text: On 14 Apr 1998, Elsbeth Walker wrote: > Could anyone tell me a typical concentration for the DNA probe used in a > bandshift assay? I'd hate to end up wasting expensive oligo if I don't > have to! Hi Elsbeth, First of all, you should radiolabel some double stranded oligo. 5 pmoles of your oligo is probably the best. I do not know what method for radiolabelling you use (you did not tell us anything about it, if you want more info tell me more about how you label it). Then, you have to find a way to separate your ds oligo from the unincorporated mononucleotide(s) (electrophoretic separation in a TBE polyacrylamide gel, size exlusion chromatography etc). The final volume of your ds oligo (in TEN -also called STE) should not exceed 200ul. The concentration of the oligo should be about 20-25nM. The only way you can see how much of it you need to add is by adding increasing amounts of your oligo to a certain amount of your protein extract. Then, you decide the volume of your oligo you need to add, by developing a film. You will choose the volume of your oligo that you see a discent band. That volume depends on the protein amount and on the affinity of your protein for your oligo. Good luck! > Elsbeth L. Walker Hope that helps, Ioannis Michalopoulos http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~jm6 PS If you want more, please tell us more about what you want to do.


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A week before a federal court hearing that could have placed the Oakland Police Department into an unprecedented federal receivership, city officials and local civil rights attorneys agreed Wednesday on a settlement proposing that a new mutually agreed upon, court-appointed director take charge of department reforms.
The agreement needs U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson's approval before it can become a reality.
The 11-page document detailing the joint plan of the city, OPD, the Oakland Police Officers Association, and attorneys John Burris and Jim Chanin is the result of a month's negotiations. According to court documents, Henderson issued an order November 14 that the parties meet to discuss a settlement agreement, and offered to refer them to a magistrate judge to aid negotiations. One day later, the city requested the magistrate and on November 16, Judge Nathanael Cousins entered the fray.
The two parties met for three sessions in late November, eventually hammering out an agreement that would give a court-appointed "compliance director" the power to oversee the OPD's compliance with court-ordered reforms, and to discipline or remove higher brass from the department—including the chief.
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My facebook status read…immediately some of the men started to like and a few commented and one asked for me to elaborate… which I followed up with a comment about how there are some women whose selfish actions "ruin their men" and then I got this thoughtful comment left by a facebook Friend Sanjulo:
" Nik there was a time when I would have cosigned on this. However I had to realize that I, at the time, ALLOWED a selfish ass woman to be selfish towards me. Instead of checking her raggedy ass, I let a lot slide. A lot of us fellas will thank you for the vent. But the real ones, such as myself, will say we made choices that made these woman feel it was ok to be selfish!! Real talk."
And I agree with the comment but let me explain where I was coming from.
I was watching a tv show called Teen Mom, whom when I had the extreme pleasure of meeting Liz Gately the head of MTV's programming I told her that I loved. I love this show 2 fold because it reminds me of the ignorance youth affords you, EXCEPT, when those mistakes impact your children, and because I see myself and soo many women I know in these girls. So on this particular episode there was a young man who was good at football, had a college scholarship and his girlfriend became pregnant.
His family was insistent that he get a DNA test so much so that they asked her to get one after purchasing a pharmacy test and presenting it to her at the dinner table. She stormed out and said that she knew who her baby's father was and that was all that was important. This Good hearted but weak young man, stood by this decision. And then proceeded to give up his college scholarship to play ball to be with this young lady and this baby; Because he didn't think it was the right thing to be away from them and of course it is what the young lady wanted.
I was ambivalent about my feelings on this subject. I remember a time when I was a young mother and my son's aunt who after 2 meetings with me decided to take it upon herself and demand that I take a paternity test. And After I cursed her out via an 8 page letter (because I didn't want to be misquoted) I had informed her that I had made 2 appointments for her brother to take the test because I had nothing to hide.
It is the right thing to do. There was a time where I had friends who used to feel offended when a man would ask to use a condom, as if it was some attack on her character. But in my wisdom I understand that it could say more about him, and the care he takes of himself than it is about me. Or it could be that He could know something that I don't know, like his HIV status.
Why is it wrong for this man to want a DNA test? He was willing to give up his whole future possibly for nothing? But what really made me post the status was when the young lady did her update at the end of the show where she said she didn't care if he went to school or not, she knew she was going to get her education. Maybe he could be a house husband or something as if it was a game.
As a mother I was struck by the selfishness of this child, because instead of allowing this young man to go to college, and potentially make it as a NFL player if he was extremely lucky and talented, or get his education which is invaluable to the future of himself and their daughter's future. All she wanted was him to be with her above all else. That made me think she was the type of person who could do anything. Now I don't know this young lady and maybe I was seeing what I wanted to see as a mother. But we as women need to start seeing the greater Good of our actions when we have children.
Then there is "I won the Lottery" a show I found right before I started to watch "Teen Mom." In this episode there was a man who came home from jail, met him a lady played the lottery and hit it for about 3.5 million after taxes. He lived in a slum in Michigan, but of course after he hit it big he upgraded, and moved to the burbs for a better life for his family which included the lady friend and their 2 children. But then it was said that she never moved in with him, because she rather stay in the ghetto with her other 2 children from a previous relationship, and their 2 children because she didn't want to inconvenience them and make them change schools? So to get this straight you rather educate your children in a ghetto in Michigan, which doesn't boast the greatest school system in the world, to not inconvenience your KIDS???? SELFISH IGNORANT DECISION….
If I decided to talk about all of the ignorance I see women do around me I would have no time to converse about nothing else and I'm tired of the dumb bitchness. I recently heard that one of my former friends got married in jail to a man who beats her in front of her children. What are we giving the next generation. I also have a friend who left her husband and turned her children's world upside down to be another man's mistress. We have to start wanting more for ourselves and for our families. We need to sometimes think of "The Domino Effect" one of my writers Garland calls, It. It's exhausting to watch these people make these disastrous decisions that affect the lives of those around them especially their children…


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The Nashville Predators allowed four-first period goals for the second straight game and lost their third in a row, 6-0 [1] to the Stars on Wednesday in Dallas.
Starting goalie Dan Ellis was pulled after he allowed three goals on the only three shots he faced. All were within a span of 3:14 in the first period,
Pekka Rinne replaced Ellis and played just 2:17 before he allowed a goal. Rinne eventually made 20 saves.
It was the fastest four goals ever scored against the Predators
The first two allowed by Rinne came on the power play. The Stars converted 32 seconds into a tripping call against Dan Hamhuis and 1:28 into an interference call against Martin Erat – Nashville's first two penalties.
The Predators' power play failed to convert on four opportunities.
With the defeat, the Nashville fell to 2-3 on the season. It has been outscored 17-7 overall, 13-1 in the last three games.
Jason Arnott and Patric Hornqvist each had a team-high five shots as the Predators outshot the Stars 29-26.
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How do you feet about Mayor Karl Dean's plan to add more library space, a community center and green space to southeastern Davidson County by purchasing the former JCPenney space at Hickory Hollow mall?
Antioch and Smyrna are not that far from each other. Maybe southeast Davidson county and northwest Rutherford County is Troll country.
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By: BenDover on 11/7/11 at 10:34
Yikes... like the Mayan skulls, Loner?
LOL Ben
Gotta give you a shout out on on your 11:01 post there Ben -- right on.
I found this while fishing for the Kum-By-Jah link:
Now that's a sax....sub-contra-bass...must weigh 200# or more...it's on a freakin' dolly.
By: BenDover on 11/7/11 at 11:01
It's probably where Serr8 and I part ways. I think we've got too many jails... too many crimes... too many cops... too many courts... too many judges... and too many lawyers.
Ben, there are many differences between you and serr8d. Top of the list you are a decent human being and a mammal. ;-)
Maybe Santa will grant your wish, Ben...have you been a good boy?
Ben I agree, too many prisons...too many dumb-ass laws....too much special interest money and influence in politics. Our criminal justice system is a farce. We share some common ground on all that, perhaps for differing motives.
They have privatized the detention and corrections functions of democratic constitutional governance...the incentive to incarcerate is now financially motivated....the privateers then kick back to the lawmakers, judges etc. for every warm body they can detain. The taxpayer is then billed for these expensive "private enterprise" schemes...it's the Haliburton effect.
The expressed goal of schemes aimed at privatization of government services was cost-cutting.
It's not working out as advertised. Things now cost a lot more, corruption has increased, governmental oversight has vanished and the taxpayer is being robbed, as a direct result of unwise privatization and deregulation schemes.
These privateers in the defense, criminal justice, law enforcement, security, surveillance, detention and incarceration industries are pumping big money into our elections and influencing policy-making, by way of campaign contributions.
Ronald Reagan created this privatization-deregulation monster, Bush-Cheney fed it...now Obama cannot control it...no President can...it's going to destroy the republic, if we can't get the selfish special interest and international corporate money out of US politics.
Reaganomics, the idea of trickle-down wealth distribution, is a sham, a scam and a flimflam....the Republicans are still pushing it, regardless of its record of abject failure to deliver.
The Simple Simons out there want to nominate Herman the Pizza Pie-man...a loyal Koch Brothers operative, trickle-down advocate and an arrogant, power-abusing, horny dog...for President of the USA. Incredible.
De-regulation and privatization might work in Heaven, on this planet ...as we are now witnessing....it fails miserably.
