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Too much code, too few releases…
(or: release late, release seldom).
I don't know about you, but I have sort of one-man sprints on some of my modules when for days on end I take my laptop on trains and squeeze in time at lunch or whenever to refactor or enhance modules. The only trouble is that I'm very (read: too) particular about the quality of the code I release to the public. I want to make a good impression. I want it to have good test coverage. (Or at least some test coverage). I want it to have good docs, with an overview, an API guide, and a cookbook. I want it to have a roadmap so people can see what to expect. (And what not to expect).
But of course all that takes time and energy from the limited pool of time and energy at my disposal. And I have several projects, all competing for that same time and energy, not all of them related to Python or programming at all. Like most developers, I suspect, I'd far rather be writing new code, juicing up existing code, refactoring code for the new generation of language features, breaking code out into nicely layered, suitably decoupled modules. It's not that I don't value docs, test, etc. I do. But someone's got to write them. And that's me.
Also I don't want to go public with an underwhelming feature-set. I don't want people saying, "Oh good… Oh no! Where's….?" So I go on extending the code forever and never actually releasing. The Perfect is the proverbial enemy of the Good.
The case in point at the moment is the rewrite of my active_directory module (cunningly entitled active_directory2). It's more or less of a ground-up rewrite with a very similar API but more structure and layering etc. etc. The rewrite's been on the go for well over a year in bits & pieces. The trouble is that the original module works fine for most of what I want. Very occasionally I need something more sophisticated and I can usually cobble something suitable together for the occasion. So there's only a low incentive level.
Testing it's a bit of a 'mare as I need an test AD rig. Obviously. So, courtesy of the PSF MSDN Subscription — which, it seems to me, was created for just this kind of situation — I've installed a VM containing Windows 2003 Small Business Server. This is about the smallest modern server which will host Active Directory. This setup has the slight advantage that it forces me to test AD authentication since, in an inversion of the norm, I've already logged onto my laptop before firing up the AD server so it can't be the authenticating agent for my account.
I've got the top two layers working and I'm looking at tests — at the very least, exercise tests: ie those which simply call every function just to make sure it doesn't completely fall over. Then I'll probably release it as a work in progress while working on the more sophisticated extra layer which does some transparent transformations to and from Python types based on the schema definition of the AD object and which handles things like memberOf entries in a more Python way.
Watch this space…


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Over The Edge by Susan Lohrer
Genre: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
Published by: 5 Prince Books
Publication Date: July 25, 2013
Digital: ISBN 13:978-1-939217-73-8 ISBN 10: 1-939217-73-3
Print: ISBN 13:978-1-939217-74-5 ISBN 10: 1-939217-74-1
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"Sometimes love sends you sailing over the edge."
Kat Cherish, high school principal and activist (a combination that hasn't been great for her career) heads back to her hometown to mend her dignity only to discover her estranged kid sister is a mess… and their childhood home is for sale. Getting the house back just might be the only thing that can put Kat's complicated family back together… if she can cope with her mixed feelings for her ex-boyfriend, who's been hired to completely remodel her house for another potential buyer… and if she doesn't lose her new job because of the outrageous antics she's pulling to keep her sister out of trouble.
Kat shifted her wrists in the steel handcuffs. Rough, ancient bark pressed against her cheek, and the damp air intensified the resinous tang of the virgin forest. She'd been here since dawn—long enough to be on a first-name basis with Harvey, the Douglas fir. Which, if she let herself consider for more than a minute at a time, was kind of a weird development for a grown woman who had a respectable career. She'd consider it in more depth later. Right now she had enough on her mind.
A gust of coastal wind snatched her hat, and chilly rain plastered her hair to her scalp and trickled down her neck, making her teeth chatter. Nearby, a group of men wielded wrenches on a logging machine that refused to start. One of her students, the school board superintendent's son, retrieved the hat and plopped it back on Kat's head.
"Don't worry," he whispered, "they're not going to get that machine going anytime soon."
Alarm nibbled the back of her mind like a classroom gerbil gnawing a toilet paper tube.
"There'd better not be a reason you know that."
He laughed. "I'm just saying." Then, calling to his friends, he trotted off.
Kat wondered whether she'd still have her job at the end of the day.
The superintendent had made it clear she'd lose it in a blink if the kids did anything more than show up, and Kat had made them promise not to chain themselves to any trees. So far, all they'd done was text the protest's breaking news to their friends… unless they'd messed with the equipment before she got here this morning. The thought made her stomach feel like she'd eaten fir needles for lunch. She stared up into the dense boughs radiating from Harvey's trunk high above her.
"You don't think the kids wrecked that machine, do you, Harv? I mean, they know my career is at stake here." Harvey only sighed in the wind, branches waving toward the broken-down machine. Yeah, it had Kat a little worried, too.
She flexed her shoulders, stiff from the hours she'd spent shackled to the tree. She wasn't against logging; she lived in a wood-frame house and used reams of paper. What school principal didn't? And the logging industry in Mills Creek fed a lot of families.
In the last few hours, she'd had a chance to reevaluate her reasons for chaining herself to this tree. This was about so much more than the environment. It was about standing up for someone who couldn't stand up for herself. Or in Harvey's case, himself. It was about choices that had been taken away from her. It was about the fact that sometimes, no matter how wrong you were, you couldn't undo what you'd done.
Her goal wasn't to stop the logging, this community's lifeblood. It was to protect something beautiful and precious. If she could win this one small battle, do this one small good deed, save just this one tree, maybe it would somehow make amends in her heart for what she'd let happen to her family.
A Jeep rattled up the steep gravel road and pulled off on the landing, followed a few seconds later by a police car. Kat's stomach clenched.
A man exited the passenger door of the Jeep. His footsteps scuffed on the dirt road. Craning her neck, she peered through slanting late-afternoon shadows, making out only his easy gait and the set of his broad shoulders. Had they brought in a negotiator? He leaned into the police car for a minute, then stood, head down, hands on his hips, like a man bearing a heavy burden.
She almost felt sorry for the guy. She might look like a waterlogged rat at the moment, but he had no idea what he was up against. A tiny smirk crept over her mouth.
Now that this block of forest had been opened up to clear-cut logging, Harvey would have to watch while his family was torn away, one by one. She knew how he felt because the same thing had happened to her, until she had just one family member left. And she and Lacey weren't even on speaking terms at the moment.
She dug her fingers into Harvey's sturdy bark. "What am I doing talking to trees instead of making things right between Lacey and me?"
Soft footfalls on the carpet of needles behind her.
She straightened as much as she could. The chain connecting the two sets of handcuffs slipped and pulled her down with it until she had to slump against the tree trunk.
"Kat, what are you doing?" He sounded as exhausted as she felt. Sounded… disturbingly familiar.
That voice. Evan. Here? Memories grabbed her heart and sliced through it like the blade of the nearby feller buncher waiting to chop the young trees from their roots—if the loggers could get it running again. She strained her eyes to the left, looking without turning her head.
Evan was watching her, jaw clenched, rainwater slicking his blond hair.
She blinked the water from her eyes.
He was still there.
Not a gorgeous hallucination. A gorgeous reality. Her pulse whumped in her ears.
What was she doing? That was easy—she was running away from her failure to keep her family together. But what was Evan doing?
About Susan Lohrer:
Susan Lohrer grew up all over western Canada and lives in BC with her husband, their two children who are still at home, three dogs, and far too many aquariums. She believes life is always better with a healthy dose of humor.
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Dear Pete,
As long-time admirers of your music and your commitment to social justice, and as justice-seeking activists ourselves, we were surprised and troubled to learn that you plan to participate in the event "With Earth and Each Other: A Virtual Rally for a Better Middle East" this November.
