she answered our menu questions about our terrific meal. The fish was perfectly cooked and the plate was beautiful. I am very impressed also with the manager and her handling of a minor problem on a previous visit. I would recommend this restaurant and will return, especially when you want good food with a gorgeous view in downtown Kirkland.Special Features:
- Terrific!FamilyDined on 6/26/2014We had a table for 6 right on the window looking over Lake Washington. We had salmon, Halibut and fresh strawberry shortcake for dessert. The fish was cooked perfectly and presented well. We enjoyed a nice wine selection as well. The appetizers of crab and artichoke dip, calamari, and prawns were fabulous. The manager, Marybeth Nance was delightful. With her help we even sent some dinner to the great young men at the valet just for fun. This is a fantastic location.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- deliciousthisgirllovestoeatDined on 6/22/2014Anne our waitress was lovely, so nice and professional. We had a great experience the food was delicious and getting the fruit and coffee cake was wonderful-so much food! I took it home and ate it for several snacks. I had never been here for brunch (only dinner/happy hour) but I will definitely be back!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- What a view!Mike98029VIPDined on 6/21/2014The decor may be a bit dated, but the view more than makes up for what the decor lacks. Great service and food quality is what you would expect st this price point. Great place to enjoy a sunset!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Very nice meal!BothellShopperVIPDined on 6/19/2014My friends and I had very good meals here. The fettuccine was better than the lingcod, but everything was very good. The burnt cream was good, the molten chocolate cake, divine! Good service as well.Special Features:
- Birthday dinnerJayray35Dined on 6/18/2014We dined at Anthony's on June 18th for my partner's birthday, the food was great, service even better, we were looked after supberbly the view is wonderful and great ambienceSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- MixedNewtotownqDined on 6/14/2014The view over Lake Washington is terrific. The Service was good. The food was mixed.....fish was very good, Caesar Salad was disappointing.Special Features:
- Nice evening outCurlytopDined on 6/13/2014Our server was so nice and knowledgeable of the entrées. The help staff was very efficient, never had to ask for more water or bread. We had a marvelous, memorable evening.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Very nice!MH1004Dined on 6/7/2014Been to two different ones and loved everything about this restaurant.
- great serviceOpenTable Diner Since 2012Dined on 6/7/2014great food (salmon was amazing!) , great atmosphere and wonderful service. highly recommend it and we will be back. | <urn:uuid:bb9b8ccc-a356-4f93-89da-26ef1cfe473a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 15,614 |
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Viral meningitis, also called aseptic meningitis, is an infection of the covering of the brain and spinal cord caused by a virus. While viral meningitis can occur at any time of the year, it occurs most often in late summer or early fall. Viral meningitis can be caused by different viruses and is usually less severe than bacterial meningitis.
What are the signs of being sick with this disease?
Symptoms of viral meningitis include:
- severe headache,
- stiff neck,
- drowsiness or confusion,
- red rash, or
- nausea and vomiting.
In babies, the symptoms are more difficult to identify but may include:
· fretfulness or irritability,
· poor appetite, or
· difficulty in waking the baby.
In the early stages of meningitis, the symptoms of viral and bacterial meningitis may be the same. Early antibiotic treatment is necessary for recovery from bacterial meningitis but is not useful for viral meningitis. Therefore, it is extremely important for anyone with these symptoms to consult a health care provider right away. Viral meningitis is serious but rarely fatal. Symptoms usually last 7-10 days, and most people make a full recovery.
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By John Blake, CNN
(CNN) - I walked into the room hoping no one would discover my secret.
I feared my accent would betray my identity, so I kept silent. I glanced self-consciously at my cheap clothes, wishing I could afford better. I stared at the photogenic, self-assured students around me as if they were from another planet.
For me, they were from another world.
I was a 17-year-old African-American from an impoverished, inner-city community and had no idea what I was getting into. Next to me in a college freshman orientation class were students who came from private schools and grew up in homes with swimming pools and maids.
But here was the catch: I wasn't an affirmative action enrollee at an elite white university. I was a black student thrust onto the campus of a predominantly black university. My hang-up wasn't race; it was class. I was suffering from "class shock." I was on a path to self-destruction because I didn't know how to cross the bridge from poverty into this strange, new world.
I thought about that period in my life after learning last week that the U.S. Supreme Court had upheld the use of race in college admissions but had signaled that it may soon abandon that position. People are already preparing for what may come next: Colleges are going to create diversity by using class instead of race. Some call it economic affirmative action.
