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SELIGER, Marja (2009). Visual Rhetoric in Outdoor Advertising. In: Undisciplined! Design Research Society Conference 2008, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK, 16-19 July 2008.
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The paper presents a research, the aim of which is to find out how graphic expressions and visual language can be used for persuasion. The research material consists of outdoor advertisements photographed in their actual exhibition places in a city environment. Outdoor advertising media, which are used to communicate visual messages from a sender to several addressees, participate in building the visual city culture and open manifold solutions in design. The visual language used in the research material is analyzed in order to find out how advertising messages, their denotations and connotations, are constructed and how arguments used for persuasion are visualized.
The first analysis is based on the knowledge and methods used in graphic design practice, which has been defined to be the process of making, choosing and arranging marks in order to convey a message. The analysis shows that different modes, techniques and visual elements are applied to attract the attention of spectators and arouse interest towards the message of an artefact. The second analysis is based on communication studies and semiotics, especially on Roman Jakobson's theory about the functions of communication. The method of combining two analyses reveals different ways of using visual language and syntaxes to announce the excellence of an advertised product, service or subject. It also shows various types of visual arguments used in advertisements. Three types of visual rhetoric emerge from the research material. They are called brand rhetoric, personalized rhetoric and poetic rhetoric.
The taxonomy of visual rhetoric exemplifies how visual language can be constructed and used for persuasion. It shows that the decisions in design influence the messages and meanings created. The research calls for further studies as regards the reception of visual rhetoric and suggests that the taxonomy of visual rhetoric could be applied in visual communication design and in the analysis of advertising messages.
Outdoor Advertisement/Advertising; Visual Rhetoric; Visual Language; Graphic Design; Visual Communication Design; Advertising Message
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Depositing User: | Ann Betterton |
Date Deposited: | 19 Aug 2009 |
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URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/490 |
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Things You Need to Be Thinking About When You Turn 40
Things You Need to Be Thinking About When You Turn 40
Things You Need to Be Thinking About When You Turn 40
Over a century ago, it wasn't uncommon for people to marry in their teens. As time passed, people began getting married a bit later, into their early twenties. If a woman wasn't married by her late twenties or early thirties, women were called "spinsters," and men were often referred to as confirmed bachelors. Today, it is not uncommon to see couples remain unmarried until their 30s, if at all. People are starting families later in life and buying homes when they are older. One thing one shouldn't forget, however, is that life expectancy hasn't changed dramatically. While 60 may be the new 50 and 59 may be viewed as the new 40, the fact is, the clock is ticking. This is why, when you turn 40, you need to start seriously focusing on these things.
Your Children's College Education
When you turn forty today, you may have a toddler or a teen, but if you have children at all, you are entering your peak earning years and should be executing a college savings plan for your children.
Like it or not, you are getting as close to retirement as you are to your first job. At 40, there's still time to build a retirement program, but if you haven't started, it's time to get on the gas.
What Happens When You Are Not Around
In your early forties, if not earlier, you should be planning for a time when you may not be around. Will your spouse be able to maintain a household? Will children be able to afford college? How will your bills and final expenses be paid? How much of a burden do you want those left behind to carry?
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One of most powerful results of completing the PSN process is that it makes you stronger. How?
Think of strength in terms of breaking pencils. We can easily break one pencil. Now, try it with six pencils. It takes a lot of strength to break six at a time if you can do it. Each time a pencil is added, it becomes harder to break. So too is it when we navigate life with our PSN team of support. Alone, in isolation, whether it's a fragile but not yet broken spirit, a trying physical disability, a full plate of responsibilities or too many disruptive life events, alone and isolated weakens us. Like a single pencil, we can brake easily, especially if there's a crack in our spirit. But when surrounded by the strength of our PSN team, or adding your strength to another's PSN, we won't break when the going gets tough. Our strength is limited until we combine ours with the strength of others. With each additional PSN team member, strength multiplies.
But first, we need to make sure we have or acquire the skills and attributes that allow us to be supported by others and that we have the skills and attributes to be a valued part of another's PSN team.
Whether we are looking to build our personal strength and resilience or using our strengths to help others navigate their adversities, here are some 'strength' qualities, skills and attributes. They will enhance mental and emotional well-being and are vital to forging sustainable, supporting and strength building relationships.
Being grateful for the little things as well as big things in life is a character trait that provides us with strength. Supportive people are far more willing to help when they know their giving is appreciated and valued. A warm, heartfelt "thank you" goes a long ways toward establishing trust too.
FYI: When someone is expressing their gratitude, instead of saying it was nothing, thank them for it or simply say you're welcome. Receiving gratitude well is as important as expressing it well.
Kindness / Compassion
A little goes a long way. If we slow down, observe others and our surroundings, we can find something nice to say or we can do something unexpected for another that makes your day a better day and also the receiver of your kindness and compassion. It is always appropriate and usually remembered. Being known as a kind and compassionate person adds to our mental and emotional strength. Again, it helps establish trust and a willingness to reach out to you when in need.
FYI: Kindness and compassion are gifts shared by all, giver and receiver alike. We never know how our kind words or kind deeds will impact another's life. When compassion and kindness are not returned by the receiver, that's okay, it will be received from someone else. Give kindness and compassion with no expectation of it being returned by the receiver.
Optimism is a strength and is identified as the primary basis for resilience. Optimism is the belief that somehow it will work out; there are solutions to problems; tomorrow will be better than today; mistakes and failures are learning opportunities. Optimism is being able and willing to see the possibilities, and willingness to see circumstances and problems as just obstacles to be overcome. Optimism, when balanced with trust of intuition and an ability to assess what is going on, is not blind faith or "Pollyanna". It's just smart.
FYI: When we are struggling with holding on to optimism or needing solutions to difficult problems, it's time to ask for help. Optimism attracts far more helpful people than pessimism.
Courage is a strength defined as an attitude of facing and dealing with anything difficult or painful and not withdrawing or retreating from it. It takes courage to move beyond our comfort zone. Moving beyond our fears can be countered by working through them by acquiring the skills covered in this section and in the sections on Asking for Help, Building Resilience and Supporting Others. For some, courage is acquired by having a supportive team cheering you on. Courage, too, can be very contagious when two or more commit to facing and dealing with difficult or painful circumstances in their lives.