As part of the 2005 Palestinian civil society call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS), and inspired by the cultural boycott of apartheid South Africa, Palestinian people have asked international artists to join the BDS movement by refusing to perform in Israel or participate in events that serve to equate the occupier and the occupied and thus promote the continuation of injustice. Participation in "With Earth and Each Other" undermines the call for BDS until Israel meets the basic requirements of human rights and international law by ending its occupation, ensuring equal rights for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and respecting the rights of Palestinian refugees.
"With Earth and Each Other" is a "peace" event. But as you know so well, peace without justice is not peace at all. The event will benefit the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies in the Negev or Naqab desert. But elsewhere in the Negev, Palestinian Bedouin communities are being displaced daily. The Arava Institute has said nothing this summer as the unrecognized village of Al-Araqib has been destroyed – and re-built by residents – four times in order to make way for a Jewish National Fund (JNF) park. This destruction and blatant disregard of human communities in the name of the environment is nothing new. The JNF, a partner organization in "With Earth and Each Other," has been engaged in the "Judaization" of Palestine for more than 100 years. After the 1948 expulsion of two thirds of the Palestinian people from their lands, the JNF planted fast-growing non-native trees on the ruins of Palestinian villages in a deliberate attempt to prevent refugees from returning to their land. The JNF continues to plant trees in Al-Araqib village and throughout the Negev and the Galilee, working with the Israeli government to displace Palestinian people – who have Israeli citizenship but are not treated equally to Jewish citizens of the state – and steal their land on an ongoing basis. Today, the JNF directly controls 13% of the land in Israel and effectively controls more than 93% of the land, renting and leasing only to Jewish citizens of the state in violation of the rights of the Palestinian minority. Clearly, this is not an organization to partner with in a "peace" event.
"With Earth and Each Other" claims that the event"s "purpose is not to take a side [or] say who is right or wrong." This implies that participation in the event is a neutral act, promoting "peace" while devoid of any political message. However, as the late Howard Zinn famously said, you can"t be neutral on a moving train. By joining this event, you would be inadvertently supporting the "Brand Israel" campaign, which has been launched by the Israeli government and promoted by institutions throughout the country in order to whitewash Israel"s violations of international law and project a false image of normalcy. Any statement that you wish to make by participating in this event would be overshadowed by the fact that you are crossing an international picket line established by the vast majority of civil society organizations in Palestine. In fact, a message of a just peace would reach far more people, including Israelis, if you were to cancel your appearance.
Since Israel"s war against Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009, which left 1,400 Palestinians dead and led The Goldstone Report to declare that Israel had committed war crimes, many international artists have refused to conduct business as usual with a country that places itself above international standards. After Israel"s shocking attack on a humanitarian aid ship bound for Gaza this past May, the number of artists has grown. Elvis Costello, Gil Scott Heron, Carlos Santana, Roger Waters, Devendra Banhart, and the Pixies are but a few of the artists who have refused to perform in Israel in the past year.
We ask you to join the growing list of artists who have respected the Palestinian boycott call. You have already demonstrated a commitment to justice in the region by supporting the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD), an organization that rejects the notion of "not taking sides" and takes an explicit political stand against Israel"s demolition of Palestinian houses. Notably, ICAHD is one of a growing number of progressive Israeli organizations to have signed onto the Palestinian call for BDS.
Over the past several decades, from the US Civil Rights movement to anti-war movements throughout the world, you have shown the courage to stand on the side of justice. You understand that when our governments fail to hold each other accountable for gross violations of human rights, we as people have the responsibility to do so. South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has said that "[i]f apartheid [in South Africa] ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined." The Palestinian BDS call reaches out from civil society in Palestine to civil society throughout the world, including in Israel, to join this freedom movement. We trust that you will not take this responsibility lightly.
We would be more than happy to discuss this further with you, and to support you in spreading your message to the largest number of people possible, whether through video or another medium. We are simply asking that you to do this in a way that does not undermine the growing global Palestinian-led BDS movement. We invite you to join this struggle for justice and cancel your participation in "With Earth and Each Other" this November.
We look forward to hearing from you.
With great respect,
Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel
Americans Against Apartheid UK
Arab Cultural Forum
Artists Against Apartheid UK
Association of Al-Quds Bank for Culture and Information
BDS Platform in the Netherlands
Birthright Unplugged
Boston BDS
BOYCOTT! Supporting the Palestinian BDS Call from Within (Israel)
British Committee for the Universities of Palestine (BRICUP)
Cafe Intifada
Canadian Arab Federation
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Toronto
Davis Committee for Palestinian Rights
Don"t Buy Into Apartheid
Don"t Play Apartheid Israel (DPAI)
Educators for Peace and Justice (Toronto)
Fredericton Palestine Solidarity (New Brunswick)
Independent Jewish Voices (Canada)
International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)
International Solidarity Movement (ISM)
Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods (J-BIG)
Jews Say No!
Los Angeles Palestine Labor Solidarity Committee
Not in Our Name: Jews Opposing Zionism
One Democratic State Group
Palestine Solidarity Committee-Seattle
Palestine Solidarity Group-Chicago
Palestinian Students Campaign for the Academic Boycott of Israel (Gaza)
Queers Against Israeli Apartheid (QuAIA), Toronto
Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism (QUIT)
Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign (UK)
Students Against Israeli Apartheid Carleton
Tadamon! Montreal
University Teachers' Association in Palestine
US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel
US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation
WESPAC Foundation
Women in Solidarity with Palestine (WSP), Toronto
Women of a Certain Age


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Alfa Laval's IoT Services enable remote support and predictive maintenance of your decanter centrifuge, ensuring reliable uptime, high yield and low service costs. Learn more about Alfa Laval's IoT Services for decanters in food applications in the sections below or contact us for a discussion on the best combination for your plant.
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IoT is revolutionizing the food industry
Internet of Things (IoT) is an umbrella term for a wide range of new digital technologies that allow processing and manufacturing companies to interconnect their different production and control systems in order to increase efficiency and customer value. IoT is one of the cornerstones of Industry 4.0, the fourth industrial revolution (the first three revolutions being the introduction of steam, electricity and electronics). Industry 4.0 combines IoT, new production methods, artificial intelligence, vision systems, etc. and will revolutionize all types of manufacturing and processing plants in the coming years. Alfa Laval is taking an active part in this development. With our IoT services for food & beverage plants, our customers get new possibilities to increase operating reliability and yield while reducing service costs. We are investing heavily in R&D and we will continue to release new IoT services as technology progresses.
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A reader sent me a link to his nascent blog, with no intention to spread the meme he started with, just to show me his blog, but after I thought about it for a while I came up with my own list, and decided to post it.
The Challenge
- Post 3 things you've done that you believe nobody else reading has done.
- If anybody responds with "I've done that," add another thing.
- Encourage your friends to paste this into their own journal to list the unique things they've done.
My List
- Escaped after being locked inside a morgue.
- Been at Cannes for the world premiere of a movie I was in.
- Hiked up a mountain, over rocks and snow, entirely in my bare feet.
Your list can go in the comments or in your own blog.


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Embryonic Stem Cells From Skin
The latest breakthrough in stem cell research turns skin cells into stem cells just as useful as embryonic stem cells, without the ethical issues. Adult stem cells and induced stem cells, while still able to become many other types of cells, still had some limitations. Researchers are saying, however, that stem cells using this new method, are just like embryonic.
We are getting to the point that using actual embryos is going to be completely unnecessary. It'll be almost medieval to suggest using them, when skin (which is the largest organ in your body; did you know that?) are able to produce what's required. I wonder how much the advance of methods to create embryonic-like stem cells was pushed forward by George W. Bush's restriction of embryonic stem cell lines that could be used. Bush, then, was not anti-science, but pro-ethical-science.
US researchers have reported a breakthrough in stem cell research, describing how they have turned human skin cells into embryonic stem cells for the first time.