It is something liberals and conservatives seem to support. That's part of its appeal. Such an approach would create diversity on college campuses without resurrecting the endless wars over race-based affirmative action.
Richard Kahlenberg, dubbed the "intellectual father" of economic affirmative action, says the current approach to affirmative action in higher education does not help many poor black students.
In his paper, "A Better Affirmative Action," Kahlenberg cited research that found 86% of contemporary black students at selective colleges were either middle or upper class.
Class-based affirmative action is something all kinds of Americans - including conservative justices on the Supreme Court - could support, he says.
"Even the most right-wing justices, like Clarence Thomas, have said that they support the idea of race-neutral affirmative action for economically disadvantaged students," he says.
Maybe so. But my experience suggests that there is a hidden challenge to such an approach. Placing poor students in top-tier colleges is only half of the battle. There's another psychological battle that some of these students will fight within themselves, and, as I found out, there's no college prep course out there to help.
(CNN) - In a ruling that could reverberate nationwide, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld the state's voucher program, which gives poor and middle class families public funds to help pay for private school tuition, including religious schools.
Indiana has the broadest school voucher program available to a range of incomes, critics say, and could set a precedent as other states seek ways to expand such programs.
Supporters say it gives families without financial means more options on where to educate their children.
However, opponents of the Indiana program had sued to block it, describing it as unconstitutional and saying it takes money from public schools.
Teresa Meredith, the vice president of the Indiana State Teachers Association and one of the plaintiffs, said she was "very disappointed in the ruling."
As many as 9,000 students statewide are part of the voucher program and more than 80% use the funds to go to religious schools, according to Meredith.
But in its unanimous 5-0 ruling, the Supreme Court said that was not an issue.
It said it did not matter that funds had been directed to religious schools as long as the state was not directly funding the education. The tuition, the court said, was being funded by the parents who chose to pay it with their vouchers.
"Whether the Indiana program is wise educational or public policy is not a consideration," Chief Justice Brent Dickson wrote. The public funds "do not directly benefit religious schools but rather directly benefit lower-income families with school children."
Washington (CNN) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to confront another high-profile challenge to affirmative action in college admissions.
The justices will decide the constitutionality of a voter referendum in Michigan banning race- and sex-based discrimination or preferential treatment in public university admission decisions.
The high court is currently deciding a separate challenge to admissions policies at the University of Texas, which did not involve a voter referendum.
A federal appeals court last year concluded the affirmative action ban, which Michigan voters passed in a 2006 referendum, violated the U.S. Constitution's equal protection laws.
It was the latest step in a legal and political battle over whether the state's colleges can use race and gender as a factor in choosing which students to admit. The ban's opponents say classroom diversity remains a necessary government role.
By Bill Mears, CNN
Washington (CNN) - Supap Kirtsaeng had tuition and living expenses to pay when he arrived in the United States from Thailand to attend college.
So he started a side business, asking family and friends back home to ship him foreign editions of textbooks that often can be bought more cheaply overseas. Kirtsaeng resold them online and made money, but he was sued for copyright infringement and lost.
That decision was appealed and the case is now before the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on Monday in a dispute that has attracted interest from the Obama administration, media and publishing companies, and a range of consumer and retail groups.
Competing claims of intellectual property and owners rights in the electronic age have made Kirtsaeng's venture one of the most closely watched business cases at the high court this term.
"I have to say the Supreme Court is faced with a really difficult job here because the text of the [copyright] statute really seems to be hard to reconcile - the two provisions at issue seem to say opposite things," said Michael Carroll, a professor at American University's law school and an intellectual property expert.FULL STORY
By Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN
(CNN) It starts at the mall, with a girl in a pink dress, browsing alone.
"Why is she at the mall?" a teen behind her sputters. "She ain't got no money."
Mona Lisa hears it. It's not the first time she's been picked on. She argues a little, tries to ignore them, but they bump into her and call her names. She wants to run, wants to be strong, wants all this to just go away.
At home later, the phone rings: "I just wanted to tell you, you should kill yourself," a voice cackles. "You're ugly and nobody will ever love you."
After a day like this, Mona Lisa believes what she's hearing. She grabs a handful of pills and climbs out the window. With voices in her head yelling louder and louder, she jumps.
