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Ernest Johnson Begins Farming
During the Depression era, independent farmers like my maternal grandfather, Ernest Johnson, found it increasingly difficult to earn a living from planting and harvesting, and frequently supplemented their income through other work. The following story tells how he coped and managed to keep his small farm through difficult economic times in the 1920s and 1930s.
|Ernest and Esther Johnson in March 1917.
Fosston, Polk County, Minnesota.
My Grampa Johnson was a farmer in rural Minnesota from 1914-1945. Like his nine brothers and sisters, Ernest Johnson had a Norwegian accent all of his life, even though he and his siblings were all born in America. English was something primarily used at school and social functions, while Norwegian was spoken at home. Upon leaving his parents' farm in 1914, Ernest purchased a plot of land about three miles outside of Leonard, Minnesota in Clearwater County, where Mississippi headwaters trickle from Lake Itasca, mirroring lush pines and running crisp and clear on the long journey to the Delta in the Gulf of Mexico. When Ernest married Esther Agnes Berge on March 22, 1917, he brought his shy, deferential, and bespectacled bride to live on that small farm. In a little clapboard farmhouse with one room up and one room down, my aunt and mother were born, in 1918 and 1920, respectively.
|The farmhouse where my mother was born near Leonard, Minnesota, ca. 1920.
Ernest Johnson lived down the road from his parents and some of his siblings. For many years, the creed among farmers, including his grandparents as Norwegian-American homesteaders, was that neighbor helped neighbor, and especially, family helped family. Family is the main reason Ernest's parents left behind a picturesque and productive farm in the green and forest-rimmed fields outside Fosston in Polk County, so that they could follow him and his older brother, Bennett, to Leonard, over twenty miles away. Keeping the family together was not only ideal, but prudent, especially when there was hard labor to be done on a regular basis.
Though the newlyweds were off to a good start, Ernest and Esther's marriage was tragically short. Before their younger daughter celebrated her second birthday, Esther fell mortally ill with tuberculosis and died in January 1922. As per their mother's deathbed request, the young girls were sent to live with their paternal grandparents down the road, Ole M. and Malla Johnson, in order to be close to their father as they grew. It was painfully obvious that Ernest would not have the time nor resources to care for his two young daughters as long as perpetual and solitary work awaited him in the fields. And, what of the autumn and winters, when he must travel here and there to bring in some kind of income? No, it was far better that the little tow-headed girls, Phyllis and Doris, be watched over by their grandparents and a maiden aunt, Mabel, who could help supervise them and make their clothing.
|Phyllis and Doris Johnson, Sept. 1921.
Once again a bachelor, Ernest applied himself to whatever would bring in enough money to pay the bills and buy seed. He helped on his parents' and brothers' farms, grew what small crops he could, and took pleasure in training and caring for his horses. Ernest's young nephews and their friends delighted in visiting someone who was "batching it." They could also ride horses away from the critical eyes of their mothers, and Ernest helped their fun along with some of his tricks. His horses were trained to stop dead in their tracks when he snapped his fingers, which sometimes left young riders clinging frantically to whatever they could, like real bronco busters. Ernest Johnson's farm was also a place where boys might find some privacy to steal a taste of their first cigar, or make successful raids on the cooky jar without the usual repercusions at home. Ernest may have been a longtime widower, but he knew how to fend for himself in the kitchen. He made his own doughnuts and canned apples, peaches, and other fruit... and he always kept the cooky jar full, too.
|Ernest Johnson shows off his prized team of horses, Tony and Birdie.
My grandfather was very fond of this photograph, taken on his farm
near Leonard, Minnesota, May 2, 1943.
Whenever he could, Ernest Johnson raised sheep and planted seed crops such as flax, clover, and alfalfa, using only horses and a plow. He hunted game and fished to supplement both his larder and his income. He often traveled away from Leonard to help with late summer harvests in the fields of South Dakota and also drove drays for logging companies in the forests of northern Minnesota--hiring himself out however he could. He was often away from home for months at a time, leaving family and neighbors to tend to his livestock, and he returned such favors for them. Truth be told, he even attempted a little bootlegging on the side, but it was thankfully a short-lived venture that ended when others blew up the still during his absence.
