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Driver arrested after Gold Coast police chase
A 33-year-old man has been charged after a police car chase on the Gold Coast in south-east Queensland.
Police tried to stop the driver after he allegedly did burnouts and drove through a red light in Coolangatta at about 7.30pm AEST.
The man was arrested after he allegedly drove through another red light and crashed into a parked car.
He allegedly recorded a blood alcohol reading of 0.97 and has been charged with the dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, evading police and drink-driving.
His vehicle was also impounded under hooning laws. | <urn:uuid:3072a6aa-995b-41d6-a94a-6817efced73b> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 592 |
WASHINGTON -- A private polygraph administered to Rep. Gary Condit asked 10 questions, four dealing with Chandra Levy and none with allegations by a flight attendant that the congressman tried to persuade her to sign a false affidavit, The Associated Press has learned.
Three individuals who have seen the test results since they were turned over to police said the former FBI lie-detector test expert who administered it did not directly ask the congressman if he had an affair with the missing former federal intern.
The test did ask another question designed to get at the issue, according to the sources, who spoke only on condition of anonymity.
''Has Chandra Levy ever been to your residence in Washington?'' the polygrapher asked, according to the sources. Condit answered ''yes,'' and the polygrapher concluded he was truthful, the sources said.
Condit, D-Calif., acknowledged an affair with Levy in his third interview with police, according to a police source. He took the lie- detector a few days later. Since Condit took the test, police have openly questioned its validity.
The expert who conducted it, former FBI agent Barry D. Colvert, concluded Condit was not deceptive on any of the 10 questions, the sources said. And a separate computer calculation conducted after the test concluded the chances of his lying were less a hundredth of one percent.
Meanwhile, a Democratic colleague and friend rebuked Condit, but stopped short of calling for his resignation.
''I will say that through his actions and behaviors, Congressman Condit has brought controversy and discredit to his family, his district and the Congress,'' Rep. Charles Stenholm, D-Texas, said in a statement issued by his office. Stenholm co-founded with Condit the Blue Dogs, a group of conservative Democrats.
Police say Condit is not a suspect in Levy's disappearance. Federal authorities are separately looking into whether the congressman engaged in obstruction or encouraged perjury since Levy disappeared May 1. Levy, 24, of Modesto, Calif., was in Washington for an internship with the federal bureau of prisons.
Washington police have publicly suggested the private polygraph was inadequate because it was administered on behalf of Condit's lawyers. Police are pressing for a fourth interview with Condit and a second lie-detector test, this one conducted by authorities.
''Our point all along is that it can't be validated because none of our professionals were there,'' Executive Assistant Police Chief Terrance Gainer said Wednesday. He declined to discuss the actual results, saying he had never seen the polygraph.
The sources said the FBI and police detectives interviewed Colvert for more than an hour late last week about why he chose the questions and his assessment of Condit's credibility.
Since that interview, local police have pressed for another interview and polygraph, while FBI agents have enlisted Condit's help in creating a profile of Levy that could help identify others who might have harmed her or places she might have gone when she disappeared.
Abbe Lowell, Condit's attorney, said earlier this month that Condit took the polygraph and answered ''no'' to three questions:
--Did the congressman have anything at all to do with Levy's disappearance?
--Did he harm her or cause anyone else to harm her in any way?
--Does he know where she can be located?
The question about visits to his apartment was the only other question on the test about Levy, the sources said. The other six questions, the sources said, involved more generic issues designed to provide the polygrapher with a baseline to determine Condit's credibility.
The polgrapher didn't ask any questions about California flight attendant Anne Marie Smith, who alleges she had an affair with Condit and later was asked by the congressman and his representatives to sign an affidavit denying a relationship, the sources said.
Condit has said he never asked anyone to lie.
This article published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Thursday, July 26, 2001. | <urn:uuid:3294607c-a451-4dd9-91d5-eea3354fd7c0> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,022 |
Health inequality measurements are vital in understanding disease patterns to identify high-risk patients and implementing effective intervention programs in treating and managing sexually transmitted diseases. Our study seeks to measure and identify inequalities among chlamydia and gonorrhea rates using Gini coefficient measurements and spatial visualization mapping from geographical information systems. Additionally, we seek to examine trends of disease rate distribution longitudinally over a ten-year period for an urbanized county.
Chlamydia and gonorrhea data from January 2005 to December 2014 were collected from the Indiana Network for Patient Care, a health information exchange system that gathers patient data from electronic health records. The Gini coefficient was used to calculate the magnitude of inequality in disease rates. Spatial visualization mapping and decile categorization of disease rates were conducted to identify locations where high and low rates of disease persisted and to visualize differences in inequality. A multiple comparisons ANOVA test was conducted to determine if Gini coefficient values were statistically different between townships and time periods during the study.
Our analyses show that chlamydia and gonorrhea rates are not evenly distributed. Inequalities in disease rates existed for different areas of the county with higher disease rates occurring near the center of the county. Inequality in gonorrhea rates were higher than chlamydia rates. Disease rates were statistically different when geographical locations or townships were compared to each other (p < 0.0001) but not for different years or time periods (p = 0.5152).
The ability to use Gini coefficients combined with spatial visualization techniques presented a valuable opportunity to analyze information from health information systems in investigating health inequalities. Knowledge from this study can benefit and improve health quality, delivery of services, and intervention programs while managing healthcare costs. | <urn:uuid:9c2cafa7-571f-4de4-9ea6-45a9826e2bd5> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,040 |
Eric Fehr scored the game-winner at 37 seconds of overtime, as the Washington Capitals overcame a three-goal first- period deficit to down Boston, 4-3, at Verizon Center.
Fehr was skating over the Boston blue line when Nicklas Backstrom laid a lead pass one stride ahead. The veteran grinder accepted the feed, skated between a pair of Bruins defenders and scored with a rising shot to the far post.
"We didn't give up at all today. We know how important it is to string some wins together. To come back against a team that good means a lot, and hopefully we can keep going," said Fehr. "I think it says a lot about our character. This team believes in ourselves. We're a pretty confident bunch right now and we believe in the system."
Mike Ribeiro and Tomas Kundratek tallied in the second period and Wojtek Wolski notched the tying score late in regulation for the Capitals, who have taken four of their last five.
Braden Holtby hung in and earned the win with a 30-save effort.
Brad Marchand, Zdeno Chara and Doug Hamilton tallied for the Bruins, who were facing the Caps for the first time since Washington won a Game 7 in Boston to close out a first-round playoff series last April.
Tuukka Rask made 22 stops in the setback.
"We were sloppy on the forecheck and not doing the things we're supposed to, and they just kept coming on odd-man rushes," said Bruins head coach Claude Julien. "Then, in our own end, we were puck-watching and all of a sudden, [the puck] is in our net. You could sense in the second [period] we weren't the sharpest."
Boston picked up the game's first goal while shorthanded. Marchand was dragged down from behind on a rush by Ovechkin and given the free chance, converting at 6:29 of the opening period.
The visitors skated to intermission up by three goals thanks to scores 1:23 apart by Chara (17:07) on a rebound from the right side of the crease and Hamilton (18:30) from a point drive on a power play.
Ribeiro put the hosts on the board with 5:46 played in the second, and Kundratek's high wrister off a right-circle faceoff win -- his first in the NHL -- made it 3-2 with 8:28 left in the period.
"I definitely celebrated like it was a winning goal in the playoffs," admitted Kundratek. "It was my first one, and I'll remember it for the rest of my life."
Wolski cruised into the slot and swept a blocked Fehr pass between the pads of Rask with 6:05 remaining for a 3-3 deadlock.
The Caps survived a late-game hooking call to Ovechkin, then the feisty Washington captain barreled into Rask on a rush with 17 seconds to play without a penalty or injury to the netminder.
Washington has won four of the last five regular-season meetings with the Bruins ... Backstrom finished with three assists ... Prior to the game, the Capitals announced that defenseman Roman Hamrlik had been waived ... Caps forward Steve Oleksy picked up his first NHL point in his first game with an assist on Ribeiro's tally ... David Krejci posted two assists for Boston. | <urn:uuid:60d2f828-a130-43b1-8b5f-42c6404d1fd3> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,981 |
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Dubai, UAE, 10 January 2019: For the second year in a row the green Lamborghini Huracán GT3 of GRT Grasser Racing Team (#63), under the steady hands of Mirko Bortolotti, took pole position in qualifying at Dubai Autodrome on Thursday (10 January) to give the team another shot at winning the Hankook 24H Dubai, having failed to convert the pole last year.
In the previous 13 years of the iconic race, only German-made cars have ever won. All eyes will be on Mark Ineichen, Rolf Ineichen, Christian Engelhart and Mirko Bortolotti of GRT Grasser Racing Team to see if the drivers can finally get an Italian car to take top honours in the 14th edition of the Hankook 24H Dubai.
Bortolotti set the bar high with a best lap time of 1:57.446 on the 5.39-kilometre Grand Prix Circuit at Dubai Autodrome. Afterwards he remarked, “Again, it was hard work, but it shows that there is still plenty of speed in the old lady.”
This will be the final race for the team’s current Lamborghini Huracán GT3, as the new Evo version will make its competition debut at the next event.
The Audi R8 LMS of Car Collection Motorsport (#88) was 0.189 seconds off the leader’s pace to claim second on the starting grid and another Audi R8 LMS, of MS7 by WRT, will take up the third spot.
Last year’s winners, the #2 Black Falcon Mercedes AMG GT3 driven by Abdulaziz Al Faisal, Saud Al Faisal, Hubert Haupt and Yelmer Buurman, only managed a best lap time of 1:58.144, which will see the Mercedes starting on P6 in tomorrow’s line-up. With four previous team victories in the 24H Dubai, the drivers of Black Falcon are well-aware that many things can change in a 24-hour endurance race and their current position gives them ample confidence to challenge for the victory.
The Lamborghini topped the GT division, and in the Touring Car division (TCE) it was Steven Wells, behind the wheel of the CWS Engineering Ginnetta G55 (#378), to take the TCE pole for the team with a best lap time of 2:09.035.
The SP3 class Ginnetta, with drivers Colin White, Olivier Baron, Angus Fender and Steven Wells, will be fending off a small squadron of TCR class cars, including the Audi RS3 LMS of AC Motorsport that was over half a second behind in qualifying to take second on the grid.
Report: Aaron Meriwether
Photos: Arthur Rosales and Aaron Meriwether | <urn:uuid:e2599782-16cd-43b8-a118-f244fbb73f7b> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,312 |
‘It’s So Heartbreaking’: Body Of Missing University Of Alabama Student, Maryland Native Garrett Walker, Found In RiverAfter several days of searching, police in Tuscaloosa, Alabama have found the body of Garrett Walker in a river.
Local Investigator Explains How Missing-Person Cases Are HandledHe says the first step in a missing case is a family contacting the police as soon as they think a loved one is missing, then a detective gets involved.
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office Is Investigating A HomicideThe Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office is investigating a homicide connected to a missing person case after a body was found on Wednesday, June 9.
The Hernando County Sheriff's Office Need Help Locating A Missing Endangered AdultThe Hernando County Sheriff's Office is requesting assistance from the community in locating a missing endangered adult.
Atlanta Police Search For Missing 19 Year-old WomanAtlanta Police (APD) are searching for a missing 19 year-old woman who traveled from Knoxville, Tennessee to Atlanta on February 4 and was last seen at the MARTA Five Points Station
Body Of Missing CDC Researcher Found, Police ConfirmA CDC researcher who went missing over seven weeks ago has been found dead in a Georgia river. | <urn:uuid:4cc674b9-d5c3-4d48-84ff-69d5231a1e59> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,243 |
Rector Major's Visit to Japan and Korea coming soon!
Tokyo-Japan and Seoul-Korea, 2 November 2018 -- After the 2018 February-March animation visit of the Rector Major to Timor Leste (TLS) and Indonesia (INA) Vice provinces, the tenth successor of Don Bosco will arrive on in Tokyo on 7 November for a five day visit to Japan (Nov 7-13) that will continue in South Korea (Nov 13-18). The two provinces are now busy with immediate preparation to welcome Fr Ángel and make it a quality time of animation.
During the five full days in Japan, the Rector Major will travel to the first Salesian mission in Miyazaki (Hyuga Gakuin - Salesian High School, Nov 8-9) and than return to Tokyo, Chofu Salesian formation house (Cimatti Museum and Tomb). A variety of encounters with Youth, Salesian Family and Salesian confreres will take place In the Tokyo metropolitan area - in Chofu, in Akabane and in Yokohama. The beautiful motif with the Fuji mountain and welcome to Japan (Bienvenido a Japon) is much visible on social media already.
Meanwhile after his arrival in Seoul from Tokyo (November 13), after the initial meeting with the press at the provincial house Fr Ángel will spend one full day in Seoul, then continue to the Novitiate in Neri at the seashore and continue to Gwangju (the first Salesian Mission in Korea). The last two days of the Rector Major's visit will be in Seoul once more. Among the highlights of the program is the promise to be made by many Salesian Cooperators, the baptism of Bosconian students and the renewal of SDB profession.
In both countries many initiatives are going on by way of meaningful preparation: the Japanese and Korean editions of the Salesian Bulletin have dedicated enough room to presenting the person of the Rector Major with his vocation story (manga - Korea) and the background of the whole Salesian Family (Japan). On social media FB Japan Salesian Bulletin , website Japan or website Korea you can find the timetable in Korea and the video message of the Rector for the Salesian Family of Japan.
Welcome Fr. Angel, again to our Region - to Japan and Korea! | <urn:uuid:6e1b5eee-02b1-4997-8107-d6d34ed30b05> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,103 |
American Reckoning: A Conversation on Anti-Blackness in Post George Floyd America
Wednesday, Jun 09, 2021 | 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
People & Culture’s Office for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) and its co-sponsors present:
American Reckoning: A Conversation on Anti-Blackness in the Post George Floyd Era
This experience features guest speakers, Dr. Keisha Blain, Jeff Chang, Rosa Clemente, and Tim Wise. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Ula Y. Taylor, Chair of African American Studies.
This is a FREE experience open to all UC Berkeley, employees, students, and the public.
To attend, register online here.
Our office emerged from People and Culture in the summer of 2020 under the leadership of Assistant Vice Chancellor Eugene Whitlock. DEIB works in collaboration with the Division of Equity and Inclusion on the Becoming an Anti-Racist Institution Task Force. Our department has three primary roles on campus:
- Foster engagement and development for staff employees
- Provide the data tools for organizations to support their Affirmative Action/ EEO goals
- Host experiences to increase racial literacy and cultural fluency | <urn:uuid:435452fe-6f3a-487c-bae9-835c3f364bc5> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,152 |
Are you reading this on your smartphone? If you're lying down, you should keep both eyes open.
Two women experienced a shock when they lost sight in one eye after sneaking peeks at their smartphone in bed. Doctors dubbed the phenomenon “transient smartphone blindness.” It may sound like a cautionary tale about smartphone dangers, but it’s actually an easily avoidable condition.
“It’s really a temporary thing,” Dr. Rishi Singh, a staff surgeon at the Cole Eye Institute at Cleveland Clinic, who did not observe the women, told TODAY.
Both women experienced blindness lasting up to 20 minutes in only one eye, according to the report, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. They were reading on their phones in bed, with one eye closed in dimly light rooms. The bright light from the smartphone bleached the pigment in the opened eyes while the closed eyes didn’t get the exposure. When they opened the other eye and looked into the dim room, the bleached eye struggled to adjust while the closed eye acted normally.
It’s basically what happens after someone takes a photo with a bright flash.
“Because all the pigment is bleached, they cannot see. They thought they were blinded,” said Dr. Tongalp Tezel, Chang Family Professor of Ophthalmology at Columbia University.
The researchers recreated the conditions in a lab — and the same thing occurred.
But Dr. Rahul Khurana, a spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology urges people not to worry too much.
For one thing, it's not an official medical condition. Also, more study is needed.
"It’s not what we would consider a serious problem,” he said via email.
But looking at smartphones can cause some eye problems:
- Staring at a phone can mean that people don’t blink enough, leading to dry eyes.
- People using small screens tend to squint, which leads to eye strain, and neck and facial spasms.
- The blue light from screens resets the circadian clock, which is the internal clock that regulates sleep/wake cycles.
- Disrupted circadian rhythms leads to poor sleep and contributes to obesity, hypertension, and diabetes among other conditions.
- Some link staring at smartphone screens to macular degeneration and cataracts, although Tezel is skeptical.
“There isn’t enough scientific data,” he said.
Not being able to see for up to 20 minutes may cause distress, but there is a super-easy way to avoid it: Keep both eyes open when checking smartphones in bed.
“I’m not sure this is a very common issue. No patients in my practice, which is in Silicon Valley, have ever come to me with these symptoms,” said Khurana. | <urn:uuid:196b2b26-67eb-40a6-954c-cc478c912a06> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,595 |
The Moormans River is a classic high gradient native brook trout stream that flows out of the SE corner of Shenandoah National Park. In spring, the tails of nearly every pool hold brookies that average about 7-8". There's a North Fork and a South Fork. This entry concerns only the North Fork that goes north from Charlottesville Reservoir. This is a catch and release only fishery. I think there is less crowding and more fish here than the Rapidan. There's lots of other good places for brookies in SNP, but don't expect anyone to tell you about them unless 1) you join SVTU and show up regularly to meetings and activities and 2) you are generous with beer, bourbon or picking up the check for lunch.
There's also a special regulations area below the dam that is stocked by the Thomas Jefferson Chapter of Trout Unlimited. This is a fly fishing only, catch-and-release fishery for trout. Thomas Jefferson Trout Unlimited stocks this section starting in October and ending in May. You will need a yearly pass that costs $45 that can be purchased at Albemarle Angler.
You'll have to hike a bit to get to the good water in SNP. There are stocked fish in season for the first mile of water. For the wild natives, go up past all the families and teen lovers swarming over the lower pools. Go on past the SNP sign that tells you there are no more brook trout here since a hurricane washed out all the tree cover that kept the water temperatures down. Trust me. They're up there. Cross the stream 3 times. You need to go up to about a half mile below the confluence with Big Branch. There's actually an unmarked side trail at the perfect place (I wonder why?) off a big grey rock that angles into the trail.
Any attractor dry fly will work in the Spring, but I find a light #14 X-caddis works best.
Water levels are great and the fish are hungry. To find the fish, go "further up,further in"
Update 10/16/11 Water levels are perfect, but the fish are shy, perhaps they are spawning. A parachute ant was the best fly. I brought about 6 to hand. The males are fantastically beautiful right now.
Update 6/15/2011: Water levels are a little low. So the fish are more shy, but they are still biting.
- Take the Crozet exit off I-64 ad follow the signs into downtown Crozet.
- From Crozet take Rt-810 North to the little croosroads of White Hall.
- Turn left onto Rt-614/ Sugar Hollow Rd. Where the road turns sharply right into Rt-674 at the country store, keep going straight on Rt-614/ Sugar Hollow Rd.
- The road winds 4 times over the Moormans and goes around the reservoir until you reach the obvious parking area. | <urn:uuid:d66900f4-3935-4608-96df-42cf829a26cb> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,610 |
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The modern data center has evolved into an engine that drives the entire business, and the pressure to maintain uptime is greater than ever. Since companies rely more and more on their data centers, are there better, more resilient mission critical support systems?
At Data Center World this March, Justin Jurek, regional sales manager at Pillar USA, will talk about the applicability of microgrids in the mission critical market and an elegant approach to microgrid systems that has been adopted by multiple end users.
Remember, we’re seeing an evolution taking place in the business and in the data center. Market strategies are now built around the capabilities of your facility. Changes around governance, uptime classification, and even weather patterns are all impacting facility uptime:
- State legislation like AB32, California’s bill that requires reduction of carbon emissions, may become drivers for onsite power generation, while large end users, such as data center operators, may simply want to rely less on aging electrical grid.
- Uptime Institute’s Tier IV classification of power generation onsite having to be rated for prime power may drive some data center operators to explore Combined Heat and Power plants and other on-site power generation technologies.
- The rise of superstorms may also lead more companies to want to rely less on the grid.
Trends like these are driving growth in the microgrid market, Jurek said.
“When working with microgrid systems, it’s critical to understand the challenges of onsite power generation, but also both the resiliency and economic drivers for onsite power generation,” he pointed out. “This means knowing multiple unique mission critical microgrid systems that are in operation in the USA and across the globe and how they impact your facility.”
Join him at Data Center World in Las Vegas and be sure to attend his session, titled Mission Critical Microgrid System to learn more about:
- Why it makes sense to adopt the mission critical microgrid architecture if, as an end user, you’re already committing to a microgrid architecture for your data center.
- Why a centralized power stabilizer for your microgrid enabling a mission critical microgrid architecture makes more sense than point-of-use UPS combined with onsite power generation.
- The architectures and case studies discussed in the session eliminate the use of UPS, batteries, and other commonly used mission critical system components (in some cases diesel generators).
Want to learn more? Join Pillar's Justin Jurek and 1,300 of your peers at Data Center World Global 2016, March 14-18, in Las Vegas, NV, for a real-world, “get it done” approach to converging efficiency, resiliency and agility for data center leadership in the digital enterprise. More details on the Data Center World website. | <urn:uuid:757400d2-db0d-4dcd-a816-2bc18d99586a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,822 |
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Mila Kunis dropped an amazing 20 lbs. for her role in Black Swan, but it wasn't just a temporary change.
Since Black Swan, Kunis says her body body "has never been the same."
In an interview with Harper's Bazaar, the actress said, "My shape is different. When I got down to 95 pounds, I was muscles, like a little brick house, but skin and bones. When I gained it back, it went to completely different areas."
"I’d be happy if my a** got bigger. All the weight that left my chest went to my side hip, my stomach," she added.
Kunis also admitted she isn't a fan of cosmetic surgery, like so many in Hollywood are.
"I will not put a needle in my body unless I have a medical reason," she told the publication. "But ask me in ten years. Right now, I’m like, 'I’m going to embrace it,' but … I’m probably going to want to have something done. I have no doubt."
In an adorable photo shoot, Kunis sports looks from Versace, Prada, Chanel, Alexander McQueen and most appropriately, Dior. The actress recently became the new face for the label, saying “It literally just happened.”
Her Dior campaign debuted in January, and so far she's very excited about working with the design house. “I was trying on these dresses, and I was like, ‘How did I get here?’”
Kunis' fame has been rising since her roles in Black Swan and rom-com Friends with Benefits, opposite Justin Timberlake. Her newest film, Wizard of Oz prequel Oz: The Great and Powerful recently wrapped and also features Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and James Franco. | <urn:uuid:5e258302-b46b-4584-b581-6d2da6b96376> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,569 |
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by PartyHat on 8/23/2010 10:33:56 PM
This reminds me of a time.... Well, I was visiting my sister once and there's this little girl who lives with her and we were opening Christmas presents. Then she tried some of my lip gloss I got, and she put like five glossy layers on. The adults were like, "that's too much!"
LOL. It was so cute though. She was like 4-5.
by FrenchMani<3 on 4/9/2010 1:06:04 PM
1) Get waffle pretzles or regular pretzles, m&m's, and hershey kisses @ the store.
2) Place as many pretzles on a cookie tray as you want.
3)Unwrap the same # of hershey kisses as pretzles and place one hershey kiss on top of each pretzle.