Human nature is the culprit; good governance and sensible regulations can keep the dark-side of human nature at a manageable level; when that happens, we all benefit.
Prophetic wisdom from Wikipedia:
The rhyme is as follows;
Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going to the fair;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Let me taste your ware.
Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
Show me first your penny;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Indeed I have not any.
Simple Simon went a-fishing,
For to catch a whale;
All the water he had got,
Was in his mother's pail.
Simple Simon went to look
If plums grew on a thistle;
He pricked his fingers very much,
Which made poor Simon whistle.
Serr8d and the folks riding the "Cain Train" may believe that plums grow on thistles and that whales can fit in a pail...."Crazy Train", comes to mind:
It's worth the wait through the brief ad before the video starts...that's capitalism for you.
Ozzy is hopeful...even optimistic: "Maybe it's not too late, to learn how to love and forget about hate".
The Tea Party's Crazy Train - the Cain Train - is headed in the opposite direction that Ozzy was going.
There is money in human bondage.
Captain Nemo-
Loner said
"It's not working out as advertised. Things now cost a lot more, corruption has increased, governmental oversight has vanished and the taxpayer is being robbed, as a direct result of unwise privatization and deregulation schemes."
Say what you will about Government being bad, but the fact is that we have the ability to
investigate and have oversight over government programs. And if we see problems, the programs can either be fixed or completely done away with. Once those very same programs become privatized, oversight and the ability to investigate quite frankly disappears... there is no real "accountability". Privatization is nothing more than tossing money down a black hole. Having the ability to investigate private industries is damned near impossible and is often only possible with the help of a whistle blower; who by the way, are then demonized by the right.
I gotta start packing it up...put a few hours into posting, now it's time to grab my sign and occupy Albion....HOLY WARS SUCK....it's my all-purpose protest sign, which I have recently modified with a telescopic pole, to get added height...I added some reflective yellow tape to the pole...I'm toying with the idea of illuminating the two sided sign from within, using LED battery-powered hardware. It's 11x17 (17 vertical) with only those 12 letters...readable from fifty feet away, or so....any bigger and the wind becomes a factor, with a telescopic pole, it fits in the trunk....Color? black text on yellow...laminated card stock....black pole w/yellow bands.
This dirty old hippie just can't wait to defecate on a police cruiser, urinate on the lawn and expose myself and/or publicly masturbate...while smoking a joint and selling cocaine. And raping a deaf man, did I mention raping a deaf man?
Sorry folks, I went over to the dark-side.... Koch and Bloomberg are paying Top Dollar for agents provocateur...they loved my resume. I need the scratch.
See ya!
PS: Amen Brother, Brrrrk.
Great link Loner. Crazy Cain.
What I appreciate, is people like Gingrich saying, "Reagan had it all together..."
As if 2009 when Obama took office resembles 1988.
Reganomics would work in 2012. "Getting back to our principles..."
When's the last time anyone in Washington mentioned Russia or The Soviet Union?
Now, it's always Iraq, Afghanistan, and recently, Pakistan.
Iran is the new, "bad guy".
"Just gotta bomb them in my first 100 days in office..." Perry.
And he would.
Before heading out :
Flash news alert:
Bad news for Cain, a fourth woman accuser has come forward and has gone totally public:
The man is a creep...the crystal balls were spot on.
Cain must not have paid his NAACP dues or they would have already put the cover up on all of this.
A few thoughts; 1, I see a Cain/Gingrich ticket, Cain has the charisma & Newt knows where the skeletons are in D.C., Nobody cares about old harassment claims, Cain's hopes will hinge on being able to make 999 work with the numbers. 2, Dean is paying back someone at HH. How much could it have been bought for at auction? 3, Dargent7 has been off his med's way to long. 4, Are the books in the HH library going to be in spanish? 5, What do you people do all morning besides past here? 6, Back to politics, if they are talking about you they are scared of you. Cains out of the box, the usual suspects don't like that, he makes it hard on them, just like R. Paul.
JudyBoBo: Thanks for weighing in.
I think many of us have Internet access at work.
I do.
The penitentary allows 1 hour a day for "rehabilitation".
I choose the NCP as my target audience.
Good choice D7, I suspect many on this board relate to subtle nuances of prison sex life.
Evening wrap-up...
Judyboody is standing by her man, she wrote: "Cains out of the box, the usual suspects don't like that, he makes it hard on them, just like R. Paul."
Judy said "hard on"; was that a Freudian slip? Cain is certainly out of the pizza box, Judy.
Ron Paul is the least frightening, most honest, most experienced and sanest of the GOP hopefuls....ergo, he stands no chance.
According to accuser number 4, Herman the Pie-man nudged her pie-hole towards his pepperoni, so to speak, in exchange for his help in securing employment...if that isn't job-related sexual harassment, then what is it?
Apparently, Herman is a habitual abuser of power...and considering his statements, he is either a liar, or delusional.
If these allegations are true, Herman Cain's clumsy sexual predation has failed at least 4 times...how many women did succumb to his power-plays over the years? How many are still too intimidated to come forward?
The pious, pompous Pie-man is supposed to be a family values man...he appears to be a phony...a fake family values man. Seems Cain is cattin' around, looking for love in all the wrong places...still, folks like Judyboody think that Cain has presidential qualities.
Go ahead, please nominate Herman Cain...President Obama will slice him up, like an eight-piece pepperoni pizza.
My crystal balls indicate that this is not the last of it for poor Herman Cain.
The chickens are coming home to roost...and the old rooster isn't so cocksure these days...his flight feathers have been plucked; he can't fly the coop....Colonel Sanders is stalking the aging chanticleer....there's no place for this cocky fowl to hide, the cameras are everywhere.
Cain's fat is in the fryer...will that be regular, or extra crispy, Mister Cain?
For Romney and Perry, this is finger-lickin' good.
How about giving the much deserved METRO POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT a damn raise since they haven't had one (including a cost of living raise) in the past 3 (almost 4) years? It just ain't right to treat them the way the city is treating them!
Metro can't afford to give them a raise...or put more fire personnel (including ambulances) and police on the streets...but we can afford a new convention center our city DID NOT NEED, all these stupid friggin' greenways, fireworks displays in July, and NOW more libraries that run in the millions and millions and millions of dollars???
It would be VERY warranted for these city employees to say enough is enough and go on strike and even better if people move out of Davidson county because of lack of protection and response from emergency personnel.
Good lord Dean is the KING at misappropriating Metro money!
I love to hear the ridiculously convaluted opinions of people like dargent7 because it fortifies my belief that as long as people like him are the ones supporting and voting for Obama in 2012, that Obama doesn't have a prayer in winning another term! lol


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Underground Music Videos of 2015 from 17 Artist Juggalos Love
2015 is coming to an end. This year we've seen many music videos being uploaded to Youtube from a variety of underground and independent artists. For your musical and visual enjoyment we have rounded up all the underground music videos that have been released this year. This list consist of 17 artist and a shit ton of videos. Enjoy, ninjas!
Insane Clown Posse
ICP only uploaded one music video this year. What a surprise right? They were busy af this year releasing The Missing Link: Lost and Found and the two versions of Phantom. Plus, all the other things they do like the Gathering, tours, and radio shows oh my! So, I give you the one and only ICP music video for this year.
Twiztid did a lot better in the music video department. They released a total of five music videos this year including a Sickman Video Sequel for the song "A Place in the Woods." Twiztid really stepped up their game this year let's hope this is a start of a trend. In order of release we have Twiztid's 2015 Music Videos.
A Little Fucked Up
No Breaks
A Place in the Woods
F.T.S. (Fuck This Shit)
Blaze Ya Dead Homie
Blaze was too busy recording his album, The Casket Factory, and making music videos with Twiztid not to mention touring with them. But he started and ended this year with a music video. Way back in January Blaze released a music video for "Ghost Bars" from his Gang Rags: Reborn album. It's his first album on the Majik Ninja label. The just this month he released a video for his upcoming album The Casket Factory. This video features new arrival Lex the Hex and The R.O.C. It's just another taste of his upcoming album.
Ghost Bars
They Call That Gangsta
Though Rittz only recorded one music video this year he will be seen on other music videos from 2015. But as for his own music he released just one video. It really is a touching video about domestic violence. If you haven't seen it yet now is your chance. There is a new album coming next year so maybe we will see more of Rittz in 2016.
Angry Johny
Tech N9ne
Ok, you know Tech has been one busy motherfucker. He's been grinding hard this year and has put out a good grip of videos. He released 12 music videos total this year. Though he doesn't rap on a couple of the cyphers from his Strangeulation Vol II album he released this year. You see Rittz in Cypher IV. Remember I told you; you would see him in other videos. You also hear Stevie Stone, CES Cru, Krizz Kaliko, and Prozak on the Techless Cyphers. You get more great collaborations on the other music videos also. The latest video approved by Chong himself, "Blunt and a Ho", is a parody of Up in Smoke. We see amazing visuals in the music videos promoting Special Effects . That album has a lot more special effects in it's music videos than the Strangeulation music videos. Is that a coincidence? No don't know, but I do know you should check out a year of Tech N9ne.
Aw Yeah?
Hood Go Crazy
On the Bible
No K
We Just Want to Party
Cypher I
Cypher II
Burn It Down
Cypher IV
Blunt and a Ho
Stevie Stone
Stevie Stone released five music videos this year. All five music videos promote the album he released about 6 months ago, Malta Bend. Malta Bend is all about where Stevie comes from, a little unknown country town. This Summer Stevie went on a two month video binge for his new album. Check out all the freshness you may have missed or forgotten in chronological order, of course.