With the onset of the 20th Century and increased industry, family-run farms began to struggle. Ernest's father, Ole M. Johnson, had made a success out of his own farm without once using a tractor, but he'd had decades of early midwestern development to build upon his success and reputation. For Ernest's generation, when so many small farms reached for a foothold in existing markets, independence by farming was harder to achieve, especially when the stock market crash of 1929 darkened the forseeable future. When the money was gone and seasonal jobs were harder to find, Ernest Johnson, bachelor farmer, began to look long and hard at new federal programs created by President Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and the promise of jobs with the Work Projects Administration (WPA). Unemployment insurance would not become available until after 1935, but even then, many farmers who were independently employed were not eligible for the "Dole," as it was often called.
To be continued in Part II...


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Cross server LFG is on it's way to us, soon if I remember right, and Presby comment from the other day got me wondering.
As things stand at the moment:
Instances and summoning stones
Right now our LFG PuG options are limited to our own realm. You can enter LFG from anywhere in the world for instances that are considered level appropriate (one of my bugbears, but I'll let it go for now).
Once you group is formed you all head to the instance, well at least two of you do, and use the summoning stone located nearby.
Likewise with Battlegrounds you can queue from anywhere in the world (except within a BG… which annoys me a little.. you know there are 2 minutes left in your BG, why can't you queue for the next one?)
The difference is that once the Battleground is full, you get ported directly inside the BG to the starting area. No messing about or traveling to Alterac Mountains, Arathi Highlands or Ashenvale (Mmm… triple A rated BGs!)
Pros and Cons.
What a pain it is when you get the group formed but no one is close to the stone. Worse yet, there is one or more people near the stone, but they're the ones that are AFK.
At least if you only have one bag slot left and a durability of 10% you can drop by the bank, vendor, AH before you accept the summons. Maybe drop by the nearby quest giver and collect the quests.
I remember the good old days (cough cough) when you had to queue at the entrance to the BG… Assuming you weren't ganked on your way in, or out. Zupa gave us a reminder of these days with the video that inspired him to roll a Mage.
So, no seriously they weren't that good, though there some upsides. One of those was that if you had to enter through the BG door, you had to pass by the quest givers.
Even better was that 2 minute period where you get kicked from the BG could be used to make your way out through the entrance, or even to the quest givers inside AV.
While I don't miss those days that much, I do miss the flexibility of exit.
What will the future hold?
Well we already have cross faction BGs, so nothing is going to change there is it?
Well I guess I hope it does.
I would like to be able to exit through the front doors and visit the quest givers again. It's a pain being sucked from Outland to AV, then having to weave your way back to Alterac Valley to hand in the quests.
Likewise I would like it if you could queue for battlegrounds in the last couple of minutes. Maybe put it on a limited timer so if no BG pops within 2 minutes you have to re-queue.
Bugbear rears it's ugly head.
- Sometimes I get nostalgic.
- Sometimes Blizzard forces me to be nostalgic.
LFG BRD or Slave Pens for a Holiday event?
Join the /lfg chat channel and beg, because you can't use the LFG interface.
I can't imagine that Blizzard will make the chat channel cross server… that's a sure path to insanity.
So hopefully the modify the LFG interface to be more like the calendar drop down that includes everything and it's dog.
Summoning Stones
This is going to be a doozy. Potentially the 5 member of your group will be from 5 different servers, so how are you going to get 2 people to a summoning stone?
Likewise you won't be meeting outside the instance, so will Blizzard allow us to exit through the front door and visit the vendors and quest givers.
Maybe we will get a new interface option. One that removes the need to visit the summoning stone. Maybe we will get an instance drop down with the option to summon to the instance, or at least port to the instance (sounds a bit ghetto hearthy though)
Chaining Instances
Sure there is the chance you will join the PuG from hell, but believe it or not, you are more likely to get the PuG of joy… well, they will be good enough anyway.
These days if you like your group it's quite common to chain instance runs. They are short enough, particularly in Northrend, that you can run 3 or 4 in the time it takes to run Vanilla instances.
So what do you do?
Rejoin LFG for a different instance keeping your group?
Select a different (new) instance interface option to get ported to a new instance?
Vendor time
Hopefully the LFG instance entry option isn't like BGs. While it's handy to be plucked out of anywhere Nd deposited back there when you are finished, things are slightly different with instances.