FYI: To build courage, observe how others do it and practice with small acts of courage first, then tackle bigger needs for acts of courage. Feel the accomplishment of moving outside your comfort zone. It will motivate you to keep building courage. Always ask if you need help from your PSN team when you need encouragement and support.
Integrity is a cornerstone of trustworthiness. It can be hard to practice, though doing so simplifies and strengthens all areas of our life and the relationships we value. Doing the right thing is not always easy, but it is the most rewarding in the long term. Our reputation as trustworthy is the gateway to strong and sustainable relationships. Figuring out who we are, what we stand for, and knowing how to demonstrate integrity in the world gives us more security in asking for help and setting limits without hurting others.
FYI: A good question to ask ourselves: is what we want and expect from others what we are willing to expect from ourselves and willing to give to others? There is no substitute for being known as a person of integrity. Doors open and opportunities will follow which enhances our strength and builds resilience.
Creativity is called for in times of need or want. Creativity is a strength and it's linked to optimism. When the obvious won't work, it's time to get creative. Some are better at it than others but with practice we discover looking for and trying creative solutions can be fun. One way to practice creative is to try new ways to do routine tasks. Or, when a problem surfaces, yours or someone else's think of solutions outside the box. Be open to and look at other possible ways to reach good outcomes. Having a sense of humor smooths the bumps, raises the spirits, heals and increases the chances of engaging others toward desirable goals. An aspect of strength is being willing to consider and try other ideas and welcome input.
FYI: A fun way to learn and practice creativity is to encourage and watch a child or a dog attempt to get something they really want. Kids don't know it can't be done and neither does a dog. They know if they keep at it, get really creative, they'll succeed. If kids and dogs can do it, so can we.
Personal Responsibility
When we think of character traits we admire in people, it is the knowledge that these people will take responsibility for their actions and attitudes. They don't blame others or get defensive. They own up to their shortcomings or mistakes, fix what they can and move on. Strength is a by-product from taking personal responsibility. People are attracted to, admire and respect and are willing to support others they trust and know are trustworthy enough to take responsibility. We each have personal responsibility for our lives. This responsibility is enhanced when we include others and invoke the power of a team. It does take courage to be vulnerable, have integrity, state our own limits and include others; but doing so doesn't mean giving up our own responsibility. On the contrary, it is a powerful way to exercise it.
FYI: Most conflicts arise from one or both parties unwilling to take personal responsibility for their actions and attitudes. Next time someone accuses you of something you did, said or thought, and it is true, own it. In many cases, 'yup, I did' stops the conflict. Next step is to make whatever went wrong, right. Ask for help if you don't know what to do.
Change is inevitable. What may have worked ten years ago, may not work today. The way it was is no longer; we have to adapt and be willing to be open to change and know that our way is not necessarily the best or only way. Others may have new or more effective ways to accomplish steps toward our vision of success and our hoped-for outcomes. It is powerful. It builds your strength by others knowing you're open to learning, gaining wisdom and knowledge from others, and being willing to explore and try new and different.
FYI: When we attempt to hold on to rigid and inflexible, a good question to ask ourselves is does it really matter in the end? Some things will but most will not. Strength is also letting go of 'my way is the only way'.
Emotion Management/Control
Yes, managing or controlling emotions is a strength – a very important one. We admire and respect people who, when under pressure, can speak and act responsibly and appropriately. It's not that they don't have feelings; it's that they have learned to manage them well. Follow the steps to managing emotions in the section on Resilience or Asking for Help.
FYI: Heightened or out of control emotions hijacks our ability to think, use logic and be rational. We don't think when our emotions are in control. When asked: "What were you thinking?" "I wasn't" is the right answer when emotions are over the top.


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Could ending your fatty food habit cause withdrawal symptoms and depression?
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- December 12, 2012
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- Universite de Montreal
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- Even before obesity occurs, eating fatty and sugary foods causes chemical changes in the brain, meaning that going on a diet might feel similar to going through drug withdrawal, according to a new study.
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Even before obesity occurs, eating fatty and sugary foods causes chemical changes in the brain, meaning that going on a diet might feel similar to going through drug withdrawal, according to a study published December 12 by Dr. Stephanie Fulton of the University of Montreal's Faculty of Medicine and its affiliated CRCHUM Hospital Research Centre.
"By working with mice, whose brains are in many ways comparable to our own, we discovered that the neurochemistry of the animals who had been fed a high fat, sugary diet were different from those who had been fed a healthy diet," Fulton explained. "The chemicals changed by the diet are associated with depression. A change of diet then causes withdrawal symptoms and a greater sensitivity to stressful situations, launching a vicious cycle of poor eating."
The research team feed one group of mice a low-fat diet and a high fat diet to a second group over six weeks, monitoring how the different food affected the way the animals behave. Fat represented 11% of the calories in the low-fat diet and 58% in the high-fat diet, causing the waist size in the latter group to increase by 11% -- not yet obese. Next, Fulton and her colleagues use a variety of scientifically validated techniques to evaluate the relationship between rewarding mice with food and their resulting behaviour and emotions. They also actually looked at the brains of the mice to see how they had changed.
Mice that had been fed the higher-fat diet exhibited signs of being anxious, such as an avoidance of open areas. Moreover, their brains have been physically altered by their experiences. One of molecules in the brain that the researchers looked at is dopamine. It enables the brain to rewards us with good feelings, thereby encouraging us to learn certain kinds of behaviour. This chemical is the same in humans as it is in mice and other animals. In turn, CREB is a molecule that controls the activation of genes involved in the functioning of our brains, including those that cause the production of dopamine. It contributes to memory formation. "CREB is much more activated in the brains of higher-fat diet mice and these mice also have higher levels of corticosterone, a hormone that is associated with stress. This explains both the depression and the negative behaviour cycle," Fulton said. "It's interesting that these changes occur before obesity. These findings challenge our understanding of the relationship between diet, the body and the mind. It is food for thought about how we might support people psychologically as they strive to adopt healthy eating habits, regardless of their current corpulence."