Run It
Get Fucked Up
Rain Dance
Fall In Love With It
Strange Music released MURS' Debut album, Have a Nice Life, back in May of this year. He released six music videos for this album. Being new to Strange Music it's understandable they want to get his music out there. His videos span a seven month period before and after the release date. Now that the album is out and the tour is over we can still enjoy these music videos.
Okey Dog
No More Control
I Miss Mikey
The Worst
Two Step
Mi Corazon
Mayday only recorded three music videos this year. They released Future Vintage just three months ago so we may be in store for some more Future Vintage music videos in 2016. For now let's just enjoy what we got in 2015.
Fuel to the Fire
All the Time
Something in the Air
CES Cru
CES Cru released their EP Recession Proof a mere two months ago. So, it is no surprise they only dropped two music videos. Another Strange Music artist we will see more from in the coming year. There is news that a remix of "Famished" with the original five man CES Cru is coming our way next year. Who knows what else might be in store. Will they decide to stay together for a whole album? It seems the music video may have enticed the reunion since it was hinted towards less than a month after the video came out. All we know is we got two great music videos from them this year along with the news of more to come next year.
Prozak also dropped his newest album a mere two months ago and has only two music videos so far. Black Ink is a creepy album only the Hitchcock of Hip Hop can provide. The videos are creepier still. We are keeping our eyes peeled for more hard core horror from Prozak in 2016.
Your Creation
Kutt Calhoun
After leaving Strange Music last year Kutt Calhoun started his own label, Black Gold Entertainment. Now, this year he has released his first EP under the new label called Kuttin' Loose. He only released two music video for the EP. The first one, Handz Up, covers a very controversial subject affecting the black community. The second is a reference to Kutt divorcing Strange Music. His latest work looks to be a great start after leaving Strange. Let's see where he goes this next year now the break up has been laid out for all to see.
Handz Up
On My Own (I Got You)
Hopsin schooled his music under the Funk Volume label. He has a strong will and very anti-mainstream attitude. It can't be bottled up and sold like most run of the mill artist. He released his latest album, Pound Syndrome, this year and recorded five music videos for it's promotion. Hopsin is intense and ever adamant to tell the world what's up with it's corrupt Music Industry. No one knows what he has planned for next year but this year he hustled like a true scrubbalo.
Crown Me
The Pound
Fort Collins
No Words
Potluck release their album #StonerPromblems this year and produced only two music videos for it. The most impressive being UnderRated's "4 Minute Fire Drill" that was a one take nonstop rap laid over five beats. Being independent music makers and producers potluck really knows the struggle and the hustle. Hopefully we see more of them this coming year.
4 Minute Fire Drill
Smokin' Good
Kottonmouth Kings
These stoners are still hustling too. The album they released this year, Krown Power, sounds different from their previous albums. But this is a group that has changed quite a bit over the years anyway. Their new full length album has a shit ton of collaborations and the deluxe edition has a whopping 37 tracks. They also produced seven music videos for this Billboard Rap Album Chart maker. KMK ain't never going to stop. Let's review all the freshness they made this year.
Ganja Glow
Our City
Pump Up Da Bass
Sink or Swim
Audio War
Walk the Line
Jelly Roll
This year Jelly Roll released his Therapeutic Music 5: Running from Reality mixtape which is available for free download. You can also listen to the whole mixtape on Youtube. He only made one music video for TM5 but he has given us two music videos this year. For his "Hangover and Hot Chicken" project he recorded the music video "Sunday Morning" with Uncle Kracker. Jelly Roll keeps his independent grind going to give us the music therapy we all need.
Sunday Morning
Smoking Section
Kung Fu Vampire
Kung Fu Vampire didn't release any new albums this year but he released one hell of a creepy music video. The music video promotes his album, Look Alive, to be released Valentine's Day 2016. This is probably the most horrorcore music video of the year. Producing something this occult and dark can only come from Kung Fu Vampire.
Slice of Life
Claas was busy with his 50 in 50 challenge this year. He ended up producing two videos from his string of 50 tracks. We are left with over two albums worth of horrorcore music from him this year. That is a hustle if I every seen one. Let's enjoy his audio visual art for the year. Maybe we'll see more music videos now that he's not concentrating on getting a track out on a weekly basis.
I'm Underground
There you go Juggalos a whole year's worth of underground music videos. Did you miss anything this year? Here at TJF we like to inform you of new music videos and all the little tidbits of news that go along with them. Make sure to sign up the the newsletter to never miss another music video again.
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Otway Forest Shiitake mushrooms
Author: Richard Cornish
Photography: James Evans
10:11AM, Mar 31, 2014
Victorian know-how plus Japanese mushrooms equals delicious
WHO In Japan shiitake mushrooms grow on logs of shii, a native evergreen. As we don't have much in the way of shii trees in Australia, Victorian shiitake mushroom grower Rob Wertheimer, part of a sustainable agroforestry community in the green hills of the Otway Ranges on Victoria's west coast, uses blue gum and sugar gum logs from neighbours' farms to grow his fungus with winning results.
HOW The logs are inoculated with shiitake fungus spores then left in cool, damp greenhouses, and nine months later the mushrooms emerge. The majority of the shiitakes are delivered directly to top restaurants (Brae, Flower Drum, The Bridge Room and Cutler & Co among them), but some make it to the retail market. The less-than-perfect specimens are dried, ground and blended with organic sea salt to make a rather excellent, umami-packed condiment that's perfect for sprinkling over a chicken before roasting.
WHY The mushrooms have a firm texture, but their skin has an unctuous quality, which makes them ideal for soaking up any sauce they're sitting in. They can take a good whack of butter, say, while maintaining the rich fungal flavour and subtle, complex scent of the cool, damp forests in which the logs once grew.
WHERE Otway Forest Shiitake mushrooms are available fresh in season (to the end of April) at Georgie's Harvest at the South Melbourne Market. The mushrooms are $7.50 for 100gm; the dried shiitake salt is $15 for 70gm.


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My name is Shahrzad Jabbarian, I was diagnosed with "Acute Myeloid Leukemia" (AML) in September 2012.
Sixty days passed and I still didn't have my match as this made me real upset and I noticed how very little people even knew about Bone Marrow Registry.
I could no longer wait therefore, I decided to start my own campaign of creating awareness on how each and every donor can make a difference between life and death and how easy it can be for individuals to add their DNA information to Stem Cell Bank.
It wasn't easy, as it needed lots of planning, funding and volunteers to get the message out there, in order to raise more awareness by showing up at the events and getting tested.
Our first event on January 19th, 2013 was nothing but success. More than 1500 people showed up all willing to help by doing the test.
Over 600 people got tested in less than 6 hours, this was beyond anyone's expectations.
I was overwhelmed from the support I received; I noticed the reason most people have not done the test is only because many of them were never informed about the importance of being part of the STEM CELL registry. Most were just not educated on the fact that over 70% people needing a donor find their match from a total stranger.
Most people were not familiar with how easy it can be to join the STEM CELL BANK with just a simple swab test or a blood sample.
I am determined to not only find a match for myself, but to also help many other patients just like me that are still in search of their donor.
I have done over 50 different interviews with different TVs, Magazines and Newspapers and I have showed up in different events and seminars talking and educating the public on Leukemia and Bone Marrow Transplant and I will continue, even after finding my match as my goal is to help thousands of other patients by organizing events and raising awareness on how each individual can play their part by being a donor.


text: Zambian Man 'Naked' Instructed To Kill People By Witch Doctor. A naked man was driving a car and purposely hit into a bus, belonging to Shalom Bus Services, which was travelling from Lusaka to Livingstone. People on the bus and the driver of the bus swore that they did not see the


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Celebrity fashion designers unveiling a collection is certainly nothing new, but it's not the latest runway shows that have our attention. Instead we've been wowed by the fashion and design elite who've left their high-style marks on luxury hotel suites around the world.
Fashion icon and queen of the wrap dress Diane von Furstenberg just unveiled her most recent hotel project in Australia. The über chic DVF Penthouse on Hayman Island off the coast of Central Queensland officially opened at the end of October and is filled with furnishings, rugs, fabrics and accessories she personally designed.
Although von Furstenberg also collaborated with London's Claridge's hotel several years ago, she wasn't the first designer to kick start this high-end hotel trend. In fact, Tomas Maier (creative director at Bottega Veneta) collaborated with The St. Regis Rome on a sleek suite in 2007. And other powerhouse designers—think Badgley Mischka, Oscar de la Renta, Armani, Christian LaCroix—have all followed suit. Our Forbes Travel Guide team curated a list of suites designed by some of fashion's biggest names in seven different locations, from New York to Paris and beyond. Click through the slideshow above to see whose rooms are runway ready. —Sarah Gleim


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Cryptic self-incompatibility of flowers
There is evidence, for example, Silene vulgaris ( Caryophyllaceae ),Amsinckia grandiflora ( Boraginaceae ), Decodon verticillatus ( Lythraceae ) and Cheiranthus cheiri ( Brassicaceae ) have this mechanism. In this type of self-incompatibility, the simultaneous presence in the stigma of foreign pollen and pollen from the same plant results in a greater number of progeny from pollination with foreign pollen.