One of the good things about the BG LFG is that you can go do stuff. You need to go do stuff because it can be 1/2 hour between battles, especially now that the BG won't start until the group is full.
LFG is, currently at least, worse. You can spend a whole night sitting in LFG. So what do you do?
You do something, anything while you wait. You grind, you quest, you BG. Whatever you are doing has a cost.
- Equipment durability
- Consumables
- Bag space
However Blizzard implements the cross server LFG, hopefully it will allow us to port home 1st and clean ourselves up before we meet our new friends.
Loot redistribution
Depending on whether you have been ninja'd or the beneficiary of the new 2 hour boss loot trade window, things are going to become a lot more complicated soon.
- Someone doesn't follow loot rules (intentionally or not)
- You want to give that drop to the nice guy from that other server
How will this loot recovery/redistribution be handled in future, when it is highly likely you will never see the other players again?
Cross Faction Calendars
If we can "randomly" queue for and join parties, why ant we be more proactive?
You find that PuG of joy (don't laugh, it happens), you have even managed to chain some instances together on one night.
Will we be allowed to proactively invite people from other servers. Rather than signing up for your realm's Friday night guild run, why not sign up your new mates…
New mates, or maybe they are old mates. I dare say that most of us have old friends that play on other servers in your Battlegroup. Maybe they (or you) did a realm transfer but you still want to catch up with them occasionally.
Being able to plan your cross server instance runs seems to me to be a great feature… I guess we could all just join LFG at the appointed time, but I'd like a cleaner solution.
Mana biscuits
- I love making Mage food.
- I love consuming Mage food.
- I don't like losing it after a cross faction BG.
I actually thought it used to carry over, out of the BG and back to your realm for future use. I noticed my health stone (generously donated by a nice lock… See they aren't all evil!), came with me out of the BG, but my Mage water didn't…
Doesn't blizzard know how hard it is to squeeze water from a Mage? (blood = easy, water = hard).
So yeah Blizzard, let us keep our conjured consumables both in BGs and Instances.
What else can go wrong right?
Have you guys thought much about this?
What do you think we need to make this workable?
Gnomer and Out!
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100 Years of Grand: The Grand Canyon Centennial Project
A digital archive celebrating the Centennial of the Grand Canyon National Park. A collaborative project of the Arizona State University Library, Cline Library, Northern Arizona University and the Grand Canyon National Park. Additional materials are available via the project website.
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Resource Type
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- 1 Public
- Trails
- Demaray, Arthur Edward, 1887-1958
- Mather, Stephen Tyng, 1867-1930
- 1 Bright Angel Trail (Ariz.)
- 1 Grand Canyon National Park (Ariz.)
- 1 Hayden, Carl Trumbull, 1877-1972
- 1 Legislation
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- 1 United States. Congress
Date Range
1924 1924
- Tertiary History of the Grand Cañon District with Atlas
- History of the Grand Canyon National Park
- Stage Coach Trip to the Grand Canyon, 1895, by Josephine Frankenberg of Tempe
- Letter from A. E. Demaray, National Park Service to Carl Hayden
- Letter from Carl Hayden to J. R. Eakin, Grand Canyon National Park
Four letters of correspondence about the purchase of Bright Angel Trail between A. E. Demaray, Acting Director of the Grand Canyon National Park; E. C. Finney, Department of the Interior First Assistant Secretary; Carl T. Hayden, Representative (AZ); and Stephen T. Mather, Director of the National Park Service.
- Contributors
- Demaray, A. E., Finney, E. C., Hayden, Carl T., et al.
- Created Date
- 1924-07-18


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Residents tired of driving 'Ho Chi Minh Trail' in Beaver Borough
Harlem Lane neighbors say road plagued by potholes, snow
Residents along Harlem Lane in Beaver Borough told Channel 4 Action News they're tired of negotiating treacherous potholes, not to mention snow and ice in the wintertime.
"This thing has been maintained for more than 20-plus years. All of a sudden, a new administration comes in and says, 'We're not going to fix it anymore,'" said resident Grady Roberts.
Roberts lives at the corner of Market Street and Harlem Lane, which is considered an alley by the borough and not maintained.