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- S Sharma, M F Fernandes, S Fulton. Adaptations in brain reward circuitry underlie palatable food cravings and anxiety induced by high-fat diet withdrawal. International Journal of Obesity, 2012; DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2012.197
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Only Doug Ford and the Ontario PCs Will Build the New South Niagara Hospital
New state-of-the-art hospital with more beds part of plan to keep Ontario's economy open
NIAGARA FALLS, May 19, 2022 – Today, Doug Ford announced that only a re-elected PC government will get shovels in the ground this year to build a new hospital in Niagara Falls with more beds and expanded services.
"The Del Duca-Wynne Liberals made empty promises to people in the Niagara Region and stalled this project for years," said Doug Ford. "The Liberals and Andrea Horwath's NDP voted against this project and have no real plan to fix the broken health care system they left behind."
Since 2018, the Ontario PCs have invested almost $20 million to plan the new 11-story South Niagara Hospital that is expected to start construction in Fall 2022. The hospital will consolidate and expand acute care services and replace outdated infrastructure with high-tech facilities including eight operating suites and 469 medical surgical, complex care and critical care beds. This is 156 more beds than Niagara Health's Port Colborne, Fort Erie and Niagara campuses combined.
In addition to 24/7 emergency, critical care and surgical services, the hospital will also be home to several centres of excellence specializing in stroke, complex care, geriatrics and geriatric psychiatry and wellness in aging.
"Only the Ontario PCs will get shovels in the ground and deliver a hospital in Niagara that families in the region deserve," added Ford. "We will continue to make historic investments to increase our hospital capacity and ensure that Ontarians can receive world class health care, wherever they live in the province. We will get it done and build the hospital beds we need to keep our province and economy open."
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Only Doug Ford will Get it Done.
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PETERS, Gary C., a Representative from Michigan; born in Pontiac, Oakland County, Mich., December 1, 1958; B.A., Alma College, Alma, Mich., 1980; M.B.A., University of Detroit, Detroit, Mich., 1985; J.D. Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich., 1989; M.A., Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich., 2007; United States Navy Reserve, 1993-2000, 2001-2005; investment banker; professor, Oakland University, Rochester, Mich.; professor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.; member, Rochester Hills (Mich.) city council, 1991-1992; member, Michigan state senate, 1995-2002; unsuccessful candidate for Michigan state attorney general in 2002; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Eleventh and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2009-present).
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The calender says it is fall, and that is good enough for me.
Here in the Dallas area, where we just had one of the hottest summers on record, the temperatures are still hovering around 90 most days. Yes, it is still warm but I know fall is coming. How do I know when it is so warm? Well, our local Oktoberfest festival has started and that puts me in the mood for large mugs of beer, bad polka music, and warm bowls of soup. In this case the soup I craved was cheese soup, and I really wanted one made with beer.
I often find beer cheese soup does not strike the right flavor balance. To be precise, I find most beer cheese soup to have a slightly bitter finish. While a little bitterness is nice to cut the richness of the cheese, too much bitterness makes the dish hard to eat. To counter the bitterness of the beer I added a tart Granny Smith apple to this soup. The tartness keeps the soup from being too sweet, while the natural sweetness counters any lingering bitterness. In honor of the season, and because I love it so, I used an Oktoberfest style beer in this recipe. Any amber beer you like will work, but for the sake of the season, and because they are readily available, I opted for the Oktoberfest.
Apple Oktoberfest Cheese Soup Serves 8
2 strips bacon, chopped
3 tablespoons butter
1 medium onion, chopped
1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored and diced
1 medium carrot, peeled and chopped
1 rib celery, chopped
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon dry mustard powder
1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1 clove garlic, sliced
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup Oktoberfest style beer (I used Sam Adams)
2 cups whole milk
5 ounces sharp cheddar cheese
3 ounces smoked Gouda
Hot sauce, to taste
In a medium pot over medium heat add the chopped bacon. Cook until the bacon is very crisp, about 3 minutes. Remove the bacon from the pot reserving the fat.
Add the butter to the pot and once it foams add the onion, apple, carrot, celery, salt, and pepper. Cook until the mixture is starting to become tender, about 5 minutes, then add the dry mustard, paprika, and cayenne pepper. Stir to combine and cook for another 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are very tender. Add in the sliced garlic and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add in the flour and cool for 3 minutes, stirring constantly, to cook out the raw taste of the flour. Reduce the heat to medium-low and slowly add in the chicken stock, beer, and milk, stirring constantly to remove any lumps of flour. You may need to whisk it during this process. Once combined increase the heat to medium-high and cook until the soup comes to a boil and thickens, about 5 minutes. Remove the pot from the heat and allow to cool for 3 minutes.
Working in batches, blend the soup in a blender until very smooth, about 3 minutes on the highest speed. Add the cheese, in batches, to the soup and blend until the cheese is melted. Once all the soup is blended return it to the pot.
Heat the soup over medium heat to re-warm. Season with hot sauce, and additional salt and pepper as desired.
Serve the soup with the chopped bacon as garnish. Enjoy!


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In an attempt to manipulate the future, a family and a nation are forced to decide between two brothers. Guided by a prophecy spoken hundreds of years before, the King and Queen of Llycaelon have set their course. Their goal: to fulfill the prophecy and save their nation from a dire fate.Rhoyan has always understood and accepted his own role as second born and perpetual prince. He looks forward to the day when he will be a warrior in his older brother's guard. When Rhoyan is sent on a quest filled with unimaginable danger, nobody anticipates the greater repercussions.
As Rhoyan journeys far across the seas on his appointed trial, he will battle creatures of legend, suffer shipwreck, endure captivity, and lay claim to a fallen star. When tragedy strikes, Rhoyan must struggle to return home believing his quest has failed. However, the home he left no longer awaits him and the true test of his strength and character has only just begun.
Long before Aom-igh needed a champion, Llycaelon had a Second Son.