The method described Wednesday by Oregon Health and Science University scientists in the journal Cell, would not likely be able to create human clones, said Shoukhrat Mitalipov, senior scientist at the Oregon National Primate Research Center.
But it is an important step in research because it does not require the use of embryos in creating the type of stem cell capable of transforming into any other type of cell in the body.
The technique involves transplanting an individual's DNA into an egg cell that has been stripped of genetic material, a variation of a method called somatic cell nuclear transfer.
"A thorough examination of the stem cells derived through this technique demonstrated their ability to convert just like normal embryonic stem cells, into several different cell types, including nerve cells, liver cells and heart cells," said Mitalipov.
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Five years ago, my business partner and I were fresh out of college with nothing but an idea. We knew that we had more insight on social media than the "adults" running ad agencies, which led us to start an agency that specialized in social media marketing.
We didn't have a website or business cards, and we definitely didn't have case studies to show prospective clients. Nevertheless, we were able to secure deals, develop our brand, and grow into a team of 15 people with offices in New York and Boulder.
Here are the three steps we took to lock in our very first clients, and how you might be able to lock in your first clients as well:
Be open minded, prepared and enthusiastic.
Attracting customers to a brand-new startup takes a little preparation and a ton of cheerleading — you've got to be open-minded, collaborative and the biggest brand ambassador your company has. To start an agency in the digital space, we knew we would need someone with programming skills, but also knew we couldn't afford to hire anyone. We quickly connected with a talented college student who put together a company website and business cards in return for being our go-to guy for design and development projects.
We spent our early days telling everyone we knew or met about our new company. In fact, the first client we had was someone who was sitting next to me at the poker table, and our second client was someone I got paired up with for a round of golf! In both cases, I continued to be outspoken about what we were doing, why we were qualified and how we could help their businesses.
Don't be afraid to work for free, at first.
We also made it nearly impossible for someone to say no to our time, thanks to our prices. We were getting our foot in the door by offering our services for next to nothing, and occasionally working for free to build case studies. We let our work speak for itself and, to this day, generate almost all of our new business through word of mouth.
There are tons of articles out there about raising your prices and making sure not to discount what you are doing, and for the most part, I agree. But when you are starting out, the most important thing is to get your product out there and get people to start referring you. If that means working for free in the beginning, do it. The most successful business people didn't start out locking in million-dollar deals. They started small, worked extremely hard and slowly scaled up the size of their deals over time.
Learn the difference between price and value.
Price is what someone pays for something, value is what someone gets out of what they pay for. As our company grew, we decided to discount our services for specific valuable customers who could help us grow through referrals and case studies. About one year into our business, a professional sports team that was referred to us got in touch. The team wanted to work with us, but had zero dollars allocated for social media marketing (keep in mind, this was 2008). After thinking long and hard, we told them that we wanted to work with them, regardless of the payment terms.
We looked at all of this "free" work as an investment, which in turn became one of the best decisions we've made. Working with this reputable team in the sports industry enabled us to advertise our relationship with them and has led to many other teams calling about our services, a few of which turned into paying customers. Ultimately, upper management recognized that social media was driving revenue, and each year since they have increased the budget put towards our services.


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A personal game about depression and its effects intended to help people with invisible illnesses broach the subject and explore it in a way they can have power over it.
ImagiNation is set after the fall of mainland Britain to a strange reality breakdown. The barriers between imagination and reality, dreams and nightmares have shattered and strange things dreamed up by people caught in the event teem across the land.
Only those who are already 'broken' can hope to cope with exploring, understanding and combatting this strangeness for the sake of the huddled refugees that sit and wait and watch from the smaller islands around the coast.
A game of mental illness and art using The Description System (Neverwhere).
This game is available FREE so please promote, download, host and spread as far and wide as you can.
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Attention is the universal currency in the quantum economy; we really do get what we pay for. – Craig Pinegar
Sigmund Fraud
Activist Post
The term New World Order (NWO) is ubiquitous in our society nowadays, and is repeated by world leaders, pop-stars, graffiti artists, and scholars.
Something different to each of us, to be sure, but this term is most often used in relation to the plans for world domination laid out by a conspiring group of occultist elites. Often invoking images of a dystopian nightmare where life on Earth is dehumanized, the NWO refers to a coming one-world-government future where suppression of the individual is total, as is the power of the State.
On its own, though, without the associations with Orwellian nightmares and world conspiracies, the term New World Order is rather benign and intriguing, implying that something new is coming, which will include us all, and which will be organized. However, injected into the popular lexicon many decades ago by the literature of the elite and a resonant press, this term now carries with it the dark symbolism of fear, submission, control and conspiracy.
This is NOT Normal…
A vision like this of the future certainly is not normal. Psychopathic behavior and diabolical evil stands out in human behavior, and most people are too occupied with life to get wrapped up in conspiring to enslave the planet.
It is not difficult to envision a better new world consumed with entirely different values and objectives. A world where the important things that make society function are not exploited, where people value the Earth and kinship more than warfare, distraction and consumerism. Where our ingenuity is put to the betterment of our plight rather than into our own destruction. A world that values life rather than worships death.
Language is the most effective tool for controlling human behavior. In this manner, the term NWO is language that is being used to inoculate a society with a particular idea, or vision, for the future. In this case, the idea of the global reign of a new totalitarian system of political and social control.
The human mind is a remarkably complex organism, yet remarkably simple to re-program and tamper with. Shockingly effective, hypnosis and Neuro-Linguistic Programming are simple and powerful ways of accessing the sub-conscious mind and planting suggestions, which, over time manifest as changes in behavior and beliefs. This works on an individual and it works, as well, on a collected society.
However, hypnotism is not magic; it is science. In order for it to be effective, the subject must be suggestible and be willing to be hypnotized, which the American public certainly is. The act of sitting in front of the television and willfully watching advertisements is one demonstration of suggestibility and willingness to follow orders. Our free will is being both taken and given. But, in this lies hope, should we decide to take responsibility for the state of things.
In a significant way, the population is being linguistically programmed to pre-submit and sub-consciously acquiesce in advance to the tyranny of a technological control system, so that, as this system is being constructed around us, any dissidence can be brushed under with aloof sarcasm and group-think, and any dissidents can be identified, ostracized or Guantanamo-ized. To ourselves we are already enslaved.
Perhaps another reason that the term New World Order is so deeply embedded in our collective dialogue is that many of us are truly craving a serious change in our lives and in our world.
In absence of an enticing vision of the future put forth by present leadership, people are seeking some vision to latch onto, they are seeking solace in the future but coming up empty. People need something new, something more to life, something more meaningful than the stresses of being consumers and employees.
Yet, at present there is no inviting prevailing collective vision for the future of society. There is not even a public discussion on how to contain the radiation still leaking from Fukushima. Could it be that there simply is no future for us?
In a sense, the public has now co-opted the 'New World Order' from the elite, and uses it as a form of daydreaming. The future is the New World Order, a social construct we are powerless to affect. We use the term New World Order because the world we've been conditioned to is destructive and leaves us unfulfilled, which violates our true nature as conscious, spiritual beings. And because the term fills a void, it is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
How we talk about our future is key in the spiritual war that is taking place. To go forth with virtuous collective intention is imperative right now, and we simply don't have the leadership for this.
The phrase 'New World Order' is both a warning sign from a menacing elite, and a cry of desperation from the rest of us. We are stuck in a world with no enticing vision for the future. The elite are trying to plant an idea in our heads, and at the same time we are searching desperately for a new idea. A dangerous combination.
So, really, you decide, I decide, we all decide, or they decide. And this is critical to remember. Although the elite would like us to believe they have a monopoly on the future, it is clear that their trickery and their bribery can only work if we willingly submit. We have the power, should we choose to get up off of our knees and display it.
By paying attention to what is said about the future, we are buying the future we speak of.
