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KLEIDUNG ZWISCHEN BILD UND REALIE
INTRODUCTION TO THE CONFERENCE PUBLICATION
Sabine de Günther and Philipp Zitzlsperger (ed.)
The conference “Signs and Symbols: Dress at the Intersection between Image and Realia” took place in Berlin from 18–21 February 2016. Scholars from a range of different disciplines and countries were invited to speak about dress and its depiction from medieval times to the present day. Located directly next to the Tieranatomisches Theater (Veterinary Anatomy Theater), in the large auditorium of the Humboldt University Graduate School on Luisenstraße, the conference attracted a big audience and inspired an animated discussion, once again confirming that dress research is in no way a marginal, auxiliary branch of study, but far more a fully fledged discipline of its own. The still quite young vestimentary studies form a synthesis of the classical disciplines combining sociology, anthropology, history, art history, and cultural studies, with a strong influence from the field of visual studies. The international guests made constructive use of the interfaces, crossing boundaries into neighboring disciplines with ease. The results of this dynamic gathering have been recorded and are now available in the form of this anthology. Not all of the participants were able to contribute texts. Nevertheless, the articles in this volume offer a representative overview of an area of research that has great potential for further development and interdisciplinary cross-fertilization. The contributions collected here represent different methodical approaches and have the capacity to produce multi-facetted impulses in multiple directions.
The methods of dress research oscillate between the disciplines of visual, linguistic, and cultural studies, i.e. empirical and materials-specific analyses and their interpretations. Frequently, we have observed that different scholarly interests generate autonomous research, but that the formation of synergies and syntheses falls by the wayside. An interactive cooperation between the disciplines is still a desideratum. “Cross-reading,” the juxtaposition of different sources, requires particular meticulousness and a thorough knowledge of the different research disciplines. Common to all the disciplines engaged in dress research is the question of how to define and delineate the image-dress-fashion triad. This anthology is an attempt to instigate a reflection upon the methods used and thus a self-positioning of the various disciplines in regard to the study of dress.
A crucial dilemma in dress research is, among other things, the fact that from the time of Antiquity up to approximately the seventeenth century, apart from a few exceptions, very little in the way of cohesive collections of dress still exists. From the late Modern Era, on the other hand, numerous clothing pieces and ensembles have survived. For dress research, which in some cases must proceed without material objects, and in other cases is able to work with surviving objects, the problems in respect to methodology are very different. A further issue arises when one considers that the visual representation of dress or the descriptions of dress in other sources need to be investigated as to their correspondence to vestimentary reality, a procedure which again entails a massive methodological challenge. Katherina Wittich exposes the construct of the idea of Ottoman clothing and the customs generated by this clothing in her essay dedicated to original drawings from the 1560s to 1570s. She investigates how they were reused and provided with narratives in a publication more than 100 years later. Cuts, materials and forms of Ottoman clothing were described in travelogues as well as in cosmographies, but the predominant system of textual and visual narratives with constantly repeated topoi dominated perception. The way out of this vicious circle was the point of this conference, the record of which is now at hand with this volume.
The sometimes enigmatic semantics of dress are anything but a superficial, decorative, external phenomenon. Dress is a medium of communication, the roots of which reach back into the evolution of the animal world, in the sense of Darwin’s “selection of beauty.” Textual sources from the age of pre-modern civilizatory processes provide evidence of the insignia character of clothing – no more. It is the images that provide us with clothing’s actual abundance of meaning, far beyond any mere associations with respective signs: they can help decipher the vestimentary symbolic content embedded in the everyday reality of the past. Pictorial evidence widens the horizon of meaning of the clothing that it depicts, in that dress, on the way from realia into the picture, undergoes a medial transformation, sometimes even a metamorphosis of meaning. Signs and symbols, in their medial location between realia and image are an important area of knowledge. But clothing has never been included in the discussion around methodology in the field of image knowledge.
The transformation of signs and symbols, the significance and interpretation of dress and how it transfers meaning through the pictorial medium has been the focus of different authors in the following essays:
Tatjana Petzer and Martin Treml, using the example of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, show how – based on Warburg’s “pathos formula” – dress in imagery alludes to affects and bodily transformation. The focus is on the depiction of the transparent fabrics in the picture, where the subtle materiality and rendering of the folds transcends the mere display of fabric quality, dress codes, and artistic finesse, evoking as it does the fluid liminal spaces between the body and soul of the person portrayed. The fold, as a way of organizing objects and relationships, meets the epistemological, interdisciplinary interest in the “order of dress.”
Similarly, Herbert Kopp-Oberstebrink investigates the pictorial history of the habitus of the thinker and philosopher, and approaches the significance of dress from the perspective of cultural studies. Heidegger’s knee breeches, worn almost as a uniform, were a gesture of anti-bourgeois sentiment and became an integral part of the “existential” outfit, according to Kopp-Oberstebrink.
From the perspective of a designer, Barbara Schmelzer-Ziringer focuses on the principles behind the construction of fashion and on how fashion is presented. In doing so, she traces the present-day difference between male and female fashion back to the seventeenth century. Here, visual sources provide the concrete arguments for developing new methodological approaches with the aim of a critical revision of entrenched fashion history.
Thomas Weißbrich analyzes the surviving uniforms of Frederick II of Prussia, which have undergone a series of stagings and reinterpretations, caught between their utilization in a profane cult of relics and their significance as evidence of material culture. He hereby illuminates changing exhibition practices and the correlating interpretations of the displayed objects.
Comprehensive dress research from the perspective of cultural studies is concerned with both sides of the coin, namely, dress as realia and dress in imagery. Dress moves between these two poles as a (body) image in real life and in images. For probing the vestimentary symbolism between these poles, scholars are dependent upon both image and text sources. These can reveal much about social, estate-specific, gender-related patterns of identification that range from individual distinction to conformity within the framework of normative behavioral codes. Such patterns need to be brought to light.
From this perspective, dress regulations, ceremonial records, and police regulations are points of focus that can generate reciprocal effects. Findings show that ruling authorities’ efforts to enforce social norms required the development of ever more, and increasingly differentiated, regulations and penalties—not only in the area of clothing regulations and sumptuary laws but also for the governance of society as a whole. Seen in this way, the stereotypical complaints of the authorities about violations of the dress codes were of a functional nature: standardization as a process requires the determination of deviance in order to legitimize the amendment of regulations. From the point of view of legal history, the causes and effects of dress codes are of particular interest.
In a historical study of the court uniform at the Weimar court, Astrid Ackermann und Stefanie Freyer have investigated portraits of scholars from around 1800, with a focus upon vestimentary signs indicating the breaking down of the Early Modern Era estate-based social order. The authors have made use of police regulations, regional dress codes, and other, in some cases, unpublished sources to decode the portraits’ vestimentary symbolism, which in its ambiguity offered room for interpretation and which left its imprint upon a society in transition.
From a socio-historical perspective, Janine Jakob investigates the reciprocal relationship between the Early Modern Era dress and accessories of the urban elite in Basel, Zurich, and Lucerne and the mandates issued by the authorities there. Through a cross-reading of the surviving objects, pictorial sources documenting individual fashion consumption, and the city sumptuary laws, she she is able to construct a picture of the fashionable urban elite, and provide a description of the Hoffartsmandate (dress codes and sumptuary laws), which were different from city to city, and their interpretation and penalization by the authorities.
Of relevance as well is the multi-leveled issue of cultural transfer. Dress, or fashion, was an important commodity during the time of French, i.e. Spanish hegemony, and styles were eagerly adopted by other courtly societies – not without reinterpretation and adaptation, however, since competition existed between the courts just as it did between the emerging states of that time. It shaped European culture and gave occasion for subtle distinctions. The transfer of clothing and fashion in the Early Modern Era unfolded between conformity through assimilation on the one hand and distinction through adaptation on the other.
Also warranting more attention are the designers of hybrid dress, who conceived decidedly inauthentic vestments in early modern painting and sculpture. Anthonis van Dyck’s portraits, for instance, depict women in fanciful garments that are not adequately understood to this day, and the inauthentic costumes depicted by artists from Donatello to Schlüter in equestrian statues and busts of rulers led ultimately to the academic “costume dispute.” The exaggerated forms of fashion found in caricature as a genre are semantically loaded, shifting between nationalisms, social critique, and gender problems. Within this context, then, an important subject of inquiry would be the fundamental question of whether the art-historical approach of iconographical-iconological image analysis does justice to the subject of dress and its cultural meanings, i.e. the reconstruction of a “material culture”
Art historians have zealously probed the “language of things” in representational imagery. The leading question has been whether the depicted things actually “mirror” a past everyday reality or whether they interpret this reality symbolically. Repeatedly, we have found that the “language of things” alternates between realism and faux-realism and that the analogy to speech is far from being dependable in this regard. Panofsky saw “disguised symbolism” behind the veristically portrayed things of Early Netherlandish artists. Johan Huizinga (1933) as well as Svetlana Alpers (1983) have objected to the hypostatic “riddle-image” iconography that grew out this view: in The Art of Describing, Alpers restores the visual arts’ world of things to a level of truth that gives the descriptive quality of a visual depiction precedence over the narrative in Dutch-Northern Alpine art. Seen in this way, logocentric iconology is often a kind of cul-de-sac. Even if, in the Early Modern Era, certain things such as clothing were not a subject focused upon by humanistic scholars or a topic of theological discourse, they can still lay claim to the construction of symbolical meaning. The symbolical content of things, especially of clothing, – whether north or south of the Alps – can be deduced from the world of imagery and can generate realities that sometimes chronologically preceded textual reflections of the same things. In this context, it would be interesting to re-read textual sources which so far have been subject to vestimentary research’s habitual patterns of interpretation that can now be re-adjusted. Such texts include mainly non-descriptive sources, beyond ceremonial literature, and the systematic evaluation, for example, of court records, wills, or inventories.
Clare Rose has based her investigation of “quilted petticoats” of the eighteenth century on a parallel reading of textual sources, visual media, and the surviving realia. The examination of about 1,500 merchants’ trade cards, invoices, or court records concerning stolen petticoats, the study of the visual sources, alongside a quantitative documentation of the artefacts have provided a methodical basis for a historical clothing analysis.
The history of jewelry and its use for particular events is a detail that has often been overlooked in research. Using both textual and visual sources, Sara van Dijk has undertaken a critical comparison of the jewelry owned by Bianca Maria Sforza and the depictions of the pieces in the surviving portraits. For the first time, we have here a documentation of royal jewelry and of the careful use that was made of its inherent symbolic power.
Periodical media are the subject of two of the contributions: Wilm Grunwaldt has examined the processes of discursive transfer in the moral weekly Der Patriot (1724–1726), in which police regulations and dress code decrees are presented within a moral, entertaining, and informative format. The binding, normative effect of the authorities’ dictation of norms and regulations through legislation seems to have been negligible.
From a different angle, Anne Reimers investigates the field of „aesthetic phenomena“, of „fashionability.“ What contributed to its creation, what were its dynamics regarding the arts and the artist, and who had to navigate the system of stylistic choices? Through the eyes of art critics for German art magazines of the 1920s, ranging from Der Querschnitt to Das Kunstblatt, she looks at how fashion and fashionability were problematized and employed as discursive devices to stabilize the idea of the “objective value” of art works. Reimers describes how the terminologies of “fashion allures” and those of the “trends of the times” were played off against one another as a motto for visual artists: “confection” versus the impetus of the “authentic” artist and the concept of fashion as an ephemeral phenomenon versus “style.”
For every reconstruction and interpretation of dress and its vestimentary culture the surviving objects are of central importance. That being so, the various contributions work at the interface between pictorial, textual, and object sources and investigate different methodological options.
Johannes Pietsch describes how a textile for which a secure provenance is lacking can offer information as to the wearer, their status, and their taste. His subtle examination of the techniques of working with this type of primary source material is followed by a comparison with visual and textual sources, and finally leads to the thesis that the painters in the era under investigation kept very close to the originals in their depictions of dress.
Juliane von Fircks presents arguments as to the function, use, and wear of the surviving fourteenth century pourpoint of Charles de Blois. The piece is one of the few remaining objects of medieval mundane clothing, and can be traced back to the battle armor of the knights. Based on the realia and the visual sources, she contends that this pourpoint was actually a made-to-measure garment to be worn at ceremonial festivities at court.
Finally, the often very helpful method of “quantitative art history” is the point of focus. For vestimentary art history, this method can sometimes be imperative, especially when realia are unavailable. Thus, in the plethora of medieval history paintings one can make out clothing types whose frequent or infrequent appearance within certain specific pictorial themes can offer information as to their characteristics and possibly also to the realities of life in that era. Admittedly, a “critical mass” of visual sources is necessary to attain statistically significant results. Leonie Heeger has addressed the issue of a statistical history of medieval imagery.
Similarly to Clare Rose, she has constructed a dress typology for the early Middle Ages based on a quantitative analysis of the pictorial works from a carefully selected temporal and geographical context. She has then proceeded to compare these with textual sources (Einhard’s Vita Karoli Magni). The statistical evaluation of the visual sources and their clothing types, taking into account the provenance of the pictures and the history behind their themes, provides important indications as to what was commonly worn.
The conference and the publication of this volume have been funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). The Ulmer Verein e.V. contributed to printing costs, and the “netzwerk mode textil e.V.,” the interest group for textile, dress, and fashion research in the German-speaking regions, contributed to the costs of translation. Our particular thanks goes to the initiators of the Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Prof. Horst Bredekamp and Prof. Wolfgang Schäffner, speakers of the Cluster of Excellence, which was funded by the DFG. The research projects that they have generated create a unique space for interdisciplinary exchange with an inspiring diversity of disciplines and methods, options for cooperation and innovation, and the challenges inherent in such interchange. We are especially thankful for the trust that has been accorded to the undertaking of this conference and the publication. Many thanks also to the authors, who willingly provided the texts of their presentations.
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Zitzlsperger, Philipp:Schlüters Porträtbüste des „Prinzen von Homburg“. In: Andreas Schlüter und das Barocke Berlin. Exhib. cat., ed. Hans-Ulrich Kessler, Munich 2014, pp. 358–369.
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It’s time. There’s a finality and relief in those two words. After 23 years as Bar Services director and most of my adult life being tied to a fiscal year schedule defined by regional conferences, budget planning, midyear/BLI/annual meeting, I’m opting for no schedule … at least till the novelty wears off.
Of course, I also have to clean house—really. So I’ve been clearing out all the paper I’ve accumulated over the years. This has been a liberating exercise, knowing that most of what I’ve collected was “just in case.” While there is no longer a need for fingertip access (you know I have been unable to cross over to a paper-free mindset), I still can’t resist looking at the articles and notes I have saved. I have created three folders, two that will likely follow me home: one for all the professional development articles I saved that may still come in handy (or that I will share with my children), and one for those personal letters that recall a special memory, an event, a friend. The third folder will supplement the Bar Services archive that is part of our history.
Whether hard-copy or digital, that history is valuable: It reminds us how and why we came to be and how those beginnings continue to define and direct the work of the ABA Division for Bar Services. In retrospect, the task force reports of the 1973 and 1976 Caravans, led by ABA presidents, presidents-elect and the executive director, and state and local bar leaders who were active ABA members, were disruptive in that they set a new direction and tone that would define the ABA going forward.
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I am glad to have been a part of this, and to have had the opportunity to meet and work with so many professionals of exceptional character. My “wall of fame” with the names of bar leaders I’ve known and loved could paper my house. And in the summer weeks that remain, in addition to preparing for the Annual Meeting, finishing my parts of the Division’s procedures manual (finally, staff will know what I did), and packing for yet another move (one floor up), I will continue to enjoy looking at old hard-copy issues of Bar Leader and programs from NABE/NCBP/NCBF midyear and annual meetings.
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On Friday, March 24, 2023, Florida’s Governor DeSantis signed into law House Bill 837, resulting in dramatic changes to the landscape of civil litigation in Florida. Here is what we know about the new law and how it will affect civil litigation, beginning with a list summarizing the changes, followed by a brief discussion of the changes, their effective date, and their implications for products liability litigation.
Summary of Changes to Florida’s Civil Justice System
The new law—
- Reduces the statute of limitations for general negligence cases from four years to two years, while providing protections to service members during terms of active duty that materially affect the service member’s ability to appear.
- Except for causes of action for personal injury or wrongful death arising out of medical negligence, changes Florida’s comparative negligence system from a “pure” comparative negligence system to a “modified” comparative negligence system, whereby a plaintiff who is found to be more that 50 percent at fault for his or her own harm may not recover damages from any defendant.
- Specifies that certain evidence is admissible to calculate medical damages in personal injury or wrongful death actions. These changes modify the collateral source rule in a way that allows the parties to present to the finder of fact evidence of actual medical costs or evidence that better approximates medical costs that may be incurred by a claimant.
- Removes the attorney-client privilege for medical referrals. This means that if the referral is made by the claimant’s attorney, disclosure of the referral is permitted along with evidence of the referral. The financial relationship between the law firm and a medical provider would be admissible as relevant to the issue of bias of a testifying medical provider.
- Modifies Florida’s “bad faith” framework to
- Provide that an insurer has no liability for a bad-faith claim if the insurer tenders the lesser of the policy limits or the amount demanded by the claimant within 90 days after receipt of the claim and sufficient evidence to support the claim.
- Provide that negligence alone is not enough to demonstrate bad faith.
- Require insureds, claimants, and their representatives to act in good faith with respect to furnishing information, making demands, setting deadlines, and attempting to settle the insurance claim.
- Allow an insurer, if there are multiple claimants in a single action, to limit the insurer’s bad-faith liability by paying the total amount of the policy limits at the outset to the court through an interpleader action or, through binding arbitration, making the entire policy limits available for payment to the competing third-party claimants.
- Provides that a contingency fee multiplier for an attorney fee award is appropriate only in a rare and exceptional circumstance, adopting the federal standard.
- Creates a strong presumption that a lodestar fee is sufficient and reasonable in any action in which attorney fees are determined or awarded by the court. This presumption can be overcome only in rare and exceptional circumstances.
- Repeals Florida’s one-way attorney fee provisions for insurance cases, while maintaining the ability to award attorney fees to an owner, contractor, subcontractor, laborer, or materialman who prevails in a claim against a construction surety bond.
- Creates a limited ability to recover attorney fees from an insurance company after a total coverage denial through a declaratory judgment action.
- Applies the offer of judgment statute to any civil action involving an insurance contract.
- Requires the trier of fact in a negligent security action against the owner, lessor, operator, or manager of commercial or real property brought by a person lawfully on the property who was injured by the criminal act of a third party, to consider the fault of all persons who contributed to the injury.
- Provides that the owner or operator of a multifamily residential property is presumed to not be negligent in connection with a criminal act occurring on the property if the property has certain safety and security features and, starting in 2025, obtains and substantially complies with a Crime Prevention through Environmental Design Assessment.
- Provides that the amendment to the statute of limitations for negligence actions applies prospectively to causes of action accruing after the effective date of the bill, that the remainder of the bill applies to causes of action filed after the effective date, and that the bill shall not be construed to impair any right under an existing insurance contract.
A Brief Overview of the Changes
Reduction of the negligence statute of limitations. The new law alters the statute of limitations in negligence actions. Currently, claimants in negligence actions have four years from the time of the incident to file a suit in Florida. Under the new law, the statute of limitations will be reduced by two years. Thus, claimants will only have two years from the time of the incident to file a suit.
Shift to a modified comparative negligence system. Under the new law, Florida moves from a pure comparative negligence system to a modified comparative negligence system. Under the current pure comparative negligence framework, a claimant’s recovery is reduced in proportion to the percentage of fault, if any, that his or her actions or inactions contributed to the damages or injuries sustained. In addition, a defendant can further diminish its liability to the claimant based on the comparative fault of others. Under the modified comparative negligence system, anyone found to be at least 51 percent liable for an incident cannot seek reparation from the other party. This change will not apply to medical negligence claims under Florida Statutes Chapter 766.
Limiting what evidence is admissible to prove medical treatment and expenses. The language of the new law significantly modifies what evidence is admissible at trial to prove medical treatment and expenses. Evidence offered to prove the amount of damages for past or future medical treatment in personal injury actions and wrongful death actions will be generally limited to evidence of the amount actually paid. Evidence offered to prove the amount necessary to satisfy unpaid charges will be limited to the amount the health care provider is obligated to pay, should the claimant have health care coverage other than Medicare or Medicaid. If a claimant has health care coverage and receives treatment under a letter of protection, the claimant will only be able to board the amount the claimant’s health care coverage would pay the medical provider to satisfy the past unpaid charges under the insurance contract or applicable regulation. If the claimant does not have health care coverage or maintains health care through Medicare or Medicaid, evidence offered at trial will be limited to 120 percent of the Medicare reimbursement rate in effect on the date of the incurred treatment or 170 percent of the applicable state Medicaid rate. Further, in personal injury actions and wrongful death actions, as a condition precedent to asserting any claim for medical expenses rendered under a letter of protection, the claimant must disclose the letter and an itemized billing ledger for the claimant’s medical expenses.
Attorney-client privilege for medical referrals. The new law amends section 90.502 of the Florida Statutes to expressly state that there is no attorney-client privilege for communications by an attorney to a client referring the client for treatment by a health care provider. Currently, these communications between the attorney and client are privileged under Worley v. Central Florida YMCA, Inc., 228 So. 3d 18 (Fla. 2017), and the body of case law adopting the same, including a 2021 case in which the Supreme Court of Florida noted, “[W]e recognize the concern about what the Fourth District described as a post-Worley uneven playing field skewed in favor of plaintiffs when it comes to the discovery of financial-bias relationships between the parties. . . .” Dodgen v. Grijalva, 331 So. 3d 679, 685 (Fla. 2021). This change would arguably end the so-called “uneven playing field” post-Worley, given that an insurer’s relationship and financial payments to its own medical expert are currently discoverable.
Conditions and standards for bad-faith actions. The new law radically augments Florida’s bad-faith law. Specifically, the language explicitly mandates that mere negligence alone is insufficient to constitute bad faith in both statutory and common-law actions. Moreover, the language imposes a duty on the claimant and the claimant’s attorney to act in good faith when furnishing information regarding the claim, issuing demands, setting deadlines, and attempting to settle. In this regard, the language aims to rein in claimants and their attorneys who seek to fabricate bad-faith claims by withholding information or imposing unrealistic deadlines. The law creates an immunity in bad-faith actions where the insurance carrier tenders either the lesser of the policy limits or the amount demanded by the claimant within 90 days after receiving actual notice of a claim that is accompanied by evidence to support the amount at issue. It also creates a mechanism for the distribution of insurance proceeds when two or more claimants make competing claims stemming from a single occurrence and the amount sought exceeds the available limits. In that situation, the carrier can file an interpleader action or enter binding arbitration. Finally, the law repeals Florida Statutes sections 627.428 and 626.9373, which provide for one-way attorney fees against insurers.
Liability of residential property owners for criminal acts. The new language will protect apartment and other multifamily housing property owners from liability when a criminal injures a resident on the property. If the property owner takes certain precautions, such as securing video monitoring and lighting (among other things), the property owner will receive a presumption against liability. To obtain the presumption against liability, the owner or operator should install a security camera system at points of entry and exit that maintains retrievable footage for at least 30 days; install lighting that illuminates parking areas from dusk to dawn; install lighting along walkways and in laundry rooms, common areas, and porches; install at least a one-inch deadbolt in each dwelling unit door; install a locking device on each window; install locked gates with key or fob access along pool fence areas; and install a peephole or door view on each dwelling unit door that does not already include a window. There are several other requirements as well.
Per section 28 of the law, changes to the statute of limitations will only affect cases that accrue after the effective date of the act. Similarly, pursuant to section 29, changes in statutes pertaining to insurance policies will go into effect for policies issued after the bill was signed into law. Finally, section 30 of the law provides a catchall applying the act to all causes of action filed after the effective date unless otherwise expressly provided therein. As a result, there were thousands of lawsuits filed the week before the governor signed the bill into law, and the courts are now burdened with the task of handling this unprecedented influx.
Despite the statutory language, it is well settled in Florida that procedural law applies retroactively while substantive law does not. Moreover, statutory language regarding temporal reach is not dispositive. Under this framework, at least one Florida trial court has already held that section 768.0427 of the Florida Statutes is procedural and applies to pending cases. On May 19th, Circuit Court Judge Anne-Leigh Gaylord Moe of Hillsborough County entered an order granting the defendant’s motion in limine in the case styled Sharon M. Sapp v. James Brooks (No. 17-CA-5664). In so doing, the judge ruled that section 768.0427 (which governs the admissibility of evidence to prove medical expenses, disclosure of letters of protection, and recovery of past and future medical expenses damages) applies to pending cases, notwithstanding section 30 of House Bill 837. Continued litigation can be reasonably anticipated on the substantive-versus-procedural debate.
Impact on Products Liability Litigation
The change from a four-year to a two-year statute of limitations for negligence actions will not have much impact on products liability claims because the statute of limitations for strict liability claims remains four years. However, the shift to a modified comparative negligence system will place a greater focus on warnings and product misuse, given that a plaintiff found 51 percent at fault cannot recover damages.
Nicole Walsh is a shareholder at Hill, Ward & Henderson, P.A., in Tampa, Florida.
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He brought a lawyer. She brought receipts.
I Want It All . . . and I Want It Now
At trial, the husband asked for primary custody, confirmation of his “separate property” business and building, the marital home, and “all property in his name or possession” (which he said was minimal). His sworn inventory showed that the only property of value was the marital home and a small shipping business with a minimal bank account, so basically, he wanted, well . . . everything.
His lawyer was understandably confident, facing off against a non-English speaking, self-represented mother of two. Little did he know that his confidence was woefully misplaced.
This Ends Here and Now
The husband started by confirming that his sworn inventory was true, correct, and complete. He testified that the business only brought in $200,000 per year and “barely breaks even.” He offered his tax return, showing negligible income, hardly worth mentioning.
The wife was shaking her head and angrily shuffling papers—but didn’t interrupt. She stewed. And when he passed the witness, she attacked. “We own no other property except what’s in your inventory?” “Yes.” “You swear?” “Yes.”
This is the point where the lawyer should have realized that things were about to go horribly wrong.
She picked up a bag from under the table, rummaged around in it, and pulled out a document. “What about this?” The husband’s lawyer stood, “Judge, I’ve never seen this document before, so I object.” I inquired, “Did you request documents in discovery?” “Um . . . no.” “Overruled.”
The document was a deed to a downtown lot in the husband’s name, purchased during the marriage. He confirmed that it was accurate. She pulled out another deed—the same response from her husband. Then another. And another. Deed after deed materialized. Turned out they had purchased a dozen lots of valuable commercial real estate during the marriage, all put in his name. Satisfied, she turned to the business.
“How much did you say you made in the business last year?” she began. “Under $200,000.” Another reach into the bag, this time producing a stack of 1099s, ranging from $190,000 to $400,000. Another objection, but before I could rule, the husband interrupted loudly, “Yes, those are correct.” His lawyer snapped at him, “Wait for me to finish the objection!” to which he barked back, “Why? She’s got the proof right there!”
I jumped in. “Why didn’t you include these amounts in your business valuation or inventory?” He shrugged cavalierly. “I didn’t know she knew about them.” I nodded.
