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Fens marina pioneer Charles Fox, the founder of Fox's boat builders and marina in March, Cambridgeshire, died on 28th February after a long illness. He was 74.
Charlie Fox was perhaps the greatest supporter of boating in the Middle Level, and worked practically to achieve its retention and use today. He was a pioneer in the revival of the Fens for boating, and without him it is doubtful that we could have the Middle Level as we know it today.
Charlie Fox trained as a boat builder in Ely, and set up his own business while still in his early 20s. Working from his small riverside boatyard in West End, March, he initially built wooden dinghies and hired out rowing boats and canoes.
It was in 1973 that Charlie built his first narrowboat. In a Waterways World profile in 2005 he recalled that his customer had sketched an outline of the boat on the back of an envelope, and said "Can you build that for me?"
The drawing showed the stem of a boat with a striking angular prow; so distinctive was it that it became the signature of most of the boats he subsequently built over the years.
In 1980 he built the marina to the west of March that became the best-known boatyard in the Fens, buying his own dragline machine to dig out the basin. The marina now accommodates 200 boats, including the thriving Fox Boats hire fleet.
Charlie had a firm sense of community, and served as a retained local fireman for 25 years. He taught woodwork at a local school during the 1970's, taught youngsters to sail at Mepal, and ran boatbuilding evening classes at Wisbech.
But the waterways were always at his heart. He worked on several restoration projects, including the re-opening of Well Creek Navigation in the 1970s and dug the winding hole at Whittlesey for the East Anglian Waterways Association in 1993.
Charlie Fox retired in 1997, but continued to sail and cruise extensively with his wife Pat, in both inland and coastal waterways. The business he created still thrives, and remains in the care of his daughters Paula and Tracey.
Friday 2 March | Andrew Denny | 12.28pm, Friday 2 March 2012
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Video overview: IBM Sametime product family - A brief demo of the Websphere SSL Configuration area
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The Law of the Uneaten Spinach
Imagine a very stubborn father insisting that his equally stubborn child eat its spinach before going to sleep. In real life one of the "threads" eventually will give up, but in Java, the threads become deadlocked, with neither giving an inch. In this newsletter we discover how we can sometimes escape from such deadlocked situations in Java and learn why the stop() function should never ever ever be called.


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Even through Irma is not expected to impact the area until the first of next week, supplies are already beginning to diminish in area stores. This picture is of the water shelves at BiLo about 3 p.m. today (Tuesday.) There is another pallet of water located in the front of the store.
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I found this paper on the floor of my six year old son Bruce's room today, and at once recognized my husband's handwriting. Clearly this was the debris of a "teachable moment" they had shared between the two of them.
As a wife and mother, it really made me happy to find this, but as a former teacher it made me sad as well. Here right before me was an example of the Haves and Have-Nots, of education begetting education, and of some kids (like my own children) being set up for future success while other kids are lucky if their dads come home at all. My husband is a Stanford educated engineer, and my children are going to get a myriad of mini-math lessons across the span of their childhood that other children will not receive.
When I was little, my dad (an English major from a state university), never talked to me about math, but you better believe he taught me how to write when I was in high school! I never turned in any essay that I hadn't revised at least four or five times with my dad's guidance in writing, and my mom's help with spelling.
Even at the time, I could see a great disparity between the levels of help students were getting in my own circle of friends. Some of my friends from blue collar families weren't getting any help at all, while other kids were even luckier than me because they were also getting help in math. I still remember being shocked when I heard my friend K's dad quiz her about her pre-calculus class. Her dad was a captain in the Coast Guard and was fully capable of keeping up with K in math, whereas my parents were not.
When I was at Stanford I did know several people who were "Legacy" students, meaning they were the children or grandchildren of Stanford alumni. To the uninitiated, Legacy status seems really unfair because it does, supposedly, give you a slight advantage into getting into a university. But I never once met a Stanford Legacy student who wasn't brilliant and highly educated. In fact, they very often seemed a lot smarter than I did.
Now it is pretty clear to me why this was the case. Education begets education. Those kids had 18 years of "teachable moments" from some of the smartest people in the country. They probably had parents who could help them in English, Math, Science, French, and nailing the SAT. Their families probably had dinner time conversations that made the ordinary discourse of the rest of us seem phlegmatic.
It's not fair that some kids have educational advantages and some do not. That's why parents from all backgrounds need to rise to the occasion. Teach your children what you know and are good at. Then seek out help to do the rest. That's the lesson my dad taught me every time he turned off a football game, slashed through my latest essay with his revisions, and then handed it over to my mom to double check our spelling.


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The smart speaker installed base is expected to near the 100 million mark by the end of 2018, representing close to 2.5 times the installed base at the end of last year.
According to market research firm Canalys, the installed base will continue to grow beyond this year, hitting 225 million units by 2020. Leading the market will be the Amazon Echo, which Canalys predicts will have 50 percent of the installed base this year. In second is Google's Home which Canalys said will account for 30 percent of the installed devices, while Apple's HomePod will have just 4% of the market by the end of this year.
"The U.S. is the world leader in smart speaker adoption," said Canalys Research Analyst Vincent Thielke. "Amazon and Google know the power of an ecosystem lock-in and have been engaged in a fierce price war to try and build the largest installed base. As Amazon's Prime Day looms, customers expect discounts, and the company is set for a rush of shipments." According to the analyst, Amazon and Google are taking their devices beyond the smart home and deploying them for new use cases, which should boost demand and their installed base. "Their business development teams are targeting commercial opportunities, such as hotels, offices, gyms and airports, with initiatives such as Amazon's Alexa for Business and Alexa for Hospitality. These deployments are a major opportunity for the IT channel to develop solutions and provide technical skills and services that customers may lack," said Thielke in the report.
As for China, Canalys said that the market is a "sleeping giant" with local players including Alibaba and Xiaomi investing heavily in the space. For the second half of this year, Canalys Research analyst Hattie He said sales promotions will be a big driver of smart speaker adoption in China, with vendors expecting an increase in shipments during the country's shopping events. "As competition intensifies, Chinese vendors will expand their product portfolios to hit more price points and offer a greater range of capabilities. But for long-term growth in China, a more complete voice service and better user engagement are just as important. China has massive potential, with more than 450 million households, over three times the number in the U.S.," said He.
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I've never had an LCC, so I can't speak with authority, but if your using the same suspension that could be the leaning problem. You just added a lot of extra weight up high, and the springs that worked on your light LCC can't handle it. I couldn't really tell from the pics if your link geometry has any issues, but the extra weight is an issue for any scaler, especially a comp/scale hybrid C3. You took a comper and made it a scaler, and have bugs. I made a heavy scaler, then shifted "towards" comp (C2 to C3) and have bugs. I'd just try stiffer springs and see if that helps. You moved the COG up much higher.
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Khalid has shared a music video for "Saved," a track from his debut album American Teen. Watch it above, courtesy of the artist's YouTube channel.
After his phone call goes to voicemail, Khalid sings the smooth R&B tune in a variety of tropical settings. He recalls memories he shared with a special love interest, hoping that one day she will come back into his life.
Purchase a copy of American Teen on Amazon.
Khalid will head out on a European tour beginning in February of 2018. For concert tickets and more, check out Khalid's Zumic artist page.