4) Put them in the oven (set 2 the default, normally 350 degrees F) for 20-25 seconds or until the hershey kisses are melty enough to hold their shape but can have something pressed in2 them.
5) Press an m&m in2 the top of each hershey kiss, let them cool until the hershey kisses are hard again.
VIOLA! They are ready 2 eat!
by ellsburygirl46 on 3/14/2010 1:52:31 PM
This is cool if I sit for older girls. I'm still pretty young so I may not get anyone older.
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by sarahs advice :D on 2/5/2010 11:56:21 PM
i am so doing this!!! ...well after i get some honey...and vegtable shortening... and kool aid... lol!
by 28PuppyPaws on 1/27/2010 1:48:27 PM
Oooh sounds like fun! lol just gotta get some honey and vegetable shortening
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by geomio on 1/21/2010 9:41:59 PM
This is a great idea!!!
I've found for little girls, they really love this.
For little boys, they sorta find it repulsive. So then what I do is a get a pack of blue and green kool-aid and swirl it together near the end of the solidifying process and say it's "Man-Power". Or if it's a extra gross little boy, I do a dark red and say its blood.
Works every time!
by CuteAndClassic on 1/17/2010 4:50:04 PM
oh imma make my own!!!!!!!!!!! no more buying lip gloss
by iamtraceswife on 1/16/2010 6:05:56 PM
i know what im doin on sat.
by danamay99 on 1/14/2010 7:54:36 PM
Cool i think i might try that for myself
by danamay99 on 1/14/2010 6:10:16 PM
it worked the kids i tryed it on loved it(one of them was a 11 year old boy!!!!)
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by volleyballbabe23 on 7/5/2009 9:29:57 PM
if i do it i have to ask their parents first...
by icek8girl77 on 7/3/2009 10:23:53 PM
by ndlsfun621 on 4/14/2009 5:41:46 PM
This sounds like fun! i think ill do it with my lil sis when my rents go on a date!
by ndlsfun621 on 4/14/2009 5:29:12 PM
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by hyperpuppy on 4/2/2009 3:19:45 PM
has anyone tryed this yet? does it work?
by dropdeadgorgeous on 3/28/2009 10:02:44 PM
Perfect! I have a day off today, so I am doing all the DIY activites!
by chatterbox19067 on 3/27/2009 11:56:44 AM
AWSOME I WILL SO USE THAT!!!!! Would pink lemonade or something not as red work for little kids???
by sparklejessi on 3/17/2009 9:43:08 PM
it's a cute idea but you need to try it at home first before you try it with kids
by Kate12 on 3/14/2009 5:44:23 PM
cool stuff!!!!!!!!! can you use different colors?i bet the girls I baby sit would love this !!!!!LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL CHECK OUT MY PROFILE AND GIVE ME ADVICE!!!!!!!!!
by kas8897 on 3/12/2009 7:31:39 PM
whoa! i didn't know that was possible.
by hyperpuppy on 3/8/2009 2:49:59 PM
wow i hope this works!!!!!
by luvlots on 3/8/2009 12:40:02 AM
i think ill try it at home tho
by sparkle1365 on 3/7/2009 9:34:45 AM
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“What about what you were doing before? In England? Teaching writing courses? You were doing really well with that.” The toaster beeped again.
“That sounds like an alien spacecraft,” I said. “And it’s so loud.”
“Yes, well, your father is going deaf so it has to be loud if he’s going to hear it from his office. Can’t you do that kind of thing here?” She handed me a plate of buttered toast and leaned against the counter.
I picked at the toast. “I can try, I guess. Oly’s both a great place and a crap place to try to teach writing. It’s the kind of community that’s bound to be super supportive because of all the arts and creative kinds of things that already exist here — but for the same reasons it’s going to be crap because I imagine that there’s a dozen other people already in the area who are already teaching writing and who are more qualified than me to boot.” I took a bite of toast and sighed. “God, this is good. I can never get bread this good anywhere else.”
“You never know until you try,” Mum pointed out. “If you want to sit around moping about Erik then that’s your prerogative, but at least you know you are perfectly capable of teaching, and you do have five years of teaching writing on your resume. And you can always temp until you find something else. Or you might see if the State will hire you back.”
“Mum, it’s been years since I last worked for the State,” I said, tearing off a corner of toast and turning it around in my fingers. Tempting to imagine it was Erik. Rip, rip, tear, tear. Mutilaaaaaate… Om nom nom. “And I refuse to temp. It’s always an absolute nightmare.” I groaned. “No, what I really need to do is get that damn book published.”
“Sweetheart, not that I don’t want to seem supportive, but what you need is a job.”
“At least you didn’t say what I need is a husband,” I muttered. “Emily’s mother’s been after her for the last three years about getting herself a husband. ‘Get a husband, Emily! Then you won’t need to worry about a job, darling!’ Hah.”
Mum’s phone beeped from the table. “You’d be bored to tears as a housewife, Katy,” she said as she walked over to the table and picked up her phone. “But you’ve been trying to get that book published for a year now and it just hasn’t happened. I’m not saying it won’t, and I know you love your writing, but if you can’t make any money off it then don’t you think you should be doing something else?”
“I was doing something else, Mum,” I said irritably. “I was teaching writing, remember? For five whole years. Woohoo. That’s why it took so damn long to get the thing written in the first place, because oh, let’s see, things with Erik were spectacularly unfair. And even with that I had more time to write than I would if I had a ‘regular’ job—and I refuse to give up doing what I love just because I don’t make buckets of money.” I slid down from the counter and folded my arms.
“I’m not going to have an argument with you on your first morning back,” Mum said, picking up her phone and reading a text. “Oh, dammit, I have to go deal with your grandmother.” She made a face. “Not that your father is ever around to deal with her. That would be nice, you know, seeing as she’s his mother after all…”
Mum looked guilty. “I’m sorry. The woman is always texting! We never should have given her a phone. She’s a menace…” Sighing, she set down the phone and began gathering up her purse. “I’ll probably take her to Farmer’s Market, if you want to come along. But I’m going now, so…”
I considered. “Let me throw some clothes on and I’ll come with.”
I dashed upstairs and threw on a pair of leggings and an oversized shirt, and tied a bright yellow scarf over my hair. Grabbing my trainers out of the closet, I dashed back downstairs and sat on the bottom step to put on my shoes. “Where’s Dad today?”
“He’s meeting clients in Portland,” Mum said, peering into the closet with a frown on her face. “He’ll be back in time for dinner. Have you seen — no, of course you haven’t seen my purple scarf. I must have left it at your grandmother’s. Oh, well, I’ll look while we’re over there. Are you ready yet?”
I stood up and stretched. “Is my bike still in the garage, or did you sell it?”
Mum looked at me as she opened the door. “Your bike’s still in there, your punching bag’s still in there, your softball glove’s still in there…”
“Okay, I get the picture! It’s just that I really should try to get some exercise — I feel like a blimp.”
The worry lines reappeared between Mum’s eyes. “You certainly don’t look like a blimp. You’re too thin. Do you want to drive?” She held out the keys.
“Licence is expired, remember?”
“Oh right.” Mum slid into the car and fiddled with the settings. “Clearly your father was the last to drive this,” she muttered, her feet waving in the air as she moved the seat forward. “I can never reach…” She started the car and started to back out of the garage, saying, “Why don’t you see if that young man who drove you home last night will give you a job? He owns a bookstore, doesn’t he?”
I felt myself blushing. “Mom, he was just being nice. I’m sure he doesn’t want to hire me.”
“Okay, fine. I’ll drop it.”
It had been three years since I’d last seen Grandma, and I was shocked at how frail she looked. She’d never been a particularly robust woman, but she looked like a leaf fluttering by in the wind might knock her over. Never mind about the wind—it would probably lift her up and carry her off to Oz. As in the Wizard of, not Australia. Although if it were a particularly strong wind…
I dragged my wandering mind back to the present and slid out of the car so that Grandma could have the front seat. She leaned on her cane and eyed me suspiciously.
“You’re too thin, Kathryn,” she barked at last. “Don’t you ever eat?”
“Nice to see you too, Grandma,” I said, hugging her carefully. “I love to eat.”
“Well, you don’t have to hug me like I’m made of glass,” she said huffily. “I won’t break, you know.”
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She narrowed her eyes at me and I smiled cheerfully. “Ellen, where did this girl get her mouth from?”
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The purpose of this study was to confirm the relationship of T1 and T2 relaxation rate vs. pO2 in vivo of 19F MR signal measured from intracellular perflubron. Our work to date has demonstrated that 1/T2 is more sensitive to pO2 than 1/T1 in the 1/T1 vitro environment. The advantage of 1/T2 vs. 1/T1 is the speed of measurement and sensitivity.Seven alternating T1 and T2 measurements were obtained during a continuous acquisition using the TTISS pulse sequence. An abscess model was used for the in vivo experiments where rabbits were infused with 5ml/kg Oxygent HT 10 days prior to scanning The abscess model was used because it has been shown that perflubron accumulates in macrophages located in the abscess wall. This technique thus provided signal from the intracellular milieu.The results of this study proved that pO2 monitoring by measuring T2 of 19F is feasible and can be used in-lieu of the T1 measurement. Given that the T2 measurement is much more rapid than the T1 measurement and that T2 changes are more sensitive than T1 changes with alterations in pC>2, T2 should prove to be practical and useful for monitoring transient rapid changes in pO2.
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|Journal||Artificial Cells, Blood Substitutes, and Biotechnology|
|State||Published - Jan 1994|
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"So, who wants to read it?" Joe, the junior class president, sat at the table, brushing his wavy brown locks from his eyes. Soon, all eight chairs were taken, and another dozen teens, making up the rest of the junior class of the small high school, were standing around the table.
Daphne sighed. "I guess I will. Hand it here."
Taking the envelope from Joe, Daphne flipped it over and removed a folded up piece of paper, neatly torn from a spiral notebook. Glancing over the contents, she gulped, then placed the letter on the table in front of her. The room hushed.
Members of the class of 2009,
So, did I surprise you? Bet I did. I've gone to school with most of you since kindergarten, and some of you consider me a good friend. And I'll bet you all thought you knew me pretty well.
Pretty Jenna. Happy Jenna. Joker Jenna. Perky Jenna. No Troubles Jenna. I guess I put on quite a performance, because not a single one of you has asked how I was doing, or if I needed anything, for months.
Well, now's my chance to answer that question. I'm doing terrible - lousy. Have been for a year, ever since Billy died in Iraq. Do you really know what it is like to lose a brother? Your hero? Obviously not.
Sure, you guys were nice enough the first month or so. But after that, every time I brought it up, someone would change the subject, or go find something else to do. Guess I was too much of a downer for you and your plastic little lives.
So I went back to being the Jenna you wanted me to be. Sweet, fun, silly, fake Jenna. Jenna, who didn't care about anything that mattered. You all seemed to like her better anyway.
But, do you know what I really needed? I needed someone to let me cry on their shoulder. Someone who would ask how I was doing and actually want to know the real answer. Someone who cared about my heart and soul, not just my clothes, what I got on my last test, or what I thought of some stupid teen flick.
Did any of you even remember that yesterday was exactly a year since Billy was blown up by that IED? Not a single one of you said a thing to me all day. Guess I wasn't bubbly enough to be noticed.
Well, I can't take it anymore. I hope you all grow up and have your wonderful, perfect plastic lives just like you want. Just know that I won't be there.
Nothing could be heard in that room but the sounds of heavy breathing, sobbing, and wailing. The students hugged one another, patted each other's backs, and bawled.
"I can't believe we were so insensitive," Daphne said between sobs, lifting her head off another girl's shoulder.
The others nodded.
Joe stood on his chair. The others turned and looked up toward him, despair and hopelessness in their eyes.
"We cannot let this happen again. We need to stop brushing off the tough stuff, and be there for one another. You guys are important to me. We've been through too much to lose anyone else this way. So, who's with me?"
A chorus of "me" echoed through the room, and hugs were abundant, like the tears falling from their faces.
The entire group turned toward the door, where Mr. Zach, the junior class advisor, stood with half a smile on his face.
"She's gonna make it, guys. The paramedics got here just in time, it seems. Jenna's on the way to the hospital now. She'll be in the hospital for a couple of days, but she's going to be ok."
A collective sigh echoed across the room as they walked toward their teacher. On their way, they passed the spot where they'd found their classmate not half an hour earlier, sprawled on the floor seemingly dead from a drug overdose.
"Guess we'll be practicing what we preached sooner than we thought," Joe quipped.
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The Top 10 Westchester Bakeries
From macaron mavens in Bronxville to cake-masters in Scarsdale, here’s a list of the bakeries that do sugar the sweetest.
Sherry-Os, a homespun version of the classic Oreo, at sherry b dessert studio
sherry b dessert studio
65 King St, Chappaqua
Marble countertops and slate floors eschew the typical homey bakery design aesthetic at sherry b dessert studio, where artisan ingredients such as hand-chopped Belgian chocolate, European-style butter, and Battenkill Valley cream and milk go into French technique-boosted versions of familiar American sweets. Stuffed brownies, a magnificent peanut butter–chocolate cookie, and a cooler devoted to house-made ice creams and ice cream sandwiches (we like the Birthday Cake and Fluffernutter) are treats to sample.
There are no extensive “I grew up baking with Grandma stories” for Sherry Blockinger, the chef/owner, just the occasional rainy-day activity of making chocolate chip cookies with her mother. Baking was not in her DNA.
“My interest in the culinary arts took hold at Purdue University after I took a nutrition class,” says the Katonah resident, who opened her eponymous dessert shop in September 2012. “It opened my eyes to how different food affects the body.” This newfound curiosity eventually led to diplomas in pastry arts at the French Culinary Institute (now ICC) and restaurant management at the Institute of Culinary Education.
Blockinger regularly invites artists and artisans in the worlds of music, writing, fine art, and food as part of her SB Studio Sessions series. “I’m fascinated by the creative process for other artists,” she says.
One thing that doesn’t fascinate her: raisins. “I hate them. They’re not even in my oatmeal cookies.”
Don’t Miss: Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Ice Cream Sandwiches, Blondie-Ate-A-Brownie
La Renaissance Patisserie Française
9 Harwood Ct, Scarsdale
Scarsdale’s narrow side streets feel just European enough to be home to La Renaissance Patisserie Française. Customers here love the viennoiserie (croissants, pastries, and pain au chocolat) that deliver the perfect mix of crisp outer layers giving way to buttery ones inside.
A beautiful custom cake by La Renaissance
“Just like the croissants in France,” says bakery manager Vivienne Copeland. Be warned, though, as these treats don’t often last the morning.
Delicious options to enjoy with your afternoon café abound, such as chocolatey Sarah Bernhardt cookies, buttery sablé (shortbread), and gorgeous fruit tarts. But it’s the cakes that truly set the bakery apart. The most popular include the gluten-free La Renaissance, which was a Best Of Westchester Editor’s Pick in 2008 — a variation of the classic French dacquoise, with layers of almond meringue, whipped cream, chocolate cream, mocha buttercream, and toasted almonds — and the indulgent chocolate ganache, which is one of those signature desserts that becomes memorable after just a few bites.
Don’t Miss: La Renaissance Cake (almond layer cake), Chocolate Ganache Cake, Fruit Tarts
Baked by Susan
163 Grand St, Croton-on-Hudson
Growing up, Susan O’Keefe (above) never had a Twinkie — or a Ring Ding or any other uber-processed snack cake.
“To this day, I still haven’t,” says the owner of the from-scratch bakery Baked By Susan, which she opened in 2010. “I come from a generational baking family, and we always had a homemade dessert.”
Baking since she was 8, O’Keefe recalls her mother’s lemon-nut bread and brownies and her Grandma Susie’s yeast donuts. “I bake the way your grandparents and great grandparents would have,” she says, “no processed ingredients or cheap shortenings. My pies sell for $24.99, and at ShopRite you can get a pie for $1.99. But what do you think goes into a $1.99 pie?”
Her distributor, after dropping off a delivery, will often remark, “Now I’m off to the ‘fakeries,’” referring to those clients who purchase canned and premade fillings and big buckets of premade icing.
O’Keefe’s forte are her crusts — whether cradling sugared, heat-scorched local fruits or creamy custards, they are glorious masterworks.
Besides the shop, her products are sold at nine Whole Foods, six Gourmet Garages, Mrs. Green’s, both Black Cow locations, Hilltop Hanover Farm, and a few DeCicco’s.
Don’t Miss:Double-Crust Apple Pie, Apple Turnovers, Cinnamon Rolls
La Tulipe Desserts
455 Lexington Ave, Mount Kisco
Petit fours, fruit tarts, chocolate cups, and other diminutive desserts by Pastry Chef Maarten Steenman
Ever heard of a Kouign-amann? If not, you must discover the buttery wonders of this sweet, crusty, croissant-like cake from northern France, available at La Tulipe Desserts, a tiny gem of a bakery.
Co-owner and baking mastermind Maarten Steenman, who trained extensively throughout Europe, channels his experience into an evolving menu of traditional favorites and unique creations. Imagine a dessert parfait with bacon and a syringe of Drambuie to squeeze on top. He did! And his new Purple Cake features translucent glaze, orange mousse, and pistachios from Sicily. Steenman adds that the bakery’s hazelnuts are from northern Italy and almonds from Spain.
All ingredients in La Tulipe’s tarts, beignets, brioches, and artistic cakes are “the highest quality,” he says. “That’s number one.” But it must be his mad skills that turn the Vermont Creamery butter into the truly transcendent Kouign-amann, or the crunchy-shelled canelé, with a flan-like interior into caramelized perfection.
Don’t Miss: Kouign-amann, Canelé, Chocolate Extreme Cake
Red Barn Bakery
4 S Astor St, Irvington
Former art major and handbag designer Randell Dodge turned an old auto-repair shop into the funky, 100 percent organic Red Barn Bakery in Irvington, creating the perfect home for her rustic, non-fussy fare.
Customers rave about her apple pie roll-ups, gluten-free berry scones, flourless chocolate cakes, and hearty breakfast cookies. All ingredients are carefully sourced (locally when possible), and the entire menu is made from scratch, using Dodge’s own recipes. She started baking at age 12, making pies after picking fruit with her mother on Long Island.
Her Italian grandmother’s recipe is responsible for the bestselling Mediterranean Olive Oil muffin with citrus glaze. Also in high-demand are her many gluten-free and vegan options (brownies, muffins, tarts) that please even wheat eaters.
“I don’t even make a regular [gluten] brownie anymore,” Dodge says. And her oversized macarons are pure heaven. “People have said they are better than Ladurée’s in Paris,” she notes.
Don’t Miss: Mediterranean Olive Oil Muffin, Flourless Chocolate Cake (shown above), Oversized Macarons
By The Way Bakery
574 Warburton Ave, Hastings-on-Hudson
Burnt out from her job as an intellectualproperty lawyer at Bloomberg and wanting to do something community driven, Hastings resident Helene Godin opened kosher, gluten-free, and dairy-free By the Way Bakery in 2011.
She doesn’t adhere personally to any of the aforementioned dietary restrictions but explains: “I love the idea of inclusion and wanted to cast as wide a net as possible and bring people to Hastings.”
The counter is overflowing with baskets of crunchy-outside, moist-inside almond cookies, towering stacks of chocolate chip cookies (her top seller), lemony teacakes, and muffins replete with plump fruit.
In five years, the business has grown from one bakery with three employees to three bakeries (two in Manhattan) and a 7,200 sq ft Pleasantville commissary kitchen with 45 employees; her treats are also sold in 12 Whole Foods Markets.
All the recipes are Godin’s; a five-day baking boot camp at the Natural Gourmet Institute in Manhattan is the extent of her formal culinary training. “I really learned to bake by using my research skills as a lawyer — how often does a person go to the 30th Google search screen? — and making things over and over until I got them right,” she says.
Don’t Miss: Brownies , Sour Cherry Coffee Cake , Almond Cookies
575 N Main St, Armonk
“Hurry, there’s only one black-and-white cookie left!” shouts Beascakes owner Julie Dickens to a longtime customer in the parking lot who rushed right into the charming bakery.
Yes, locals know that the fresh-baked goods here sell fast. But, happily, it’s impossible to miss out on Beascakes number-one item: a gooey, warm-from-the-oven, “three-napkin” chocolate-chunk cookie.
A graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York (now the International Culinary Center), Dickens claims her Midwest roots have more of an influence on Beascakes’ fare. Homey, satisfying, and prepared on-site from simple, quality ingredients, offerings include blueberry coffee cakes, almond croissants, donuts, a host of cream pies, and cupcakes.
Gorgeous specialty cakes that taste as good as they look, are sought after, too. But the top three bestsellers? Chocolate-chunk cookies, chocolate-chunk cookies, and chocolate-chunk cookies, Dickens says with a smile.
Don’t Miss: Chocolate-Chunk Cookies, Donuts (Iced and Jelly), Blueberry Coffee Cake
69 Harney Rd, Scarsdale
|Patti Galloway holding a lemon meringue pie.|
“People who haven’t been in for a while will come in and say, ‘So happy you haven’t changed anything,’” explains Patti Galloway, who, along with her husband of 47 years, Bob, daughter Shannon, and one baker, run the cash-only “throwback” founded in 1956 (and originally located on Central Avenue in Hartsdale) by Bob’s parents, Fred and Marge Galloway. Their day begins at 1:30 a.m. prepping, weighing, and measuring. Retail hours are Friday through Sunday only.
Don’t expect any lavender-and-thyme-scented macarons or cakes with mango curd and fancy-colored fondant but instead American-style baked goods, plain and simple. Think plush, powdery jelly donuts, luscious cream pies, fruit-bursting cherry and apple pies, and myriad Danish rings, melt-a-ways, and crumb cakes.
Don’t ask for gluten-free-this or nut-free-that. “That’s not us,” says Patti. “That’s a whole other business.”
There are lots of regulars, many of whom the Galloway’s know by name. “Most of our customers are consistent with what they like and tend to buy the same items over and over,” says Patti. “I’m the same way — I hadn’t tried our coconut cream pie until last year. I didn’t think I would like it — but I did.”
Don’t Miss: Jelly Donuts, Cinnamon Raisin Buns, Apple Pie
Lulu Cake Boutique
40 Garth Rd, Scarsdale
|One of Lulu’s most popular cakes is the Crumbella Deville, a vanila cake featuring almond cheesecake filling, Michigan tart cherries, and (the best part) streusel crumbs. Pictured is a special order version with 14K edible gold on it!|
“Cake is the perfect expression of food and art,” says co-owner Jay Muse, who opened Lulu Cake Boutique in 2001 and previously worked at Lespinasse and The French Laundry and trained with renowned cake-maker Colette Peters. Husband/co-owner Victor Gonzalez worked under cake-designer-to-the-stars Sylvia Weinstock. It should come as no surprise, then, that their cakes are high-style works of art and creatively flavored, e.g., the Graham Central Station with vanilla cake, graham-cracker frosting, caramel swirl, and a honeycomb sponge. There are also stellar brownies, takes on Hostess and Drake’s snack cakes, and a smattering of cookies — but cakes are the focus.
Lulu’s has even amassed a celebrity following, including Katy Perry, Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Fallon (their goodies are in the show’s green room), and Madonna. “She respects our food-forward sensibility regarding quality of ingredients,” says Muse of the Material Girl.