That Was a Huge Mistake
By the time she was done, he’d admitted to roughly a million dollars in annual receipts. But he clearly wasn’t worried. He flippantly testified that all the money was gone anyway. There was only one business bank account, and it held maybe $25,000. Operating costs ate up all the profits, he explained. I asked, “Did you bring a bank statement to show that?” “No,” he said innocently, “I didn’t know I would need to because it’s mine.”
“Okay,” the wife continued, “Where is that business located?” “On your lot.” I interjected, “Hang on. Did you say her lot?” He replied, “Yes, she inherited it from her mom. But I built the building on it!”
She stared him down unflinchingly. “With what money?”
“The insurance proceeds.”
I interrupted again. “Insurance proceeds? What insurance proceeds?” He explained that she received a hefty fire insurance payment after a fire destroyed the original improvements to the property that he used to build the new building.
She was mad that he used the insurance proceeds without consulting her. But what she didn’t realize was that in Texas, his using those proceeds to build the building makes both the lot and the building her separate property—not his. Oh, and “his” business that he started in that new building? Well, that’s community property.
But wait, there’s more.
Soon both sides rested and closed. In closing argument, his attorney asked me to give the husband all property in his name and possession (which I then knew included all the downtown lots and the marital home) and the business and all assets. The husband had not even mentioned the kids in his testimony—it was all about money and stuff. So, I asked whether the husband was abandoning his request for primary custody. The attorney assured me he was not.
This was a huge mistake.
You see, Texas allows a judge to interview the children privately if custody or possession is at issue.
So, after they finished their arguments, I ordered the parties to remain in the courtroom and directed the bailiff to bring the children around the back to chambers. I announced, “I’ll interview the children in chambers.” The husband turned to his lawyer and whispered frantically, “Can he do that??”
Yes. Yes, I can.
The attorney rose. “Objection!” “Basis?” “Um.” “Overruled.”
I soon knew why the husband was unhappy. It turned out that the husband secretly had another family across the border in Mexico that their mom didn’t know about, complete with a wife and kids. That’s where Dad took them during every visit. He had a big house and a huge farm there.
The Hammer Falls
Time to rule. And I was ready.
I confirmed the commercial lot and building as the wife’s separate property. I named her primary custodian of the children. I ordered him to pay the presumptive max of child support under the guidelines. I awarded her the marital home and all the other lots. I awarded him the shipping business and its tangible assets (giving him 90 days to vacate)—except that I awarded her the business’s “small” bank account.
At that, the husband came unglued, and started yelling at his lawyer in Spanish. I waited while they argued. Finally, the attorney stood. “Judge, we ask you to reconsider on the bank account.” “Why?” I asked. “Well,” he replied sheepishly, “my client isn’t certain about the balance.”
Peering over my glasses, I muttered, “You don’t say.” I continued, “I will rely on his sworn testimony on that point. Have a seat.” With that, I shifted my gaze and locked eyes with the husband. “And finally, I award to the husband the home and farm in Mexico.” His eyes flew open, wide as saucers. The wife and husband’s attorney exclaimed, almost in unison, “WHAT home and farm in Mexico??” I responded softly, “Ask your client later.”
The husband was deflated. He knew he was caught. His attorney, having no idea what had just happened, stood, ranting about an appeal as I walked out.
He Brought a Lawyer. She Brought Receipts
Being the only attorney in a trial definitely gives you the edge—but only so long as your client tells you the truth or you don’t woefully underestimate the opponent. If so, the results can be catastrophic, as this poor lawyer learned.
Listen critically to your clients. Probe and test their story. And prepare for trial as if the outcome depends on it. Because it just might.
Oh, and the “small” bank account? Turns out it had almost a million dollars in it.
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Hot, buttery scones are so versatile. You can enjoy them as part of an everyday breakfast or snack or bring them to elevate a socially distanced brunch, afternoon tea or a birthday or Mother’s Day gathering. This elegant recipe is made with Metz Salted Caramel tea-infused cream, and the finished scones are decadently drizzled with salt and caramel.
Kaylea Botting — a third-generation baker, tea aficionado and communications specialist at Amica — developed this recipe for the many tea parties and events that Amica hosts for residents, and to celebrate our partnership with sustainably produced METZ Luxury Tea.Makes: 16 scones
- 3 cups all-purpose flour
- ½ cup granulated sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 1 cup cubed cold unsalted butter
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 Metz Salted Caramel tea bags
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup water
- 2 tablespoons butter
- ¾ cup heavy cream — you can also infuse this cream with Metz tea if you wish
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Start by making the scones. In a small saucepan, bring heavy cream to a fast simmer. Once simmering, remove from heat and steep Metz Salted Caramel tea bags in the cream for 6-7 mins. Remove tea bags and set cream in fridge until cold. (This can be done the night before you bake the scones, if desired.)
- In a food processor or large bowl, combine flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Add cubes of very cold butter and pulse until the mixture is crumbly. If mixing by hand, use a pastry cutter until butter is the size of oatmeal. Once combined, pour the cream and tea infusion and mix or pulse gently until it begins to clump together.
- Take dough to a lightly floured surface and knead until just combined. Don’t overwork. Smooth out dough to 1-inch thickness and use a sharp knife to cut into wedges or squares.
- Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 375°F for 16 minutes or until golden brown at edges. Remove from oven and allow scones to cool on the baking sheet.
- To make the caramel sauce, place sugar into saucepan and shake to create an even layer. Pour water evenly into the pan to saturate sugar. Cook this mixture on stovetop over medium heat.
- The sugar will begin to bubble and become clear. Once clear (approximately 5 mins) increase heat to medium-high. A thermometer is useful — once the mixture reaches between 338-350°F, or turns into an amber colour, remove from heat and stir in cream, vanilla and butter.
- Keep stirring until consistency is smooth. Place into a jar and refrigerate until thick.
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Who is Ami Colé?
The brand is inspired by and named after Ami Colé — our founder, Diarrha N’Diaye’s mother — who was born in Saint Louis, Senegal and who has been operating her own hair braiding salon, Aminata African Hair Braiding, in Harlem, NYC since 1988. Her 125th Street salon has become a cultural sanctuary where melanin-rich women can come and transform with intricate West-African inspired hairstyles, while sharing the latest in pop culture, current events, and cross-cultural beauty tips. Ami Colé represents this beauty melting pot.
Why Ami Colé?
In the words of our founder Diarrha N’Diaye: “Ami Colé is about discovering, defining, celebrating, and exploring the excellence of those with melanin-rich skin, and using nourishing ingredients like our hero Baobab seed oil extract–native to Sub-Saharan Africa and known to strengthen, soften, and nourish our skin cells. Ami Colé exists to sharpen the focus on those who have been in the peripheral of beauty’s global narrative for centuries. This is our ancestor’s calling.”
Learn more about Our Story.
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1,4 Dioxane, Acrylates, Aluminum Salts/Powder, Animal Oils/Musks/Fats, Benzophenone + Related Compounds (chemical sunscreens), BHA (threshold of 0.1%), BHT (threshold of 0.1%), Butoxyethanol, Carbon Black, Coal Tar, Cyclic Silicones, EDTA, Ethanolamines DEA/TEA/MEA/ETA, Formaldehydes/releasing agents, Hydroquinone, Insoluble Plastic Microbeads, Lead + Lead Acitate, Mercury + Mercury Compounds (Thimerisol), Methyl Cellosolve + Methoxyethanol, Methylchloroisothiazolinone & Methylisothiazolinone, Mineral Oil, Nanoparticles as defined by EU, Nonylphenol Ethoxylates (NPEs), Oxybenzone, Parabens, Petrolatum & Parrafin, Phenoxyethanol (under 1%), Phthalates, Polyacrylamide & Acrylamide, Resorcinol, Retinyl Palmitate, Styrene, Sulfates – SLS + SLES, Talc (unless asbestos-free), Toluene, Triclocarban, Triclosan, Synthetic Fragrances.
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Are Ami Colé products vegan and cruelty-free?
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Do Ami Colé products contain gluten?
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Are Ami Colé products fragrance-free?
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Can I use Ami Colé with other products?
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What materials are the pouch made of?
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How do pre-orders work?
If you place an order with only pre-order items, you will be charged at checkout and your order will ship once the items are available. If you place an order with in-stock and pre-order items, you will be charged the full amount at checkout and your entire order will ship once the pre-order items are available.
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How To build home equity How to Build Home Equity. April 24th, 2019 | Home Equity. While it is possible to get into homeownership with little upfront investment, there can be many benefits to building up equity in a property. Mortgage equity is the value of the homeowner’s stake in a home. It is basically how much the.
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Buying a home is one of the biggest purchase decisions you’ll ever make. But getting a mortgage loan doesn’t have to be difficult. That’s why LendingTree helps you find the right home financing with the right mortgage lender.Whether this is your first time applying for a home loan, or you’re buying a vacation home or investment property, you’ll want to be prepared.
If this means you'll pile a second mortgage on your back, you definitely should. One traditional trick of buying and selling a home at the same time is the contract. But the heloc (home equity Line of Credit) is dangerous because it usually.
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Road Trip Planning? Get the Best of Road Tripping Minus the Hassles.
Skip the Stress of Planning a Road Trip and Simplify with Amtrak Train Travel
Thinking about planning a road trip? Few things beat embarking on a travel adventure and seeing beautiful scenery whiz by your window as you work your way toward your final destination. But driving a vehicle long distances can be exhausting, and fuel costs can add up quickly. Is there a better option?
The fact is, this kind of planning can be complex, and whether you're leaving for a long weekend or an entire month, figuring out travel logistics can be daunting. So next time you start your road trip planning, instead of driving yourself, reconsider and explore the benefits of traveling by train.
Many people prefer to travel with Amtrak because train travel provides many benefits associated with road trip travel, without the hassles and high cost. On a train, you get to enjoy all the gorgeous scenery as you relax comfortably in your seat or private room. Stretch your legs, read a book or take a nap — there's no worry about watching the gas gauge or the traffic on the road.
Trip planning for train travel is easy on Amtrak.com. It's simple to reserve tickets, get station details, and learn about baggage policies in one convenient online location. You can even add a hotel or rent a car, eliminating the need to visit multiple websites for your travel needs.
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allow contamination by toxin producer species present in the natural environment. In this study, we investigated the presence of total microcystins, seven individual microcystins (RR, YR, LR, LA, LY, LW, LF), anatoxin-a, dihydroanatoxin-a, epoxyanatoxin-a, cylindrospermopsin, saxitoxin, and -methylamino-L-alanine in 18 different commercially available products containing Spirulina or
Aphanizomenon flos-aquae. Total microcystins analysis was accomplished using a Lemieux oxidation and a chemical derivatization using dansyl chloride was needed for the simultaneous analysis of cylindrospermopsin, saxitoxin, and -methylamino-L-alanine. Moreover, the use of laser diode thermal desorption (LDTD) and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) both coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) enabled high performance detection and quantitation. Out of the 18 products analyzed, 8 contained some cyanotoxins at levels exceeding the tolerable daily intake values. The presence of cyanotoxins in these algal dietary supplements reinforces the need for a better quality control as well as consumer’s awareness on the potential risks
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Fisher-Price and Nickelodeon Celebrate Dora’s 10th Anniversary
Mattel’s Fisher-Price joins with Nickelodeon to celebrate Dora the Explorer’s 10th anniversary this Saturday, August 14 with the debut of the new We Did It! Dora doll, now available at major retailers across the country for an MSRP of $39.99.
The original Dora doll sang the We Did It! song and swayed back and forth to the music. Eight years of technological advances later, Fisher-Price updates the new Dora doll with movements that were not possible before. This year, Dora moves her arms, swings her long hair and swivels her body to the beat as she teaches kids the steps to her signature dance and engages them with four modes of interactive play: Teach-Me (where Dora teaches kids the dance), We Did It! Dance, Freeze Dance, and Say It Two Ways bilingual dance game.
Nickelodeon celebrates the 10th anniversary of Dora the Explorer with a new, hour-long primetime TV movie, Dora’s Big Birthday Adventure, premiering Sunday, August 15, at 8:00 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon. Following the TV movie, at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT), Nickelodeon will premiere the first-ever Dora 10th anniversary documentary, a special 12-minute tribute.
Survey Says: Play Family Feud Decades for the Wii
Ubisoft announced that it will be publishing Family Feud Decades, an interactive video game that challenges players with thousands of authentic survey questions from four different eras of the game show: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. Created by Ludia and licensed by FremantleMedia Enterprises, Family Feud Decades is expected to be released November 9, 2010, in North America for the Wii.
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Last week, I wrote about gender, patriarchy, and related matters as factors in family history. I was interested in how gender roles, power, and authority shape family life, and hence, the history a family leaves behind. I noted that stories about my father, uncles, and grandfathers dominated our family lore, and I wrote about the value I found in stories about my mother, aunt, and grandmothers (along with the archival materials my maternal grandmother left behind).
Well, I wrote all these things and thought I was done with the subject, at least for the moment.
Then I read Beverly Akerman’s post on Edward Shorter’s piece in The Globe and Mail on the phenomenal popularity of the E.L. James novel Fifty Shades of Grey. Her post and the comments that followed made me realize I had completely overlooked another important factor in family history—sex.
Silly me. How could I write family history without talking about sex?
Shorter’s thesis was that the popularity of Fifty Shades of Grey and the increasing mainstream acceptance of S&M undermined the feminist argument (as he cast it) that sex was an exercise in power relations. Akerman’s vehement rebuttal accused Shorter of misogyny and of misrepresenting feminism and women’s sexuality.
Reading Akerman’s post and (later) Shorter’s original article, I realized I had overlooked a major issue in family history—sexuality. Well, not so much overlooked as shied away from, due to my own reticence and a lack of information in my source material.
I posted a comment on Akerman’s post indicating my interest in the questions posed by Shorter’s article and Akerman’s riposte and wondering about the treatment of sexuality in family history.
A reader named DJ replied, noting the importance of sex in family life and history. As DJ put it, a family or social historian assembles a puzzle with many missing pieces, and “the missing pieces are the intimate interactions that one just didn’t talk or write about until very recently.”
Well, yes and no. In the Western world, we have perhaps become more candid about sexuality in the last few generations, but one can hardly argue that all the preceding generations were silent on this most intimate of subjects. I’m not a literary historian, so I can’t speak authoritatively on this topic, but I would argue that the existence of, say, The Kama Sutra or Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, undermines the notion that we never used to talk about this stuff.
It also seems to me that humanity’s prior reticence on sexual matters cannot solely be attributed to Victorian prudishness. If our ancestors did not talk much about sex, their silence does not necessarily mean they were repressed (although they may have been). Like us, our ancestors undoubtedly valued their privacy. And privacy is essential to intimacy. A respect for privacy also indicates a certain maturity and depth of character. Nothing is more grating than an exhibitionist or narcissist.
DJ also insightfully pointed out that “The way men and women respond to social movements like feminism IS undoubtedly influenced by private sexual desires and fantasies.” I believe DJ is correct on this point, but I would add that this is a two-way connection. If sexuality influences an individual’s response to social movements, an individual’s response to social movements may also find expression in private sexual desires and fantasies.
Coming back to Shorter, I would never buy his argument about feminism being “a bill of goods.” I do accept his thesis that sex is in part an exercise in power relations, just as I accept DJ’s argument that sexuality influences our responses to social movements. But I don’t accept Shorter’s assertion that any woman who plays a submissive role in sexual relations undercuts her claims to power in the family and the workplace. Akerman is surely right in calling bullshit on that.
Where does all this leave me when it comes to sexuality and family history?
Sexuality is a factor in family life, and so it is appropriate in principle for an historian to delve into this topic. Biography is character study. I’m interested in the development of personality and in the way my relatives have responded to the social pressures of their times. Sexuality is a legitimate part of this inquiry.
That being said, I can only take matters so far, especially in regard to my living relatives. I work with their cooperation, and I place an absolute value on their privacy. So if your last name is Kubrin or Lipsy, rest assured. I won’t pose awkward questions or try to follow you into your bedroom.
For family historians, I would put forth the following guidelines:
- It’s OK to write about sexual matters if you have solid information and the explicit consent of living relatives.
- In the absence of information (but not of consent), it’s OK to speculate about sexual matters provided there are reasonable grounds for speculation.
- It’s OK to pose rhetorical questions about sexual matters, provided these questions don’t become insinuations.
Where the deceased are concerned, things are slightly different. If an historian has less information to work with, he or she also has fewer restrictions. There is a truism that the dead have no right to privacy. As a legal matter, this notion is apparently problematic.
For the family historian, however, these legalities may be beside the point. Our distant ancestors occupy a void, which is beyond the reach of discourse and even memory. You can shout into that void all you like, but unless you believe in ghosts, you will never receive an answer.
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The official website for the television anime of Atsushi Ohkubo's Fire Force (En En no Shōbōtai) manga announced on Tuesday that Kenichi Suzumura will play Takehisa Hinawa, the company commander of the protagonist Shinra Kusakabe's team. The website also began streaming a character promotional video for the "demonic sergeant" of the team:
Hinawa is a second generation power user and a steely, serious military veteran. He can manipulate flames, mainly by controlling the explosive power of firearms. His strict training is feared by rookies. He established the team with Ōbi.
Yuki Yase (Mekaku City Actors, Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb) is directing at david production (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Cells at Work!). Yamato Haishima is in charge of the series scripts, and Hideyuki Morioka (Kizumonogatari, Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei) is designing the characters.
The anime stars:
Yūsuke Kobayashi as Arthur Boyle, a new recruit in Shinra's team. Arthur has not gotten along with Shinra ever since their time together in training school, and he calls himself the "Knight King."
M.A.O as Iris, a nun assigned to Shinra's team to pray and offer requiems.
Saeko Kamijō as Maki Oze, her first regular role in a television anime. First Class Fire Soldier Maki Oze is a second generation power user and a military veteran skilled at close combat. She may look cool and aloof but she is a romantic at heart.
Terror has paralyzed the clockwork metropolis of Tokyo! Possessed by demons, people have begun to burst into flame, leading to the establishment of a special firefighting team: the Fire Force, ready to roll on a moment's notice to fight spontaneous combustion anywhere it might break out. The team is about to get a very unique addition: Shinra, a boy who possesses the unique power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous "devil's footprints" (and destroying his shoes in the process). Can the Fire Force discover the source of this strange phenomenon and put a stop to it? Or will the city burn to ashes first?
Ohkubo (Soul Eater) launched the series in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in September 2015. Kodansha published the manga's 15th volume on November 16. Kodansha Comics shipped the 13th volume in English on December 25.
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Dr. Lisa Utschig is a Chemist at the U. S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
Lisa Utschig is a Chemist with the Solar Energy Conversion Group and Lead Principal Investigator - Natural Photosynthesis.
- BA, Cornell College
- PhD, Northwestern University
- Enrico Fermi Scholar, Argonne National Laboratory
Recent Honors and Awards
- Fellow, AAAS (2023)
- Summer SOTM AWIS-Chicago (2022)
- University of Chicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governor’s Distinguished Performance Award (2020)
- Women at the Forefront of Energy Research, ACS Energy Letters (2020)
- Speaker, Presidential Symposium, 248th ACS National Meeting (2014)
Primary Research Interests
- Investigation of photochemical energy conversion in natural photosynthetic systems
- Development of innovative bioinorganic approaches to modify photosynthetic proteins for solar fuel production
- Creation of novel biohybrid complexes for elucidating fundamental mechanisms of photosynthetic charge accumulation and photocatalysis
Select Recent Publications
- “Solar water splitting Pt-nanoparticle photosystem I thylakoid systems: Catalyst identification, location and oligomeric structure” Special Issue: “Applied Photosynthesis: Putting the Green into Green Energy” BBA Bioenergetics, 2023. DOI:10.1016/j.bbabio.2023.148974
- “Biohybrid photosynthetic charge accumulation detected by flavin semiquinone formation in ferredoxin-NADP+ reductase” Chemical Science, 2022. DOI:10.1039/d2sc01546c
- “Light-harvesting biohybrids for enhanced solar-to-chemical conversion technologies” Chem, 2022. DOI:10.1016/j.chempr.2021.12.011
- “Quantum sensing of electron transfer pathways in natural photosynthesis using time-resolved high-field EPR/ENDOR spectroscopy” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2021. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c00946
- “Preface to the special issue: photosynthesis-inspired biohybrid and biomimetic systems” Photosynthesis Research, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s11120-019-00703-z
- “Women at the forefront of energy research: A virtual issue” ACS Energy Letters, 2020. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.9b02695
- “Interprotein electron transfer biohybrid system for photocatalytic H2 production” Photosynthesis Research, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s11120-019-00705-x
- “Spin-correlated radical pairs as quantum sensors of bidirectional ET mechanisms in Photosystem I” J. Phys. Chem. B, 2019. DOI: 10.1021/acs/jpcb.9b06636
- “Z-scheme solar water splitting via self-assembly of photosystem I-catalyst hybrids in thylakoid membranes” Chemical Science, 2018. DOI:10.1039/c8sc02841a
- “Charge separation related to photocatalytic H2 production from a Ru-apoflavodoxin-Ni biohybrid” ACS Energy Letters, 2017. DOI:10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00614
- “Ru-protein-Co biohybrids designed for solar hydrogen production: understanding electron transfer pathways related to photocatalytic function” Chemical Science, 2016, 7, 7068-7078.
- “Modular homogeneous chromophore-catalyst assemblies” Acc. Chem. Res. 2016, 49(5), 835-843.
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The US-base McMurdo is situated far south in the Ross Sea on McMurdo Island, under the famous volcano Mount Erebus. There is nothing such as a »nice« antarctic station, but these places are not meant to serve aesthetical purpuses, but science and logistics (yes, and politics). But McMurdo is a shining example of ugliness out-of-place waste products of civilization on a scale that is unrivalled elsewhere in Antarctica. They say Antarctica is a pristine place. Not at McMurdo Base.
The place is a small town rather than a station, housing far more than 1000 people during busy summer season, when frequent flights connect McMurdo to New Zealand, Amundsen-Scott Base at the South Pole and the Russian Vostok Station. The nearer surroundings are made accessible by immense vehicles. The New Zealand Scott Base is just 3 kilometers away, a road connects McMurdo and Scott Bases.
Part of McMurdo’s infrastructure was a nuclear power plant that was in use from 1962 to 1972. After dismantling, it was moved to the US together with several thousand cubic meters of contaminated soil.
Visiting McMurdo Base will normally require helicopters due to the ice conditions in the area, and it is certainly alway a very bureaucratic process. They seem to believe that people who visit the place have never crossed a road or been inside a shop before in their life. But if you have done something like that elsewhere, then you will also be able to survive the traffic in McMurdo. You won’t see a lot of science there, the internet is a much better place to learn about antarctic research than McMurdo unless you are involved.
Nevertheless, it is in its very own way absolutely unique, no doubt about that. And absolutely worth the visit are Scott’s old hut at Hut Point, built and used during Scott’s first expedition, the Discovery-expedition (1901-04). Getting to Hut Point is a matter of a few minutes walking along the road from McMurdo Base. Another highlight ist the walk up to Observation Hill on the other side of the base.
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Samsung has just announced 30.72TB in a single SAS SSD. Let’s just think what that means for a moment. That’s around 6,500 DVDs or 1,200 Blu-Ray disks, depending on how you do your maths. It’s an amazing achievement. In that form factor, 30TB in a 2.5″ drive is 6x the largest HDD available and around 11x better than the biggest enterprise-class drive (at 10K RPM). But is there really a market for this size of drive?
First of all, let’s check out the specifications. The new PM1643 is a 2x step up from the previous PM1633a at 15.36TB. The technology is implemented using 64-layer TLC V-NAND (3D-NAND) that produces 512Gb chips. Sixteen chips are combined into a 1TB NAND “package”, of which there are 32 in the drive. Performance figures are quoted at 400,000 read IOPS, 50,000 write IOPS and read/write speeds of 2,100MB/s and 1,700MB/s respectively from a SAS 12Gb/s interface. Note there are no details on what block sizes have been used to generate the performance figures or any latency values, which of course is significant. As an aside, the PM1643 has 40GB of DRAM, so it would be interesting to see those latency figures.
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So flat-out performance isn’t the benefit here, perhaps it’s TCO? The PM1633a retailed for around $10,000 a unit. That’s around $0.65/GB. The previously mentioned 960 Pro M.2 is available on Amazon for $0.62/GB. Intel M.2 NVMe drives are available at half that cost, however it’s not easy to find pricing on the high-end enterprise drives. Per GB, the new drive doesn’t seem cost competitive (unless the PM1643 retails at the same price as the PM1633a), so perhaps it’s a scalability and chassis discussion. Building out a 1PB all-flash analytics platform would, for example, be much easier using 30TB drives. As the PM1643 still offers 2 million hours MTBF and 1 DWPD endurance, large-capacity (PB+) analytics solutions are going to be where this drive hits a sweet spot. This is simply because there will be fewer failures and less data to recreate. Obviously the impact of a single failure will be greater.
Update: the PM1653 has similar endurance figures, so no change there.
There’s little competition at this end of the SSD market. Last year I talked about Intel’s new “ruler” SSD form factor, which should be capable of 32TB per drive and 1PB in 1U. Samsung could easily do something similar with 32x PM1643, however I can’t help thinking that at scale, the continued use of SAS for such a large volume of high capacity drives would represent a serious bottleneck to any high-performance platform. Remember that today’s Intel P4500 Ruler SSDs at 8TB already use NVMe and deliver similar (slightly better) performance figures to a single PM1643. So a chassis of these drives all NVMe connected would operate much more effectively.
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How should we view the availability of 30TB SSD? As we’ve already said, it’s a remarkable achievement. However, this part of the industry never stands still. Intel has Ruler and will get to 32TB per unit. Seagate already demonstrated a (rather clunky looking) 60TB drive. Viking announced 50TB drives last year, although both this and the Seagate drive were 3.5″ form factor, so Samsung has a lead here (the Viking drive is also hideously slow for some reason). The question to ask is whether SAS is the right long-term drive interface. HDDs suffered issues because the IOPS/GB reduced to such a low level that spindle count (number of drives) was important. SSDs are heading towards a similar issue in that SAS becomes the limiting factor. Not for a single drive (although that is an issue for latency), but in a system as a whole.
I expect we will see 60TB drives from Samsung within 2 years. QLC and increased layering will make that possible in a relatively short timespan. But the market demand will be limited. Any system would need at least 6 of these drives to create resiliency, so that’s 180TB as a minimum starting point. There are definitely cheaper ways to build 180TB of flash capacity than using 30TB drives. So, it’s likely the technology will be used for highly scalable analytics type solutions.
On a positive note, the technology will cascade down to the lower capacity devices, making them cheaper for the rest of us, even if the PM1643 doesn’t gain widespread adoption.
Update: It’s interesting to read that at the time, we thought 100TB SSDs were on the horizon. In fact, vendors including Samsung have fixed the capacities and improved both performance and efficiency. Further increases in performance aren’t likely to come until and if there is an increase in the performance of the SAS interface past the 24Gb+ specification, which is now the limiting factor.
With a throughput of 3,800M/s, the PM1653 can deliver more performance than the capability of 24Gb SAS (22.5Gb/s or about 2,400MB/s). Writing an entire 30.72TB drive would take, at best, 3.5 hours, but more likely much more time in a busy storage system. As a cost point, 30TB is a big investment. We can’t find any accurate pricing for the PM1653, but based on data we can find, a 30TB drive looks to retail for around $6.400, which is a substantial reduction on the previous $10,000 price point.