This article first appeared here at Waking Times
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Thyroid Hormone Tests
Test Overview
Thyroid hormone tests are blood tests that check how well the thyroid gland is working. The thyroid gland makes hormones that regulate the way the body uses energy.
The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped gland that lies in front of your windpipe (trachea), just below your voice box (larynx). The thyroid gland uses iodine from food to make two thyroid hormones: thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3). The thyroid gland stores these thyroid hormones and releases them as they are needed.
Thyroid hormones are needed for normal development of the brain, especially during the first 3 years of life. Intellectual disability may occur if a baby's thyroid gland does not produce enough thyroid hormone (congenital hypothyroidism). Older children also need thyroid hormones to grow and develop normally, and adults need the hormones to regulate the way the body uses energy (metabolism). The United States Preventive Services Task Force recommends that all newborns be tested for congenital hypothyroidism.footnote 1
Thyroid hormone blood tests include:
- Total thyroxine (T4). Most of the thyroxine (T4) in the blood is bound to a protein called thyroxine-binding globulin. Less than 1% of the T4 is free. A total T4 blood test measures both free and bound thyroxine. Free thyroxine affects tissue function in the body, but bound thyroxine does not.
- Free thyroxine (FTI or FT4). Free thyroxine (T4) can be measured directly (FT4) or calculated as the free thyroxine index (FTI). The FTI tells how much free T4 is present compared to bound T4. The FTI can help tell if abnormal amounts of T4 are present because of abnormal amounts of thyroxine-binding globulin.
- Triiodothyronine (T3). Most of the T3 in the blood is attached to thyroxine-binding globulin. Less than 1% of the T3 is unattached. A T3 blood test measures both bound and free triiodothyronine. T3 has a greater effect on the way the body uses energy than T4, even though T3 is normally present in smaller amounts than T4.
Why It Is Done
Thyroid hormone tests are done to:
- Find out what is causing an abnormal thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) test. For more information, see the topic Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH). This is the most common reason for thyroid hormone tests.
- Check how well treatment of thyroid disease is working. The total thyroxine (T4), free thyroxine (FT4), and free thyroxine index (FTI) values are often used to keep track of treatment for hyperthyroidism.
- Screen newborns to find out if the thyroid gland function is normal. A condition called congenital hypothyroidism can prevent normal growth and development and cause other severe problems, such as intellectual disability, if it is not treated soon after birth.
How To Prepare
Many medicines may change the results of this test. Be sure to tell your doctor about all the nonprescription and prescription medicines you take. If you are taking thyroid medicines, tell your doctor when you took your last dose. Your doctor may instruct you to stop taking thyroid medicines temporarily before having this test.
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form( What is a PDF document? ).
How It Is Done
Blood test
The health professional taking a sample of your blood will:
- Wrap an elastic band around your upper arm to stop the flow of blood. This makes the veins below the band larger so it is easier to put a needle into the vein.
- Clean the needle site with alcohol.
- Put the needle into the vein. More than one needle stick may be needed.
- Attach a tube to the needle to fill it with blood.
- Remove the band from your arm when enough blood is collected.
- Put a gauze pad or cotton ball over the needle site as the needle is removed.
- Put pressure on the site and then put on a bandage.
Heel stick
A heel stick is used to obtain a blood sample from a newborn. The baby's heel is pricked with a sharp instrument (lancet) and several drops of blood are collected.
How It Feels
Blood test
The blood sample is taken from a vein in your arm. An elastic band is wrapped around your upper arm. It may feel tight. You may feel nothing at all from the needle, or you may feel a quick sting or pinch.
Heel stick
A brief pain, like a sting or a pinch, is usually felt when the lancet punctures the skin. Your baby may feel a little discomfort with the skin puncture.
Blood test
There is very little chance of a problem from having blood sample taken from a vein.
- You may get a small bruise at the site. You can lower the chance of bruising by keeping pressure on the site for several minutes.
- In rare cases, the vein may become swollen after the blood sample is taken. This problem is called phlebitis. A warm compress can be used several times a day to treat this.
Heel stick
There is very little chance of a problem from a heel stick. A small bruise may develop at the site.
Thyroid hormone tests are blood tests that check how well the thyroid gland is working.
The normal values listed here—called a reference range—are just a guide. These ranges vary from lab to lab, and your lab may have a different range for what's normal. Your lab report should contain the range your lab uses. Also, your doctor will evaluate your results based on your health and other factors. This means that a value that falls outside the normal values listed here may still be normal for you or your lab.
Results are usually available within a few days.
Labs generally measure free T4 (FT4) levels, but also may measure total thyroxine (T4) and T3 uptake (T3U). Results of these thyroid hormone tests may be compared to your thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) results.
Total thyroxine (T4): |
11.8–22.6 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dL) or 152–292 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L) in newborns 6.4–13.3 mcg/dL (83–172 nmol/L) in babies and older children 5.4–11.5 mcg/dL (57–148 nmol/L) in adults |
Free thyroxine (FT4): |
0.7–2.0 ng/dL nanograms per deciliter (ng/dL) or 10–26 picomoles per liter (pmol/L) |
Total triiodothyronine (T3): |
105–245 ng/dL (1.6–3.8 nmol/L) in children ages 1–14 82–213 ng/dL (1.3–3.28 nmol/L) in adolescents ages 12–23 80–200 ng/dL (1.2–3.1 nmol/L) in adults |
Free triiodothyronine (FT3): |
260–480 picograms per deciliter (pg/dL) or 4.0–7.4 pmol/L in adults |
Free thyroxine index (FTI): |
1.5–4.5 (index) in adults |
Many conditions can change thyroid hormone levels. Your doctor will talk with you about any abnormal results that may be related to your symptoms and past health.
High values
High thyroid hormone levels (hyperthyroidism) may be caused by:
- Diseases of the thyroid gland, such as Graves' disease, thyroiditis, or a goiter that contains one or more abnormal growths (nodules).
- Taking too much thyroid medicine.
Low values
Low thyroid hormone levels (hypothyroidism) may be caused by:
- Thyroid disease, such as thyroiditis.
- Pituitary gland disease.
- Destruction of the thyroid gland by surgery or radiation.
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Taking certain medicines, such as:
- Corticosteroids, estrogen, progesterone, or birth control pills.
- Antiseizure medicines such as phenytoin or carbamazepine.
- Heart medicines such as amiodarone or propranolol.
- Lithium.
- Having recently had an X-ray test that uses contrast material.
- Being pregnant.
What To Think About
- Because false-positive results can occur when testing a newborn for congenital hypothyroidism, the thyroid hormone tests may be repeated a few days after initial testing. If the results are still abnormal and congenital hypothyroidism is suspected, additional testing is done.
- Other blood tests are often used to check how well the thyroid gland is working.
- Thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) test measures the amount of TSH in the blood and is considered the most reliable way to find a thyroid problem. If the TSH test is abnormal, other thyroid hormone tests such as a T3 or T4 may be done. For more information, see the topic Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone.
- Thyroid antibodies test measures the presence of antibodies against thyroid tissue. Antibodies may mean that you have an autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis or Graves' disease.
- Thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG) test. TBG is an important protein in the blood that carries the thyroid hormones T3 and T4. TBG testing is not done very often.
- Other tests used to investigate problems with the thyroid gland include:
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (2008). Screening for congenital hypothyroidism: Reaffirmation recommendation statement. Available online: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/uspstf08/conhypo/conhyprs.htm.
- Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Other Works Consulted
- Chernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis: Saunders.
- Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Current as of: November 6, 2018
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Kathleen Romito, MD – Family Medicine & E. Gregory Thompson, MD – Internal Medicine & Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine
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What happens when a galaxy doesn't have enough hydrogen to support its stellar production process? Why, it sucks it from its hapless neighbors like some sort of cosmic vampire, that's what. And evidence of this predatory process is what's recently been observed with the National Science Foundation's Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, in the form of faint "cold flows" bridging intergalactic space between the galaxy NGC 6946 and its smaller companions.