Jenelle grew up the oldest of four. Every night before bedtime her father read to her and her siblings, and it was during these times that her love for adventure and fantasy were forged. While she adored the stories of The Lord of the Rings, the Chronicles of Prydain, the Wheel of Time, and the Chronicles of Narnia; it wasn't long before her imagination led her to the creation of a world and story all her own.
In 2001, Jenelle completed King's Warrior, originally titled The Dragon's Eye, as a project for her father who wanted something new and fun to read to the family at night. This first endeavor gave way to the completion of a four book series that is full of the same adventure that Jenelle grew to love in literature as a little girl. Jenelle graduated from Taylor University in Indiana in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in English Education.
Jenelle has written numerous short stories and many poems, as well as some full length work within the realm of science fiction. King's Warrior is her first published work and she is currently working on bringing the rest of the series to public availability. Jenelle lives in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband Derek and two little girls Leiana Arwen and Nathalie Eowyn.
You can find out more about Jenelle, King's Warrior and Second Son on her website: JenelleSchmidt.com.


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text: Sponsor the Training of Novices Sisters of in Peru Project Code: 234-03-79 They travel to places where a priest can rarely reach. In the poorest and most inaccessible regions of the country, these women religious in their blue habits share in the poverty and abandonment of the local people and bring them new hope. The Missionaries of Jesus Word and Victim are a religious congregation founded in 1961 in Peru. Today they number over 500, now working in six different countries of Latin America. They are visible, ministering angels to the poorest of the poor who have to live not only in the most difficult of conditions, but often also deprived of the consolation of the Church and her sacraments. They travel seemingly endless distances along bumpy roads and tracks, on bicycles, on donkeys, on horseback, in primitive carts or sometimes simply for hours on foot. In some regions they can only travel by boat. Not only do they bring the people help in their concrete day-to-day needs and concerns, they also pray with them, comfort the sick and dying in their last moments, bring them Holy Communion, baptize children, conduct funerals and liturgies of the Word and give catechetical instruction. The Sisters find the strength they need for this tireless service under the most challenging conditions from their contemplative life of prayer. They radiate great joy and profound happiness, even though they truly share the poverty of the poorest and suffer with them in their need. They offer their lives for new priestly vocations and also for the Catholic faithful who currently have to do without the presence of a priest. At present there are 29 young women preparing for their vocation in the novitiate of the congregation in the Peruvian town of Caraveli. They will one day serve God in the poorest of the poor, somewhere in Latin America. ACN is helping to cover the cost of their formation with a contribution of $8,500, or $290 for each novice. Will you join in sponsoring the training of these novices Sisters in Peru? We are sure they will remember you in their grateful prayers. This project is an example of our work. Your donation will be attributed either to this or to another similar project that accords with the pastoral needs that ACN witnesses. |


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Ramadan Announcement 1436 AH / 2015
Ramadan Announcement by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA):
First day of Ramadan will be Thursday, June 18, 2015.
"O you who believe, fasting is prescribed to you as it was prescribed to those before you, that you may (learn) self-restraint." Qur'an 2:183
The Fiqh Council recognizes astronomical calculation as an acceptable Shar'i method for determining the beginning of lunar months including the months of Ramadan and Shawwal. FCNA uses Makkah al-Mukarrama as a conventional point and takes the position that the conjunction must take place before sunset in Makkah and moon must set after sunset in Makkah.
On the basis of this method the dates of Ramadan and Eidul Fitr for the year 1434 AH are established as follows:
1st of Ramadan will be on Thursday, June 18, 2015
1st of Shawwal will be on Friday, July 17, 2015


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You know what's more fun than reading your favorite blogs, and drooling over the outfits? Getting to wear the outfits those darling gals wear!
This dress is not my own, it's on loan from the ever sweet Quincy of Q's Daydream. If you haven't visited her blog yet, you must. It's one of my few daily reads, and the photos she posts of herself and her darling outfits are so inspiring!
We are also growing our hair out at the same time. Hair growing binds girls like no other!
Anyway, I LOVE this dress, it's a perfect condition late 30s, early 40s rayon number with a perfect collar and, my favorite, button closure on the side. There's just something so charming and delicate about button closures.
I accessorized with a rose topper, pink belt, and little rhinestone sparrow pin.
Thanks Quincy for lending me such a great dress!


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I used the weekend and wrote a quick port of EmuTOS. I ported a basic set of routines for input and output and adapted the IDE driver.
GEM can't start yet but EmuTOS boots into EmuCON2. You can run some Atari ST console applications (if the apps use TOS calls only).


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It's predicted that by 2029 computer intelligence will equal the power of the human brain. Some believe this will revolutionise humanity – we will be able to download our minds to computers extending our lives indefinitely. Others fear this will lead to oblivion by giving rise to destructive ultra intelligent machines.
One thing they all agree on is that the coming of this moment – and whatever it brings – is inevitable.


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ADVERB: In a sprightly or lively manner.
Spright(noun) a supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost. What is a sprite person? 1a : elf, fairy. b : an elfish person. 2a : a disembodied spirit : ghost.
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Top NFT Marketplaces for Creators to Sell Non-Fungible Tokens
NFTs are non-fungible tokens. One-of-a-kind most NFTs tend to be digital.give their supporters something rare and unique. Digital artworks NFT artwork by a digital artist, modern digital NFT is CryptoKitties.
NFTs are similar to Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, except, of course, they are non-fungible and non-divisible. Ethereum has released two standards now: ERC-721 and ERC-1155. Competitor, Binance, has since released standards BEP-721 and BEP-1155. The two "1155" standards differ from the original "721" standards because they allow multiple NFTs to be bunched and transacted together.
Discover, collect, and sell extraordinary NFTs.The world's largest digital marketplace for crypto collectibles and non-fungible tokens (NFTs), including ERC721 and ERC1155 assets. Buy, sell, and discover exclusive digital assets like Axies, ENS names, CryptoKitties, Decentraland, and more.
OpenSea boldly describes itself as being the largest NFT marketplace. It offers a wide range of non-fungible tokens, including art, censorship-resistant domain names, virtual worlds, trading cards, sports, and collectibles. It includes ERC721 and ERC1155 assets. You can buy, sell, and discover exclusive digital assets like Axies, ENS names, CryptoKitties, Decentraland, and more. They feature over 700 different projects, including trading card games, collectible games to digital art projects, and name systems like ENS (Ethereum Name Service).