But residents told Channel 4 Action News' Jim Parsons they have another name for it -- the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
"It's insane trying to drive down that alley," said Anthony Roberts.
His driveway faces the alley, and since the borough put in a one-way sign last year, he can't exit to Market Street. He has no choice but to drive 200 yards every day through potholes.
"Now, you're telling me I have to go the other way, where there are holes 8 to 10 inches deep? What am I supposed to do? Damage my vehicle every single time? And that's OK?" said Grady Roberts.
Beaver Borough Manager Charles Copeland said he is working on a possible plan to have borough highway crews fill in the alley, but that's dependent on residents paying to have it paved.
"We don't have the resources to fulfill the promises that, maybe, other politicians have made or things that happened in the past," said Copeland. "It's just something we don't have the finances to do."
"We understand there is going to be a cost here. It's not cheap. We know that," said Grady Roberts.


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Monkey King Enma's transformation technique, which is characterised by the hardness of diamond and its at-will extendibility, the Adamantine Staff is the Hiruzen Sarutobi's weapon of choice, and with it in hand he's made it through a world of war for an extended period of time. This staff, when in use, was able to effortlessly destroy the wooden structures created by Hashirama, the original Wood Release user, and also to overwhelm Kurama, sending him to the borders of Konoha, and destroying the branches of Shinju.
When Enma is transformed into the Adamantine Staff, it is possible for him to attack of his own free will using his claws and fangs which protrude from the staff itself, adding an element of surprise and irregularity. Forged in the fire of battle, its at-will transformation-based attack and defence go beyond the scope of proficiency, to attain the realm of shinobi "godhood". The main method of attack consists in strikes and thrusts that take full advantage of the ability to manipulate its size and length.
The hardness of diamond also translates into destructive power. Despite its hardness, Enma stated that he could still suffer damage from the Kusanagi, wielded by Orochimaru.
- The concept of an extendible staff is based on the story of Sun Wukong and his Ruyi Jingu Bang.
- A nyoi, which can be translated as priest's staff but literally means as one (a person) wishes, is an auspicious decorative object associated with Chinese Buddhist rituals. It was made from bone or jade, with a head shaped either as a cloud or as a lingzhi mushroom and had a slightly curved handle, but the production and use of these objects declined after the Tang Dynasty.
- Vajra, which is "Kongō" (金剛) in Japanese, is a mythical material that is said to be able to cut through any substance, but it itself, cannot be cut.
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David Cameron gave his keynote speech at the Conservative party conference today. There's a transcript here. It wasn't a bad speech – not his best, but reasonable. But some of it annoyed me… Cameron showed a strong belief in standing together against globalization, and then expected plaudits when he shouted down such an approach in the European Council.
And the Olympics showed us something else.
Whether our athletes were English, Scottish, Welsh or from Northern Ireland…
….they draped themselves in one flag.
Now, there's one person who didn't like that…
…and he's called Alex Salmond.
I'm going to see him on Monday to sort that referendum on independence by the end of 2014.
There are many things I want this coalition to achieve but what could matter more than saving our United Kingdom…
…let's say it: we're better together and we'll rise together – so let's fight that referendum with everything we've got.
Contrast that with…
Here's something else this party's done in government.
Last December I was at a European Council in Brussels.
It was three in the morning, there was a treaty on the table that was not in Britain's interests…
…and twenty five people around that table were telling me to sign it.
But I did something that no other British leader has ever done before…
…I said no – Britain comes first – and I vetoed that EU treaty.
We're doing big, Conservative things.
"We're better together, and we'll rise together" compared with "Britain comes first". Anyone noticing a double-standard?
Those of you who've read me regularly will know I'm vehemently pro-European. But what bothers me most about the europhobe camp is the fact that they so clearly ignore their own arguments when it suits them. Apparently, we're all better together. And I believe it's true. We're living in the era of globalisation. As Cameron said "We are in a global race today. And that means an hour of reckoning for countries like ours. Sink or swim. Do or decline." That's true. It's why I can't truly support Scottish or Welsh independence, though I am a strong believe in localism and regional autonomy. As barriers come down, as the world gets smaller, the small get squeezed out.
Even Britain. We currently punch well above our weight. We assume "[t]hat we can earn our living as a major industrial country…and we will always remain one." But "[i]t has fallen to us to say – we cannot assume that any longer. " I agree with Cameron thus far. But then why is he acting so negatively towards our membership of the world's largest market?