Those ingredients, the majority of which are organic, include Valrhona fair-trade chocolate, Meadow Butter from Hamilton, NY, honey from a rooftop in the Bronx, pistachios from Italy, and homegrown fresh mint and basil.
They’ve been approached by TV producers including those from The Food Network about reality shows revolving around the bakery, but they declined. “We just want to concentrate on the cakes.”
Don’t Miss: Coconut Cake, French Toast Crème Brûlée Twinkie, Salted Maple and Toasted Walnut Brittle Bar
135 Parkway Rd, Bronxville
|Chantilly’s Parisian aesthetic is evident in the pastry, as well as the plateware.|
The main ingredient in Chantilly Patisserie’s world-class croissants isn’t the slow-churned Plugrá butter or fine-milled flour, it’s the pride baker Mariana Delgado Gambini takes in making them. Her Bronxville bakery (owned with sister, Maria, and mother, Mirta) offers truly spectacular croissants, making the shop “a destination for people around here.”
An up-before-dawn, three-day process, Mariana’s technique (perfected after years at culinary school) is admirably old school. A machine does help roll out the finished dough, though, “or else I’d have muscles like the Hulk,” she laughs. Each bite into one of the plain or almond croissants is a momentary trip to Paris, which makes sense considering the family opened the comely shop after visiting Europe.
The éclairs are wonders, too, and come two ways: chocolate (chocolate mousse filling and chocolate ganache on top) or with fresh whipped cream (unfrosted, filled with pastry cream, Chantilly cream, and chef’s choice of fresh fruit).
The offerings here — from tarts and cupcakes to hand-piped, gluten-free macarons — taste as good as they look. If you want a magnificent Chantilly Patisserie cake for a big occasion, order early, but chief cake decorator Maria must first approve your design.
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Constructed on a site which was once a monastic complex dedicated to Saint James of the Marche, the villa represents the symbol of Appignano. A treasured monument for its architectural style and history, it was built in the Napoleonic era by Count Leopoldo Armaroli and designed by the Bolognese architect Giuseppe Nadi, who, among other things, also designed the splendid Villa Aldini in Bologna. The name Tusculano derives from Cicero’s “Tusculan Disputations.” The composed classic rhythm which characterises the main façade of the villa was in line with the cultural tastes of the period and with the spirit of Armaroli. However, the actual implementation differs greatly from the original project. In 1823 the Count had the façade of the villa built and in 1826 a coffeehouse or better, an exedra with a nymphaeum in the centre was also built. Both the façade and the coffeehouse were designed by the architect, Luigi Poletti, as evidenced by a plaque affixed by him on the surrounding wall of the exedra. 19th century Giuseppe Nadi Luigi Poletti. | <urn:uuid:d6f08bfd-8977-4b11-9333-df91d95cde75> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,133 |
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Wednesday, Dec 25, 2002
Mid-Year Economic Review Sustained stress on infrastructure
THE Mid-Year Economic Review has predicted a growth rate of 5.4 per cent for this fiscal. But this is unlikely to be achieved or sustained over a period given the infrastructural bottlenecks constricting the economy. The Review says: "Inadequate availability of quality infrastructure at internationally competitive prices has long been recognised as a handicap for the development of the economy".
In this context, it becomes imperative to analyse the issues that act as a binding constraint on economic development and pursue infrastructure reforms with more rigour.
The performance of infrastructure is largely a reflection of the health of the economy. Infrastructure industries, measured by six key infrastructure and core industries (electricity, crude, petroleum refinery products, coal, steel and cement, with a weight of 26.7 per cent in the overall index of industrial production) grew just 2 per cent in 2001-2002 compared to 6.8 per cent in the corresponding previous period.
According to both the Review and the Economic Survey, cement and steel recorded particularly impressive growth rates of 9.3 per cent and 7.3 per cent respectively. But the major bottlenecks are in the areas of highways, ports, telecommunications and power. To remove these constraints, the Government has initiated several sector-specific measures in recent years. An attempt has been made to attract private investment in infrastructure development by way of incentives.
For instance, a ten-year tax holiday is available for core sector infrastructure projects in roads, highways, waterways, water supply, sanitation and solid waste management. This may be availed of during the initial twenty years.
Tax incentives are also provided for investors providing long-term finance or investing in the equity capital of enterprises engaged in infrastructure development. Any income by way of interest, dividends or long-term capital gains from such investments is fully exempt.
The introduction of the Electricity Bill 2001 in Parliament and its implementation will facilitate the participation of the private sector in transmission and distribution. In the telecom sector, competition has been introduced in all service segments. The outlays for roads, rural infrastructure and railways have increased manifold.
In this context, speedy completion of the Golden Quadrilateral would make road transport more efficient and cost-effective. In spite of all the incentives and concerted action by both private and public sector in infrastructure-building, facilities remain inadequate, often poor.
Even in FDI, India is a major loser due to its underdeveloped infrastructure. An investor planning to set up an export base in developing/emerging economies has the option of choosing between India and other locations with better infrastructure.
As the N. K. Singh Committee rightly points out, India is handicapped in attracting export-oriented FDI as it lacks quality infrastructure at competitive prices. However, the Government continues to undertake several measures to enhance FDI in infrastructure by way raising caps and removing procedural hassles (see Table).
Apart from raising the sectoral caps, the Planning Commission also recommends that the States consider enacting a Special Investment Law facilitating both domestic and foreign investment in infrastructure investment.
The Andhra Pradesh Infrastructure Act is an example; it provides comprehensive legislation to reduce administrative and procedural delays, details of various incentives and information on the project delivery process and helps in reconciliation of disputes with the private sector with a view to improving the level of infrastructure in the State.
A similar Act can be enacted in other States to enhance and augment infrastructure development across the country.
But in spite of all the incentives and measures undertaken by both the Government and the private sector, infrastructure industry in India has still a long way to go. The RBI annual report 2001-02 brings out that the gap in meeting targets and achievements in the infrastructure sector was wider in 2001-2002 than in 2000-01.
The gap between the target and achievements has increased for power (-0.2 per cent to - 4.5 per cent), telecommunication, in terms of thousand lines (-1.2 per cent to - 12.1 per cent) and for cement (-0.3 per cent to - 1.5 per cent).
It is evident that reforms in infrastructure areas not only warrant regulatory reforms but also require a developing market structure that encourages competition, allowing players other than public-owned entities, and financial sector reforms. Considerable success has been achieved over the years in some infrastructure sectors. However, the public sector Plan outlay (as a percentage of GDP) fell sharply in some key areas from 1990-91 to 1999-2000.
Investment in the important infrastructure sectors of electricity, gas and water supply and transport, storage and communication declined from 5.2 per cent of GDP in 1990-91 to 4.5 per cent in 2000-01. The investment in these infrastructure sectors, as a proportion to gross capital formation, also dipped from 23.6 per cent in 1990-91 to 22.8 percent in 2000-01. Thus the need of the hour is stepping up investment in this sector.
But it cannot be denied that infrastructure reforms have resulted in some positive developments. The power sector has witnessed a series of reforms recently. In terms of institutional improvement and transparency practices, the establishment of the Central Electricity Regulatory Authority and State Electricity Regulatory Commissions in 18 States so far is expected to ensure rationalisation of tariffs, fair competition and protection of the consumer market.
The State electricity boards have been corporatised in six States and the proposal for further reforms in the SEBs is an important step.
The development of the National Power Grid for optimisation of transmission networks and the Accelerated Power Development Programme are welcome steps. Further, in power sector reforms, conservation of energy as envisaged in the Energy Conservation Act, 2001 needs to be pursued. However, it must be ensured that needs of the rural sector are met by making universal service obligations a part of the reform process.
In telecommunications, fixed telephone lines have more than doubled over the last five years, apart from fast expansion of cellular services covering about 5.5 million subscribers in 2000-2001.
There has been a dramatic reduction in the tariff rate for long distance calls (STD and ISD), which resulted in substantial increase in tele-density recently. The demand-supply gap has narrowed down from 27.9 per cent in 1991-92 to 12.2 per cent in 2000-01. However, steps should be taken by the Government to provide adequate telecommunication facilities in rural areas.
The Review proposes to increase investment in railways and rail safety. Steps will have to be taken by the Railways to phase out subsidies in passenger fares while rebalancing freight tariffs to economically competitive levels.
The Government also has to pursue reforms in coal sector, which supplies more than 50 per cent of inputs to the total commercial energy supply. Large-scale investment is necessary to expand mining capacity and also install clean coal technology. Though limited private investment is allowed, foreign investment and more private participation in this sector has to be encouraged for more free and competitive coal industry.
Besides, there should be earnest efforts to enhance the capacity and modernisation of both the major and minor ports in India. Considering that this sector needs huge resources for development and modernisation, the Government has taken some initiatives, such as leasing port assets, constructions of ports, leasing of equipment and captive facilities for port-based industries. The speedy corporatisation of ports should be the goal, with a smooth mechanism for private-public partnership in place. Since these issues have been debated for long, it is time for the Government to act.
The reforms that are beginning to change the infrastructure sector are crucial to attaining the targeted growth of GDP. However, most of the reforms in this sector and the progress made have already been comprehensively discussed in the Economic Survey 2001-2002.
In this context, the Review 2002-2003 merely reiterates what was mentioned in the Survey and is mostly a rehash of it. But at least, it continues to stress and emphasise that infrastructure reforms are crucial and this fact itself will act as a catalyst to boost investment in this sector. The need of the hour is to continue to accord the highest priority to infrastructure development to attain and sustain higher rates of economic growth.
(The authors are faculty at the Institute of Economic Growth (IEG) and Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi.)
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New Sunderland Farm Collaborative ‘a lifeline’ for residents
The Greenfield Recorder, By MARY BYRNE, Staff Writer, April 2, 2020
SUNDERLAND — Local farmers have teamed up to offer contact-less home delivery to customers seeking local produce without leaving their homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The newly formed Sunderland Farm Collaborative — which brings together Kitchen Garden Farm, Riverland Farm, Warner Farm in Sunderland and Queen’s Greens in Amherst — began accepting the first round of orders on March 23 for its first day of deliveries on March 28, with customers having the choice between home delivery in a dozen different towns or having their goods brought to one of four drop sites.
“There are a lot of people who have been finding this to be a lifeline,” said Caroline Pam, owner of Kitchen Garden Farm in Sunderland. “People who have lived through hard times before are really finding this connection to farmers and good food right in their community to be a positive (amid the crisis).”
The process begins when customers place an order through sunderlandfarmcollaborative. localfoodmarketplace. com. Customers can make an account, choose between home delivery or a drop site, and then begin adding items to their “shopping cart.”
“For each item, it says who the producer is, which is great. Everyone is able to see where their vegetables are coming from,” noted Emily Landeck, who owns Riverland Farm. “They add to their cart and then pay.”
Landeck said the Sunderland Farm Collaborative offers customers a chance to shop in one place for everything they might need.
“We all have complimenting crop offerings,” she said. “Someone could pretty much get the majority of their shopping done, and it would be supporting a wide range of local, organic producers that would otherwise not be seen on the greater food scene.”
In addition to the wide array of crops offered by the four farms in the collaborative, customers can order items such as breads, eggs, cheese, mushrooms, flour and beans, and even coffee, from other participating local vendors.
Currently, the collaborative offers home deliveries on Wednesdays and Saturdays to Sunderland, Whately, Deerfield, Hadley, Montague, Amherst, Northampton, Florence, Easthampton, Conway, Greenfield and Turners Falls. Drops sites include Millstone Farm Market in Sunderland, Leverett Village Co-op in Leverett, Abandoned Building Brewery in Easthampton and Progression Brewing Co. in Northampton.
“We’re experiencing this really amazing influx of demand and interest,” Landeck said, noting there had been changes in home deliveries and drop sites since the first round of deliveries. “We’re trying to grow and scale in the way we can responsibly … to provide the best service possible.”
Landeck said staffing and vehicles are being shared between the four farms, though it is possible more staff may be necessary to meet their growing demand. Pam noted the collaborative received so many orders during its first order period, it had to close the online order form a day early to ensure deliveries could go out as scheduled.
“We didn’t know for a fact there was a huge demand, but we discovered it very quickly,” Pam said.
Pam and Landeck said plans for such an initiative grew as they began to realize the impact the COVID-19 public health crisis was going to have on their businesses and the way people access food.
“With restaurants closed and people being asked to stay home, everything was disr upted,” Pam explained. “We realized that in order to be able to sell all the vegetables we still planned to grow, we were going to have to find new outlets.”
That’s because, broadly speaking, most of the farms involved in the collaborative rely largely on selling wholesale to co-ops, grocery stores and schools.
“So, what’s new for us is going back to consumers,” Pam said.
With restaurants limited to offering takeout and the government pleading with individuals to stay home to limit exposure to the virus, Pam said people are likely cooking at home more.
“It seems that people are discovering that being able to buy from your neighborhood farm, and rely on that it’s safe, is really valuable,” she said.
Landeck said she thinks the collaborative has shown people are beginning to think more locally.
“People can come to this farm and can see exactly what we’re growing and how we’re growing,” she said. “I think there’s a lot of trust to be put in local, small farms.”
Although they already practice strict food safety guidelines, Landeck said members of the collaborative are having daily conversations about how to strengthen those practices in the midst of the pandemic.
“It’s a great way to create a good work environment, but it also means we’re having to be cautious about how we’re spending time outside of work and making sure we’re keeping the farm safe in all that we do and not just when we’re at the farm,” she said.
At the speed at which things are changing, Landeck said she and the other owners constantly have their “ears to the ground” for the latest on health regulations.
Both Pam and Landeck said they have been “warmed” by the outpouring of support shown by the community.
“I know home delivery is a service that is very much peaking right now,” Landeck said. “But it also shows our community has our back and wants to support small farms (and) eat locally.”
The next order period, which will be for April 4 deliveries, opened on March 30. Landeck encouraged people to follow along online to keep up with future changes or updates. Questions can be directed to: hello@sunderlandfar mco.com.
“This is an evolving thing for us,” she said. “We’re trying to make it work for everybody involved.”
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Many of us are still trying to make sense of last Tuesday's televised police pursuit through our community.
It led to an officer-involved shoot out at the corner of 7th and Bixel streets, now under investigation by the LAPD's special "Force Unit."
Still at County/USC Medical Center after receiving a reported 16 shots is Ian-Remy Schlesinger, 24, the primary suspect in
Atlantic Monthly looks at the realities of police pursuits, taking the Schlesinger incident as its springboard.
Should Live Police Chases Be on TV?
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The Community of Disc Golfers and About All Things Disc Golf
Brian J. Swift from Edgewater Florida went to play at Tuskawilla when he was asked by his friend,
"Why are you so late in arriving for your tee time?"
Brian replied, "It's Sunday. I had to toss a coin between going to church or playing golf."
"Yes," continued the friend, "but that stills doesn't tell me why you are so late."
"Well," said Brian "It took over 25 tosses to get it right!"
A murder has been committed at the Bill Frederick Disc Golf Park in Florida.
The Police were called to the park and they found a man standing at the seventh basket, holding a Disc in his hands, looking at the lifeless body of a woman on the floor.
The detective asks, "Sir, is that your wife?"
"Did you hit her with that Golf Disc?"
"Yes, yes, I did." The man stifles a sob, drops the Disc, and puts his hands on his head.
"How many times did you hit her in the throat?"
"I don't know.
Five, six, seven..... Just put me down for a five."
David Keisner, Chris Suggs, and Harold King died went to heaven.
Upon arrival, they noticed the most beautiful Disc Golf course they have ever seen. St. Peter told them they were welcome to play the course, but he cautioned them with one rule: "Don't step on the ducks."
The men had blank expressions on their faces, and finally Chris Suggs asked, "The ducks?"
"Yes," St. Peter Said. "There are millions of ducks walking around the course, and when one of them is stepped on, he squawks, and then the one next to him squawks, and soon they're all raising hell and it really breaks the tranquility. If you step on the ducks, you'll be punished."
The men start playing the course, and within 15 minutes, Chris Suggs stepped on a duck. The duck squawked, and soon there was a deafening roar of ducks quacking.
St. Peter appeared with an extremely homely woman and asked, "Who stepped on a duck?"
"I did," admitted Chris. St. Peter immediately pulled out a pair of handcuffs and cuffed the man to the homely woman. "I told you not to step on the ducks," he said. "Now you'll be handcuffed together for eternity."
The two other men were very cautious not to step on any ducks, but a couple of weeks later, Harold King accidentally did. The quacks were as deafening as before, and within minutes, St. Peter walked up with a woman who was even uglier than the other one. He determined who stepped on the duck by seeing the fear in Harold’s face, and he cuffed him to the woman. "I told you not to step on the ducks," St. Peter said. "Now you'll be handcuffed together for eternity."
David was extremely careful. Some days he wouldn't even move for fear of nudging a duck. After three months of this, he still hadn't stepped on a duck. St. Peter walked up to David and had with him the most beautiful woman David had ever seen. St. Peter smiled and without a word, handcuffed him to the beautiful woman and walked off.
David Keisner, knowing that he would be handcuffed to this woman for eternity, let out a sigh and said, "What have I done to deserve this?"
The woman replied: "I don't know about you, but I stepped on a duck."
I took my wife out Disc Golfing last Sunday at the Tuskawilla Course in Daytona Beach. The was another female named Valerie Mullikin there as well. The two ended up playing in the same group. Upon finishing the round, the two returned and they had smiles on their faces.
Valerie stated that my wife Pattie had thrown after she did and had thrown her disc on top of hers. They both came up and stated that their discs were "Making minis".
Tom Johnson from Tuskawilla Disc Golf Course in Daytona Beach Florida had won a C.T.P. during their 3rd Sunday of the month tournament. The prize was in an envelope.
When he opened the envelope, he was very surprised to find a voucher for a free visit to a brothel. He had never been to one before but he decided to go the very next day.
The girls were very friendly and soon he found a lovely young lady and went with her to her room.
Ten minutes later, she came running to the Madam and asked,
"Can you tell me what a Mulligan is ?"
Prior to Jamie Ruane passing away he had brought a couple of disc golfing buddies together, and gave them each $500 cash and instructed them that upon his death, they were to throw it into the coffin along with Jamie’s favorite discs, because he wanted to take the important things with him.
In my previous discussion write up Jamie ended up passing away. When the funeral was over, his buddies met at the Tuskawilla Course for a personal remembrance.
Matthew Monczka said "I have a confession to make. I put in an empty envelope in Jamie’s coffin and I used the money to buy some Disc Golf equipment."
Terry Aka "Shorty" said "Me too, only I used the money to have a private party in Jamie’s name."
Somewhat shocked, Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun said
"I can't believe you guys went back on your word."
They asked him if he actually put the $500 in the coffin.
He replied "I most certainly did....with my very own personal check."
Typo ??? I apologize to all the Tuscawilla members. "Back from the dead !!"......................
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Four patients with Multicore Myopathy, a rare morphologically distinct myopathy, are described. Although previously considered to be a non-progressive or only slowly progressive myopathy, progression to significant disability was seen in three of our cases. The association of cardiac disease with Multicore Myopathy has not been previously emphasised. All four patients in this study had a cardiomyopathy, and heart disease was the cause of death in two of the patients. Multicore Myopathy is not always a benign entity. Cardiac involvement, when present, adversely affects prognosis. | <urn:uuid:0b626da0-3320-46f4-895d-5937a973a49a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 585 |
I have been a patient at Valley Hope Cushing twice and when I relapsed I did not hesitate for a second on deciding where to go.
When I got there the first time I was confused about what to expect and withdrawing pretty bad and received immediate and always compassionate care from the nursing staff. Everyone there from the Program Director down to housekeeping, maintenance and the kitchen staff were always willing to do anything they could to help us.
The counselors were amazing... very insightful , compassionate and caring. Mine could read me so well that I'd never play poker with her.
After 3 days of detox we were allowed to sign out and leave the property for up to 3 hours a day for AA, NA meetings a Wal Mart trip or whatever.
After my relapse I arrived there with my tail between my legs feeling a lot of guilt and shame about what I had done and having to come back but all I heard was that they were glad that I was there and that they were happy to help me.
The food was almost always good with a few dishes that I personally did not like and there was plenty of it.
The facilities were very nice with a library, TV room and a nice patio to hang out on.
There is a Recreation Committee among the patients that come up with activities.
If your insurance cuts you off financing is available w/o a credit check, mine was at 6% unsecured.
This is not a mental health facility, they deal with addiction but do look for and at underlying problems.
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Jason Aldean’s Wife Rocked a Dolly Parton Outfit and Dolly Loved It
Jason Aldean's wife, Brittany Aldean (née Kerr), certainly has some country strong fashion sense.
So much so that Dolly Parton herself complimented the former American Idol contender's Dolly duds. When Brittany sported a long-sleeve shirt bearing Parton's likeness as a dress in some recent Instagram shots, Parton took to commenting on the image. And what did the queen of country music say?
See the image and subsequent comments below. "Nice shirt," Dolly adds underneath Brittany's caption of a crystal ball emoji that accompanies the pic of her wearing the vintage-looking Parton merch.
To which the "Girl Like You" singer's spouse replies, "[L]awd have mercy, I have died and gone to heaven."
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The shirt in question was worn when Brittany joined her superstar husband in Las Vegas earlier this month, as Pop Culture reported. The pair were in Sin City for Jason's three-night Ride All Night Vegas residency at the Park Theater at Park MGM, which took place Dec. 6-8.
There, Brittany's unique fashion sense was certainly on display. She paired the Dolly Parton shirt-dress with some dazzling purple heeled cowboy boots along with a rhinestone choker and a low ponytail.
In one, the Aldean couple is seen ascending what appears to be a backstage ramp. It's parallel to a black semi-truck trailer emblazoned with the logo for the famous country singer's Ride All Night Vegas event.
In another, both Aldeans are shown seated among some other country music couples that Brittany refers to as her "people." Included among the bunch are country DJ Dee Jay Silver and his wife, Jenna Purdue, as well as singer Chuck Wicks and his wife, Kasi Wicks.
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revisiting the UART board
werner at openmoko.org
Sat Feb 5 23:51:28 EST 2011
The UART board still has a rather largish to do list:
- find a better name ("UART" isn't specific enough. There could be
many UARTs in a given scenario. "uart-8:10" or such would be
unambiguous but it's also a bit lame.)
- to keep things small, the board only has TX and RX, but no modem
or flow control signals. This design choice may be controversial.
Why small ? 1) because I think tiny circuits are cool. 2) to
minimize the mechanical stress on that little 8:10 card holder.
- review the pin assignment at the connector (TX-GND-RX). I think
it's convenient to use (e.g., for a gender change, just rotate)
and makes it easy to avoid problems with reverse polarity, but if
there's a different convention already established at the other
end, it may be better to follow that.
- examine signal integrity and adjust the termination circuit
- add over-/undervoltage protection (5 V, reversed polarity, etc.)
Three should probably be a pair of ~3.3 V Zeners to prevent 5 V
mishaps from getting out of hand, and similar issues.
- maybe loosen the quite tight spacing around vias a little.
The via spacing is pushing the limits of the toner transfer
process I'm using. There's a bit of room left, so maybe a less
crowded arrangement is possible.
- the current design allows the UART board to use the Ben's clock.