However, and contrary to what happens to the self-incompatibility "complete" or "absolute" described previously, the AIC can be no fertilization and seed production in the absence of foreign pollen. This ensures the reproduction of the individual even if it is isolated from another individual of the same species. The AIC acts, at least in some of the species studied, at the stage of elongation of pollen tubes within the pistils and leads to an elongation rate of growth or higher in pollen tubes from foreign pollen, which arrive in the make eggs and fertilization of the oosphere before the pollen tubes from the pollen of the plant. The cellular mechanisms and molecular determinants of the AIC have not been described until April 2008.The strength of AIC's response can be defined as the ratio between the number of oosphere fertilized by foreign pollen on the number of oosphere fertilized by pollen from the plant itself when applying the same amount of foreign pollen as characteristic of the plant on the stigmas of the same. This relationship goes from 3.2 to 11.5 in the taxa studied so far.
Wild species of tomato ( Solanum lycopersicum ) is differentiated by its mode of reproduction. Thus, species AI and, therefore, are "cross-pollinated." On the other hand, there are self-pollinating species and is usually self-fertilizing, are said to be self-compatible (AC) and, therefore, self-pollinating. In between, finally, there are species with AI and AC populations, and others that are usually AI but can give a proportion of selfed seeds (optional pollinated are called).
The degree to which the stigmata are elongated above the stamens (variable called " protrusion of the stigmas ") is a central factor in the possibility of cross-pollination and, hence, of outcrossing in these species. Related species tomato are required or optional AI have flowers with very protruding stigmas. In contrast, other species such as the cultivated tomato, inserted stigmas present which promotes self-pollination. It was observed that a region of the genome of tomato (oneQTL , English acronym to designate a locus that determines or governs a quantitative trait) is responsible for a large proportion of the phenotypic variability observed for this character and that mutations in this locus are involved in the evolution from outcrossing to autogamy in this species. The location of this QTL in the tomato genome has led to the conclusion that is a locus complex comprising at least 5 genes closely linked, one that controls the length of style, 3 that control the size of the stamens and the last that governs anther dehiscence. This group of genes represent the remains of an ancient complex of co-adapted genes that control mating type in these species of Solanum .
In 2007 it has gone a step further in understanding this group of genes because it has determined the base sequence of the locus , the gene responsible for the length of the style. This gene encodes a transcription factor that regulates cell elongation in developing styles. The transition from AI to CA was accompanied only by a change in the protein by a mutation in the promoter of the gene resulting decrease in the expression of this gene during floral development and therefore the consequent shortening of the length of the styles.
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Here we are again at that time of year when as a planet we collectively celebrate our orbital anniversary around the sun. It seems to be about the only thing upon which we are all able to agree. We offer tidings of peace and goodwill. We extol love and generosity. We gather with those we call our own and rejoice in our lives together. The last couple of years it also seems to be a time when I want to take stock of how we as a planet are living up to our own ideals and making progress on our wishes for peace on earth.
Two years ago at this time of year we were in a furor over the barbaric slaying of Jyoti Singh Pandey by 5 rapists on a bus in New Delhi. Last year the fervor for peace between men and women was still burning strong. This year many of us are outraged at the pattern of police brutality towards Black people in America. Worldwide we are protesting the inhumanity of the war on Gaza. We've been stunned by the kidnapping of 200 Nigerian girls, shocked by the disappearing of 43 Mexican students, and completely numbed and horrified by the massacre of Pakistani schoolchildren. We commemorated 30 years of suffering and injustice wrought by the Union Carbide Disaster in Bhopal, the world's worst industrial disaster in history. And, sadly, the revelations that the USA has been sanctioning the practice of torture were not that surprising to many of us. All these events span a range, but not the entire spectrum, of the savagery of humans against our own kind. Even without global warming or the threat of nuclear catastrophe our behavior towards each other is enough to make one feel that the Great Human Party is coming to an end.
Brutality. The word came into usage in the 15th century. It comes from the Medieval Latin word brutalis, meaning savage or stupid, and the word brutus, meaning dull or dumb. It's rather ironic that so much cruelty is executed so cleverly.
How does one, or how do groups of people, become crude, unfeeling, and incapable of empathy, an inherent congenital trait essential for survival? Empathy is not only an imperative between parents and children, but it is crucially fundamental for all of us. No human being lasts long without other dependable and sensitive people to care for and by whom to be nurtured, protected, loved, and respected.
We've known for decades about a newborn's capacity to be distressed by the suffering of another peer. An infant's brain, mind, and heart is completely attuned to those around it. For the first year of life these small beings react to the pain of others as if they themselves are experiencing the pain. Toddlers tend to mimic the display of the sufferer in their presence. By age 3 children know that someone else's pain is not their own, and quite often know how to comfort them. By age 8 children can grasp the circumstances of another person and feel for them. In adulthood it is our own empathy that pilots our moral compass.
Even animals demonstrate empathy for each other. We have observed behaviors we interpret as empathic in elephants, ravens, mice, rats, gorillas, crows, orangutans, scrub jays, chimpanzees, dogs, cats, and of course dolphins. As we focus more attention on the matter we will find the list is perhaps endless. The animals that have been studied clearly demonstrate caring for other members of their own species, and quite often also love across species.
Brutish behavior has been described as resembling a beast, or lacking human sensibility. Brutality is not the correct word to use for the human behaviors that aren't even typical of other creatures. We've transposed our terminology. Bestial nature is kind and considerate; humanity's history has been cold-blooded and vicious. How dare we imagine Homo Sapiens at the top of some imaginary evolutionary pyramid while our manners are inconsistent with and undeserving of that post.
To move from our seemingly unrelenting harshness against each other towards a generous caring for each other we must examine who it is we consider as our own species. Clearly, the Israelis don't consider the Palestinians as their own kind. Fundamentalists from each religion do not consider those of other faiths as their own sort. White supremacists feel people with more pigmented skin are not their own type. The police forget that all blood runs red, even their own. Given that rapists never consider their victim's feelings while committing their violation, it would seem even the various genders of our species do not consider each other as their own.
How do we decide who is our own, and who is not? First we decide who we are. We construct our identities. We are not born with an idea of who we are. Identity is just an idea we create. We are born with a capacity for empathy towards anyone in our vicinity. Over time we create an identity for ourselves which distinguishes us from others. We learn that we are one gender, or another. We learn our skin has so much pigment by which we are thereby categorized. We learn our families believe certain things and have patterned ways of doing things, which we call our culture. We are indoctrinated with patriotism and filial fidelity. We pin every appropriate label we can claim on our lapels.
We then learn that a hierarchy has been developed for these various definitions of ourselves. Where there is no hierarchy, humans are intent on imposing one, lest we should all feel equally powerful and free. We insist on evaluating red as better than blue, oranges as better than apples, or melody as more important than rhythm? It's silly. This silliness, my friends, is the beginning of brutality.
Our definitions of success, power, and happiness depend on this preposterous hierarchy paradigm. It's the "Winner Wins"and the "Winner is on Top" and "The Top Cat is Happiest" mentality, which completely misses the entire convivial potential of playing the glorious game of life. Life can be fun, joyful, and cooperative. We could spend our lives enjoying our time on earth with each other. Instead, we spend our energy creating, maintaining, and defending our identities. We constantly compare ourselves with each other, knowing full well there are always plenty who are taller, prettier, stronger, faster, smarter, richer, wiser, or luckier than us, as well as so many who are also shorter, poorer, slower, dimmer, weaker, frailer, and unluckier than us. Nevertheless, we exert ourselves, sometimes with force, and too often with violence, to prove our place in the pecking order.
Now, bear with me as I offer a metaphor that may or may not get us closer to the root of our violence towards one another. There's string theory in physics. Here's my balloon theory of life. In case I offend your faith or belief system, please activate your preemptive forgiveness panel now.
Imagine for a moment a party in which balloons of different colors, shapes, and sizes are stuffed into a spacious room. They bounce about bumping into each other and the walls. It's quite a delightful affair. Occasionally there are a few bumped skins, but it's all just a part and parcel of being in the midst of the jubilee. In time, some balloons pop. After all, every balloon eventually must deflate. It's one of the inviolable rules of participating. But, for every flat balloon, another one or few arise to take its place. Now imagine the balloons start ranking each other based on color, shape, size, and location in the dimensions of the room. The "best" balloons boss around the other balloons. The "better" balloons are in control. The festivities are no longer merry. Some members resist. Eventually the bossing turns harsh and soon we've got a spacious room full of busted balloons. The party is over. The hierarchy paradigm is absurd, dumb, stupid, and um, brutal.
That was the easy part. Ms. Jane Elliot's 1970 blue eyes/brown eyes classroom experiment was a particularly poignant real life demonstration of the ugliness of prejudicial hierarchy and privilege. The next bit may not be as small a pill to swallow. Please recognize it as simply a series of questions without any answers. But perhaps the answers to our cruelty lie within the asking of the questions.
While we are here, in a spacious room full of limp balloons, please take a moment to reflect on what it is that animates a balloon, and where that vitalizing force goes once the rubber bubble has burst. Is there any difference in what invigorates each balloon? Is the energy that enlivens a balloon any different based on the air bladder's color, shape, size, or location in the room? Is there a balloon "soul" that migrates to another one after the original host's life is over? Or does the balloon's "soul" travel to a better or worse place depending on how it or its host behaved? Or could it be that what gives a balloon life exists everywhere at all times? Could it be that it is the same inside the balloon as outside the balloon?