"We knew that the fuel for star formation had to come from somewhere," said astronomer D.J. Pisano from West Virginia University, author of the study. "So far, however, we've detected only about 10 percent of what would be necessary to explain what we observe in many galaxies. A leading theory is that rivers of hydrogen – known as cold flows – may be ferrying hydrogen through intergalactic space, clandestinely fueling star formation. But this tenuous hydrogen has been simply too diffuse to detect, until now."
NGC 6946 also goes by the festive moniker of "the Fireworks Galaxy," due to the large amount of supernovae that have been observed within its arms — eight within the past century alone. Located 22 million light-years away between the constellations Cepheus and Cygnus, NGC 6946's high rate of star formation has made astronomers curious as to how it (and other starburst galaxies like it) gets its stellar fuel.
One long-standing hypothesis is that large galaxies like NGC 6946 receive a constant supply of hydrogen gas by drawing it off their less-massive companions.
Now, thanks to the GBT's unique capabilities — such as its immense single dish, unblocked aperture, and location in the National Radio Quiet Zone — direct observations have been made of the extremely faint radio emissions coming from neutral hydrogen flows connecting NGC 6946 with its smaller satellite galaxies.
According to a press release from the National Radio Astronomy Observatory:
Earlier studies of the galactic neighborhood around NGC 6946 with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) in the Netherlands have revealed an extended halo of hydrogen (a feature commonly seen in spiral galaxies, which may be formed by hydrogen ejected from the disk of the galaxy by intense star formation and supernova explosions). A cold flow, however, would be hydrogen from a completely different source: gas from intergalactic space that has never been heated to extreme temperatures by a galaxy's star birth or supernova processes.
Another possible source of the cold flow is a previous collision with another galaxy, possibly even one of its own satellites, which would have left strands of atomic hydrogen in its wake. But if that were the case stars would likely have since formed within the filaments themselves, which has not yet been observed.
Pisano's findings have been published in the Astronomical Journal.
Source: NRAO press release. Learn more about the Green Bank Telescope here.
Image credit: D.J. Pisano (WVU); B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF); Palomar Observatory – Space Telescope Science Institute 2nd Digital Sky Survey (Caltech); Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope


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Political signs are signs that endorse a candidate running for office, lobby on behalf of a political organization, or promote a vote on a proposition, plebiscite, or referendum.
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If you have commercial vehicles as part of your company in Tennessee, it's essential to secure the proper insurance coverage, whether you have one car or a whole fleet. That way, you'll be covered if one of your employees is involved in an accident or damage is caused to one or more of the vehicles.
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Gayle Anderson was live in Burbank and Sun Valley for the "Veterans Charity Ride to Sturgis," supported by Indian Motorcycle. Riders depart Friday, July 28th, 2017 on a nine-day journey from Los Angeles to the 77th Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. Rolling out on Indian Motorcycles, trikes and Champion Sidecars, the 3rd Annual Veterans Charity Ride provides participating veterans a chance to use motorcycle therapy as a way to decompress from the challenges of post-war life. Dozens of veterans have participated in the last two rides, and in 2017 twenty deserving veterans and veteran mentors will join the Veterans Charity Ride to Sturgis. The ride provides participating veterans the opportunity to work toward overcoming their post-war challenges while out on the open road. Riding through the most scenic back roads of the western United States, veterans will not only experience the great outdoors and the beauty this country has to offer, but also make stops to meet with other veterans, supporters, riders, and participate in various adjacent adventures. For more information about the Veterans Charity Ride, take a look at their website. If you have questions or concerns, please feel free to call Gayle at 1 323-460-5732 or email Gayle at [email protected] Leave a Reply. |
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The mountains of the Northeast may not approach the altitudes of the Alps or Pyrenees, but cheeses crafted in the nooks, crannies, and foothills of the Green Mountains and Adirondacks stand tall next to their European forebears. Not only is the region home to excellent cheesemakers, but it is also popular amongst those looking to get out into the great outdoors and explore the wilderness of America. Those looking to brave the elements may also want to read the reviews of various gear and equipment to help them conquer their environment.
American cheesemakers are in many ways still blazing a trail for hand-crafted cheese, free from many of the same constraints that shaped European cheese tradition. Today the peaks and valleys of the American countryside yield some of our favorite farmstead cheeses– traditional Alpine wheels made from raw Jersey cow's milk, terroir driven goat tommes, and luscious mixed-milk triple creams.
Spring Brook Farm-Reading, VT
While Alpine agrarians cooked and pressed the curd for their hefty wheels of Gruyere out of necessity (who wants to schlep a hundred balls of soft burrata down a mountain slope instead?), today you'll find Alpine-style Tarentaise from Spring Brook Farm made an expansive Vermont meadow, where a herd of 100 doe-eyed Jerseys (prized in the cheesemaking community for their rich milk) get their fill of lush grass in fields surrounding the cheese house. The terrain might not be Alpine, the process certainly is: cheesemaker Jeremy Stephenson heats curds in traditional copper kettles, and finished wheels are washed and turned for months, all the while developing the characteristic Alpine flavors- a kick of pineapple, followed by a savory nuttiness akin to hazelnut butter.
Twig Farm-West Cornwall, VT
If meaty washed rinds like Forsterkase and Vacherin Mont d'Or are more your speed, trek 60 miles across the Green Mountains to Twig Farm in West Cornwall, Vermont, where Michael Lee and Emily Sunderman milk a small herd of Alpine goats for their raw milk cheeses. Twig's Soft Wheel peaks in these mid-winter months, the buttery late-season milk redolent of wild grasses and wilder flowers, with a characteristic brightness. Soft Wheel, aptly named, is washed in whey brine, which encourages its healthy pink rind and enhances its depth of flavor.
Nettle Meadow Farm-Warrensburg, NY
At Nettle Meadow Farm in the southern Adirondacks, cheesemakers Lorraine Lambiase and Sheila Flanigan have embraced their rich, expressive milk and fashioned Kunik, a triple cream dream worthy of a picnic at any elevation. Though bloomy rinds reign the coastal regions of France, we think New York's Kunik fits right in nestled in wooded, sloping terrain. Made from the milk of Nettle Meadow's herd of browsing goats, with an added dollop of cream from neighboring Jersey cows, Kunik is an unmistakably peanutty butter bomb, an edible testament to a balance of traditional skill and American ingenuity.
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Steven Brill, who last year authored Bitter Pill, TIME's in-depth look at the health care industry's bewildering billing system, appeared on The Daily Show on Thursday to discuss his latest TIME column, in which he lexamines some of the early effects of Obamacare.
In his original story, Brill wrote about a cancer patient who had to pay $83,900, in advance for his treatment plan and $13,702 transfusion of cancer drugs. Now under Obamacare, Brill said, nothing has been done to change the cost structure; the bill has merely shifted to the taxpayers. "We pay his insurance premium, we being the taxpayers," Brill said. "And guess what the price of that drug is: $13,700."
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By Wallace Scot McFarlane
Many rivers in the United States carry the burden of having been severely polluted. Indeed all the rivers on which I have lived were once no healthier than an open sewer: the Trinity River (Dallas's untreated sewage), the Concord River (military-industrial complex Superfund sites), the Androscoggin River (paper mills), the Charles River ("love that muddy water!"), and the Willamette River (paper mills). Although none of these rivers live up to the clean water promised by the Clean Water Act, they are nonetheless much cleaner and offer plenty of recreational opportunities, often neglected by the many people who call these watersheds home.
Canoeing the pristine headwaters of the Androscoggin River along the Maine-New Hampshire border was one of my fondest summer camp memories.