The ATmega48's internal RC oscillator may be accurate enough for
the task, and using it would free the clock signal line for other
- ... such as an interrupt to signal the arrival of new data, which
is currently not included in the design. (Creative sharing of
some of the other lines may also work, though.)
- write firmware that actually transfers data between SPI (which
is what the board talks with the Ben) and the UART. Right now,
all my firmware does it blink the LED.
This also means that the SPI slave functionality hasn't been
- host software support, at least in user space, if not a kernel
I mentioned that it has already fulfilled the purpose I made it
for, so completing it has a low priority for me. If someone else
feels like taking over this little project to make things happen
more quicky, please don't hesitate to grab this opportunity :-)
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Anxiety is a very common problem, affecting millions of people worldwide. Fortunately, anxiety is possible to control or cure. The article below is full of helpful ideas for getting your anxiety under control. Keep reading for information on living an anxiety-free life.
Music is really great for easing anxiety. If you’re having a hard time when it comes to anxiety, try playing your favorite album. Try to follow along with every note. You will soon forget the thing that is making you anxious. Try to entertain your mind at all times.
You should visit your physician if you are among the many sufferers of chronic anxiety. With more advanced treatments and medications that you can use, you can deal with anxiety. So get the proper treatment by making time for a doctor visit.
Share your most significant fear with a confidant, and make an effort to exaggerate its importance when you do. Once you recount this fear to them again and again, you will soon realize how silly it can be, and you just might end up looking at the problem with a totally different perspective.
Make daily goals for yourself. Keep focusing on your daily goal. When you focus, you keep your mind busy as well as keep out negative thoughts from harming your brain.
Practice deep breathing in order to cope with the short, shallow breaths that anxiety produces. Anxiety may cause you to hyperventilate. Force yourself to breathe deeply and from your diaphragm. Concentrate on pushing your stomach in and out to see that you breath deeply and keep your anxiety under control.
Talk with others about how you feel, such as friends, family members or a professional. Dealing with you anxiety alone can make it a lot harder. Releasing them can decreases anxiety and make you feel better.
It is important to accept that there are things in life that you cannot control. Worrying about the things that could go wrong won’t make your life better or more predictable. This can prevent you from enjoying the good things currently going on. It’s important to being to accept life’s uncertainties and learn you don’t need, nor can you expect instant solutions to life’s problems.
The use of a journal can halt racing thoughts which keep you from going to sleep at night. Spending some time to write your worries down on a piece of paper could help you release them, making you sleep without worrying about them. Be sure to work on your journal as often as necessary.
Is there something you know of that works to effectively eliminate anxiety? Laughter and smiles are the easiest way to minimize anxious feelings. Stay conscious of the good things in your life. If you feel the onset of an anxiety attack, look for humorous situations, shows or books that will bring a smile to your face.
Trying new soothing beverages can be a great way to get your anxiety under control. For instance, a lot of people recommend chamomile tea as a wonderful way to soothe anxiety. Try drinking this tea and see if it can reduce your stress.
If anxiety prevents or wakens you from sleep, be proactive in addressing it. Try drinking water, eating a snack, reading a book, or turning on the TV. Keep moving around though; it will go away quicker this way, and you will be able to get a good night’s rest.
Take a yoga class with a friend to help lower the amount of anxiety you’re feeling. You can eliminate problems and focus on what you’re doing by practicing yoga. Creating physical balance with exercise can help you have more positive energy and less negative anxiety.
Form a regular exercise regime when you have anxiety. Anxiety symptoms can be relieved due to the natural endorphins released when you exercise. If you want to see the fastest, most impressive results, attempt to get 30 minutes of aerobic activity per day.
If you are experiencing anxiety, stay away from people that make you nervous. You may feel this is an intuitive action, but it is common for those with anxiety to go out of their way to make others comfortable while ignoring their own needs. Exposing yourself to people who cause you discomfort should be avoided when possible until you are better able to handle the stress.
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The Pope praised the propensity for new technologies in the fields of medicine, communication, and engineering, but cautioned against losing sight of human dignity.
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Pope Francis has addressed the widening use of artificial intelligence technologies a number of times, applauding their propensity to aid in the common good, while cautioning against unethical and irresponsible use of AI. The Pontiff broached the topic at the Minerva Dialogues, a high-level annual gathering of technology experts and developers, on Monday.
While the Minerva Dialogues were surely on Pope Francis’ schedule for a while, his talk on AI coincidentally came after AI-generated images of the Pontiff wearing a puffy white coat went viral over the weekend. Many were fooled by the images, which were sufficiently realistic to have social media sources buzzing. Details like the lighting on the coat and the way his zucchetto rests on his head were especially convincing.
While the Pope made no mention of the images, his address to the gathered technological experts and representatives of the Church was a timely discussion on the responsible use of AI technology. Pope Francis said these new technologies have been “immensely beneficial” to humanity in the fields of medicine, engineering and communications, which he hoped would also extend to “religious values.” He said:
“I am convinced that dialogue between believers and nonbelievers on fundamental questions of ethics, science and art, and on the search for the meaning of life, is a path to peace and to integral human development.”
Pope Francis said that he was convinced of AI’s “potential to contribute in a positive way to the future of humanity.”
Still, he made it clear that the development of such technologies should be undertaken with the greatest of care and attention to responsibility and ethics. He urged developers to “respect such values as inclusion, transparency, security, equity, privacy and reliability.”
“I would therefore encourage you, in your deliberations, to make the intrinsic dignity of every man and woman the key criterion in evaluating emerging technologies; these will prove ethically sound to the extent that they help respect that dignity and increase its expression at every level of human life.”
The Pope expressed concerns that digital technologies may have a broadening effect on inequality throughout the world. He posed several questions to the assembled experts:
“Are our national and international institutions able to hold technology companies accountable for the social and cultural impact of their products? Is there a risk that increased inequality could undermine our sense of human and social solidarity? Could we lose our sense of having a shared destiny?”
Finally, Pope Francis reiterated the Church’s stance on the protection of human dignity, noting that a person’s “fundamental value cannot be measured by data alone,” and advised caution in delegating such judgements to the algorithms which process the data. He went on to decry the “contamination” of data based on modern societal prejudices and preconceptions, stating that “A person’s past behavior should not be used to deny him or her the opportunity to change, grow and contribute to society. “
“We cannot allow algorithms to limit or condition respect for human dignity, or to exclude compassion, mercy, forgiveness, and above all, the hope that people are able to change.”
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Verton has named Sparrows Group as its first Australian distributor.
Sparrows is a global provider of specialist engineering, inspection, operations and maintenance services to the offshore energy, renewables and industrial markets.
Regional business development manager at Sparrows, Matthew Marinovich, said: “This partnership with Verton demonstrates our commitment to explore innovative technologies which support our clients’ cranes and lifting operations across multiple market sectors. The Verton technology complements our aim to improve the efficiency, safety and reliability of our clients’ operations.”
Verton develops load orientation products. Its lifting beams and modular SpinPod technology use gyroscopes and sophisticated control systems that orientate suspended loads remotely without the need for human held taglines. The technology removes personnel near and under loads, and keeps them away from the drop zone.
Tim Ekert, Verton ceo, added: “This distribution agreement with Sparrows provides localised support to our Western Australian customers and shows our commitment to eliminating taglines for improving safety and efficiency in lifting operations globally.
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Tathāgata (Devanagari तथागत) - Chinese 如来, Rú lái), Japanese Nyorai (如来? ), Korean Yeorae (여래), Vietnamese Như Lai, Tibetan de-bZhin-gShegs-pa-it is a Sanskrit and Pāli word that can be translated as "He who thus comes" or "He who thus goes";this ambiguity is generally interpreted as intentional and the term is translated as "he who comes and goes in the same way (as all Buddhas)."
In fact, Tathāgata is the name by which the "historical Buddha" Śākyamuni (Siddhartha Gautama) refers to himself in his sermon collections (the Āgama-Nikāya), and in the same way he is referred to by his interlocutors, to highlight the rare and indefinite ontological state of a fully enlightened being who is beyond existence and non-existence, in fact beyond any state expressible by words.
In the Mahāyāna sutras it also indicates other buddhas.
Thus come / Thus gone
The term Tathāgata can be read as tathā-gata or as Tathā-āgata, where the former means "so gone" while the latter means "so come."
This difference represents an important dichotomy in the Buddhist tradition: Tathāgata as "so gone" implies that a Buddha is a pioneer and that the task of the worshipper is to follow him and draw inspiration and guidance from him, eventually arriving by attaining the same state of knowledge and liberation;
Tathāgata as "so come" (this version translated by the Chinese Rú lái and the Japanese Nyorai), on the other hand, implies that a Buddha comes to save sentient beings and offer them refuge, and what is required of the worshipper is prayer and devotion.
Among the various schools, Amidism follows the second approach; most schools, however, adopt a hybrid of the two approaches.
The Buddha was often asked whether the Tathāgata still exists after death or not. To this question he replied that the Tathāgata could not be identified in life, much less could it be once he died.
Furthermore, neither can the group of the five constituents of existence be considered the Tathāgata, nor can the Tathāgata be found outside of these bodily and mental phenomena.
That is to say, there are yes bodily and mental phenomena, but they are changing and impermanent phenomena, ephemeral and devoid of self. In this sense the Tathāgata has "thus gone [beyond]": through the wisdom and knowledge attained by penetrating the innermost nature of existing he has gone beyond the apparent, corporeality and conceptuality of being. | <urn:uuid:7c541d03-a7e1-4d1b-9257-138682c7bc0f> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,406 |
The Dabbax Ascendancy had long been an empire in decline, their planets failing and ships fleeing at the first sign of opposition. As the Lavis Union celebrated the first days of 2360 however, that all changed. Scattered reports had been received detailing highly advanced Dabbax scouts visiting ancient, ruined worlds.
It appeared they had been preparing, recovering the databanks of survey beacons and automated scouting posts left behind long ago when they retreated to their new borders. They had been gathering information for their unflinching return to the galactic stage.
Now calling themselves the “Dabbax Reconquerers,” fleets gathered, armies mustered, and ancient factories roared to life. For the first time in an age, they looked outwards, beyond their own borders, and toward the galaxy at large, eyeing all other empires as prey to be set upon and devoured.
As they began to descend on weaker neighbors, we stood united against their tyranny, and even welcomed a new civilization to the space age. Calling themselves the Mandasura Empire, they welcomed all of our aid and assistance in growing and developing their culture and their technology. Becoming a vassal state of ours, their birth into the modern era was a ray of hope through the void’s darkness.
With our close allies, the Nharr Hegemony and Interstellar Djunn Confederacy, besieged by enemies, our political scientists demanded that we show true leadership by creating a federation of our own, particularly suited for our needs and those of our neighbors. They surmised it could take upwards of ten years to form the basis of new government, but with encroaching predators from all sides, the empire had little choice but to agree.
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Bodles and Merks
THE legendary thrift of the Scots and their careful husbanding of coinage has given “bawbee” a popularity much wider than north of the border. Few people in the English speaking world can be unfamiliar with expressions such as “minding the bawbees” but especially few are likely to know its precise meaning.
Scottish currency was roughly equivalent in value to that of England until the late 14th century when it began to depreciate by stages. By the time of the Acts of Union of 1707, when Scottish currency was abolished, a Scots penny was worth one-twelfth of its English counterpart.
Two Scottish pennies made a bodle, and two bodles made a plack. Three bodles were equal to a bawbee, and there were two bawbees to a shilling.
A merk was worth 13 shillings and four pence, while 20 shillings added up to a pound.
The almost banana republic exchange rate is illustrated by the comparative value of the pound sterling which was worth 12 times more than the scots version.
Yet the historian Alexander Galt lamented its passing in his book The Last of the Lairds: From that day (Union of 1707) the pound sterling came in among our natural coin and like Moses’ rod, swallow’t up at ae gawpe, plack, bodle, merk, and bawbie.
But why bawbee? There are a variety of explanations, some which are more colourful than accurate. One popular suggestion is that it derives from “baby” because it carried a baby’s head, marking the rule of infant king James V who came to the throne at only a few months old.
A good story, but quickly disproved by the fact that bawbees first came to circulation only in 1541 - near the end of James V’s reign – and bore no head at all!
Francophiles point to “bas bullion” – base bullion – as the source, but apart from the phonetic contortions necessary to justify this derivation, mixed metal coins had been common in Scotland for a century and a half previously, so it is unlikely that they would acquire a novel name in 1541.
The most plausible origin is no less fascinating. Scotland’s mint-master at the time was the Laird of Sillebawby, and it seems perfectly logical the coin should be named after him.
The bodle is similarly reckoned to be a corruption of the mint-master Bothwell, and in the reign of James VI there was a coin called the Atchison worth eight scots pennies and one third of an English penny) named after the assay-master in Edinburgh.
Maybe one of the strange new South African coins should therefore be called a Stals, after the Governor of the Reserve Bank. | <urn:uuid:2a1abb3a-27ec-42c0-bee2-cef5f589d2f2> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,524 |
The human-rights group Reprieve arranged for Yasiin Bey, better known as hip-hop artist Mos Def, to be force-fed using the standard operating procedure at Guantanamo Bay, a session they videotaped. In the disturbing footage, posted at The Guardian, Bey has a tube shoved down his nasal cavity and down his throat, at which point he pleads for the process to stop. The footage is below, and while I don't know whether or not forced feeding crosses the line of torture, the exercise reminded me of the late Christopher Hitchens volunteering to be waterboarded.
The Obama Administration is force-feeding numerous Gitmo prisoners twice daily as a response to a hunger strike inmates launched to protest being held indefinitely without charges or trial.
The standard procedures used include "strapping detainees to a chair, forcing a tube down their throats, feeding them large quantities of liquid nutrients and water, and leaving them in the chair for as long as two hours to keep them from purging the food," The Washington Post has reported. Detainees say the procedures are abusive, verge on torture, and have "caused them to urinate and defecate on themselves and that the insertion and removal of the feeding tube was painful."
More recently, Al Jazeera posted a 30 page government document on force feeding procedure.
As Joe Nocera wrote around the same time, "For decades, the international community, including the International Red Cross, the World Medical Association and the United Nations, have recognized the right of prisoners of sound mind to go on a hunger strike. Force-feeding has been labeled a violation on the ban of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. The World Medical Association holds that it is unethical for a doctor to participate in force-feeding. Put simply, force-feeding violates international law." Had a typical American been told, circa 2000, that another country was force-feeding hunger striking prisoners who were being held without charges or trial, he or she almost certainly would've regarded the government responsible as abusive.
The Obama Justice Department defends the forced insertion of feeding tubes down the throats of prisoners. "The protocols for providing care to hunger-striking detainees have been performed in a humane fashion, with concern for Petitioners' well-being, and never in a manner designed to inflict pain or discomfort, or as punishment or retaliation," DOJ stated in a federal court filing. "It is the policy of the Department of Defense to support the preservation of life and health by appropriate clinical means and standard medical intervention, in a humane manner ... "
Awful options -- force feed prisoners or risk them dying -- are inevitable so long as the prison at Gitmo remains open and filled with dozens of inmates (a significant percentage of the entire population) certified by the U.S. government as ready for release and posing no threat to our security. | <urn:uuid:4f1b87f7-8fe1-47a7-988f-30b08a586d99> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,941 |
New study shows media underreport child sexual abuseMay 24, 2011 2 comments
The new report Case by Case: News coverage of child sexual abuse released by the Berkeley Media Studies Group with support from the Ms. Foundation for Women, demonstrates that child sexual abuse is underreported and that media coverage does not describe the social context of child sexual abuse.
The report includes recommendations for journalists on ways to improve coverage of child sexual abuse as well as recommendations for advocates to help push for policies that will institute prevention. I recommend that all sexual violence advocates read this report and share it with members of the media in their community.
“The Case by Case report provides a valuable reality check for media and advocates,” Sandra Henriquez, executive director of the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault, said. “Not only must we name child sexual abuse, but we also need to re-examine how to cover this sensitive topic in a responsible manner. It is essential that media reports go beyond covering individual cases
within the context of the criminal justice system, but that they include linkages between child sexual violence and potential solutions for preventing abuse before it occurs.”
Here are some examples of the troubling trends:
- The language used to describe the abuse was often vague and inconsistent. Many articles contained ambiguous phrases, such as “sexual acts,” “inappropriate sexual behavior,” and “lewd and lascivious acts with a child.” Such imprecise language limits the public’s understanding of the issue and disguises its severity.
- Nearly three quarters (73 percent) of stories were tied to a criminal justice news hook such as an arrest or trial that related to the aftermath of the abuse. This type of coverage puts the emphasis on the perpetrator instead of on the impact the abuse has on victims, their families, and the wider community. Such coverage also portrays child sexual abuse as an isolated event, ignoring its larger social context.
- Prevention was rarely mentioned. Less than one-third (30 percent) of stories discussed solutions. Of those, the overwhelming majority focused on interventions to address abuse after the fact, while only a handful looked at preventing future abuse.
Click here to see the report.
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A South Broadway store specializing old-fashioned treasures is transitioning into a new kind of market.
After occupying the same storefront on Broadway for 30 years, Sheptons Antiques is closing the doors of its 6,500-square-foot brick-and-mortar shop at the end of the month. The store, which sells antiques and custom furniture from its location at 389 South Broadway, will be switching to online sales.
“It’s a good time to get out and pursue the things that I enjoy doing rather than just being a shopkeeper,” Sheptons owner Kent Frick said. “The market isn’t as great or as strong as it used to be. Most people are buying more modern and contemporary items.”
Frick said the final nail in the coffin was the construction along Dakota Street last year; the store was surrounded by a chain-link fence that impeded access to the shop.
“The city had the street dug up for most of last year,” Frick said. “They said it was going to be a four-week project, but it ended up being a few months.”
Frick said sales have plummeted since 2000.
“Back before 9/11, we were doing half a million dollars in sales,” he said. “We did just over $100,000 over last year. Half of my business was designing things for second and third homeowners. With the housing market being suppressed, you aren’t seeing them anymore.”
Much of Sheptons current stock is marked down by between 50 and 75 percent. And Frick said Sheptons has seen a decline in a feature that used to set it apart: a specialization in items from India and Indonesia.
“At the time, we were some of the only people who had those things in Denver,” Frick said. “As that changed, sales changed too.”
Frick will continue to run Sheptons’ online store and complete custom furniture orders from his newly finished home workshop in Centennial.
“We do a lot of custom furniture,” he said. “That’s what I want to continue at the new workshop: to do restoration and custom building.”
Frick has run Sheptons out of its Broadway location since 1985. His business partner, Pepi Gaze, opened the original Sheptons location in Boulder in 1980. The duo each specialized in antiques from different parts of the world – Gaze was responsible for Eastern European artifacts, while Frick focused on pieces from Southeast Asia. Frick has been the sole owner of Sheptons for the last 10 years.
“The timing is right for this,” Frick said. “My little girl is going to be 8. I want to be able to go out and do things with her, not be in a store all day.” | <urn:uuid:bddda879-1bc3-4f3b-95c6-7643da17bd7c> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,475 |
A Study of Romans (16)
Joy and Aspiration
What does “hope of the glory of God” mean? Probably this: “The hope [expectation, aspiration] we have that we will participate in the glory of God.”
That is a picture of the sinner’s repeated and frustrating failure to measure up to the fulness of the image of God for which man was originally intended.
Joy and Affliction
The Greek word “we glory” (3) is the same as “we rejoice” (2). That “we rejoice in tribulations [afflictions]” means both that we are able to be glad even in spite of such circumstances and that we are glad because of such circumstances.
The Greek word for “tribulation” originally meant pressure. Oppression, trouble, distress are indicated by the word.
The pressure-experience of trouble and affliction helps produce in a Christian the quality of perseverance, patience.
Joy and Assurance
This probably means that the Spirit of God, when He convicted us, convinced us of God’s love for us; and that, when He came to dwell within us at conversion, flooded our hearts with the assurance and experience of that great love. | <urn:uuid:764ad2fa-8357-4110-8f4a-598e03470083> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 1,086 |
Every woman’s guide to recycling their mother-in-law
They come in all shapes and sizes. Large, small compact and accessorized, but the one that takes the cake is packaged in an irritating layer of grey, stands under five feet and marches to her own loafer-clad beat with a blue box in tow. Yes, it is sad to say but the saying is true: “When God Giveth, he Taketh Away”, and this time he took the cake. I am now blessed with Norma Rae for a Mother-In-Law –having tolerated many verbal onslaughts of my foibles, finding myself resorting to name calling in the shower (short shower – must conserve water).
I never realized how unworthy and unaccomplished I was until I stood towering under the verbal onslaught of this pint sized dictator…Admonishing me for working too hard, augmenting too much and wielding the pen for less worthy causes than saving the planet. I have tolerated years of abuse under her tongue only surviving by visualizing pounding her into a hole like the rubber mallets used at the amusement parks, foot resting in victory on her grey roots with only beady little eyes protruding from the dirt.
I am a victim. I endure “the mole” digging through my garbage, searching for that one paper clip I could have recycled, scolding me for not using cloth diapers (wait ‘til she reaches incontinence) and reprimanding me for wasting valuable surgeons times in the pursuit of eternal youth. No, the devil does not wear Prada, she wears hemp and is situated 2759.37 miles away amongst the tree huggers on the west coast of B.C.
TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT
But no, no and no, I do not have distance as an advantage. With the onslaught of new technology this tech savvy grandma has managed to master the internet, googling, downloading and printing anything related to the pursuit of nonsense I am suppos-edly on. Little age-spotted hands cutting pasting and highlighting, actually taking valuable time to fold, stuff and stamp then send these reminders to me with a triumphant ‘Told You So” writ-ten with some henna compound on the recyclable envelope.
I look back to how I allowed myself to land in this hideous situation and realize it was a plot. My most recent husband kept her from me, only introducing ‘it’ once we were banded together under the church and our first born was about to arrive. Just as one remembers their child’s first words, embedded in my mind was the congratulatory order by my daughters paternal grand-parent “I hope you’re going to teach that baby to recycle!” followed by her first step, unfortunately in our direction to visit the little thing.
Yes, once she got her Birkenstocks through the door, my husband exited temporarily for the corporate hills thanking me for taking care of family duties. The self-proclaimed family matriarch then found purpose in controlling through threats (“Well perhaps I should visit”) and forcing us to open her letters by sending cheques in every fifth envelope.
YOU CAN’T BEAT ‘EM, JOIN ‘EM
But then, as good things can come in small packages, I have found a saint in the making. Almost like opening the curtain and finding OZ, this woman is more than an advocate for the environment. Once I placed my shield on the ground and lowered my weapons I found I had joined the other side, I found I was subconsciously practicing what she preached.
It gets worse. My eyes are now on the children, checking their recycling bins and nagging them to conserve energy. I have morphed into an even more irritating version of my nemesis with so many more victims to nag. I see that she stands for what is good and what she believes in – reminding us that every little bit counts. I see that what she does is good. She recycles, she turns off lights, she takes public transit (she irritates) and she speaks her mind.