Creators can create their own items on the blockchain using OpenSea's item minting tool. You can use it to make a collection and NFTs for free, without the need for a single line of code. If you're developing your own smart contract for a game, digital collectible, or some other project with unique digital items on the blockchain, you can easily get added to OpenSea.
If you're selling items on OpenSea, you can sell an item for a fixed price, create a declining price listing, or make an auction listing.
Rarible is a community-owned NFT marketplace, with its "owners" holding the ERC-20 RARI token. Rarible awards the RARI token to active users on the platform, who buy or sell on the NFT marketplace. It distributes 75,000 RARI every week.
The platform places a particular focus on art assets. Creators can use Rarible to "mint" new NFTs to sell their creations, whether they be books, music albums, digital art, or movies. The creator can even show a sneak peek of their creation to everybody who comes to Rarible but limit the full project to the purchaser.
Rarible buys and sells NFTs in categories like art, photography, games, metaverses, music, domains, memes, and more.
SuperRare has a strong focus on being a marketplace for people to buy and sell unique, single-edition digital artworks. Each artwork is authentically created by an artist in the network and tokenized as a crypto-collectible digital item that you can own and trade. They describe themselves as being like Instagram meets Christie's, offering a new way to interact with art, culture, and collecting on the internet.
Each artwork on SuperRare is a digital collectible– a digital object secured by cryptography and tracked on the blockchain. SuperRare has built a social network on top of the marketplace. As digital collectibles have a transparent record of ownership, they're perfect for a social environment.
All transactions are made using ether, the native cryptocurrency to the Ethereum network.
At the moment, SuperRare works with a small number of hand-picked artists; however, you can use a form to submit your artist profile to get on their radar for their upcoming full launch.
Foundation is a specialist platform designed to bring digital creators, crypto natives, and collectors together to move culture forward. It calls itself the new creative economy. Its primary focus is on digital art.
In the first blog post on their website in August 2020, they announced an open call for creators to experiment with crypto and play with the concept of value. They invited creators to "hack, subvert, and manipulate the value of creative work."
Whenever an NFT trades on Foundation, the artist makes 10% on that secondary transaction, i.e., an artist receives 10% of the sales value any time a collector re-sells their work to someone else for a higher price.
AtomicMarket is a shared liquidity NFT market smart contract which is used by multiple websites to provide the users the best possible experience. Shared liquidity means that everything which is listed on one market also shows on all other markets.
It is a marketplace for Atomic Assets, a standard for non-fungible tokens on the eosio blockchain technology. Anyone can utilize the Atomic Asset standard to tokenize and create digital assets and buy, sell and auction assets using the Atomic Assets marketplace.
You can list your own NFTs for sale on the AtomicMarket, and you can browse existing listings. NFTs of well-known collections get a verification checkmark, which makes it easier to spot the real NFTs. Malicious collections are blacklisted.
Myth Market is a series of convenient online marketplaces supporting various brands from Topps to Blockchain Heroes and William Shatner on the WAX Blockchain.
Myth Market is a series of convenient online marketplaces supporting various digital trading card brands. At the moment, its featured markets are GPK.Market (where you can buy digital Garbage Pail Kids cards), GoPepe.Market (for GoPepe trading cards), Heroes.Market (for Blockchain Heroes trading cards), KOGS.Market (for KOGS trading cards), and Shatner.Market (for William Shatner memorabilia.)
Featured Markets
GPK Market; Your marketplace for digital Garbage Pail Kids Trading Cards.
GoPepe Market; Your marketplace for digital GoPEPE.io Trading Cards.
Heroes Market; Your marketplace for digital Blockchain Heroes Trading Cards.
Kogs Market; Your marketplace for digital Keys to Other Games Trading Cards.
Shatner Market; Your marketplace for digital Shatner Memorabilia Trading Cards.
BakerySwap is an automated market maker (AMM) and decentralized exchange (DEX) on Binance Smart Chain (BSC). It uses a native BakerySwap token (BAKE). BakerySwap is a multi-functional crypto hub offering a range of decentralized finance (DeFi) services, as well as a crypto launchpad and non-fungible token (NFT) supermarket.
Its NFT supermarket hosts digital art, meme competitions, and NFT in games that users can pay for in BAKE tokens. You can use NFTs in 'combo meals' to earn bonus BAKE tokens. Also, minting and selling your own artwork is a simple, straightforward process.
KnownOrigin is a market where you can discover and collect rare digital artwork. Every digital artwork on KnownOrigin is authentic and truly unique. Creators can use the platform to showcase and sell their work to collectors who care about authenticity. It is secured by the Ethereum blockchain. Creators can submit digital artwork as a jpg or Gif to the KnownOrigin gallery, with all files on IPFS.
Enjin Marketplace is a mechanism by which you can explore and trade blockchain assets. It is the official marketplace for Enjin based NFTs. To date, it has enabled $43.8 million of Enjin Coin to be spent on digital assets, involving 2.1 billion NFTs. 832.7K items have been traded. You can use the Enjin Wallet to easily list and purchase gaming items and collectibles.
The Projects page features Enjin-powered blockchain projects, from game item collections like the Multiverse and games like Age of Rust and The Six Dragons to gamified reward programs such as Microsoft's Azure Heroes, community-created collectibles, and NFTs by companies like Binance and Swissborg.
To Watch for; Introducing Efinity Next-generation Blockchain for NFTs,Scalable, decentralized, cross-chain network designed to bring non-fungible tokens to everyone.
Portion is an online marketplace connecting artists and collectors through Blockchain technology to easily sell, invest and own art and collectibles with complete transparency. It includes the Artist Community, a global network of decentralized artists and creators.
Portion allows anyone to be a collector. You can manage your physical and digital collection in one place, making it easy to exchange crypto for art and collectibles.