The trip involved several hours of driving past mill towns until we arrived at the headwaters, untouched by pollution from the mills. We saw bald eagles, moose and many other people with the same great idea. Several years later I attended Bowdoin College located near the mouth of the Androscoggin.
During the summers I studied the ecology of these waters. Although my fellow researchers and I found parts of the ecosystem degraded — like the essentially extinct Atlantic salmon population — it was nonetheless a beautiful place to work. We saw sturgeon breaching, ospreys and bald eagles overhead, and many fewer people than I had seen as a camper at the Androscoggin's remote headwaters, despite being only a few miles from a traffic-jammed Route 1.
It turns out there is a good historical reason that I had the lower Androscoggin all to myself compared with the crowds of its headwaters. In 1941 pollution coming from upstream paper mills caused a stench in the Androscoggin in Lewiston, Maine so potent that people crossing the bridge threw up.
Parts of the river had oxygen levels close to zero, it was unable to support any fish, and foam wafted from the river into the streets — leading children to think it snowed in August.
Senator Edmund Muskie, who co-sponsored the 1972 Clean Water Act, grew up along the Androscoggin and experienced its awful pollution firsthand. To this day, the river carries the stigma of being a dirty, stinking river.
Before the Clean Water Act, the task of cleaning up rivers was largely left to individual states, which often relied on the expertise of scientists. My research on the Androscoggin focused on the post-war years leading up to the Clean Water Act when a lone chemist, Walter A. Lawrance, was appointed rivermaster by the Maine Supreme Court to clean the river. Throughout his thirty-plus year tenure, Lawrance claimed that he worked solely with scientific facts whereas concerned citizens and members of the emerging environmental movement were sometimes labeled as emotional. Many of Lawrance's actions were clearly motivated by his background in chemistry. He dumped thousands of tons of sodium nitrate into the Androscoggin in order to prevent the creation of hydrogen sulfide which smelled like rotten eggs. Meanwhile, members of the public used the discipline of ecology to argue against Lawrance's methods as ineffective efforts that ignored the health of the river.
Yet all of the parties frequently ignored what they held in common: the river itself and the way it shaped the debate and their actions. During the warm and smelly summer months, Lawrance stepped outside the boundaries of the chemistry lab and took daily "objective odor observations," which involved him sniffing the air coming from the river and labeling its odor intensity and type. He correlated these odor observations with his measurements on water temperature, pollution load, and river flow. Initially his odor observations provided a good gauge of the public's response to pollution in the river: if his odor numbers were low then so were the public complaints.
Eventually Lawrance discovered a public increasingly sensitive to river odor. In 1971 a local duck hunter summed up the value of Lawrance's reports: "If Mr. Lawrance feels the river is improving and the smell only sporadic it must be because he is living at least five miles from the river and checking it from an airplane."
I wonder if Lawrance made his claims of an odorless river for another reason as his role shifted and the federal government took responsibility for reducing water pollution. Maybe Lawrance wanted to reduce the Androscoggin's stigma as an open sewer. After so many years on the water, I find it hard to believe that Lawrance had not fallen in love with the Androscoggin. He understood the value of holding one's nose and appreciating the river as it was. To this day, parts of the river don't meet the standards of the Clean Water Act, but this doesn't stop events like the Androscoggin River Watershed Council's annual Source to the Sea Trek whose goal is to foster an appreciation for the river and raise awareness about the ongoing challenges the river faces.
The environmental movement was born out of a reaction to environmental degradation amidst a growing emphasis on quality of life. Thus people fought to end the stench of rivers like the Androscoggin and demanded access to "wild" rivers like the Allagash or the Colorado for their communion with nature. Today many urban and industrial rivers are safe to swim in and even to eat certain fish such as steelhead or smelt, but they are also forgotten now that they no longer appear to interfere with the health of our communities. The only time these rivers are mentioned is in the almost nostalgic reminisces of when they used to catch fire or nauseate whole neighborhoods. If we keep imagining the rivers in our backyards as polluted catastrophes and forsake them for rivers that have always been pure then perhaps history will repeat itself, and our hometown rivers will come back to haunt our senses.
Wallace Scot McFarlane is the author of "Defining a Nuisance: Pollution, Science, and Environmental Politics on Maine's Androscoggin River" in the journal Environmental History. He teaches fiction writing at Kings Valley Charter School and spends his weekends floating on the Willamette River.
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Wales has a long and proud tradition as an industrial nation. The 1851 census records that it was the first nation in the world to have a higher proportion of its workforce employed in industry rather than in agriculture.
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Not getting overwhelmed by learning, no siree
| lifeSometimes I feel like I'm buzzing from all the different things that are going on. So many new things to attend to! I upgraded to Camtasia Studio 8 so that I can record better screencasts and experiment with sketchcasting. I bought Quickbooks Pro 2012 so that I can use it for business accounting. I'm playing around with delegation, so I want to make sure that people have things to work on. W- ordered the LEGO Batman 2 game, which is pleasantly distracting. So many things to explore and learn. If I manage things well, I can avoid running around in circles or getting distracted too much.
It's a good opportunity to practise slowing down and not getting overwhelmed. Breaking ideas down into small chunks makes it easier for me to make progress, and checking tasks off lets me see how I'm doing. Writing slows me down and helps me reflect.
And then there's slowing down with non-computer time, too: a conversation over lunch, some alone time with my sketchbook, a walk with my husband, that sort of thing.
It's also important to make space for play – both the exploration of the world that the LEGO game creators made, and the exploration of these worlds of software that all these other developers have put together.
Maybe I should start tracking these moments so that I can get a better sense of what my sweet spot is like and how I get there. In terms of household routines, we're doing pretty well. Work is good, too. This – this isn't work-overwhelm or chores-overwhelm or even social-overwhelm, this is just spreading myself a little too thin, and I can fix that.


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One of the most well-known haunted hotels in America, the Crescent hotel has a history that just requires there to be ghosts and haunts associated with it. And the Crescent has plenty. The site of a former hospital run by a con artist who had previously been convicted of practicing medicine without a license, the fraudulent sawbones promised a cure for cancer. Patients walked in on their own two feet and were carried out feet first. Deaths were so numerous that the basement housed its own morgue, which is a main tourist attraction now, sharing space with the hotel's day spa. Ghost sightings and stories are numerous and not limited to the Crescent's stint as a health facility, there are also ghosts who date from its construction and its time as a girls' school. Room 218 is said to be one of the most haunted rooms and it is claimed that this is where a former construction worker died when he fell, striking his head on a stone lintel. In addition room 419 is said to be haunted by a female ghost they call Theodora and rooms 202 and 424 are said to be haunted as well. Staff also claim that apparitions routinely walk the halls, especially nurses seen pushing people in wheelchairs. The hotel offers a nightly ghost tour that will take you through the hotel, pointing out all the rooms and stories associated with the building and ending up in the former morgue turned maintenance room.
We have stayed twice in the Crescent hotel, in rooms 218 and 202. Neither time did anything of a spooktacular nature occur. Well one thing did occur: the jacuzzi tub turned on all by itself in the middle of the night. At first, we thought this was interesting, however on inspecting the bathroom (including the electrical outlet that had been sawed in half in order to fit it into the space right next to the tub) we determined that the jacuzzi turning on was more to do with the very scary electrical wiring than any scary supernatural occurrence. The hotel is old and shabby and in dire need of repairs, with holes in the carpet and peeling paint and the elevator at the time of this writing (Spring 2013) was out of service as it is being "renovated" for over a year and a half now. Apparently none of the money they are making on their ghost tours, fairly high room fees and merchandising is being put back into the hotel. If you are considering staying here, pack lightly and be prepared to climb stairs.
If you've had a paranormal experience here, or have any additional information about this location, please let us know!