I can now say that I am better for knowing her. That pint-sized powerhouse still visits us on holidays, sharing in the festivities (who ever heard of “Free Range Ham”?) and making sure we are aware of the contributions we can make to the betterment of our society. I have stopped envisioning stuffing her in a blue box and now look forward to her visits, armed with thick skin, finding only amusement in her pursuits. (I even hand her a paper bag and gloves when she walks in the door and direct her to each point of disposal). And in all of this I have found the ultimate payback. The pay-back for plotting and scheming me into the pursuit of garbage sorting, I have found the one revenge feared by the lesser half of a marriage – I have become what every man fears, I have become my mother-in-law. And I will conquer! | <urn:uuid:e194d1c1-6ac8-4515-8698-8545317c3a4a> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,586 |
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Instagram is a great service for artists, designers, and others with a creative eye. Not only is it free, but it requires minimal gadgetry (you don’t need a fancy camera or expensive editing equipment – just a smartphone!) and it’s a social network that directly rewards your creative efforts with engagement. If you don’t have a presence on Instagram yet, you’re missing out on a fun social network that can sharpen your artistic skills. If you do have an account, read on for some ideas on how to build yourself a steady following!
Be Proud, Be Public
If you want to build a following, it is important to make sure you’re sharing your photos publicly! You’re barking up the wrong tree if you want to keep your photos private. Obviously this means that anything you post will be, duh, public – so don’t post anything illegal or that could make a future employer wary of hiring you.
To make sure your photos are public, go into Instagram settings and make sure the “Photos Are Private” slider is set to OFF.
Connect, Connect, Connect
While you’re in settings, take a detour into “Share Settings” and connect away! There is no point for you to log into Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr just to post a single photo. Instagram allows you to connect with Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Flickr, and Foursquare, so be sure to take full advantage of this feature. Each time you upload a photo, you’ll be given the option to select what social network you wish to share it with.
Be Selective: Don’t Share Crap
As an artistic social network, Instagram’s members collectively value artistic merit. However if your photos are complete and utter crap, no one’s going to want to follow you or engage with your uploads. Though the square format can present some challenges to people trained in traditional photography, it’s actually a pretty easy format to pick up as a beginner. Practice makes perfect.
If you need a little photography 101, Inspiration Feed has some great guides. Whether you’re just starting out and need some beginner photography tips, or if your challenges lie with photographing food or taking pictures in the snow, there are guides. Use them.
And remember, you can take photos with the app without sharing them – just go back to the camera after adding your effects. Wait until you have something awesome before flooding your feed.
Consistency is Key
Speaking of flooding your feed – don’t do it. Just a few photos a day, tops. Since Instagram is still a relatively small network compared to the big players like Facebook and Twitter, chances are that some of the people who might follow you actually follow a relatively small number of people. That means if you’re spamming their feed, that’s all they might see for hours, or even days. Don’t do that – it’s annoying.
The best thing you could do is share one or two photos a day, be sure to space them out as well. Either save them to share at a later time, or just refrain from Instagramming until enough time has passed. Try not to miss too many days in between though – constantly posting is key.
#Hashtag #Like #Crazy
Hashtags are how users find new photos around a topic, and they help connect related images. There are also hashtags for each filter. If you’re taking a photograph of your morning coffee (overdone, but okay if you have a particularly attractive looking beverage!), hashtag it #coffee. If you’re a code monkey writing up some new estimate software, you can try to take an artsy photo of that, hashtag it #software. If you’re taking a picture of the Eiffel Tower, hashtag it #eiffeltower. You get the idea.
Try to be trendy and hop onto popular hashtags. Jump on the bandwagon with daily and weekly tags like #photooftheday and #throwbackthursday. Check the trending tags in your Explore tab.
Map Those Photos
As long as you’re not feeling antsy about oversharing your movements, allowing Instagram to access your location will give you the ability to add photos to your Photo Map. You can select the exact restaurant, bar, or other place where you’re snapping shots via Foursquare. Doing so will bring your shot up with others’ in nearby locations, which could lead to new followers and possibly even new stalkers friends!
Engagement is Great
One of the tried and true methods of gaining followers on social sites is following someone and waiting for them to follow you back. This tactic works on Instagram, too. However, I’d advise against following every random person you stumble across; if you do, you’re going to have to put up with all that crap in your feed.
Instead, stick to following people you know and people whose photographs interest you. You can find people you know by going into settings and choosing “Find & Invite Friends.” To find interesting people use the Explore tab. This will show some of the most popular photos at the moment.
Obviously, people who don’t know you might not follow you right away, but they may be more inclined if you engage with them. Don’t just follow them; comment on their photographs. Don’t flood their feed with comments (which is both annoying and potentially creepy), but space them out as you see new images that you like in your feed.
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Reviews for April 2nd, 2010
Clash of the Titans
Directed by Louis Leterrier.
Perseus (Sam Worthington), the bastard son of Zeus (Liam Neeson), sets out on a mission to defeat Zeusí brother, Hades (Ralph Fiennes), the God of the Underworld, in retaliation for killing his adopted family. He desperately tries to save Princess Andromeda (Alexa Davalos) from getting killed by a giant monster called the Kraken. Hades wants to seize control of Argos from Zeus and to unleash hell on earth. In order to kill Hades, Perseus, a demigod, must defeat the Kraken, but to accomplish that, he must first chop off the head of Medusa and point her gaze toward the monster, thereby turning it into stone. A group of warriors, including Draco (Mads Mikkelsen), join Perseus on his adventure along with his guide, Io (Gemma Arterton). The screenplay, co-written by Travis Beacham, Phil Hay, Matt Manfredi, has essentially drained out all of the fun, thrills and excitement out of the original Clash of the Titans released back in 1981. Itís not a requirement for a Sci-Fi action adventure to have believable and true-to-life characters, but the hero, in this case Perseus, should at least be interesting and worth rooting for rather than bland and forgettable like the rest of the cardboard characters. The dramatic scenes fall flat while the action sequences have so much shaky camerawork and fast-paced editing that you can barely notice whatís going on throughout them. Director Louis Leterrier awkwardly transitions the action scenes with the dramatic scenes in a way thatís distracting and, at times, abrupt. One of the most laughably corny and contrived scenes is when Perseus is told that heís both a great human being and a great god, but the film never really fleshes out the human side of Perseus, so thereís no proof of him being such a great human to begin with. When it comes to the special effects, youíll feel so numbed by the CGI visuals, especially in unimpressive 3D, that it the purely aesthetic exhilaration quickly diminishes. Clash of the Titans is just as inane and lacking in thrills as Battlefield Earth, but at least Battlefield Earth offered campy dialogue and never actually committed the worst sin that any Sci-fi action film could possibly commit: boring the audience. At a running time of 1 hour of 46 minutes, Clash of the Titans manages to be dull, tedious, poorly paced, anti-climactic and, worst of all, one of the most boring and underwhelming blockbusters in recent memory.
Number of times I checked my watch: 8 Released by Warner Bros. Pictures. Opens nationwide.
Directed by Haile Gerima.
In English, Amharic and German with subtitles. Anberber
(Aaron Arefe) had left Ethiopia in the 1970ís to become a doctor in Germany. He returns, wounded, to his Ethiopian village in 1990 and recalls the events from his childhood up until now which have left him with emotional scars. He had left his beloved mother (Takelech Beyenne) in Ethiopia during the early 1970ís when a dictator, Mengistu Haile Mariam, turned the country into a war torn, highly unsafe place to live. While studying medicine in Cologne, Anberber befriended a fellow student Tesfaye (Abeye Tedla) and his girlfriend, Gaby (Veronika Avraham). He briefly romances Cassandra (Araba Evelyn Johnson-Arthur), an African woman and, soon enough, his debates with her and his friends ignite his passionate fervor for politics which puts his life at risk while concurrently changing his life forever. Writer/director Haile Gerima has woven a very intricate plot filled with many important events throughout history and the history of Europe which is very rarely tackled in films nowadays. Although all the flashbacks can be a bit confusing at times, itíll start making sense as Anberber, along with you, the viewer, struggles to connect and make sense of those events to try to figure out how they shape him as an intelligent, brave, politically-charged individual. A lot of what he says about politics during the third act of the film should be paid close attention to because the words are very wise and provocative without being preachy. Admittedly, though, Gerima could have trimmed down the length of some of the scenes which drag during the second act as Anberber walks through his village as it repeatedly brings back his memories. The scenes during which he interacts with Gabi and Tesfaye feel very stilted and distracting, especially given Veronika Avrahamís wooden performance in English that distracts from the filmís dramatic momentum. On a positive note, though, the musical score is superb along with the cinematography which looks breathtakingly beautiful with many lush scenes of nature and interesting use symbolisms, i.e. morning dew (or ďtezaĒ in Amharic). At running time of 2 hours and 20 minutes, Teza occasionally drags, but remains a provocative, brave, potent and heartfelt drama brimming with haunting, lyrical images and important sociopolitical messages. Number of times I checked my watch: 2 Released by Mypheduh Films. Opens at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.
The Thorn in the Heart
Directed by Michel Gondry.
This sporadically fascinating, often dull documentary focuses on the life and work of Suzanne Gondry, director Michel Gondryís aunt, and the dynamics of the relationship between her and Jean-Yves, her son. Suzanne lives in the French countryside where she had once worked for many years as a schoolteacher nearly 60 years ago. She had even taught Algerian students at one point. The first footage you get to see, though, is from recent times as she and her family, including Michel, gather at the dinner table and share some laughter together. Director Michel Gondry then travels with her to schools around the countryside and to visit her formers students. Not surprisingly, she reminisces with them about their experiences at the school so many decades ago. Michel includes a few of his trademark uses of stylish editing and cinematography to enliven the film a bit, but itís not nearly enough to keep you immersed into the film as a whole. The marginally interesting aspect of the film, though, is Susanneís tension-filled relationship with her son, Jean-Yves, after he had come out of the closet. Jean-Yves candidly admits that heís not happy that she neglected to inform him of his fatherís death. Michel fails to adequately explore their relationship, though, and doesnít ask provocative enough questions, so, naturally, Susanneís answers arenít particularly provocative. Toward the end, he does capture a moment when she starts to cry which feels somewhat moving for the viewer, but itís hard to cry with her because you simply never have the chance to get to know her. Phyllis and Harold was also a documentary about a director who points that camera at her family and exploring their history, but that was a much more engaging and heartfelt film with questions that didnít shy away from the heart of the matter and allowed for plenty of insights that touched upon universal themes. The Thorn in the Heart, on the other hand, feels too slight, lazy and not nearly as moving or insightful as it could have been with more piercing and provocative interviews. Number of times I checked my watch: 5 Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories. Opens at the Village East Cinema. | <urn:uuid:f5a866e5-c87a-4f8d-9b27-86b1f99b2699> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 7,286 |
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Piancastagnaio rises on the south-eastern slopes of Mount Amiata Piancastagnaio, in the Siena Province. The local economy is mainly based on the production of cereals, vegetables, fruit, vines, olives and on tourism, as the beauty of the area has caused the creation of many qualified hotel structures. The name of the place probably derives from the composite of “piano” with the meaning of “plain-lying place”, and of “castagnaio” coming from the Latin “castanea” with reference to the abundance of chestnut woods in the area. The town of Piancastagnaio was founded in the Middle Ages. From the very beginning it was placed under the jurisdiction of the Aldobrandeschi who built an imposing fortress that is still visible today. Over the following centuries the town of Piancastagnio was contested between the Aldobrandeschi, the monks of the nearby Abbey of Abbadia San Salvatore and the Visconti family.
During the XII century the city of Orvieto extended its influence on the town, annexing it to its holdings at the beginning of the following century. From the mid-14th century the Republic of Siena started competing with the city of Orvieto for the control of Piancastagnaio and succeeded at the beginning of the following century when they annexed the territory to the county. Piancastagnaio became a part of the Captaincy of Radicofani, remaining so until the mid-16th century when the Republic of Florence, after having previously defeated the Republic of Siena, annexed Piancastagnaio to its own dominions. And so domination started of the Medici Grand Dukes who were, at the time, in power in Florence. At the beginning of the XVII century Ferdinand I de’ Medici gave the village of Piancastagnaio as a fief to Giovanni Battista Bourbon del Monte.
Subsequently, with the rising of the di Lorena Dukes to power at the beginning of the XVIII century, feudalism was abolished. In 1776 Piero Leopoldo di Lorena elevated the village of Piancastagnaio to the rank of autonomous commune, equipped with its own statutes. Lorenese domination lasted almost uninterrupted until the unification of Italy in 1861 by King Vittorio Emanuale II di Savoia. Among the most important monuments in Piancastagnaio of particular interest is the Church of St. Bartholomew, the Sanctuary of the Madonna of St. Peter, the Church of St. Mary of the Assumption, the Municipal Palazzo and the Aldobrandesca. | <urn:uuid:881739d8-d373-4ab1-ba9b-e928bb1be47f> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,424 |
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Agenda – 4 /17/2013. Discuss interest and the time value of money Explore the Excel time value of money functions Examine the accounting measures of profitability Course Evaluations. Some Excel financial functions. Excel Functions are Excel Functions To use them, you must understand the
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TIME VALUE OF MONEY
FV = Principal + (Principal x Interest)
= 1000 + (1000 x .05)
= 1000 (1 + i)
= PV (1 + i)
$1,000 Invested at 5% return
How much money would you have if you invested $1000 each year for 5 years at an interest rate of 5% a year?
FV(rate, nper, pmt, pv, type)
PV(rate, nper, pmt, fv, type)
What would that same amortization table (also called a schedule) look like if the interest was compounded AFTER you paid, rather than BEFORE you paid?
(this is a type 1 on Excel financial functions)
PMT(rate, nper, pv, fv, type)
IPMT(rate, per, nper, pv, fv, type)
PPMT(rate, per, nper, pv, fv, type)
CUMIPMT calculates the cumulative interest between two periods
CUMPRINC calculates the cumulative principal between two periods
The arguments to both functions are the same
Functions require the analysis tool pack add-in
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Mark Gardener is not only on tour with Ride this year, he is also about to release his second album of 2015!
Pure Phase Ensemble is an international music collective created every year specially for the SpaceFest! festival in Gdansk, the 2014 festival had Mark Gardener of Ride and Ray Dickaty ex-Spiritualized as musical directors. Their performance at the festival is now available to buy as a CD or download.
You can listen to a track below and order the download immediately, the CD version is available from August 8th.
The album is certainly a lot more psychedelic/space rock than Mark’s recent sublime album with Robin Guthrie.
For those of you on social media and feel the need to keep up with these things, there is a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/purephaseensemble
SpaceFest! have made a short film about the festival below.
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Each time you exit Emacs, any data cached by SemanticDB is saved in the directory .emacs.d/semanticdb/, located in your home directory. Within this directory, the cache data is written into a set of files according to a SemanticDB-specific filename convention. If the SemanticDB directory does not exist, Emacs first asks if you want to create it.
You can change the name of the SemanticDB directory by customizing the
The name of the directory where SemanticDB cache files are saved. If
the value is
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The name of a cache file in which to save SemanticDB, when
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List of valid paths for SemanticDB to cache. Each element should be a directory name (a string); then the parse data from any file in that directory is saved.
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Criminal law’s promise as an instrument of safety is matched only by its power to destroy. It is arguably the most direct expression of the relationship between a state and its citizens. In no other branch of law is more at stake not only for the individual but also the community. Only the coming decades can tell to what extent the three new Bills meet the stated objectives of improving law and order, simplifying the criminal justice process and achieving the laudable goal of “ease of life”. Ideally, making criminal law compatible with the constitutional vision should have been the foremost object of the new codes.
Home Minister Amit Shah, like Macaulay, will be remembered for initiating a sea change in Indian criminal law. The 42nd report of the Law Commission, 1971 had proposed a revision of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). But the amendments in 1972 and 1978 lapsed due to the dissolution of Lok Sabha.
There is no denying the fact that the philosophical stance and fundamental principles of Macaulay’s code were the product of a particular time and culture, and the imperialist policy of the British empire. The Home Minister is right in asserting that some of the concepts underlying the code were either problematic or had become obsolete and, therefore, there was a need for reforms.
In 1860, when the IPC was enforced, it was certainly ahead of its time. Macaulay had himself favoured regular revision of the IPC. It is widely appreciated as a state-of-the-art code and was, indeed, the first codification of criminal law in the entire British Empire. Today it is the longest-serving penal code in the common law world. James Stephen, who drafted the Evidence Act, 1872, had remarked, “The Indian Penal Code is to the English criminal law what a manufactured article ready for use is to the materials out of which it is made. It is to the French Penal Code and, I may add, to the North German Code of 1871, what a finished picture is to a sketch. It is far simpler, and much better expressed than Livingston’s Code for Louisiana; and its practical success has been complete.”
The Modi government has taken the extremely difficult task of improving the IPC in terms of precision, comprehensibility, and accessibility. Unfortunately, for most crimes, the new code has not been able to improve the definition clauses and has merely clubbed penal sections with the definition sections. It has certainly widened a few definitions in cases like rape and sedition though the word “sedition” has been dropped. The requirement of mens rea or guilty mind with the use of the expression “purposely or knowingly” and “secession or armed rebellion” and removal of “disaffection towards government” are welcome changes. Yet, the term “subversive activities” again widens the scope with no definition of subversive activities given in the code. The inclusion of financial means in this section is unnecessary as terror financing has been included in the offence of terrorist acts, where the stringent special law of UAPA has been incorporated in the general code itself. Even Sardar Patel had opposed “sedition” as a ground for restricting freedom of speech under Article 19.
The distinction between “culpable homicide” and “murder” in the IPC was criticised even by Stephen as the “weakest part of the code” as their definitions were obscure. “Culpable homicide” was first defined, but “homicide” was not defined at all. Indeed, “culpable homicide”, the genus, and “murder”, the species, were defined in terms so closely resembling each other that it was difficult to distinguish them. The new Code does not improve these definitions except for punishing killings in mob lynching by five or more persons without using the term “mob lynching”. The retention of the death penalty too shows that the government continues to believe in the dated ideas of retribution and deterrence. The death penalty has been provided for the rape of a minor. The much-abused crime of cruelty has not been made gender-neutral, despite this being one of the rationales for the new code. The insanity provision has replaced the wider idea of “unsoundness of mind” with just “mental illness”. Section 143, which punishes the habitual export, import and selling of slaves, is a surprise inclusion as slavery has already been abolished. It is disheartening to see that the new code has neither made marital rape an offence nor made any improvements on the inadequate hate speech provisions of Sections 153A and 153B. The offence of adultery reappears in a new avatar as the offence of having sex on the false promise of marriage or promotion etc.
Criminal conspiracy was made a substantive offence only in 1913. There are doubts about the need to continue in the new code the type of conspiracy which is punishable even when two people merely agree to commit an offence without any overt act following the agreement. The offence is objectionable because it was added to the code by the colonial masters to deal with political conspiracies and a code committed to the constitutional ideals of the rule of law and democracy should not retain it. Justice T R Fitzgerald had observed: “The law of conspiracy is a branch of our jurisprudence to be narrowly watched, to be zealously regarded and never to be pressed beyond its true limits.”
Criminal defamation has a chilling effect on free speech and should have been decriminalised. Unfortunately, even the punishment of two years imprisonment has been retained by Section 354(2), though community service has been added as an alternative punishment. In a welcome move, community service has also been provided for first offenders in cases of theft that involve values of less than Rs 5,000 and for the misconduct of drunken people in public places.
Similarly, the offence of blasphemy has been retained though most countries in the world have decriminalised it. Liberal India should not be seen in the company of regressive Islamic states. The new code has also retained membership of an assembly without any participation in the actual crime as an offence. There have been instances when people have been sentenced to death and hanged, despite not even being present at the actual scene of the crime. Attempt to commit suicide has been retained only when it is done to put pressure on a public servant.
Criminal justice policy is largely irrelevant in reducing the incidence of crime. Achieving higher conviction rates may be a good goal but it simply requires that innocent people not be prosecuted. The inclusion of forensic investigations in major crimes is to be appreciated. A good criminal justice system must be accused-centric as in it one little man is pitted against the might of the state.
The author is Vice-Chancellor, Chanakya National Law University, Patna. The views are personal
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Today it is my stop on the blog tour for James Carol’s 17 Church Row. I was keen to be on this blog tour because I’ve read a few of the authors books and have enjoyed them, especially The Killing Game and the blurb sounded interesting. I received a copy of the book via Netgalley, I was under no obligation to read the book and all thoughts are my own.
Many people are scared about artificial intelligence and where it is taking us, is Alexa really listening in to what we talk about? Does Facebook read our messages and send us adverts for things based on what we’ve talked about with our friends?
It is scary when you think about it, I use Google Maps on my phone so it knows where I go and how long I stay there, let alone all the Google searches I do. Amazon knows and awful lot, I have Alexa and she is regularly used in my house, but what would happen if Alexa had more control over me than I realised?
When Nikki Rhodes decides that moving home might help her heal from the death of one of her twin daughters they start to house hunt and her husband, Ethan, is excited when he finds a new house that has the most up to date security you can get, an inbuilt system that senses what you want before you realise you might even want it, something designed to simplify your life in ways you never imagined. Nikki isn’t so sure but she agrees to the move after meeting the architect who convinces her that the system will be good for them all.
Of course, things don’t go quite to plan. In fact it all goes spectacularly horribly wrong. I read in horror at what was happening and what Nikki had to go through as she questioned her sanity and fought against something that she didn’t know was trying to tear her life apart.
I thought the idea for this book was brilliant, and while I didn’t like Nikki very much I was drawn into the story and wanted to know what was going to happen. I enjoyed reading it and the whole AI angle made me think. I hope that nothing like this could ever happen though!
For fans of J. P. Delaney’s The Girl Before comes a thriller that makes us question our relationship with technology and the lengths we would go to, to keep our family safe.
Three years ago, Nikki and Ethan Rhodes suffered a devastating loss when their four-year-old daughter Grace was tragically killed in a road accident. Ethan, a radio personality, escapes into work, leaving Nikki to care for their remaining child, Bella, who hasn’t spoken since that day.
Seeking a fresh start, the family moves into a revolutionary new house designed by renowned architect, Catriona Fisher. The house features a state-of-the-art security system, along with every amenity you could dream of.
For the Rhodes’ this is a chance to finally pick up the pieces and get on with their lives in a place where they feel totally safe.
But what if 17 Church Row isn’t the safe haven that they think it is?
About The Author:
James Carol was born in Scotland, where he spent his early years. He moved to England in the eighties and has lived there ever since. At various times he has worked as a guitarist, sound engineer, guitar tutor, journalist, and a horse riding instructor.
Broken Dolls, the first Jefferson Winter thriller, was published in 2014 and has sold a third of a million copies and been translated into twelve languages. This was followed by three other Jefferson Winter thrillers and a trilogy of novellas set during Winter’s FBI days.
James has also written three standalone thrillers. The first of these, The Killing Game was shortlisted for a CWA Ian Fleming Dagger award.
When he’s not writing, James can usually be found in his recording studio where he is currently writing and recording the first Dream Nation album.
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- Adaptronic is utilizing that the factory engine harness connector is not fully populated. This gives the end user the option to purchase the pin's - 316836-1 and install them into the factory engine harness connector
- The factory connector has a locking tab that can be easily popped open with a pic. Then the properly crimped pin will slide right in.
Fuel Pressure Sensor Instructions - Fuel PSI Install
- Remove the BARO Sensor
- Baro Sensor Wiring Color/Function:
- Black/Red = Sensor Input
- Black/Blue = Sensor 5v Output
- Black/Green = Sensor Ground
- In Eugene under the input tab select Atmospheric Pressure Sensor and change the Atmospheric Pressure Mode to - Automatically measure from on-board MAP before engine is started.