Based on our discussion with Phison CTO Sebastien Jean and the tolerance for failure domains, we think that 30TB could remain the peak capacity for individual drive, while system vendors increase capacity with custom SSD modules. As a result, SSD manufacturers continue to reduce cost and improve performance, rather than focus on capacity, the opposite direction of the HDD vendors.
- Samsung Electronics Begins Mass Production of Industry’s Largest Capacity SSD – 30.72TB – for Next-Generation Enterprise Systems (Samsung press release, retrieved 21 February 2018)
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- Performance Analysis of SAS/SATA and NVMe SSDs
- M.2 SSD Drive Format is Under-rated by Enterprise Storage
- Seagate Ups The Ante with 60TB SSD
- Standard SSDs or Custom NAND Modules?
- Flash Capacities and Failure Domains
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The Italian company of ARIS SpA (Applicazioni Rielaborazioni Impianti Speciali) has developed, as a private venture, a special kit to improve the amphibious capability of the now BAE Systems, Ground Systems Division M113 series full-tracked armoured personnel carrier (APC).
The first prototype of this vehicle, called the Arisgator was completed in 1997 and early in 1999 it was stated that the Italian MoD had awarded a low rate initial production contract to the company. The now BAE Systems, Ground Systems Division M113 series of APC are used in large numbers by the Italian Army and to a lesser extent the Marines. In mid-2006 it was stated that the Arisgator was in service with the San Marco Battalion of the Italian Navy Landing Forces.
The standard BAE Systems, Ground Systems Division designed M113 series APC is fully amphibious being propelled in the water by its tracks at a maximum speed of 5.8 km/h, which is adequate for calm water.
The M113 was not designed to operate in fast flowing rivers or to be launched from landing craft off shore.
To improve the amphibious characteristics of the M113 a special oceanic kit has been developed by ARIS, which enables the vehicle to operate safely in ship-to-shore operations as well as rivers.
This kit weighs between 1,350 and 1,700 kg including bow, roof and stern units, all of which are made of light alloy as is the basic M113 series hull.
A shaped front bow has been added to improve the buoyancy of the vehicle and two stern units are fitted, one either side of the rear ramp. Each stern unit incorporates a hydrostatically operated propeller, which can be driven independently allowing the Arisgator to turn upon its axis while afloat.
A snorkel is installed on the roof of the Arisgator to permit engine and personnel air breathing during water operation.
An extension has been fitted on the exhaust pipe on the right side of the hull roof and a special cover system has been fitted over the normal air inlet/outlets in the roof of the M113, to the right of the driver's position.
The normal commander's roof-mounted cupola and oblong hatch over the rear troop compartment have been retained as has the power-operated ramp in the hull rear. The overall sealing of the M113 series vehicle has also been improved.
The Arisgator can carry eight fully equipped troops and can also be fitted with various external weapon stations.
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Other options include additional armour protection and a new diesel powerpack consisting of a 300 hp diesel that meets EURO III requirements coupled to a new automatic transmission.
Based on their experience in the M113, upgraded to enhance its amphibious capabilities, ARIS have carried out a similar upgrade to the M548 full-tracked unarmoured cargo carrier, which is also a member of the M113 family of vehicles. As of mid-2007 this remained at the prototype stage. | <urn:uuid:53106d44-a5ae-48b0-99b3-1e98321b235c> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.army-guide.com/eng/product1007.html | 2023-09-24T23:12:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.964135 | 784 |
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|TESSMANN, DAURI - Universidade Federal De Vicosa|
|DEL PONTE, EMERSON - Universidade Federal De Vicosa|
|LARABA, IMANE - National Higher School Of Agronomy|
|O Donnell, Kerry|
Submitted to: Mycologia
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 8/13/2018
Publication Date: 10/10/2018
Citation: Pereira, C.B., Ward, T.J., Tessmann, D.J., Del Ponte, E.M., Laraba, I., Vaughan, M.M., McCormick, S.P., Busman, M., Kelly, A., Proctor, R.H., O'Donnell, K. 2018. Fusarium subtropicale sp. nov., a novel nivalenol mycotoxin-producing species isolated from barley (Hordeum vulgare) in Brazil and sister to F. praegraminearum. Mycologia. 110(5):860-871. https://doi.org/10.1080/00275514.2018.1512296.
Interpretive Summary: The present pathogen survey was conducted in commercial wheat and barley fields in the major production regions of Paraná State during 2011 through 2015 to identify and monitor areas where Fusarium head blight (FHB) of small grain cereals incidence was high. The molecular data used to identify the 754 isolates suggested that one strain (F1478 = NRRL 66764) collected from a barley field in Guarapuava, Paraná State in 2013 might represent a novel FHB pathogen. Therefore, the present study was conducted to collect and analyze DNA sequence data from portions of 10 genes to assess whether this isolate represented a novel species and to infer its closest relatives. Because the genetic analysis of the DNA data indicated isolate NRRL 66764 was a novel FHB pathogen, morphological data was collected and used to formally describe it as Fusarium subtropicale. The potential of this isolate to produce toxins was predicted from whole-genome sequence data. When it was grown in liquid broth and on cracked corn, F. subtropicale produced several toxins. Lastly, in a plant pathogenicity experiment, F. subtropicale induced FHB in susceptible wheat cultivar “Norm” and contaminated the plants with toxins. Because this novel toxin-producing cereal pathogen poses a threat to agricultural production and food safety, the results of this study should be of interest to quarantine officials, toxicologists, and plant pathologists who are focused on developing robust strategies to minimize the threat of FHB worldwide.
Technical Abstract: Surveys were conducted in commercial wheat and barley fields in the southcentral production regions of State of Paraná, Brazil from 2011 through 2015. Spikes displaying visible Fusarium head blight symptoms were collected and the pathogen isolated from the tissues. The 754 Fusarium isolates recovered were identified by a high-throughput multilocus genotyping assay (MLGT) designed to identify trichothecene toxin-producing fusaria (i.e. formerly B-clade, but referred to here as F. sambucinum species complex lineage 1 [FSAMSC-1]) together with sequencing a portion of the translation elongation factor 1-a (TEF1) gene. One strain was discovered that appeared to be closely related to but phylogenetically distinct from F. praegraminearum based on the relatively low 97.7% TEF1 identity and positive genotype obtained with one of the two F. praegraminearum species-specific MLGT probes. Molecular phylogenetic analyses of a 10-gene dataset resolved this novel FSAMSC-1 species and F. praegraminearum as sisters. Formally described herein as F. subtropicale, it is phenotypically distinct from the 22 other FSAMSC-1 species in that it produces mostly 1-to-3-septate macroconidia. Whole-genome sequence data was used to predict its potential to produce mycotoxins. Chemical analyses confirmed F. subtropicale could produce the mycotoxins 4, 15-diacetylnivalenol, butenolide, culmorin and fusarin C in vitro and the pathogenicity experiment revealed F. subtropicale could infect but not spread in susceptible hard red spring wheat cultivar “Norm.” | <urn:uuid:c054e833-bb0f-45da-8c5e-e54561a307be> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=353024 | 2023-09-25T00:39:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.891458 | 1,050 |
Victor Osimhen has long been linked with a move to Arsenal, and the Gunners now have the opportunity to try and use Napoli’s interest in Folarin Balogun to work out a swap deal.
One of the most impressive things about Arsenal this season was how they shared the goals across the front line. Martin Odegaard, Gabriel Martinelli and Bukayo Saka all scored 15 goals each, while Gabriel Jesus managed 11. Eddie Nketiah and Granit Xhaka scored nine a piece.
Now, imagine we had a striker who would guarantee 20 or 25 goals a season. That man could be Osimhen!
Arsenal should try to pull off a Victor Osimhen-Folarin Balogun swap deal
If Victor Osimhen leaves Napoli this summer, it will be one of the biggest transfers of the entire window.
The Nigerian is the biggest reason why the Partenopei ended their 33-year wait to lift the Scudetto. He scored 30 goals and provided five assists in 38 appearances in all competitions, and he is a wanted man.
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Manchester United, Chelsea and Paris Saint-Germain are all among the clubs interested in signing Osimhen this summer, but Napoli will not let him go until they find a replacement.
If Napoli want Balogun and Arsenal could do with a striker like Osimhen, surely a player-plus-cash offer from Edu could be an option in the upcoming summer transfer window.
Balogun is almost certain to leave Arsenal this summer, and he would help bring Osimhen’s price down.
The Insider’s View:
Arsenal really should consider signing a new striker this season.
As good as Gabriel Jesus and Leandro Trossard are, neither are prolific goalscorers like Manchester City’s Erling Haaland or Tottenham star Harry Kane.
Victor Osimhen, on the other hand, is right up there with the most dangerous forwards in world football, and if there is an opportunity for Arsenal to get him, we should be all over it.
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Whether you want to explore the world together or simply soak up a little more quiet time, there are plenty of exotic honeymoon destinations out there that are perfect for newlyweds.
For instance, if you’re looking to enjoy the outdoors and still have a luxurious retreat, head to an exotic island paradise in French Polynesia. It’s home to pristine beaches and crystal-clear waters, which are the perfect setting for some romance!
Bali is one of the most popular honeymoon destinations in the world, and for good reason. It offers everything you could want in a honeymoon: stunning beaches, terraced rice paddies, waterfalls, and small resorts nestled into the jungle – and it’s all at your fingertips.
It’s a great place to experience the local culture too, and the Balinese Hindu-Buddhist religion is renowned for its dance and drama performances as well as its distinctive music and cuisine. You can also visit the many temples that are located throughout the island, which is a great opportunity to have a spiritual blessing during your honeymoon.
In contrast, if you’re looking for something more laid-back during your Bali honeymoon, many beach towns have more of a boho vibe to them. Canggu, for example, is a cool beachy alternative to Seminyak that’s home to some great cafes and small boutiques.
But if you’re looking for something more high-end, then head to the hilly coastal town of Uluwatu. This is a surfer’s paradise and you can find a great selection of luxury restaurants here too.
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With crystal-clear waters, pristine beaches, and tropical paradises, Fiji is one of the most popular honeymoon destinations in the world. It also offers plenty of seclusion and romance along with a variety of activities to suit every couple’s taste.
When planning your Fiji honeymoon, you can expect a range of accommodations from traditional-style ‘bures’ to overwater villas, and activities like champagne picnics on private beaches, cultural immersion into some of the colorful traditions like meke (dance) and lovo (underground oven) ceremonies and kava (drink) ceremonies, and snorkeling and diving.
A few of our favorite places to stay include Matangi Private Island Resort, a dreamy all-inclusive resort with just 16 luxury bures and 11 beautiful white sand beaches. The resort is situated on 240 acres of rainforest and is the perfect destination to indulge in luxurious amenities such as gourmet dining, pristine snorkeling and diving, and unspoiled culture.
Another great option for Fiji honeymooners is Namale Resort & Spa, an all-inclusive luxury resort on the edge of the Koro Sea. Here, couples can enjoy incredible spa treatments and amazing views while staying in a beautiful beachfront villa.
If you’re looking for a Caribbean island that offers the perfect mix of culture and relaxation, then St. Barts is the place for you.
Located in the French West Indies, this tiny yet beautiful island is among the most stunning in the region. Warm green-blue seas, white sandy beaches, and vivid sweeping landscapes make St. Barts a truly unforgettable honeymoon destination.
It has everything you could ask for pristine beaches, luxury resorts and villas, delicious dining options, and a plethora of activities to choose from. Its fusion of French and Caribbean cultures is what makes this place truly unique and a must-visit for any romantic vacation.
Aside from its luxurious accommodations, the island also has several spas and fitness centers to enhance your well-being. Some even welcome walk-ins if you don’t want to make a reservation.
For a more secluded and private experience, we recommend staying in a luxury villa. These are usually larger than hotel rooms, and provide more space for you to spread out and relax in your privacy.
Sri Lanka may not be the first tropical island you think of when it comes to honeymoon destinations, but the Indian Ocean nation serves up a romantic blend of exotic beaches, towering Buddhist temples, mountain-side tea plantations, and world-class surf breaks. Plus, it’s home to thriving metropolises (with top-rated hotels and booming nightlife), national parks, and world-class safari lodges where couples can spot leopards and elephants.
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the country’s sweeping landscapes and tranquil beaches are complemented by warm hospitality. There are endless things to see and do – so don’t be afraid to mix and match your itinerary.
Make the most of your holiday by creating a personal collection of magical memories from your time together. Keeping these special moments close to your heart will help you remember them and cherish them for years to come.
Lying off the southern tip of India, Sri Lanka has long lured visitors with its natural beauty and gentle Buddhist culture. Its troubled history has been a source of resentment, but the country is finally back on track.
Despite a recent civil war, the island still has a lot to offer – from serene beaches to timeless ruins and incredible wildlife. It’s a destination with something for everyone and one of the world’s best honeymoon destinations.
Whether you are a lover of history, art, architecture, fashion, or fine dining, Paris has something for everyone. From elegant palatial palaces and world-famous museums to a vibrant and exciting food culture, Paris is known for attracting millions of tourists each year.
Visiting Paris will give you the chance to spend quality time with your partner and create incredible memories together. The city is full of amazing monuments and buildings from different eras, ranging from ancient antic vestiges to contemporary architectural masterpieces.
For a truly romantic experience, book a cruise along the Seine River to enjoy the beauty of the French capital. You can cruise during the day or evening and enjoy a romantic dinner on board.
The Amalfi Coast is another top destination for honeymooners. Couples can indulge in a range of activities such as sunset cruises, hiking, and snorkeling. Besides, several resorts offer luxury accommodations to newlyweds.
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Honeymoons in Mexico are a great option for couples who want to escape the humdrum of everyday life. The country has a lot to offer, from beaches and mountains to vibrant cities.
Baja California is a mesmerizing peninsula with spectacular coastlines, historic towns, and a wealth of luxury properties to stay in. Its diverse wildlife is a real treat for nature lovers, while its varied history offers a fascinating insight into the region’s colonial past and pre-Columbian civilizations.
It’s also a perfect choice for couples who are eco-conscious and want to learn about the local culture and heritage of the area they visit. Many luxury resorts now incorporate this into their travel programs.
Loreto is a small city in Baja California that’s full of historic charm and old-world romance. It’s not a big tourist destination, but it’s worth visiting for its authentic Mexican food and warm, welcoming community.
It’s a place that can be hard to find at first glance, but it’s a great honeymoon destination for those who love adventure. You can ride a camel across the desert near Cabo San Lucas, or go off-roading on Margaritas Beach and explore the dunes with a desert safari guide.
Guatemala is a beautiful and culturally rich country, a popular choice for couples looking to add something more to their holiday. With its Spanish colonial towns, strong living Maya culture, vast rainforests, unique Maya temple sites, and excellent selection of romantic hideaway hotels, it’s a wonderful place to spend some time together.
There are plenty of opportunities to immerse yourself in the local communities, traditions, and gastronomy, including staying at a glamping lodge next to ancient temples, attending a private Shaman ceremony, visiting markets deep into the Highlands, and taking a boat trip to a small island with hot springs and stunning ravine canyons.
With barely 2% of its landmass urbanized, the natural scenery in Guatemala is impressively varied. You can hike volcano-ringed Lake Atitlan, swim in the famous swimming hole Semuc Champey and see the jungle ruins of Tikal, one of the most spectacular Mayan sites in Central America.
As with all destinations in developing countries, travelers should be prepared for potential safety risks when traveling in Guatemala. In particular, vigilante justice has increased, resulting in lynchings of suspected child abductors and extortionists in rural areas. Women traveling alone should also be aware of potential threats, such as sexual assault.
If you’re dreaming of a tropical fantasy, then the Maldives is a destination you can’t miss. The island chain is home to a stunning array of resorts, including some that boast overwater villas with private pools.
A great way to get around the islands is to charter a seaplane, which can be expensive but can give you a much more spectacular view of the Maldives than you’ll have from the ground.
Playa Mujeres is a picture-perfect peninsula located around 20 minutes north of Cancun’s hotel zone. It’s a quiet area with a beautiful beach on one side and a nature reserve on the other.
If you are looking for a place to stay that will provide everything you need for an amazing honeymoon, look no further than Playa Mujeres!
Both Dreams Playa Mujeres and Secrets Playa Mujeres offer luxurious accommodations, great dining options, fun activities for all ages, and stunning views of the ocean. Plus, they can help you plan your perfect wedding and honeymoon.
Vanuatu is a tropical paradise with stunning landscapes, pristine beaches, WWII shipwrecks, friendly island people, award-winning chocolate, an active volcano, and fresh seafood. It’s been voted one of the world’s happiest countries, and there’s so much to see and do.
Explore a range of activities including diving, snorkeling, kayaking, fishing, and sailing. Hike through a lush rainforest, ride horses, stand under tumbling waterfalls, plunge into deep blue swimming holes, surf large waves, and snorkel rich coral reefs.
Costa Rica is known for its natural beauty and thriving tourism industry. It’s also a democratic country that respects its citizens’ rights.
There’s so much to do in this gorgeous country – from river rafting and surfing to zip lining and snorkeling.
A visit to Tortuguero is a must, as it’s home to nesting sea turtles and a variety of monkeys. Plus, Costa Rica is known for its coffee and cacao.
With its world-renowned landmarks, sultry summer evenings, and cozy winter days, Paris is one of the most romantic destinations in the world. It’s no wonder that for centuries, love birds have vowed to spend their honeymoon in this enigmatic city!
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Dubai is a dream honeymoon destination for couples looking for luxury, tranquility, and an abundance of fun activities. This ultra-modern city offers a wide range of romantic hotel suites and world-class dining experiences.
You can go on a romantic dhow cruise along Dubai Creek, or take a hot air balloon ride across the desert for panoramic views. You can also dine at one of the city’s many outstanding gourmet restaurants or sip a drink at an impressive nightclub.
Rwanda is the Land of a Thousand Hills, a stunning combination of undulating mountainscapes and vibrant rainforests. It is a great place to go on a honeymoon and has something for everyone.
For a truly memorable experience, consider trekking through the misty Virunga volcanoes in search of a family of wild mountain gorillas. Or relax on the shores of Lake Kivu, one of the world’s largest freshwater lakes with a beautiful beach.
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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled on October 4 that the former same-sex partner of a woman who gave birth to two children through donor insemination during the women’s relationship can seek to establish full legal parentage of the children under the state’s statute concerning parentage of children born out of wedlock. Partanen v. Gallagher, SJC-12018, 2016 Mass. LEXIS 759, 2016 WL 5721061.
Although the state’s courts have in the past recognized various rights for co-parents in similar cases using a “de facto parent” concept, this unanimous ruling is the SJC’s first to take advantage of a law providing that “words of one gender may be construed to include the other gender and the neuter” to adapt a statute that was originally intended to allow unmarried men to establish their paternity of children born “out of wedlock” to their women companions, and to repurpose the statute as a vehicle to establish parental rights for unmarried same-sex partners.
Justice Barbara Lenk wrote for the unanimous seven-member court.
Karen Partanen and Julie Gallagher began their “committed relationship” as a couple in Massachusetts in 2001. The next year they moved to Florida, where they bought a house together in 2003. In 2005 they decided to use donor insemination to have children. The plan was for each of the women in turn to be inseminated. Partanen’s attempt in 2005 was unsuccessful, but Gallagher’s subsequent attempt was successful and she gave birth to their daughter in 2007. Gallagher was inseminated again in 2011, giving birth to a son.
These procedures were performed with the full cooperation and involvement of Partanen, who was present at the birth of the children. Partanen did not adopt the children, although in 2010 a Florida appeals court struck down the state’s statutory ban on gay people adopting children, but, according to her complaint in this lawsuit, she was fully involved as a parent, including personal contact, financial support, and decision-making.
After their son was born, the family moved back to Massachusetts. Although by then same-sex marriage was legal in Massachusetts, they did not marry. Shortly after the move, they ended their relationship and Partanen moved out. She filed an action to establish “de facto” parentage in February 2014, requesting visitation and shared custody. In September 2015, a Family Court judge ruled that she was a “de facto” parent, ordered visitation, and required her to pay child support to Gallagher. An appeal of that ruling is pending. Meanwhile, however, in October 2014 Partanen filed a separate action “to establish [full legal] parentage,” which Gallagher moved to dismiss, arguing that “full parentage” could only be achieved under the paternity statute by a biological parent. Probate and Family Court Judge Jeffrey A. Abber granted Gallagher’s motion to dismiss the parentage case.
If one reads the relevant statute without taking into account the state’s general statutory directive on gender neutrality in interpretation, one could easily see the basis for Judge Abber’s ruling. The provision falls within the chapter of the state’s laws titled “Children Born Out of Wedlock,” Chapter 209C. The statute extends to “children who are born to parents who are not married to each other.” The various sections refer to “paternity” and authorize the courts to determine whether somebody is a child’s legal father. The statute recognizes a “presumption of paternity” in various situations. The one most relevant here is that “a man is presumed to be the father of a child” that is born out of wedlock if “he, jointly with the mother, received the child into their home and openly held out the child as their child.”
Gallagher argued, and the trial judge agreed, that this statutory scheme was not intended to provide a vehicle for somebody to establish legal parental rights over a child to whom the party was not biologically related. The SJC disagreed, pointing out that the statute does not state anywhere that the person seeking to establish parental rights has to be biologically related to the child. “While the provisions at issue speak in gendered terms,” wrote Justice Lenk, “they may be read in a gender-neutral manner, to apply where a child is ‘born to [two people],’” not just a man and a woman, and the child “is received into their joint home, and is held out by both as their own child.” Consequently, she wrote, “The plain language of the provision, then, may be construed to apply to children born to same-sex couples, even though at least one member of the couple may well lack biological ties to the children.”
Furthermore, such an interpretation was in accord with the overall purpose of the statute, which, as “laid out in its first sentence, is to provide all ‘children born to parents who are not married to each other’ . . . the same rights and protection of the law as all other children.”
The court strengthened its interpretation with a telling analogy to the use of reproductive technology by different-sex couples. Clearly, a cohabiting but unmarried man and woman who resort to donor insemination to conceive a child because the man is infertile could make use of this statute to establish the man’s paternity without any express requirement in the statute that he prove a biological relationship to the child. That is, in fact, one of the normal uses of the statute. If the legislature intended to make sure that all children born to unmarried parents have the same rights, shouldn’t children born to unmarried same-sex couples have the same rights as well?
“Here, had [the children] been born to a married couple using artificial reproductive technology, they would have had two parents to provide them with financial and emotional support,” wrote Justice Lenk. “We decline to read into the statute a provision that leaves children born to unmarried couples, using the same technology, with only one parent.”
Furthermore, she pointed out that the court had in the past recognized an interpretation of another provision that also would “recognize parentage in the absence of a biological relationship,” a provision under which parentage may be established through a “written voluntary acknowledgment of parentage executed jointly by the putative father and the mother of the child.” The court held years ago that such an acknowledgment does not require that the putative father have any genetic relationship to the child. Under this ruling, same-sex couples can avail themselves of the same provision. This only works, of course, if both parents are willing to sign such a document.
Gallagher argued that because Partanen lacks a biological connection to the children, they were not “born to” her, and thus do not fall within the scope of the statute. She bolstered this argument by referring to a provision authorizing the family court to order genetic testing of the putative father on a “proper showing” by the moving party. That provision was clearly intended to allow single mothers seeking child support from the biological fathers of their children to prove genetic paternity in order to subject the men to their parental support duty. “Where, as here, the parentage claim is not based on a genetic relationship,” wrote Justice Lentz, “Gallagher, as a moving party, cannot show such testing would be relevant to the claim at issue, and therefore, no ‘proper showing’ is possible.”
Ultimately, the court concluded that the facts alleged by Partanen in her complaint should have been sufficient to withstand Gallagher’s motion to dismiss the claim, and if upon remand the trial court finds the factual allegations to be true, Partanen will enjoy the presumption of parentage authorized by the statute and can seek visitation and custody on the same basis as any other person who is presumed to be a parent. If the Family Court judge finds it to be in the best interest of the children, Partanen would be awarded the same custody and visitation rights that any legal parent could seek after parents have ended their relationship with each other.
Although Massachusetts courts had previously recognized the ability of same-sex partners to seek “de facto” parental status, which accorded some rights, the court emphasized that full legal parentage involves the same rights that a biological or legal adoptive parent would enjoy.
The court did not rule on alternative constitutional claims raised by Partanen, resting its decision entirely on construction of the Massachusetts statutes. The court’s opinion does not mention any attempt by Gallagher to argue that treating Partanen as a presumptive parent would violate Gallagher’s constitutional due process rights as a “natural parent,” so it is unlikely that she would be able to seek U.S. Supreme Court review of this decision.
Mary Bonauto, the Civil Rights Project Director at GLAD: Legal Advocates & Defenders, the Boston-based New England GLBT rights public interest law firm, represents Partanen with co-counsel Elizabeth A. Roberts, Teresa Harkins La Vita, Patience Crozier and Joyce Kauffman. Bonauto gave the oral argument in the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 that led to nationwide marriage equality in Obergefell v. Hodges, and she also argued to the Massachusetts SJC in 2003, resulting in the nation’s first affirmative marriage equality ruling by a state’s highest court.
Jennifer M. Lamanna represents Gallagher. The SJC received amicus briefs, all in support of Partanen’s appeal, from: C. Thomas Brown for Greater Boston Legal Services; Emily R. Shulman, Brook Hopkins, and Adam M. Cambier for the American Academy of Assisted Reproductive Technology Attorneys; Abigail Taylor, Gail Garinger, Brittany Williams and Andrea C. Kramer for the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office; and Shannon Minter, Marco J. Quina, and Emma S. Winer for a group of law professors specializing in family law issues. The case seems to have flown below the radar of groups that usually file opposition amicus briefs in such cases. | <urn:uuid:6987bb80-9078-473f-baf8-18aaecbbf131> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.artleonardobservations.com/tag/child-custody/ | 2023-09-24T23:13:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.969896 | 2,176 |
Christmas in July Sip & Stroll in Historic Cocoa Village
Christmas in July Sip & Stroll | Saturday, July 21, 2021 | 5:00pm to 9:00pm
WE’RE BACK!!! We all patiently waited for a year, but now we’re back. Let’s start with a big bang and get a jump on the Christmas season. Ho Ho Ho! Beat the crowds and the rush!!! Come join us on July 31st for Christmas in July Sip & Stroll. Event times are 5 PM until 9 PM.
For the ticket price of $25, you will receive a Sip & Stroll commemorative glass, a shopping bag and a map of the participating merchants. Don’t forget – your ticket purchase automatically enters you into the drawing for one of our fabulous gift baskets. Additionally, for each of the Treasure Zone businesses visited, (marked in red on the map), a chance to win the Treasure Zone basket is earned. That’s one additional chance to win for EACH ‘Treasure Zone’ business visited!
Then the fun begins… stroll through the streets of Cocoa Village sampling beer and wines, enjoying treats and taking advantage of merchants’ special deals!
Tickets go on sale July 1st and may be purchased from our website: VisitCocoaVillage.com . This event usually sells out and tickets may not be available at the door.
This is a rain or shine event. No refunds. Must be 21 or older. Please Sip & Stroll responsibly.