Could it be that thing that makes you and me alive doesn't come in a packet that can be removed, inserted, or transported anywhere? Could it be that the life force within us doesn't dissipate or migrate, but is simply constantly present, everywhere, in everything? Could it be that this life force is unchanged, whether it is inside or outside of the body of a living being? Could it even be present in the unknown dark matter that makes up most of the universe? If this life force remains unchanged and goes nowhere then is there any point to killing? If it is present everywhere, could we simply be sampling and sharing this vitality among us? Could mirror neurons be a manifestation of how intimately our lives are rooted in a shared consciousness? In the same way the cells of our own bodies are inhabited by our own life force, is it possible we each are indeed actually simply "cells" of a much larger organism with a unified consciousness? As all our minds contribute to the collective consciousness, if a criminal's mind has not been changed, do those intentions persist in our shared mind even after the criminal has been destroyed? Is there any point in destroying a criminal then? Or anyone who we don't appreciate? How is it that we have come to fantasize that the life force that inspires each and every living being, humans and non-humans alike, should be any different based on color, shape, size, or location? How did we get there?
When we ask ourselves who we are, as all the great masters have urged us to, we will discover what gives life to our bodies. It is not the identity tags we have caged ourselves in. If we want to terminate the stupidity of brutality, then we must stop clinging to the names we have given ourselves, whether they be based on physical characteristics, gender, ethnicity, faith, preferences, orientations, practices, affiliations, professions, locations, or whatever. I recognize this is completely counter to identity based advocacy work, which has its valid and vital place in the current political sphere. Yet, we will never feel each other clearly as our own until we realize who we each are ourselves.
We must also simultaneously step off the ladders of hierarchy upon which our current political, and spiritual, corruption is based. This is more difficult than it sounds, because ever since our conception we are programmed to be "better" than the next, even "better" than ourselves. We "climb the ladder of success", don't we? We never just "float off down the river of success." Maybe we ought to. I'm in complete favor of progressing, practicing, refining, evolving as humans and societies. However, I eschew the idea that those who are more developed are "better" and should post themselves at the top of the evolutionary pyramid. We must keep learning, growing, discovering, clarifying, polishing, maturing, all the while civilizing ourselves and the world. We must recognize the instability inherent in the ordering of power, love, and freedom. We must remember every living being, including those we don't like, or even judge as evil, deserves to be alive, safe, healthy, happy, respected, loved, and free. Then we will begin to see the end of brutality.
May the Great Human Party carry on! Happy Peaceful 2015!


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Shelling- "Floating Area" MV
You'll need that kick to awake from Shelling's inception like dreampop single "Floating Area."
It's a very glitch experimental turn with almost haunting whispery vocals by lead singer Aya. I swear it sounds like she's singing in reverse halfway through this song. Check the 1:55 mark and prepare to be freaked OUT!
So it sounds like a cold day is coming, bundle up and watch out for the aliens invading your dreams. Find "Floating Area" on Shelling's self-titled album out 2.20.2013 at CDJapan.
Visit Shelling's official website and like the group on facebook.


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[par-uh-sahy-meen] /ˌpær əˈsaɪ min/
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a colorless liquid, C 1 0 H 1 4 , derived from benzene, found in various essential oils, and obtained as a by-product of papermaking.
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Welcome to another week of New House Diary.
Today as I am working on the list of what to add to my new house, I have been thinking about the things I hated to leave at my last house. The things that we don't have in this house (yet) and ideas for how to get those details in the plan.
Here are my top 10 things I really miss…
1.The super-functional kitchen–
I designed every inch of my last kitchen. Added a big island, ice maker, wine cooler, quartz countertops, and tons of storage.
My new kitchen is one of the least functional spaces I've tried to work in and I'm a cook so the kitchen is important. I'm dealing with small cabinets, shallow drawers and very little storage not to mention all the wasted floor space and we haven't even talked about how dated it is. This baby is getting a total remodel at some point soon!
2.The Craft room/office–
I loved my office and craft room in the last house. Also something I designed to perfectly fit my storage needs, this space acted as a workspace, storage space and pseudo butler's pantry plus was my workout room because it housed my treadmill. I can squeeze a ton of function into a small space and I definitely need to work my magic at our new home because it's function that is lacking most at the moment.
3.The Garden–
I sure loved my backyard garden.
Even on cold and wet days like today, I could look out our french doors from the family room onto our gorgeous yard and admire the things I had planted myself, like my roses growing on the trellis, and anticipate their spring bloom.
And on warm days, the hammock was a great place to spend time and find inspiration. My new yard has tons of potential, I just need next Spring to roll around so I can start the plan and the planting.
4.The Master Shower and Tub–
I gutted our last Master bath and added a tub and shower that were light and bright and perfect for relaxing from our busy lives.
The new bathroom has a HUGE 1980's garden tub that needs so much water that you can't even get it filled before the water is cold. Trust me, my 8 year old has tried. And let's not even get into the cultured marble, the columns and the mirrors—yowza!
And the shower…well if you are taller than 5′ 6″ you feel like you just might hit your head.
If you don't stand in just the right spot, the one shower head doesn't quite cover your whole body. Can you say chilly? Or maybe you'd rather say "Hello Saloon Doors". Ha! I promise, underneath the existing decor, the bones are great and there really is so much potential.
5.The Entry WOW factor!–
So if you can imagine suntan-colored panty hose from the 1970's or 80's then you can imagine the paint color currently on our entry walls.
A girl can always dream back to my gorgeous black and white wallpaper, can't I?
6. The way the rooms flowed together–I love the way the traffic flowed through my last house in a big circle. No bottlenecks when entertaining. This house will soon be as functional for entertaining too, I just need to move a couple of walls around to make it just right!
7. My closet and shoe storage–
This may be my biggest frustration at the moment. The master closet in the new house is the size of a shoe box and I kindly let my husband take it for now. I'm sure missing seeing my beautiful shoes behind lucite doors.
I have a great option for expanding our master closet taking a bit of the breakfast room and a strange little mudroom/pantry that doesn't really function well as either (shown here above). But for now I am living out of every other closet in the house, trekking upstairs every time I need clothing or a pair of shoes. Nothing like roughing it to make you really appreciate the luxury of function and beauty, right?
8.Our Guest Room–
So there are 2 guest rooms in our new house, but both are currently acting as my closets–I'm not kidding. It will be nice to get all the storage worked out so we can entertain overnight guests really soon.
9. The Play Room–
My daughter's new room is huge, bigger than the master actually, but we no longer have a playroom.
So the storage for toys is slightly less than desirable and needs to be organized. We need built in cabinetry too. And probably just donating a lot of toys to charity would be a great start. I love being forced to purge and organize so I guess I gave myself an excuse, huh?
10. A Neutral Base–
As I mentioned, our paint colors are less than desirable and thankfully I finally got in my design work room last week and started laying out the color palette so painting can commence. But in the meantime, I do sometimes daydream about how soft and relaxing the neutral background was in our old home. I am going to change to a different neutral in this house, but still I long for the serenity that a soft backdrop can bring.
So there you have it. A bit more insight into my process for designing my new home. And you're probably wondering why I waited to do all this work after I moved in, right? Well we were so lucky and sold our last house the first day it was on the market, so I am living the reality that many of my clients live–remodeling a house while you are in it. Oh the lessons I will learn!
Hang with me because in just a week or two, we will get into the REAL decisions, my inspiration and much more. It's going to be a fun journey and I hope you will take it with me. This may just be THE before and after of all before and afters! 🙂
p.s. If you have been dying to learn my design process in person, you should join me in Dallas this March for my Design from A to Z live event. After 2 exciting days with me you will be decorating and designing your home like never before! So check out the details for the exciting class on our new website. Hope to see you there!


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Tears turned senior defender Dana Donnelly's eyelashes into four little triangles. It took her a few extra seconds to put on her four wristbands.
The first ever state semifinalist plaque in Bethlehem girls' soccer history sat on the Homer High School track next to goalie Katie Nickles' gloves and shin pads. The Eagles had never been this deep in the state tournament before, but the keeper couldn't care less about the piece of wood that marked the occasion.
Bethlehem had just lost to Arlington in the New York State Class AA semifinal, 1-0 on Saturday in Cortland, and it hurt.
"Being in regionals so many times and then finally getting to be here is really amazing," Donnelly said through a cracking voice and bloodshot green and brown eyes. "I thought we deserved to win, but today wasn't our day. I love being recognized as a Bethlehem soccer player."
In the first half the Eagles had the wind at their backs, but couldn't break through as the Admirals, from near Poughkeepsie in Section I, dominated the possession. BC – in the state final four for the first time in school history – was held in its own end for much of the game and didn't even register a shot in the second half.
"I took a lot of goal kicks," Nickles, a junior, said. "We learned a lot this season and grew so much as a team. With the wind you are looking for a goal and we were trying hard, but it just didn't work out."
Arlington's Allie Pushkarsh had the only goal of the game when she collected a pass from Miranda Tarpey in the Bethlehem box and got it past a diving Nickles with 36:10 left to go. It was the first time that Bethlehem trailed since the first round of sectionals.
"We knew they would probably have the advantage in the possession, but we were hoping to counterattack," Bethlehem head coach Tom Rogan said. "Right now it is disappointment and frustration. In a few days we'll take a look at the whole season, in its entirety, and we will be excited by it."