- In Eugene under the Inputs tab select Liquid Pressure Sensors- Select Fuel Pressure Sensor - Select Sensor type for external fuel sensor - Choose your fuel pressure sensor type (Most common 0.5-4.5v (150 PSIg), Change the Source from Default to Ch 4 - EMAP_ext
- Note when the Fuel Pressure Sensor is activated it enables the engine protection feature which is located under the Functions tab - then select Engine Protection | Rev Limit - Select Fuel pressure and disable or enable it - Here is the instructions for Engine Protection.
Oil Pressure Sensor Instructions - Oil PSI Install
- Suggested pin locations for the Oil Pressure Sensor:
- 3O = Oil Pressure Sensor Input
- 3K = Sensor 5V output
- 3M = Sensor Ground
- In Eugene under the Inputs tab select Liquid Pressure Sensors- Select Oil Pressure Sensor - Select Sensor type for external oil sensor - Choose your oil pressure sensor type (Most common 0.5-4.5v (150 PSIg)), Set the Source to Default.
- Note when the Oil Pressure Sensor is activated it enables the engine protection feature which is located under the Functions tab - then select Engine Protection | Rev Limit - Select Oil pressure / Temp and disable or enable it - Here is the instructions for Engine Protection.
Oil Temperature Sensor Instructions - Oil Temp Install
- For this sensor we recommend removing pin 5U from the engine harness connector. This pin was previously used for the MAF sensor ground which is no longer needed.
- Suggested pin locations for the Oil Temperature Sensor:
- 3Q - Oil Temperature Sensor Input
- 5U - Sensor Ground
- Note temperature sensors are non polarity specific which means either side of the sensor can be used.
- In Eugene under the Inputs tab select Temperature Sensors - Select Oil Temp Sensor - Choose your Sensor type - (Generic would be use for a sensor that is not listed - you will need to setup your own custom calibration which is usually documented from the factory specification sheet) Leave the source to default. Click on the sensor Biasing and Filtering section and make sure the Bias OilT sensor Input pin is checked and the Filtering (ms) is set to 200.
- Note when the Oil Temperature Sensor is activated it enables the engine protection feature which is located under the Functions tab - then select Engine Protection | Rev Limit - Select Oil pressure / Temp and disable or enable it - Here is the instructions for Engine Protection.
Fuel Temperature Sensor Instructions - Fuel Temp Install
Fuel temperature sensor input is a little more difficult to accomplish - the reason for this is the same input for the fuel temp also is used for the cruise control option. So if you still want cruise control but also want fuel temp you will need to install a flex fuel sensor. If you do not care about having cruise control and still want fuel temp (less expensive then a flex fuel sensor setup) follow these pin locations for Fuel Temperature Sensor:
- 5V - Fuel Temperature Sensor Input
- Splice into 5U or 3M - Sensor ground
- In Eugene under the Inputs tab select Temperature Sensors - Select Fuel Temp Sensor - Choose your Sensor type - (Generic would be use for a sensor that is not listed - you will need to setup your own custom calibration which is usually documented from the factory specification sheet) Leave the source to default. Click on the sensor Biasing and Filtering section and make sure the Bias FuelT sensor Input pin is checked and the Filtering (ms) is set to 200.
Flex Fuel Sensor Instructions - Ethanol Sensor Install
- The Flex Fuel Sensor behaves a little differently then other 3 wire sensors. It uses 12v switched power and chassis ground.
- Pin Locations for flex fuel sensor
- 1A - Flex Fuel Sensor Input
- Pull Pin 5AF and use that wire for 12V switched (can also be used to power a wideband like a LC-2)
- Connect the ground to the ground location on the passenger side right next to the ECU enclosure.
- In Eugene under the Inputs tab select Ethanol - Make sure the Ethanol Source is set to CAS 3
- In Eugene under the Tuning - Fuel tab Select Fuel MAP 1 Settings - Change the Stoich Source from Constant to Flex Fuel (Ethanol sensor required) Once this option is select it enables all of the flex fuel maps. Here is Andy's video on Flex Fuel.
- Flex Fuel Sensor does more than read Ethanol content it also reads Fuel Temperature. In Eugene under the Inputs tab select Temperature Sensors - Select Fuel Temp Sensor - Change the Sensor Type to From Flex sensor.
Adaptronic Lambda Module Rx8 Instructions - Rx8 Lambda Module
- When you receive the package you will want to follow the instructions on the Lambda Module product page on this website for installing the actual module - Lambda Module Product link
- Once you have the module installed you will need to pin the 6 wires from the lambda sensor harness into the OEM connector - I recommend two options to getting the wires into the OEM ECU enclosure - Option 1 is to go through the vents for the ECU in the front of the OEM ECU enclosure Note you will need to cut the cooling plate inside of the OEM ECU enclosure which is recommend anyways for better fitment of the ecu. Option 2 is to drill a hole in the OEM ECU enclosure cap and fishing the 6 wires through with a grommet to help with keeping it water resistant.
- Now that the wires are inside the OEM ecu enclosure you will want to pin all 6 wires to their associated location to read and operate the lambda sensor. Before you insert the pin you will need to unlock the associated connector that the pin location is at. You can go out and purchase pin removal tools but a simple pin board pin works very well for unlocking the connector. The lock is on the smooth side of the connector and you use the pin board pin to lift the lock. The pins only go in one way and should slide in easily - you should feel each pin click as they go in and you will not be able to pull the wire back out. If you do make a mistake and push the pin into the wrong location on the front of the connector each pin has its own individual latch locking the pin in. Use the pin board pin to lift the latch and you should be able to pull the pin back out.
- Black to Pin Location - 1E
- Green to Pin Location - 1H
- Grey to Pin Location - 1K
- White to Pin Location - 1N
- Yellow to Pin Location - 1R
- Red to Pin Location - 1X
Locked Rx8 Connector
Unlocked Rx8 Connector
Mazda Rx7 FD3S OMP To Rx8 Conversion Guide:
- Sensor ground, 5v, and Servo input will needed to be wired separately as the 2 addition wires (8 total to the Rx8 OMP) will not be used. As for the Sensor ground and 5v reference you can see there is multiple options on the Rx8 ecu to splice into or pin directly into the ECU depending on how many other extra sensors you are using. The APV motor connector has the sensor ground, 5v, and servo input already so you can use a connector kit to utilize these 3 wires. Please look at the wiring guide to confirm the wire colors for the APV motor.
- The OMP also needs 12V power on 2 of the pin locations opposite of S1/S3 and S2/S4 The wire color on the Rx8 Loom is White/Red.
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This ambitious canvas, monumental in scale and composition, depicts the Battle of La Hogue, a crucial naval action of the War of the Grand Alliance in which the English and Dutch fleets successfully defeated a large French invasion in May 1692. West first approached the subject in 1780, in a closely-related work, which he exhibited at the Royal Academy of that year (now National Gallery of Art, Washington). As an historical event that had taken place just under 100 years previously, rather than a more recent historical episode, it was perhaps an unusual choice, although not unique since in the Royal Academy show of 1780, the same year in which the first version of West's La Hogue was exhibited, the little-known artist Thomas Mitchell showed as number 6 in the catalogue The burning of the French fleet at La Hogue, 1692.
The battle, or more accurately a series of battles, was fought off Cape La Hogue near Cherbourg and the English victory ended the French threat of restoring James II (a Catholic) to the throne. Depicted in the painting are both the battle's hero, Admiral George Rooke (the figure with the sword in the small boat), and the exiled King James II (standing on the distant cliff). As a personal touch, West anachronistically added a portrait of his friend William Williams, an early supporter in Philadelphia, behind the figure of Rooke.
Depictions of modern history subjects were a rather recent innovation, for which West himself was largely responsible. His Death of Wolfe had been applauded for its relative realism. Some conservative connoisseurs, including the King himself, had urged West to paint the figures in classical attire, envisioning the great victory on the Plains of Abraham as a battle of Roman grandeur. West, who had made his fame with paintings depicting classical antiquity, preferred a more contemporary approach, and he dressed Wolfe and his troops in military uniforms. While not exactly a radical approach, it was highly innovative, and West's approach to history painting was adopted by the majority of his contemporaries.
West approached the Battle of La Hogue in much the same way. An event which had occurred some eighty years earlier, the battle's importance in English history was nearly equal that of the conquest of Canada, and West hoped to capture the drama of the event. His attention to detail was exacting, and an anecdote relates the lengths to which West went to assure the realism of the composition. William Dunlap, a pupil of West who was in his studio in the 1780s, noted that 'an admiral took [West] to Spithead and to give him a lesson on the effect of smoke in a naval battle, ordered several ships of the fleet to manoeuvre as in action and fire broadsides, while the painter made notes (von Erffa and Staley, op. cit., p. 209).' The paintings of van de Velde must have also been an inspiration, innumerable in English collections of the time; in fact among his last paintings were depictions of the same battle (see M.S. Robinson, The Paintings of the Willem van de Veldes, 1990, I, p. 216).
On the 11th of May, 1806, the painter Joseph Farington (1747-1821) visited the studio of Benjamin West, who until recently had been the President of the Royal Academy before his resignation was forced by a group of Academicians, including his fellow American, John Singleton Copley. There Farington viewed among other works a set of three large history paintings, of the type that had made West's reputation. West had planned the exhibition as a pointed reminder to the members of the Academy of the powers of their former head; it proved a huge success, with some 6,500 entrance cards issued and was viewed by-at least according to West's calculation-some 30,000 art lovers. The canvases formed a triad of great British military victories, the just completed Death of Lord Nelson (now Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool), and versions of two of his most famous pictures, the Death of Wolfe (now Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto) and the present Battle of La Hogue. Farington noted that West had hung all three together, and that the '[Wolfe] was painted 37 years ago,-- and the battle of La Hogue 25 years since' (see The Diary of Joseph Farington, New Haven and London 1982, ed. Kathryn Cave, vol VII, p. 2757).
Like the Death of Wolfe, the Battle of La Hogue was thus a reprise of one of West's earlier and greatest successes. The first version of the painting had been painted for Richard, Lord Grosvenor, who owned a group of five large-scale works by West (including the Wolfe) depicting scenes of 'modern' English history. The composition was an immediate success. A review of the Royal Academy exhibition of 1780, the year the picture was first exhibited publicly, noted that The Battle of La Hogue 'exceeds all that ever came from Mr. West's pencil.' It was engraved by Wollett the next year and a drawn copy with variations was made by the Dutch artist Dirk Langendijk to serve as the model of another engraving of 1783.
The popular notices for the painting of course only underlined the desirability for West to repeat the composition. Although it was exhibited in 1780, it seems that the Washington painting may have been painted as early as 1774-75 (von Effra and Staley, op. cit., who outline the complicated dating of the picture). While the Washington canvas is neither signed nor dated, the present version is signed and is dated twice: B. West 1778, Retouched 1806. It seems reasonable, therefore, to assume that at least the preliminary work was started on the present version as early as 1778, and only finally finished by West himself in 1806.
That it was a work that was completed over a number of years is certain, as is attested to by John Trumbull. West had given his student Trumbull, a fellow American who had re-entered his studio in January 1784 (after his expulsion from England under suspicion as an American spy), the task of completing most of the work on this second version. In his autobiographical Account of Paintings, John Trumbull recalled the Battle of La Hogue from the year 1785 during his apprenticeship with West:
The Battle of La Hogue. Copied for Mr. West, from his original picture-the same size, both on a Cloth-12 inches longer, & 6 inches higher:-- this extra size is left equally on every side, with a view to enlarge the Composition for a Companion to the Copy of Wolfe:-- This Copy was painted up entirely at once, and will only be retouched and harmonized by Mr. West:-- the universal Shadow was blue black prepared by Jenkins, by means of which the union & silvery tone were obtained-this picture was begun by Mr. Raphael West, who was soon fatigued and gave it up;-- it was finished by me in less than Sixty days, and given to Mr. West-it now (1813) hangs in his painting Room, having been continued to the whole surface of the Cloth by him, and is valued at Guineas 600.
Trumbull's account helps to explain the rather enigmatic signature and dating of the present work. It seems that West must have given his son Raphael the job of starting the present version of the Battle of La Hogue, a task that he was unable, or unwilling, to complete. If it was started as early as 1778, as is supposed, it must have been left aside for several years until 1785 when it was taken up by Trumbull, who finished his work in two months.
The present canvas is larger than Lord Grosvenor's version, as alluded to by Trumbull: 4 larger in height and some 11 inches in width. These areas were left to West to fill, to continue his compositional invention. There are a number of new figures on the left, and there are other slight variations from the earlier painting (such as the amusing detail of giving the bald Frenchman on the right a shock of hair in the present painting). It seems likely that West would have filled in these lacunae when Trumbull finished his work, thus circa 1784. But again, the signature notes that it was 'retouched' in 1806, so it is likely that West worked on it further that year, no doubt to bring it into line so that it might be exhibited with his Death of Nelson, for which he had (justifiably) such high hopes.
The third picture of the group, another Death of Wolfe, appears to have been painted by an anonymous studio assistant and finished by West in much the same way.
In a very real way, the present Battle of La Hogue epitomizes West's importance as the mentor and supporter of the younger generation of American (as well as, in fact, British) artists. It was almost immediately after finishing this painting under West's direction that Trumbull became confident enough to begin in the fall of 1785 his great series of paintings depicting scenes of the American Revolution, beginning with the Death of General Warren at Bunker Hill (Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT). West's encouragement and inspiration are evident throughout that picture, and his praise of it was fulsome (he regarded it as the best painting of a modern battle ever made). No less canny an eye than Sir Joshua Reynolds made the mistake of confusing the artists; when looking at the Bunker Hill, he said to West that it was 'better colored than your works usually are,' at which point West corrected his elder and gave Trumbull the credit.
Trumbull himself realized the importance of West's example, writing to his father that his 'pictures are almost the only examples in Art of that particular style which is necessary to me-pictures of modern times and manners. In almost every other instance the art has been confined to the History, Dresses, Customes, &c. of antiquity.' In another letter to his father, he was even more explicit that this painting of the Battle of La Hogue was the starting point for his own work: copying it was to be 'of infinite use if I should live to execute the plan I have in view -- of painting a Series of Pictures of our Country, particularly the great Events of the revolution.' | <urn:uuid:cf386cc0-777d-4a10-8b03-93cc295ca720> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 9,923 |
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My art is informed by what is going on around me and how I perceive it. Any solution I may feel to the current integration and transformation of our society at this time, I will try to express through my art. I will meditate on what the Spirit is trying to convey through my artwork and hope that it inspires people to look deeper. Transformation is a process, and only when we take the time to meditate will we find the deeply embedded truths of the Spirit.
If we each maintain our own identity and function and accept everyone else’s identity and function as God given and as part of the whole, together we can transform the Bride of Christ because the Church will be known “because they love one another”. A tree will not survive if any one of the four components are missing so we need each other to grow in love and unity so we may be THE Bride and not many brides. | <urn:uuid:7e75ad66-8c90-4a90-bc48-4447e9bbf8b3> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 870 |
According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) report, the worldwide mobile phone market declined 1.5% year over year in the first quarter of 2012, as Samsung leads the way ousted Nokia to become the world’s top mobile phone vendor. The Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 398.4 million units in first quarter compared to 404.3 million units in the first quarter of 2011.
“The halcyon days of rapid growth in the smartphone market have been good to Samsung,” said Kevin Restivo, senior research analyst with IDC’s Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker program. “Samsung has used its established relationships with carriers in a mix of economically diverse markets to gain share organically and at the expense of former high fliers such as Nokia.”
Meanwhile, the worldwide smartphone market grew 42.5% year over year in 1Q12, as Samsung overtook Apple for the smartphone leadership position. Vendors shipped 144.9 million smartphones in first quarter compared to 101.7 million units in 1Q11. The 42.5% year-over-year growth was 1% higher than IDC’s forecast of 41.5% for the quarter, and lower than the 57.4% growth in the fourth quarter of 2011.
“The race between Apple and Samsung remained tight during the quarter, even as both companies posted growth in key areas,” said Ramon Llamas, senior research analyst with IDC’s Mobile Phone Technology and Trends program. “Apple launched its popular iPhone 4S in additional key markets, most notably in China, and Samsung experienced continued success from its Galaxy Note smartphone/tablet and other Galaxy smartphones. With other companies in the midst of major strategic transitions, the contest between Apple and Samsung will bear close observation as hotly-anticipated new models are launched.”
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- It's a wonderful thing to watch an artist carve out his or her own niche; Saele Valese, a former Berliner who recently moved to Turin, has accomplished just that in two records. In Your Rosary, his debut 12-inch that surfaced at Hard Wax in late 2014, comprised a pair of deep, droning techno cuts that stood apart for their restraint and nuance. (Notably, it grabbed the attention of Alva Noto, Felix K and Svreca.) His next effort, the four-track You Cannot See Me From Where I Look At Myself EP, is also released by his JSMЁ label, and is further refined in all the right ways.
Like In Your Rosary, the tracks here are untitled—the only visual cues are the EP's name and Valese's striking self-portrait. Dark, slowly shifting drones and reverberations cast a thicker pall, while the percussive footprint is lighter and more elaborate. The A1 extends the tendrils of its increasingly ominous atmosphere over a sparse and skewed broken beat, while the A2, propelled by minimal 4/4 drums, locks into a taut, dungeon-ready groove. The B1 is a dark-ambient cleanse, its low blasts of noise suggesting the collapse of some far-off industrial infrastructure. You Cannot See Me's finest moment is the B2, its subdued percussive pulse and beautifully wilting pads making for a comedown that tugs at the heartstrings. It's easy to feel a strong sense of purpose in Valese's work, however esoteric it might be, as if the best is yet come. | <urn:uuid:978dcf6c-7006-4f35-9639-b698aa93e5e6> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 1,432 |
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The Red Outlines - Poem by Alex Vega
The lifeless vines still seem like they're weaving their way through
victim's darkest secrets till they're broken to the point of no return. Bul little do they realize that this imaginative world is not reality, onlythe empty void inbetween. Parallell are the two worlds which linger ever so lightly over your consceince. Then you open your eyes six-feet inthe air and discover your the only survivor inthis horror story, even the thought itself is red, covered with the deep red outlines...Everything is.
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Geoffrey Stone. Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004. Robinson, Eric P. "During World War I, a silent film spoke volumes about freedom of speech." The Conversation, April 6, 2017. Stone, Geoffrey R. "Civil liberties in wartime." ShareAmerica, April 6, 2015.
Eric Barendt has called this defence of free speech on the grounds of democracy "probably the most attractive and certainly the most fashionable free speech theory in modern Western democracies". Thomas I. Emerson expanded on this defence when he argued that freedom of speech helps to provide a balance between stability and change .
Free speech is essential to democracy for several reasons. First, the expressive acts of speaking, writing, associating, assembling, and dissenting are crucial to the fundamental democratic principle of consent of the governed. Second, freedom of speech and of the press help to ensure the accountability of government and public officials.
Freedom of expression embraces free speech, a free press, transmission and receipt of ideas and information, freedom of expression in art, and the right to silence. The right to freedom of expression also extends to the right to seek access to official records. This is provided for in the Official Information Act 1982.
Fear Street is a trilogy of films based on the books by R. L. Stine. In a unique move, each film was released just a week apart, with all of them made at once. The plot of each film is as follows. Part One: 1994: In 1994, a group of teenagers …
15/12/2021 · Is all speech protected? The First Amendment protects your right to express your opinion, even if it's unpopular. You may criticize the President, Congress, or the chief of police without fear of retaliation. But this right doesn't extend to libel, slander, obscenity, "true threats," or speech that incites imminent violence or law- breaking.
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To understand the future, one must know and agree with the past; otherwise, we keep repeating the same mistakes and losing sight of the ever-present wheel of what we believe to be education and development.
Many academics believe that the solution lies in having an integrated learning approach based on online learning in today’s world. Today, there is a great need for people to learn online; this is exacerbated only by the recent issue of COVID-19. Online learning drives the fastest changes in the world. Even before the COVID-19, there was already a high growth and acceptance in educational technology; it is estimated that by 2025 the total online education market is expected to reach $ 350 Billion! Online education offers students more benefits than physical schools. This includes the fact that:
It is easy to use and works better
Once you have found the basics of online learning at home, you will find that your children will complete the task more quickly, and be better organized. Gone are the days when your children may have forgotten to take their textbooks or exercise books to school, and as a result, they find it challenging to get involved in school. Gone are the days when your children complained of back pain because they carried heavy books with them all day in their bag. Gone are the days when your children could not do their homework because they left their diaries or books behind at school. Gone are the days when hours were spent going to and from school.
Work cannot be lost
Computers, tablets, and laptops allow students to send data quickly and store it successfully (using cloud services) This means it is almost impossible to lose their job. All key student assignments for teachers are stored on the Google Classroom server. The same goes for feedback, as well as any other form of teacher-student interaction: in the event of an online event, it will be kept secure for further consideration.
Having an online school at that time is best for both countries, not only will students find that teacher who is important in their life journey (not just in the academic sense), but students will have all the benefits I discussed above. Perhaps this kind of integrated learning using online schools in the future. | <urn:uuid:347734e3-12f1-4e4b-8576-bdc12cc1edda> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 2,249 |
After wrapping up the Pregnant in (_) interviews last week; on Monday I start a new interview series titled ‘Surrounded by Supermommies’. I have been extremely secretive over this series and not even the mommies interviewed knew what the angle of the series was going to be. Their answers are all safely with me, so the announcement now cannot influence their stories in any way.
The name is quite literal; every one of us is surrounded by strong mommies who handle incredibly difficult situations with calm and grace, and most of the time, we would never know it. My goal is to show you, and the mommies interviewed, how incredibly brave and inspiring they are.
These are women you may walk past every day. You may sit opposite them in a doctor’s office as their child climbs all over everything. You may see them in the Pick n Pay, trying to shush their grumpy toddler or settle their crying baby. You may see their child playing up or misbehaving at a mutual friends home. Or you may jealously watch their seemingly perfect lives on social media or roll your eyes as they post yet another picture of their smiling beautiful child. We are human and we can be a nasty judgy bunch.
I hope stories like these might make us hesitate a second before taking that leap; because they may remind us that we have no idea what personal hell another person might have walked through to get to the point where they are now.
The mommies I have interviewed in this series are some of the bravest women I know. I have watched them survive things that I feel sure would destroy me. The thing is, none of them feel they have done anything particularly special. They are humble in a way that shames me.
I am going to share the story of…
A mommy who had to have abdominal surgery while 25 weeks pregnant;
Another mommy who tore her stomach muscles at 6 months pregnant;
A mommy who was told for 6 months that her baby would not survive her pregnancy;
A mommy who chose to leave an abusive relationship at 37 weeks pregnant and be a single mom to protect her child;
A mommy who had to have stitches done to hold in her babies, because there was an arm halfway out the birth canal at 21 weeks;
A mommy who had to see her first child go under anesthetic 4 times before he was 9 months old;
A mommy whose baby was born covered in bruises from the various tools used to bring that baby into the world;
A mommy of two toddlers whose husband works overseas for half the year for up to two months at a time;
A mommy who adopted a perfect baby boy;
A mommy who has two children that suffer from asthma and breathing difficulties;
A mommy given a diagnosis at 25 that might prevent her from getting pregnant;
A mommy who had to hold her 2 month old baby’s hand and watch him close his eyes before he had major reconstructive surgery;
A mommy who was on bed rest for 17 weeks of her pregnancy;
A mommy who has seen her child hospitalised 7 times, for a week at a time, including their very first Christmas together;
A mommy who was expecting a healthy natural delivery until her 32 week checkup when she was told her placenta was calcified and dying;
A mommy who was misdiagnosed 4 times, had two surgeries and was told she had gone into menopause at the age of 29;
A mommy who had to leave her newborn baby at the hospital and explain to her crying 4 year old every day why she couldn’t bring her brother home;
A mommy who had 4 hours to prepare herself for the fact that her baby was coming via c-section;
A mommy who suffered through 5 years of infertility and a range of treatments, including IVF;
A mommy who took her perfectly healthy baby girl to her 6 week checkup, only to learn she had two holes in her heart and a blocked urethra which would need at least one major surgery…
These are only some of the stories I will share and they belong to only 9 women. They are all mothers to gorgeous happy cherished children. They have been places many of us cannot imagine, and continue to go into battle for their children and win every day. They are stay at home moms, work at home moms, and successful career women.
Each of them is somebody who plays, or has played, a role in my world. I have personally watched in awe as they have literally been taken down over and over, and how they jump up smiling every time, so that their kids just see their Supermommy.
We have all suffered through things we’ve felt we couldn’t bear. And these stories don’t take away from yours – your pain is your own and the worst thing that has happened to you is STILL the worst thing in the world. Just because somebody else has it ‘worse’, does not make you any less brave or strong.
Surviving because “you have to for your child” does not for one second take away from the fact that you are a Supermommy! You are incredible, you are brave, you are strong, you are fighting every day for your family and your children.
These mommies have opened their hearts and shared their stories with me, so that I can share them with you, and you can share them with anyone who might need to hear what they have to say.
The Mamahood team have sponsored this series, because they too work every day to share, support and inspire mommies all over South Africa. And they are going to help me share these stories to try to reach as many mommies and mommies-to-be as we can. I hope you join our village and help us spread these stories as far as we can get them.
There is no reason for a mommy to feel afraid and feel alone. The second you become a mommy, no matter how that happens, you have a place that you belong and people who have been where you are or are heading where you’ve been – reach out to them, share your story, share your fears and your frustration and your anger and your love and your joy and your hopes – you are NEVER alone.
Don’t miss the first installment of “Surrounded by Supermommies” on Monday.
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It is not often we get a really good laugh in the world of anti hate activism. Being bombarded with the kind of hate and rubbish we see on a daily basis can be a gruelling grind. So when a bit of light hearted relief comes our way we make the most of it. Particularly when the butt of the joke is the haters themselves…
There is an extremely funny parody of hate preacher convicted fraudster Stephen Yaxley-Lennon on Twitter. The account clearly labels itself a parody and even has the word ‘parody’ it its handle. However despite the account making it as obvious as possible he is not the real convicted fraudster Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (who Resisting Hate helped get suspended from Twitter) the far right knuckle draggers who support Robinson insist on believing he is the real thing.
So the parody account decided to have a bit of fun and posted this:
Now I don’t know how optimistic the parody was that anyone would fall for this or whether it was just a joke but the response was hilarious. The far right really fell for it as these screenshots prove.
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Go backTravelling With Your Silicone Breast Form
Many women write in to ask us if they can travel whilst wearing their silicone breast forms. The answer is a resounding “yes,” but there are some things you might want to know ahead of time.
Tips For Flying After Breast Cancer Surgery
- Airport security technology will not harm a silicone breast form.
- It isn’t likely that a silicone breast form will set off the metal detector alarm; however, if something on your person triggers the alarm, you will be subject to a secondary search which might include a pat-down.
- You can carry a medical Notification Card or a letter from your GP or specialist team, confirming your situation, to discreetly inform security of your medical condition if you choose (it is not required). If selected for a scan you might want to tell the security staff that you are wearing a breast prosthesis before being scanned.
- According to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, you should neither be asked, nor agree to lift or remove any article of clothing to reveal your breast prosthesis, and you should not be asked to remove the form itself.
- You can request that this
done in a private screening be by a female. area ,
- If you choose to carry your prosthesis or mastectomy bra in your accessible property rather than wearing it, it will be allowed through the checkpoint after it is screened. The prosthesis or the mastectomy bra is not subject to the 3-1-1 rules that normally applicable to liquids, gels, and aerosols because it is considered to be medically necessary.
Every country has its own security procedures and policies; it is wise to ask your travel agent or do preliminary research online if you are travelling outside your home country.
The Aqua Wave breast form is designed specifically for water activities. This lightweight swim prosthesis is made from a clear silicone which is water-resistant and dries quickly. Supplied with a handy waterproof bag.
Black Dots On A Breast Prosthesis After A Flight
One other item that we must address: The change in air pressure. It is not uncommon for lightweight silicone breast forms to develop temporary air bubbles if they are at higher elevations where the air pressure changes.
If you are a frequent flyer, you may have seen what appear to be small, black dots inside your breast form, due to the change in elevation. This is not a defect, nor will it harm the form. In fact, the air bubbles typically disappear within about two weeks of travelling or climbing.
So don’t worry, travel happy!
Read more: Get more tips on travelling after cancer, written by Karen, a breast cancer survivor after her recent world adventure: How to Travel (The World!) After Breast Cancer | <urn:uuid:be1dccec-1f66-4d89-8f57-8dc1c6f94991> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 2,727 |
Planning Board Presents Park Project Designs
RANDOLPH – Triangle Park may become a location for community interaction.
The Randolph Planning Board presented design ideas to the town board for the ongoing Triangle Park project that has been taking place in the town since this past summer. Planning Board Chairman Kyle Brown and guest member Mark Messinger presented the town with four grant opportunities that the town could decide on.
Two of the grant opportunities were already approved as funding sources by the planning board in April.
The goal is to beautify and/or improve the area of Triangle Park located at the intersection of Jamestown and Main streets near downtown Randolph. Since last year, the town has been in discussion about using the area for either a new community space or private development.
However, Brown and Messinger said in their discussions with the planning board that residents have been receptive to one community project in particular. Ideas brought forward to the town board or initiated by its members included a gazebo, a public park, restrooms, a mural, a small amphitheater and a U.S. military veterans memorial. Ideas were also presented to use water and electricity in order to accommodate either community or private development.
“Most people like the idea of green space or a gathering space,” Brown said. “A lot of people like the idea of the mural.”
Were the town to incorporate a public use area it would also be allowed to encourage regular community activities. Examples include events such as an arts and crafts festival, historic fair and similar organized and community supported items.
Members were especially interested in the idea of a mural presentation.
“That is an excellent way to use encourage community cooperation and contributions,” Brown said.
One option is the Appalachian Regional Commission, which provides grant funding for communities in 13 states that are included in the Appalachian region and its geographically involved counties.
In New York, Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties are among 14 counties eligible for application of grant awards through the organization.
ARC provides grant awards with a maximum amount of $150,000. Areas funded include asset-based funding, community infrastructure, energy, tourism, transportation and highways and similar municipality concerns.
Based on the information provided, the town approved of the application of the ARC grant by the planning board. The town has until June 3 to apply for ARC funding.
Brown and Messinger also said the board is eligible to apply for grants from the Chautauqua Region Community Foundations at a maximum of $10,000; the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation at a maximum of $600,000; and the McLaughlin Family Fund for a maximum of $2,500.
The grants from ARC and CRCF were the two funding sources which received planning board approval in April.
In other news, the board also received word from Town Clerk Gretchen Hind that the town was approved a grant prize by the New York State Department of Transportation of $2,012,646. The money will be used to improve a 2-mile portion of Main Street. The area involved will encompass a 2-mile radius around the Randolph Central School District grounds. Projects will include new street lights, sidewalks, solar-powered street signs, new plants and bike racks. Hind said the town has yet to receive any information on what the next steps of the project will encompass. | <urn:uuid:77bd0fec-c1a9-4560-9c84-07a5ecf0b886> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 3,487 |
The Data Disc project can be used to easily create bootable CDs or DVDs from a bootable floppy disk or from a disc image file on your hard drive. A bootable CD or DVD can be used to start your computer if your operating system becomes damaged.
- 1. Insert a blank disc into your recorder. The disc must be blank.
- 2. Select the Data Disc project.
- 3. Click the Make Bootable button in the data disc toolbar. The Bootable Disc window appears.
- 4. To create a bootable CD or DVD from a floppy disk:
- Insert a bootable floppy disk into your floppy disk drive.
- Select Bootable floppy disk in drive A:
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Stuart Hogg will captain a British & Irish Lions team featuring 10 England players in their first 2021 tour match against the Lions in Johannesburg on Saturday.
The Scotland fullback will lead an all-new starting XV to the one that defeated Japan 28-10 in Edinburgh this past weekend. Wales wing Josh Adams is the only player who retains his place in the starting lineup.
Louis Rees-Zammit, Chris Harris, Hamish Watson and Jonny Hill are all set to make their Lions debuts at Ellis Park.
Replacements Luke Cowan-Dickie, Zander Fagerson, Sam Simmonds and Gareth Davies are also in line to make their first appearances in the famous red jersey should they be called on to the park.
Wales loosehead prop Wyn Jones is the only non-Englishman in the front five, with Jamie George, Kyle Sinckler, Maro Itoje and Hill all starting. Loose forward Courtney Lawes and inside centre Owen Farrell complete the strong English contingent making up the starting lineup. There are a further four England players on the bench.
‘It’s good to have arrived in Johannesburg and get the tour under way,’ said Lions head coach Warren Gatland.
‘We had a pleasing win last week up in Edinburgh, but there’s still plenty we need to get right on Saturday.
‘I’ve been encouraged by the way the boys have trained this week. I feel it’s gone up a level from where we were in Jersey and we’re starting to see a better understanding of some of our tactics.
‘There’s some new player combinations for us to have a look at this Saturday – which is good information for us as the Test series approaches.
‘My congratulations to all those playing their first game as a Lion, and also to Hoggy, too – who I am sure will lead the side by example.’
TEAM NEWS 🦁
— British & Irish Lions (@lionsofficial) July 1, 2021
LIONS v THE BRITISH & IRISH LIONS
15, Stuart Hogg – captain (Exeter Chiefs, Scotland) #783
14. Louis Rees-Zammit (Gloucester Rugby, Wales)
13. Chris Harris (Gloucester Rugby, Scotland)
12. Owen Farrell (Saracens, England) #780
11. Josh Adams (Cardiff Rugby, Wales) #836
10. Finn Russell (Racing 92, Scotland) #835
9. Ali Price (Glasgow Warriors, Scotland) #843
1. Wyn Jones (Scarlets, Wales) #842
2. Jamie George (Saracens, England) #819
3. Kyle Sinckler (Bristol Bears, England) #814
4. Maro Itoje (Saracens, England) #825
5. Jonny Hill (Exeter Chiefs, England)
6. Courtney Lawes (Northampton Saints, England) #826
7. Hamish Watson (Edinburgh Rugby, Scotland)
8. Taulupe Faletau (Bath Rugby, Wales) #779
16. Luke Cowan-Dickie (Exeter Chiefs, England)
17. Mako Vunipola (Saracens, England) – Prop #787
18. Zander Fagerson (Glasgow Warriors, Scotland)
19. Iain Henderson (Ulster Rugby, Ireland) #808
20. Sam Simmonds (Exeter Chiefs, England)
21. Gareth Davies (Scarlets, Wales)
22. Bundee Aki (Connacht Rugby, Ireland) #837
23. Elliot Daly (Saracens, England) #822
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DAZEMARD (Dassemat, Dazmard, Dazmat) DE LUSIGNAN, PAUL-LOUIS, captain in the colonial regular troops, commandant; b. at Champlain (Que.) 19 Nov. 1691, only child of Paul-Louis Dazemard de Lusignan and Jeanne Babie; d. 2 Sept. 1764 at Quebec.
Paul-Louis Dazemard de Lusignan’s career followed a familiar pattern: cadet in 1705; ensign, 1712; second lieutenant, 1721; lieutenant, 1734; captain, 1744. In 1734 Lusignan was assistant adjutant at Fort Niagara (near Youngstown, N.Y.). The following year he was appointed commandant of Fort Saint-Joseph (probably Niles, Mich.), a post he held until 1743. According to his service record, compiled in 1766 at the request of his widow who was seeking a pension, he may have been instrumental in 1736 in negotiating and securing a definitive peace with the Sauks and Foxes, thereby ending an expensive war. From 1743 to 1747, Lusignan was commandant at Baie-des-Puants (Green Bay, Wis.). His most important command was Fort Saint-Frédéric (Crown Point, N.Y), which he held from 1749 (officially from 1751) until 1758. During the war years 1755–60 Lusignan served variously at Saint-Frédéric, Carillon (Ticonderoga, N. Y.), Île aux Noix, Saint-Jean, and finally Chambly in 1760, but he apparently did not take part in any major engagements, rather acting as a garrison commander who sent supplies and reinforcements to the fighting troops.
His career of 53 years as an officer was long, but others matched it. Lusignan was, however, more than normally competent, judging by the comments of the authorities. In 1732 Intendant Hocquart* spoke well of him: a “prudent man, who likes his duty and who is able to bring honour to the service.” The following year Hocquart defended him against a charge of private trading, pointing out that it was permissible “for gentlemen in this country” according to the edict of 1685. It is probable, then, that Lusignan, like other post commandants, eked out his meagre pay as a private trader with the Indians, while keeping a watchful eye on the activities of other traders, legal and illegal, passing by his post. In 1744, for example, he was commended by Governor Charles de Beauharnois for dealing with “disorders” in the trade at the Baie des Puants (Green Bay, Lake Michigan).
In 1749 Lusignan requested appointment as permanent commander at Saint-Frédéric, at that time the most advanced French outpost on Lake Champlain. The appointment was strongly recommended by both Governor La Jonquière [Taffanel] and Intendant François Bigot*, the latter pointing out that Lusignan could form an agricultural community around the post thereby lessening the burden of supplying it. The normal function of Saint-Frédéric, which the French government considered of great importance, was to prevent or at least restrain the illegal passage of goods between New France and Albany. The appointment, then, was one of considerable responsibility and the choice of Lusignan open to at least two interpretations. The most charitable is that Lusignan was an experienced officer of proven probity, given the post as a sinecure in his declining years. The other, borne out by the warmth of Bigot’s recommendation, is that Lusignan may have been an agent of the grande société and connived at smuggling, but this interpretation must remain only a suspicion.
In July 1749 Lusignan welcomed to Fort Saint-Frédéric Pehr Kalm*, a prominent Swedish naturalist, en route to Montreal and Quebec from Albany. Kalm found his host to be a man “about fifty years old, well acquainted with polite literature and [who] had made several journeys into this country, by which he had acquired an exact knowledge of several things relative to it.” Other comments confirm that the eminent savant found the Canadian-born and Canadian-educated officer a person of some refinement.
Lusignan was made a knight of the order of Saint-Louis in 1752 as a reward for long and faithful service. Severe illness apparently prevented his departure for France with the troops in 1760. He convalesced in Canada until 1764 and, when on the point of embarkation, died 2 September of a sudden illness. His widow returned to France. Lusignan had married at Montreal, on 8 Jan. 1722, Madeleine-Marguerite, daughter of François-Marie Bouat*. Ten children were born of the marriage; the eldest, Louis-Antoine*, had a distinguished military career.
AN, Col., D2C, 222/4, f.136; 59, f.21; Marine, C7, 190. Pehr Kalm, The America of 1750; Peter Kalm’s travels in North America: the English version of 1770, ed. A. B. Benson (2v., New York, 1966), II, 4. Fauteux, Les chevaliers de Saint-Louis, 152. Le Jeune, Dictionnaire. Tanguay, Dictionnaire. P.-G. Roy, “La famille Dazemard de Lusignan,” BRH, XXXVII (1931), 579–85; “Les commandants du fort Saint-Frédéric,” BRH, LI (1945), 330. | <urn:uuid:a0bf035a-f0ac-4c1e-ad47-6ca1cddef54d> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 4,797 |
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
We have been working on writing informational writing pieces as a class. We wrote on several different topics involving how to plant a garden, tools used in a garden and animals found in a garden. This week, the class is writing their own piece. I checked out several animal, insect and plant books from our school library. We first looked through all of the books and the students found at least three they would love to learn more about. After going through all of the books, I put them out on the chalkboard and called students up one at a time to pick one of their favorite choices. Once every student had a book, we broke up into partners and practiced one of our three ways to read a book...read the pictures! We then took the books home and read the words with our family before coming back the next day to begin our writing! | <urn:uuid:7788eb51-0d24-491a-a45b-1c41c5d98d8c> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 858 |
Foundation Replacement or Reinforcement in Montreal
The lifespan of a foundation varies from house to house, depending on the quality of concrete used. The first symptoms of a damaged foundation are the appearance of foundation cracks, degradation of the concrete in the foundation walls, the appearance of efflorescence and peeling and crumbling plaster.
In the Montreal region, many home owners are faced with foundation-related problems due to the mediocre quality of concrete used.
As experienced foundation contractors, the team at Construction K2 will evaluate the foundation repairs needed on-site, and determine the best procedure for replacing, reinforcing or repairing your foundation. We then take the time to explain to you in detail every step of the basement foundation repair work to be carried out.
The good condition of your home’s foundation is essential to ensure the safety of your family and to maintain the proper condition of the frame of your house. When a foundation crack or signs of humidity appear, or when the concrete deteriorates, don’t delay: contact us at Construction K2, the experts in foundation repair in Montreal.
- « K2 worked with the overriding goal of satisfying the client, by respecting our constraints and answering all of our questions professionally, during and after the work. We are fully satisfied with our choice. »
- Jp and Gen, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve, Montreal
Foundation replacement is carried out in several steps:
- Excavation and removal of material from along the existing foundation walls.
- Once the stone or concrete wall is broken up, demolished and removed in sections, steel columns are installed as temporary supports.
- Once the damaged or cracked foundation has been removed and the building is properly supported, we move ahead with installing a form and pouring concrete into a new footing, which will serve as the main support for the new reinforced concrete wall.
- Form panels are put into place, as well as the reinforcing steel and the window openings. Once all this is completed, the concrete is pumped into place.
- After the forms of the new foundation walls are stripped, waterproof mortar or Delta-MS membrane is applied on the walls.
- Installation of a French drain equipped with a geotextile membrane.
The next step, that of backfill, is one of the most crucial to ensure proper foundation waterproofing and a quality end-product. This is why Construction K2 inc. uses 3/4 crushed stone to backfill the large majority of its trenches in order to ensure perfect drainage of water towards the French drain and thus help eliminate humidity in your basement.
Take note that all our foundation reinforcement, repair and replacement projects begin with an on-site visit from our certified engineer, and the creation of plans and estimates that meet construction standards.
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The second annual ‘Caps Corporate Cup took place this past Saturday on the field at BC Place. This year’s tournament sold out in record time with an expanded field of 12 teams hitting the pitch – five returning and seven new teams.
A number of family and friends stuck around to watch after Saturday’s exciting 3-2 win by the ‘Caps over San Jose Earthquakes.
There were many close games, but in the end debutants Lawson Lundell were crowned champions after defeating Advance Line Painting in the final.
Companies interested in participating in next year’s ‘Caps Corporate Cup can contact Emilio Ekuba at 604-484-7865 or at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:ab2f5b34-f4b8-47e4-a710-654e34a9851d> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 641 |
Friday 19 July, 20 minute slots between 12:30pm & 6:30pm
Venue: The S.H.E.D in Derbados (Car Park)
Plea Bargain is a 20 minute, one-to-one performance based on Jake’s experience of the criminal justice system. You the audience take the role of a solicitor and with the limited time you have must find the facts and pass your judgement.
Plea Bargain is deceptively simple. A small interaction most people never experience. The piece stands as a window into a very grey area.
This work speaks to the time old questions we hear time and time again about our justice system. A bold statement to an already preaching choir. A stone tossed into an endless mass of murky waters.
"The dilemma at the heart of it is a genuinely difficult one for many of us – I think - to come down on one side or the other of. Pragmatism versus idealism: a dilemma of our times"
Alex, Third Angel.
"I walked into something my mind genuinely couldn't fathom. My heart felt heavy. My voice silenced - for the duration of the interaction I sat across from Jake stunned by the power of it all"
John, Icecap Theatre.
Departure Lounge’s intriguing outdoor performance destination for this year will be hosted by S.H.E.D. Presents with the S.H.E.D. (Social Higher Education Depot), an old garden shed placed in the heart of Derbados that will transform into a mobile arts venue to create an alternative site for artistic practice.
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Evolve.Space in Leesburg, Va is in need of interns!
We are seeking college interns here at Evolve.Space for multiple fields. People with the following backgrounds are encouraged to apply:
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Lapoche Garment Small Cube - Spruce1411GR 9355700000197
Keep your clothes wrinkle-free and well-organised during your travels with the Lapoche Garment Small Cube’s multiple panels.
- Crafted with two compartments, allowing you to keep your soiled clothes separated from the clean ones
- Features a mesh front panel, making it breathable while letting you view the contents of the bag without ruffling and wrinkling the clothes
- Built with double zipper with large pullers for easy access of your garments
- Comes with a handle for convenient carrying
- Space efficient, it can be stored flat when not in use
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Five months between pattern purchase and finished garment is not really that long a time. I've got some patterns in my stash that have been lingering unmade for years, but considering how excited I was for Cake Patterns' first release, well, this dress is somewhat overdue.
|I really wanted to take pictures wearing the Tira while eating actual tiramisu, but that didn't work out. Instead, you'll have to settle for this gorgeous house in Kensington in San Diego at sunset.|
Since mint is a color that is also a food/flavor (and apparently there's at least one food blogger that's made a mint tiramisu), I ran with the concept and dubbed the gray sparkly stripes the silver dragees.
|OH HEY GUESS WHAT IT'S A MAXI TIRA!|
|Isn't it gorgeously long and flowy?|
|The skirt just hits my instep in front, and skims the ground in the back.|
I started sewing this dress with some of my earlier excitement tempered by the reviews from other sewing bloggers -- it seems that in the smaller sizes, there are more issues with getting a good fit in the bodice, and having to take in the side seams significantly seems common, too. Of course, the day after I finished the dress, Steph posted a list of corrections for the smaller sizes that will be in the second edition. I love that she actually took the time to read all the reviews and make those changes! However, they came too late for me...but I did end up making some of those changes myself, so I know I'm on the right track.
|Even with all the changes, still no gaping!|
Based on my measurements and some of the finished garments I saw floating around the blogiverse, I cut a 30 for the high bust, an A cup, and a 25 waist. While my waist isn't actually 25 inches, the instructions helpfully suggest going down a size for a tighter fit, which is what I wanted. I was also really pleased to have stripe guidelines on the pattern pieces; in the past, when I've made garments with chevrons, I had to be extra careful and think long and hard about which way the stripes were going to end up before cutting (and even so, I may have cut a few pieces backwards), so it was nice to have that thinking done for me already!
|I am so proud of these chevrons!|
Changes I made: Besides the obvious change of making a maxi (my skirt ended up being 38" long, instead of the prescribed 24"), I also ended up
- omitting the bust gathers,
- adjusting the center notch placement so that it didn't overlap quite so much in the middle,
- bringing the side seams in by another inch on each side, but then my jersey was very stretchy and quite thin.