Actress Alexis Lee crumples to the floor. The jump isn't real, the dress is a costume, the play is fiction, at least at the moment. But Mona Lisa and Alexis aren't so different. At 17, Alexis has been bullied and teased, been made to feel ugly, like she's nothing. She moved to escape terrible situations, only to be delivered into worse circumstances. She's got scars from where she cut herself, memories from when she tried to kill herself.FULL STORY
by John Martin, CNN
(CNN) - New Jersey updated its teacher tenure law on Monday. New Jersey's law was the nation's oldest statewide tenure law, enacted in 1909.
The new law, signed by Gov. Chris Christie, means that New Jersey will be able to remove ineffective teachers, even ones who have earned tenure. The law still provides for tenure, but after four years of teaching instead of the current three.
Tenure laws generally provide teachers with due process rights before dismissal, but many critics of the practice say that it makes it unnecessarily difficult to fire bad teachers.
By Adam Reiss, CNN
(CNN) – The president of Florida A&M University has resigned, more than a month after the school's board of trustees gave him a vote of no confidence in the wake of last year's hazing death of a school band member, his office said Wednesday.
The president, James Ammons, was given the no-confidence vote June 7 after investigations into the university amid concerns over the November death of drum major Robert Champion.
Champion, 26, died after the initiation ritual aboard a bus. The Orange County medical examiner said the cause was "hemorrhagic shock due to soft tissue hemorrhage, due to blunt force trauma."
The medical examiner ruled the death a homicide, prompting a police investigation and renewed public scrutiny of hazing in the university's famed Marching 100 band, which got its name in 1950 and actually has about 400 members.
by John Martin, CNN
(CNN) - Brooklyn teacher and security dean Stephan Hudson faces possible dismissal after a security tape shows Hudson grabbing and punching a 15-year-old student repeatedly. According to the New York Daily News, the incident occurred on March 6 at Brooklyn's George Westinghouse Technical Education High School.
Principal Janine Kieran issued Hudson a disciplinary letter for his permanent file.
After watching the footage recently, New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott said he was "disturbed" by what he saw. In a statement given to CNN, Walcott says that the New York City Department of Education will begin the process of terminating the accused teacher, Hudson. Principal Kieran's role in the matter will also be investigated, according to the schools spokeswoman.
The boy's mother says that Hudson told her that her son started the scuffle. Three months later, she saw the incident on a tape supplied by the Daily News and is now considering a lawsuit against the school system. The boy's mother told the Daily News, "I’d love to hear [Hudson’s] side of the story for real, and not some bogus lies."
CNN left messages for Hudson, but he has not responded yet. The Daily News says that the principal, Kieran, refused requests for an interview.
By John S. Wilson, Special to CNN
Editor’s note: John S. Wilson is a contributing writer for The Loop 21, Mediaite and Black Enterprise. He frequently writes about health and education policies and politics. You may reach him on Twitter: @johnwilson.
(CNN) - Last month, a few high school students sent out racist tweets about Washington Capitals player Joel Ward after he scored a winning goal against the Boston Bruins in overtime. Responding later in an interview, Ward, who is black, said, “People are going to say what they want to say," and he shrugged off those comments. But the students' high schools sure didn't.
Almost immediately after reports of the tweets, the schools began looking into ways of punishing the students for their actions outside the classroom. The schools absolutely should express their discontent with the offensive tweets. But should they punish the students? Do they even have the ability to do so? Not likely.
One official, Jonathan Pope of the Gloucester School Committee in Massachusetts, admitted as much in an interview with MSBNC.com: "We don't know whether we actually have any legal standing to implement any kinds of penalties for that kind of behavior done outside school on a private communication system."
Pope and other school officials may want to look toward the Supreme Court on this point. The 1969 Tinker v. Des Moines ruling held that students' speech was subject to punishment if it "materially and substantially" affected an institution's educational mission. These few tweets couldn't possibly pass that bar and thus qualify for the schools' disciplinary action.
By John Martin, CNN
(CNN) – Atlanta Public Schools is preparing for annual, state-mandated Criterion-Referenced Competency Tests later this month. This high stakes testing session is the first after an inquiry by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation suggested that at least 178 APS educators had cheated on the CRCT. The inquiry concluded the cheating had possibly gone on for years, up to and including the 2009 exam.
After the report's release, Superintendent Erroll Davis made a promise to Atlanta parents: "None of those implicated will be in the classroom when school starts this fall." Resign or be fired – that was the message coming from Davis' office, in letters and in meetings. About 70 educators named in the report retired or quit.