Arlington – also in the state final four for the first time ever – plays either MacArthur (Section VIII) or Brockport (Section V) in the New York State final on Sunday at noon at SUNY Cortland.
Class B
Megan Strijek didn't remember what was said at halftime, but she remembered how she felt as her team clung to a 1-0 lead after holding off an onslaught by the defending state champions.
"I don't know," Strijek said about the halftime words. "I was really cold."
The forward warmed up to the tune of three second half goals as the Schalmont girls soccer team moved into its first state final ever with a win over Bronxville, 4-0, in the New York State Class B semifinal at SUNY Cortland on Saturday.
"After the first one it was just emotion. I was ready to go," Strijek, who has 103 career scores, said. "You get so motivated and score three goals, I guess. We knew they were the defending champions and we didn't come out cocky."
Bronxville didn't give Schalmont anytime to be full of itself controlling the possession for the first 15 minutes of the game and getting six shots off before a long pass to Diana DiCocco turned into the first score of the night for the Sabres with 20:48 left in the first half.
"We were having some problems on defense, so it was big," Schalmont head coach Angelo Caschera said about getting through the early stages without giving up a score. "Everything got a little bit easier after that goal."
After Schalmont took a 1-0 lead into the break, Strijeck scored with 29:11 left on a header from a Rachel Gac cross before getting another with 25:02 left on a pass from Alex Cardinal. She finished the hat trick with 17:43 left.
Other than a long shot that she pushed into the crossbar after the Sabres had a four-goal lead, Karley Murray's shutout in goal was aided by six offside calls against Bronxville. Schalmont has four-straight shutouts going back to the sectional final win over Broadalbin-Perth.
Murray finished with nine saves and Gabrielle Juers came in and made four saves late to preserve the clean sheet.
"I was so nervous," Murray said about the early action that included four Bronco corner kicks. "I knew they were good on corner kicks and every time they had one my heart was racing and pounding. We got through. This is the best feeling we have had in our lives."
The best part about moving on to Sunday's final at Tompkins-Cortland Community College at 2 p.m. against either Section VIII's Cold Spring Harbor or Section V's Greece-Odyssey was simple for Strijek too.
"We made school history," she said.
Class A
It is a fickle and unforgiving game where the will of the wind can change the outcome.
A goal kick by Florie Comley was caught in a gust and dropped right in front of Melissa Righetti who buried a shot and knocked the Burnt Hills girls soccer team out of the New York State Class A tournament, 1-0 on Saturday at Tompkins-Cortland Community College.
Righetti is a freshman. The Spartans were led this season by freshman Megan Malone and sophomore Morgan Burchhardt and outshot Somers 12-7, but were held without a goal for the first time this season.
"We never panicked and we created a lot of opportunities, but their goal keeper was phenomenal," Burnt Hills head coach Brian Bold said. "There is so much hard work that goes in to making it this far. Now there is disappointment."
Despite reaching the final four for six consecutive years, the 2003 state title still stands alone as the only time that the Spartans have finished the season with a win.
"It doesn't matter when you lose it is tough to swallow," Bold said. "It has been a pleasure to be with this group and I am the most sad for the seniors who won't have anymore chances to try and get a title."
Somers faces either South Side from Section VIII or Williamsville South from Section V for the state title today at Homer High School at 1 p.m.
Class C
Hoosick Falls ran into the stiff breeze at Tompkins-Cortland Community College, but the Panthers broke through.
With three goals into the teeth of the wind in the first half, Hoosick Falls cruised into the New York State Class C final with a 4-0 win over Section III's Tully on Saturday.
Grace Delury had three assists for Falls, while eighth-grader Jordyn Haynes scored twice for Hoosick Falls which last won the state title in 2005. Meg McKee and Alice Hayden had the other Panther goals.
"I said to our bus driver, 'I think we can win 3-0 or they could win 1-0,'" Hoosick Falls head coach Tom Husser admitted. "This group has been prepared since Day One. We had an ambitious summer. We know nothing about Friends Academy though. We will find out."
Hoosick Falls plays the aforementioned Section VIII champion, a 3-2 winner over Section V's Keshequa, today at 10 a.m. at Homer High School.
Class D
It sounded simple, but the way Northville got its way into the Class D state final was dramatic.
With less than two minutes left in the third overtime session – and the first one of sudden death – Veronica Arceri knocked in a rebound and sent the Falcons through with a 2-1 win over Ellicottville from Section VI at Homer High School.
"I just saw this ball coming and it had to get in the goal," Arceri, a sophomore said about the goal that sent Northville to the final. "I just kicked it and it went in. It is amazing."
Northville goes for the first state title in school history today at 11 a.m. at Tompkins-Cortland Community College against Chazy, the defending state champion from Section VII, which was a PK shootout winner over Section III's Remsen.


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Waldorf School Associations in English speaking countries
– Association of Waldorf Schools in North America (AWSNA)
– Association of Steiner Waldorf Schools in the UK and Ireland
– Rudolf Steiner Schools of Australia, an Association
– Southern African Federation of Waldorf Schools
– Waldorf School Association of Ontario
Other Waldorf School Associations and School Directories
– European Council of Steiner Waldorf Education (ECSWE)
– Austrian Association of Waldorf Schools (Österreichische Vereinigung freier Bildungsstätten)
– Danish Association of Waldorf Schools (Sammenslutningen af Rudolf Steiner Skoler i Danmark)
– German Association of Waldorf Schools (Bund der Freien Waldorfschulen)
– Italian Association of Waldorf Schools (Federazione delle Scuole Rudolf Steiner in Italia)
– Netherlands Association of Waldorf Schools (Bond van Vrije Scholen)
– Norwegian Association of Waldorf Schools (Steinerskolene i Norge)
– Rudolf Steiner Schools in Australia
– Swedish Association of Waldorf Schools (Svenska Waldorfskolefederationen)
– Waldorf Education Directory for Latin America
General Waldorf resources
– Frequently Asked Questions (Richmond Waldorf School)
– Research Institute for Waldorf Education
– Americans for Waldorf Education (AWE)
– Bob and Nancy's Services
– Waldorf World
– Waldorf Library
– Waldorf Answers
– Millennial Child
Waldorf home schooling resources
– Waldorf Homeschoolers
– Millennial Child Homeschool Resources
– More Homeschool Resources
– Christopherus Homeschool Resources
– Waldorf Without Walls
– Oak Meadow
– Live Education!
– Waldorf-inspired homeschooling Mother to Mother
– Shining Star School (home school cooperative)
– Therapeutic Homeschooling (children with bipolar)
Other Waldorf resources
– Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America
– Waldorf and Waldorf related mailing lists
Literature on Waldorf education
– Amazon.com (U.S.)
– Floris Books (U.K.)
– Michaelmas Press (U.S.)
– SteinerBooks (U.S.) (See sections on Waldorf education)
– Rudolf Steiner's complete Foundations of Waldorf Education
Online for free download
Articles on Waldorf education
– Schooling the Imagination by Todd Oppenheimer
Waldorf related resources
– Alliance for Childhood (U.S.)
– Alliance for Childhood (U.K.)