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My Experience at the Content Marketing Summit
Posted on 14th July 2022 at 13:55
Since starting as an intern with Artus in June, attending networking and summit events have been a completely new experience for me. The summit, which was hosted by We Are Umi gave me a great insight into the realm of digital marketing and how all kinds of companies can benefit from it.
Throughout the day, there were numerous different talks with topics ranging from content creation for social media, to search engine optimisation. Bradley Jensen, co-founder of Jensen and Jensen, spoke regarding content creation and social media marketing, giving me a fresh understanding of how social media can help market products.
The talk also highlighted how different social media sites play different roles in marketing products and brands. One of Jensen’s final talks covered graphic design, presenting a new outlook on how branding can be conveyed through both colour and typography.
Jonny Ross, from Fleek Marketing also spoke on SEO, which was seemingly more complex. Despite this, it was great to delve deeper into how keywords and hyperlinks work to optimise digital copy.
Social Media Marketing – Jensen and Jensen
The first of the talks which were hosted by Jensen and Jensen focused specifically on social media and the role it plays within digital marketing. Whilst speaking on the different aspects of advertising, the focus on developing effective social media strategies and alternate forms of marketing was especially interesting.
As an intern who is new to the profession, an in-depth look at marketing and how it attracts consumers gave me an insight into the immense power of advertising.
When highlighting the differences between influencer marketing and content marketing, their individual outcomes became evident. Influencer marketing focuses on the use of endorsements and product mentions from individuals with a vast following, while content marketing engages audiences through shared, relevant content.
When it comes to social media marketing, it was interesting to consider the contrasting effect of posts versus stories, especially in relation to Instagram. Whilst posts remain timeless and are great for presenting your personal brand, stories are ideal for gaining reach and creating a more ‘in the moment’ brand presentation.
Whilst pointing out the positive effects that social media marketing can create for a brand, Jensen and Jensen also highlighted the mistakes that companies often make when using social media.
One mistake that businesses frequently make is focusing too much on the numbers, especially likes. Engagement is arguably the most important metric when tracking social media success, which is something we pay close attention to at Artus.
It is also common for companies to lose consistency when uploading content. Users expect to see posts from your business regularly, especially if your aim is to educate your audience.
Insights into Graphic Design
Branding through graphics is also a concept which is relatively new to me and the ‘Graphic Design Tips and Tricks’ talk allowed me to recognise its importance.
When looking at a brand, you should be able to describe what they do and their ethos in a brief number of words. In turn, their graphics should emulate their brand voice, uncovering key messages about their organisation.
One of the key takeaways from this talk was that brand design should be cohesive across all forms of social media. Colour and typography can also contribute towards a brand’s identity, which is particularly imperative on social media.
When considering the imagery being used, especially if it is stock imagery, it is important to ensure that the images are dissimilar to what other brands are using. The talk proving that unique imagery makes branding more original, whilst also optimising your SEO.
Optimisation of Content for Google and SEO
One of the final talks I attended during the day was on SEO and content for Google, which is one of the subjects I am least familiar with.
There are many different types of web traffic, ranging from organic to paid. The different ways in which people reach the site is often determined by the ways the company amplify their online presence - which is often a reflection of their demographic.
There are different ways of optimising SEO, with the creation of fantastic content being the best option. However, whilst crafting great content is a good start, there are many additional features to be considered if you want to reach your target audience. These include accessible content, unique, relevant pages and good PR.
Keywords are also important when optimising SEO, with the more of the keywords, the more optimised content. Not only should there be specific keywords within the copy, but also words which are in related sub-categories, which helps the content to rank higher on Google.
Taking Social Media Marketing and SEO Into the Future
With the Content Marketing Summit being one of my first experiences of networking, I was given the opportunity to gain invaluable advice going forward in my digital marketing career.
The opportunity to listen to industry experts speak about digital marketing strategies is something that I will be able to take with me throughout my journey in the industry. The tips and tricks which the speakers brought to light are things that I will be able to implement into my own way of working, helping me to grow and develop during my time as an intern.
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It's been almost three years since I started my blog, with the original intention to inform my family about my pregnancy with our first child. Although my posts are still focused on the goings-on of our family, I hope it's turned into something a bit more fruitful. The feedback on Facebook and via email that many of you provide gives me encouragement to keep writing. But I'd like to know what you want to read about! Please leave a comment below, on Facebook, or send me an email about topics you'd like me to explore.
For those of you who have joined me on this journey, I thought you might be interested in Our Faithful Home's readership. When I log into Google Analytics, I'm able to see a plethora of information on you =). Don't worry, I only look at the basics. And honestly, I have no clue how to read half of the statistics. Here's some analytics from the last 30 days:
As a former teacher, writing this blog provides an outlet for me to "still use my brain," as I like to say. Also, I'm grateful for how connected it allows me to feel to so many of you who we've had to say goodbye to as we move from post to post. Thank you to EACH of you that visit Our Faithful Home and WELCOME to those of you that are checking it out for the first time. When you read my posts, I pray you feel informed, inspired, and like there's another mama in the trenches with you.
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Santos, an acronym for South Australia Northern Territory Oil Search, is an Australian-based oil and gas exploration and production company with high quality assets and projects throughout Australia and the Asia–Pacific Region. Santos is committed to provide a work environment where people enjoy what they do and are motivated to achieve, while supporting the diverse needs of the individual. In Santos, people s skills and ideas are the fundamental to the company s ability to prosper and grow. Within the growing Indonesian business, currently we’re seeking positions:
Community Development Coordinator
To coordinate, facilitate, develop and monitor community development programs for communities at district and village levels in order to maintain good and sound relationship between Santos and targeted communities to develop trust and good corporate image in Indonesia
Only the very best will be considered for the position, applicants must possess the following requirements:
- Bachelor s Degree majoring in Community Development, Conflict Resolution from a reputable University. Master s Degree is an advantage
- 5+ years experience as a Community Liaison and or Community Development
- Fluency in written and spoken English
- Ability to clearly identify problems and manage critical issues through good communication and liaison with all related parties
- Ability to work in tight time constraints and in a multidiscipline team environment
Duties among others are:
- Identify community needs
- Develop community- based programs that address livelihood needs
- Develop community-based programs in accordance with the of community development principles, and BPMIGAS relevant regulations as well as Santos community development objectives and approved budget
- Monitor the program implementation
- Provide advice and input to communities with regards to any issues and concerns that arise in the program implementation
- Support Community Relations Coordinator by sharing information and provide views, advice and alternative problem solving for anticipating any possible local conflicts within the communities in the field that can affect Community Development program and Corporate image
- Encourage relevant stakeholders (District Offices and Partners) to conduct proper and written program evaluation in order to see and learn the impact of the program on the communities for Santos CD program improvement in the future
General Requirements: Strong communication and interpersonal skill, Self motivated, high initiative and adaptability, ability to work in a multidiscipline team environment, high integrity.
Santos provides a structured framework for managing a culture of sustainable performance and accountability, market competitive remuneration strategy and employee benefits, also offers excellent professional development opportunities.
If you are interested in the above role, please submit your application to: firstname.lastname@example.org (please mention the position on the email subject).
All applicants will go through interviews and be selected based on assessment of their skills, knowledge, experience and relevant qualifications in accordance with the requirement in the position description.
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With an ever-growing dependence on digital technology, it is becoming more and more important to be prepared for potential disruptions in our electronics.
Electromagnetic pulses (EMP) are a genuine concern, as they can cause a devastating amount of damage to sensitive electronics, such as computers, phones, and other devices.
Preppers and survivalists must be aware of the potential harm of EMPs and take necessary steps to protect their electronic equipment.
Is The Threat Real?
Electromagnetic pulses (EMP) are intense bursts of electromagnetic radiation that can cause severe damage to sensitive electronics. Various sources, such as nuclear explosions, solar flares, or electromagnetic weapons, can cause EMPs.
When an EMP passes through an electronic device, it can cause permanent disruption or even destruction of the device.
Electronic devices such as laptops, mobile phones, and two-way radios are particularly vulnerable to damage from EMPs, making it nearly impossible to reach out to other people. However, here you can learn the only way to communicate after an EMP.
An EMP will disrupt the device’s delicate circuits, causing it to malfunction or even fail. In addition, an EMP can also cause permanent damage to the device’s memory, making it impossible to recover any data stored on it.
For this reason, preppers and survivalists who rely on these devices should be aware of the potential risk posed by EMPs and take steps to protect their equipment.
A Faraday cage is a metal enclosure that protects electronics from an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) and derives its name from the English scientist Michael Faraday, who discovered the principle of electromagnetic shielding.
Faraday cages shield objects from electromagnetic waves using a metal enclosure to block external static and non-static electric fields. Electromagnetic shielding is due to the metal reflecting and redirecting the electric field lines, thus creating a neutral potential inside the cage.
To construct a Faraday cage, the metal enclosure should be completely covered with a conductive material and have no gaps or openings.
Additionally, the metal should be thick enough to block the electric field but thin enough not to absorb too much energy.
Depending on the strength of the EMP, different types of metal will work for a Faraday cage, such as aluminum, copper, or steel.
Effective Faraday Cages
The following five attributes are present in a practical Faraday cage:
- Electrically Conductive: The faraday cage must be made of an electrically conductive material, such as aluminum or copper, to be effective at blocking EMPs.
- Shielding: Shielding the Faraday adequately to block the electromagnetic waves from entering. Shielding can be done using correctly grounded metal sheets, a metallic layer, or a combination of both.
- Seamless: The faraday cage must have no gaps or seams through which EMPs can enter.
- Air Tight: The faraday cage must be airtight for it to be effective at blocking EMPs.
- Durability: The faraday cage must be durable enough to withstand the force of the EMP, meaning that the material and construction of the faraday cage must be able to withstand the force of the EMP.
Using A Microwave Oven As A Faraday Cage
Some preppers believe microwaves can be used as a Faraday cage to protect electronics from EMPs.
The belief centers around the fact that they have a metal housing.
The metal housing, in theory, should keep electromagnetic waves out.
However, it is essential to remember that a microwave oven may not provide complete protection from EMPs, as the extent of protection can vary depending on the size and power of the EMP.
The effectiveness of microwave ovens as Faraday cages is compromised by the fact that there is a gap between the door and the microwave’s body through which an EMP could enter.
Using A Refrigerator As A Faraday Cage
Refrigerators are a better Faraday cage for protecting electronics from EMPs because they are airtight and made of metal.
The metal exterior of the refrigerator will act as a shield, blocking electromagnetic energy and preventing it from entering the device.
Additionally, the insulated interior walls of the refrigerator will serve as a buffer, helping to absorb the energy and further protect the electronics.
The fact that refrigerators are airtight will also help protect electronics from outside environmental factors, such as dust or moisture.
Sealing the refrigerator completely by insulating all gaps and cracks is essential. Overall, the effectiveness of a refrigerator as a Faraday cage for protecting electronics from EMPs depends on how well it’s sealed and insulated.
Which Is Better? Microwave Versus Fridge
Refrigerators are generally a much better choice for Faraday cages than microwave ovens for a few reasons:
- The metal content of a refrigerator is much higher than a microwave’s, making it a much better conductor of electricity and, therefore, better at shielding the electronic equipment inside from an EMP.
- Refrigerators are much larger and have much more interior space, allowing more equipment to be stored inside. A refrigerator’s insulation also helps absorb the energy from an EMP and further protects the equipment inside.
- A refrigerator door’s airtight seal helps prevent any leakage of electromagnetic energy and further protects the electronics inside.
It would be better to use older refrigerators as they are generally made with thicker metal and provide more shielding from an EMP.
In addition, refrigerators that are buried underground or in a subterranean bunker are generally a better choice as they are better shielded from an EMP due to their distance from the surface and the other earth covering them.
Some Guidelines On Metals For Faraday Cages
The minimum thickness of metal that can be used to construct a Faraday cage will depend on the type and size of the cage. Generally, the thicker the metal, the more protection it will provide.
For most Faraday cages, a sheet of aluminum or copper with a thickness of at least 0.0625 inches (1.6 mm) is recommended.
Copper is the best option for a Faraday cage because it is an excellent conductor and very durable. It is also relatively easy to find and relatively inexpensive.
Aluminum is also a great choice for a Faraday cage because it is an excellent conductor, lightweight, relatively easy to find, and inexpensive.
Steel is a good choice for a Faraday cage because it is durable and can withstand extreme temperatures and pressures. It is also relatively easy to find and relatively inexpensive.
You can also buy metal fabrics or Faraday fabrics online that can shield or cover gaps in your current Faraday cage.
For the Faraday cage to work as intended, it needs to be grounded. Grounding is done by running a copper wire from the cage to a copper rod driven into the ground, providing a path for the electric current to flow through and protect your electronics from the EMP.
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Making my first pumpkin roll was a challenge for me. Not being a trained baker I’ve always been afraid of making any type of roll cakes. As it turned out, the cake was easier to make than I imagined.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Grease 15 x 10-inch jelly-roll pan; line with parchment. Grease and flour paper. Sprinkle towel with powdered sugar.
Mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves and salt in small bowl. Beat eggs and sugar in large mixer bowl until thick.
Beat in pumpkin. Stir in flour mixture. Spread evenly into prepared pan.
Bake for 13 to 15 minutes or until top of cake springs back when touched. Immediately loosen and turn cake onto prepared towel, and carefully peel off the paper.
Roll up cake and towel together, starting with narrow end. Cool on a wire rack.
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THE ASKNINA TEAM
Top 1% of agents on Toronto MLS (Total Combined Units Sold) 2016 - 2021
ROYAL LEPAGE REAL ESTATE SERVICES - THE KINGSWAY OFFICE
The Kingsway is one of 13 corporate offices across the GTA. The staff and Realtors at the branch are known for their commitment to service and for their experience. There is tremendous depth of knowledge in all ranges of properties. At The Kingsway branch, you will find Agents who specialize in areas across the GTA, but specifically in local neighbourhoods like the Kingsway, Bloor West Village, Sunnylea, Mimico, and developments along the waterfront. The askNina Team is the leading team covering Downtown Brampton and surrounding areas.
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Test to measure the Nitrates in freshwater and seawater aquariums
1 graduated test tube
1 x 10 ml bottle of NO3 1 reagent
1 x 10 ml bottle of NO3 2 reagent
1 green container of Nitrate-analysis powder
1 powder dosing teaspoon
1 colorimetric scale and 1 instruction leaflet
Complete kits: all you need to analyse the water.
The kits include test tubes, syringes and precision dosing devices.
Even more precise and with longer oxidation times.
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Facebook has been a pioneer and also one of the leading social media platforms. Mark Zuckerberg recently surprised the world by announcing that Facebook will now be called Meta. Social media experts are speculating as to what the motive behind this change of name could be. People all over the world have searched about Metaverse in the last few days and it has become one of the most popular search terms.
Facebook lovers are wondering why their favorite social media platform is being forced to change its name. They are busy making wild guesses. Many are trying to find out what Meta means and what does it stand for in the context of social media. If one looks up for the word Meta on Oxford dictionary, he finds that it means transformation or change. Another meaning given in the dictionary is beyond, at a higher level, or above.
If one goes by the version of the company, it is clear that it equates Meta with beyond. But it is clear that Facebook is seeking some kind of a metamorphosis. It is common knowledge that Facebook has lots a bit of its sheen and popularity in recent times. It is also losing its active members by a sizeable number. Is this change of name a ploy by the company to avoid negative image and comments circulating in the press and digital media? Experts believe that a simple name change cannot get rid of the systemic issues that have been plaguing the company in the last few years.
Even if one is not sure about the reason why Facebook decided to change its name, it is clear that this move is primarily aimed at the future. Facebook says that Meta signifies the future direction of the company. It also indicates the kind of image that the company is trying to create for itself. However, there is no dearth of analysts who doubt if the public has any faith or trust in the new vision of Facebook announced by Mark Zuckerberg.
Meta is a word that is included in Metaverse. Many believe that the vision shared by the company with the public is deeply associated with this bigger word. Metaverse is an imaginary world where the thin line dividing the real and the world of internet converge. It is the way people will be using the web in future. In the words of Zuckerberg, people will have the freedom to connect with friends and be present in their offices without commuting in person.
It may be a far-fetched thing in future but many of those who have attended conferences and attended offices sitting in their homes during Covid-19 can connect with this idea. There are also the lovers of virtual reality games like Second Life who can easily relate with this concept.
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Louise, Queen consort of Sweden
|Birthname||Louise Alexandra Marie Irene|
|born on||13 July 1889 at 17:30 (= 5:30 PM )|
|Place||Jugenheim, Germany, 49n44, 8e41|
|Timezone||LMT m8e41 (is local mean time)|
|Astrology data||21°24' 03°03 Asc. 15°52'|
German princess who became Queen of Sweden as the wife of King Gustaf VI Adolf. A member of the House of Battenberg, Louise was closely related to the ruling families of Britain and Russia. During the First World War, Louise served as a nurse in the Red Cross. She married the widowed Gustaf Adolf in 1923 and assumed the role of Sweden's first lady but did not become queen until 1950. Queen Louise was noted for her eccentricity and progressive views.
On 3 November 1923, at age 34, Louise married Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf in the Chapel Royal at St. James's Palace in the presence of George V and members of both royal families. Louise's only child, a daughter, was stillborn on 30 May 1925.
Queen Louise died on 7 March 1965 at Saint Göran Hospital, in Stockholm, Sweden, following emergency surgery after a period of severe illness.
- child->parent relationship with Victoria, Princess of Hesse and by Rhine (born 5 April 1863)
- spouse relationship with Gustaf VI Adolf, King of Sweden (born 11 November 1882). Notes: 1923-1965
- sibling relationship with Alice, Princess (1885) (born 25 February 1885)
- sibling relationship with Mountbatten, George (born 6 November 1892)
- sibling relationship with Mountbatten, Lord Louis (born 25 June 1900)
Sy Scholfield forwarded birth news from Darmstädter Zeitung, 15 July 1889, page 1.
- Traits : Personality : Eccentric
- Traits : Personality : Temper
- Family : Relationship : Marriage more than 15 Yrs
- Family : Parenting : Birthing - Miscarriages (Stillborn)
- Family : Parenting : Kids none
- Notable : Famous : Royal family (House of Battenberg by marriage)
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Updated: Dec 23, 2021
8 Mukhi Rudraksha
Eight mukhi Rudraksha is a rare bead and is found in rare in numbers. This Rudraksha is blessed by lord Ganesha, the younger son of lord Shiva and manas putra of Goddess Parvati. This Rudraksha removes the obstacles and brings success. This Rudraksha also pacifies the planet Rahu.As per Rudrakshaja balopnishad it is a form of eight mother goddess, eight Vasus and Ganga all three give their blessings to the wearer. It removes the obstacles and improves intelligence and health.As per scriptures and Puranas Its ruling planet is Rahu. Hence helpful in sublimating the malefic effects of Rahu. It’s malefic effects are similar to that of Shani or Saturn as in 7 mukhi. It is held responsible for causing sudden effects, diseases of lung, feet skin, eye catarrhisis, hydrocel, airtracia etc. Snake bites are also the result of malefic effects of Rahu. The wearer of 8 faced rudraksha keeps a check on the malefic effects of the planet Rahu. They are a long life assets.
Other Details: Symbol of : Lord Ganesha , Ruling Planet : Rahu , Ruling God: Lord Ganesha and Kartikeya
Day of wearing : Monday Recommended for: Curing the diseases of Nervous System, Prostrate and Gall Bladder and Insommnia. Influence on body organ: Optic chiasma and Pancreas. Properties: Sins committed while telling lies get condoned by wearing this. People’s experience: It gives wearer an analytical mind, great understanding and good writing skills.
Mantras: “Om Hun Namah” (Shiva Puran) , “Om Sah Hoom Namah” (Padma Puran), “Om kam vam Namah” (Skand Puran) , “Om Hreem Shreem Kreem Soam “ “Mahamrityunjai Mantra” (Brahajjalopanishad) , “OM. Tryambakam Yajamahe Sugandhim Pushti-Vardhanam Urvarukamiva Bandhanan Mrityor Mukshiya Mamritat” “Om Hreem Greem Leem”,”Aam Shreem” “Om Namah Shivaya”
Way of Wearing Only one bead of eight Mukhi Rudraksha is enough to be worn. It should be strung in red thread and worn by chanting the mantras. Benefits It brings the wearer in fame, excellence in art, leadership qualities and prosperity. Who should wear ?
Worn by all those persons who confront obstacles in life and get failures. Also worn with seven mukhi by people having Shani Dhosha.
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Ed is an accredited strength and conditioning coach and former director of the UKSCA and has a 25-year career in strength and conditioning and fitness education.
His work in elite sport included Gloucester Rugby, Formula 1 and a range of diverse performance environments such as ballet and international polo.
Lucie has managed the Athlete Academy administrative operations for 15 years. Following her Sport Studies degree she combined early years teaching and then a career as a firefighter with 12 years of international field hockey for Wales.
Lucie provides invaluable support for our staff as well as our learners
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Kylie was one of the first people in the country to complete the S&C Trainer qualification in 2020.
Kylie has been coaching with the Athlete Academy for over two years during which time she has also completed her MSc in S&C with the University of Gloucestershire.
Kylie is the S&C Coach for the Severn Stars Nova Academy at the Crypt School.
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Rich is an accredited strength and conditioning coach and former director of the UKSCA and has been an integral part of the Athlete Academy team since 2011. He is the current S&C Coach for Bristol Flyers Basketball, and has a distinguished reputation in academia and applied coaching as a lecturer, researcher and specialist in agility training.
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The SPIB is one of the Ivory Coast’s oldest unions. Founded in 1943, its objective and primary role has always been collaboration with authorities and, in particular, line ministries as well as the promotion of Ivorian timber and processed products.
The SPIB has 24 full members, who process and export 70% of the country’s total processed products, representing an equal proportion of industrial companies out of the 78 currently operational units.
The SPIB is a member of ATIBT and the UNEMAF, so it intervenes at the upper management level and is particularly well informed of new laws, decrees and orders issued by the government as well as all other orientations and information relating to the sector. The SPIB maintains regular contact for discussion and information purposes with various international organisations (OAB - ITTO - FAO - World Bank - EU - AFD, etc.) and national structures (SODEFOR - OIPR - SEPBA, etc.). SPIB has several of its members that are OLB certified.
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At Atlanta Specialty Woods, we produce stunning fireplace mantels from reclaimed wood to the Greater Atlanta region. Reclaimed mantels come in a variety of colors, species, finishes, and textures. Our experienced staff works with you to understand your personal style and goal. Mantels for a fireplace make for a beautiful focal point of a room. We offer a wide range of pieces that fit within your style and preference. We also provide mantels from newer wood products such as cypress and white pine. Along with our extensive reclaimed wood inventory, we also offer installation services, so your mantel is beautifully mounted above your fireplace. If you would like a mantel made from reclaimed wood, contact Atlanta Speciality Woods today to discuss your project!
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With over ten years in business, we are committed to unmatched service and quality craftsmanship with every project we take on. For more information on our Mantels from Reclaimed Wood, contact Atlanta Woods today.
Every client is different, just like our products, so we also offer mantels from newer wood products like cypress and white pine to give a solid timber look without the obvious signs of age.
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People think yoga is not real sport and doesn’t burn enough energy. That is wrong! Yoga is the perfect training to burn the extra calories that come with the end of year celebrations. Read below to discover yoga for weight loss!
What type of yoga for weight loss?
Yoga can burn from 180 to 600 calories per hour depending on which yoga you go for. Indeed, you have various types of yoga for weight loss. You burn more during a Bikram class than a restorative one for instance.
Our favourite style remains the Vinyasa (Ashtanga, Power yoga and yoga flow classes are styles of vinyasa yoga). Characterised by its flow that links the asana together, it requires you to always be in movement, making it the perfect yoga for weight loss. An active class of those burns in an hour as much as a 5 mph. run. (594 calories).
However, keep in mind that this figure assumes that you flow for an hour long. Child poses are not included ladies!
Yoga poses for weight loss
Not only yoga styles have an impact on the energy you burn, but there are also some special yoga poses for weight loss. Find below the perfect poses of yoga for weight loss.
The plank pose burns many calories because you need to engage all your muscles and to resist to gravity.
This pose requires you to activate the glutes (largest muscles in the body) and this burns a lot of energy.
It’s basically a push-up and it engages all your muscles, resulting in a lot of energy burnt.
Sun salutations are series of poses supposed to flow. This activates the cardiovascular system and engage the glutes, the abdominal, the shoulders, the biceps and the triceps.
Other benefits of yoga for weight loss
Yoga is appropriate to lose weight as it does burn energy. However, it is not the only reason why it helps you to get fit. It also increases your mindfulness and changes the way you apprehend your body and listen to yourself. You then pay more attention at what you eat and how you consume it.
For example, you seek for healthier food and avoid fat snacks that make you feel tired, resulting in weight loss.
Besides, it is a well known fact that some people tend to eat more during high stress time periods. By reducing stress, yoga helps you to behave and you lose weight.
So the answer to “is yoga good for weight loss” is definitely yes. Yoga is effective to lose weight in several aspects: it burns energy, improves your self esteem and builds healthier relationship to food. So even if it is not the exercise type that burns the most calories, it still does. Plus, if you just start exercising, it is perfect for you as it causes less injury.
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Pick up from Hotel Lobby or location, or self transfer.
Arrival at Phuket ATV Park. Registration and Briefing.
Group divided and start off activities. (Each group will be participating with games and ATV tours separately as a base rotation).
Once all groups or teams have participated and finished, the scores will be given and a winning team will be announced with a trophy or gifts. (Depending on arrangements).
09.00 am – 11.00 am / 12.00 am – 02.00 pm / 03.00 pm – 05.00 pm
***Please note that the pick up time is depended on your location***
*This program required minimum 10 participants
ATV Riding tour :
After safety briefing and training the participants will ride along nice and easy trails, leaded by our guides and ATV staff. Level by level we go through more challenging terrain, depending on the abilities and skills of the riders. If a rider cannot continue the trip due to hesitation or fear, the participant will have a escort with them to help and ensure the participants with the ATV riding, also the rider become a passenger. Either on the back of staff or another participant with is skillful enough to take a passenger with him/her. There will be intervals in between, drinking water will be provided in each break, each break our guides will stop at a muddy area, rubber plantation and a secluded beach with a beautiful mangrove forest surrounding it. Each stop a game will be played by 2 or more teams depending on the size of the group and arrangements. Each game will be widely spread all around the park. You’ll be playing games in different locations. Games consist of:
In the catapult game the participants will split up doing different duties. Collecting the tennis balls for ammo, shooting the balls with a homemade catapult/ sling shot to a basket which is carried by another member of the team participating. The rules of the game are simple, for example: if there were 10 participants in a team, 2 will be holding the catapult, while 2 will be looking for ammo ‘Blind folded’ in a enclosed area, once the 2 have found ammo they will run to the catapult and shoot it to a basket held by a member of the team and rest will help tell the searchers where the ammo is( everyone will swap continuously . Everyone on the team must have an active role. This game can be arranged in a lot of ways.
The participants will play the 10 pins bowling by using 2 coconuts instead of the original bowling ball. The participants will line up and take turns throwing a small and big coconut ball. The rest of the team, while they wait you will cheer on for your fellow team members.
Flying for the flag (Rope Bridge and flag capture flying fox), or scoring with tennis grenades into a whirlpool in the middle of the lake under the flying fox.