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- Address:
- 75 Prospect Ave
Eureka Springs AR 72632
United States
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- 36.40830147934259, -93.737261826181
- County:
- Carroll County, Arkansas
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- 877-342-9766
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- http://www.crescent-hotel.com/
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We've got an unexplainable photo to prove it. The skeptic in me thinks it has to be a camera malfunction. I took the picture but personally, I really don't know. It's almost too perfect to be real. The next time we go down there we are going to give a copy to the hotel. Then you guys can judge it for yourselves.
Took the ghost tour with some friends. I felt very different down in the morgue. There was an immense feeling of somber and even a very sad and lonely feeling. I felt very moved by the loneliness and loss of lives that would have been lived. I felt this same way only once before when I when to Dachau, the German concentration camp.
Went to the Crescent last weekend for the first time. I loved the ghost tour. Miss Peaches couldn't have been a better guide. I highly recommend it. I cannot wait to go back and spend the night. We had no experiences to speak of but a couple ppl in the group got orbs in the photos and one girl had a mist. LAlso standing in the hall outside room 218, the unoccupied door next to it opened with out help. I believe this was a closet. The EMF meter wigged out at the bottom of the stairs where a child fell ad again in the morgue. I do recall feeling a strong since of sadness while being locked in the old freezer but im sure this was just from the knowledge of knowing what sheer awfulness had occurred there.
I have been going to the Crescent since I was a little girl! We would go stay for the weekend or just drive up on the weekend for Sunday brunch. I absolutely love this place. It is an amazing hotel with absolutely interesting history. I have been on the ghost tour a few times and love it. The only thing that I have experienced is what I find in my photos. Many of them with orbs, black masses, and unexplained streaks in them. I truly believe that this place is haunted…..
The area that is shown in this video was an apartment years ago. I had the pleasure of living in it 2 Seasons in the late 80's. My step dad was a musician & played at the hotel. In return they rented us the MORGUE. My brother & I used the pull outs for our dressers. It was definitely 2 summers I will never forget. I spent many nights in the lobby sleeping on one of the sofas due to the moaning & growling sounds I would hear. And for some reason the ghost down there didn't approve of our TV being on. It constantly turned it off. Living there shaped my future… I went on to College and became a Mortician. I visited the hotel years ago & took the GHOST TOUR…but was asked to give my green dot back within the 1st 20 minutes of the Tour. I kept correcting the GUIDE & telling him he was wrong. I lived there…I knew what I was talking about…. Lol. I'm glad to see they have admitted the MORGUE existed. My guide said it had no MORGUE.
Worked on the restoration of the Crescent Hotel for abt 2 yrs. I was part of the painting crew . In that time I would be there many times late at night trying to get a room done so it could be rented. I had 3 occasions where I felt a presence and then shortly thereafter something lightly touch my shoulder . I saw a few times a sort of wispy floating prpresence…mostly in the hallways. The morgue area made me feel uncomfortable.
My wife and I stayed in Room 218 – Michael's room – on our honeymoon in early November 2014. It was dumb luck we even got the room and we had no idea of its history until we took the ghost tour that night. While on the tour we saw an odd mist from an upper balcony and kept smelling a cherry cigar smoke. Likewise some things were misplaced in the room itself and the shower temperature changed without warning. All stuff I could explain away easily enough.
Two things happened that were not easy to explain. The first happened immediately before and after the tour. There is a door leading out to the balcony outside the room and it has to be locked from the inside. I took care of that myself right before the tour. During the tour itself the guide decided to do some EVP and try to contact, of course, Michael while in the morgue. Nothing happened there but, when we got back, I'll be flummoxed if that door wasn't pushed open from the inside (see the picture taken right as we got in the room).
The second thing happened later that night. I had passed out on the bed, exhausted after our big night, and woke up at one point to notice we'd left one of the curtains up. Desiring privacy, I got up to put the curtain down. As I walked toward it, there was a sensation like static electricity up to my mid-calves and it got stronger the closer I got. Ignoring it, I put the curtain down. At that moment one of the legs on my pajama pants raised and lowered on its own. Just like that.
Unless the hotel staff install some kind of high tech wizardry to make your stay in Michael's room live up to its legend I've got nothing.
I visited for the first time October 6, 2018 with two of my gal pals. I can't speak for them, but, they both at points, felt dread, tired, and sick while roaming the halls and floors. I seemed okay through it all but did have some points that interested me. One was when I was searching for room 419, I had a thought come to me that said that I didn't need to find the room it was just a door; little odd, but if you know where 419 is, it is tucked oddly behind penthouse stairs and is kind of creepy. I spoke to a butler, who was a pizza delivery kid. This one was the oddest and explainable event for me. My one friend was with me, about 20 steps behind on the 2nd floor. There is a little staircase about the middle of the building, which I would call a butlers stairs, but don't really know. Well, I looked towards the left over the top of those stairs and when I panned back there was a butler there. I looked at his face, neatly groomed hair and folded hands about waist height. He asked me, "may I help you find something?", which I said, "no, I am just checking things out". All normal right? Well, he was between my friend and I, after I responded, I turned and walked toward the front balcony but out of the corner of my eye, I noticed, he wasn't a butler, he was a kid in skinny jeans delivering pizzas. I saw 2 cardbard boxes. I thought it was odd, why a pizza guy would ask me and the tone didn't sound like "hip" slang. But I went on my way and so did he. My friend says she only say pizza guy, he never looked at her and that he asked me "did you order a pizza?", which she thought was odd. Then he said, "I must be on the wrong floor" and headed down the lil stairs. She smelled pizza, I never did and that is not what he asked me. I never heard him say that he was on the wrong floor, to me he was a helpful butler but my mind caught glimpse of pizza kid. Did I see and speak to apparition using pizza guy? I don't know, but I would like to go back and see if I can again. I know what I saw and heard and didn't smell. Pretty amazing place which I do believe has it's oddities.
I like to go and stay at haunted hotels or bed and breakfast places and do my own private investigations. Spent Christmas vacationing here at The Crescent 5 years ago. It did not dissapoint! I have got one of my best paranormal photos on the hallways there and the most terrifying night at room 218, ended up leaving the room at 3:45am….too much stuff malfunctioning, being knocked around, loud bang on the wall. Felt completely unwelcome, so I just left. No EVP's or images on photos or video, just stuff mysteriously being knocked off its place and elecronics/appliances malfunctioning the entire time I was there. Also recommend the Basin Hotel, they too have paranormal activity there.
When it was built in 1886, It was America's finest resort, shortly after, it was turned into an all women's college for quite a few years, until in 1937, Norman Baker bought the building and turned it into a "Cancer Hospital" where he claimed he found the cure for cancer, when in reality, he didn't know at all and used a fake cure and inject the fake cure into patients bodies 5-7 times a day. In the hospital, there was also a psych ward for patients who refused to believe the cure worked. In total 44 documented deaths occurred in the hotel. Norman Baker was found out and spent a few years in prison and had to pay a $4000 fine and later lived the rest of his life in Florida with millions of dollars.
I went down here before, I was in a hallway and my family was with me. We are standing in the middle of the hallway and we hear a knock. No one was around, plus, the knock was in the middle of the air. I didn't know the atmosphere can harden to a colorless solid and create knocking sounds when it feels threatened. After that, I took pictures in more hallways, I found (in total) 8 orbs, 2 sightings of mist, and 2 human apparitions. The pictures are on my SD card, when I'm not lazy enough, I'll upload them.
Since the gang went here about a year ago, we'v enever been the same. Velma is quite odd now. She felt a static effect on her leg then went insane. Daphne started screaming in the night. Scooby has been alright but shaggy randomly stopped eating. He's doing fine he just doesn't eat. We're all scarred for life from this experience.
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LoRa LoRa Laughs!
Until recently the preferred method was to use RTTY transmissions, however the advent of the IoT (Internet Of Things) has seen manufacturers of radio modules develop devices to increase both the range and reliability of communication between 'connected' embedded devices.