– Camphill Association of America
– Eurythmy Spring Valley
– Famous ex-Waldorf Pupils
– Rudolf Steiner Foundation
– Rudolf Steiner Archive
– The Hiram Trust
– Mercurius Waldorf school supplies
– The WaldorfShop Network
– Waldorf Toys
– Waldorf House Exchange
– On Philosophy of Science, Goetheanism,
Waldorf education and anthroposophy
Waldorf student networks
– The Network M – online network for Waldorf alumni and teachers
– WaldorfWide – house and student exchange
– Generex – student exchange
Waldorf schools with home pages in North America
– The Rudolf Steiner School – High School, New York
(the first Waldorf school in the U.S., opened in 1928)
– The Redmont School, Alabama
– The Aurora Waldorf school of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska
– The Desert Marigold, Phoenix, Arizona
– The Desert Star Community School, Sedona, Arizona
– The Enchanted Desert School, Tuscon, Arizona
– The Camelia Waldorf School, Sacramento, California
– The Cedar Springs Waldorf School, Placerville, California
– The Davis Waldorf School, California
– The East Bay Waldorf School – High School,
El Sobrante, California
– The Highland Hall Waldorf School – High School,
Northridge, California
– The Live Oak Waldorf School, Meadow Vista, California
– The Marin Waldorf School, San Rafael, California
– The Monterey Bay Charter School, California
– The Pasadena Waldorf School, Altadena, California
– The Sacramento Waldorf School – High School,
Fair Oaks, California
– The San Francisco Waldorf School – High School, California
– The Santa Cruz Waldorf School, California
– The Sierra Waldorf School, Jamestown, California
– The Summerfield Waldorf School – High School,
Santa Rosa, California
– The Valley Waldorf City School of Los Angeles, California
– The Waldorf School of San Diego, California
– The Waldorf School of Santa Barbara, California
– The Waldorf School of Orange County, California
– The Waldorf School of the Peninsula, Los Altos, California
– The Westside Waldorf School, Santa Monica, California
– The Denver Waldorf School – High School, Colorado
– The River Song Waldorf School, Fort Collins, Colorado
– The Shepherd Valley Waldorf School, Niwot, Colorado
– The Shining Mountain Waldorf School – High School,
Boulder, Colorado
– The Tara Performing Arts High School – Boulder, Colorado
– The Housatonic Valley School, Newtown, Connecticut
– The Apple Blossom School and Family Center, Wilton, Connecticut
– The Linden Hill School, Wilton, Connecticut
– The Suncoast Waldorf School, Clearwater, Florida
– The Waldorf School of Atlanta, Georgia
– The Honolulu Waldorf School, Honolulu, Hawaii
– The Malamalama Waldorf School, Keaau, Hawaii
– The Kona Pacific School, Kealakekua, Hawaii
– The Haleakala Waldorf School, Kula, Hawaii
– The Sandpoint Waldorf School, Idaho
– The Chicago Waldorf School – High School, Illinois
– The Prairie Moon School, Lawrence, Kansas
– The Waldorf School of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky
– The Tidewater School, Elliot, Maine
– The Waldorf School of Baltimore, Maryland
– The Washington Waldorf School – High School, Maryland
– The Waldorf High School of Massachusetts Bay, Belmont, Massachusetts
– The Cape Ann Waldorf School, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts
– The Great Barrington Rudolf Steiner School, Massachusetts
– The Hartsbrook School, Hadley, Massachusetts
– The Waldorf School in Lexington, Massachusetts
– The Waldorf School of Cape Cod, Bourne, Massachusetts
– The Detroit Waldorf School, Michigan
– The Minnesota Waldorf School, Maplewood, Minnesota
– The Twin Cities Area Waldorf Schools, Minnesota
– The Watershed High School, Minneapolis, Minnesota
– The Shining Rivers School, St. Louis, Missouri
– The Glacier Lifelong Learning Center, Kalispell, Montana
– The High Mowing School – High School, Wilton, New Hampshire
– The Pine Hill Waldorf School, Wilton, New Hampshire
– The Waldorf School of Princeton, New Jersey
– The Santa Fe Waldorf School, Santa Fe, New Mexico
– The Aurora Waldorf School, West Falls, New York
– The Green Meadow Waldorf School – High School,
Chestnut Ridge, New York
– The Hawthorne Valley School – High School, Ghent, New York
– The Northern Lights Waldorf School, Wilmington, New York
– The Rudolf Steiner School – High School, New York, New York
– The Sunbridge College, Spring Valley, New York
– The Waldorf School of Garden City – High School, New York
– The Waldorf School of Saratoga Springs – High School,
Saratoga Springs, New York
– The Emerson Waldorf School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
– The Cincinnati Waldorf School, Ohio
– The Spring Garden Waldorf School, Copley, Ohio
– The Cedarwood School, Portland, Oregon
– The Corvallis Waldorf School, Oregon
– The Eugene Waldorf School, Oregon
– The Portland Waldorf School – High School, Oregon
– The Shining Star School, NE Portland, Oregon
– The Swallowtail School, Hillsboro, Oregon
– The Kimberton Waldorf School – High School,
Kimberton, Pennsylvania (founded 1941)
– The Waldorf School of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
– The Philadelphia Children's School, Pennsylvania
– The River Valley School, Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
– The Susquehanna Waldorf School, Marietta, Pennsylvania
– The Meadowbrook Waldorf School, W Greenwich, Rhode Island
– The Linden Corner School, Nashville, Tennessee
– The Austin Waldorf School – High School, Texas
– The Upper Valley Waldorf School, Quechee, Vermont
– The Spring Meadow Waldorf School, Richmond, Virginia
– The Bright Water School, Seattle, Washington
– The Olympia Waldorf School, East Olympia, Washington
– The Seattle Waldorf School, Washington
– The Three Cedars School, Bellevue, Washington
– The Whatcom Hills Waldorf School, Bellingham, Washington
– The Washington Waldorf School, Washington DC
– The Pleasant Ridge Waldorf School, Viroqua, Wisconsin
– The Tamarack Community School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
– The Three Rivers School, La Crosse, Wisconsin
– The Youth Initiative High School, Viroqua, Wisconsin
– The Calgary Waldorf School, Calgary, Alberta
– The Sunrise Waldorf School, Duncan, British Columbia
– The Kelowna Waldorf School, Kelowna, British Columbia
– The Nelson Waldorf School, Nelson, British Columbia
– The Vancouver Waldorf School, North Vancouver, British Columbia
– The Morning Glory School, Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
– The Halton Waldorf School, Burlington, Ontario
– The Trillium Waldorf School, Guelph, Ontario
– The London Waldorf School, London, Ontario
– The Alan Howard Waldorf School, Toronto, Ontario
– The Toronto Waldorf School, Toronto, Ontario
– L'Ecole Rudolf Steiner de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
– Les Enfants de la Terre, Waterville, Quebec
For all schools affiliated with the Association of Waldorf Schools in North America, AWSNA(schools in the United States, Canada, and Mexico). See also here. For a list of Waldorf kindergartens in North America, with the Waldorf Early Childhood Association of North America,WECAN, see here.
For some of the 870 Waldorf schools around the world, see RSArchive e.Links.
For a complete list of Waldorf schools worldwide, see list by country here. For a complete list of Waldorf kindergartens worldwide, see here (click on "Adressen", then select country).
For a more complete list of public Waldorf-methods charter schools in the U.S., see here.
Waldorf teacher education in North America
– Antioch New England Graduate School
40 Avon Street, Keene, New Hampshire 03431, 800.531.9540,
– Arcturus Rudolf Steiner Education Program
6531 North Lakewood Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60626, 773.751.3026,
– Bay Area Center For Waldorf Teacher Training
P.O. Box 2228, Sausalito, California 94966, 415.332.2133,
– Center for Anthroposophy
P.O.Box 545, Wilton, New Hampshire 03086, 603.654.2566,
– Great Lakes Teacher Training
1150 East Brady Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin , 262.524.2124,
– Kula Makua Waldorf Teacher Training Program
350 Ulua Street, Honolulu, Hawaii, 96821, 808.259.5407,
– Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto
9100 Bathurst Street #4, Thornhill, Ontario, Canada L4J 8C7, 905.764.7570,
– Rudolf Steiner College
9200 Fair Oaks Boulevard, Fair Oaks, California 95628, 916.961.8727,
– San Francisco and Los Altos Teacher Education
San Francisco Waldorf School, 2938 Washington Street, San Francisco, CA 94115, 800.515.8203
Waldorf School of the Peninsula, 11311 Mora Drive, Los Altos, CA 94024, 650.948.8433
– Sound Circle Center for Arts and Anthroposophy
9836 43rd Place NE, Seattle, Washington 98115, 206.926.9199,
– Sunbridge College
285 Hungry Hollow Road, Spring Valley, New York 10977, 845.425.0055,
– Waldorf High School Teacher Education Program
P.O.Box 545, Wilton, New Hampshire 03086, 603.654.2566,
– Waldorf Institute of the Great Lakes
3976 South Livernois Road, Rochester Hills, Michigan 48307, 248.299.2680,
– Waldorf Institute of Southern California
17100 Superior Street, Northridge, California 91325, 877.394.1444,
– West Coast Institute for Studies in Anthroposophy
603 Maple Mountain Road, Duncan, British Columbia V9L 5X7, 250.701.0393,
For more, see the section on Waldorf teacher training at the site of Waldorf World.
Waldorf teacher education and adult education in Europe
– Emerson College, Sussex, England
– European Masters Programme for Steiner Waldorf Educators
– Hogeschool Helicon, Netherlands
– Institut für Waldorf-Pädagogik Witten/Annen, Germany
– Lehrerseminar für Waldorfpädagogik Kassel, Germany
– Rudolf Steinerhögskolan, Sweden
– Seminar für Waldorfpädagogik Hamburg, Germany
– Seminar für Waldorfpädagogik Stuttgart, Germany
– Snellman Institute, Helsinki, Finland
– Waldorflehrerseminar, Kiel, Germany
Waldorf teacher education in Australia and New Zealand
– Taruna College, New Zealand
Some pages on Waldorf education outside the U.S.
– El Trigal, a Waldorf School in Cordoba, Argentine.
– Waldorf education in Japan. An Interview with Michiko Koyasu,
Professor of Germanics at Waseda University in Tokyo.
– Anthroposophy/Rudolf Steiner
– What is anthroposophy?
– Anthroposophy Net
– Anthromedia
– News Network Anthroposophy
– What is Anthroposophy? by Edward R. Smith
Rudolf Steiner
– Rudolf Steiner and Anthroposophy
– Who was Rudolf Steiner?
– Biographical sketch by Alfred Heidenreich
– Rudolf Steiner autobiography (on-line)
– An Encounter with Rudolf Steiner by F.W. Zeylmans van Emmichoven
– Rudolf Steiner Web
– Defending Steiner
– Rudolf Steiner Library (on-line publications)
– Steinerbooks (Anthroposophic Press)
– Rudolf Steiner Press
– Temple Lodge Publishing
– Floris Books
– Rudolf Steiner Publications (in German)
– Southern Cross Review
Anthroposophical Societies
– General Anthroposophical Society (Goetheanum)
– List of Anthroposophical Societies world wide
– Anthroposophical Society in America
– Anthroposophical Society in Canada
– Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain
– Anthroposophical Society in Australia (see also)
– Anthroposophical Society of New Zealand
– Anthroposophical Society in Brazil
School of Spiritual Science
– School of Spiritual Science (overview)
– The School of Spiritual Science (brief description)
– The School of Spiritual Science by Henry Barnes
– Owen Barfield (U.K.)