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Interior Design Masterclass with House Edit in association with Dulux
House Edit Interior Designers Claire Price & Elaine Regan, recently shortlisted in the prestigious Amara Interior Awards, featured in Stellar Magazine, the Irish Independent, Irish Mail on Sunday, Irish Times and Today FM have created an inspiring fun filled day out. Join House Edit and Dulux, along side like minded interior enthusiasts where you will be expertly guided through creating a dream design scheme for a room in your home. One attendee will also have the chance to WIN a DFS armchair!
By the end of the day you will have your very own mood board, colour scheme and design board to take home, along with exclusive homeware discounts and tips from industry experts ready to implement your scheme with confidence. In an intimate group setting of no more than 25 people, this fun hands on workshop will guide you through the process of creating your very own dream interior. – scroll down to purchase your ticket –
'Walk away with a full design scheme for one room in your home, exclusive discounts & goodie bags'
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How To Identify Your Style: Everyone has a personal style, even if they don't know it yet. We will talk you through and show inspiring examples of how to figure out your interior style. Create a Moodboard for your space!
How to put together a Colour scheme: We will have a Dulux Colour Hero on the day to show you how to nail the perfect colour scheme for your space. Tester pots at the ready!
Lunch is served
Design basics – Industry experts Claire & Elaine will share their skills and tricks of the trade on how to work through a design scheme from start to finish. Lots of drool worthy interior images, colours, lighting, furniture and accessories.
Interior Styling: Finishing off your design scheme is arguably one of the most important elements in the design process. We will go through where to source the perfect homewares to complement your scheme and how to add those finishing touches. Create your room Design Board & a Shopping list!
Q&A + Time to mingle: There will be opportunity at the end to ask one to one questions and a little time to mingle with the group.
Some of our exclusive discounts on the day: Lamb design, Foxford Woollen Mills, HomeLust, EzLiving, CA Design and lots more.
Claire & Elaine, Interior Architects available on the day to share their expert advice.
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– Full day interiors workshop
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– A fun day out
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Home Improvers looking to improve their own home. This course will empower and give confidence to implement ideas themselves.
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Uniqueness is underrated. Everyone wants to be like everyone else, are comparing themselves to others in order to fit in, but it's the fun little unique aspects of a relationship that make it special. Kindling those unique things is especially important for me in a mono-poly and likely most other relationships.Read The Article | Find Similar
I am having trouble dealing with the fact that he wants that Master and sub relationship as my utmost and foremost priority in terms of my relationship status. I've always thought of the relationship being a normal one but more "kinky" I guess. Please help?Read The Article | Find Similar
The act of humility, the state of presenting yourself so to the world is perhaps one of the most challenging things to do. In the realm of D/s, the lifestyle, most commonly known as Domination and submission this precept becomes even more significant.Read The Article | Find Similar
A contract is not a legally binding document, but more of an agreement between two consenting individuals. Some are very formal and have multiple pages, others are as brief as a few paragraphs. A D/s contract is a lot like a pre-nuptial agreement.Read The Article | Find Similar
Wants and needs are very important to any relationship. When you start to understand who you are as a submissive, it's time to figure out what you are looking for in a relationship. The difference between wants and needs can be answered in one basic question. Is this something you can live without?Read The Series | Find Similar
There are a lot of people in the lifestyle who don't know how to understand, let alone handle littles. It's frustrating to be pigeonholed as only one thing or another. Littles are so much more than the personae they adopt for play or in their relationships. The embrace the innocence of youth. Listen to one's personal thoughts on the matter.Read The Article | Find Similar
A dress protocol is established by a Dominant as the way a submissive is to present themselves for any specific situation. These can be basic grooming habits to very precise details to what to wear to dinner or bed. A lot of times these are the first rules established in a relationship. These can start out as directions for when and what to keep shaved, how to care for your hair, or if you can wear panties or not.Read The Article | Find Similar
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What does it mean to be collared? It can mean many things to many different people. For some it is a new beginning in a journey. For others it is a step in the training process. It all depends on the Dominant you are with. For every Dominant has a different way of doing things.Read The Article | Find Similar
Do dominant women like this, that or the other thing? Unfortunately, there is no one set of ideal submissive traits that can be emulated. Indeed, if you ask these questions of twenty different Dominas, you'll get at least twenty different answers. Each Dominant has her own idea of what makes a perfect submissive or slave. Some like youth and physical fitness, others like maturity and experience, tall or short, eloquent or not-so-much, pain slut or light-weight, sissy or not, emotive or the strong/silent type… well, as you can imagine, that list goes on and on. The problem, as I see it, is that too many (prospective) submissives get bogged down in trivial matters when they should be focusing on simple truth and sincerity.Read The Article | Find Similar


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We hooked up a 2TB WD MyBook to a Cisco E3000 router. After getting the it configured, the DirecTv HD20 found the media server and some of my photos I copied over. Now I just have to figure out all the supported file formats and size restrictions. The HD20 would only display my photos after I made them smaller. That's a huge disappointment.


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It's now just days away until one of the UK's most anticipated and forward-thinking annual technology events, the CIO UK Summit, and we're excited to announce our CEO and founder, John Pepper, will take a leading role in this year's agenda.
Heading up one of the event's renowned thought leadership sessions on Wednesday 18 November, John will discuss the journey to achieving the 100% uptime now in demand by many IT teams, and how this relates to the growing trend of internet of everything.
CIOs and IT executives of all industries, whether healthcare, finance, insurance, government, telecom, utilities, education or any other, are being challenged by the many thousands, if not millions, of connected devices. Couple this with the reliance on a more complex, broader range of applications situated in hyper-converged, hybrid public and private cloud environments, and we have a complex problem on our hands that will form the basis of John's session.
The talk will explore how Predictive Managed Services (PMS) and Business Intelligence (BI) is playing a vital role in ensuring services remain accessible and secure, using real world examples of where nothing less than 100% uptime will do. Attendees will leave the 30-minute CIO UK Summit session with:
- An understanding of the use of Predictive Managed Services to deliver 100% uptime in complex environments
- A benchmark of their organisation against others
- A clear understanding as to how others are tackling the issues
- An understanding of the impact and management of the Internet of Everything
If you are attending the CIO UK summit and this sounds beneficial to your business, we very much hope to see you at John's thought leadership session – The Journey to 100% Uptime & The Internet of Everything – that starts at 2.35pm, and to receiving your feedback. If you'd like to contact us in the meantime, we'd love to hear from you on 0800 033 4800, or tweet us @managed247


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ContentSquare Join The UX Revolution With New Performance Center
Anyone that followed the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas will testify how the rise of the user-experience industry is quickly dominating the digital landscape. Last year, mobile web browsing overtook desktop for the first time and forced retailers to investigate the effects a mobile first world will have on their business.
The reality facing retailers is that consumers behave very differently across their mobile devices compared to their traditional desktop computers. Although there has always been a business focus on the customer journey, this is often bizarrely absent from the mobile eCommerce experience.
ContentSquare is aiming to change this by using technology to focus on understanding and improving customer experience, rather than solely focusing on customer acquisition. The startup recently unveiled their UX Performance Center that enables digital teams to make empowered, data-driven UX decisions in real-time via advanced algorithms and an AI-powered bot named Arti.
Arti can capture and track both digital and mobile behavior. This data enables the software to give individual personalized notifications that deliver value to consumers by offering genuinely useful information on the right device at the right time.