One such development are LoRa devices, primarily for devices to connect to a global wide-area network LoRaWAN, more information can be found at the LoRa Alliance in addition there are some open hobbyist networks such as The Things Network using these devices.
Using chirp spread-spectrum modulation these LoRa devices are marketed as being capable of robust, interference and fade resistant communication over longer distances and higher data rates.
The UK HAB community has begun experimenting with these devices and one of their keen proponents is Dave Akerman (M0RPI). Dave has developed both payload software for the "Pi In The Sky" PITS tracker along with Anthony Stirk (M0UPU) and gateway software in collaboration with Robert Harrison M0RJX. The 'gateway' is the necessary receiver element to upload the data to the tracking system. (all software is on the PITS Github page)
Dave gave an informative presentation on LoRa at the UKHAS 2016 Conference which is now available online (starts around 3 minutes in)
I had intended to fly a LoRa transmitter on my 2015 Hamfest balloon but it stopped working at the eleventh hour and hadn't done anything else with LoRa till recently.
Spurred on by the conference presentation and the fact more and more flights are carrying LoRa I invested in one of the Raspberry Pi expansion boards sold by Uputronics and built up another prototype tracker with a working LoRa module.
I have done talks at various radio clubs and societies and demonstrated it working but hadn't actually received a 'real flight' as opportunities have been scarce due to the weather. However in the few weeks I have tracked a couple of flights receiving both telemetry and image data, getting a couple of complete images from the imaginatively named 'SPACE' flight.
Dave Akerman also flew a flight experimenting with multiple payloads using Time-division multiplexing (TDM). It had 10 small of "AVRLoRaNut" trackers (of Anthony M0UPU's design) all set to the same frequency (434.450MHz) and same transmission mode. The trackers took turns to transmit, with each one allocated a particular transmission slot in a 20-second cycle. The cycle was GPS-timed but, if any tracker lost GPS lock then it derived timing from the transmissions from the other trackers (the LoRa devices are also receivers) All 10 trackers were suspended from the same balloon. This was in preparation for the 'Operation Outward' re-enactment next year (Steve Randall gave a presentation on it in the above conference video starts 1 hour 16 mins in)
I successfully received telemetry despite the flight not being local and constantly heading away from me as can be seen in the screen shots.
Always a busy man Dave also flew a flight with an experimental camera setup. The SSDV images this time came from a Nikon compact camera, connected to the Raspberry Pi via USB, and using gphoto2 software to take and transfer images to the Pi where they were stored, resized and converted to SSDV format for transmission. These were large images with a high quality SSDV setting so lots of packets per image, approx 1400 per image in testing.
This flight was using a 868MHz LoRa device, rather than the usual 434MHz due to the IR2030 restriction on bandwidth and duty cycle. Dave was using his Turbo-X or Mode 4 setting which is as fast as LoRa will go within IR2030 bandwidth restrictions (approx 8 packets / 2k bytes per second)
I hastily ordered a 868MHz device and soldered it in the spare slot on my gateway and built a collinear for 868MHz similar to the one I built for ADB-S reception (see video here).
You can see it lashed up just below the dual-band collinear - not ideal mounting and it wasn't tested in anyway, built blind! The less than optimal setup at UHF, the insane data rate and the distance (>100miles) were going to make reception difficult, so I was pleased I did manage to receive telemetry and image packets.
Most of the current LoRa development in the HAB community has tended to be on the Raspberry Pi due to the use with SSDV and the easy availability of cameras and ready built kit. LoRa is of course available on the Arduino platform and I had purchased a couple of 'Dragino' shields (pictured below) with a LoRa device on.
Dave has done some work on a AVR tracker software and a simple Arduino 'Serial' LoRa receiver. The receiver connects to a host PC appearing as a serial port and by running some gateway software the receiver can be configured via the serial link and received data is sent back to the gateway to be uploaded to the Habitat tracking system and SSDV system - the software can be seen here during the 'Operation Outward' test flight.
This gateway software is written in Pascal using Delphi and is not as functional as the Raspberry Pi Gateway software. Dave has made the source code available but I am not au fait at all with Delphi however I installed the free development IDE and intended to get in and make modifications but it seems to require a non-free(?) library for the serial comms so ditched the idea.
Instead I have spent the last few days developing a C# .NET version using Microsoft Visual Studio (the community version is free) and also have been modifying the Arduino code in the receiver to add functionality, such as storing the SSDV images locally.
It is still a work in progress but I have made a video showing the current state
Anyway as Cilla Black would say it's been a Lorra Lorra Laughs!
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Andrew, thanks for the update on using high altitude balloons with amateur transmitters. I'm interested in using one for a WSPR transitter, but that may prove to be illegal. I hope not.
I wanted to pass on the download link for SharpDevelop. This is an alternative to Visual Studio for C# that you may want to consider if you run into limits using the free version of Visual Studio. It's open source and seems to do just about everythbing that Visual Studio does.
Thanks again.
73, Bruce Raymond
Hi Bruce, the restriction on airborne operating is a UK thing, thanks for the heads up on SharpDevelop not used it as use VisualStudio in my day job but will have a look.
I am writing a project for ham radio with LoRa. I wanted to know if there is a protocol already written for this type of communication?
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Ronnie Boykins
The Will Come, Is Now
Legendary Sun Ra bassist Ronnie Boykins stepped out on his own for his first and only release as a leader on The Will Come, Is Now. He was invited by ESP in 1964 to record his own album, and in February 1974, he told ESP that he was finally ready, and the session took place later that month. This recording not only features Boykins' solid abilities as a bassist, including his marvelous arco work, but also his talents as a composer and arranger. In addition, one is treated to an all-natural bass sound, a rare sound during this particular era of jazz history. In septet format, Boykins' six originals create a variety of moods and textures that not only evokes the music of Sun Ra but also reflects Boykins' own sensibilities as an artist.
Marzette Watts (engineer)
Ronnie Boykins (bass, sousaphone , bells, shaker)
Joe Ferguson (flute, soprano sax, tenor sax, shaker)
Art Lewis (percussion, drums, bells, shaker)
Jimmy Vass (flute, alto sax, soprano sax, bells, shaker
Monty Waters (alto, soprano, bells, shaker)
George Avaloz (conga, bells, shaker)
Daoud Haroom (trombone, bells, shaker)
Track Listing
1.The Will Come, Is Now
Starlight at the Wonder Inn
3.Demon's Dance4.Dawn Is Evening, Afternoon
5.Tipping on Heels
6.The Third I
All compositions by Ronnie Boykins (Syndicore Music BMI)
Engineered by Marzette Watts
Original cover photograph by Gyda Droscher
Reissue production Manager: Tom Abbs
Reissue digitally remastered by Douglas McGregor
Reissue design & layout by Miles Bachman, Michael Sanzone and Fumi Tomita.
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Rather than a high-energy screamfest, the selections have loosely arranged sections, a few strong melodies, and the utilization of an interesting seven-piece unit. - Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
"Bassist Ronnie Boykins is perhaps best known for his work in Sun Ra's Arkestra, of which he was an intrinsic member for nearly a decade. His inimitable bass style can be heard on all of Ra's most significant recordings, and Ra had a difficult time finding someone to fill Boykins' shoes when he left the Arkestra in 1966. His 1975 self-titled release, featuring all original material, is from his post Ra period and represents one of the last great releases in the ESP-Disk catalogue. Featuring Joe Ferguson on tenor sax and flute, Monty Waters and James Vass on alto and soprano sax, Daoud Haroom on trombone, and Art Lewisand George Avaloz on percussion. Also includes various bells and hand shaken instruments played by all musicians." - Forced Exposure
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Long Playing | Limited edition of 500. Original artwork, 180-gram black vinyl. Unlike the 30-run limited editions ESP recently did, these will be printed normally. PRE-ORDER: Release date is Nov. 6, 2020. |