If Britain is to compete in the new globalised world, Britain needs to make friends, not enemies. The very fact that Cameron was in a situation where it was 26 vs 1, shows a lack of leadership and strategy. It used to be that Sweden and the Netherlands, Poland and Spain, could be counted on to support British free-market interests. When Cameron has alienated even then, it is a tragic day for Britain.
It isn't even true that the old countries are on their way down. If we take a look at the following graph, the Guardian has made it look like our export market is ever increasing in the developing world, countries such as the BRICS of India, China, and Russia. Which is true, our exports there are increasing, and faster than to most European countries or Commonwealth states. But it takes a second-look to notice that our trade with China and India combined is still less than our exports to Ireland. Add in Russia and Hong Kong, and it's still only equal to our exports to France. And despite Cameron's attitude, our trade is still growing with the vast majority of Europe.
And while Cameron argues that the Old World is "sclerotic, over-regulated, spending money on unaffordable welfare systems, huge pension bills, unreformed public services", that ignores that Asia is building welfare states across the continent. The demographic crisis that is going to hit China necessitates at least some form of a welfare state. It's true that they're not very regulated – but that's not always a great thing. Remember, regulation is what stops our children's toys being slathered with poisonous lead paint.
It may be true that while we are, at present, having a tough time across Europe "on the other side of the world, China is moving so fast it's creating a new economy the size of Greece every three months" it doesn't matter to us if they aren't buying what we have to sell.
As László Andor, EU Social Affairs Commissioner said today in an interview with the FT, Cameron's attempts to curtail the right of Europeans to live and work in Britain merely serves to damage our economy. Why should we close our doors to the best and brightest, when instead they could contribute to our economy. When the UK economy benefits to the tune of £90bn per year from levy-free trade throughout the 27 country European Union, and yet only pays an £8bn contribution to the EU for access… I cannot find a better example of "we're better together, and we'll rise together". I just wish Cameron would wake up to this.


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In 1965 the Bloomington Public Library merged with the Monroe County Public Library system.
As the collection and library use continued to grow, crowded conditions hampered further development of services. Plans for a new building were developed based on the concept that the new facility should be a kind of "nerve center" for the community. Ideally, it should reach out to the community with all the sophisticated tools of communication that modern technology could provide.
In 1966, Miss Alice Freese, daughter of Bloomington stone operator Simeon Freese, left half of her estate ($620,000) to the library. A long time patron, Miss Freese was quite friendly with Miss Ashby. At the time, this bequest was the largest single act of private philanthropy in Bloomington history. This money was targeted for purchasing a site for the new library building on the corner of Kirkwood and Lincoln Avenues. It was proposed that the children's reading room in the new library facility be named after Miss Freese.
A storefront branch library was opened in Ellettsville in 1968. It was located on Sale Street and provided the town with more immediate service than the bookmobile.
The Monroe County Public Library was constructed with Indiana Limestone. Construction began in 1968. It contained an auditorium, a special reference section for Indiana (the Indiana Room), a processing room, a children's room, a board room, a librarians' room, study carrels, a staff room, and a fine arts gallery where local art could be displayed. A Randtriever, a series of shelves accessed by robotic arms, reduced the amount of space needed for book storage. The Randtriever was funded by a federal grant and was thought to be a good investment in terms of saving space. The move to the new library building began in November 1970. In November 1971, the building was formally dedicated. At the time of its opening. the library contained 105,000 books and served 25,000 borrowers.


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The AGEING experiment will gather information to understand the basics of the ageing process. It aims to study the increased activity of fruit flies during weightlessness. The experiment follows on from previous research, which linked accelerated ageing of the fruit fly to increased activity under weightless conditions. This is a phenomenon found to be more noticeable in younger, male fruit flies.
Three different strains of fruit fly will be studied: A long-living strain, a short-living strain, and a strain that shows an increased response to gravity on Earth. All flies will be recently hatched except for one two-week-old population of one strain to confirm the increased activity exhibited by the younger species members.
Ground-controlled experiments on Earth, with a similar population of flies, will complement the experiment executed in space. Principal Investigators: R. Marco y F. J. Medina (Spain).