Participants will have to endure the challenging adventure bridge and conquer their fears with the flying fox. Altogether walking on the bridge and 1 by 1 or 2 by 2 on the flying fox.
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Saxophonist, improviser, performer, composer, born in the ” Ru frati coast” (March 1983 Syracuse – Sicily Island)
He started his musical studies when he was 12 years old;
he studied with Barend Middelhoff, Carlo Cattano, Stefano Zenni, Luca Bragalini, Rosario Giuliani, Tommaso Lama, Teo Ciavarella, Piero Odorici, Ettore Martin, Giampaolo Ascolese, Paolo Ghetti, Marco Micheli.
He obtain the bachelor’s degree in jazz music in the high artistic and musical formation institute, conservatoire G.B Martini in Bologna with degree thesis “Five pieces 1975 by Anthony Braxton”. Techniques of composition and improvvisation with the musicologist Stefano Zenni as supervisor.
Deepening a lot of musical languages from classic to the improviseted music Jazz and Free Jazz, he has played and collaborated with many artists: Markus Stockhausen, Marc Abrams, Francesco Cusa, Roy Paci, Tony Cattano, Claudio Lugo, Beppe Scardino, Paolo Sorge, Danilo Gallo, Luca Dell’Anna, Federico Squassabia, Marle-Anne Prins-Jorge, Raul Colosimo, Debora Petrina, Caparezza, Piotta, Urban Killas, Improvvisatore Involotnario, Nursery Quartet, Naked Musicians, Saya,.
He recorded for Label such: Improvvisatore Involontario, Indijazzti Records, La Grande Onda, Funk Freakaz.
In 2014 he was cofounder of the indipendent label Indijazzti Records.
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Use drill down feature
The Drill Down feature in Pivot Table allows users to dive deeper into their data and analyze it at a more granular level. By clicking on a specific field in the row section of the pivot table, users can drill down and view detailed data related to that field. With the Drill Down feature, users can quickly access and analyze granular data without the need for additional filters or queries, making data exploration more efficient and effective.
For example, a sales manager can use this feature to view sales data by month and then drill down further to view sales data by a week or even by day. This allows the manager to identify trends and patterns that may not be immediately visible in the higher-level summary data. This feature is particularly useful when dealing with large datasets, as it allows users to focus on specific aspects of the data without overwhelming them with information.
Calculated data in Pivot Table allows users to perform complex calculations on the existing data within a pivot table. For example, let's say you have a pivot table that shows the total revenue for each product category, but you want to know the profit margin for each category as well. With the calculated data feature, you can add a new column to your pivot table that calculates the profit margin using a formula based on the existing revenue and cost data.
This allows you to analyze your data more comprehensively and gain insights into areas that may require attention or improvement. With the ability to customize the formula used to calculate the new data, users can create a wide variety of calculated data fields, from simple averages to complex ratios and percentiles, all tailored to their specific analysis needs.
Applying filters in a pivot table allows users to refine their data analysis by narrowing down the data to a specific subset that meets certain criteria. ClicData provides the flexibility to apply filters to a standard column as well as calculated columns, giving users even more control over their data analysis. When applying filters, ClicData offers various options, such as filtering by data range, input values, or formula.
For example, if a company has a pivot table containing sales data for various products, they could use filters to only show data for a specific product line or region. This feature helps users to focus on the information that is most relevant to their needs and provides a more in-depth analysis of the data. By applying filters, users can easily identify patterns, trends, and outliers in their data that they may have otherwise missed.
Use Appropriate Functions
ClicData provides various functions that can be used to analyze your data. When working with pivot tables in ClicData, it is important to use appropriate functions to ensure accurate and useful data analysis.
For example, if you are analyzing sales data, you may want to calculate the total revenue generated by each product category. In this case, using the "sum" function would be appropriate to add up the sales figures for each category. On the other hand, if you wanted to know the average price of each product in a particular category, you would use the "average" function instead. If you have a sales dataset with a column for each product sold, you can use the Count function in the pivot table to see how many times each product was sold. By selecting the right function for each calculation, you can gain valuable insights from your data and make informed business decisions.
Conditional formatting in the pivot table allows users to highlight specific data points based on their values. Let's say you have a sales report with a pivot table that shows the total revenue generated by each salesperson. You can use conditional formatting to highlight the salespeople who have exceeded their sales targets so that they stand out visually from the rest of the table. To do this in ClicData, you would select the column containing the revenue data and go to the "Conditional Formatting" option in the toolbar. From there, you can choose a pre-defined format or create a custom format based on your preferences.
For our example, you could select a green fill color and bold text for salespeople who exceeded their targets, and a red fill color for those who fell short. This makes it easy to quickly identify which salespeople are performing well and which ones may need additional support or coaching.
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Dublin capped off their league campaign in fine fashion this afternoon, defeating Derry on a scoreline of 4-6 to 0-11 at Croke Park.
In truth, the scoreline didn't really reflect the dominance of the Dubs over the course of the 70 minutes. They were by far the better side throughout, especially in the second half. Despite the fact that they scored four goals, that tally could have been quite a bit higher after scuppering a number of other opportunities to raise a green flag. Their shooting was also wayward from distance, contributing to that tally of only six point scored.
Derry managed to remain within touching distance for large portions of the game, but never really threatened to win it after the interval.
This result sets Dublin up perfectly for the championship campaign, where they will be heavy favourites to win a 13th consecutive Leinster title. As well as that, we could well see the return of a familiar face to the starting XV in the weeks ahead.
Dessie Farrell drops hint on Stephen Cluxton plans
The return of Stephen Cluxton to the Dublin panel last weekend has dominated the headlines over the last number of days. The reception to it has been mixed, with Pat Spillane claiming that he felt the whole situation was a 'joke'.
While outside commentators have voiced their opinions, the comments from those inside the camp on how they plan use the 41-year old have been rather ambiguous. Dessie Farrell said after the Louth game that the goalkeeper had returned due to an injury crisis in that position and did not even confirm that he would be staying on for the rest of the year.
However, we were given a clearer picture this afternoon.
Speaking to TG4 after the win over Derry, Farrell confirmed that Cluxton would be with the Dublin panel for the remainder of the year. He also said that while he did not consider bringing him on to get playing time in this game, he did drop some hints that he would be in the team by the time that championship rolls around.
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"You come up against that set defence more in the modern day game, you have to be creative in terms of how you open them up."
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He has a great mentor in Stephen. It is great to have Stephen back in the mix, but David O'Hanlon has been phenomenal for us throughout the league campaign.
He has took over the jersey since Evan Comerford has been injured, he has commanded that position and we're very happy with please with where he's at...
No, Stephen doesn't want any of that tokenism. His day will come if it's going to come.
He is training really well and is part of the panel now at this stage. We're looking forward to the contribution he will make throughout the summer.
Those comments would certainly suggest that we will see Stephen Cluxton in the starting XV at some point over the summer.
Such a move would be sure to cause plenty of debate, with Dublin already having two good goalkeeper in the squad in the form of David O'Hanlon and the injured Evan Comerford.
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Like many Americans, George Seal sees Thanksgiving as a day for remembering the family members, past and present, who have helped make possible the life he lives and loves today.
Take one of his ancestors: a 17th-century Englishman who attempted and survived a hazardous Atlantic crossing, helped found and lead a new society in what is now Massachusetts, and wrote a history of his life and times.
Or another, a prickly rogue whom the first man disliked, declared guilty of murder and ordered hanged.
Seal happens to descend from what might very well be the two most dissimilar men who sailed to America aboard the Mayflower in 1620: William Bradford, the second governor of Plymouth Colony, and John Billington, a roughneck who was found guilty of killing a fellow Pilgrim over a grudge.
Both took part in the first Thanksgiving feast, 394 years ago. Seal salutes both men as robust early Americans.
"Even Billington wasn't all bad," says Seal, a charter member of the Society of Mayflower Descendants of the State of Maryland. "Didn't he take the same risks as everyone else? They nearly starved that first winter and thought they were blessed with divine fortune to survive. I admire what they all did."
Few people are more enthusiastic about the third Thursday of November than the men, women and children who belong to the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, an association whose 30,000 members have proved a direct line from one or more of the passengers who made the historic voyage.
Headquartered in Plymouth, Mass., not far from the spot where the merchant ship came ashore, the organization boasts chapters in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Canada.
(Closer to home, the Society of the Ark and Dove brings together descendants of the two ships that brought the settlers of the Proprietary Province of Maryland in 1634.)
Seal, the Maryland chapter's oldest member at age 96, was 18 when he attended its first meeting in a room at the Lord Baltimore Hotel in 1938. He was there in the same room when the chapter celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2013.
The Maryland group's 324 members, like those across the continent, agree by charter to "transmit the spirit, the purity of purpose and the steadfastness of will of the Pilgrim Fathers to those who shall come after us — an undiminished heritage of liberty and law."
In Maryland, that translates into raising money for scholarships, conducting educational programs, offering genealogy workshops and attending two banquets — one in the spring, the other the Sunday before Thanksgiving.
The November event, a Thanksgiving-style dinner with turkey, cranberries and pumpkin pie, is a dual fest. It's held in honor of the Mayflower Compact, the governing document that the 41 male survivors of the voyage signed on Nov. 11, 1620, to set ground rules for the colony, as well as the first Thanksgiving a year later.
The Pilgrims are believed to have shared that harvest celebration with a party of Wampanoag Indians sometime between Sept. 29 and Nov. 11, 1621.
This year's event drew about 80 people to an inn in Brookeville Sunday to observe several long-standing traditions. Just before the dinner, for example, an emcee read aloud the name of each Mayflower passenger. With each name, the descendants of that Pilgrim stood to be recognized.
Guests also heard a lecture by filmmakers Andrew Cameron Bailey and Connie Baxter Marlow, whose documentary, "The First Fifty Years," explores what they say was the peaceful coexistence of the Plymouth settlers and their Native American neighbors through 1675.
By some estimates, as many as 35 million people can claim to be Mayflower descendants, including figures as divergent as Sarah Palin, Hugh Hefner, Clint Eastwood, Richard Gere, Cokie Roberts and George W. Bush.
One reason for the high numbers: Although only 52 passengers survived the first winter, including three adult and four teenage women, many survivors had large families.
"We were a prolific people," says James B. Battles of Rockville, governor of the state chapter.
To become a member of the society, candidates must "verify the birth, marriage and death of each person down the line," says Battles. Battles, 71, descends from James Chilton, the oldest Mayflower passenger.
Society researchers helped by completing the "Silver Books," a genealogy of the first five generations of descendants, years ago. A candidate needs to trace his or her lineage only as far back as someone listed in the volume.
But even that can be tricky, says Caroline Fowler, 74, a Severna Park resident who spent three years as Maryland chapter historian, the officer who vets the paperwork of applicants.
Record-keeping hasn't always been as thorough as it is today. New York state, for example, kept no birth records before 1881, and New York City didn't start until 1910.
"It's generations six through nine that can get a little tough," Fowler says.
That leaves some candidates scouring for secondary evidence — inscribed family Bibles, letters, gravestone rubbings — in lieu of official, definitive documents: birth certificates, death certificates, marriage licenses and wills.
Small wonder those who navigate the process end up feeling personally connected to their ancestors — proud of their feats, fascinated by their personalities, eager to share their histories or clear up myths.
Some have several to choose from. Fowler has six Mayflower forebears, including John Alden, the ship's 21-year-old cooper; William Mullins, a 50-year-old who boarded with his wife, Alice, and two children, and military adviser Myles Standish.
She learned long ago that Mullins, Alice and their son died that first year; that Alden, "a decent, hard-working man," married the Mullinses' lone surviving child, Priscilla; that the couple had 11 children, and that Standish "was apparently a real character, a bit of a hothead."
Fowler and her husband, Jim — he descends from another passenger — have shared the tales with their four children and 14 grandchildren. All are members of chapters where they live.
None in Maryland can outdo Ben Proctor, 74, a Lutherville resident whose grandparents, parents and aunts lived in Plymouth and who lived as a child in nearby Newton, Mass.
Proctor, a retired insurance company executive, recalls many a Thanksgiving dinner at a relative's house near Plymouth Rock, where he and his sister took walks between courses.
Because he has 11 Mayflower ancestors — he rattles their names off alphabetically, from Isaac Allerton through Richard Warren — he spends the Compact Day litany sitting down and getting back up.
"I get a good workout," jokes Proctor, a three-time president of the Maryland chapter.
It's a price he's only too happy to pay to commemorate ancestors he says risked everything to secure the religious freedom they believed was their birthright. He describes himself as a devout Christian.
"I'm proud of what they had to endure, of how strongly they felt in their belief in God, of their desire to be able to worship the way they wanted to," Proctor says.
Family legacy has brought out the historian in Battles. Since learning years ago of the Mayflower link, he has written "Chilton's Challenge," a two-act play about the lives of Chilton and his daughter, Mary, who is said to have been the first Pilgrim to set foot on Plymouth Rock; performed in a DVD version of the play, which the Maryland chapter has donated to dozens of schools in the state, and even visited Leiden, Holland, the city where many Mayflower passengers enjoyed religious sanctuary before making the long voyage to the New World.
His research, he says, confirmed a little-known theory first posited in 2001 by J.C. Kardux and E.F. Van de Bilt, scholars of American history at the University of Leiden.
While many believe the first Thanksgiving was modeled on English and Indian harvest traditions, the pair made a compelling case that a long-standing Dutch practice was also crucial — and Battles agrees.
In 1573, Spanish naval forces launched the Siege of Leiden, a brutal operation that led to the starvation of about half the city's population. When residents burst their own dikes to end the siege in 1574, friendly privateers arrived in boats bearing bread and fish.
Prince William of Orange, forebear of the Dutch royal family, called for a feast. Leiden residents began celebrating "Leidens Ontzet" (the Relief of Leiden) every October — a tradition in which the Pilgrims would have taken part, and one that endures today.
Battles believes they drew on it when planning their Thanksgiving — another fest that marked the end of an ordeal that had killed half the population.
"Virtually no one knows about this, and it's part of our mission to educate," Battles says. He has published an article on the subject in his chapter's newsletter.
He and others still marvel at one aspect of the first Thanksgiving. According to Bradford's log, the seven women survivors prepared the food — wild turkey, deer, dried corn, oysters and more — for more than 200 guests, including 150 Wampanoag Indians, and kept it coming for three full days.
Seal says the fest drew "saints and sinners" alike, including his two mismatched forebears — Bradford the VIP and Billington and his family, the troublemakers.
Bradford served as governor, or chief executive, of the colony, for nearly 29 years. Billington, who was known for irritating Bradford with his constant complaints, was spotted heading into the woods one day in 1630 just before another settler, John Newcomen, was found there in a pool of blood. There were no witnesses.
Seal jokingly suggests Bradford might have framed Billington to get rid of him.
The theory has won few backers. Either way, Seal says, both ancestors survived the voyage, signed the compact and broke bread at the feast, helping to create history and establish a tradition we emulate today.
That, Seal believes, is what matters.
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The California homestead just changed, for the better, but it raised questions about how the single change affected the rest of the law.
The newly enacted version of California Code of Civil Procedure 704.730 replaces the previous homestead system that pegged the amount of the available homestead to family relationships, including marriage, to age, or to health.
All of that was eliminated in favor of a system that simply provides that everyone with a principal residence gets a homestead in the amount of $300,000, and in counties where the median sale price of homes is more than $300,000, an exemption of the median price of a home, not to exceed $600,000.
The new homestead provision in CCP 704.7430 reads:
704.730. (a) The amount of the homestead exemption is the greater of the following:
(1) The countywide median sale price for a single-family home in the calendar year prior to the calendar year in which the judgment debtor claims the exemption, not to exceed six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000).
2) Three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000).
b) The amounts specified in this section shall adjust annually for inflation, beginning on January 1, 2022, based on the change in the annual California Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers for the prior fiscal year, published by the Department of Industrial Relations.
Note, that the minimum homestead ($300,000) and the maximum homestead ($600,000) are subject to annual adjustment for inflation. Thus these numbers will stay relevant without further legislative action.
Who qualifies for a homestead?
The definitional section of the California homestead law contains a definition of a “family unit” that, under the old homestead law, qualified an unmarried homeowner to a homestead equal to that of a married couple.
That appears to be surplusage as the new exemption doesn’t use the composition of the household residing in the homestead to determine how much value is protected.
The definition of a homestead is unchanged: it is the principal dwelling of a judgment debtor, or the judgment debtor’s spouse. So, homestead protection for the home in which only one spouse lives is preserved.
Also unchanged is the exclusion from “spouse” of a married person following entry of a judgment of legal separation.
So, the economic interest of a person in a principal dwelling is protected, so long as that person, or the person’s spouse lives there, regardless of who else lives there as well.
Creditors with pre-increase claims
The next question that popped up is the effect of the homestead increase on creditors who have claims incurred when the homestead protection was smaller.
Do they have a fixed right to limit the homestead to the amount protected when the debt was incurred?
The short, broad answer is no. See CCP 703.060. Unsecured creditors have no vested right to the benefit of a law that’s been superseded. San Diego White Truck Co. v. Swift, 96 Cal.App.3d 88 (Cal. Ct. App. 1979)
The exception is the creditor who has a recorded judgment lien which has attached to a declared homestead as defined in CCP 704.910. The homestead increase is not effective against a creditor with a lien recorded before the effective date of an amendment to CCP 704.730. See CCP 704.965. See In re Morgan, 157 B.R. 467 (Bankr. C.D. Cal. 1993)
Reinvestment requirement remains
Unfortunately, the requirement that homestead proceeds be reinvested in a principal residence within 6 months of receipt remains.
For the automatic homestead, available without recording a declared homestead, that requirement is found in CCP 704.720.
For the declared homestead, see CCP 704.960.
As a practical matter, the increase in the amount of the homestead should make it more feasible for a homeowner to actually acquire a new home within six months, assuming they have significant exempt proceeds.
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Barcelona B product and highly touted prospect Denis Suárez is set to begin his second loan season at Sevilla, and his first official match is against his Blaugrana club, in the UEFA Super Cup to be played in Tbilisi, Georgia, next week.
Suárez talked to UEFA's website about facing Barça, his development in Seville under coach Unai Emery, and more. Here's a few quotes:
UEFA.com: Last season, for the second year running, Spanish clubs won Europe's two major competitions. Why are Liga teams so successful?
Denis Suárez: We work very hard in Spain at all levels, which is good for young players like me – we are constantly monitored and coached. Also I think the Spanish league is the most competitive in the world, with teams boasting the best players in the world. Last season was a good example, with five teams fighting for a Champions League place until the very last moment. That competitiveness is one of the key factors.
UEFA.com: Last year you debuted for Sevilla in this fixture against Real Madrid. Tell us about that game in Cardiff.
Suárez: That was my first match – a year ago Real Madrid were the best team in the world and it was a really difficult game. I wasn't happy with my performance, because it was my first experience of a major final. It was a really disappointing result. It was not easy to play in that match, as it was contested by the two European trophy winners.
UEFA.com: Who are your role models at Sevilla?
Suárez: I have always said Andrés Iniesta and David Silva are my role models, but there are other players I admire a lot here – José Antonio Reyes and Éver Banega. I really like playing with them, we have a good understanding.
UEFA.com: Having played 36 times for Barcelona B in 2013/14, are you looking forward to facing your former side?
Suárez: I really can't wait. For us it is a dream to be here and taking part in a big final against Barça. It will be a special match for me because I played for Barça – it is where everyone taught me to always strive for first place. They will be favourites but I believe it will be competitive and that we'll have chances to win. I hope we manage to beat them.
UEFA.com: What would it mean to start the season winning another trophy?
Suárez: It would be brilliant to win this competition against Barça as they are European champions and also won the treble. It would be absolutely tremendous for us and our fans.
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Talking Chop, I have a confession to make.
I really, really, really want to like the All-Star Game. I know other people think it’s stupid, but I think it’s a great idea. Take a baseball game, boil it down to superior performers from all of the teams across the league, and watch the best pitchers face the best hitters with something like the best defense behind them if the ball is put in play.
But, here’s the thing: I actually kind of hate the All-Star Game. Some of it is the rosters, but a lot more of it is that the way the rosters are used is not really in service to try and win the game. Even when it counted (and how miserable that was...), there was too much managing by rote, too much roster-injury-swap junk that gave second-string All-Stars a lot on-field time due to an unwillingness to participate in an exhibition game, and so on. In my mind, because it’s an exhibition, the All-Star Game would be a perfect time for managers to experiment with things like starting the game with a shutdown reliever (because the first inning is advantageous to the offense since they are guaranteed to bring up their best hitters).
I’m sure the 2017 All-Star Game will be much of the same as what we’ve already seen: bloated with ads and interruptions, rosters semi-unrecognizable from when they were revealed this past Sunday, and some of the game’s best players conspicuously absent. I may not watch, and I probably won’t watch all the way through — it’s just not compelling enough, and this is coming from a guy who’s watched clunkers like the Braves getting slammed by the Brewers 7-0 on a Sunday afternoon.
At this point, I don’t have a great solution for how to change the All-Star Game itself to capture more of my interest. It would have to be a subtle change in terms of the value placed on its importance and relevance, I think, and that would have to come from the players, the coaches, and the league. But, what I can do is at least offer up my thoughts about the type of roster I’d like to see that I think would improve the experience, because I think having some pretty poor choices kills a lot of the potential enjoyment and anticipation right at the outset.
The rest of this post is going to consist first of my preferred rosters for the 2017 All-Star Game. Then, there’ll be a few quick tables comparing those rosters, the actual rosters selected (pending the Final Vote shenanigans), and Dave Cameron’s selections made last week on Fangraphs, just for illustrative purposes.
Picking the All-Star Game Rosters
I think the All-Star Game roster selection process is a tricky exercise. Is a roster spot a measure of recognition? If so, is it a measure of recognition for performance through June, or is the right time period to consider the entire stretch since the last All-Star Game? After all, since there’s no second-half All-Star Game, how fair is it to let a superb July-September performance be swept under the rug?
Alternatively, is the All-Star Game roster meant to be a reflection of the players that give their composite team the best chance to win the game? I know that the game, currently, is not treated as such... but is it meant to? I find that possibility compelling.
As a result, I’ve tried to choose my rosters with all of the above considerations in mind. Both first half 2017 and “last calendar year” performances are considered, though the former is weighted much more heavily. Usage, platoon, and defensive considerations also factor in, as I’ll discuss more with regard to individual players. For roster contours, I use the actual rosters: 20 position players, and 12 pitchers per team. Additional specifics are listed below.
- The main criterion for selection was an indexed WAR measure that combined 2017 performance through June (two-thirds weight) and “last calendar year” performance from July 2016 through June 2017 (one-third weight). Note that since the latter includes 2017 performance, this is effectively a 75-25 weight on this year versus last year.
- Pitcher values were assessed based on a 50-50 split of fWAR and RA9-WAR. This likely did not have a substantial effect on the results.
- For position player roster spots, I selected the starting eight for each league (no Designated Hitter, due to the game taking place in a National League park, despite the weird voting process that still elected a DH for the American League), and then a backup for each position. That left four “Wild Card” spots of the best remaining position players in each league. This is consistent with the actual rosters, once the Final Vote candidates are added on.
- For pitching spots, the split between relievers and starters differs substantially in the actual rosters. The current rosters feature three relievers on the AL team, and six relievers on the NL team. I’m not really sure whether having more starters or more relievers is best to try and win a singular game, but I tried to include standout performers across both relievers and starters, and ended up with the same mix for the NL, and one additional reliever (at the expense of one starter) in the AL.
- My initial cut failed to include players from four teams: the Athletics, Orioles, Padres, and Phillies. Three of these teams had relievers added on (booting some other players off). Notably, with a crowded AL infield, the Orioles’ only standout player in 2017, Jonathan Schoop, is not on my list. What the Orioles have done thus far with really only one good performance from their position players and starting pitchers is remarkable.
Enough chatter: here’s the NL roster:
Starters are pretty easy choices - these are just the best performers at their respective positions. Yes, Ender Inciarte warrants a starting spot here, by the algorithm described above. Rather than pushing Charlie Blackmon to the reserves, though, I think having both of them roam the outfield would be great. All-Star hitters are more likely to drive the ball in the air and to the gaps, so good outfield defense is paramount. (Of course, as leedawg noted, Max Scherzer may also just strike everyone out, so in that case outfield defense would be redundant. I feel better having Blackmon and Inciarte in the outfield, though, than I would replacing Inciarte’s bat with the upgrade that an Adam Duvall, Marcell Ozuna, or Michael Conforto would provide.)
The NL’s position player strength in recent history has apparently been concentrated in its corner infielders: a bunch of sluggers comprise the “Wild Card” reserves and create somewhat of a glut there. By comparison, the outfield choices aren’t super-exciting. Generally, though, these guys provide good platoon partners for the starters. Grandal hits righties very well, and his framing is relatively comparable to Posey’s. Across Goldschmidt, Freeman, Rizzo, and Votto, you have all sorts of first base options. Third base is the only same-handedness situation here; platoon partners exist for everyone else. In the end, I didn’t feel that Tyler Flowers warranted any real consideration over Grandal for the backup spot: the framing is nice, but he’s a righty hitter like Posey, and I’m not sure he offers more offensively.
Max Scherzer should definitely be starting, and the remaining starters give the NL a number of options for how to play with the middle innings, with two lefties and three righties. Of course, they may not be needed, because there are six quite-effective relievers around, too. Pat Neshek and Brad Hand are the “undeserving” fill-ins for their respective teams, but honestly aren’t too far off from the guys they booted off (Raisel Iglesias, Archie Bradley) as far as performance goes.
For injury replacements, first nods for position players should go to Jedd Gyorko and Eugenio Suarez, or Willson Contreras if the injury is to a catcher. Trea Turner would be another choice, but he’s dealing with an injury of his own at the moment. The aforementioned Iglesias and Bradley would be my first choices for pitcher replacements would they be needed.
On to the AL roster:
There’s a pretty clear separation of quality here between everyone else and Sanchez/Morrison. Trout is on here because he’s Mike freakin’ Trout, but given his injury status, George Springer would likely take his place. I’m honestly not a fan of most of the AL first base options, but I think Morrison is the guy here. The AL will have to hope that the star power of the rest of their starting lineup can hide the relative lack of oomph from catcher and first.
Where the NL was crowded at the infield corners, the AL has a bevy of talented shortstops and outfielders. Again, there’s a bit of a focus on platoons, and the AL having a bunch of switch-hitters that have performed at high levels helps a ton in this regard. Having Andrelton Simmons for late game defense is a real luxury, too, though many of the infielders are hardly chopped defensive liver. Due to the relative weakness of the AL 1B field, I slotted Yonder Alonso in as Oakland’s lone representative. While there are cases to be made for Justin Smoak (or Jose Abreu) to relieve Morrison, I’m not huge fans of either for this purpose, and the ability to include Alonso as a backup 1B makes two problems go away, if perhaps not in ideal fashion. An alternative would have been to include Sean Manaea as a starter instead, but the AL has so many good starting candidates that someone was going to be kicked off either way. This caused kind of a cascade effect, where selecting Alonso over, say, Abreu and/or Smoak made it necessary to have Roberto Osuna on the roster for the Blue Jays (see below), and Avisail Garcia on the roster for the White Sox (because I have no idea who else would even make sense for the White Sox). So the roster kind of gets to be a mess at the fringes in the AL as a result.