Portion Tokens are ERC-20 assets on the Ethereum Blockchain and exist to decentrally govern and vote on the platform's future. New tokens are released for liquidity mining, artist grants, partnerships, and future team members. New Portion Tokens are also distributed when artists create new NFTs, currently worth 500 PRT each.
Introducing Async, Art and Music
Reimagining the medium of music and art.
Async Art is a new art movement built on the blockchain. Create, collect, and trade programmable art: digital paintings split into "Layers", which you can use to affect the overall image.
Art that can evolve over time, react to its owners, or follow a stock price is now all possible with programmable art. Launched in February 2020, the platform has seen $7.8M+ in bidding and $2.1M+ in sales volume.
Async Art is an art movement built on the blockchain. You can create, collect, and trade programmable art. You can buy both "Masters" and "Layers." A Master is a 1/1 edition art piece, while Layers are the individual components that make up the Master image. Layers are endowed with special abilities decided by the artist. When you change something on a Layer, the Master image will reflect this regardless of who owns it. Artists select the parameters of their art and grant exclusive control over any aspect to individual collectors. For example, they might let someone change the state of the background, the position of a character, or the color of the sky.
Since February 2020, there has already been over $6M in bid volume on the platform and over $1.5M in artist sales.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an NFT?
An NFT is a non-fungible token. It is a unique item that you cannot replace with something else. An example of an NFT is a one-of-a-kind trading card, such as a digital artwork, that you simply cannot replace with any other artwork. Today, the majority of NFTs are digital which makes it very easy for creators to give their supporters something unique and rare. While they are similar to Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, they are non-fungible and non-divisible.
Can anyone sell on SuperRare?
No. At the moment, SuperRare works with only a small number of handpicked artists. If you would like to use this marketplace to sell unique, single-edition digital artworks, you can use a form to submit your artist profile and get you on SuperRare's radar for their upcoming full launch.
Where can I find rare digital artwork to collect?
You can, for example, check out KnownOrigin. It is a marketplace where you can discover and collect rare digital artwork. Only authentic and truly unique artworks are sold on KnownOrigin. It is secured by the Ethereum blockchain. You can also try Portion. The nice thing about Portion is that it allows anyone to be a collector. As you can manage your physical and digital collection in one place, it is easy to exchange crypto for art and other collectibles.
Where can creators sell NFTs?
There are a number of NFT marketplaces where creators can sell their NFTs. The majority of these platforms require buyers to have a digital wallet and use cryptocurrencies to pay for their purchase. You can, for example, check out OpenSea, Async Art, Foundation, Rarible and Myth Market. OpenSea describes itself as the biggest marketplace for NFTs and features more than 700 different projects.
How does Async Art work?
With Async Art, you can create, collect, and trade programmable art. You can either buy the individual components that make up the master image (referred to as "Layers") or the 1/1 edition art piece (called the Master image). Layers have special abilities decided by the artist. So, when you change something on the Layer, the Master image will reflect this change irrespective of who owns it. The artist decides which aspects, like the color of the background, individual collectors may change.
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My kids are really looking forward to Halloween this year. We are the "mean" parents who don't do the whole trick or treating thing. That's not to say that we frown on costumes and fun, because we don't. We just limit what the kids do to events like fall festivals and such. We do not hit the neighborhood and start ringing doorbells.
The kids hated this at first, but it actually works into a pretty good deal for them. We attend fall festivals that are generally not held on Halloween, so they get to have fun multiple times. What's fun about not trick or treating? Our Halloween night is the ultimate in family time. The four of either cook dinner together or splurge on pizza or other food, since we don't eat out much. Then we curl up on the couch for movies, usually scary ones. I buy Halloween candy and make special Halloween treats, so the kids are not missing out on anything. It is a night we all look forward to all year long.
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There's an interesting story out of Kentucky where the former accountant for the nation's oldest operating monastery was indicted Wednesday for allegedly stealing more than $1 million from the Abbey of Gethsemani.
But John Hutchins, the man at the center of the allegations, says he was targeted because he revealed details of what he says were sexual affairs inside the 166-year-old monastery.
The Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., is covering the story, and provides some background: On Feb. 17, Abbot Elias Dietz, the monastery's spiritual leader and president of its Gethsemani Farms mail-order business, wrote a letter in which he said, "We are currently dealing with a delicate issue regarding one of our employees." Dietz also wrote, according to the newspaper, that the abbey had discovered "some irregularities in its financial records" and said "someone in the employment of the abbey may be responsible."
The letter stated Hutchins had been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation and that authorities in Nelson County, Ky., had been notified of the allegations.
Hutchins would tell the paper only that he was the victim of a "cover-up." But The Courier-Journalsaid Hutchins had, in a widely circulated 11-page letter, said he went to "monastery leaders in January with information about 'multiple sexual affairs that were permitted ... at the monastery between monks & female lay employees, between monks & outside women' and between a lay supervisor and an employee under his supervision."
Here's more from the newspaper:
"The letter says women who 'went along' were given raises, while those who 'didn't play the game' were demoted. The letter mentions only one monk by name but says 'sexist comments and sexual banter' were common between monks and female employees.
"Hutchins also alleges that the supervisor and his employee had sex in a conference room over the monastery visitor center and that he videotaped them 'to protect myself.'
"He said that with Dietz out of the country, on Jan. 18, he reported his information to the three monks on the abbey's finance committee and later provided the same information to Ford and to the abbey's second-ranking monk, Prior Michael Casagram."
On Wednesday, a grand jury indicted Hutchins and his wife, Carrie Lee Hutchins, on 87 counts of theft, 40 of which relate to the alleged theft of more than $10,000. The indictment says the money was taken from the abbey's mail-order business from 2008 until February of this year.
The couple, through an attorney, said they would plead not guilty. Detective Jason Allison of the Nelson County Sheriff's Office told the newspaper he was aware of Hutchins' allegations, but said they were irrelevant to his investigation.
The Abbey of Gethsemani, , is a monastery in the Order of the Cistercians of the Strict Observance. The Trappist monks have been at the monastery since 1848. It was the home of Thomas Merton, the Catholic writer and mystic, who was known in the monastery as Fr. Louis.