Of the teachers that remain, educators with three or more years of experience have tenure. The district cannot terminate them without due process. The district might even be forced to offer contracts to accused teachers who haven't been let go by May 15.
Atlanta Public Schools spokesman Keith Bromery recently told CNN that about 100 educators who have been implicated in the investigation remain on the APS payroll, on paid administrative leave. The accused educators are costing the district $600,000 to $1 million a month.
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Was it Bob Hope of yesterday who used the theme song, “Thanks for the Memory?”
Psychologists tell us memories are important clues to our well being, but some memories turn into dreams which are disturbing. Psychologist, you are probably right, but some of the dreams defy explanation.
I recall, as a child, my friend, Barbara Popp, and I dug a hole and buried autumn leaves in the hole. Each time we passed the hole, we bowed in respect. That memory trickles down at night before slumber slips in.
Another tale before sleep comes is a boy climbing the narrow steps of a water tower in Franklin Park, Ill. Before reaching the top of the stairs, the ambulance arrived on the scene in case he fell.
A 10-year-old boy told me he dreams that he is Tarzan flying through the trees wearing his backpack. He’s looking for his girlfriend, but he can’t find her.
Then there was six-year-old Dennis who dreams about his early spanking because he painted his bedroom wall with turkey gravy.
My dreams are memories of Mother’s declarations:
“Your room is a mess. No one will marry you when you grow up.”
“Don’t keep that refrigerator door open – you’ll let all the cold air out.”
“Why can’t you be more like Charmaine (Charmaine was pretty and polite).
“Did you make your bed?”
“Did you use the new pillow you received for Christmas?”
“You will not get any Cracker Jacks unless that bed is made this morning!”
“Who do you think you are, Lady Jane?”
(Who is Lady Jane anyway?)
“Don’t talk back to me!”
Now those warnings and advice enter my dream life often.
I have an answer for you, Reader, about making the bed in the morning. It’s not fair to the bed!
As an adult, I remove my sheets and blanket in the morning, take them outside onto the patio and allow the breeze to revive the bed stuff. I make the bed at night and love the scent of fresh air. I’m told that some of my Pennsylvania Dutch friends do likewise.
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Mr. Miller’s office has been monitoring fraud and “double dipping” within the relief applications, however his access to sure databases started to be curtailed last yr within the last months of the Trump administration because General & News the turf struggle between the inspectors general ensued. Mr. Miller, who was appointed by President Donald J. Trump, referred the matter to the Justice Department in early January, earlier than President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. took office, to get a last ruling on the scope of his powers.
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued an alert urging the public to watch out for emails trying to impersonate her with a fake account. The Department was made conscious of an e mail account that claims to be managed by the lawyer general.
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WASHINGTON— As extreme heat continues to impact the U.S., the Biden administration launched a new website Tuesday to help people understand how the heat is affecting them.
Heat.gov is a “one-stop hub” to help Americans navigate their heat and health, according to the White House.
The administration also announced Wednesday new steps it is taking to lower the cost of electricity bills for working families.
Some of the actions to lower the cost of electricity bills include connecting families to low-cost solar power and launching a new initiative that will help small rural housing authorities make “money-saving energy efficiency upgrades,” according to a White House fact sheet.
‘Dominating the entire country’:Unrelenting, coast-to-coast heat wave scorches US
More than 600 people in the U.S. die of extreme heat every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention. Heat alerts were placed in 28 states across the country, from California to New Hampshire, last week.
Here’s what you need to know about the new Heat.gov website.
What is Heat.Gov?
Heat.gov is a website that serves as the main source of heat and health news for the country. The site also provides maps, data and information from across federal agencies to help communities. The purpose is to not just inform people, but also help guide them through the necessary steps they can take to prepare for extreme heat weather.
What resources does Heat.gov provide?
When you go through the website, you can expect to see graphics that show how many people across the country are currently under heat advisories, watches, and warnings. The site also features a tab that explains which groups of people are more likely at risk to suffer from extreme heat.
You can also find out how to prepare and plan for extreme heat. The website offers information from different agencies such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
Heat impact in the U.S.:Pacific Northwest faces unusually long heat wave
Who is most impacted by extreme heat?
Native American, Black communities and people in rural neighborhoods are disproportionately impacted by extreme heat, , according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Older people are also more likely to be impacted by heat stress because their bodies do not adjust as well as young people’s to different temperatures, CDC reports. In addition, they are more likely to have medical situations that change normal body responses to heat, according to the CDC.
People with chronic conditions such as heart disease, mental illness, bad blood circulation and obesity are also more at risk for heat-related illness.
Who are the partners of Heat.gov?
Heat.gov is a collaboration of the National Integrated Heat Health Information System’s federal government partners, according to the White House. Those agencies include:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Environmental Protection Agency
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- U.S. Forest Service
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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By Susan Sprout
Last week you saw a white steeple, the bloom of a Ural False Spiraea. This week, here are the lovely pink steeples of a TRUE spiraea – Steeplebush or Spiraea tomentosa.
This woody shrub, a member of the Rose Family, is a native perennial ranging from Canada to North Carolina. Look for it in sunny wet meadows, moist old fields, and pastures. The plant pictured was growing in an acid bog, carpeted with mosses and low blueberries, within a broad area circled by hemlocks and black spruces – and way off the beaten path. Immediately the bright pink blossoms spiking upward caught my eye as I shouldered my way through the dimness of the low evergreen branches and out into the open. Wow…took my breath away…the flower clusters ruled the green of everything else.
This is not a tall plant – two to four feet – with short-stemmed leaves, oval and toothed, dark green, and leathery, arranged alternately on the tough stems. They usually grow unbranched and are crowned with terminal clusters made up of tiny, five-petaled flowers that open from the top down. The fruit is found in five tiny brown pods, each with a single seed that will drop when the dry pods split open.
Tomentosa, a part of its scientific name, refers to the matted hairs found at different places on the plant – under leaves, on stems, on fruit pods, and especially on first year stems.
As you check out Steeplebush in your field guides, don’t be misled by different plants that have the same common names. This one is also known as Meadowsweet and Hardhack. I suspect the later refers to the tough stems farmers dealt with when cutting them out of their pastures – to no avail! | <urn:uuid:496d4b7a-3dab-4d42-b0b6-5c1f9760c7bf> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,661 |
Whether it’s recording lo-fi missives via his boom box or crafting studio offerings distributed by the more conventional means of indie labels, the guy just can’t help but express himself.
The Mountain Goats have dropped 14 quasi-official albums since 1994, the most recent of which, last year’s Transcendental Youth, is yet another Folk-inflected Indie Rock outing in which Darnielle’s hyper-literate words take center stage.
Sure, the songs are often dressed up with horns, piano, strings, churning guitars and rubbery bass lines, but it’s Darnielle’s evocative lyrics and modest, high-whine vocals that again cut the deepest.
Curiously, the Goats’ latest tour is a stripped-down affair featuring just Darnielle and longtime bassist Peter Hughes.
“Peter and I toured our asses off back in the pre-trio days, but that was before our ascent to the absolute upper echelon of global media saturation,” Darnielle recently explained on his website, tongue only slightly in cheek. “We are pleased to report that a year-plus worth of talking about touring the Mountain Goats in alternate configurations to all-ages rooms is yielding its first fruits this June, in the form of the TUTTLINGEN WARRIORS TOUR 2013, whose name is an inside joke. I'll tell you about it between songs at some point during the tour.”Expect its telling to be as compelling as his impressive, ever-expanding songbook.
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Now open your eyes, and you will find yourself in luxury resort with a guaranteed high standard of service. Your imagination comes alive at Praseban Resort.
Praseban Resort is located on the pristine, unspoiled and barely disturbed beach of Pranburi, just the short distance of 30 kilometers south of Hua Hin town or just 230 kilometers from Bangkok.
As the concerns for health, both physically and mentally are increasing tremendously, people are looking for a sanctuary where they can leave all their responsibilities behind.
At Praseban Resort, this important point is taken into consideration and we put in every effort to create an environment that will enable you to “Liberate Your Senses”.
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Each of the 14 specially designed rooms and villas in the low rising buildings of two storeys have a large private balcony. Rooms are exclusively decorated with sandstone and wooden furniture. They are surrounded by contemporary tropical style gardens and are just a few footsteps from access to the blue sea. From our special designed balconies, sea views are visible from all rooms.
For Maarataar deluxe has a choice of twin or king size beds and feature: Minibar, Hot and Cold shower, individual controlled air conditioning, hair dryer and cable TV.
Contemporary style restaurant on an open air deck; specializes in modern Thai and International cuisine and includes an all day snack menu and beverage bar. The restaurant is open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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