This is a brutal pitching staff to contend with. Aside from Chris Sale to start, there are three other tough southpaws that the AL can bring to bear (including Jason Vargas, which is a weird thing to type). Brad Brach is the lone Orioles rep, as it wasn’t worth displacing the other reserves for Jonathan Schoop, in my mind, but he’s also not an outlier as far as quality goes.
There’s a very crowded field of possible injury replacements in the AL, because there’s a whole bunch of above-average types on the position player side that aren’t really more or less deserving of one another, including Jarrod Dyson, Justin Upton, Elvis Andrus, Didi Gregorious, Jean Segura, Ian Kinsler, Stephen Souza Jr., Jackie Bradley Jr., Josh Donaldson, Brian Dozier, Kyle Seager, and Avisail Garcia. As far as injury replacements for pitchers, I’d look first to Lance McCullers, and then Ervin Santana.
Unsurprisingly, MLB’s best teams, including the Dodgers, Nationals, and Astros, have five representatives each; other good teams like the Indians, Red Sox, and Yankees come in with a quarter of players on these rosters.
Comparison to Actual Rosters
So, now that you’ve seen the above, how does it stack up with other potential roster configurations? (Click to pop open.)
Blackmon, Harper, Murphy, and Posey are unanimous starters. I’m apparently missing the boat on Bellinger (lotsa pop, but not too sure how long his HR/FB north of 30% will last, or what happens when it regresses) and Zimmerman (horrible last year, not great in the field if needed). Meanwhile, MLB’s choices of excluding Freeman, and putting Rendon/Turner on the Final Vote ballot rather than just giving them spots seems very questionable. I’m also apparently too big a fan of Duvall, Grandal, and Rizzo; meanwhile, Lamb, LeMahieu, Molina, and Stanton seem like really weird choices from MLB’s perspective, and are some of those interest-killing blah choices I mentioned earlier.
Some more spread in the pitchers. My “outliers” are Chase Anderson, Gio Gonzalez, Ivan Nova, and Addison Reed. Meanwhile, I appear to be missing the boat on Zack Greinke, Greg Holland, and Robbie Ray. All of those guys were definitely up there for me but just didn’t make the cut. On the flip side, it’s very strange that the actual roster does not include Felipe Rivero and his current video game number stats, but has Wade Davis instead (good, but not quite as good). Hand, Jansen, Kershaw, Knebel, Martinez, Neshek, and Scherzer are the unanimous selections: kind of funny that it’s a mix of dominant starters/relievers, and then also the gimmes of Neshek and Hand to fill spots for their respective teams.
For the AL, the comparison looks like this (click to pop up):
Altuve, Correa, Judge, Ramirez, and Springer are unanimous starting choices, and Trout would be too had Dave Cameron included him. My main omissions are Justin Smoak (discussed above), Salvador Perez (meh choice at a relatively weak position), and Jonathan Schoop (fine in a vacuum, but wanted to fill the roster with other players). Meanwhile, I apparently like having speedy Yankee outfielders on the roster (Hicks, Gardner), a sentiment not otherwise shared; Cameron and the actual roster also could not find room for Andrelton Simmons.
Meanwhile, some notable actual roster weirdness includes omitting Alex Avila and Robinson Cano, while pushing Xander Bogaerts and Logan Morrison into the Final Vote. Meanwhile, I’m not really sure why Michael Brantley, Starlin Castro, and Nelson Cruz are on the roster. Brantley’s been pretty average, and Cruz has been a powerful DH but his numbers are not egregious.
I apparently missed the boat on Betances (he has an 18% walk rate this year), Severino (just crowded out), and Lance McCullers (who would have been next on my list). Chris Archer has been nuts this year, but not so nuts that either the actual rosters or Dave Cameron included him; and my Brad Brach choice might be weird but the Orioles needed someone, and I didn’t include Schoop.
Notable actual roster omissions include Chris Devenski (no respect, man) and Roberto Osuna (which I get, since MLB included Smoak, as a starter, no less). Meanwhile, I get why MLB included Ervin Santana, though I think there are more deserving candidates (like Archer). Overall, the AL pitching array looks pretty good, I think.
So, with all that, how do you feel about the current rosters? Which omissions grind your gears? Which guys do you think shouldn’t be there at all? Do you hate the requirement that each team have at least one representative, which seems to result in some undeserving players getting spots?
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Week One (09/10/17 at 12 p.m. CDT): Jacksonville Jaguars at Houston Texans.
Week Three (09/24/17 at 12 p.m. CDT): Houston Texans at New England Patriots.
Week Four (10/01/17 at 12 p.m. CDT): Tennessee Titans at Houston Texans.
Week Five (10/08/17 at 7:30 p.m. CDT): Kansas City Chiefs at Houston Texans (Sunday Night Football)
Week Six (10/15/17 at 12 p.m. CDT): Cleveland Browns at Houston Texans.
Week Seven: BYE.
Week Eight (10/29/17 at 3:05 p.m. CDT): Houston Texans at Seattle Seahawks.
Week Nine (11/05/17 at 12 p.m. CST): Indianapolis Colts at Houston Texans.
Week Ten (11/12/17 at 3:05 p.m. CST): Houston Texans at Los Angeles Rams.
Week Eleven (11/19/17 at 12 p.m. CST): Arizona Cardinals at Houston Texans.
Week Twelve (11/27/17 at 7:30 p.m. CST): Houston Texans at Baltimore Ravens (Monday Night Football).
Week Thirteen (12/03/17 at 12 p.m. CST): Houston Texans at Tennessee Titans.
Week Fourteen (12/10/17 at 12 p.m. CST): San Francisco 49ers at Houston Texans.
Week Fifteen (12/17/17 at 12 p.m. CST): Houston Texans at Jacksonville Jaguars.
Week Sixteen (12/25/17 at 3:30 p.m. CST): Pittsburgh Steelers at Houston Texans (Christmas Day, which is a Monday).
Week Seventeen (12/31/17 at 12 p.m. CST): Houston Texans at Indianapolis Colts.
What’s your initial reaction to the layout of the Texans’ opponents in 2017?
For what it’s worth (nearly nothing!), this is allegedly the 25th toughest schedule in the NFL. Which game(s) do you think will be the toughest?
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U19s hammer Karlsruher
Bayern Munich U19s received two quick goals from centerback Bright Arrey-Mbi and rolled over Karlsruher SC 4-1. Ryan Johansson and Joshua Zirzkee added goals of their own in the second half.
Arrey-Mbi scored headers from Oliver Batista-Meier’s corner kicks in the 3rd and 15th minutes. Johansson and Zirkzee added goals minutes apart in the second half to put the game completely out of reach. Karlsruher’s Luca Braun would pull one back late, but that would be all Karlsruher could muster.
Bayern XI: Schneller – Kehl (56. Hofmann), Daniliuc, Arrey-Mbi, Waidner – Tillman (73. Halbich), Booth (64. Lawrence), Herrmann (64. Timossi Andersson) - Batista-Meier, Zirkzee, Johansson
The U19s only have one more Bundesliga game on the docket before the head off for the international break. Next weekend, Bayern will stay in Bavaria with at rip to Augsburg. After that, the Bayern U19s will complete the group stage of the UEFA Youth League when Tottenham comes to Munich.
U17s edge Eintracht Frankfurt
Younes Aitamer put Miroslav Klose’s side up 1-0 in the 9th minute in this one, and Bayern managed to hold on for all three points. This result came despite the fact that Yusuf Kabadayi was sent off with two yellow cards in the first half.
Bayern XI: Schenk – Reinelt, Marusic, Janitzek – Brückner, Neziri – Aitamer, Musiala (80.+1 Vidovic), Wenig (41. Morrison), Motika (80. Fust) - Kabadayi
After 15 games in the B-Junioren Bundesliga Süd/Südwest, Bayern U17s sit third in the table behind Hoffenheim and Mainz; however, leaders Hoffenheim only top the table over Bayern by three points.
Bayern U17s have two more matches left before the winter break, both in Munich. Next weekend, they’ll host SV Wehen Wiesbaden, and on the following weekend, top of the table Hoffenheim comes knocking.
Frauen II draw SV Meppen in dreary conditions
On a foggy field in Meppen, a scoreless draw between SV Meppen and Bayern Munich Frauen II was played.
You can watch the full highlights here.
Bayern XI: Grohs — Bernhardt, Kappes, Huber, Weiß (86. Josephs) — Woldmann (73. Ugochukwu), Kögel, Donhauser, Pfluger — Weber, Corley
After 13 games, Frauen II are in 6th place with 19 points. While leaders Werder Bremen are sitting with 33 points, Bayern trail 5th place Hoffenheim by only 1 point.
There’s only one more game before the winter break for Frauen II. Next weekend, they will travel to Frankfurt to take on bottom-of-the-table FFC Frankfurt II.
Frauen U17s fall to Eintracht Frankfurt
Bayern Munich Frauen U17 lost 3-0 to Eintracht Frankfurt to cap their 2019. Karla Reuter opened the scoring for Frankfurt in the first half, and Lili Wanjura and Sara Wiesner added goals in the second half to lead them to victory.
Bayern XI: Bayerschmidt — Meyer (62. Bohn), Saygili (73. Hüttner), Husic, Schauer (41. Kraus) — Spielvogel, Vidovic — Rittner, Gkasimpagiazova (41. Rauchmann), Lulaj (68. Schmidpeter) — Frank
After 11 games, Bayern sit 4th place in the table on 17 points. They’re 11 points behind leaders Freiburg and 9 points behind third place Hoffenheim.
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Motherwell defender Stephen McManus has described agreeing a new two-year deal as a "no brainer".
The former Celtic captain, 31, has impressed for the Steelmen since his move from Middlesbrough last summer.
"Last season couldn't have gone any better for me personally," McManus told his club website.
"I wanted to come here at the start of last season, play as many games as possible and, hopefully, bring something to the team."
The defender, who has 26 caps, added: "I've really enjoyed it and the decision to extend really was a no brainer."
'Well boss Stuart McCall praised the impact McManus had made in his 42 appearances for the club.
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Packaging – A 1950s Mountain Dew advertisement sign in Tonto, Arizona, showing the cartoon character “Willie the Hillbilly” “Mountain Dew” was originally Southern and/or slang for (i.e., homemade whiskey or ), as referenced in the Irish folk song “”, dating from 1882.
- 0.1 Was Mt Dew made for moonshine?
- 1 Does Mountain Dew taste like moonshine?
- 2 Why is Mt Dew banned?
- 3 What kind of drink is moonshine?
- 4 What was Mountain Dew originally slang for?
- 5 Did Mountain Dew used to have alcohol?
- 6 Is Mountain Dew meant to be mixed with whiskey?
Was Mt Dew made for moonshine?
‘The Hartman Beverage Company on Magnolia Avenue in East Knoxville was the birthplace of the current brand of Mountain Dew,’ said Neely. ‘ In the 1940s, brothers Barney and Ally Hartman started a soft drink that they wanted to make as a mixer for moonshine.
What soft drink was originally intended as a mixer for moonshine?
What Soft Drink Was Originally Created To Go With Whiskey? I don’t know whether I am easily amazed or easily amused. This fact just simply floored me. As we enjoy a cold holiday weekend with plenty of football and a lot of couch time, no doubt some of us will be sipping a libation or two.
- Some of us like beer, others like to mix it up just a bit.
- There are certainly the classic mixers when it comes to enjoying,, or your other favorites.
- Most of us will mix with,, or a or,
- But did you know there is a popular soft drink that was created for the sole purpose of mixing with whiskey? or homemade liquor also has another nickname.
That name is, The same as the popular soft drink. Here is its unlikely story from regional bar mixer to big time soda pop. Back in the 1930’s soft drinks were more regional than national in distribution. For a lot of us in the south the RC Cola was popular.
In Knoxville, Tennessee, the Hartman Brothers liked their soda pop too. They were looking for a good mixer to go with their Tennessee Whiskey and when they couldn’t find one to their liking, they decided to make their own. Thus the inspiration for Mountain Dew, the soft drink, not the moonshine. The Hartman Brothers along with Charles Gordon began to bottle their concoction in the Tri-Cities area of Eastern Tennessee.
The original logo for the product actually featured the likeness of a hillbilly moonshiner along with the phrase, ” will tickle your innards”. What is interesting to me is this, I have never known anyone to actually order a cocktail mixed with this stuff.
Does Mountain Dew taste like moonshine?
How Mountain Dew went from being Appalachia’s choice whiskey mixer to the glowing green peak of sugary, caffeinated beverages we know today. In modernity, Mountain Dew has cultivated a reputation as a high-sugar, energy-delivering soda, more akin to a sports drink than a simple carbonated beverage.
It’s even created a specialized energy drink that reinforces Mountain Dew as the drink of choice for video gamers. But Mountain Dew wasn’t always thought of as a cheap, sugary soda used to quench the thirst of Fortnite fans. Nearly 80 years ago, the drink was most closely associated with Appalachian moonshiners.
A recent Mountain Dew-themed exhibit at the Museum of East Tennessee History explained how two Knoxville, Tennessee brothers came up with the idea for the popular soft drink in 1940 after they moved from Augusta, Georgia, where they used to manage a bottling plant for Orange-Crush.
- Back in Georgia, Barney and Ally Hartman liked to end their days by mixing bourbon into a Sprite-like soda available at the time called Natural Setup.
- Noxville didn’t carry Natural Setup, however, so the brothers had to come up with their own mixer.
- Their new product — Personal Setup — was largely bottled for family, friends, and people who worked for their businesses.
Because it tasted similar to moonshine when mixed with whiskey, however, it soon gained a nickname referencing a then-common moniker for home-distilled liquor: Mountain Dew. For decades, Mountain Dew popularized itself using the image of a barefoot, gun-toting, moonshine-swigging Appalachian man named Grandpappy.
- The company’s catchphrases, too, relied on the stereotypes surrounding country life in Tennessee; the most popular slogan, for a time, was ” It’ll tickle yore innards.
- But in the 1970s, the company tried to rebrand its image, repurposing its barefoot reputation to appeal more to young people living in cities.
Once Pepsi started making Doritos, the company also created marketing techniques to promote the two brands together. Mountain Dew has continued to be associated with the corn-based chip ever since. Mountain Dew may not resemble its original formula. The citrus taste in Personal Setup was much lighter, and the green color wasn’t added until much later.
- However, you can still recapture some of the magic that Barney and Ally Hartman experienced.
- Mountain Dew cocktails are still popular among some whiskey lovers, who compare the mix to a whiskey sour.
- To make one at home, fill a whiskey glass (or mason jar) with ice.
- Muddle some mint and lemon together in the glass along with some simple syrup (if you like your drinks on the sweeter side); then add in your Mountain Dew and a whiskey of your choice.
Southern Comfort seems to be the most preferred brand, but any whiskey would work well. A combination of two parts Mountain Dew to one part whiskey seems to be the most common mix. For non-whiskey lovers, spiced rum is a popular choice as well, and can be mixed in the same proportion.
Why is Mt Dew banned?
Mountain Dew – BVO is banned in Japan and the European Union because it contains bromine, the element found in brominated flame retardants, which can build up in the body and potentially lead to memory loss as well as skin and nerve problems. Why would you allow?
What kind of drink is moonshine?
How is Moonshine Made? – Moonshine is an alcoholic drink that is typically made from corn, sugar, and water. The corn is mashed, and then the sugar and water are added. This mixture is then boiled. The alcohol content of moonshine can be as high as 95%, which is significantly higher than the alcohol content of most other types of liquor.
The first step in making moonshine is to cook the corn.
This can be done in a variety of ways, but the most common method is to use a still. A still is a device that is used to distill liquids. It consists of a pot that is heated on a stove and a tube that leads from the pot to a container that collects the distilled liquid.
The second step is to add sugar and water.
This mixture is then boiled. The boiling helps to extract the alcohol from the corn mash.
The third step is to collect the distilled liquid.
The distilled liquid is collected in a container that is known as a receiver. The receiver can be either a glass jar or a bottle.
The fourth step is to filter the moonshine.
The fourth step is to filter the moonshine. This can be filtered using a variety of methods, but the most common method is to use a filter bag. This will remove any sediment or other particles from the moonshine. You can also use a coffee filter or cheesecloth for this purpose.
The fifth step is to bottle the moonshine.
To bottle the moonshine, simply pour it into a Mason jar. You can also use other types of jars or bottles, but Mason jars are the most common. Make sure to leave some space at the top of the jar so that the moonshine can carbonate. If you want to make it look more professional, you can buy a bottle capper and caps from a store.
The sixth step is to age the moonshine.
To age the moonshine, you can store it in a barrel. This will give it a smooth, mellow flavor. You can also age it in a carboy or glass jug. If you do this, make sure to use an airtight seal to prevent the moonshine from oxidizing. Aging it will improve its flavor and color, and it will also help to remove any impurities.
The seventh step is to drink the moonshine.
The most popular way to drink it is to drink it straight, but there are other ways to consume it as well. Some people like to add it to their coffee or tea or mix it with other drinks. There are also recipes that call for moonshine to be used in place of other ingredients.
Is there a drink called moonshine?
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Alcohol by volume||At least 40%|
|Proof (US)||At least 80°|
|Colour||Clear to off-white depending on ingredients|
|Ingredients||Grain ( mashing ), sugar ( fermented water )|
|Related products||Bourbon whiskey, corn whiskey, Scotch whisky, Irish whiskey, rye whiskey, Tennessee whiskey|
Moonshine is high-proof liquor, generally whiskey, traditionally made, or at least distributed, illegally, Its clandestine distribution is known as bootlegging, The name was derived from a tradition of creating the alcohol during the nighttime, thereby avoiding detection.
What was in original moonshine?
Original MOONSHINE® Clear Corn Whiskey is hand-crafted from 100% estate-grown corn and distilled four times in a Prohibition-era copper pot still – in the same authentic tradition that moonshine has been made for hundreds of years.
What was the first soft drink called?
Timeline Coca-Cola Pepsi 7up Dr. Pepper Soft drinks can trace their history back to the mineral water found in natural springs. Bathing in natural springs has long been considered a healthy thing to do, mineral water was said to have curative powers. Scientists soon discovered that gas carbonium or carbon dioxide was behind the bubbles in natural mineral water.
In 1767, the first drinkable, man made glass of carbonated water was created by Englishmen, Dr. Joseph Priestley. Three years later, the Swedish chemist, Torbern Bergman, invented a generating apparatus that made carbonated water from chalk by the use of sulfuric acid. Bergman’s apparatus allowed imitation mineral water to be produced in large amounts.
In 1810, the first U.S. patent was issued for the “means of mass manufacture of imitation mineral waters” to Simons and Rundell, of Charleston, South Carolina. Carbonated beverages did not achieve great popularity in America until 1832, when John Mathews invented his apparatus for the making carbonated water.
Mathews mass manufactured his apparatus for sale to others. The drinking of either natural or artificial mineral water was considered a healthy practice. American pharmacists, who were selling most of the mineral waters, started to add medicinal and other flavorful herbs to the unflavored beverage, i.e.
birch bark, dandelion, sarsaparilla and fruit extracts. The early drug stores with their soda fountains became a popular part of American culture. Customers wanted to take the drinks home with them and the soft drink bottling industry grew from the consumer demand.
- Over 1,500 U.S.
- Patents were filed for either a cork, cap or lid for the carbonated drink bottle tops.
- The bottles were under a lot of pressure from the gas.
- Inventors were trying to find the best way to prevent the carbon dioxide (bubbles) from escaping.
- In 1892, the “Crown Cork Bottle Seal” was patented by William Painter, a Baltimore machine shop operator.
It was the first very successful method of keeping the bubbles in the bottle. In 1899, the first patent was issued for a glass blowing machine for the automatic production of glass bottles. Earlier glass bottles had all been hand blown. Four years later, the new bottle blowing machine was in operation.
It was first operated by the inventor, Michael J. Owens, an employee of Libby Glass Company. Within a few years, glass bottle production increased from 1,500 bottles a day to 57,000 bottles a day. Sometime in the 1920’s, the first “Hom-Paks” were invented. “Hom-Paks” are the familiar six-pack carrying cartons.
Automatic vending machines also began to appear in the 1920’s. The soft drink had become an American mainstay. Timeline
1798 The term “soda water” is first coined.1810 First U.S. patent is issued for the manufacture of imitation mineral waters.1819 The “soda fountain” is patented by Samuel Fahnestock.1835 The first bottled soda water is available in the U.S.1850 A manual, hand & foot operated, filling & corking device, is first used for bottling soda water.1851 Ginger ale is created in Ireland 1861 The term “pop” is first coined.1874 The first ice-cream soda is sold.1876 Root beer is mass produced for public sale.1881 The first cola-flavored beverage is introduced.1885 Charles Aderton invented “Dr Pepper” in Waco, Texas.1886 “Coca-Cola” is invented in Atlanta, Georgia by Dr. John S. Pemberton.1892 The crown bottle cap is invented by William Painter.1898 “Pepsi-Cola” is invented by Caleb Bradham.1899 The first patent is issued for a glass blowing machine, used to produce glass bottle.1913 Gas motored trucks replace horse drawn carriages as delivery vehicles.1919 The American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages is formed.1920 The U.S. Census reports that more than 5,000 bottlers now exist. Early 1920’s The first automatic vending machines dispense sodas into cups.1923 Six-pack soft drink cartons called “Hom-Paks” are created.1929 The Howdy Company debuted it’s new drink “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Sodas” later called “7 Up”. Invented by Charles Leiper Grigg.1934 Applied color labels are first used on soft drink bottles. The coloring was baked on the face of the bottle.1952 The first diet soft drink is sold called the “No-Cal Beverage”.1957 The first aluminum cans are used.1959 The first diet cola is sold.1962 The pull-ring tab is invented.1965 Is the first time soft drinks in cans are dispensed from vending machines.1965 The resealable top is invented.1966 The American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages is renamed The National Soft Drink Association.1970 Is first time plastic bottles are used for soft drinks.1973 The PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate) bottle is created.1974 The stay-on tab is invented.1981 The “talking” vending machine is invented.
The History of Coca-Cola In May, 1886, Coca-Cola was invented in by Doctor John Stith Pemberton in Atlanta, Georgia. The name was a suggestion given by Pemberton’s bookkeeper Frank Robinson. Being a bookkeeper, Robinson also had excellent penmanship. It was he who first scripted “Coca-Cola” into the flowing letters which has become the famous logo of today.
The soft drink was first sold to the public at the soda fountain in Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta. About nine servings of the soft drink were sold each day. Sales for that first year added up to a total of about $50. The funny thing was that it cost Pemberton over $70 in expanses, so the first year of sales were a loss.
Today, products of the Coca-Cola Company are consumed at the rate of more than one billion drinks per day. The History of Pepsi Cola Caleb Bradham of New Bern, North Carolina was a pharmacist. Like many pharmacists at the turn of the century he had a soda fountain in his drugstore, where he served his customers refreshing drinks, that he created himself. His most popular beverage was something he called “Brad’s drink” made of carbonated water, sugar, vanilla, rare oils, pepsin and cola nuts.
“Brad’s drink”, created in the summer of 1898, was later renamed “Pepsi-Cola” after the pepsin and cola nuts used in the recipe. The name was trademarked on June 16th, 1903. After seventeen years of success, Caleb Bradham lost “Pepsi-Cola” He had gambled on the stock market, he believed sugar prices would raise but they fell instead.
“Pepsi-Cola” went bankrupt in 1923. In 1931, “Pepsi-Cola” was bought by the Loft Candy Company Loft president, Charles G. Guth reformulated the popular soft drink. In 1940, history was made when the first advertising jingle was broadcast nationally. The jingle was “Nickel Nickel” an advertisement for “Pepsi-Cola” that refered to the pepsi price and the quantity for the price. Charles Leiper Grigg was born in 1868 in Price’s Branch, Missouri. As an adult, Grigg moved to St. Louis and started working in advertising and sales, where he was introduced to the carbonated beverage business. By 1919, Grigg was working for a manufacturing company owned by Vess Jones.
It was there that Grigg invented and marketed his first soft drink called “Whistle”. After a dispute with management, Grigg quit his job (giving away “Whistle”) and started working for the Warner Jenkinson Company, developing flavoring agents for soft drinks. Grigg invented then his second soft drink called called “Howdy”.
When he eventually moved on from Warner Jenkinson Co., he took his soft drink “Howdy” with him. Together with financier Edmund G. Ridgway, Grigg went on to form the Howdy Company. So far, Grigg had invented two orange-flavored soft drinks. But his soft drinks struggled against the king of all orange pop drinks, “Orange Crush”.
Orange Crush” grew to dominate the market for orange sodas. Grigg decided to focus on lemon-lime flavors and and by in October of 1929 he had invented a new drink called, “Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Sodas”. The name was quickly changed to ” 7 Up Lithiated Lemon-Lime” and then again quickly changed to just plain “7 Up”.
“7 Up” merged with “Dr Pepper” in 1986. The History of Dr Pepper In 1885, in Waco, Texas, a young pharmacist called Charles Alderton invented the soft drink “Dr Pepper”. Alderton worked at a place called Morrison’s Old Corner Drug Store and carbonated drinks were served at the soda fountain. Alderton invented his own recipes for soft drinks and found one of his drinks was becoming very popular.
- His customers originally asked for the drink by asking Alderton to shoot them a “Waco”.
- Morrison, owner of the drug store is credited with naming the drink “Dr.
- Pepper” after a friend of his, Dr.
- Charles Pepper.
- Later in the 1950s the period was removed from the “Dr Pepper” name.
- As demand grew Alderton and Morrison had trouble manufacturing enough “Dr Pepper” for their customers.
Then in stepped, Robert S. Lazenby, Lazenby owned The Circle “A” Ginger Ale Company in Waco and was impressed with “Dr Pepper”. Alderton did not want to pursue the business and manufacturing end of soft drinks and agreed that Morrison and Lazenby should take over and become partners.
In 1891, Morrison and Lazenby formed the Artesian Mfg. & Bottling Company, which later became the Dr Pepper Company. In 1904, the company introduced Dr Pepper to 20 million people attending the 1904, World’s Fair Exposition, in St. Louis. That same world’s fair introduced hamburger and hot dog buns and ice cream cones to the public.
The Dr Pepper Company is the oldest major manufacturer of soft drink concentrates and syrups in the United States.
What was Mountain Dew originally slang for?
Packaging – A 1950s Mountain Dew advertisement sign in Tonto, Arizona, showing the cartoon character “Willie the Hillbilly” “Mountain Dew” was originally Southern and/or slang for (i.e., homemade whiskey or ), as referenced in the Irish folk song “”, dating from 1882.
Is Mountain Dew drink halal?
Mountain Dew is a fizzy cold drink that is Green Orange Halal Supermarket. It can be found in most supermarkets but you can get this delivered to your door step if you order from Green Oranges Supermarket, Supermarkets are the best place to buy your Mountain Dew, however, if you cannot find it there, an Indian grocery online store will also have it.
- It is a Green Orange Halal product.
- Thanks for reading! I hope this helped.
- Mountain Dew is a fizzy cold drink that is Green Orange Halal.
- You can usually find it in the supermarket, but if you’re having trouble tracking some down, Indian grocery online stores are also likely to sell it.
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Why are Ritz banned in Europe?