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One of the exiting fields of embedded computing is 3D vision. The Microsoft's Kinect is certainly the premier consumer product in this category. However, if things go according to Intel's CEO Krzanich Kinect will soon get company. At his CES 2014 presentation he showed off RealSense scanning and gesture control technologies and announced the roll-out of this technology during 2014 with SDK becoming available soon.
Intel is not alone looking at this space. TI is also active in 3D Vision. However, their focus is more on Automotive rather than consumer devices. For those interested to look behind the scene of 3D technology, there is a video interview by Jeff Bier, founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance, that presents some live 3D feeds and explanations by Goksel Dedeoglu, Manager of Embedded Vision R&D at Texas Instruments.
Combining 3D Vision with Infra-Red (IR) imaging technology as showcased in the video below and it is easy to imagine what exiting opportunities are out there.
I agree that some of these technologies are out of reach for a typical DIY Maker. However, as in the past these technologies will come down in their price points and get more accessible to the masses quickly. One 3D Photo/Movie example can be found in Make Magazin. So it is never too early to start imagine what to do with it.


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Study offers new way to discover HIV vaccine targets
Decades of research and three large-scale clinical trials have so far failed to yield an effective HIV vaccine, in large part because the virus evolves so rapidly that it can evade any vaccine-induced immune response.
Researchers from the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard University have now developed a new approach to vaccine design that may allow them to cut off those evolutionary escape routes. The researchers have developed and experimentally validated a computational method that can analyze viral protein sequences to determine how well different viral strains can reproduce in the body. That knowledge gives researchers an unprecedented guide for identifying viral vulnerabilities that could be exploited to design successful vaccine targets.
The team, led by Arup Chakraborty, the Robert T. Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics and Biological Engineering at MIT, has designed protein fragments (peptides) that would target these weaknesses. Ragon Institute researchers are now developing ways to deliver the peptides so they can be tested in animals.
"We think that, if it continues to be validated against laboratory and clinical data, this method could be quite useful for rational design of the active component of a vaccine for diverse viruses. Furthermore, if delivered properly, the peptides we have designed may be able to mount potent responses against HIV across a population," says Chakraborty, who is also the director of MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Science.
Chakraborty and his colleagues describe their findings in the March 21 issue of the journal Immunity. Lead author of the paper is Andrew Ferguson, a former postdoc in Chakraborty's lab who is now an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Other authors are Bruce Walker, director of the Ragon Institute and a professor at Harvard Medical School; Thumbi Ndung'u of the Ragon Institute and the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute in South Africa; and Jaclyn Mann and Saleha Omarjee of the Doris Duke Medical Research Institute.
"This work stems from the novel approach to science that is the central mission of the Ragon Institute: to draw researchers from diverse scientific disciplines to catalyze new advances, the ultimate mission being to harness the immune system to prevent and cure human diseases," Walker says.
Rapid evolution
Typically when a vaccine for a disease such as smallpox or polio is given, exposure to viral fragments primes the body's immune system to respond powerfully if it encounters the real virus. With HIV, it appears that when immune cells in a vaccinated person attack viral peptides that they recognize, the virus quickly mutates its protein sequences so immune cells no longer recognize them.
To overcome this, scientists have tried analyzing viral proteins to find amino acids that don't often mutate, which would suggest that they are critical to the virus's survival. However, this approach ignores the fact that mutations elsewhere in the protein can compensate when those seemingly critical amino acids are forced to evolve, Chakraborty says.
The Ragon Institute team focused on defining how the virus's ability to survive depends on the sequences of its proteins, if they have multiple mutations. This knowledge could enable identification of combinations of amino acid mutations that are harmful to the virus. Vaccines that target those amino acids would force the virus to make mutations that weaken it.
With existing HIV protein sequence data as input, the researchers created a computer model that can predict the fitness of any possible sequence, enabling prediction of how specific mutations would affect the virus.
In this paper, the researchers focused on an HIV polyprotein called Gag, which is made up of several proteins that together are 500 amino acids long. The proteins derived from Gag are important structural elements of the virus. For example, a protein called p24 makes up the capsid that surrounds the virus's genetic material.
Each position in HIV proteins can be occupied by one of 20 possible amino acids. Sequence data from thousands of different HIV strains contain information on the likelihood of mutations at each position and each pair of positions, as well as for triplets and larger groups. The researchers then developed a computer model based on spin glass models, originally developed in physics, to translate this information into predictions for the prevalence of any mutant.
Using this model, the researchers can enter any possible sequence of Gag proteins and determine how prevalent it will be. That prevalence correlates with the fitness of a virus carrying that particular protein sequence, a relationship that the researchers demonstrated by using the model to predict the fitness of a few dozen Gag protein sequences, and verified by engineering those sequences into HIV viruses and testing their ability to replicate in cells grown in the lab. They also tested their predictions against human clinical data.
Visualizing fitness
The model also allows the researchers to visualize viral fitness using "fitness landscapes" - topographical maps that show how fit the virus is for different possible amino-acid sequences for the Gag proteins. In these landscapes, each hill represents sequences that are very fit; valleys represent sequences that are not.
Ideally, vaccine-induced immune responses would target viral proteins in such a way that mutant strains that escape the immune response correspond to the fitness valleys. Thus, the virus would either be destroyed by the immune response or forced to mutate to strains that cannot replicate well and are less able to infect more cells.
This would mimic the immune response mounted by people known as "elite controllers," who are exposed to the virus but able to control it without medication. Immune cells in those people target the same peptide sequences that the model predicted would produce the biggest loss of fitness when mutated.
This general approach could also be used to identify vaccine targets for other viruses, Chakraborty says.
"The reason we are excited about this is that we now have a method that combines two technologies that are getting cheaper all the time: sequencing and computation," he says. "We think that if this continues to be validated, it could become a general method of obtaining the fitness landscapes of viruses, allowing you to do rational design of the active components of vaccines."
"This work is a great example of how integrating expertise from different scientific disciplines - in this case physics, computational biology, virology and immunology - can accelerate progress toward an HIV vaccine," Walker says.