The GENE experiment studies the effect of the space environment on the gene expression of fruit-fly embryos. Every cell in an organism has the same DNA molecule, which contains all the genes; but not every gene gets 'activated', or expresses itself, in every cell. During the development of the embryo, the cells begin to become something else - they became skin cells, or heart cells, or another kind of other cell, because the genes expressed in each of them are different. The GENE experiment will help to understand how this essential, delicate process takes place.
The post-flight analysis of the data collected will be looking for increases, decreases, and absences of changes of gene-expression levels when compared to similar ground experiments. Fruit flies are chosen for the experiment --as in AGEING-- because we understand more about the genetics of the fruit fly than any other higher organism. Also, these organisms are small, require little storage space or maintenance, and can be grown in numbers large enough to support meaningful statistical analysis. Principal Investigators: R. Marco y F. J. Medina (Spain).
The ROOT experiment aims at studying the effects of the space environment on the structure and function of root cells of plants. The particular type of plant used for this experimentation is a member of the mustard family, Arabidopsis thaliana. This is a model organism in plant biology, the first plant with a completely sequenced genome or genetic map. The specific cells studied are those responsible for new cell production.
After returning to Earth, experts will process the roots for microscopic observation and compare them with similar samples obtained from ground-based experiments, which have taken place at the same time as the experiments in space. Principal Investigators: R. Marco y F. J. Medina (Spain).
MESSAGE stands for Microbial Experiments in the Space Station About Gene Expression. The main objective of this program is to study the effects of space conditions such as weightlessness and cosmic radiation on metabolic processes in cultivated bacteria. Not all bacteria are harmful; on the contrary, many of them play an essential role in human physiology. We should therefore not overlook microbial life, if we want to understand how space affects organisms. Besides, research projects studying close ecosystems in space, such as vegetables fed with organic compost coming from other organisms in the ecosystem, rely completely on bacteria.
The MESSAGE experiments will analyse many different aspects of bacterial activity. The effects of space conditions on bacteria will be studied on four domains: the bacterial cell physiology, the bacterial motility, the genetic stability and rearrangements in bacteria, and the gene expression with special attention to genes involved in the response to stress.
The MESSAGE experiment is an improved reflight of an ESA experiment performed by the Belgian astronaut Frank De Winne on board the ISS during the Odissea mission in November 2002. Principal Investigator: M. Mergeay (Belgium).
Like MESSAGE, this experiment studies how space conditions affect bacterial life. The goal of WINOGRAD is to grow a type of bacterial colonies, namely 'Winogradski columns', in a weightless environment, and compare them with those that form spontaneously on Earth. A Winogradski column is a colony of different types of bacteria in which the waste products of one bacterium serve as the nutrients of the other. These systems are found in ordinary ponds or in lake water and need no other input than light for photosynthesis.
The study of bacterial ecosystems could be very important for future long-duration spaceflight, since these micro organisms could help to dispose waste or to recycle air and water, for example.
The bacteria for the WINOGRAD experiment reached the ISS last August 31, carried by an unmanned Russian Progress capsule. On return, experts will analyse these samples to determine where certain bacteria were located during flight and thereby determine the effect of weightlessness on the formation of Winogradski columns. The experiment is led by British students R. Dhir, D. Smillie, and T. Banergee.
This is a neuroscience experiment. It investigates the role that the sensory information of sight, balance, motion, and position play in human spatial perception. It also measures the precision of the perceptual processes of the brain and tests the effect of gravity on spatial perception and spatial memory. The post-flight analysis will include a comparison of results obtained with similar ground experiments. Principal Investigator: G. Cheron (Belgium).
The CARDIOCCOG experiment studies the consequences of weightlessness on the cardiovascular system, the respiratory system, as well as stress and cognitive and physiological reactions of an astronaut during their space mission. During short duration flights, the body adapts itself to the consequences of weightlessness. For example, on Earth, the heart pumps blood 'uphill' against gravity. However, during weightlessness, there is no 'up' or 'down'. When an astronaut returns to Earth, their brain is left short of blood until the body has adapted itself completely to gravity.
If we can better understand this adaptive process, we could provide astronauts with the means to help smooth the transition from weightlessness to gravity. Principal Investigators: A. Aubert (Belgium) M. Paiva (Belgium).