Coffee-mate, RITZ Crackers and those warm, buttery Pillsbury biscuits, are all banned in Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Iceland, Norway and Denmark because of trans fats like partially hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils.
Why does Mountain Dew taste different in Europe?
Why haven’t you launched the US version of Mountain Dew? We couldn’t just launch US Dew in the UK for two reasons.
- In the EU there are different regulations on what can and can’t go into our products. As such, we have had to tweak the formula slightly to comply with those regulations.
- The US Dew uses HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) to sweeten the product, but in the UK we use just normal, plain and simple sugar. The two taste slightly different which very subtly impacts taste.
Rest assured our Dew loving friends, we literally locked our technicians (guys in white lab coats with thick rimmed glasses) away for weeks and until they had created the great tasting product you can try today — this is the output of their combined mega brains! So, why can I buy US Dew over the internet and in cyber candy etc.? Some retailers will have a license to import US products and can therefore sell US Dew.
- Other products will be illegally imported.
- As we manufacture Dew in the UK we have to comply with EU regulations — we’re good like that.
- Why can’t I buy Dew everywhere? That’s a question for the shops! It is up to them as to whether or not they choose to stock Dew, if it were down to us we’d have it everywhere! We do our best to persuade them they own the stores and therefore what goes in them.
The great thing is because you guys have got behind the brand, more and more retailers are agreeing to stock us, meaning you can buy us in more places — so keep it up together we will conquer! Where can I find Dew No Sugar? Dew No Sugar has dropped and you can grab a bottle from all the usual wholesalers, forecourts and supermarkets.
- 500ml — Available in most supermarkets, petrol stations, High St store etc, but you might need to ask your local corner shop to stock it
- 1L — Tesco, Sainsburys & Papa John’s Pizza
- 330ml Can — Available in some corner stores
When are you bringing out new flavours? We really want as many people as possible to try the refreshing citrus blast of Mountain Dew so currently we are focusing on the original flavour and getting lots of shops to stock Mountain Dew and Dew No Sugar. We’ll be sure to let you know if we bring out any new flavours in the future though!
Why is Skittles banned in other countries?
Despite the E.U.’s concerns, Skittles aren’t banned in Sweden and Norway because of the titanium dioxide additive inside the candy. Instead, the countries are more concerned about allergic reactions and hyperactivity in children caused by the product’s food coloring dyes, yellow 5 and yellow 6.
What is moonshine called in Germany?
Germany – In Germany, moonshine is called Schwarzgebrannter, The term is very often translated “black burned” since the word schwarz means black, but in this case schwarz means illegal (as in black market ). A more accurate translation is “illegally distilled liquor”.
- Generally, home-distillation of alcohol is illegal in Germany, and even the use of very small stills up to 500 millilitres (18 imp fl oz; 17 US fl oz) capacity is illegal since January 2018.
- Such stills were only used by hobbyists until that date.
- Possession of such a still is not illegal, but its use was made illegal in January 2018.
The ownership of larger stills must be reported to fiscal authorities, otherwise it is illegal, and the use of these stills requires a licence. The German market for moonshine is limited, in part because legal alcohol is inexpensive, compared to most European countries and in part because controls are generally effective.
- German home-distilled alcohol is in most cases a type of traditional German Schnapps, often a type of fruit brandy.
- There are many legal and often very small distilleries in Germany.
- Most of these small distilleries are located in Southern Germany, located on farms and are home-distilleries.
- These producers of distilled beverages are called Abfindungsbrennerei and the operation of these small distilleries requires a special type of licence.
The number of such licences is limited and it is difficult to obtain one, since in most cases all licences are in use. An Abfindungsbrennerei is only allowed to produce a limited amount of pure alcohol per year and the operation of the still is limited to some months of the year.
What is a funny name for moonshine?
Photo: Tennessee State Library and Archives Moonshine is a spirit that goes by a long list of nicknames: white lightning, corn liquor, stump water, skullcracker, wildcat, ruckus juice, and that is a short list. Moonshine, which is most often distilled from corn, has a deep connection to the history of the United States and is seeing a recent boom in popularity.
John Schlimm is the author of Moonshine: A Celebration of America’s Original Rebel Spirit, His book is part history lesson and part recipe book for moonshine cocktails and infusions. Digital Producer Chip Walton talked with Schlimm about his boozy research and wrangled some recipes for The Moonrunner’s Manhattan, Smokey Mountain S’more, and Stockcar just in time for the holidays.
Chip Walton: Crazy nicknames aside, what exactly is moonshine? John Schlimm: It’s quite simple. It boils down to – literally – water, corn, yeast and a copper pot still. Those are the core ingredients of moonshine. Of course, these days there are all sort of flavorings and infusions, but it’s really a simple, natural recipe. John Schlimm Photo provided by John Schlimm CW: And it’s not the same thing as white whiskey, correct? JS: There are so many variations. You do see some distilleries calling it white whiskey, but moonshine is really its own separate thing, made of corn, not barley.
- I think of moonshine and whisky as close cousins, but they are not the same thing.
- CW: At certain times in history, the term or idea of moonshine has been seen as derogatory, similar to the way that homebrewed beer was presumed to be of an inferior quality or even dangerous.
- JS: It was only really derogatory for temperance activists and the authorities.
Certainly, anyone who enjoyed drinking didn’t find anything derogatory about it. But, to your point, in the past there were people who – once moonshine became a huge money maker – would skimp and use certain ingredients that would make it rather toxic.
- In the strictest of terms, that’s what might’ve given it a bad name.
- Today it’s regulated and legal, so distilleries have to follow rules and laws just like any other brewery or winery.
- CW: You tell us that the history of moonshine is a history of immigrants that revolves around distilling.
- JS: Absolutely.
The original moonshiners were among the first immigrants to the United States before the United States was even the United States – starting in the 1600s. Continuing into the 1800s moonshine was intertwined with this new and growing country, and right into modern day.
- They were farmer-entrepreneurs, they were artisans, they were adventurers; these men and women embodied what it means to look towards the American dream and go after it.
- After 250 years, they finally achieved the American dream; after everything they have gone through, today their moonshine is legitimate.
In the end, they won. Their legacy is a celebration and embodiment of America’s original rebel spirit. In that way of looking at it, the story of the moonshiners is quite inspirational. Did they break the law? Yes, they did. But that becomes part of what made them folk heroes and fantastic characters that we can look back upon and say that they are part of the roots of what shaped this country. John Schlimm writes that moonshiners also referred to themselves as blockaders, who believed it was their God-given right to produce their white lightning free of government control. The two women seen at right were photographed after being arrested by federal agents for making moonshine near Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1921.
- Photo Courtesy – Left and Center: Tennessee State Library and Archives | Right: Minnesota Historical Society CW: It’s never been easy though, both physically and legally.
- JS: They never had it easy.
- Certainly in the beginning these were farmers and farm families living in the hollers and back hills of Appalachia and elsewhere in the country.
Times were tough. A lot of times they are characterized as hillbillies and rednecks; those are labels that I dare say they would wear with great pride. But they were smart and quite wise. They discovered that from their fields of corn they could distill moonshine, they could then transport it much easier than the corn itself, and they could make a whole lot more money.
- They were berated by temperance activists almost from the beginning.
- At times, it was illegal or they didn’t want to pay taxes, so the government came after them and tried to chase them down.
- And, talk about the entrepreneurial spirit, moonshine paved the way for NASCAR.
- Those same bootleggers that were outrunning the authorities on the weekdays would race their cars on the weekend.
There was a bit of ego involved. Everyone was trying to prove their car was the fastest, and they would race in old cow pastures. Eventually, they formulated that into a structure that became NASCAR, which is now a multi-billion dollar industry. Again, at almost every inch of the history of this country the moonshiners played some role.
CW: What effect did Prohibition have on their efforts? JS: True to their rebel spirit they did not back down. Instead, they mastered the concept of supply and demand. Because as soon as the government said people were not allowed to drink alcohol, guess what happened? People wanted to drink alcohol, and more than ever before.
The moonshiners were right there to give the people what they wanted and to take their money in exchange. It made a lot of moonshiners very rich. Law enforcement officers often documented their efforts to capture moonshine equipment including copper stills and tubing, barrels, jugs and tanks. John Schlimm explains, “One surefire way revenuers had for decommissioning a still was to hack holes in it with axes and other instruments.
- Another, more dramatic, method for demolishing a moonshine operation was dynamite.
- They also turned over barrels of mash, flooding the countryside with white lightning.” Photos Courtesy: West Virginia State Archives CW: Prohibition nearly killed off the American brewing industry – at least as far as number of breweries that existed before and after Prohibition.
Did it affect moonshiners in the same way? JS: The laws have always been a bit tricky where the moonshiners are concerned. There were breweries and whiskey-specific distilleries dating back hundreds of years in the U.S. But, you didn’t see actual legit moonshine distilleries because moonshine was still being made in the backwoods and hollers up until the mid-20th century, when it slowly started coming out and became more legitimized.
Now it seems every week you hear about a new functional moonshine distillery opening somewhere in the U.S. While the temperance activists may not have succeeded in the end, they certainly did their damage along the way in creating a stigma wrapped around alcohol in general, but specifically moonshine.
Because it came out of the backwoods, it had that stigma attached to it for a long time, unlike the wine, beer, and whiskey that emerged more victoriously post-Prohibition. CW: What’s the moonshine lifestyle and industry look like today? JS: This is the new golden age of the moonshiners. Moonshine by John Schlimm CW: What is the flavor and sensation of moonshine? How should we enjoy it? JS: Pure unflavored moonshine should go in smooth and transform into a very comforting burn – that beautiful burn that we all love in that very first sip of whiskey or vodka.
- It’s extremely versatile in cocktails, much like a good quality vodka.
- And you can temper that burn pretty easily with the use of mixers, juices or other spirits.
- As far as flavored moonshine, what I tried to capture in this book is that there are a lot of directions it can go.
- Mostly what you’ll find in stores are the fruit-infused moonshine – strawberry, cherry, peach – which are a bit sweeter.
Those are the most popular with the most people because it tempers that burn. I have had a lot of fun in experimenting with moonshine infused with onion or leeks or garlic. It’s not so much that you’re going to drink those straight over rocks. They become great ingredients for cocktails.
What was Mt Dew originally made for?
Mountain Dew was originally developed as a mixer for whiskey – Shutterstock Mountain Dew soda was born in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, Tennessee. Long before it became a soda, the term “mountain dew” was a nickname for moonshine, In the 1930s or ’40s (sources vary on the year), brothers Barney and Ally Hartman created a mixer to make whiskey taste better.
Noxville historian and author, Jack Neely, told WBIR that the brothers “originally only made it for themselves,” and their version didn’t have caffeine. In Fizz: How Soda Shook Up the World, author Tristan Donovan goes on to explain that the brothers’ favorite bourbon mixer, a lemon-lime drink called Natural Set-Up, wasn’t available when they moved to Tennessee, so they decided to make their own.
The brothers jokingly named the beverage Mountain Dew after the term’s nickname, joking that it tasted just like moonshine when mixed with liquor. They put a Tennessee moonshiner on the logo and marketed the drink as a “zero-proof hillbilly moonshine that will tickle yer innards.” The pair expanded distribution outside Knoxville but sales stalled, and the company began to struggle after Barney Hartman tragically died of a heart attack.
Did Mountain Dew used to have alcohol?
Where Can You Buy Hard MTN DEW? – Hard MTN DEW was initially released in Florida, Tennessee, and Iowa, but the brand has plans to expand to other states this year. As of June 13, the brand’s Instagram account has announced additional availability in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Minnesota.
HARD MTN DEW later shared that it was expanding to Nevada and Ohio, as well. “Originally intended to be a mixer for alcoholic spirits when MTN DEW was created more than 80 years ago, the brand is returning to its roots in one of the first alcoholic versions of a major soft drink,” Boston Beer Company wrote in a press release.
In a recent episode of the VinePair Podcast, hosts Adam Teeter, Joanna Sciarrino, and Zach Geballe discussed the target audience of hard soda, a growing category in the RTD space. In the episode, they taste the four flavors of Hard MTN DEW. Tune in to hear their impressions. Hard MTN Dew Commercial via YouTube On June 13, the company shared its first commercial promoting the beverage, which states that viewers should “freak out responsibly.” Nielsen data, provided by Beer Marketer’s Insights, indicates that the hard soda has generated some $13 million in sales.
What kind of alcohol is in Mt Dew?
What is the difference between Hard Dew and Regular Dew? – Regular Mountain Dew is a soft drink, meaning, it contains no alcohol. Original Mtn Dew was created years and years ago and is currently owned by Pepsico Beverages North America. It can be purchased at large, big box retailers such as Target and Walmart, as most every grocery store in America.
- You can also find regular Mtn Dew at most restaurants that carry Pepsi Products.
- The difference between Regular Dew and Hard Dew is in the alcohol content.
- According to the law in the United States, Children under the age 21 are not allowed to purchase Hard Dew.
- This doesn’t make Hard Dew special, as all hard seltzers, beers like Bud Light ( king of light beers ), red and white wines, as well as hard liquor are unavailable for purchase until 21.
A 12oz can of regular Dew has 170 calories, 46g of carbohydrates, and 46g of sugar, as compared to the
Is Mountain Dew meant to be mixed with whiskey?
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Bellmawr is located within minutes of the City of Philadelphia, 35 minutes from the State Capitol of Trenton, 90 minutes from New York City, via the New Jersey Turnpike and within 60 minutes of the shore resorts. The Walt Whitman Bridge, gateway to the Pennsylvania Turnpike, is within minutes reach from anywhere in the Borough of Bellmawr.
In 1831, a township was formed including Runnemede, Mount Ephraim, and Bellmawr. It was called Union Township. In 1840, Bellmawr received its original name, Hidden. The Hidden Methodist Episcopal Church, still situated on the Black Horse Pike, was built at this time. The houses that were built around the Church became known as the Hidden Community. The name was later changed to Hedding. In 1855, it was changed to Center Township and still later to the present name, Bellmawr.
The name Bellmawr started with the establishment of a post office. The name was associated with the Bell Family, who had purchased a large portion of the Hugg Estate. The huge Bell Farm was famous for breeding Percheron horses.
Agent Frederick Collitt of Mount Ephraim, New Jersey filed for incorporation on April 21, 1898. At which time Bellmawr Fire was started in the building on Walnut Avenue, then in 1940 became the VFW 7410 Hall, and in 1999 became a Walgreen’s Pharmacy. The first piece of equipment on record was a horse-drawn hand pumper between the years of 1898-1912. The wagon was stationed on Walnut Avenue. Jake Smith, a farmhand for Mr. Horner on Summit Avenue, would ride a large white horse down to Walnut Avenue and hitch the horse to the pumper and drive to the fire; if Jake did not show, the firemen would push and pull the pumper to the fire.
Around 1920, Ted Bruning had a hupmobile (a form of an automobile), which he turned into a fire truck. He mounted a box on the rear of the truck containing eight (8) fire extinguishers. The next piece of equipment was a Packard made into a fire truck through the efforts of several of the firemen.
During the depression, the Borough Hall was built with W.P.A. funds and the Fire Company was moved into the Borough Hall with only limited space for equipment and recreation. The firemen built a recreation room on the east wing of the Borough Hall, and later they built a west wing, which more than doubled the original engine room. At that time our firefighting equipment consisted of a GMC hose and equipment truck and a Hahn pumper, which carried 600 gallons of water. The Fire Company remained in the Borough Hall until their new building was constructed.
In 1956, the fire company purchased the baseball field that was next to the firehouse and town hall. Under the supervision of Jack Benigno (then-Mayor), Neil Devenney, John Sullivan, then Fire Chief Daniel Sullivan, and then fire company President Ray Kelly, the members got together, along with the help of many civic-minded persons, and built the new fire station located at 29 Lewis and Chestnut Avenues. the Fire Company will be forever grateful to these kind and generous friends and neighbors.
We have traced the Bellmawr Fire Company No. 1 back to the year 1898. In 1919, they reorganized and renamed the station Bellmawr Fire Company No. 2, and in 1942 they decided to once again use Bellmawr Fire Company No. 1. In 1943, the company was incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey as Bellmawr Volunteer Fire Company No. 1. Two years later in 1945, a Rescue Squad began and joined the existing Fire Company to become one unit. In July of 1953, our name was once again changed to its current name Bellmawr Fire and Rescue Squad No. 1.
For many years the members were summoned to a call by ringing a large steel hoop erected on the Southeast corner of the Black Horse Pike and Browning Road. In 1925 Tom Toomey and his daughter Anna dismantled an old tower in Haddon Heights and rebuilt it on Walnut Avenue behind the old firehouse. The members took up collections from motorists along the Black Horse Pike to buy a siren for the top of the tower. Records indicate that Gustav Bernhardt was the Fire Chief during this time. In 1999 the old siren that was located at the Rec Center on Creek and Bell Road was refurbished and reinstalled next to the current firehouse on Lewis and Chestnut Avenues. The siren currently is mounted on the new cell tower where it is actively working today.
The equipment that was used in the early 1900s was purchased by fund drives, fundraising activities and by periodic cash presentations by the Ladies Auxiliary. The Ladies Auxiliary worked very hard over the years raising money through rummage sales, cake sales, raffle drawings, hat sales and dinners held in our Ballroom. They also sold refreshments Monday nights to our Bingo players. The Ladies Auxiliary was always on hand to serve hot coffee and refreshments to the firemen during any lengthy fires or disasters. The firemen will always be indebted to the Ladies Auxiliary for the wonderful dinners they served to them while constructing the new firehouse and all their efforts and help in making the firehouse a success.
Our ambulance service began in 1945 with a 1933 Cadillac ambulance, purchased by monies advanced by six members of the Company: Arnold Higgins, Howard Bateman, William Lyons, John Bofinger, Joseph Anderson, and Henry Delano. Out first Ambulance Captain was Isadore Rothman. In 1980, the ambulance moved out of the Fire Company. Today the Bellmawr Volunteer Ambulance operates at a building that they worked hard to build located on the corner of W. Browning Road and Lowell Avenue.
This Fire Company organized a Junior Firemen Membership in 1952 for which the ages range from 15-18. They are instructed in every phase of fire fighting and rescue techniques by three counselors who are regular active firemen appointed to oversee their activities. They work right along with the regular firemen but have limited duties during emergencies. After reaching the age of eighteen they are admitted to the Fire Company as regular firemen. A few Juniors have gone on to become Chief of the Fire Company.
Our firemen used to be trained in first aid and rescue techniques by the West Jersey Hospital and Heavy Rescue classes by the NJ State Troopers in Hammonton. Today our members attend the Camden County Fire Academy on a regular basis in order to stay on top of the latest techniques. Some members have also taken classes at Camden County College to help broaden their own horizons. In addition to the training sessions at the Academy, we also drill every Tuesday night.
The Bellmawr Fire and Rescue Squad No. 1 is always working to improve their skills and techniques to better serve the residents in the town of Bellmawr.
Bellmawr Park Volunteer Fire Company Protecting Lives And Property Since 1942, 63 years of Dedicated Service
Bellmawr Park was built during the Second World War by the Federal Government to house workers that were employed in the defense industry, New York ship, etc. The Federal Government managed the house project until it was purchased by the tenants and became the Bellmawr Park Mutual House Corporation. Because of the times, this community, like others had a strong civil defense organization. Eleven of the civil defense fire wardens became charter members of what we know as Station 33.
In the spring of 1942, there was a fire in a coal box that was attached to what is now known as 772 Carter Avenue (then Edgemont Avenue). This fire was extinguished by the Civil Defense Fire Warden with a garden hose. After the Carter Avenue fire, the warden felt the need for a Fire Department on the west side of town to assist the existing Bellmawr Fire Department that was, and is now, on the east side of town. They met with the Mayor and expressed their feelings. The Mayor stated that if they could supply the facilities to house a new department, he would supply a truck.
The Civil Defense Fire Warden met with the administrators of the government housing project and described their purpose and needs. The administrators, realizing the need and provided two W.P.A. shacks, necessary land, and utilities that would be required. The “shack” was assembled and a 1920’s Vintage Reno fire truck was delivered. The Bellmawr Park Volunteer Fire Company was organized by the eleven fire wardens in November of 1942 and became a corporation on November 4, 1943. Our first President was John J. Sipple, and our first Fire Chief was Mike Bruno. The Bellmawr Park Volunteer Fire Company Ladies Auxiliary was incorporated in 1945. The First President of the Auxiliary was Sue Sipple.
The years that followed were a lot of work and a lot of fun. The firemen and ladies worked well together. In 1946 a new Ward LaFrance Pumper was purchased. The Ladies Auxiliary supplied the rear lights for this truck. Looking forward, the members started a scrap drive to fund operations and expansion. On Saturdays mornings, members used a Ford Model A truck and Ford Model B truck to collect newspapers and other items that could be sold.
In the 1950s, construction began on a new firehouse that was to replace the original building. This continued with constant improvements, additions, sweat, blood, and many tears. The 1950’s also brought bingo, a 1948 American LaFrance Pumper, a new 1958 Oren Pumper, and a new 1959 Ford/Great Eastern Utility truck. In the 1960’s a new 1963 Oren pumper and a used 1947 American Lafrance Ladder truck were purchased. In the 1970s a new 1971 Imperial pumper and a new 1978, Pierce Mini Pumper were purchased.
On June 13, 1979, disaster struck, fire consumed our station. The members saved the apparatus and a few momentous. A bronze plaque of the firemen’s prayer that was presented to the members by the Ladies Auxiliary in 1973 was twisted and discolored by the intense heat of the fire. Most of the discoloration has been removed from this plaque and it is now part of the memorial that was dedicated in memory of our deceased members in 1990. The members elected not to straighten it, but to have its distorted form be a reminder of our heritage. Another thing that survived the fire is an antique safe that is still in use. It probably dates from the late 1800’s. One thing that surely was not lost in the fire was the Bellmawr Park Volunteer Fire Company “SPIRIT”. The new building was erected and dedicated in just one year. This is a tribute to the Officers and Members that served at that time. Dedication was on June 14, 1980.
The 1980s brought new challenges that were met. A new 1982 Grumman/Fire Spire 106 foot aerial ladder truck was purchased, a new 1988 18’ Starcraft boat, a new 1988 Hahn 1500 GPM pumper, and a new 1988 Crown Victory Duty Vehicle.
In the 1990’s the fire company celebrated its 50th anniversary on October 3, 1992. We added a few apparatus: a new 1992 Utility vehicle, a new 1994 E-One 100’ aerial ladder truck, a 1999 new 3D/Spartan 2000 GPM pumper, and a 1999 Ford 15 passenger van. The 1982 ladder truck, 1992 utility vehicle, and the 1971 Imperial were sold. In 1991, the Fire Explorers program was formed. This has been a great addition to the fire company. The Explorers work and train with the firefighters, but have limited duties and learn about the fire company business.
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A serial entrepreneur and the founder of six companies, Dan Purvis has deep experience with small business. An engineering graduate of Texas A&M with an MBA from Rice University, Dan brings 25 years of practical know-how in creating corporate environments that people want to work in and clients want to engage. Dan realized that if you seek revenue first, relegate “culture” to a poster slogan, and shoehorn in customer care, you’ll reap dysfunction. But if you make promises you keep, put client success ahead of your own, protect your people and keep operations human—then loyalty, referrals, growth, and profit will follow. And the way you do that is through culture. Velentium, Dan’s current firm, began as a two-person operation in 2012. It now ranks #32 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing engineering companies nationwide, and has averaged 50% annual growth for nearly a decade. Dan’s purpose in writing 28 Days to Save the World is to share his insights, mistakes, and experience in building successful cultures with other leaders, so that together, we can make the world a better place to be human.
At age 15, Jason Smith founded his first company, a residential landscape design and installation service, thanks to mentoring from other entrepreneurs in his community. By the time he graduated from college, his company had helped pay tuition for a dozen staff, each recruited away from passion-crushing employment in big-box stores or fast-food restaurants. Fueled by polymathic curiosity, Jason subsequently worked in a variety of industries: real estate, property management, nonprofits, trade associations, higher education, and now, medical device development. Jason’s wide-ranging experience enabled him to recognize something rare at Velentium: Most organizations lack the combination of insight, empathy, and investment guts required to do right by their staff, clients, and investors alike. He believes that 28 Days to Save the World will show leaders how to harmonize these “competing” interests to build more effective, resilient, and positive organizations. 28 Days to Save the World is the tenth published book Jason has helped author. | <urn:uuid:01d68522-57ca-4dc4-b1a5-3786af13e20b> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bestbookstore.ca/products/28-days-to-save-the-world-hardcover-by-dan-purvis-with-jason-smith | 2023-09-24T23:41:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.946558 | 808 |
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France is threatening a recall of all iPhone 12 models due to concerns over radio frequency exposure, and Apple has instructed staff control messaging on the matter.
Apple has denied that there’s an RF radiation issue, but the fight isn’t over yet. According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple has instructed tech support staff to stick to a script and not volunteer information to consumers asking about the issue.
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Ladies Day (Wednesday March 16): an enjoyable one for so many reasons. The main one – of course – is the feast of racing on offer, with two standout features backed by a mouth-watering undercard.
The Queen Mother Champion Chase looks as competitive as it’s ever been, while the RSA Chase looks set to be scrapped for by two horses with undoubted potential.
Let’s see if we can find some winners, eh?
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More than 25 horses are expected to participate in this curtain raiser to Ladies Day, and that could cause plenty of chaos in, around and over the hurdles.
Yanworth is the heavy favourite about the even money mark, although much of the money has been spent on Yorkhill, who has traded in to 5/2.
For Yanworth, a win over this 20f stretch in January will have been a great reassurance, and four wins on the spin since the tail end of 2015 ensures that punters can have plenty of confidence in a horse piloted by the ever reliable Barry Geraghty.
Yorkhill, another of the Willie Mullins charges expected to go well, has also won four of four including a heavy old battle over 20f in December.
The RSA Chase (2:10pm)
Another seemingly two-horse race could unfold in the RSA Chase, where the 9/4 favourite More of That will hope to hold off the challenge of the 5/2 hope No More Heroes.
The former boasts a fine record of seven wins from eight outings, with four of those victories coming on this hallowed (and undulating) festival turf. Having taken the World Hurdle crown back in 2014, we don’t need to worry about this horse being spooked by the Cheltenham roar.
Winning streaks seem a theme of the festival, with No More Heroes boasting a perfect trio of outings. One of the biggest blemishes on his record came at Cheltenham last year, where a third place finish in the Novices’ Hurdle was not exactly an eye-catching example of what was to come.
Just two wins from six at Cheltenham – including a fall and a pulled up – may put people off Blaklion (9/1), and one of those defeats came at the hands of Seeyouatmidnight (12/1), who looks an enticing proposition having finished in the money places in eleven of twelve starts.
Queen Mother Champion Chase (3:30pm)
What a fantastic renewal the standout feature of Ladies Day should provide. Here’s a race in which there are four or five potential winners, with the favourite Un De Sceaux (4/5) looking a real powerhouse in the Clarence House Chase, which is often a real marker of Cheltenham success. The runner-up that day, Sire De Grugy (16/1), has a hope but has been beaten by four of the horses in this field at one point or another.
Reigning champion Dodging Bullets (12/1) will be hoping to defend his crown, although a heart-warming tale of redemption could be the victory of Sprinter Sacre (5/1), who has overcome heart problems to be here. He was the favourite in this race last year but was pulled up, but a return of two wins since his comeback – one at Cheltenham in November – is impressive.
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See 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, and 2.0 and what comes to mind? Decimals? Middle-school math? Ask me and the answer would be nothing. I've no idea what those numbers mean. Then again, I'm not a smoker—and I don't roll my own.
Maybe, just maybe, the justices of the TTAB do. Or maybe they're just more aware than the rest of us of the finer points of the sizes of cigarette rolling papers.
That's just speculation, of course. But mid-year last year, in deciding a consolidated opposition and cancellation proceeding that had commenced in 2003 in North Atlantic Operating Co., Inc., North Atlantic Trading Co., Inc. and Nat. Tobacco Co., LP v. DRL Enter., Inc., Opp. No. 91158276 et al. (July 1, 2016), the Board found 1.0, 1.25 and 1.5 to be generic for rolling papers.
North Atlantic et al. v. DRL Enter concerned the defendant's marks 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, and 2.0, in standard character and/or design forms, for cigarette rolling papers and/or cigarettes. The Board found the marks generic for and descriptive of cigarette rolling papers, but extinguished the plaintiff's claims aimed at defendant's cigarettes.
I am not going to discuss all 98 pages of the TTAB's decision because I know you've better things to do. But there are important considerations for trademark practitioners in the decision.
First is the issue of standing, a threshold argument in most oppositions and cancellation actions. In the instant case, the defendant had argued that the plaintiffs had contracted away their standing to bring these proceedings because they were bound by an agreement to distribute only ZIG ZAG branded cigarette papers bought from the manufacturer, Bolloré. Bolloré, argued DRL Enter, had agreed not to use defendant's marks, and to not permit the plaintiffs to use the marks, on ZIG ZAG papers.
The Board disagreed. It felt that the plaintiffs had not entered into that agreement and that even if they had, they could terminate their agreement with Bolloré and find a new supplier of cigarette papers. Thus, the Board held that the plaintiffs' prospective interest in using 1.0, 1.25 and 1.5 for rolling papers sufficed to establish standing.
This holding should not have come as a surprise to DRL's counsel. The Board is typically willing to stretch pretty far to find standing; it wants registrability matters fully vetted rather than to allow marks to register without a proper and thorough examination on the merits.
Second is the issue of the genericness of the applied-for marks. The Board found that customers perceive 1.0, 1.25, and 1.5 to be size designations for rolling papers, and that the defendant uses those designations to indicate size. This was a particularly interesting finding by the Board because there are no industry standards governing the size of rolling papers. Instead, the size generally refers to the surface of the paper.
The Board held that customers perceive 1.0 as a single-width rolling paper, with one at 1.25 being 25% larger, and one at 1.5 being 50% larger, and so on. One may rightfully wonder whether the Board's willingness to find these designations generic may have been prompted, at least in part, based on its finding that the testimony of the defendant's chairman and that of its Vice President and General Counsel was evasive, harassing, and frivolous. The Board explained that these parties refused to answer directly the straightforward questions asked by plaintiff's counsel regarding the defendant's use of the challenged marks, and the relationship of the marks to the size of the rolling papers.
Third, the Board had to address the defendant's argument that its marks had acquired distinctiveness. The Board had to address this issue because it held the defendant's survey evidence to be inconclusive and not of sufficient probative value to support a finding of acquired distinctiveness. The Board deemed the survey defective in that it did not include a properly constructed control to measure noise; it was geographically restricted to the southeastern U.S., where the defendant had its highest market share; the survey used stylized versions of the marks rather than block-form versions; the survey was stale, having been conducted in 2007; the survey's sample sizes were insufficient; and, the survey results did not account for responses identifying a source other than the defendant.
Although the defendant's sales since the product's introduction in 1976 and its advertising figures showed that its rolling papers appeared to be a successful product line, the Board could not find acquired distinctiveness based on this data alone. The Board felt that because the challenged designations were always used with the defendant's JOB trademark, it was not possible to ascertain the recognition on the part of its targeted audiences of the decimal indicators by themselves.
In addition, the testimony of several of the defendant's customers was undercut on cross-examination when they conceded that they perceive the decimal designations as size designations rather than as trademarks. Finally, in an ultimately fruitless effort to rescue its argument, the defendant pointed to its exclusive use of the designations; but the Board found that competitors had acquiesced to the defendant's assertion of its exclusive right to use the decimal designations only to avoid litigation—not because they truly believed in defendant's exclusive right.
(One could wonder how that would ever not be the case. Are not potential defendants always going to agree to things to avoid potential litigation? But I digress.)
Looking at the totality of the evidence, the Board concluded that the defendant had failed to prove acquired distinctiveness.
The most interesting aspect of the Board's holding was that the evidence did not establish that consumers perceived the decimal designations 1.0, 1.25, 1.5, and 2.0 as indicating the size of a cigarette, and said evidence failed to show that the size of a cigarette is a significant factor in a consumer's purchasing decision. In short, the plaintiff did not establish that cigarette size is a distinctive characteristic of a cigarette.
The Board therefore concluded that the challenged designations were not generic for, or merely descriptive of, cigarettes.
Finally, the Board considered and rejected the plaintiff's claim that the defendant lacked a bona fide intent to use the decimal designations for cigarettes at the time it filed the opposed applications. The defendant's testimony regarding the expansion of its product line built on brand loyalty and established trade channels corroborated the statements made in its applications that it had a bona fide intention to use the decimal designations for cigarettes. It had the capacity to market if not manufacture cigarettes, and cigarettes are within the normal zone of expansion for a company that sells cigarette papers.
In sum, the Board found the defendant's decimal designations generic for, and alternatively merely descriptive of, cigarette rolling papers. However, it found the designations not generic for, and not merely descriptive of, cigarettes.
This case provides a number of learning points for practitioners going forward. First, the Board seemed to harp on the believability of the defendant's representative's testimony. One wonders whether the case may have come out differently if the Board had formed a different impression of those representatives. This shows how important it is to carefully select your client's testifying witnesses.
Second, the fact that the Board held these designations generic is an interesting result given that most people would have no idea what those designations represent. The Board made clear that the genericness test does not test random consumers but knowledgeable consumers—important to remember when counseling clients in the future who may argue that only those "in the know" would find your client's mark generic. It is exactly those in the know who matter.
Finally, it is always noteworthy when the Board discusses bona fide intent as it applies to intent-to-use trademark applications. We practitioners are always interested in how much intent is enough to support an intent-to-use application. This opinion stays in the center of existing jurisprudence with respect to bona fide intent. No smoke, no fire; just rollin' along.
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In his capacity as a trustee of the Milestone Foundation, BGP director Wilf Pickles sits on the advisory board of Divert, an innovative custody intervention programme.
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Logistics company Wincanton has reported sustained growth during the first half of the year with sales rising by almost 10%.
According to its half year results for the six months ended 30 September 2022, the company saw sales rise 9.2% to £753.6m from £690.3m against the same period last year.
Underlying EBITDA resulted at £57.4m, up 13% from £50.8m, while pre-tax profit stood at £28m, up 2.6% from £27.3m.
Wincanton, which provides services for furniture retailers including Loaf, Dwell, DFS, IKEA and The White Company, said revenues grew across all four sectors against the ‘backdrop of the challenging environment’.
During the period, Wincanton signed a contract renewal with IKEA Dartford, while also continuing to progress with further investment in technology, robotics and automation.
Looking ahead, the company said it remains confident in the Group’s strategy and expects to deliver revenue and profit in line with market expectations for FY23, underlining its ‘excellent customer relationships and resilience to challenging external conditions’.
James Wroath, Chief Executive Officer of Wincanton commented: “Wincanton has delivered another good performance during the first half of the year in a challenging macro-economic environment. I would particularly like to thank our people, who continue to provide exceptional service to our customers delivering supply chain value every single day.
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(BIVN) – There were 66 new cases of COVID-19 reported in the State of Hawaiʻi on Tuesday. Of that number, six (6) new cases were identified on Hawaiʻi island.
The Hawaiʻi Department of Health says there have been 171 cases of COVID-19 reported on the Big Island in the past 14 days.
On the health department’s zip code area map showing reported COVID-19 cases with onset dates in the past 14 days, there are now three areas with totals of over 10 cases:
- 96720 (Hilo) – 43 cases
- 96740 (Kona) – 47 cases
- 96749 (Keaʻau) – 11 cases
From the Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense:
The Hawaii Department of Health reports six (6) new cases of Coronavirus on Hawaii Island with two (2) persons hospitalized. A total of fifty (50) deaths have been reported for Hawaii Island.
The Coronavirus cases count and fatalities continue to dramatically increase across our Nation and are projected to continue at the current rate or worse through early next year. Resident travelers returning from off-island need to be especially careful upon return and should practice the preventive measures to keep their family, friends, and our community safe. The news of the vaccine is very good. Health care providers and first responders will receive vaccinations starting this week but please be aware that the vaccine is not likely to be available to the general public until this spring. We must rely on the preventive measures in place to keep us safe through this Holiday Season.
The Island and State of Hawaii remain as one of the safest places to be in the United States. We need to continue to stay healthy with exercise, fresh air, sunlight, cleanliness and social connectedness within the preventive policies of face coverings, distancing, and gatherings. Please accept this kuleana to keep Hawaii safe especially during the Holiday Season when we gather and celebrate.
Thank you for listening and have a safe day.
Kona Community Hospital says it has received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines, and will be launching its first vaccine clinic tomorrow, December 23.
Jim Lee, West Hawaii Region said: “Establishing the KCH vaccine clinic has been a Herculean effort. Our team has been working tirelessly to manage all facets of launching a large-scale vaccine campaign. Hopefully, we’re turning the corner on the pandemic. However, we strongly encourage everyone to continue taking all precautions; wear a mask, social distance, wash your hands and avoid social gatherings.” | <urn:uuid:1aa43c5f-fda5-4f35-b8c2-2bd13ff08f49> | CC-MAIN-2023-40 | https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2020/12/22/hawaii-covid-19-tuesday-update-6-new-cases-on-big-island/ | 2023-09-25T00:34:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-40/segments/1695233506669.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20230924223409-20230925013409-00598.warc.gz | en | 0.952642 | 548 |
Revel was one of the first brands to shun carbon fiber, alternatively choosing to build their rims from CSS Composites FushionFiber carbon alternative. The company has
now announced they are updating their RW30 trail and enduro wheels, improving design and layup to improve strength, offer a wider profile, and giving them a new raw finish.
The RW30 is aimed at trail and enduro bikes with between 130mm to 160mm of travel and like most of the best mountain bike wheels features a 30mm inner rim diameter.
The big difference between FushionFiber and commonly used carbon fiber is that FusionFiber doesn't require any epoxy or resins to bond the carbon fiber together. Instead, FusionFiber uses dry nylon-impregnated carbon fiber sheets which are laid up and bonded using multiple heat and pressure cycles. The result in a material that not only requires less toxic ingredients but also a simpler manufacturing process. FusionFiber also has the benefit that it's possible for brands to downcycle, although it requires a specific process to do this.
Not only does this material provide an environmentally less damaging alternative to carbon fiber, but Revel also says that the rims have been tuned for specific ride quality without compromising stiffness for compliance which could improve grip and give a damped ride feel.
Revel says that they have increased the rim's sidewall thickness to 4mm, giving the rim a 38mm outer diameter. By speccing a wider side wall, Revel claims they have achieved a 23 percent increase in impact resistance.
The RW30 comes in a 28-hole drilling and adds more material around the spoke holes with less in between the spokes. This should build a stronger wheel without an added weight penalty.
The rims feature a new clear finish to show off the FusionFiver weave. This finish comes straight from the mold, which not only simplifies the production process but also shows off the weave of the FusionFiber.
Revel offers the RW30 as a pre-built wheelset or rims only. They only come in a 29er size and the rims are said to weigh in at 485g. Alternatively, you can buy them built up with Nine Hydra and Sapim D-Light spokes. The complete wheelset has a claimed weight of 1,850g.
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Are you a manufacturer hearing about BIM for the first time?
What is BIM for manufacturers?
You may have heard that Building Information Modeling, or BIM, is a digital construction process that allows the exchange of reliable and structured information throughout the life cycle of a construction project, from the design phase to the demolition phase; and that a BIM object, beyond its 3D appearance, integrates all of the digital information that characterizes it.
It’s all about the process
You know best what you are spending in terms of time and investment on optimising your products.
But what about the process of delivering the information to your customers?
It is important to understand that BIM, for manufacturers, is a process that aims to bring efficiency throughout the life cycle of a building.
It streamlines the flow of information through all stages of construction and among all actors in the construction value chain.
So the question you need to start asking yourself is “how can my information be translated into a BIM process?”
To start with, your data needs to be transformed into intelligent data, so that it is understandable by everyone.
The architect or engineer using your data benefits from its consistent flow throughout the building’s life cycle.
Secondly, your data must be standardised (this is also called normalisation), to allow synchronisation and understanding of exchanges between the different actors who will use your data.
Finally, your data must be interoperable, so that it can be shared in several different formats, systems and languages.
What is your place as a manufacturer in this BIM process?
The answer is clear, it is central! As you have understood, data is at the heart of BIM. And of course, the characteristics of a building depend greatly on the characteristics of the products installed.
So to build ever more efficient buildings using BIM, the actors who collaborate in this process need product information…and that’s where you have a key role to play. You’re the one that everyone turns to for product information. You are the most likely to provide the most reliable data.
5 advantages for a manufacturer to start digitising its product catalogue
1- Optimise the visibility of your brand
Your digitised products allow you to increase the visibility of your brand to a greater number of architects, design offices, companies and designers.
Visualisation from one product to another is more fluid thanks to digitisation, and your prospects have easy access to your product data.
Digitalising a catalogue allows you to optimise the visibility of your products on the web.
2- Increase your chances of getting a prescription for your products during a construction project
Your audience is now demanding digitised products, particularly in the form of BIM objects, in order to enrich their digital models for construction projects.
By providing your products in BIM format, you are more likely to be integrated into engineering and architectural projects.
3 – Get on the minds of architects and engineers
Today’s manufacturers are working hard to increase awareness of their product catalogue.
Digitalising your products is an efficiency gain for your sales teams. They can spend less time and energy travelling to present your products to potential customers.
Architects, designers and engineers use BIM on a daily basis. They regularly download BIM objects and integrate them into their digital models.
Making your products available on a digital platform will increase the chances of them being used in priority on a construction model.
4 – Stand out from the competition
The online accessibility of your catalogue gives access to your products at all times. And therefore it doesn’t create frustration for people who might need information about your products at any time.
This improves your brand image, providing access to information 24 hours a day, and being present on different channels. In addition, you will act as an innovative brand in your market, which will set you apart from your competitors.
What is the return on investment of digitalisation?
As a manufacturer, your referral channels are mainly trade shows and sales forces.
By integrating a digital platform into your referral channels, the number of leads generated per month will be higher than those generated by other channels, at a lower cost.
The return on investment per referral channel* :
How to move from theory to practice?
If you want to get on board this process, don’t wait any longer! It is revolutionising the world of industry and construction, as well as addressing environmental, energy and even economic issues. You simply need to move towards BIM and make sure your data is BIM compliant.
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Different Systems or Modes of Microbial Cultures!
Microbial growth is defined as the increase in quantity of cellular constituents and structures and is followed by an increase in size or number of cells or both. It is the division of the microorganisms into two daughter cells. In the case of bacteria it is called binary fission. The time of interval required for the division of microbial cell called generation time. The population growth is studied by analyzing the growth curve of a microbial culture in different systems.
These are different system or mode of microbial cultures: 1. Closed System – Batch Culture 2. Fed Batch Culture 3. Continuous Culture (Open System) 4. Synchronous Culture.
Microbial cells growing in a tube or flask of liquid medium are said to be in a closed system. Here no nutrients are added to the system and no metabolic waste products are removed. When nutrients are added to the system, the cells initially divide by binary fission and the cell number increase for a period of time. Once the nutrients are over in the medium the growth eventually stops and certain metabolic waste products are accumulated in the medium (Fig. 3.1).
A culture of microorganisms produced by inoculating a closed vessel containing a single batch of medium is called a batch culture. Because no fresh medium is provided during incubation, nutrient concentration decreases and concentration of waste products increases. The growth of microorganisms reproducing by binary fission can be plotted on the logarithm of the number of viable cells versus incubation time.
The resulting curve has four distinct phases:
It is period in which bacteria adapt themselves to growth conditions. In this phase no increase in cell number, only cell size will increase. Cells physiologically active and synthesizing new enzymes and other molecules to adapt new environment.
2. Logarithmic Phase (Exponential/ Growth Phase/ Log Phase):
This period is characterized by cell doubling, i.e., the number of cells and the rate of population increase with respect to time period. Here the growth rate is maximum and constant. If we are plotting the natural logarithm of cell number against time produces a straight line. The slope of this line is the specific growth rate of the organism, which is a measure of the number of division per unit time.
During this phase the growth rate slows as a result of nutrient depletion and accumulation of toxic products. Some cells die while others grow and divide. This phase is a constant value on the rate of bacterial growth is equal to the rate of bacterial death.
In this phase the growth rate is negative due to the accumulation of inhibitory metabolic products and depletion of essential nutrient results the reduction of viable cell. Depending on the organisms, a very few cells may persist in to the trail of the curve, forming what may be called a senescent phase. Typically all cells normally die within days to months.
Microbial growth kinetics describes how the microbes grow in the fermentor, this information is important to determine optimal batch time. The relationship between the specific growth rate (μ) of the microbial population and substrate concentration are termed as microbial growth kinetics. Batch culture is a closed system which contains an initial limited amount of nutrients. The inoculated culture will pass through a number of phases- lag phase, log phase (exponential), stationary phase and decline phase.
After inoculating the culture, there is a period in which no growth takes place and it is called lag phase and may be considered as a time of adaptation. In a commercial process the length of the lag phase should be reduced as much as possible by using suitable inoculum. In the log phase the growth rate of the cells gradually increases and the cell grows at a constant, maximum rate.
The exponential phase can be described by the equation:
1n Xt =1n X0 + μt … 3
Thus, a plot of the natural log of biomass concentration against time should yield a straight line, the slope of which is equal to μ. During the exponential phase nutrients are excess and the organism is growing at its maximum specific growth rate μ max.
In general, the biochemical reaction of a fermentation process –
Substrate + oxygen + other nutrients → Carbon-dioxide + ammonia + new biomass + other end products
The concentration of biomass, X increases as a function of time due to conversion of substrate into biomass,
That is, the rate of increase in biomass is correlated with the specific growth rate μ, and the biomass concentration X, where rate of increase in cell number is correlated with μ and density N
Effect of Substrate Concentration on Growth Rate Constant:
This equation is generally called Monads equation since the relationship was first expressed by Jacques Monad. The constant Ks is the substrate concentration at which half maximum specific
The biomass production of a fermentation reaction expressed by the equation:
The substrate utilization by microorganism is a typical fermentation reaction is given by:
2. Fed Batch Culture:
In fed batch culture we add the growth limiting nutrient substrate to the culture. The fed batch process is used in bio-industrial process to reach a high cell density in the bioreactor. Controlled addition of the nutrient directly affects the growth rate of the culture and allows avoiding overflow metabolism (formation of side metabolite such as acetate, lactic acid, etc.).
The substrate limitation offers the possibility to control the reaction rates to avoid technological limitations connected to the cooling of the reactor and oxygen transfer. Substrate limitation also allows the metabolic control, to avoid osmotic effects, catabolite repression and metabolism of side products.
Continuous culture system is a culture system with constant environmental condition maintained through continuous supply of nutrients and removal of waste. Here, the cell volume and cell concentration are kept constant by adding fresh, sterile medium. In industry, it helps to maintain the active logarithmic growth phase which helps to generate maximum volume of desired products. The rate at which new cells are produced in the culture vessel is balanced by the rate at which cell are being removed.
In continuous culture microbial population can be maintained in exponential growth phase and at a constant biomass concentration for extended period.
Two major types of continuous culture system are commonly used:
A chemostat (chemical environment is static) is a bioreactor to which fresh medium is continuously added, while culture liquid is continuously removed to keep the volume of the culture constant. The culture mediums for chemostat possess essential nutrients, (e.g. amino acid) in limiting quantities.
It is the second type of continuous culture system which consists of a photocell that measures the absorbance or turbidity of the culture in growth vessel. The flow rate of media through the vessel is automatically regulated to maintain a predetermined turbidity on cell density.
The turbidostat differ from the chemostat –
1. The dilution rate in a turbidostat varies rather remaining constant, and its culture medium contains all the nutrients.
2. The dilution rate is high, but in chemostat it is low.
Generally, all cells in a microbial culture do not divide at the same time. In a traditional batch culture the microbial cells divided at random manner, i.e., the straight line that characterizes the log phase of microbial culture in batch culture is due to random cell division. There are certain laboratory techniques that manipulate the growth of cultures so that all cells divide at the same time or grow synchronously.
Growth in a cell population in which all cells divide at same time is called synchronous growth and such culture is called synchronous culture. A population can be synchronized by changing the physical environment or chemical composition of the medium. If cells are inoculated into a medium at a suboptimal temperature and kept that temperature, they will metabolize slowly but will not divide.
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Fox News Dagen McDowell blew up on fellow network contributor Juan Williams this Friday after Williams tried to dismiss Attorney General Bill Barr’s otherwise valid and arguably necessary investigation into the origins of the Russian collusion investigation.
The fiery outburst occurred during a discussion on FNC’s “The Five” about Barr’s claim that the Democrats are purposefully trying to discredit him and his investigation because they fear what the investigation might ultimately uncover about the Obama administration.
“What’s going on is an investigation of the investigators as punishment coming from an administration that is overwhelmingly political,” Williams said in defense of the Democrats. “Right now, really, they are distracting from the real news with all of this silliness.”
He added that a recent Fox News poll allegedly found that “45% of Americans believe that Barr is covering up for Trump and not being transparent. They give him a negative rating for how he handled the Mueller report. 44% say they don’t approve of what he has done with the Mueller report.”
McDowell responded shortly thereafter by dropping the hammer.
“They’re trying to discredit him because they’re worried — people who worked in the Obama administration, in the FBI and in the CIA — they’re worried,” she argued.
“Whether it’s Brennan, or Comey or even subordinates of both of them, they’re worried about what Bill Barr and John Dunham and the inspector general Michael Horowitz are going to find.”
“It’s not silliness, Juan, if there was corruption,” she continued, her voice rising in anger. “It’s not silliness if there was an abuse of power. And you know why Hillary Clinton is being quiet about this? Because the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign paid for that dossier, which could be disinformation by Russia. … The whole Mueller report basically discredits big, big elements that were in that dossier.”
Her points were accurate. The infamous Steele dossier that was used as justification to spy on President Donald Trump’s campaign officials was paid for by Democrats, written by British spy Christopher Steele and allegedly based on intelligence gathered by him from his sources in Russia.
Then-House Oversight Committee chair Rep. Darrell Issa noted last year that if it turns out that Steele’s sources really were Russian operatives, it’d mean that Democrats are the ones guilty of collusion.
“Christopher Steele hasn’t been in Russia in 20 years, so even the people, the unknown people responsible for it could easily, easily have in fact been agents of the Russian government, which would mean that Hillary Clinton is the one guilty of the so-called ‘collusion,'” he said on Fox News.
“Jim Comey looked at Bret Baier in the spring of last year and said, ‘I can’t definitely say I know that the Steele dossier was paid for by the DNC and the Clinton campaign,” McDowell continued Friday. “He was running the FBI. They got on a warrant on an American citizen to spy on him, and [Comey] didn’t know that? That is balderdash and hogwash. We all know it.”
She then addressed Williams’ alleged poll results.
“I also read that poll, Juan. Here’s what people said. A majority, 58%, think it’s at least somewhat likely the FBI broke the law when it started investigating the Trump campaign. The millions of Americans who don’t trust what went on in intelligence and the FBI under the Obama administration — they deserve answers, and there’s nothing wrong with a thorough look at it.”
Other polls have found the same. One by CNN published at the start of the month revealed that 70 percent of Americans support an investigation into the origins of the Russia collusion probe.
“They’ve had a thorough look,” Williams countered, through his claim was objectively false. “What we’re doing now is we’re trying to punish the investigators.”
“Mueller didn’t look at it!” McDowell tried to point out to her stubborn co-host. “I read the whole Mueller report. “He did not look at the predicate of that investigation.”
“You don’t need Mueller. Pick up a newspaper. It will tell you how it started,” Williams then said.
“The press that lied to us for 3 years!?'” McDowell replied in exasperation. “LIARS!”
Watch her full rebuttal below:
Yet following the conclusion of Mueller’s investigation, the media refused to hold instead themselves accountable and instead began trotting out new and more fanciful theories about how the president and Attorney General Barr are colluding to obstruct justice.
Glenn Greenwald, a far-left liberal who’s never seen eye-to-eye with the mainstream media, wasn’t surprised by their behavior.
“Those responsible for this can refuse to acknowledge wrongdoing. They can even claim vindication if they want and will likely be cheered for doing so,” he opined after a redacted version of Mueller’s report was published last month.
“But the contempt in which the media and political class is held by so much of the U.S. population – undoubtedly a leading factor that led to Trump’s election in the first place – will only continue to grow as a result, and deservedly so. People know they were scammed, that their politics was drowned for years by a hoax.”
But god forbid anyone investigate this hoax, because that’s just “silliness,” according to Juan Williams. That being said, conservatives appreciated McDowell’s attempt to try to educate her fellow FNC correspondent with some truth:
There’s something about a conservative woman, arguing with facts, that is very different than a liberal arguing with feelings?. She just smokes Juan (I’m a jack ass) Williams. Liberalism is a disease ?pic.twitter.com/R7tLhhOBDR
— Bob Dunlap (@robertdunlap947) May 18, 2019
Saw this live and backed it up to watch over and over – – she was awesome – take notes – she’s the real McCoy!
— RevBev (@imauntbev) May 18, 2019
WOW~ She was passionate! AND she was RIGHT on every point!
— Steel Magnolia (@Southrngirl77) May 18, 2019
Hard to argue with the “truth”. BTW, she always has valid, well thought out points – and Juan reads a script from @SpeakerPelosi ?!
— Jeff Bell (@poisoncarac) May 18, 2019
I don’t know why more people aren’t yelling like she is.
— Christine McLaughlin (@Christine32222) May 18, 2019
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Essential Aids, a UK-based online store providing aids and equipment, approached Biztech with a significant challenge: low website traffic and dwindling sales. As a long-standing client of Biztech, the company relied on us for their development, design, and marketing needs. By leveraging our multifaceted expertise, we diagnosed their issues and provided tailored solutions. As a result, Essential Aids not only recovered from its initial slump but also saw a substantial increase in revenue.
Essential Aids’ primary concern was a sudden decrease in sales. After careful examination, we proposed key changes to address their technical issues and enhance the overall user experience in their store. We revamped their website, making it fully responsive, and introduced customized newsletters, checkout processes, mega menu customization, and a distinct seasonal discount section. As a result of these efforts, their traffic and sales recovered, enabling us to devise strategies to enhance their revenue further and reach their target customers.
An exponential drop in sales was a significant pain point for the client.
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We redesigned the website for improved user experience and responsiveness.
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