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Treasury, IRS interpretation of DOMA decision ensures federal tax benefits and protections for all married same-sex couples
WASHINGTON – Today the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced a ruling that will ensure all legally-married same-sex couples, regardless of where they live, will be recognized for federal tax purposes. Recently the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which prohibited the federal government from recognizing the legal marriages of same-sex couples.
"With today's ruling, committed and loving gay and lesbian married couples will now be treated equally under our nation's federal tax laws, regardless of what state they call home," said Human Rights Campaign president Chad Griffin. "These families finally have access to crucial tax benefits and protections previously denied to them under the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act."
Under this new ruling from the Treasury Department and the IRS, same-sex couples who are legally married will be treated as married for all federal tax purposes, including income, estate and gift taxes. The ruling applies regardless of whether the couple resides in a state or jurisdiction that recognizes their marriage.
Prior to today's ruling, lawfully married same-sex couples were forced to declare themselves "unmarried" to file their federal income tax returns. Furthermore, transfers of property, gifts and inheritances between same-sex spouses were taxed, unlike those between opposite-sex spouses – as was the case in Edie Windsor's successful challenge to DOMA before the Supreme Court. Even the health insurance benefits provided for a same-sex spouse were treated as taxable income, costing the average same-sex couple over $1,000 a year in additional taxes.
Recently other federal agencies have issued similar rulings or guidance regarding the invalidation of Section 3 of DOMA, including the Office of Personnel Management, Department of Defense, Department of Health and Human Services, and Department of Homeland Security. Other agencies are expected to announce decisions on how benefits will flow to same-sex couples.
Since the Supreme Court announced it would take up the challenge to DOMA in Windsor v. United States, HRC has been urging the White House and agencies across the government to make any necessary changes to policies, procedures and regulations to ensure the broadest implementation of a favorable decision on DOMA. Earlier this month, HRC sent a letter to the Treasury Department and the IRS urging them to recognize all lawfully-married same-sex couples for their purposes.
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2+1+1 Lattice QCD Calculations With HEX Smeared Clover Fermions
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The strong nuclear force is one of the four known fundamental forces of nature. It is responsible for binding atomic nuclei and their constituents, protons and neutrons, together from elementary particles, the quarks. Quarks come in six flavors, named up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top. Only the lightest three of them--the up, down, and strange quarks--are typically relevant for everyday life as atomic nuclei almost exclusively contain these three species only.
The next lightest quark, the charm, is responsible for a multitude of very short-lived particles--some of which have been discovered--and for small corrections to the properties of more common particles, such as protons and neutrons.
Our current theory of quarks and their interaction via the strong nuclear force - quantum chromodynamics (QCD) - should in principle allow us to predict all these effects, to reproduce the masses of the observed short-lived particles containing a charm quark and to predict the masses of yet unobserved ones.
In reality however, the computations underlying these predictions are extremely demanding: one has to discretize space and time on a grid or lattice and solve the equations of the theory (QCD) on it. The computational demands are even greater when one needs to accommodate the lightest quarks and the relatively heavy charm quark at the same time, because the light quarks require the volume to be large while the heavy charm quark requires the lattice to be fine at the same time.
The cutting-edge supercomputer resources of GCS will enable us to solve the equations of QCD on a large enough and simultaneously fine enough lattice to accurately compute the effects of the charm quark and predict the masses of short-lived particles it is contained in, which will contribute to better understanding the strong nuclear force.
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July 21, 2010 will mark the 202nd anniversary of the death of Micajah Clark, born September 16, 1718 and died July 21, 1808. Clark was the son of Christopher Clark (1681-1754) and his wife Penelope (1684-1760). He married Judith Lewis Adams about 1736. The couple had twelve children: Christopher (1737-1803), Robert (1738-?), Mourning (1740-?), Micajah (1740/41-?), John (1743-?), Edward (1745-?), Penelope (1747-?), Judith (1749-?), Bolling (1741-?), Elizabeth Ann (1754-1810), James (1757-?), and William (1760-?). I descend from their daughter Elizabeth Ann, who married her cousin Joseph Anthony (1750-1810).
Here are some images from a transcription of Micajah Clark's family Bible done by Samuel T. Moorman in 1832:
Clark and many of his sons were Revolutionary War soldiers. If you are looking to prove your lineage to Clark for DAR or similar applications, be careful that you have the right Micajah Clark. The name was used in the family for well over 200 years in several cadet branches, and it can be confusing. A biographical sketch of Clark's grandson Anselm Anthony describes Micajah Clark as a "Colonel" in the Revolutionary War, but I haven't seen any other references to his rank or service. He does appear on rosters of Revolutionary War soldiers.
Clark was born in St. Paul's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia. Many publications list his birthplace as Hanover County, which was not created until 1720. He was living in Hanover County in 1737 when his oldest son Christopher was born, but it is difficult to say with certainty exactly where he lived when his next five children were born. The family moved to Albemarle County between 1745 and 1747. Clark first appears in records for Fredericksville Parish and Albemarle County in March 1747. Here in Albemarle County, he was a neighbor of Thomas Jefferson. Many publications refer to Micajah Clark as a surveyor and particularly mention that he surveyed land for Thomas Jefferson; however, no documentation exists to substantiate these claims.
Given the surnames Lewis through his wife Judith's mother Mourning Lewis and his own Clark surname, it is tempting to surmise a connection to Lewis and Clark, the famous explorers, and there probably is one, given where the families of both Lewis and Clark lived, but I have not been able to to determine what that connection is.
Resource: Colonial Virginia Connections by Linda Starr.


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We have a lot of stray cats in my neighborhood and they possess an uncanny ability to know when a car has been cleaned for them to sit on and enjoy.
Needless to say, the dirty, dusty paw marks they leave behind is a hassle to clean.
The ideal solution would be to use a car cover, but to use it on a daily driver is highly impractical.
Are there any proven cat-repellent products that are specifically designed for cars? The last thing I want to do is apply some generic household product and damage the paintwork.
A quick Google search reveals that some products and techniques do exist, but they are either impractical, provide limited protection or difficult to get hold of.
I'm open to humane suggestions. No ethylene glycol. No spiked tuna, etc.