This experiment will study activity of the sympathetic nervous system during weightlessness. The sympathetic system is that part of the nervous system that accelerates the heart rate, constricts blood vessels, and raises blood pressure. Experts will take blood samples from the crew before the flight and analyse them. Shortly after arriving in space and just before the end of the mission, further samples will be taken and stored in a freezer for return to Earth, at which point more samples will be taken and post-flight analyses will begin. This experiment is related to the BMI and RHYTHM experiments. Principal Investigator: N. Christensen (Denmark).
BMI (Blood Pressure Measurement Instrument)
The goal of the BMI experiment is to investigate the modifications in blood-pressure rhythms under weightless conditions over a period of 24 hours, using a computer-controlled blood-pressure recorder specially developed for round-the-clock monitoring. Astronauts will be the test subjects. Blood pressure readings will be taken pre-flight (40 days and 30 days before launch), in-flight (beginning and end of flight) and post-flight (four days and ten days after return).
Experts will also compare these results to the data obtained during the Italian Marco Polo mission, which took place in 2002 and where the test subject was the ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori. Principal Investigator: C. Gharib (France).
SSAS (Solid Sorbent Air Sampler)
The ISS is an enclosed environment. Scientists need to constantly monitor the composition of the atmosphere inside it to prevent the dangerous build-up of gases or organic compounds. The purpose of the Solid Sorbent Air Sampler (SSAS) experiment is to collect archival air samples that scientists will later analyse on the ground (post-flight).
The SSAS consists of eight tubes, each of them containing a dual sorbent material. Seven of the tubes absorb volatile organic compounds from the air on the ISS over a 24-hour period on consecutive days, while one acts as a control for the experiment.
The data generated by this experiment will help scientists design more effective ways of circulating and recycling air inside the ISS and in similar enclosed locations on Earth, such as submarines. Coordinator: F. de Jong, ESA.
The aim of the experiment is to evaluate the change in cardiovascular control and adaptation mechanisms in space through analysing variations in heart rate, blood pressure, and respiration. The hypothesis of this study is that cardiovascular control and adaptation mechanisms undergo significant but reversible changes due to long-term space flights. These changes will also influence post-flight cardiovascular function. By comparing electrocardiograms, blood-pressure variabilities and respiration data pre-, in-, and post-flight, experts will be able to confirm or reject these hypotheses. Principal Investigator: A. Aubert (Belgium).
Carbon dioxide survey
Constant monitoring of environmental factors such as CO2 is of critical importance in the enclosed setting of the ISS. The purpose of this operational activity is to monitor the level of CO2 in the ISS sleeping quarters during times of potential CO2 accumulation, for example, during sleep. It is known that ISS crewmembers have experienced headaches after sleep. This could be due to a build up of CO2. Principal Investigator: F. de Jong (ESA).


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Funny; I was brought up Methodist and the general understanding was that they lived at least a generation after Jesus arose.
I agree with most of what you say, except that Paul did not author a Gospel. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and whatever you personally admit to the canon from the Apocrypha. None of the writers of the Gospels ever met Jesus (If you believe there was a person and not just a myth) The first was written at least 80 years after Jesus death, in the consensus opinion of most scholars (I am not one so I judge the sources.)
Actually the consensus date for Mark is 70-75 CE, shortly after the end of the first Roman-Jewish war and the destruction of the Temple. That puts it around 35-40 years after Jesus' death (usually dated to 35 CE or slightly later).
Even John, the latest of the gospels, is generally to have been written before the end of the First Century (95 CE is a common estimate), i.e. 60 years removed from Jesus' death.
I have no idea which scholars you've been reading but the above dates are fairly standard.
The consensus among scholars is that none of the authors of the Gospels ever met Christ and that the first was written after his death with Matthew, Mark, and John working from pretty much the same source material, and Luke playing Jung to their Freud
Lee Strobel is smarter than I am if he can figure out when an ORAL tradition started.
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To set up rclone, do:
cd ~/Downloads wget http://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip unzip rclone-current-linux-amd64.zip cd rclone-v1.27-linux-amd64 sudo cp rclone /usr/bin/
rclone configNo remotes found - make a new one n) New remote q) Quit config n/q> n name> google_drive What type of source is it? Choose a number from below 1) amazon cloud drive 2) b2 3) drive 4) dropbox 5) google cloud storage 6) swift 7) hubic 8) local 9) onedrive 10) s3 11) yandex type> 3 Google Application Client Id - leave blank normally. client_id> Google Application Client Secret - leave blank normally. client_secret> Remote config Use auto config? * Say Y if not sure * Say N if you are working on a remote or headless machine or Y didn't work y) Yes n) No y/n> y If your browser doesn't open automatically go to the following link: http://127.0.0.1:53682/auth Log in and authorize rclone for access Waiting for code... Got code -------------------- [google_drive] client_id = client_secret = token = {"access_token":"y**5","token_type":"Bearer","refresh_token":"1/o**T","expiry":"2016-02-06T18:41:22.167889627+11:00"} -------------------- y) Yes this is OK e) Edit this remote d) Delete this remote y/e/d> y Current remotes: Name Type ==== ==== google_drive drive e) Edit existing remote n) New remote d) Delete remote q) Quit config e/n/d/q> q
Syncing is a bit of an issue as you can't sync based on last changed file. So, my solution is that each device has it's own folder that it syncs up to, and each device syncs down all other folders. For my two devices, nb and be, I have thus set it up like this:
Create new dirs and sync:
mkdir ~/gdrive/nbdrive -p mkdir ~/gdrive/bedrive
On Nb the crontab looks like this:
*/2 * * * * rclone sync /home/me/gdrive/nbdrive google_drive:/nbdrive */10 * * * * rclone sync google_drive:/bedrive /home/me/gdrive/bedrive
and on Be it looks like this:
*/10 * * * * rclone sync google_drive:/nbdrive /home/me/gdrive/nbdrive */2 * * * * rclone sync /home/me/gdrive/bedrive google_drive:/bedrive
If I do work on a file on Be I then copy it to bedrive, and edit it. To edit it late on Nb I copy it from bedrive to nbdrive and edit it. Of course I could always sync manually and avoid this, but the above is a solution for people who might not feel comfortable working on the command line or if you want everything automated.


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Leather Winter Patrol Glove w/Thinsulate™
The WPG100 Winter Patrol Glove is made with soft goatskin leather and provides warm, plush comfort for cold weather use. The glove features C70 Thinsulate™ insulation with a soft brushed tricot liner. Sizes: S-XXL; CE EN420: 2003
The WPG100 Winter Patrol Glove is made with soft goatskin leather and provides warm, plush comfort for cold weather use. The glove features C70 Thinsulate™ insulation with a soft brushed tricot liner. Sizes: S-XXL; CE EN420: 2003
Additional Information
- Hand wash with mild soap
- Do not bleach
- Do not machine dry
- Do not dry clean
- Do not use if damaged
- Do not store in direct sunlight
- Laver à la main au savon doux
- Ne pas utiliser d'eau de javel
- Ne pas passer au sèche-linge
- Ne pas nettoyer à sec
- Ne pas utiliser si endommagé
- Ne pas entreposer au soleil
- Lavar a mano con jabón neutro
- No utilice blanqueador
- No secar en máquina
- No lavar en seco
- No usar si está dañado
- No almacene bajo la luz solar directa
- Per Hand washen mit milder
- Seife Keine
- Bleichmittel verwenden
- Nicht im Wäschetrockner trocknen
- Nicht chemisch reinigen
- Beschädigte Handschuhe nicht mehr verwenden
- Nicht im direkten Sonnenlicht lagern
- Lavare a mano con detersivo delicato
- Non candeggiare
- Non usare asciugatrici
- Non lavare a secco
- Non utilizzare se danneggiato
- Non conservare alla luce diretta del sole
Use one of these methods to find your approximate glove size. Remember, no two hands are alike. Finger length relative to palm size is not constant from person to person. Additionally, what constitutes a comfortable fit can vary considerably between individuals. Using one of the methods below will help you to find an approximate glove size, but no method of measurement can substitute for actually trying them on.
Wrap a tape measure around your hand at the widest point (usually the knuckles) and make a loose fist. Note that measurement, round it to the nearest inch and refer to the chart above to find your approximate glove size.
The measurement that follows the right side of your hand is your approximate glove size. This is a general guide only.
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