- When I tried on my bodice without the skirt, there was some weird wrinkling/dragging at the shoulders, and even when I pulled the midriff down to mimic the weight of the skirt (make sure you do that!), there was still a weird bubbly dip. I realized that it was because of the slight convexity of the shoulder seam; my shoulders must be really wide since they didn't hit anywhere near the supposed shoulder location of the pattern! I just made the shoulder seam a straight line and that took care of most of the problem.
- Because of the weight of the skirt, the zigzag stitching started pulling apart a bit at the center front and back and the side seams, so I actually went back and added an inch of regular straight stitch in those four locations. This doesn't seam to have affected the overall stretchiness of the waist much, as I can still pull it over my head just fine.
- At the recommendation of many of the reviews, I added the sleeve band after sewing the side seams, as I think it looks neater that way.
- I also didn't bother hemming the skirt, since, well, floor length circle skirt hem in jersey = slightly worse than sewing over beads and breaking needles.
- Even though Cake Patterns prides itself on always having pockets, I left mine out since the jersey is quite thin and the skirt is already quite heavy.
It's hard to say what my favorite thing is about this dress -- I love the colors, the wide stripes, the chevrons, the silhouette, the twirliness of the circle skirt...this might be one of my favorite makes ever!
|Mr. Cation: you look like a flamenco dancer! Me: Is that a good thing? Mr. Cation: I dunno, that's just what you look like.|
|Twirly pic spam!|
|Check out my impeccable stripe matching at the skirt side seams too! The bodice, not so much.|
Fabric: 4 yards of 60" jersey knit in mint/silver stripes. The silver stripes were annoying because they're actually woven through with tiny metallic tinsel threads which kept catching on my walking foot's upper feed dogs. I actually ended up abandoning the walking foot when it made stripe matching worse than my regular foot.
Notions: None! I'm toying with the idea of going back and adding elastic to the waist, but I don't have any of the correct size right now.
Hours: Four hours, with one devoted to cutting...spreading out that much fabric in our apartment had to happen in installments. Fitting the bodice and fiddling with the walking foot also took some time, but now that I have those issues figured out, future (non-maxi) makes should go much faster.
Will you make it again? Yes! Like I said, I'm a fan of the chevrons, the surplice bodice, and the cap sleeves. I even traced my size onto tissue paper so as to keep the pattern intact in case I want to make it for anyone else; I'm that enamored of how good it looks on a multitude of shapes and sizes. When I make this again, I do want to raise the underarm seam a smidge, though, since it pulls just a bit when I raise my arms.
Total cost: $4...gosh, I love Michael Levine Loft.
Final thoughts: In case you couldn't tell, I adore this dress. I've said before that the reason why I love maxi skirts is that they're the closest you can come to playing dress-up while still looking like a normal person, and the swooshiness of this dress is no exception! I love how the top is so sleek while the hem is so full, and the colors are just enough to be special without being over the top. The fabric is light enough that it almost hovers in the air around me as I walk, instead of getting tangled. Okay, enough gushing; I could go on for a while if I let myself. Thanks, Steph, for making such a fantastic pattern!
|Okay, just one more whirling dervish picture to properly show my joy at this dress.|
I've still got enough fabric leftover to make a top or a skirt -- but do I really need another dolman sleeve top? Probably not...but thankfully, EmSewCrazy and I have collected a bunch of project ideas for knits on our May Stashbusting board...check it out if you haven't already! And if you're scared of sewing with knits, consider this month's challenge a good reason to tackle them. Here are some good tutorials for starting on stretch fabric sewing. In the words of Thor, have at thee, stretch fabrics! | <urn:uuid:f21b4ab5-445b-4202-9fd0-7a1cc14fac85> | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb/tree/main/sample/350BT | fineweb | eng_Latn | 6,816 |
• Launch date: 7 February 1999
• Orbital insertion: 15 January 2006
• End of mission: 15 January 2006
• Agency: NASA
Stardust was the first spacecraft to return a cometary sample and extraterrestrial material from outside the orbit of the moon to Earth. In 2004, the Stardust spacecraft made a close flyby of comet Wild-2, collecting comet and interstellar dust in a substance called aerogel.
Two years later, the samples made it back to Earth in a return capsule that landed in the Utah desert. The Stardust mission samples indicated that some comets may have included materials ejected from the early sun and may have formed very differently than scientists had theorized.
The spacecraft, which was still operational, was later recycled for the Stardust-NExT mission, which flew by comet Tempel 1 on Feb. 14, 2011 | <urn:uuid:d302ba5f-fff9-4974-88ed-f032be906bf4> | HuggingFaceTB/smollm-corpus/tree/main/fineweb-edu-dedup | smollm-corpus | eng_Latn | 815 |
Despite its name, “heart failure” does not mean that your heart has completely failed. Rather, it indicates that your heart does not pump blood as efficiently as it should. While heart failure can lead to life-threatening conditions, you can also manage it through losing weight, exercising and improving your diet.
- Symptoms of heart failure include:
- Shortness of breath when you exert yourself
- Sudden weight gain or swelling
- Rapid or irregular heartbeat
The most common causes include:
Coronary artery disease: Over time, fatty deposits build up in the arteries causing them to narrow and slow the flow of blood. If these fatty deposits form a blood clot, it can block blood flow to the heart muscle and cause a heart attack and heart failure.
High blood pressure: When your blood pressure is high, your heart must work extra hard to pump blood throughout your body, which can cause your heart muscle to thicken. The heart may eventually become too stiff and weak to pump blood efficiently.
Damaged heart valves: Heart valves keep blood flowing in the correct direction throughout the heart. When a valve is damaged, the heart must work harder to pump blood, sometimes leading to heart failure.
Other causes of heart failure include damage to the heart muscle due to infection, alcohol abuse, chemotherapy or drug abuse; inflammation of the heart muscle; congenital heart defects; abnormal heart rhythms; or chronic diseases such as diabetes.
“When you receive a heart failure diagnosis, work with your doctor to determine what steps you can take to still lead a full life,” says Joseph C. Dwyer, MD, FACC, cardiologist, Saint Francis Medical Partner. “There are certain medications that can help patients with heart failure. But there are also many lifestyle changes that can prevent your condition from worsening, such as quitting smoking, restricting salt in your diet and weighing yourself daily to determine if you are retaining fluids.”
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For 18 years every night, Troy, Michigan-based Ancor had been printing all of Ford Motor Company’s vehicle window label packages, matching vehicle identification numbers (VINs) and then hand stuffing and overnighting them to 19 plants nationwide. Ancor’s Executive Director David Bartkowiak knew there had to be a better and more efficient way to manage the label packaging process – which had a 10-hour or less nightly production timeframe and a client-mandated 100% verification process.
Custom machinery such as the Ancor project often goes through many stages of development. Once the hardware is developed and the actual product is loaded into the process, an evolution begins taking place. In this case, a cooperative effort involving the staff from Ancor, Patti and KEPES (the hardware vendor) worked their way through a variety of challenges that came to the surface. Issues with products, speeds, tracking and insertion were overcome one-by-one.
What Patti and KEPES ended up with were eight feeders that each held one of the required, preprinted labels and a scanning and conveyer system for the large envelope and vehicle sticker. “We had to do a lot of coordination,” explains Steve Buffmyer, Patti’s Project Engineer. “We had the physical limitation of the label so it didn’t get airborne and caught on something. Then the settling time of the newlystacked labels before they reached the envelope coming down the conveyor. Then to aim at the physical target of the envelope with one, big and final shove of the contents in 1/3 of a second. That process doesn’t even include the feeding, scanning and sweeping of the vehicle sticker and envelope just amazingly and insanely fast so it meets its appropriate label pile at the right point on the conveyor.”
The run on Patti’s machine also had to coordinate with the external printer. A visual basic application controls the sequence of feed, scan, and verify. The server fires all the bar code scans, compares that to the numbers in the database and matches and interfaces with the PLC that actually controls the machine – it’s like a hand shaking between the server and PLC. It’s tried and true technology being used in a new, innovative way.
Ancor’s Bartkowiak surpassed his labor savings and beat the ROI expectations in 30 months versus the projected 36 month.
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When avid science readers browse the shelves for new titles, the books that grab their attention are best described by a single adjective: thought-provoking. And no scientist/author is more provocative in his approach and innovative in his thinking than University of Washington astrobiologist Peter Ward.
Ward's previous books have challenged broadly accepted interpretations and asked questions few others would even conceive of. If his conclusions dashed cherished hopes, such as the likelihood of communicating with other intelligent civilizations in Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (co-authored by Donald Brownlee), at least readers had the comfort of knowing that they live on a favored world.
But readers looking for solace will not find it in Ward's latest effort, The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? This time Ward goes after motherhood itself--or at least the central idea of the Gaia ("good mother") hypothesis that has evolved to describe the relationship between life and the planet as a whole.
The Gaia hypothesis takes two forms, "Self-regulating Gaia," and the more extreme "Optimizing Gaia." Both argue "that Earth life in the past, present, and surely the future has had and will have the effect of maintaining planetary habitability by affecting the external environment." Optimizing Gaia adds that life "actually improves conditions by changing such factors as planetary atmosphere and oceanic chemistry, the cycling of elements through the biosphere and the availability of nutrients to levels more favorable for life." (Emphasis in original)
Ward recognizes the value of the Gaia hypothesis. It gave birth to Earth system science, which "has proven both vigorous and enormously rich... [and] has attracted some of the best brains in all of science."
Where he takes issue is with the assertion of some Gaia adherents that the hypothesis deserves the scientifically exalted title of theory. He argues that when tested, some aspects of the Gaia hypothesis have come up short.
That is his motivation for this book, which develops a coherent counter-hypothesis. His archetype of the anti-Gaia is Medea, wife of the legendary Jason. In a fit of rage against her husband, she kills all of her children. Simply stated, the Medea Hypothesis claims that instead of enhancing or evolving in concert with Earth for mutual benefit, life is predatory and ultimately self-destructive.
Ward makes a strong case that scientists have accepted the Gaia hypothesis with too little challenge. The Gaian view is cozy, but it is inconsistent with the unforgiving competition of natural selection that has given rise to every species.
In nature, a species reproduces beyond the capacity of its environment to sustain it. The inevitable result is a catastrophic decline in population. We humans are the only species in Earth's history to consider that we may be reproducing beyond our resources. But our population growth continues nonetheless. We are also the only species ever to understand our impact on the environment and the global climate. Yet we continue to test the limits of the system.
One Gaian interpretation of our current situation posits that humanity may destroy itself, but the Earth will recover from our destructiveness. Another is that we will learn our lesson in time to save our species, develop a culture of sustainability, and stabilize the world. Either way, the good Mother Earth will continue along its path of becoming a better place for living things.
But is the Gaian central assumption correct? Does the life change the planet in ways that enhance its own survival, or do those changes accelerate life's ultimate decline? To answer that question, Ward, ever the scientist, examines the evidence.
The first step is to define what it means for a species to be successful. The measure can be its total numbers, its total biomass, its geographic range, and its ability to survive planetary changes, including events that lead to mass extinctions.
Will the ultimate measure of success be the ability to keep Earth inhabitable beyond its natural lifetime? Or will humanity (or our successor species) prove its mettle by moving to other planets before inexorable changes in the Sun or the Earth itself make this planet uninhabitable?
Beyond the success of individual species, Ward asks how best to measure the success of the biosphere. Do we count the number of species or estimate the total biomass through geologic history? Do we judge by the stability of the planet's overall ecology or the ability of life to recover from cosmic or geologic calamities?
The Gaian and Medean views offer very different predictions. Thus those questions provide a means to evaluate the competing hypotheses. The evidence is in the geological record, but the conclusions are far from obvious. Unsurprisingly, Ward's reading of that evidence is distinctly Medean. According to his estimates, Earth's total biomass peaked about a billion years ago, even before the Cambrian explosion of complex plants and animals.
Most Precambrian organisms were single-celled. They were also prokaryotes, which means their cells did not contain smaller bodies called organelles. The emergence of eukaryotes, with their genetic material contained within their cellular nuclei, soon led to the development of complex plants and animals.
Prokaryotes and eukaryotes have different strategies for surviving. In response to environmental challenges, eukaryotes change their body structures and evolve new species. Prokaryotes change their internal chemistry and transform the planet in the process.
No one would argue Ward's point that prokaryotes were responsible for the development of our oxygen-rich atmosphere. But Ward extends that argument. He claims that prokaryotes contributed to and were usually instrumental to the loss of diversity in every mass extinction event. They did so by changing the greenhouse gas content of the atmosphere, thus producing large and rapid excursions in global average temperature.
The net result, according to Ward, is that Earth's diversity peaked early in the age of animals and has been declining ever since. The long-term trend has been the decline of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, notwithstanding the current upward blip caused by humans' burning of fossil fuels. Much of that decline is attributable to biologically driven geological processes.
Ward expects that trend to lead to the demise of most plant life, followed by oxygen starvation of animals, long before changes in the Sun would doom Earth life forever. In other words, the processes of life itself will ultimately destroy life.
He is also pessimistic about our chances of colonizing other worlds in this or other solar systems. Our best hope is to adopt prokaryotic behavior supplemented by our intelligence. We have to change the natural world, with benevolence aforethought. "Only engineering will save us now," he concludes. "Time to roll up the sleeves, take out the slide rules, encourage the boffins, and get to work. All of us."
If that doesn't provoke thoughtful readers, it's hard to imagine what will.
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Find A Lost Pet(top)↑
If your pet has come up missing, it is up to you to find it. There are many steps you can take to locate your missing pet. Swift action coupled with major neighborhood networking, will increase the odds. The key is to get the information out to as many people and places as you can. So enlist the help of friends, family and neighbors in your search.
Follow these steps:
Start A Search Party:
Knock on doors and talk to the people in your own neighborhood first. Cover at least a three block radius, or if you are in a rural area, go to the nearest neighbors. Hand out flyers with your pet’s picture on them, the date of loss and your phone number, and offer a reward.
Remember that the approach for a missing dog is very different from that used to find a missing cat. Dogs run because they are terrified. Cats hide because they are terrified. To find a missing cat, you need a detailed search of your own and nearby properties. Bring a flashlight; ask your neighbors if you can look in their garages, alleyways, and backyards and under porches, grills and bushes. Has a neighbor recently gone on vacation and possibly closed a garage door on your wandering or hiding cat? Think about ways that your cat might have been unintentionally trapped.
To find a missing dog, you need to organize a much wider search party. Travel on bikes, by foot and by car and search a much larger area. Hand out your flyers to everyone you meet, post them on telephone poles and every place that’s visible from the street. It is not uncommon for a lost dog to run from well-intentioned rescuers. Make sure you have something with you to attract and reassure your dog when you find him, a favorite toy maybe, or something with your scent on it.
Put Up Flyers
Give copies of your flyers to veterinarians, groomers, trainers, pet stores, the post office, the grocery store, and any place that gets neighborhood traffic and ask them to put them up. There is very good advice about how to turn your flyers into effective posters here.
In The News(top)↑
September 14th & 15th, 2013-
First the “Barn Cats Boogied” on Saturday, September 14th, and then “Every Dog Had Its Day “ on Sunday, September 15th when the Humane Society held its annual dinner dance and then its 5K run or walk and 1 mile family walk at Fallbrook Recreation Center. Sixty-eight party animals came to the Barn Cat Boogie and one hundred and nine walkers and runners and fifty-seven dogs came out for the walk/run event, with the two events raising more than $11,000 for the Humane Society.
Sponsors of the events included C & B Farms, Dogs Among Us, Fulton Savings Bank, Furdi’s Modular Homes, Fruit Valley Veterinary Clinic, Going to the Dogs Grooming, J&A Mechanical, K-9 Grooming & Pet Motel, Longley Dodge, NBT Bank, Oswego Printing Co.. RJ Caruso Tax & Accounting, SallyeAnder Soaps, Dr. Robert Schaefer, DDS, Shanley Law Offices, Tara Animal Hospital, and Village Dental-Central Square, NY. Other donors to the event included the Oswego County Humane Society Board of Directors, Associated Dental Arts, Janet Barnhard, Mary Jane Beckwith and Lynn Morrison, Cakes Galore & More, Mary & Will Calkins, Community Bank, the Cutting Crew, George and Carol Darling, Giovanni Foods, Going ;to the Dogs Grooming, Pat Jones, J.P. Jewelers, Lighthouse Lanes, Margie Miner, Oliver Paine Greenhouses, Paws & Effect Grooming, Port City Day Spa, Ray’s Furniture Perk, the Red Brick Tavern, Remembrances Gift Baskets, Mike and Mary Shanley, Dr. Selma Sheridan, and Strands & Essence.
We can’t begin to tell you how much we appreciate all the community support we get for these events from the business community, our attendees and our supporters. They are fun to put on, fun to attend, and they raise vital operating funds for our programs.
June 1, 2012 – Humane Society Receives Gratitude Grant from Oswego Elks #271
The Oswego County Humane Society recently received a $1000 Gratitude Grant from the Elks National Foundation, of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.
The Foundation is a giving program, supported by donations from Elk members and lodges. Since 1928, the Foundation has in turn, contributed over $325 million dollars to communities in the form of academic scholarships, as well as financial assistance to youth activities, veteran service and other such programs. During the past year, Oswego Elks Lodge #271 met its per capita goal of $4.50 per member and as a result, earned an ENF Gratitude Grant in the amount of $2000.00. Gratitude
Grants must be used for local projects or by local organizations for the betterment of the community. Oswego Elks #271 chose to donate its Gratitude Grant to Human Concerns and to the Oswego County Humane Society in the amount of $1000.00 each.
Barb Capella, the Humane Society’s cat adoption coordinator, accepted the grant on behalf of the Humane Society and expressed her gratitude to the Elks. “As an active Elks member myself, I am very proud of what our organization does to help other community organizations, and as a member of the Humane Society’s Board of Directors, I can assure you that this money will be put to good use to find great homes for great pets. When we say, ‘People and pets are good for each other,’ we really mean it, and that’s why I love the work I do.”
March 2, 2012- It Takes a Community
In early February, 2012, Michelle Hanley, the Office Manager at Burkes Home Center in Fulton, contacted the Oswego County Humane Society about a pregnant cat, kittens, and other stray cats that were living around the store. Through the efforts of OCHS, the female was spayed and adopted into a home of her own, and three kittens are now in foster care awaiting adoption. Burkes donated a hand cart for use at the OCHS office, located at the Oswego Armory.
Pictured from left to right are Barb Capella, OCHS Cat Coordinator, Paula Demm, General Manager Michelle Hanley, Office Manager Ray Forsythe, Salesman, Scott Crissy, Driver and our shiny new hand cart. A huge thanks to Michelle for helping these cats and to Burkes for all of their support.
Oswego County 2014 Rabies Clinics-Not Scheduled Yet
New York State law requires that all cats, dogs, and pet ferrets be vaccinated against rabies. The first rabies vaccine should be given at three months of age. A second vaccination is required within one year of the first, and every three years thereafter. In order for pets to receive the 3-year booster shot, owners need to show that the pet was previously vaccinated and should bring their pet’s last rabies vaccination certificate to the clinic.
The health department suggests a $5 donation per animal to help cover the cost of the rabies clinics, but no one will be turned away. Dogs should be leashed and cats and pet ferrets should be in a cage.
Any time a person or pet comes in physical contact with a bat or wild animal, especially a sick or suspicious-acting animal, the incident should be immediately reported to the County Health Department. To report a possible exposure, or for more information about rabies, call the Health Department weekdays at 349-3564 or 1-800-596-3200, ext. 3564. In an emergency during evenings, weekends, or holidays, call the health department’s answering service at 341-0086
Animal Control Officers
IMPORTANT: Animal Control Officers do not have any authority to investigate suspected animal cruelty.
If you are aware of a case of animal cruelty, abuse or neglect, please call 911 to contact the Sheriff’s Department or New York State Police.
Town Dog Control/ City Animal Control Officers
Caroline Hosley – Animal Control Officer
City of Oswego Animal Shelter
621 East Seneca Street
Phone:(315) 343 – 1803
Fax: (315) 342 – 5668
Monday – Friday 9 AM – 5 PM Staff
1 PM-4:30 PM open to public
E-mail Address: firstname.lastname@example.org
2320 Co. Rt. 7
53 Co. Rt. 35
Phone:593-2333, ext. 226
366 S Albion Rd
298-3312 or 806-5949AMBOY
339 St. Rt. 69
1070 County Route 50
Phone: (315)387-3000 or 345-3843
1872 Co. Rt. 23
141 South First St
25 Lyboldt Rd.
824 Co. Rt. 34, Drawer B
1134 US Rt. 11,
Central Square 13036
Phone:668-2754, cell 247-7190
387 Miner Rd
387 Miner Rd.
242 Potter Rd.
S. Albion Rd.
62 Gunther Rd
1 Bridge St
Phone:298-5174 or 592-8601
16 Hayes Rd.
1 Bridge St
Phone:298-5174 or 592-8601
1070 County Route 50
Phone:387-3000 or 345-3843
Harry Hankey Jr.
69 Co. Rt. 57A
387 Miner Rd.
852 Rowlee Rd.
1872 Co. Rt. 23
3307 Co. Rt. 17
Holiday 2013 – It’s All About the Animals & the People
Spring 2013 – Leaning In
Holiday 2012 – Comfort & Joy
Fall 2012 – Thanks to You
Spring 2012 – The Long Haul
Holiday 2011 – It Takes a Community
Late Summer 2011 – Sarah’s Story
Spring 2011 – How Much Is That Puppy in the Window?
Holiday 2010 – Because They Make Us Laugh
Late Summer 2010 – Good News
Spring 2010 – The Nag Your Neighbor Campaign
Holiday 2009 – Uncovering the Truth About the Claim That People & Pets Are Good for Each Other
Late Summer 2009 – Sheltering Is Pointless . . . Until the Need is Reduced
Late Winter 2009 – Dollars & Sense
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China will organize various events around the world to celebrate the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival, as part of its efforts to share Chinese culture and traditions.
China aims to introduce its traditional culture and contemporary values to the international community and promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind, the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and the State Council Information Office said in a statement.
Spring Festival activities such as parades, lantern displays, performances, sports events, forums, and tourism and sales promotions will be held in many countries around the world.
A series of publications, including books, films and animations, will be created for overseas audiences to help them understand the history and traditions of the festival.
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Presidents Day Closures
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -Today is Presidents Day and there are several closings and adjustments you need to know about.
All federal, state and Allegheny County offices and courts are closed.
Most banks are also closed and there is no mail delivery.
City of Pittsburgh offices are open and garbage pick up is operating on a normal schedule.
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Gerhart J. Buehrer, 89, died Aug. 13.
After his World War II Navy service, Gerhart earned a degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He worked most of his career in Minneapolis, retiring from Setter, Leach & Lindstrom Architects in 1990.
He and Doris met and were married in 1950. After many moves, the family settled in the St. Anthony Park neighborhood in the mid-1960s.
He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Doris; his children: Joan, Bob (Joan Zerkovich), Gary Jr. (Debbie), Becky (John) Andrews and Barth (Michelle); four grandchildren; and his sister, Elizabeth Hiegel.
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