A personized experience is made possible through unique recommendations in real-time that aims to optimize mobile customer journeys. By removing the need to manually analyze data and replacing the old way of doing things with advanced analytics capabilities, the platform seeks to deliver a 21st century level of efficiency while also delivering the all-important ROI.
ContentSquare also hopes to stand out in this increasingly crowded marketplace by also monitoring users' moods, actions, and location when browsing a website. Treating consumers as people rather than visitors, page views, and clicks is quickly becoming the secret ingredient to providing positive digital experiences.
Real-time insights of how to best optimize the customer journey should be much more than a series of industry buzzwords. Using real-time data to understand what leads to every intention and purchasing decision is already proving to be invaluable to ContentSquare's clients.
The ability to see, in real-time, why a customer did or did not make a purchase is a ground-breaking tool and has vastly improved customers' experience on our site – Mathieu Bernard, Head of Ecommerce at Unilever.
ContentSquare's customers include hundreds of global brands, such as Accor, Bernardaud, Best Western, Kering, L'Occitane, L'Oreal, Lacoste, LVMH, Matchesfashion, Modani, TAG Heuer, and Unilever. The respectable portfolio is enabling the startup to monitor over one billion user mouse movements, screen touches, and interactions.
The combination of Artificial intelligence and machine learning allows ContentSqaure to focus on the mobile customer journey and help retailers provide the best experience possible.As the digital transformation gathers pace, it seems that this is just the beginning of a new wave of enterprise software solutions vying for our attention.
The problem is that conventional analytics do not reveal anything about the reasons behind users actions. A wealth of data can also make it incredibly difficult to see beyond the white noise and digital clutter.
Primarily, it's refreshing to see that companies such as ContentSquare are emerging to promote the importance of understanding human behavior in a digital world. Maybe, it's time to admit that AI-powered bots and advanced algorithms can have a positive impact in our world.
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An Animal Surgeon's 'Tale Of Humor, Healing'
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This is Fresh Air. I'm David Bianculli of Broadcasting & Cable Magazine and tvworthwatching.com, sitting in for Terry Gross. Today, we're going to listen back to some of our favorite interviews of the year. Animal surgeon Nick Trout has noticed that many pet owners feel more like pet parents. The people who bring their animals to him want him to know how much they love their pets. He loves animals, too, although the cats and dogs he treats might not return the sentiment during his examinations.
We're going to hear about some of his more unusual cases and how the whole field of veterinary medicine has changed in the past few decades with interventions that once were reserved for people. Dr. Trout is a staff surgeon at the Angell Animal Medical Center, which is part of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. He's also the author of the memoir, "Tell Me Where It Hurts." Terry spoke with him earlier this year.
(Soundbite of WHYY's Fresh Air, March 20, 2008)
TERRY GROSS: Dr. Trout, welcome to Fresh Air. Now the name of your book is "Tell Me Where It Hurts," and of course, that's a great title because you can't ask your patients to tell you anything. I mean, you can ask them, but they can't speak. Of course, you can talk to the people who live with the animals. So, what are some of the things you do to diagnose a pet to compensate for the fact that you can't talk with the animal?
Dr. NICK TROUT (Angell Animal Medical Center, Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; Author, "Tell Me Where It Hurts"): Well, I think there are obvious instances in which the problem is so blatantly obvious it sort of hits us upside the head. But if not, then we're going to move on to, you know, potentially, x-rays, radiographs, CTs, MRIs, blood work, urinalysis, just a whole - ultrasound - a whole wealth of new technologies that we as people take for granted and to have now permeated veterinary medicine to become sort of the normal standard of healthcare for our animals.
GROSS: I want you to tell us about one of your more challenging cases. This is a case - I would describe this dog as almost a hermaphrodite.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Dr. TROUT: Yeah, yeah.
GROSS: It's a male dog that had become feminized. It had - why don't you describe what it had?
Dr. TROUT: This wasn't an easy story to convey and get across, but I tried my best to basically describe a boxer dog who, on the outside, appeared to be male. This dog only had one descended testicle, and the remaining testicle inside had succumbed to a tumor, a tumor that was secreting feminine hormones, and those feminine hormones were making this male dog become somewhat female in nature. This dog would stand to be mounted by other dogs, had somewhat pendulous breasts and had this real sort of hormonal turmoil going on inside of him.
The other problem was, unbeknownst to both me and the owner, that he had a remnant of an embryonic uterus that should have disappeared during his development as a puppy and yet had persisted. And so, this increase in female hormones had sort of turned on a female reproductive organ within his body, and as a result, he had developed what's called a pyometra, which is not an uncommon infection of this male dog's uterus. And so, this gave me this very unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to end up actually neutering and spaying one and the same dog.
(Soundbite of laughter)
GROSS: That's just really bizarre.
Dr. TROUT: It was quite bizarre. You know, occasionally, these cases do get reported in the veterinarian literature. What is more entertaining is how you explain this to a somewhat chauvinistic owner.
GROSS: And how did you?
Dr. TROUT: Well, I like to think the feminine side of his male dog brought out the feminine side in him.
(Soundbite of laughter)
GROSS: How so?
Dr. TROUT: Well, because, you know, he did find it difficult. He was just insistent that this was a male dog and that this couldn't be happening, this hormonally induced ability to be attractive to the other male dog in the dog park. And so, what I ensured at the end of the day was that he should understand that the male side of this dog actually shines through, was the dominant party, and he seemed to be comfortable with that.
GROSS: You know, one of the supermarket tabloids seems to specialize in bizarre animal stories. I wouldn't have been surprised if they picked up on this one, but you know, just have a lot of stories about like the biggest cat in the world or half cat/half dog.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Dr. TROUT: Right, right.
GROSS: You know, they kind of combine the photos together so it's half cat and half dog.
Dr. TROUT: Yes.
GROSS: Do ever run into that, where a tabloid picks up on one of the more unusual medical stories?
Dr. TROUT: I - you've got me worried now.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Dr. TROUT: I'm wondering if I'm going to be inundated with phone calls, but I mean, I think the closest I've come to it is the very real story of a 40-pound cat that - you know, I remember someone showing me a picture of this animal that had come in and just being both shocked and appalled by its size. And it led me into an opportunity really to discuss this epidemic that animals face in our society today, which is not only for us, but also our pets, you know, obesity and overweight.
GROSS: What does this 40-pound cat look like? That's a lot.
Dr. TROUT: I mean, just like carrying a bean bag that you would sit in. I mean, this is just a ridiculous amount of fur and flesh, almost to a point of hardly being able to see where the limbs and head were. I mean, a 40-pound bag of potatoes or whatever is a significant weight to be carrying, let alone to be carrying around with you when your little skeleton is so small and relatively fragile to that body mass.
GROSS: Well, what are the medical problems involved with being overweight, you know, with cats and dogs? I mean, your concern isn't that they look too fat.
Dr. TROUT: Right, right. Yes.
GROSS: You're concerned medically. So, what's the problem?
Dr. TROUT: Well, I mean, me personally, you know, doing surgery, the biggest thing I see is significant risk of arthritis and worsening of arthritis. There was a study some years ago that showed something like an 11-to-18 percent weight loss of overweight pets could produce a statistically significant improvement in lameness. And to actually achieve statistical significance is a big deal. And so, I've had many cases over the years, dogs that are overweight. The owner comes in. We talk about a more conservative approach to their dog's hip problems, say, a problem that they originally came in for an expensive hip-replacement surgery. We get the weight off over a couple of months, and I get phone calls saying, I don't need to do that hip replacement surgery. My dog is doing great. I'm very pleased. Losing that weight made all the difference, and so, that's one way in which I feel the big impact of improving animals' body weight.