– Sir George Trevelyan (U.K.)
– Jens Bjørneboe (Norway)
Anthroposophically inspired activities
– Council of Anthroposophical Organizations (U.S.)
Adult Education
– Rudolf Steiner College (U.S.)
– Sunbridge College (U.S.)
– Emerson College (U.K.)
– Rudolf Steiner Institute (U.S.)
– Center for Anthroposophy (U.S.)
Anthroposophically extended medicine
– Physicians' Association for Anthroposophical Medicine (PAAM) (U.S.)
– Directory of Anthroposophical health practitioners (U.S.)
– Artemisia – Association for Anthroposophical Health Professionals (links only) (U.S.)
– Community Supported Anthroposophical Medicine (CSAM) (U.S.)
– Iscador therapy
– LILIPOH – Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
– Weleda UK
– Weleda USA
Biodynamic farming and gardening
– The Biodynamic Agricultural Association (U.K.)
– Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association (BDA) (U.S.)
– Biodynamic Research Institute (Sweden)
– Institute for Biodynamic Research (Germany)
– Oregon Biodynamics Group (U.S.)
– Pfeiffer Center (U.S.)
– World of Demeter
– Garuda Biodynamics (New Zealand)
– The SEKEM Farm (Egypt)
Camphill special education
– ECCE: European Co-operation in Anthroposophical Curative Education and Social Therapy
– Camphill Association of America
– Camphill Communities Ontario (Canada)
– Association of Camphill Communities in Great Britain
– Camphill Communities in Ireland
– About eurythmy
– Eurythmy frequently asked questions
– Eurythmy Spring Valley (U.S.)
– Austin Eurythmy Ensemble (U.S.)
– Association of Eurythmists in Great Britain and Ireland
– Camphill Eurythmy School (U.K.)
Social realm
– Rudolf Steiner Foundation (U.S.)
– New Century Bank, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania (U.S.)
– Triodos Bank in the U.K.
– Fellowship Community, Chestnut Ridge, New York (U.S.)
Movement for Religious Renewal (The Christian Community)
– The Christian Community in North America
– The Christian Community in Germany (in German)
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4 Mobile Marketing Strategies that would actually work in 2017
Year 2015, was perhaps the most important year in the mobile marketing industry, an year when mobile devices officially ended the 2 decade long dominance by desktops.
People around the globe settled down to a new "mobile way of life".
Data from BCG study calling out loud and clear, that mobile devices are the primary digital device of all age and demography segments.
Over 53% of tier 1,2 & 3 use mobile as their primary device.
Google also acknowledged this fact in one of their PR releases pertaining to mobile vs desktop searches. Google's search chief Amit Singhal said for the first time, more Google searches were completed on mobile devices than desktop computers.
All of this point us (the advertisers and marketers) in one single direction. We can, no longer continue to ignore mobile as a key channel in the marketing mix. However, there are several challenges (especially for the small & medium advertisers) when it comes to using Mobile effectively as a marketing channel.
Here are few mobile marketing tactics which are most logical and almost hygiene to make your digital marketing work in 2016.
#1 Mobile Marketing is most Social than ever before
77% of the marketers (also identified as one of the 2016 digital marketing trend in my previous blog post) said that mobile is used most frequently with paid social media marketing.
This data is also in sync with the the below numbers shared by Facebook Audience Insights, which says 122 Mn out of 132 Mn people access Facebook through Mobile.
Clearly, this shows that your social strategy should go through a "Mobile First" prism in 2016. What that means really is when you design your social content or when you create your paid social marketing plan, do skew it more towards mobile audience.
#2 Mobile Marketing is more about native content and less about advertising
The current trend might be in favour (almost tilted) of paid social advertising as the key mobile tactic, but this will change soon and the trend is already visible. According to the WARC-MMA survey, mobile display advertising would lose its share by 2020 to Mobile Content (or native advertising).
Also Read : Reasons Why Mobile Native Advertising Beats Desktop Native Advertising
Apple has already allowed ad blocker apps to run on its safari browser. Though iPhone's overall market share is limited, but this would still cause significance dent in the overall mobile display pie.
#3 Give your website a "Mobile First" makeover
Regardless of the type or stage of the brand, having a unique mobile first experience is something which would become a de-facto standard from here-on.
More so after the Mobilegedden update by Google.
In order to take better decision on your mobile first approach, also read "Mobile Web vs Mobile App"
Responsive website might be thing of the past for many digital first brands in 2016 as they continue to chase and build deeper consumer experience using Mobile First Strategies.
#4 In-App would grow but Mobile Searches would remain the key performing channel
With the growing popularity of mobile apps, to which a lot of digital pundits would say it offers a superior user experience than conventional websites, start-ups tilted (almost shifted) their product and business models towards the app at the expense of desktop and mobile websites.
To add to this, many investors regarded the number of app downloads as one of the indicators of a start-up's performance. Entrepreneurs and marketing heads rushed to blindly maximise their app downloads. Since then, tonnes of app marketing companies opened shop in Bangalore and Mumbai.
Soon, however, it was evident that they didn't necessarily result in high growth.
Now, as apps lose their novelty and vanity both, and as smartphone users uninstall apps to clear up memory (uninstall rates are as high as 90% in some cases), these companies are revisiting their mobile web strategies.
The winner? Google, which retains its dominance of online ad spending.
Hence, digital brands should get a sharp focus on getting their mobile keywords strategy in 2016. Yes, there is a difference of "intent & location relevance" in the audience search list.


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Jerusalem (Jun. 28)
"La Juive," the opera by Halevy, has been prohibited in Jerusalem by the Palestine Government, as a result of the protests of Catholic circles here. The Government hesitated for some time before ordering that no further performances be given.
Cardinal Giori was the chief complainant against the opera, claiming that the last act in which a Cardinal is depicted as the father of a child is shocking to the religious feelings of the Catholics. In demanding the prohibition of the opera, the Catholic leaders referred to the article in the Palestinian Mandate forbidding plays which may be insulting to any of the religious communities.


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GREENVILLE, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Independence Bancshares, Inc. (OTC:IEBS) ("Independence Bancshares" or "the Company") filed multiple patent applications on March 15 and 17, 2014 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office to follow up on the 11 preliminary applications filed on March 15, 2013. These patents included innovations for "Methods, Systems, and Mediums for Supporting Mobile Payments."
Today, a majority of consumer transactions around the world are still initiated and carried out in the form of cash-based currency. Mobile phones, which are proliferating around the world, stand to revolutionize the ways by which consumers and business conduct transactions. However, much of the infrastructure, processing capabilities and security protocols have yet to address the specific advantages that the mobile channel provides for financial institutions, consumers, business and governmental agencies.
Independence Bancshares (d/b/a nD bancgroup) is working on ways to advance this superior technology in a safe, secure and compliant manner. The patent applications include the following:
"Methods and Systems for Executing Mobile Currency Transactions": a system and process that will be at the core of real-time, secure transaction processing. This will facilitate payments that existing systems do not accommodate readily.
"Mobile Currency Messaging Systems": processes that control the format and routing of electronic messaging in real-time and near real-time transactions. These processes can be used for managing digital currencies, peer-to-peer payments, digital couponing, mobile commerce, advertising credits, and remittances.
"Creation and Use of Mobile Identities": a system and process for securely authenticating and provisioning certain types of accounts, devices, payments and compliance functions. This process is designed to assist with the reduction of fraud and credit risks while increasing the controls consumers and businesses have over their personal and corporate information.
Taken together, these new technologies will provide needed enhancements to the existing banking and payment infrastructures, processes and counterparties.
"We want to not only be a supporter of the transition of banking and payments to the more efficient digital and mobile channels, but to take a leadership position in technology, as well as stewardship of the safety and soundness of the financial system," said Gordon Baird, the CEO of Independence Bancshares, Inc. and a Director of Independence National Bank. "We believe technology-driven banking and payment solutions can bring more inclusion – better products to more people at lower costs.
"Developing a set of standards, systems and enterprise-grade infrastructures that use a common language for the movement of money will help consumers and businesses and will showcase U.S. innovation in a complex and extremely important industry sector. With a more modern, cross-platform way to connect the disparate parts of the digital transaction ecosystem, we can make banking better," Mr. Baird added.
About Independence Bancshares, Inc.
Independence Bancshares, Inc. is a bank holding company headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. It owns and controls all of the capital stock of, Independence National Bank. Independence National Bank is headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina. Since opening for business in 2005, it has been providing a complete banking line of business including retail banking, consumer finance, business banking and commercial credit. Its goal is to continue to deliver services that provide exceptional value to the community it serves. Website: www.ndbancgroup.com


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New York (Apr. 9)
A special council of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations will open in Chicago
on April 13th. All arrangement for this conference are now complete, and sessions will be held at the Congress Hotel. It is expected that there will be approximately 500 delegates, representing Reform Congregations of America. Mr. Julius Rosenwald will act as temporary chairman.
The Chicago Council is being called to consider among other things the question of financing the Union's activities which include the Hebrew Union College, Department of Synagogue and School Extension, Board of Delegates on Civil Rights, National Federation of Temple Sisterhoods, and the National Federation of Temple Brotherhoods. It is also proposed to amend the constitution, calling for an assessment on congregational expenditures as the method of securing a regular income for the Union, one of the advocates of this plan being Judge Horace Stern of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia.