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Hend Al-Mansour (1956) is an installation artist who works often with silk screen prints. She was born in Hofuf in Saudi Arabia and emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1997 after a career in medicine. She has a master of fine arts from Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2002) and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.
She writes that she uses art to achieve social change, exploring belief systems, especially those dealing with women, while cultivating the independence of Arab art from Western art and its distinction from other Middle Eastern and Islamic identities.
'My work is often a portrait of a woman,' Al-Mansour writes on her website. 'I make drawings of stylized figures and faces representing those women and integrate them with Islamic ornamentation. I then silk screen them onto fabrics, often using henna and dye and often repetitively. I use large sheets of silk, wool, canvas, or other cottons. Then I build shrines and tents with these fabrics, creating spaces in which the viewer walks barefoot.'
In a similar way Al-Mansour has also produced two large books, one of which was the 5 by 4 foot Autobiography of a Human Body (2000).
Some of her installations were commissioned for theater and dance productions such as the Arab and Jewish houses which were part of the set of a musical show. (2009).
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From top to bottom: Identity 4, Entrance, My prayer rug.


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By Laura S. Diaz, THE STOCKTON RECORD
February 12, 2021
MANTECA — Shawn Washington III was coughing up blood and having difficulty breathing when he sought help at the Kaiser Permanente emergency room in Manteca at about 1 a.m. on April 26, 2019. Less than 7½ hours later, he was pronounced dead.
His family claims Washington did not receive proper treatment.
His sister — Sharon Washington-Barnes — and seven Central Valley racial justice groups will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday at Manteca's Sequoia Park, 868 Wawona St., to march for what they say is justice in the death of Washington, who is Black. They plan to march to the medical facilities that he visited, including the Kaiser location where he died.
In a statement, Washington-Barnes said the march "is to showcase that we will not rest until there is acknowledgment of the neglect that Shawn faced at three Manteca medical facilities."
The group wants "people to know that we are still here, fighting for justice, fighting for change, fighting for a better future in Shawn's name and legacy," she said.
Kaiser officials could not be reached for comment by press time.
The group also announced their endorsement of the Fairness for Injured Patients Act, an initiative to update California's malpractice cap legislation.
The initiative required 623,212 signatures to qualify for the 2022 ballot. Supporters have collected 900,000 signatures, The Associated Press reported.
Then Secretary of State – now U.S. Senator – Alex Padilla announced the initiative is eligible for the Nov. 8, 2022, ballot.
Medical errors were the third-leading cause of death in the country, according to a 2016 study by John Hopkins. Increasing evidence demonstrates how race and ethnicity continue to affect the quality of health care an individual receives.
In California, medical malpractice lawsuits are capped at $250,000 since the passage in 1975 of the Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act.
With no change over the past 46 years, that amount is worth around 80% less than it was in 1975, factoring in inflation.
Washington sought medical attention four times at three different facilities throughout April 2019, his sister said in an interview with The Record. The first three times, he was sent home with medication.
On the last occasion — the second time he visited Kaiser — he walked into the ER after being transported by ambulance and died of an undiagnosed lung hemorrhage caused by a delayed diagnosis of sepsis, his family said.
Washington's family was turned away by several lawyers. The family then learned about the 1975 cap.
"We couldn't find a lawyer," Washington-Barnes said. "It literally took us up to two weeks away from our statute of limitations, a whole year" until someone out of the Stockton NAACP helped them file the paperwork.
"For almost two years now, we've been doing everything with no lawyer," she said. Washington-Barnes added they are in mediation with Kaiser, but "don't want to settle, we want to hold them accountable as much as possible."
After attorneys' fees and court costs, "you'd be fortunate to net $100,000," wrote George Skelton, a political columnist for the Los Angeles Times. "And you'd probably settle for less to avoid court expenses and frustration, if you could even find an attorney to take the low-paying case."
"Because of this limit, most families who lose a loved one like Shawn (Washington) are turned away by lawyers because the cost of a case is as much as the family can hope to recover under the cap," stated Consumer Watchdog, an advocacy group backing the initiative.
Record reporter Laura Diaz covers social justice and societal issues. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter laurasdiaz_.

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Will prison arts programs make a comeback in California?
On a breezy summer day at San Quentin State Prison, inmate Paul Stauffer reads his writing to a live audience.
"My shoulders brush the sides of the wall and bunk as I pace the nine feet of my cell, between the sink and door. A scream echoed silently from my tortured soul, as hopeless dreams of a once meaningful life, floated endlessly across my mind…" he reads.
Creative self expression is a proven force for change in prisons. Inmates in this creative writing class, and classes like it, are less likely to commit crimes when they're released.
California's Arts-in-Corrections program offered prisoners everything from art classes to music and drama in the 1980s and 1990s. But the state drastically cut the program, then stopped funding it entirely in 2010.
Now, only about a third of all state prisons have some form of arts programming left, mostly through private or volunteer support. San Quentin is one of them.
Every Wednesday evening, around 20 students finish up chow and trickle into the fine arts classroom next door. They sign in and set chairs into a circle. The room looks like a regular art studio, almost. The walls are filled with half-finished paintings, and band equipment is covered and tucked away. But the students wear prison-issued blue uniforms and coiled barbed wire is clearly visible from the windows.
Zoe Mullery has taught the creative writing class at San Quentin for 15 years. She loves how writing, and fiction in particular, allows her students to tap into experiences they haven't been able to explore.
"People who have painful stories," she says. "People who have complicated, perhaps shameful stories."
Mullery starts off her classes by picking up from the week before.
"We're going to hear the end of Eric's piece," she tells the class. "We missed the ending, ran out of time last week."
The class can accommodate up to three readers per night. Mullery says there's a range of styles, including science fiction, children's stories and memoirs.
Student Eric Curtis starts gingerly.
"Alright… OK, so, we'll try this again," he prefaces. "This will be part two."
Curtis rolls right into his piece.
"You wouldn't believe what happened next. It was dark. Not just dark, but beyond dark…" he reads.
The rest of the class falls silent; focused on Eric Curtis' words. Some stare down at the floor, others have their eyes closed. He tells his story for about 20 minutes.
Most of Mullery's students are lifers. But she doesn't know the exact crimes they've committed -- it's prison etiquette not to ask. Their writing tells her who they really are.
"The majority of people who come to my class are people that I feel are really working on being a person of integrity," she says. "A person who could live a life in the world that's giving and not taking."
James Metters has been in prison for 16 years on a third-strike conviction.
"I received a sentence of 35 years to life for second-degree unarmed robbery," he says.
Metters says his drug addiction led him to steal. But his last sentence was heavy enough to wake him up.
"I know if I'm ever going to get out, I'm going to have to have good behavior," he says. "I'm going to have to change. So for me, I made the decision to change."
Metters was transferred to San Quentin two years ago and joined the creative writing class as soon as he got here. He says it's helped him get a leash on his temper.
"Instead of lashing back with anger or not listening when somebody gives you constructive criticism," says Metters. "Not listening to people when they're trying to tell you something right. When they're pointing out some of your flaws that can actually make you a better person."
Studies have shown the benefits of arts programming on prisoner rehabilitation -- fewer disciplinary actions behind bars and a lower recidivism rate overall.
One study, for instance, found that two years after release, nearly 70 percent of Arts-in-Corrections inmates were still out of prison, a 40 percent improvement over the general prison population.
Mullery says being able to see characters in a story, how they relate to, and impact each other, actually teaches empathy.
"Because if people who've committed crimes need to understand anything," she says, "It's how they've affected other people. That's what's lacking in a criminal act -- you're not considering how that's affecting someone else. And I feel like that's exactly what happens when you learn to be a good writer. You have to consider how each character experiences that story."
But in times of tight budgets, providing creative outlets for inmates has proven to be a cuttable item. In 2003, the state cut more than $160 million from prisons, including more than $3 million for arts programming. In 2010, legislators killed the arts program altogether.
Now that the state has a budget surplus, advocates may have their way. Some legislators are working to restore a limited number of prison arts programs in the state's new budget.
Jerry Elster says that would be very good news for people behind bars. He got out of San Quentin six years ago and now works as an organizer for All of Us or None, a prisoner advocacy group in San Francisco.
"I went in for second-degree murder out of LA county," he says. "It was gang related and I took the life of one of my gang rivals during a gang altercation."
Elster says it took him almost 10 years in prison to start wanting something better for himself. He began by pursuing spiritual teachings, and eventually connected with Zoe Mullery's creative writing class.
"Once you get the creative juices flowing, it's almost impossible to stop them," says Elster.
Elster says he could have sped up his rehabilitation if he'd joined the class sooner. The same goes for the friends he left behind.
"How many guys in prison actually believe they can rap," he asks. "How many believe they have something to say? You're looking at high 90-something percentile. If they had room to go through a creative writing class, man, I'll teach you how to do your rap. Not just learn your rap, express yourself. Be open to express yourself in any way you feel you can do it in a positive way. I know they'd be into it."
Legislators say the final arts rehab budget will shake out this summer, which means, even if they do, the programs might not get reinstated until next year.
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Italian made rear exit fast flow petrol tap, these taps eliminate the problem of the fuel outlet pipe fouling on the left-hand side engine mount. particularly on the petrol pipe itself.
Recommended for All Lambrettas, whether standard or tuned.
Standard taps rarely deliver enough fuel when new and definitely not enough fuel on a tuned engine when bigger carbs are used.
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I managed to get a couple projects done this weekend, most notably, a new set of entry stairs for the house. The old stairs were a bit too steep, and the plywood treads were starting to delaminate. I built a new set from 2×12 and 2×6 lumber. The math works like this. You measure the distance from the top surface to the ground and subtract the thickness of material used for the stair treads. The basic rule to help determine the number of stairs for your distance is that the sum of the rise and run for each stair should be around 17". Since I used 2×6's for the treads, with a small gap in between, the run of each step is 11¼". The distance from the deck to the ground divided by six (one more step than we had before) yielded a rise of 6¼", (6¼ + 11¼ is as close as I can get to 17). Once you've got the rise and run numbers, it's easy to mark out the steps on the 2×12 using a square, remembering to subtract the tread overhang from the run you're cutting out of the stringers (each notch in my stairs was 6¼" × 10¼" because I have a 1" overhang on each step). Finishing off the stringers means cutting off the top perpendicular to the top tread, and cutting off the bottom so the first rise is the same as the others minus the thickness of the treads. A couple hangers on the deck, a couple concrete piers buried in the ground, and we've got a new way into the house.
All hand tools, no electricity was used.
primary fermentation
Last weekend I brewed my favorite beer, Piper's Irish-American Red Ale. I'm sure the beer will turn out fine, but the brew didn't go as planned. I'm still struggling to get my mill to consistently produce a good crush, and I think my low yields this time around is almost certainly due to the mill. It's a three roller mill; the first two rollers do a basic crush at a fixed gap, and then the grains pass between one of the top rollers and a lower roller that's adjustable. For some reason, the grains sometimes come out between the lower roller and the wrong upper roller and they don't get crushed a second time. Strange.
The big change with this brew was using Creek water to chill the boiled wort down to fermentation temperature. I'd assumed the Creek would still be very cold, but after pumping up twenty gallons, I discovered it was a balmy 55°F. So I pumped up another ten gallons in the hope that it would be enough to chill the wort. Not quite. I got it down to 72°F, which is pretty amazing, but I would have preferred something between 64–68°F.
Still, it was a nice relaxed brew session, and thus far Piper's has always come out fantastic. We'll know in about a month.
The other thing I've noticed is that the red cabin is starting to get too warm for primary fermentation. At our old house the garage temperature never got much above 60°F even in the summer, so I'd always do the primary fermentation in my insulated box, heated with a light bulb on a temperature controller. Luckily, we kept the old fridge that was here when we moved in and it's keeping a nice stable 65°F on the same temperature controller I had been using to heat the fermentation chamber. Now I can ferment in the summer, and even experiment with lagering, which is a whole area of brewing that I've never attempted in all these years.
Life kept interrupting me while reading this book, and I wasn't able to devote the energy to it that I would have liked. But I did enjoy it. It was funny, crass, and gave me at least a flavor of what life in the Dominican Republic (or probably any Latin American country ruled by a dictator) was like. The text mixed Spanish slang, nerd-speak, and street language all together for a very conversational style that was easy to pick up and read. One character's place in the world was prescribed as: "our boy wasn't no ringwraith, but he wasn't no orc either." The world of the Dominican Republic during the rule of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina probably seemed like the time of Sauron and his all-seeing Eye in Middle-earth. Without the happy ending, of course.
In a better world I would have kissed her over the ice trays and that would have been the end of all our troubles. But you know exactly what kind of world we live in. It ain't no fucking Middle-earth.
Good book, and one which deserves (but will probably never get) a second reading on my part.
In the month or so since I've written, the Creek settled down to it's usual level, the road mostly dried out, and the leaves are out on the trees. We've been flush with birds (see my yard list for a complete list), including some ducks on the slough and a pair of red-tailed hawks nesting in a tree next to the back cabin. But summer means work, and that's what we've been doing this Memorial Day weekend.
The list of projects is very long, and we've already started on the first large job: building a new shed to replace the "leaning" shed that was next to the red cabin. It wasn't particularly stable, wasn't completely water-tight, and wasn't convenient to get to. I spent the last few days removing the siding, and yesterday afternoon finally pulled it down. It didn't come down as easily as I'd hoped (the lower photo shows me pulling it with the 4-wheeler), and after all the work it took to get the siding off, I'm dreading the work it'll take to disassemble the roof and move everything out of the way.
The next step will be to get a bunch of gravel to fill in the low spot between the driveway turnaround and the new gravel pad the shed will sit on. I'm picturing a 2x6 base supported by 4x6 rails resting on concrete piers or cribbing, ¾" plywood floor, 2x4 rough cut framed walls, and a sliding barn door for entry. I'm not sure what I'll side it with, but ½" plywood, tar paper and then rough cut bevel siding would be a nice choice. I guess an alternative would be to let in diagonal bracing into the walls and forego the plywood, but plywood will do a better job of keeping the building solid if we need to level or move it later. Once the old building is cleared away, I'll make up a set of plans and see who can mill and deliver the lumber to us.
We got our ATV last week, and it's already come in very handy. I pulled a log up from the Creek with the winch, we used it to pull down the shed, and Andrea went and got the Sunday newspaper. Once our plow shows up, we'll get another dump truck load of wood chips for the dog yard, and it'll get some heavy use moving gravel around in the driveway and for the pad the shed will sit on. We bought it for training dogs in the fall, and for clearing snow, but I expect it'll get a lot of use this summer too.
Other smaller projects include fixing the planking on the bridge, repairing leaks and cleaning the gutters, redoing the discharge pipe from the sewage treatment plant, and shoring up the roof supports on the other sheds. Once the ground thaws, we're thinking about building a second dog yard on the west side of the house. This time I'll dig the post holes by hand. The gas powered auger we used last fall was fast, but not something I ever want to use again if I can help it. We had hoped to build an arctic entryway onto the house and wrap a new deck around it, but I doubt there's enough time in the summer for that project. We'll see.
Time to make breakfast, bake some bread and get back out there. Happy holiday!


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Make Your Own Linux Distribution
That very sentence can strike fear into the hearts of many, even Linux geeks. However, it has never been so easy to "roll your own" Linux distribution. Some very clever people over at NimbleX have produced the second version of their rather brilliant Slackware based Linux From Scratch or LFS builder.
Head over to their website and see how easy it is to build your own custom distribution from a single web interface. The site will configure and create an ISO image for 24 hours which you can download or share for 12 hours.
The site asks some fairly simple questions on which is bases its package choices for your ISO. The first is a choice of either minimal, custom or recommended installs. Minimal speaks for itself really, it provides the bare minimum for a lightning fast, but functional system. Custom allows you to pick and choose what packages you want included and Recommended is like custom, but with recommendations for packages to include.
The next screen is where you get down to the details. It is where you choose the function of your distro. Here you decide what kinds of packages you are going to need. Hovering the mouse over the category name gives you a contents list so you can see if you want the contents or not.
Once you have selected the categories, the next few pages drill down from each one you selected and allows you to specify what packages to include. For example, if you chose the Office category, you will then be presented with the options within it, like OpenOffice, KOffice, Pdfedit and so on. Each following page will be for each category you selected.
Next comes the additional options. You get to decide the default sound volume, greeting and KDE sounds. Finally you will be asked for your desired login and password which will be embedded in the ISO for you. Another nice touch.
Finally you will be asked to confirm your choices, then the site will process for a bit before providing you with a download link to your ISO. It will be available to you for 12 hours before it will be deleted.
Once the ISO has been downloaded, simply burn it with your favorite burning tool and boot from it and away you go!
That is the simplest way I know of creating your own customized Linux distribution. It isn't as hardcore as many of the other methods, which involved packaging and quite a lot of Linux knowledge.


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James L. Capra is currently the CEO and Founder of The Front Line Leadership Group, dedicated to developing tomorrow's leaders today. Unlike other so-called leadership experts, Mr. James L. Capra has successfully managed and led thousands of multi-generational employees during his government tenure having served in numerous leadership positions. He now shares his successful strategies on how to effectively develop outstanding organizational leaders across generational boundaries in the global business arena.
"Being a good manager or a supervisor does not automatically equate to being a good leader. There are very good managers and supervisors who are effective at just that...management.
Management is nothing more than putting people and resources to work in an efficient way. That being said, retired US Navy Admiral Grace Hopper stated that "you manage things - you lead people." So it takes more than good managerial or supervisory skills to be an effective and competent leader. Leadership, especially effective leadership, takes doing; it requires one to be in the arena experiencing."
Prior to his retirement from DEA, Jimmy served as the Chief of Global Operations responsible for 227 domestic offices and 86 foreign offices in 67 countries. Mr. Capra is a highly sought after speaker, who passionately shares his proven and battle tested strategies on how to successfully develop leaders in a multi-generational workforce while pursuing organizational and personal excellence.
Jimmy, as he is known by his friends and colleagues, retired after nearly three decades with the Drug Enforcement Administration.
He has delivered keynote speeches and world-class leadership training in numerous venues throughout the United States and in selected international regions. Jimmy is a recognized expert on leadership and organizational management and on the challenges of developing leaders in today's global business environment.
Mr. Capra has has also been called on to speak on national security issues involving international drug trafficking organizations, drug/terror groups, as well as the challenges families face in raising children of purpose in the current cultural environment.
Prior to his DEA career, Jimmy served in the US Navy, US Navy Reserves, Air National Guard and as Military Intelligence Officer for the US Army Reserves. He holds a Bachelor of Science from Marist College and a Masters of Education from Seton Hall University. Jimmy has been married to his wife Shelly for over 38 years and they are the proud parents of six children, most who have taken up lives as public servants.


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A surge of coronavirus cases in the Texas Panhandle, a crucial region for the nation's beef supply, has federal officials sending help to Amarillo to try to control rising numbers of infections over the past week, the mayor said Monday.
The Amarillo area is responsible for 25% of the nation's fed beef supply, Mayor Ginger Nelson said, as the community joins others in the Midwest where the virus has sickened hundreds of meatpacking workers and threatens to disrupt the nation's supply of pork and beef.
In Texas, more than 240 cases are linked to a JBS USA plant in Moore County, according to Lara Anton, a spokeswoman for the Texas Department of State Health Services. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has previously singled out the county as an area of concern.
Confirmed cases in neighboring Potter County have doubled over the past week to more than 800, and at least nine people have died.
"I'm hopeful they will be able to help us box in where our current hot spots are," Nelson said of the strike force coming to the area, which she expected to arrive soon as Monday. "So that we can protect our hospital capacity and begin to strategize why it is our city is having the numbers that we're having."
JBS USA spokeswoman Nikki Richardson said the company, although notified about the task force, does not know what their plan is or how it will affect the plant.
Meanwhile, "the facility is open and operating, despite increased absenteeism in recent weeks. We are doing our best to safely provide food for the country during a challenging time," she said in an email.
Outbreaks have hit meat plants across the county. President Donald Trump has ordered them to remain open, while on Monday, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called the plants among "the most dangerous places there are right now."
A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report Friday said more than 4,900 workers at meat and poultry processing facilities have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, including 20 who died. Not all states provided data.
The CDC researchers cited risks including difficulties with physical distancing and hygiene, and crowded living and transportation conditions.
Anton said a team of health experts, including those with the CDC, will be visiting processing plants in the Panhandle this week to assess and recommend safeguards.


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Assessing the Carbon Footprint of Cannabis
A 2012 study showed that the electricity use of indoor cannabis production is equivalent to that of 2 million average US homes, and yearly greenhouse-gas pollution from the electricity plus associated transportation fuels equals that of 3 million cars.
Yet, marijuana legalization advocates and the environmental community tend to gloss over the negative environmental impacts of cannabis production. Pot consumers, too, tacitly support destructive "farming" by their eagerness to pay a premium for indoor product.
Journalists have been noting the environmental harm of indoor marijuana cultivation for some time. Unfortunately, relatively few consider environmental costs, focusing instead on quality and appearance.
Self-interest usually generates some level of moral blindness, but with pot growing it is particularly pronounced.
Read more here: https://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/energy-and-climate/is-pot-growing-green/


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The Syracuse basketball program ended Big East Conference regular season play with 107-59 romping of the DePaul Blue Demons on Saturday. The victory was the fifth consecutive for the Orange (25-6, 12-6 Big East) who seem to be playing their best basketball has they enter the postseason, which begins Thursday for SU.
Syracuse enters the Big East Tournament as a No. 4 seed and is a lock to make the NCAA Tournament. However, there's still a lot to play for besides the program's sixth Big East Tournament title. Currently, out of six websites, SU is either earning a No. 2 or No. 3 seed in the latest 68-team NCAA Tournament fields, updated Wednesday or Thursday.
According to Bracketology 101 (updated Thursday) and CBSSport.com's Jerry Palm (updated Wednesday), the Orange deserve a No. 2 seed. However, SB Nation's Chris Dobbertean (Thursday), ESPN's Joe Lunardi (Thursday), SI.com's Andy Glockner (Thursday) and FoxSports.com's Jordan Schwartz (Thursday) all predict SU will earn a No. 3 seed. So, a Big East championship or a finals appearance probably will solidify a No. 2 seed come Sunday when CBS announces the 68-team bracket during its selection show.
The St. John's Red Storm (20-10, 12-6) are a unanimous No. 4 seed, but could move up to No. 3 with a finals appearance.
The Pittsburgh Panthers (27-4, 15-3) are a unanimous No. 1 seed and probably wont move from there even with a loss in the quarterfinals. However, Notre Dame Fighting Irish need a win or two to cement their current No. 1 seed, which has been given to them by five different websites -- Lunardi has the Irish at No. 2.
Most Bracketologist have the Big East Conference earning 11 NCAA Tournament berths, but the Marquette Golden Eagles are on the bubble. A first-round loss against the Providence Friars Tuesday would more than likely knock out the Golden Eagles.
Here's the breakdown of the Big East Conference bracketology results to give you an idea of what teams are playing for:
ESPN's Lunardi (11 teams): Pitt (No. 1 seed), Notre Dame (2), Syracuse (3), St. John's (4), Louisville Cardinals (4), UConn (5), West Virginia Mountaineers (5), Georgetown Hoyas (6), Villanova Wildcats (7), Cincinnati Bearcats (7) and Marquette Golden Eagles (10).
SB Nation's Dobbertean (11): Pitt (1), ND (1), SU (3), Louisville (4), St. John's (4), WVU (5), UConn (5), Cincinnati (6), Georgetown (6), 'Nova (8) and Marquette (12).
Bracketology 101 (11): Pitt (1), ND (1), Syracuse (2), Louisville (4), St. John's (4), WVU (5), UConn (5), Georgetown (6), Cincinnati (6), Villanova (7), Marquette (11).
SI.com's Glockner (11): Pitt (1), ND (1), SU (3), Louisville (4), St. John's (4), WVU (4), UConn (5), Cincinnati (6), Georgetown (6), 'Nova (7) and Marquette (9).
FoxSports.com's Schwartz (11): Pitt (1), ND (1), SU (3), Louisville (3), St. John's (4), WVU (4), Cincinnati (5), Georgetown (5), UConn (6), 'Nova (8) and Marquette (9).
CBSSports.com's Palm (11): Pitt (1), ND (1), SU (2), Louisville (4), St. John's (4), WVU (5), UConn (5), Cincinnati (6), Georgetown (6), 'Nova (7) and Marquette (11).


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Well, it appears that people are tweeting less and less about oboe, so I am going to give up this series. It's been fun, but I can't find nearly as much as I used to find and it takes far too much time to sort through what is mostly either unprintable, in a language I can't decipher, or unrelated to oboe, even though I do the search on "oboe".
Bye Bye, TQODs!


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Kingsley notes the problem with the folding knife, or "hinge knife" as she calls it: it's hard to open when you need it and it's prone to closing on your fingers. She mentions the importance of sharpening the false edge of the clip point of the bowie, but unfortunately doesn't give a reason. Among modern bowie knife aficionados, the sharpened false edge is considered to be a major feature, as it allows the knife-fighter to make a back cut. I have wondered whether people thought much about the back cut in the 19th century, and the accounts we have of fights are not sufficient detailed to determine this. Arms expert Norm Flayderman has examined hundreds--possibly thousands--of antique bowie knives, and recalls fewer than half having a sharpened false edge, so evidently its value was not obvious to everyone.Always have your revolver ready loaded in good order, and have your hand on it when things are getting warm, and in addition have an exceedingly good bowie knife, not a hinge knife, because with a hinge knife you have got to get it open--hard work in a country where all things go rusty in the joints--and hinge knives are liable to close on your own fingers. The best form of knife is the bowie, with a shallow half moon cut out of the back at the point end, and this depression sharpened to a cutting edge. A knife is essential, because after wading neck deep in a swamp your revolver is neither use nor ornament until you have had time to clean it. But the chances are you may go across Africa, or live years in it, and require neither. It is just the case of the gentleman who asked if one required a revolver in Carolina and was answered, "You may be here one year, and you may be here two and never want it; but when you do want it you'll want it very bad."
New copies of my book Bowie Knife Fights, Fighters, and Fighting Techniques are now available from Amazon at $24.95.This blog contains additional information about the bowie knife, as well as the fighting knives of other nations.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
The Bowie Knife in Africa
Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1862-1900) was a British explorer who made two pioneering trips to West and Central Africa. She was the first European to enter remote parts of Gabon. In her book Travels in West Africa (1897) she had this to say about her choice of personal armament:
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Vampirella and Adam track down the woman known as Pantha (following up on a Pantha solo story from Vampirella #45; it is possible that Nubia and Fleur had also appeared in previous issues of the series and are gathered together for the 50th anniversary special) and rescue her from her captors. Returning the amulet restores Pantha's memory. Using a second, functional starship from Khafra's home planet, the trio speculatesas to its origin, and Pantha uses it to return to there.
5: "The Thing in Denny Colt's Grave"
Conrad and Pendragon, on their third night of waiting for the monster that is Denny Colt to claw his way out of his tomb, hear a horrified scream ... from the cypts! Realising that they had made an error in suspecting that the monster loose in Wildwood Cemetary lurked within the grave of Denny Colt, they arrive in time to prevent the monster from buthering another woman. While Van Helsing protects the victim, Pendragon pursues the monster through a tomb, and down into a tunnel that leads to the city's sewage system. He is attacked by the monster, and attempts to conjure an illusion to defend himself. From above, Conrad and the woman hear an anguished cry, followed by the approach of a figure through the darkness of the tomb.
"It is only I, Professor, " reveals Pendragon, "One slightly shaken, but none-the-worse-for-wear magician ... with a tightly bound package ... alias the Phantom Killer! Otherwise known as Denny Colt!"
"Not Denny Colt, my friend," contradicts Van Helsing.
"His name is Elmiro Dungfoot! And there is nothing supernatural about him!" intercedes the woman.
"Although, I suspect he is in need of intensive psychiatric treatment," continues Van Helsing, "Yet, what we have over here is what they call the piece de resistance!"
Conrad reveals an extraterrestrial vehicle hidden in the tombs, with a panther emblem on its hull. Conrad infers that the mystery girl wearing the amulet was Dungfoot's first victim; she must have gotten away from him, found the saucer and donned the amulet, then changed and escaped ... which is when Vampirella discovered her and Dungfoot's alternate first victim. The protagonists were erroneously led to believe that the same amulet found within the craft one belonged to an Egyptian pharoah; perhaps the pharoah Khafra was indeed a star-traveller, which might explain the presence of the current vehicle as one of many sent in search of spaceman Khafra. There may even be several panther amulets about, each capable of changing a human being into a killer beast. Dungfoot's diary, also found in the tomb, may even reveal the reasons behind his senseless slaughter of three women. "I can tell you that, Professor," responds the woman.
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Tinder is throwing its support behind a University of Nebraska Omaha junior who quit her sorority after it moved to expel her for displaying the sorority's letters in her Tinder profile photo. Tinder is giving the junior, Shannon Workman, a full year's scholarship that can be used to cover costs of her senior year.
"It's easy to give in and give up," Tinder co-founder and CEO Sean Rad told BuzzFeed News in an email. "We think what Shannon did sends a very empowering message to young women and college students, which is actually one of Tinder's largest audiences. Don't conform, don't let people tell you your beliefs are wrong just because it's not the same as their beliefs."
Workman, formerly of the Chi Omega sorority, walked out of a meeting with the sorority's executive board where she was told her Tinder photo violated the sorority's "Human Dignity" rule. In the photo, Workman sports a shirt with the Chi Omega letters and text: "Sweet Home Chi Omega." That prompted the sorority to begin the "membership revocation" process, which Workman declined to participate in. "I'm never coming back," she told the board.
In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Workman said the two sorority members and an adviser who made up the executive committee didn't want the sorority's letters appearing on Tinder, which they viewed as a hookup site. "They just don't think that Chi Omega should be involved with that site," she said.
Tinder is also offering Workman a paid internship, Rad said. "It's the first time we reached out to someone whose story inspired us and asked them to be part of the team," he said. "Her actions showed a depth of leadership and courage that is admirable and something we value as part of our company culture. We always want to stand up for our users who stand up for us."
Rad personally called Workman to offer the scholarship and said that she was "incredibly kind and thoughtful and a little surprised to hear from us."
Workman sounded happy that Tinder reached out her. "I think it's absolutely amazing," she said. "I do stand up for Tinder because I don't think there's anything wrong with it. Some people use it for hookups but I don't, and a lot of great things happen through Tinder."
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Fifty years ago, race relations simmered. Amid the unrest, young African Americans took the first steps toward enrolling at UT. Knoxvillian Theotis Robinson Jr. applied for admission to UT Knoxville in 1960, but the university denied his request. Later that year, however, the Board of Trustees, on the recommendation of then-president Andrew Holt, voted to open the university to all races.
On January 3, 1961, Robinson (now UT's vice-president for equity and diversity) and two other African American students, Willie Mae Gillespie and Charles Blair, registered for classes and enrolled the next day without incident. The first African American to earn an undergraduate degree at UT Knoxville was Brenda J. L. Peel in 1964.
Also in 1961, Alvin Crawford became the first African American to enter the UT College of Medicine in Memphis. He graduated in 1964. Crawford, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon, is professor and director of the Spine Center at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, where he has spent his career. In the College of Pharmacy, the first African American to earn the doctor of pharmacy degree was James S. Hayes in 1974.
A young woman aged just sixteen was UT Martin's first African American undergraduate. Jessie Lou Arnold enrolled in 1961. She majored in education and graduated in 1965, one year after Beverly Park, UT Martin's first African American graduate. Arnold went on to earn a master's degree at the University of Illinois and marry Paul Pryor, who attended UT Martin for one year.
In the early 1960s, the University of Chattanooga was not yet a part of UT. Records from a February 23, 1961, meeting of the university executive committee reported that an African American student applied for admission to the 1961 summer session, but no discussion or action on the matter was recorded. In May 1964, the executive committee unanimously recommended to the UC board that the admissions policy be amended to allow students to enroll in the graduate school "without regard to race, color, or creed." The executive committee also urged the board to extend the same policy to undergraduates in September 1965. The document "Undergraduate Negroes Enrolled First Semester 1965–66" from the files of then–UC president Leroy Martin proves the recommendation was approved, listing the names of fifteen African American students.
Events throughout the year will commemorate fifty years of African American achievement at all the UT campuses.
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In 1950, more than a decade before -African American undergraduates actually enrolled, four African American students sought admission to the law and graduate schools of UT Knoxville, but their applications were denied. Litigation ensued, and the university changed its law- and graduate-school admissions policies to admit African Americans. Gene Mitchell Gray was the first African American graduate student admitted. The first to receive a graduate degree was Lillian Jenkins, who graduated in special education in August 1954. Two years later, R.B.J. Campbelle became the first African American to receive a UT law degree, and in 1959, Harry Blanton earned the first doctoral degree awarded to an African American at UT Knoxville.


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Eesti Energia to enter Finnish, Swedish electricity markets
The supervisory board and owner of the Estonian state-owned energy group Eesti Energia have given their approval for expanding the company's electricity retail business to the Finnish and Swedish markets. The company plans to launch retail sales in both countries in the first half of next year.
According to Eesti Energia CEO Hando Sutter, a joint Nordic and Baltic energy market will provide the opportunity to be present in Finland and Sweden as the energy companies of Estonia's neighboring countries have been operating in Estonia for a while, Eesti Energia said. Thus far, the company has been operating as an energy seller in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
"Along with out domestic market Estonia, new foreign markets give us the opportunity to grow commercially and earn more income for Estonia than before," Sutter said. "Everyone in Estonia will benefit from our success on foreign markets. Entering the Finnish and Swedish electricity markets is part of Eesti Energia's strategic aim to advance from being an electricity seller in the Baltics to being an energy seller and energy service provider in the Baltic Sea region. Finland and Sweden are countries near us in which the willingness to switch electricity sellers is higher than the European average. The electricity market of those countries is open to newcomers and our digital solutions will give the necessary competition advantage there."
The CEO said that Eesti Energia differs from other energy sellers due to the circumstance that the company itself is an energy producer. "We are the largest energy producer in the Baltic countries and one of the largest producers of renewable energy," he noted. "We plan to increase the share of renewable and alternative energies in our production portfolio to 40 percent by 2020. In addition to oil shale, we produce energy from wind, biomass, water and waste."
As a representative of the state, which is the sole shareholder in Eesti Energia, Minister of Finance Toomas Tõniste (IRL) granted permission for the formation of subsidiaries to operate on the Finnish and Swedish markets. "In addition to its domestic market, Eesti Energia is already operating as an energy seller in the Baltic countries and in Poland, and as the energy markets of our region are more and more linked with each other, expanding to the Finnish and Swedish markets is a logical step," the minister said.
Eesti Energia has launched the processes necessary for starting business activities in Finland and Sweden. The company is planning to begin retail sales of electricity to private customers in the first half of 2018, while in Sweden, the services will be offered to industrial customers as well.
The establishment of subsidiaries has been launched in both countries, and local heads of the subsidiaries have been recruited. The Finnish subsidiary will be headed by Ville Pentti, who has previously worked in various positions at Turku Energia. The Swedish subsidiary will be headed by Jonas Lindelöf, former sales director at Telge Energi.
"Both Ville Pentti and Jonas Lindelöf have thorough knowledge about the energy business of their country, and under their leadership we will be able to successfully launch our business both in Finland and Sweden," Sutter said. Electricity sales will primarily be carried out in cost-effective online channels.
Subsidiaries of Eesti Energia in Latvia and Lithuania have operated successfully for over ten years by selling electricity to industrial customers. Following the opening of the Latvian gas market this summer, Eesti Energia's Latvian subsidiary has become the second largest gas seller in the country. As of June, a subsidiary of Eesti Energia has been selling electricity and gas to industrial customers in Poland.
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Key Tips for Using SalesForce Custom Object
In the past, we've made no bones about pointing out that one of Salesforce's biggest selling points is the customizability that it has. We've pointed out the various custom fields, record types, reports and other such things which can easily be created through its visual interface, and enhanced further by the exposed API. But, we've never really talked about the Salesforce custom object as a main topic before. For those new to Salesforce, or just starting to get into more advanced parts of it, the Salesforce custom object is basically a custom data table with specific column labels and value types. It's a lot like creating special custom tables in a database. Actually, that's exactly the same thing, just represented more contextually. Now, with the advent of technology like this, you might find yourself looking to get a good angle on this concept. You know what it is, but you'd like to know the best ways to employ them and use them properly. Unfortunately, there really isn't much to be said for best practices with something like this, because it's not really that deep of a concept in all truth. It's really nothing much more than a custom data table with case-specific labels, data types and relationships. Now, while that's not a deep idea, it's a damn useful one for certain. You see, while there are a number of table layouts and record types that are configured and running by default with Salesforce. However, your industry is going to have specific records and analytics to keep track of that other industries will not. Find out how to create record types in salesforce. Well, Salesforce can't account for those situational data components, so you need the ability to make a structure yourself for them to live in. This is where the custom object is useful, because that's exactly what it is. You have your basic data types available, and it's completely communicable with the Apex API, so custom objects can work with extensions or custom macros you've developed, to make this even more powerful. Now, one thing that I can advise with these is something I advise with other custom components in Salesforce. Before you create one, be sure to check and make sure that it's not already made, or not something Salesforce actually can do from default tables. Following this, be sure to make certain that it is needed and will be used. If it's just a "I had this idea", make sure that kind of idle experimentation is permissible within your corporate culture before doing that. Finally, make sure that you also are obvious with its name, and make it available to those who need it and make sure everyone who needs it is aware of it. Along with this, distribute a document talking about the purpose of the data, if you can, so that developers and users know what the tables are talking about and where their data inputs from. You probably expected the tips for Salesforce custom object creation and use to be more complex and involving than this. Well, I hope this is a pleasant surprise, in that it's really the same common sense procedures around their creation, as with most custom Salesforce gismos, that is where caution and thinking is needed. Find out how to create a custom object in salesforce.


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The SIGMA® INFINITY rear light's almost limitless energy, extremely stylish look, and extra-long burn time (up to 16 hours) make it the perfect companion for rides after dark. The extremely slim rear light has unrestricted StVZO approval and is guaranteed to upgrade the rear of your seat post.
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Since 1958 Boerner Company (pronounced Burner) has strived to provide the best quality products at a competitive price. We stock a wide selection of professional quality drain cleaning equipment, pipe threading equipment, sewer cameras, pipe locators and other specialty tools for the plumbing and piping industry. Our service department stocks a large selection of repairs parts so we can service all the brands of equipment that we sell.
Boerner Company is a family owned business. There have been 3 generations of the Boerner family involved in the business. James Boerner is the company's President and has been General Manager since 1982.
Store Location: 2435 E. Indian School Road Phoenix, AZ 85016
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Over the past 12 years Schlick Cycles has evolved from a bicycle company built around one bike, our unique and very well received performance cruiser, the Shark, to a company more dedicated to the passion for riding that all of us at Schlick Cycles feel. As a result we have expanded our line to include a broader range of bikes that combine:
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Spring 2016 and Revised 29 Feb 2016
If you have any information about the folks mentioned in this article, please send your information to us at the Prentice Newsletter. Be sure to give the full title and date of this article in the Subject line of the email.
1. Mrs. Vicki Diane Van Dusen Prentice, b. 7 Mar 1942, in Watertown, NY, and d. 20 Oct 2000, Syracuse, NY. Daughter of Lyle J. and Evangeline Thompson Van Dusen. Her obituary reads as follows:
- Watertown Daily Times (NY) - Tuesday, October 24, 2000 : VICKI D. PRENTICE POSTAL WORKER
Vicki Diane Prentice, 58, of 921 Beverly Drive, Syracuse, a native of Watertown, died of cancer Friday at her home. Born March 7, 1942, in Watertown, daughter of Lyle J. and Evangeline Thompson Van Dusen, she attended Union-Endicott High School, Endicott.
Mrs. Prentice was employed at the U.S. Postal Service Remote Encoding Center, East Syracuse, for five years. Mrs. Prentice was a member of and former organist at Fairmount Community Church, and formerly was organist at Camillus Baptist Church.
A marriage [name not given] ended in divorce.
Surviving are three sons, Matthew J., DeWitt, Christopher L., Chittenango, and Timothy L., Cicero; a sister, Jane A. Darling, Apalachin, five grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Fairmount Community Church. Burial will be in Maine (N.Y.) Cemetery. Calling hours will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at B.L. Bush & Sons Funeral Home, Camillus. Donations may be made to Camp Goodwill/High Esteems Inc., P.O. Box. 450, Chittenango, N.Y. 13037.
Children of Mrs. Vicki Prentice:
- Matthew J., Prentice. 2000 in DeWitt, NY.
- Christopher L. Prentice. 2000 in Chittenango, NY.
- Timothy L. Prentice. 2000 in Cicero, NY.
It is unclear whether she is the Victoria Diane Vandusen who married on 18 Mar 1978 in Seminole, FL; the husband's name is not given in the record.
A search of Florida marriage records did not show a record for that date and place for a man surnamed Prentice.
Neither did an LDS search show any husband.
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Sean Park: Beck to the future?
Sean Park, one of the bond market's best-known characters during his time at Paribas and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, is now engaged in disrupting the financial industry he was once at the sharp end of.
His company, Anthemis Group – the meaning of which stems from a genus of about 100 species of aromatic flowering plants in the family Asteraceae – describes itself as a diversified financial services group advising, transforming and investing in businesses that "through technology are building better ways to provide and deliver financial services that meet the expectations of 21st century customers."
If that sounds a little flowery, in fact they are investing in and carrying out advisory work for start-ups such as Simple, Fidor, Moven and The Currency Cloud, among others.
Simple, for instance, is an online-only banking platform in the US that BBVA bought earlier this year for $117 million.
So what's this all about? In short: digital technology disrupting traditional areas of banking and finance. This is something that Sean – whom we remember well as a fresh-faced bond syndicate manager, but now seems to resemble the pop star Beck – knows something about.
In 2005, he and a few others launched the investment banking industry's first digital markets division while at DrKW. Unfortunately, the idea, as he describes it, was "culturally puked up" and about a year later the plug was pulled on the division.
Park is now happily running a company where there is less 'puke' and more off-sites and hacking retreats in the French Alps. That's handy for someone who still refuses to give up on his dream of one day skiing in the Olympics.
We've already sent him some Winter Olympics video games to help him make that dream a digital reality.
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Zari Javidi1, Naser Tayyebi Meibodi2, Yalda Nahidi1
1 Dermatology Department, Imam-Reza Hospital, MUMS, Mashhad, Iran2 Pathology Department, Imam-Reza Hospital, MUMS, Mashhad, Iran
Correspondence Address:Naser Tayyebi MeibodiDepartment of Pathology, Imam-Reza Educational Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS), Mashhad IranSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/0019-5154.37723
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Pemphigus is an autoimmune blistering disease of the skin and mucous membranes with different reported epidemiological aspects from different countries. Aim: Our aim was to evaluate the epidemiological aspects of pemphigus in Mashhad city. This is the first report with regard to the characteristics of pemphigus in Khorasan province of Iran. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, all the patients with pemphigus, who were referred to the Dermatology Department of Imam Reza hospital of Mashhad, were examined over nine years, i.e., from May 1998 to March 2007. The data obtained through questionnaires, including age, sex, profession, mucosal or skin or the involvement of both, lag-time period between the onset of disease and the first presentation, gap between cutaneous and mucosal involvements, season of onset and family history, were analysed by using statistical tests of Chi square and Student's t -test and the statistical software of SPSS. Results: In 178 patients with pemphigus, pemphigus vulgaris was the most common type (86.5%). Female to male ratio was 1.4. In pemphigus vulgaris patients, there was involvement of both the skin and mucosa in 64.3%, mucosal involvement in 14% and skin involvement in 21.7%. There was no mucosal involvement in patients with pemphigus foliaceus. Two patients (1.4%) had a positive family history. Summer was the most common season for the onset of the disease (37.5%). Most of the patients were housewives in the premenopausal age group. Conclusion: The results reveal a high incidence of pemphigus in northeast Iran with an incidence of 20 patients per year.
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The name "Buggy Building" may be familiar to many Blantyre residents. It referred to a three storey stone tenement building, which was part of a larger row of tenements on Auchinraith Road. The "Buggy Building" stood directly opposite Elm Street but of course this wasn't it's real name nor should it be referred to as "buildings". The Buggy Building belonged to Melbourne Place, it's official address despite most of the building being fronted on to Auchinraith Road, behind Springwells. During the late 1880's, as Blantyre entered rapid population growth and a housing shortage became apparent, there was a sudden requirement for substantial building materials. As tenements were constructed throughout the town in the 1890s and 1900's, building contractors turned to dilapidated buildings to see what could be salvaged. This also made the buildings cheaper to construct. It was built in 1896 by Mr Guy Semple (its not on the 1895 valuation roll, but is on 1897 map). At the time of Melbourne Place being constructed around 1896, the Village works in Low Blantyre were in a sorry state. Many of the homes in the village works were unfit to live in. Some of the buildings had already fallen into disrepair and contractors were starting to salvage whatever they could buying old construction materials from the struggling mill owners.
It is said that the nickname "Buggy Building" was given to that particular tenement in Auchinraith Road as the timber rafters and flooring joists were obtained from the old Village buildings that were laying derelict at the Blantyre Mills. This meant that the timber rafters put into the building, already were over a century old or possibly more. People commented at the time of construction that the old timbers were infested with woodworm (bugs) and the building name stuck as "the Buggy Building". This obviously had an impact on the life of the building itself, for although it lasted to well after the second world war, it is now no longer there. Tenements of a same age still exist around the town in other hamlets and if the old materials hadn't been used, perhaps the Buggy Building would still have been there today. . The buggy building is not to be confused with a lower two storey building which stood to it's right named James's Building.
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Emma Cargill My mum told me her gran lived here she went to visit her every sunday
Marion Anderson They were only ruins when I was a kid…we used to play in them, thinking on it now I realise how dangerous that was
The Blantyre Project Marion , thats interesting. I didn't know they were uninhabited. Do you know when that was?
Alex Forrest It would have been around the 1960-3 as people were rehoused to the coatshill areas
Alex Forrest Sorry my mistake it would have been earlier nearer 1957-60
Elizabeth Dobson Grieve My dad lived there as a kid
Moira Macfarlane Remember it well
Ellenor Mcbride Ahhhh the old stories frm here frm our family the cop lands
Catherine McLachlan I remember my auntie Annie speaking about the buggy building. Do you Anne ODonnell Vanstone?
Anne ODonnell Vanstone oh my God… So it's actually a real building/place!!
Moyra Lindsay I lived at 75 Auchinraith Road until I was 6, it was known as Radnor!
The Blantyre Project the house was called "Radnor?
Moyra Lindsay The building was called Radnor. The close we lived in if I remember was just opposite the road on the left, if that's Beech Place? I think there were four houses in the close ours had one room…a single end!
Moyra Lindsay It was a long time Paul before I lived in a house!
Wullie Bell Remember very well Archie wypers shop was across the road
Jane Johnstone I remember tenements in Auchinraith Road…they looked horrible…I always remember thinking that as a child
The Blantyre Project they do look a little foreboding.
Moyra Lindsay They were!
The Blantyre Project the current site of the former Buggy Buildings.
Wullie Bell This pic. is lovely unfortunately this area is a tip now needs a bit of tlc
Pamela Campbell You do a fantastic job doing this for us Blantyre folks who no longer live in Blantyre love the new and old nostalgia well done Paul Xx
Betty McLean The entrance to Beech Place is opposite the buggy building and as children we had great fun playing with the friends who lived in both places. Two wonderful old men sat on the wall looking across at the building and making sure the children from Beech Place didn't wander down the road to the next street called Elm St. Sandy Frew and Alex Graham were the "baby sitters" and mothers could get on with their housework knowing the children were safe playing, "kick the can or rounders" Wonderful memories.


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Angelina Jolie has been spotted for the first time since filing for divorce from Brad Pitt.
The actress, 41, was seen with the six children she shares with Brad, 52 – Maddox, 15, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, ten, and twins Vivienne and Knox, eight – in Los Angeles on Sunday, where they reportedly visited a rental property.
Walking barefoot up a flight of stairs followed by her flock of children, the mother-of-six cut a low-key figure in a large tan cardigan and aviator shades.
A source told ET the group visited the beach together before touring the property, spending over an hour at the house.
Angelina was also joined by a large group of security guards as well as child minders.
'The kids were running around and they seemed happy and to be doing well,' the insider said.
The whole brood were in tow, including Angelina's brother James Haven, 43.
According to Us Weekly, the former actor, who famously kissed Jolie on the lips at the Oscars in 2000, now has 'an active daily role' in raising the children.
'He took a more active daily role in June,' said a source. 'The kids all call him Uncle James.'
A People source has said in the past: 'James is her rock. She trusts him.'ok
This comes ahead of the reported temporary custody reassessment on October 20th.
Last week it was reported that Brad broke down in tears when he saw his children for the first time in nearly three weeks after Angelina announced she was divorcing him.
Pitt had to be supervised by a therapist when he saw at least two of the six children he has with Miss Jolie on a visit lasting just one hour.
The actor played with his children during the 'gut-wrenching' meeting – when they began crying too.
He was supervised due to an order from the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services, which is currently investigating him. Pitt, 52, is also being investigated by the FBI after allegedly drinking and physically attacking his son Maddox, 15, on board a private jet on September 14, which he denies.
Angelina, 41, filed for divorce five days later, ending two years of marriage and 12 years together.
The couple are parents to Maddox, Pax, 12, Zahara, 11, Shiloh, ten, and twins Vivienne and Knox, eight.
Pitt's visit occurred on October 8 at his former family home in Los Feliz, Los Angeles.
While Angelina was in the house, she did not speak to him, reports said.
According to In Touch Weekly, when Vivienne and Zahara came into the room he lost control of his emotions.
A source said: 'He had tears in his eyes and tried to hold it together because he didn't want them to get upset because he was crying.
'The visit was gut-wrenching: Vivienne and Zahara both started crying.'
Pitt is reportedly 'desperate' to agree a deal with Miss Jolie, who has custody of the children for now. He volunteered to undergo random drug and alcohol tests to prove he does not have a problem with either. The first test reportedly came back negative.
A friend told Us magazine that Pitt will co-operate 'in any way he can' so long as he can see his children.
Before the divorce Pitt and Miss Jolie's marriage had seemed like one of the most solid in Hollywood. Now she is demanding permanent sole custody of their children, which Pitt is fighting.
Social workers will make another evaluation on October 20 about how to resolve the dispute.
An insider told Us: 'The hope is that this period of time will lead them to be able to resolve things without the involvement of the courts.'
Nobody for Pitt or Miss Jolie was available for comment.


text: News | Hospitality Major hotel chains to attend HTNG Asia-Pacific Conference Sessions will focus on the hospitality journey, and mixed, virtual and augmented reality in hotels Rebecca Gibson | 11 July 2017 AccorHotels, Hilton Worldwide, Marriott International, Shangri-La Hotels, Hyatt Hotels Corporation and InterContinental Hotels Group are just some of the many hotel chains and technology providers that will be attending the HTNG Asia-Pacific Conference this July. To be held on 25-27 July at the Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, the HTNG Asia-Pacific Conference will cover hot industry topics such as voice-activated technologies for guest rooms, IT in hotels, the future hospitality journey, and mixed, virtual and augmented reality in hotels. The conference will offer collaboration, networking and business development opportunities with a wide range of industry professionals. It is open to any full-time employee of a company that owns, manages or franchises a hotel. For all other industry participants, HTNG membership is required. Technology providers, consultants and others who are not HTNG members should check with HTNG's membership department to ensure eligibility.


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WASHINGTON — With President Donald Trump now on board, it would seem a no-brainer that Congress would swiftly approve legislation to strengthen the federal background check system as proposed by Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn of Texas and Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut.
Think again.
The bill was introduced on November 15 — nine days after 26 people were killed at a church in rural Texas by a gunman who was able to buy his weapons despite a 2012 felony conviction (spousal and child abuse) that the Air Force failed to report to the federal database.
Under S. 2135 "Fix NICS Act of 2017," federal agencies that fail to make such reports would be penalized and incentives would be given to states to improve their overall reporting to the background check system. The Senate has yet to take up the bill, which Murphy says is just a "first step" to addressing gun violence.
"No one should pretend this bill alone is an adequate response to this epidemic," Murphy said.
The House actually approved a bill that contains the "Fix NICS" language on December 6 — but that vote illustrates the difficult path that any gun-related bill may have in Congress.
Rather than approve the "Fix NICS" bill on its own, the House combined it with H.R. 38, the "Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017," which would allow concealed carry permits to be valid across state lines — a priority issue for the National Rifle Association.
The House bill was approved with only a handful of Democrats in support. The entire Connecticut delegation voted against it. U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty, whose district includes Newtown, spoke on the floor against it saying it would lower standards nationally for gun safety by making it easier for domestic violence abusers, stalkers, and violent criminals to carry loaded, hidden guns across state lines.
"The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act is an outrage and an insult to the families in Newtown and to the hundreds of families who have lost loved ones to gun violence who are gathered here today at the Capitol for the fifth annual Vigil to End Gun Violence," she said.
Esty noted that in the five-years since the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, this was the first gun-related bill that had been brought up for a vote in the House.
Murphy, who represented Newtown when the shooting occurred, has routinely gone to the Senate floor to speak up for additional gun-safety measures to make it less likely for a repeat of Newtown. Murphy sees some hope that the latest mass shooting — which prompted Trump to back the Fix NICS bill — will move Congress to act.
That hope, he says, comes from the reaction from high school students who are demanding Congress act after 17 people were killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Students there are planning a "March for Our Lives" protest in Washington on March 24.
"No special interest group, no political agenda is more critical than timely passage of legislation to effectively address the gun violence issues that are rampant in our country," says a mission statement for the event.
Murphy also notes that Trump's support for the Fix NICS bill and Trump's announced directive to the Justice Department to regulate so-called bump stocks — devices used to increase the rapid-fire of semi-automatic weapons used in the Las Vegas massacre — are signs that "we've hit a fulcrum point in this debate where politicians are, for the first time, scared on the political consequences of inaction on guns."
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Tuesday that Trump doesn't support the use of bump stocks and expects further action on that issue in the coming days. She issued a statement Monday noting Trump's support for the Fix NICS bill, though she emphasized that "discussions are ongoing and revisions are being considered."
Sanders struggled to identify any further specific gun-related legislation that the White House is considering in response to the mass shootings, saying instead that the president is making mental illness a priority.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy wasn't optimistic anything would get done.
"Unfortunately, this has all the hallmarks of a classic bait-and-switch," Malloy said Tuesday. "We need more than just regulations — we need to make this the law. In Connecticut, we are going to pass a law banning bump stocks and we firmly believe that the federal government should do the same."
Meanwhile, support among American voters for stricter gun laws is at its highest levels since the Quinnipiac University Poll began focusing on this issue following the Sandy Hook massacre: 67 percent of voters support a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons; 83 percent support a mandatory waiting period for all gun purchases; and 92 percent support universal background checks.
"If you think Americans are largely unmoved by the mass shootings, you should think again. Support for stricter gun laws is up nearly 19 points in little more than 2 years," Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said. "In the last two months, some of the biggest surges in support for tightening gun laws comes from demographic groups you may not expect, independent voters, men, and whites with no college degree."


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Saturday 29 November 2014
Project 365 Days 327 - 333
8 comments:
aww lovely pictures my fav one is from L where she is wearing a fairy outfit utterly cute!!ReplyDelete
Hope you will get some POSITIVE house news SOON i got all my fingers crossed for you xx
I hope Daddy Hazeldon is OK, and fingers crossed for some house news soon for youReplyDelete
Lovely pictures, sounds like a week of highs and lows for you. Hope Daddy Hazeldon is ok and gets well soon. Love the sound of a fry up - it's been ages since I had one!ReplyDelete
Lovely photo's as usual Chantelle. Keeping everything crossed about the house and hoping Mr H makes a speedy recovery xReplyDelete
Love the fairy dress.ReplyDelete
Hope Daddy is home soon x
Busy stuff! Lucky girl having a Wagamamas dinner! Hope the house chain sorts itself out soon.ReplyDelete
aww honey, i hope hubs gets better soon and that you hear something on the house soon! xReplyDelete
oh dear, hope hubby feels better soon, but I often feel its not so bad if they have an answer to what causes the pain.ReplyDelete
Hope the issue with the house gets sorted and you dont have to move over Christmas, but would be nice to be in your own home for then.
LOL at Gracie colouring in peace, and ahhhh at cuddles from big sister,
Thats a very pretty fairy princess


text: Log Home Living's March 2018 issue featured a new log home in in Nebo, N.C., by Bear's Den Log Homes, and independent dealer of Honest Abe Log Homes. To see photos of the home, click Peterson Cabin. To read an article about the home and an interview with the Petersons, click here.


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Dara W. Frank, PhD
- Translational and Biomedical Research Center
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa, which usually resides in soil and water environments, can infect compromised hosts to cause significant morbidity and mortality. The pathogenesis of this organism in humans involves multiple virulence factors whose expression patterns are integrated with growth and replication. Virulence is mediated mainly by the expression of cell surface molecules, sensing and signal transduction systems, motility, chemotaxis and the ability to secrete a number of destructive enzymes including proteases, lipases, neuraminidase, toxins and capsular material. My long-term objective is to understand the interplay between host and bacterial factors that lead to life-threatening infections with P. aeruginosa. We have focused on the relationship between expression of toxins injected by the type III system and Pseudomonas pathogenesis in acute infection models. The local as well as the systemic delivery of toxins emphasize the pathogenic potential of the bacterium. Our hypothesis is that delivery of the type III toxins inhibits the uptake and destruction of P. aeruginosa during the initial stages of colonization, allowing multiplication past the point of resolution by innate immune mechanisms in compromised hosts. The outcome of infection is then determined by the extent of injury or compromised state of the host, the expression patterns of the various toxins, proteases and other destructive enzymes, and the host response.
Conformational Changes and Membrane Interaction of the Bacterial Phospholipase, ExoU: Characterization by Site-Directed Spin Labeling.
(Feix JB, Kohn S, Tessmer MH, Anderson DM, Frank DW.) Cell Biochem Biophys. 2019 Mar;77(1):79-87 PMID: 30047043 PMCID: PMC6347562 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85050694302 07/27/2018
Identification and Verification of Ubiquitin-Activated Bacterial Phospholipases.
(Tessmer MH, Anderson DM, Pickrum AM, Riegert MO, Frank DW.) J Bacteriol. 2019 Feb 15;201(4) PMID: 30455285 PMCID: PMC6351748 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85060624878 11/21/2018
Identification of a ubiquitin-binding interface using Rosetta and DEER.
(Tessmer MH, Anderson DM, Pickrum AM, Riegert MO, Moretti R, Meiler J, Feix JB, Frank DW.) Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jan 16;115(3):525-530 PMID: 29295930 PMCID: PMC5776994 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85042128224 01/04/2018
Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection liberates transmissible, cytotoxic prion amyloids.
(Balczon R, Morrow KA, Zhou C, Edmonds B, Alexeyev M, Pittet JF, Wagener BM, Moser SA, Leavesley S, Zha X, Frank DW, Stevens T.) FASEB J. 2017 Jul;31(7):2785-2796 PMID: 28314768 PMCID: PMC5471513 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85021662814 03/21/2017
Structure and Dynamics of Type III Secretion Effector Protein ExoU As determined by SDSL-EPR Spectroscopy in Conjunction with De Novo Protein Folding.
(Fischer AW, Anderson DM, Tessmer MH, Frank DW, Feix JB, Meiler J.) ACS Omega. 2017 Jun 30;2(6):2977-2984 PMID: 28691114 PMCID: PMC5494639 07/12/2017
Cooperative Substrate-Cofactor Interactions and Membrane Localization of the Bacterial Phospholipase A2 (PLA2) Enzyme, ExoU.
(Tessmer MH, Anderson DM, Buchaklian A, Frank DW, Feix JB.) J Biol Chem. 2017 Feb 24;292(8):3411-3419 PMID: 28069812 PMCID: PMC5336173 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85013836015 01/11/2017
The Pseudomonas aeruginosa Exoenzyme Y: A Promiscuous Nucleotidyl Cyclase Edema Factor and Virulence Determinant.
(Morrow KA, Frank DW, Balczon R, Stevens T.) Handb Exp Pharmacol. 2017;238:67-85 PMID: 28181005 PMCID: PMC6103630 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85018986099 02/10/2017
Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoenzymes U and Y induce a transmissible endothelial proteinopathy.
(Morrow KA, Ochoa CD, Balczon R, Zhou C, Cauthen L, Alexeyev M, Schmalzer KM, Frank DW, Stevens T.) Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2016 Feb 15;310(4):L337-53 PMID: 26637633 PMCID: PMC4754902 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84958559488 12/08/2015
Heterogeneity of pulmonary endothelial cyclic nucleotide response to Pseudomonas aeruginosa ExoY infection.
(Morrow KA, Seifert R, Kaever V, Britain AL, Sayner SL, Ochoa CD, Cioffi EA, Frank DW, Rich TC, Stevens T.) Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2015 Nov 15;309(10):L1199-207 PMID: 26386118 PMCID: PMC4652153 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84947231546 09/20/2015
Cross Kingdom Activators of Five Classes of Bacterial Effectors.
(Anderson DM, Feix JB, Frank DW.) PLoS Pathog. 2015 Jul;11(7):e1004944 PMID: 26203905 PMCID: PMC4512716 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84938811382 07/24/2015
(Bähre H, Hartwig C, Munder A, Wolter S, Stelzer T, Schirmer B, Beckert U, Frank DW, Tümmler B, Kaever V, Seifert R.) Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2015 May 15;460(4):909-14 PMID: 25838203 PMCID: PMC4765920 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-84937760629 04/04/2015
(Rolsma S, Frank DW, Barbieri JT.) The Comprehensive Sourcebook of Bacterial Protein Toxins. 5 June 2015:133-160 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85053197841 06/05/2015