GROSS: Let me ask you about another case that you write about in your book. In this case, the dog's owner was a man who had lost his wife not long ago. And you figured he was probably closer to the dog than anybody else.
Dr. TROUT: Sure.
GROSS: You must see that a lot, where people are just, like, so close...
Dr. TROUT: Absolutely.
GROSS: To their animal and are therefore so unsure about what to do because they don't want the animal to die. You know, in a situation like this, do you do the surgery? Do you not do the surgery? Will it work? Will the animal die? What are some of the, like, kinds of really emotional conversations you ended up getting into with pet owners when their animals are in jeopardy?
Dr. TROUT: Yeah, I mean, that's - it really varies depending on the nature of the problem. But I think the first thing I try to do is to sort of step back from being sucked into the emotion of the relationship, because my first responsibility is to try to tell the owner what the problem is and what options we have to deal with it. I'm just trying to give them their information because there's obviously so much from their side of the examination table that I don't know, you know, the depth of this relationship, the importance of the animal in their life, their previous experiences with loss, their own health issues, their thoughts on natural death versus euthanasia and, you know, last but not the least, their ability to pay for whatever care would be required.
And so, I think one of the things I - you know, we need to convey is the fact that whatever we are putting our animal through with some of these difficult decisions and these potentially life-threatening problems, that animal really doesn't have an ability to appreciate that, I'm going to have to go through something negative because I have that notion of extended life; I have an understanding that this is all for the good for me because there's the other end of the equation of which life will be improved for me. You know, they're living in the here and now, and so that responsibility of what decision we make very much falls with us as pet owners. And I think we need to look at that carefully and say, whatever we put our animal through, are we going to get - is it reasonable, what we're going to ask? And also, on the other end of this, are we going to see enough upside and benefits to make it worthwhile?
GROSS: This must be one of the more frustrating parts of being a vet; you know, again, you can't talk to the animal and you can't explain to the animal that this is going to help the animal in the long run.
Dr. TROUT: But I think there is that wonderful silent communication, you know, when we are working with these animals, the sense of their understanding that we are doing and trying to do the right thing by them, if only in the fact that so many of them sort of accept it. They appreciate what we're doing, and it's so easy to convey in the silence between us that we mean well and we wanted to do right by them.
GROSS: I'll tell you what, not my cat.
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GROSS: My cat is so terrified of going to the doctor, and when we put her in a carrier and then take her into the doctor's office, she starts howling like a wolf. It sounds like the beginning of a vampire movie.
(Soundbite of laughter)
GROSS: It is so pathetic to hear her. And then one doctor actually refused to treat her because she was just - she'd just gotten so wild. It's like she was possessed. One doctor put her in, like, a little pussy cat straightjackets.
Dr. TROUT: Right.
GROSS: So, that he could...
Dr. TROUT: Right, right.
GROSS: So, he could kind of get to her without being, you know, fought by...
Dr. TROUT: Sure.
GROSS: By her. So, I think she doesn't feel that special calming presence.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Dr. TROUT: Well, I think...
GROSS: Kind of - like, really exciting.
Dr. TROUT: At least from all side of the table, we're trying to convey that.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Dr. TROUT: Whether it's reciprocated or not is another matter.
GROSS: But what do you do in a situation like that, when you're facing a cat that's just terrified?
Dr. TROUT: Oh, I mean, it happens. And I think if you can achieve what you are trying to do in order to, you know, find out what's wrong with that animal and you can do it somehow around physical restraint, then that's what we'd do. But there are instances when you just have to say, I'm going to cause your animal far more distress battling away here than if we could just give a little chemical restraint and be able to get to the problem more quickly and without distressing the animal in the process.
GROSS: Yeah, I think some sedation wouldn't have been a bad idea in this instance.
Dr. TROUT: Well, it'll probably makes you feel better as well that, you know, at least they're relaxing into the experience, because, I mean, it does become silly after awhile because they're very talented with their teeth and claws. And you know, for a good reason that little fight-and-flight mechanism from way back in evolution still happy to kick in.
BIANCULLI: Animal surgeon Nick Trout speaking with Terry Gross. His memoir is called "Tell Me Where It Hurts." More after a break. This is Fresh Air.
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BIANCULLI: Let's get back to Terry's interview with Animal Surgeon Nick Trout, author of the memoir "Tell Me Where It Hurts."
(Soundbite of WHYY's Fresh Air, March 20, 2008)
GROSS: Veterinary medicine has changed so much in the past few years. I remember the first time I heard that a pet was going to get chemo for cancer, and I thought, wow, that sounds so extreme. And now, it's just kind of standard, I think.
Dr. TROUT: Right.
GROSS: For a lot of animals. If you get cancer, you get the treatment. And you know, animals get MRIs now, and therefore, veterinary expenses have just skyrocketed. And it's very difficult for pet owners to keep up with those expenses, and they sometimes have to make very difficult decisions about how much they're capable of spending to keep their animal alive.
Dr. TROUT: Sure.
GROSS: What are some of the interventions that you use now that would have been unheard of 10 or 20 years ago?
Dr. TROUT: Well, as you rightly point out, I mean, MRI is sort of the standard of care now for all these dogs that come in with potential brain problems, spinal problems. CAT scans, ultrasound, bone scans and you know, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, we will do, you know, hip replacements, arthroscopy, endoscopy, thoracoscopy, brain surgery, spinal surgery. You know, if you're doing that on a person, you're pretty much doing it for an animal, at least you have the opportunity to. Renal transplants, open-heart surgery, all of these things are becoming and increasingly the norm when it comes to our pets, because - you know, I think it just comes down to the fact that not only are these options available to us, but also, you know, the shift in the importance of the animal in our lives. You know, pets are family. This is my child, is the standard comment I get from the vast majority of my clients. And if this is my child, then I want the kind of care that I can - would expect for my child. And sadly, in the new millennium of veterinary care, we are becoming not limited by medical advances or surgical advances, but really the ability to pay for those.
GROSS: One thing that you're really opposed to is cosmetic surgery for animals, unless it's medically required. What are some of the typical cosmetic surgeries being done now that you think should not be done?
Dr. TROUT: Well, I like to think this goes back to my British sensibilities, as a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and, you know, being educated in England. The Royal College does not approve of any kind of cosmetic surgery, like ear-cropping or tail-docking. And so, the U.K. is full of floppy-eared Dobermans and Great Danes and Rottweilers with long sweeping tails. And so, if the blame lies anywhere, it lies with my upbringing and education. And also now that I work at Angell, which is part of the MSPCA, the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, in which we perform no tail-docking or ear-cropping or declawing of cats. And that that's fine by me. I think, you know, this - one of things I mentioned, these things called Neuticles, these testicular implants that can be inserted into dogs at the time of neutering and castration. And so...
GROSS: What's the purpose of that?
Dr. TROUT: The purpose, as far as - again, this is my personal opinion - is entirely cosmetic. It is to give them an outline, an anatomical outline, that looks like nothing had happened, that they retain that outward appearance of being male. It serves no medical or hormonal benefit. These are inert inserts that just go into the vacated scrotum. They are purely cosmetic, and I have a problem with that.
GROSS: In the human world, if somebody is sick and in a great deal of pain and they want to end their life, that's not accepted right now. Some - a lot of people think it should be accepted, but it's not. In the animal world, it's always been more accepted to put down an animal, whether it's a large animal or small one, if they're in a great deal of pain and there's no hope for that to improve. Do you think the standard has changed at all with animals?
Dr. TROUT: No, I don't think so. I think, you know, that the euthanasia is still a very important part of what we do. You know, people have religious, spiritual, moral issues with euthanasia and that's, you know, that's obviously a very personal decision on their part. And you know, some of it comes down to the fact that for veterinarians, we still have that oath and there's still that thought of, you know, first do no harm, and if that harm is actually putting to - an animal to sleep, you know, are we going against that oath? But I think - the way I look at it, what I mention in the book is the fact that, you know, I think all of us aspire to that death in which we died peacefully in our sleep, and you know, that holds some appeal and that, you know, veterinarians have this responsibility or at least this option to cause a loss of consciousness, to alleviate pain without the application of pain, that we can bring to bear a dignified and graceful end to an animal's life. But it is a very difficult and emotive issue.
GROSS: What do you tell people about what to expect if they're watching the lethal injection?
Dr. TROUT: I think I've learnt the hard way to very much prepare them because a whole variety of things can happen. I've come to very much prefer having a catheter, plastic tubing into a vein, so that we can deliver the injection without the act of a needle when they witness the event. I've told them that dogs may take a deep breath, a sort of final sigh. They may pant; they may paddle; they may lose control of bodily functions. I do warn them that, for the most part, dogs and cats leave this world with their eyes open, that that sort of Hollywood ending of laying on of hands and that - closing their eyes sometimes doesn't happen.
And I've learned, you know, make sure you tell them that this is - you know, you're just flushing the catheter with the saline solution, because you give them the injection, they look at you surprised that their animal is still alive. I've also warned them it's very quick; it's very painless. Some people are so surprised that it happens so gracefully and so quickly. You know, they really expect something more. And you know, there's some solace to be taken in it actually being a sort of quiet and peaceful event.
BIANCULLI: Animal surgeon Nick Trout speaking with Terry Gross. His memoir is called "Tell Me Where It Hurts." We'll hear more of their conversation in the second half of the show. I'm David Bianculli. And this is Fresh Air.
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BIANCULLI: This is Fresh Air. I'm David Bianculli in for Terry Gross. Back with Terry's interview with Dr. Nick Trout, a veterinary surgeon who has written a memoir called "Tell Me Where It Hurts." He treats cats and dogs at the Angell Animal Medical Center, which is part of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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GROSS: On the dust jacket of your book, "Tell Me Where It Hurts," there's a photo of you with your two dogs, and one of them is a big Labrador who's sitting next to you.
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GROSS: And he looks really large. And then there's a little - was it a Jack Russell?
Dr. TROUT: Correct, yeah.
GROSS: Who's sitting on your lap, and you know, he's really small, particularly compared to the big Lab. Did you intentionally get a really large and a really small dog?
Dr. TROUT: That's my youngest daughter's doing. When Emily said she wanted a dog, what am I going to do? She - we got the terrier initially. Sophie is 11 years old, and I - you know, incredible dogs, very smart dogs. You know, she's got that sort of Red Bull running through her veins, and she actually, now at 11 years old, has slowed down just slightly. And so, I like to think that that gives me an opportunity to empathize with the terrier owners. And then I, of course, have the Labrador, which was another pick by my daughter, and this gives me the orally fixated, happy-go-lucky retriever, and gives me a chance to empathize with the retriever owners.
GROSS: What about in your house now? Who's the dominant dog? Is it the big Lab or the little Jack Russell?
Dr. TROUT: Oh, the Jack Russell.
GROSS: Little Jack Russell, yeah.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Dr. TROUT: Oh, yeah, the terrier is completely in control. She just rules the roost, and the goofy Labrador seems quite content to live on her terms. Yeah, it's a nice mix, actually. I was very surprised that it worked out as well as it did.
GROSS: Let me read something you wrote in your acknowledgments at the end of your book. You write about your wife, "Like so many mothers of children with chronic disease, she has quietly sacrificed her life for the greater good of our family." What is the disease that your daughter has?
Dr. TROUT: My daughter has cystic fibrosis, which is the number-one genetic killer of children and young people in this country. And she was diagnosed at about two and a half years of age. And you know, there was no way not to pay homage to my wife in this acknowledgment because, you know, she has sacrificed a lot for our daughter, for our daughter's care. And you know, it's funny, the - when you first get this diagnosis, I'm sure so many parents of children with chronic disease, there's all the anger and frustration. And I think at that time, I did question, you know, I'm here treating pets, yet this child, who is my own, you know, sharing some of my genes and DNA, is so sick. Should I be reconsidering what I'm doing? Should I be thinking about becoming a human doctor or research scientist, trying to find a cure? And all that anger sort of builds up in you.
And then, you know, as the time goes by, you start to realize that you are so blessed and so lucky to have this child in your life, and she's such a great kid. And you start to accept your situation, the good fortune you have, despite what she goes through. And I think some of that has been beneficial to me in my dealings with pet parents, because I see in them the same kind of fear and concern when they're faced with a similar crisis, for someone who is a child to them, who they love just as much as I do my daughter.
GROSS: Is she the daughter that chose the two dogs?
Dr. TROUT: Yes, of course.
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Dr. TROUT: I mean, again, she - to be honest, with regard to Meg, the Labrador, she and I were in the critical care unit at Boston's Children Hospital; it was about two o'clock in the morning. And she said to me - and she must've been about eight to nine at the time - and she said to me, Daddy, are you going to get me that yellow Labrador I want? What are you going to say? She's got you completely cornered.
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Dr. TROUT: So, I said yes. She was quick to remind me when she came out of hospital, and so it happened.
GROSS: Let me ask you now. You mentioned that you know that some of the pet owners who bring their pets to you love their animals as much as a parent loves a child. That will sound offensive to some people. Some people think that, you know, animals can't possibly have the weight or be worthy of the same depth the feeling that a child can be.
Dr. TROUT: I would have to disagree. I mean, you know, obviously everybody's welcome to their own opinion. But I mean, I've seen it with my own eyes. You know, there can be no question in my mind that the depth of love and affection for the animals in some people's lives is no less than I've seen with people with children. You know, I talk in the book about one section in which - I referred to the chapter as Dangerous Liaisons, because some people, you know, just get so invested in their animals; I mean, one gentleman who legally changed his middle name to that of his dog because he just felt that at the end of his life, he wanted his dog to be buried with him, his - the dog's ashes to be buried with him, and that for people to look at this tombstone and say, you know, that's how much that dog meant to me. I mean, that's intense; that's so deeply-rooted.
And you know, there's a woman who's so obsessed with the dog in her life, she'll happily endure injections on a twice-weekly basis and live with an inhaler because she's horribly allergic to the animal, but it still sleeps in the same bed, shares a pillow. I mean, this is deeply-rooted. And I think the other thing to take away is the fact that when these animals that we bring into our lives, we consider them to be our children, you know, the natural order of things is such that we should not bury the children in our lives. You know, they should outlive us.
And yet, we embrace them with all that love and commitment that - full well knowing that probably in our lifetime, we're going to have to let them go and live without them again. And that's what's so hard, the - you know, that you love a creature so much and yet you're sort of living with this anticipatory grief. One of my friends just got a new Shih Tzu puppy, and you know, she is so in love with this animal, she's saying to me already, I don't know how I'm going to cope with losing this animal, I mean, something - 15, 16, 17 years in the future, and yet there's already that sort of niggling fear that this is going to have to come to an end.
GROSS: Well, Dr. Nick Trout, thank you so much for talking with us.
Dr. TROUT: Well, thank you for having me.
BIANCULLI: Animal surgeon Nick Trout speaking with Terry Gross. He's a staff surgeon at the Angell Animal Medical Center, which is part of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. His memoir about his experiences working with cats and dogs is called "Tell Me Where It Hurts." Coming up, scientist Irene Pepperberg tells us about working with an animal that actually talked back. I'm David Bianculli, and this is Fresh Air.
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Football Frenzy Gets the Party Started at the Community Bowl Before Big Legacy Versus Bismarck Game
Even though the day started with rain, the sun was out just in time for a beautiful night at the Community Bowl for our High School Football Frenzy Tailgate Party!
Fun was had by all as two of Bismarck's biggest teams prepared to go head-to-head for the first time this season.
Thank you to Dunn Brothers Coffee for the refreshing lemonade and green tea and Little Caesars Pizza for providing the food. The students had a great time passing around footballs from ParentsLead.org. JZ Trend Academy hooked people up with some school-colored ribbon to compliment the swag provided by Party America in both BHS and LHS colors. A huge thank you as well to Sanford Orthopedics and Sports Medicine for the bandanas - the crowd loved them!
Of course we have to thank the Legacy and Bismarck High Boosters for all their hard work!
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A couple of days ago I noted a couple of the areas where Sarah Palin had her facts wrong in a recent speech. This included both her continued mischaracterization of the health care reform legislation and her claims about changes in coins. She was talking about a "disturbing trend" seen with the movement of "In God We Trust" to the edge of coins. She saw this as a new move by secular liberals in the Obama administration, but this change was actually commissioned in 2005 under a Republican Congress and approved by George Bush.
As with so much of what Sarah Palin says, there's no basis in reality. Even Fox, which generally repeats Republican talking points as fact, wouldn't go along with a comment as off the wall as her statement on the coins (video above). If only Fox would fact check the conservative statements they repeat more often.


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We start the day in Charlestown with it's evocative Georgian Port. This tiny harbour has been used in many films and tv programs including of course Poldark where it was the setting for Truro docks. We can have a look around a square rigger sailing ship docked in the harbour.
From here we journey southwestwards until we reach Gunwalloe. There are two beaches to explore here, Dollar Cove was the location of the wreck of the Spanish Ship, San Salvador, lost in 1669 and laden with silver dollars. We may be lucky and find one washed up!
Next up is Church Cove with it's unique church of St Winwaloe, also known as The Church of Storms. The beach here was used in Poldark where the dramatic night time shipwreck took place.
Mullion Cove
Making our way down through the Lizard peninsula we reach Mullion Cove, with it's small picturesque harbour. The cast and crew stayed in the Mullion Cove Hotel which overlooks the harbour.
Kynance Cove
This has to be one of the most stunning beaches in the UK, with it's white sand, dark cliffs and turquoise water it's no wonder the makers of Poldark decided to use Kynance as Nampara Cove.
Lizard Point
As we've travelled this far down the Lizard we really ought to visit Lizard Point, the most southerly point on the British mainland. Great views and photo opportunities abound.
We can stop for lunch half way through the day at a venue to suit your taste and budget. You may wish to save your appetite for the finest shop bought pasties in Cornwall at Ann's Pasties on The Lizard.


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fundamental spirit of all universities in these respects, their most essential ideas, are the same and must remain the same. Gradually it dawned upon some people in the university world, first at Oxford, that it was not sufficient to teach students who came to the doors of the university; that it was not sufficient to advance knowledge; that there was a function of carrying knowledge out to the people. The name of the Oxford University Extension Movement was the name given to it at the time. Now what are the fundamental principles upon which these ideals are based ? The advance of knowledge has been greater in the past sixty years than in two thousand years before. Until about 1850 the development of knowledge was so slow that ideas which the people might utilize to their benefit were fairly well assimilated; but during the past sixty years, communication has brought all parts of the world together, discovery has gone in every direction, communication has become instantaneous, and knowledge has far outrun the assimilation of the people. We know enough about agriculture so that if it were only applied in Ontario the agricultural wealth of this Province could be doubled in a decade. We know enough about medicine so that if it were applied infectious and contagious diseases could be eliminated from this city in a generation or less. We know enough about eugenics so that if it were applied the feebleminded would disappear in a generation, and the insane in a very large proportion. But we don't apply that knowledge. The time was when it was said that it will do to teach the new knowledge to the boys and girls in the schools. And this, of course, should he done. But since many of you left the schools, a vast portion of this new heritage has accumulated. You have twenty-five or fifty years more to live. And you are but illustrations of the situation throughout this province and the nation of Canada. Therefore it is not enough to each the new knowledge to the people in the schools: it must be carried out to them everywhere. It was this situation which gradually led us in Wisconsin some ten years ago to attempt to reorganize this Extension Movement. This Extension Movement began in the lyceum method of instruction. The professors at Oxford went out and spoke to the people, giving perhaps two, four or six lectures upon a subject, and directly after the lectures there were colloquiums. That was good work to do, and it is continued to the present time. But it was found to be limited in its application and scope. For the most part it was pouring in knowledge upon the recipients and not asking the person to whom this new knowledge was given to use it, to dig it out for himself. It was information, rather than education. And therefore this lyceum method of instruction, while it is performing a brilliant service, and will continue to do so, has failed to accomplish all that was expected when the movement was launched at Oxford some sixty years ago. Now away from large centres it is very difficult to apply the method because of the expense; and even in large centres it is difficult to maintain. So we took up a movement in
the University of Wisconsin some eight or ten years ago for
the purpose of emphasizing it upon some different lines, and placing it upon some broader basis. The first line taken up was correspondence work. At the present time, the university has about as many students doing work by correspondence as at the university—somewhere between five and six thousand. When this plan of doing work by correspondence at the university was first broached to an eastern educator, he asked, "What about your ideals? Is it proper to be doing work not in the college or university building?" I replied that we didn't publish their names in the catalogue
of the institution, or give them degrees; and we didn't see
how it bemeaned us, doing any line of work for which we were the best fitted instruments. We thought we could do it without doing violence to anybody's ideals anywhere, or to the proper scope of the university. This advancement we took up not for the work of the elementary school or the secondary school, but we took it up for the benefit of the people not in school who wished to add to their education. I believe vour system of education provides for education in continuation schools, and that some ten or fifteen thousand boys and girls are attending them. But every one of us should be students in a continuation school throughout life. And it is to serve this large puropse that the Extension Movement was formulated. Our faculty—I don't know how it has been in the University of Toronto—but in the University of Wisconsin, when it was proposed to enter upon this new work, some were conservative; some were afraid that the standards would be lowered. We said, however, that no department would be obliged to take up the work unless willing to do so, and that they would not be criticized if they did not. On that basis a few of them took it up. And now opposition to it has entirely disappeared, and practically every department is engaged in the work. And they say the work is well done, as well as in the university. We of course do not accept the work of extension for a degree; only one-half may be done in absentia. A great satisfaction is that it has opened the door of opportunity and made an education available to any boy or girl without respect to condition of birth, without respect to his ability to go to college or university. In the little village of Bloominggrove, eight or ten miles from Madison, a boy lived on a little forty-acre farm; he had his mother and aged grandfather to support, and others. So it was simply impossible for him to get away from the little forty-acre farm. But he was interested in astronomy. He made a telescope and ground the glass for it. And two of the comets discovered that year bear the name of that boy! He took up correspondence in the University of Wisconsin, which fitted him to become an astronomical instrument maker; and now he is making instruments to be sent out to all parts of the United States. Thus we have this twofold purpose: not only to get knowledge to the people, but also to find a way for the boy or girl of parts, whatever the condition of birth. One of the professors in the University of Wisconsin, who was chairman of the State Commission of Commerce, and is now on the Interstate Commerce Commission, was attracted to the university by correspondence work, and he said he never could have hoped to get an education except that he began that way. This work takes over many lines. I have not time to more than hint at the various lines in which this work of extension is carried on in Wisconsin. I shall illustrate only a few of them. We have, for instance, a municipal reference department, to answer questions for any municipality in the State regarding which it may ask any question it may desire, for example, about a sewerage system, the forms of charters, types of drainage systems or waterworks, plants of any kind—the information is furnished to them and the best advice given along that line. And this work is done not with the purpose to get us into politics: for we help a Socialist here, a Democrat there, a Republican somewhere else; and it is carried on in an impersonal way, without regard to who asks the information. All this has led to complete ahsence of criticism. The department serves as an expert adviser to the municipalities in Wisconsin throughout the State. Another field is that of debating and public discussion, I don't know how it is in Toronto and Ontario, but the Anglo-Saxons and Norse over in Wisconsin, and the Norwe. gians and Germans, are so cantankerous, that in every little crossroads community they have a debating society! They used to discuss such questions as these in my youth: "Is George Washington or Abraham Lincoln the greater man?" "Is man's intellect equal to woman's, or rice versa?"—perfectly futile questions, which begin nowhere and end nowhere ! It seemed to us, however, that here was an opportunity, an educational opportunity, and so burning questions of the day, such as the initiative, the referendum, and the recall, methods of taxation, currency reform, the tariff, all these questions which were before our people, have been taken up by our Extension Department, and a careful syllabus of the arguments on each side was prepared. Each political and social question regarding which you differ has two sides, and there are honest arguments upon each side, and the way we do advance depends upon the balance or arguments between the two. So these arguments are outlined, and little books are prepared, and bunches of pamphlets, each illustrating and giving materials for research upon the subject. So when the Crossroads Debating Society wanted to discuss the tariff, this syllabus went to that society, and with it this bunch of books and pamphlets, and wherever you have a crossroads debating society you have a powerful educational force. Not only are they taking up these questions in the societies that already existed, but there have been organized many more than existed before, and they are discussing these live questions. If we are to have in Wisconsin the initiative, the referendum and the recall, as doubtless we will in the near future, it is high time to get them set seriously thinking upon these questions upon which they will be obliged to pass.
Another work is that of demonstration, that is, sending out demonstrations and travelling exhibitions of various kinds, and holding public institutes. A demonstration of hygiene and sick philanthropy was running for three months in Milwaukee. These means of communication with the people result in very great advancement. A travelling tuberculosis exhibition goes about the State, to any little town which will ask for it and furnish a room in which to place the exhibit, and the co-operation of physicians in this town and others is secured, who go in and give lectures upon the prevention of tuberculosis, the means of elimination of the disease and the conservation of health. The cost is almost nothing, and this method is far more efficient than extensive sanitariums, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Another matter is that of the university rendering expert serivee to the State. Your president raised the question whether the Legislature were the fathers of the university, or the Legislature were subject to the university. Now this is a tender subject with us, and a tender subject with the Legislature. They don't enjoy intimations of this kind. But I am very glad the point has been raised, because I can illustrate the principle. We carefully refrain from tendering our advice anywhere until we are asked. We don't go down to the committees of the Legislature and frame their bills for them. Professors do not go to the Legislature unless they are asked. But it has been the habit of the Legislature of Wisconsin for the past eight or ten years to think that possibly they don't know by intuition just what should be done in the composition of a complicated bill. Therefore, our Reference Library is in charge of a philosopher, who goes down when he is asked, to give such assistance as he can. As a matter of fact, many bills, and those the most progressive bills, are those in which professors of the university had had a large share. Some professors, when the Public Utilities Bill was drawn up, were down at the Legislature night after night for three months. Similarly when other bills have been under consideration it has been the custom to appoint commissions to make reports. The result is that at the present time there are serving on such commissions over forty men on the instructional staff of the university, doing expert work for the State; and in the same way many other men are doing work incidentally.


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Yes, it means Hello, Garci in the Japanese language. Today, I rose from bed 2 hours later than my usual waking hour of six. It was calm, a bit chilly, and the sun softly touched the air. That was the ambiance despite the fact that a very important national elections is going on in Japan.
A fellow Filipino friend called up and told me how impressed he was to witness the conduct of elections. Peaceful. There were not so much funfares and people hardly noticed the visibility of politicians. The Japanese quietly casted their ballots, went home, and waited for reliable results at the day's end.
For nearly seven years that I had been in the Land of the Rising Sun, I wonder where they put their political ads. In the streets, political banners are seen neatly posted on bulletin boards. One ad was enough to cover a particular area. They were also removed after use. During campaigns, I frequently saw politicians on top of their vehicles holding a microphone and orating their speech. I don't think I had seen any of them dancing or singing on TV shows.
According to one source, Japanese politics has seen remarkable stability in terms of political party rule, but not so stable in terms of personalities. Most significant changes have taken place through change of leadership rather than change of government. Some politicos resign from public office or commit suicide out of shame following scandals. Needless to say, no government is free from corruption. But still, listen to my argument. What do all these things mean? For me, these things show that Filipinos can learn from the Japanese in many ways.
One. Filipinos need to be more politically-mature. We are politically-aware but are we are not very sophisticated with our choice of leaders. Name recall, kinship, popularity are still favored than one's stand on a particular issue.
Two. Public debate among political candidates will uncover their stand on national issues that beset the country. As it is, character assasination is the in thing to do during campaigns. I challenge all candidates to show the country their concrete plans to gain the people's vote.
Three. I dare all political-hopefuls to stop infomercials with or without dubious financial sources. Do what is essential and people will notice.
Four. Like what I have said in an earlier post, I call on all Filipinos not to vote those who ride on the popularity of the yellow color. Do not only vote wisely. Base your votes on merits and not on popularity. If people do the same method, the same things will result. Let us learn from the lessons of the past.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.~Albert Einstein


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An interesting and informative correspondence, giving the initial impressions of an unnamed nineteen-twenties Methodist minister in Samoa, describing local customs, the state of Christianity in the region (including a denunciation of the Mormons), his view of his duties and the nature of his work, his heavy workload, and other topics including the importance of the coconut and the necessity for every Samoan male to 'destroy fifteen beetles a week'. Eight letters (two incomplete), of which three are in autograph and the other five typed. Totalling 46pp., 4to. (23pp. autograph; 23pp. typed).
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Saturday, November 28, 2009
6 comments:
- Cedar ... said...
I only get out about half of what I used to. I still put up a tree and the village,... for the grandkids. I'm really cutting down on all that, too busy doing other things. I know your house always looks lovely!
- November 28, 2009 7:03 PM
- Heather said...
i did mine today. ALL day, lol. but not the tree. it's up and ready to be decorated but i ran out of steam. so ella and i are going to put the ornaments on tomorrow :)
- November 28, 2009 11:37 PM
- Zoey said...
Hope you are having fun decorating. I will be back to see it all finished!
- November 29, 2009 8:59 AM
- vintage girl at heart said...
Can'y wait to see what you do this year!!!
Happy Belated Thanksgiving!!
The girls are getting so big!!!
- November 29, 2009 6:26 PM
- Darla said...
You are way a head of me...I can't wait to see your decorations again this year!!
- November 30, 2009 5:23 AM
- Utah Grammie said...
Wish I could get into it - somehow this year is a little bit slow for me..hopefully I'll get int he groove soon! Can't wait to see how all of yours turns out :-)
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On Thursday May 4, 2017, Tish Niffenegger of Montgomery Village, MD. Beloved wife of James W. Niffenegger; loving mother of Chaz Niffenegger, Kathleen Matos (Johan) and Madelyn Niffenegger; sister of William Rhodes, Kathie Lehner, Charlene Sebold, Mary Romanowski and Liz O'Connell. Also survived by 1 grandchild: Hayden Matos
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Hammer time: Peugeot gets tooled up
The latest addition to the list of car manufacturers making things that aren't cars is… Peugeot, with this new set of 12 cordless power tools.
That's right, you can get your hands on Peugeot-powered hammer drills, jackhammers, circular saws, jigsaws, orbital sanders, angle grinders, polishers and multitools. All of these make up the new Peugeot EnergyHub range.
Of course, Peugeot is no stranger to manufacturing tools. The company was originally a proprietor of handyman hardware all the way back in 1810.
So, we're sold on Peugeot being a tools supplier. It's got the heritage, right? What we're not so sold on is the fact that this new range "takes styling from the Peugeot 3008 and Peugeot 308 GTI". What? Power tools that look like cars? Okay…
Looking at them, all they've borrowed from the cars is the two-tone colour palette. A mixture of yellow and black, if we're honest, smacks of DeWALT more than Peugeot.
Nevertheless, this is a slick-looking set of power tools that don't in the least bit resemble a car. And so they shouldn't. Why would they?
To go with the new range of hardware is a new logo, still featuring the lion. It's very much an old school aesthetic to go with Peugeot's tool-making provenance dating a century further back than its cars.
All in, the full set will cost you just over £1,000 and you can order them online now from Peugeot's online store. What we want to know is if all the dealers and their respective service shops will be kitted out with some on-brand hardware…


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Meghan Griffin enters her second year as Athletics Communications Coordinator and assistant coach of the women's lacrosse program in 2018-2019. Griffin comes to Wheaton after spending four years as Head Women's Lacrosse Coach and Director of Sports Information at Division III Wheelock College in Boston.
While at Wheelock, Griffin guided the Wildcats to four consecutive program-best seasons, finishing with a 10-7 overall record in 2017. The team advanced to three New England Collegiate Conference semifinal contests as well as a conference championship in 2015. The women's lacrosse program under Griffin earned IWLCA Academic Honor Squad for three seasons, posting 3.59 and 3.54 team GPAs in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
Prior to Wheelock, the Billerica, Mass. native got her start in coaching on the sidelines at her alma mater, Bridgewater State University, spending three years as an assistant for the Bears. From 2011-2013, the Bears amassed a 46-13 record, earning three conference titles and three NCAA tournament appearances.
As a student-athlete at BSU, Meghan helped the Bears to three New England Women's Lacrosse Alliance championships and a 2010 NCAA tournament bid. Following her senior season, she was selected as the New England Women's Lacrosse Alliance Goalkeeper of the Year and was named to the All-NEWLA First Team. She finished her career as the program's all-time victories leader and turned away a school-record 194 shots for the single-season standard.
Griffin is currently serving as a coach for the Laxachusetts Lacrosse Club and has previously worked for the Oliver Ames High School and New England Select Lacrosse League programs.
Griffin earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physical Education from Bridgewater State University in 2011.


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T4 Slips - Requirements and Timing
Employment income is included on a T4 for the year in which it is received, not earned, as per s. 5(1) of the Income Tax Act, which states: "a taxpayer's income for a taxation year from an office or employment is the salary, wages and other remuneration, including gratuities, received by the taxpayer in the year." If a payment is made in January 2019 for wages earned in December 2018, this amount will be reported on the 2019 T4, not on the 2018 T4. One exception to this is related to employee trusts, which will not affect most employees. Income from an employee trust is reported on a T4 for the period in which the income was allocated to beneficiaries by the trustee, not for the period in which any payment was made to beneficiaries.
T4 and T4A slips must be distributed, and T4 and T4A returns must be filed, on or before the last day of February following the calendar year to which the slips apply. If the last day of February falls on a Saturday or Sunday or public holiday, the tax slips and returns are considered on time if postmarked on the next business day. Depending on the number of slips involved, employers can be penalized from $5 to $75 per day late, with a minimum penalty of $100 and a maximum penalty of $7,500. See link at bottom, to Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) page re penalty.
The employee should be provided 2 copies of the T4, preferably printed on one sheet (CRA Web Forms does this automatically). This can be done by:
The Federal 2017 Budget proposes to eliminate the need for the employee's consent prior to distributing T4s electronically to current active employees. However, sufficient privacy safeguards must be in place before electronic T4s can be sent without express consent, and employers must issue paper T4s to employees who request them.
A T4 slip must be completed for each individual who received remuneration during the year if:
An exception to the $500 limit is when employees are provided with taxable group term life insurance benefits. In this case, for T4s must always be prepared, even if the total remuneration paid in the calendar year is less than $500. When former employees or retirees are provided with such benefits, a T4A slip must be completed. For the 2018 and subsequent taxation years, a T4A will only be required for taxable group term life insurance benefits in excess of $50, if it is the only income being reported on a T4A slip. See CRA's January 2018 announcement about this.
What is Included in Remuneration?
Remuneration reported in box 14 (employment income) of the T4 slip includes:
Other types of remuneration that must be reported on a T4 slip, but are not included in box 14 include amounts paid to the following workers, if they work for you but are not your employees:
The T4s are completed for these self-employed workers for purposes of EI and PPIP only.
There are special reporting requirements for the following workers, depending on the work situation or type of payment:
Filing T4 Slips
An employer can file up to 100 T4 slips using Canada Revenue Agency's T4 Web forms. See their Filing Information Returns Electronically information. No software is required - the T4 slips are prepared online. Note that you no longer need to wait for a new web access code to file your T4s, T5s or other information returns online. You can use the web access code provided to you previously. However, if you log into My Business Account or Represent a Client and select to file a return, no web access code will be required. If you are not using My Business Account or Represent a Client and you've forgotten or misplaced your code, you can retrieve it online - see Web access code on the Filing Information Returns Electronically page (link above).
Employers who submit more than 100 information slips are required to file electronically.
T4 Slip re Election to Stop Contributing to CPP - Pensionable and Insurable Earnings Review (PIER)
When a Canada Pension Plan recipient age 65 to 70 has elected to stop contributing to the CPP by completing and submitting form CPT30, box 28 on the T4 (CPP/QPP exempt) should be left blank, if there are pensionable earnings paid in the year before the election took place. If the total pensionable earnings in the year is zero, then indicate CPP/QPP exempt in box 28. See the CRA instructions for Box 28.
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