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Week eleven has probably been by far my most favorite week of pregnancy (seeing as I don't like odd numbers, that is very strange for me). The week started off with winding down from vacation and trying to get back to "normal" again, which of course involved lots of napping. I even cooked dinner twice!! That is a first, seeing as cooking has been my least favorite thing for the last six weeks. Starting to feel more and more like myself everyday, which is definitely a plus for everyone.
The week ended with one of my best friends marrying her prince charming. I'd have to say that the Schroeder/Vitkus clan, puts on quite the party. Starting with rehearsal all the way to late night pizza on Saturday, everything about their special weekend was fantastic (especially the food and the iced tea). Junior definitely got his dance on Saturday night too. We're very blessed to have Mr. and Mrs. Vitkus as our friends and can't wait to make lots more memories with them!! Here's a little sneak peek at the beautiful bride and myself before she became KEV.
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Who is Who
Robert Bud
Robert Bud
Robert Bud is an historian of science, technology and medicine. Also the Keeper of Science and Medicine at the Science Museum, he has worked at the Museum in a variety of roles, for 30 years. He was educated in Liberal Studies in Science in Manchester, one of the world's first science studies departments, and in the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania where he took his doctorate. Fascinated by the process of story telling in the Museum medium he has directed the development of major narrative and collections based websites at the Science Museum as well as several major exhibitions. An interest in the faith placed in science as a solution to major practical problems has been a unifying concern linking Dr Bud's studies of the history of chemistry, instruments, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. His major publications are his three authored books, Science versus Practice: Chemistry in Victorian Britain (1984) coauthored with G K Roberts; The Uses of Life: A History of Biotechnology (1994);Penicillin: Triumph and Tragedy (2007); and Instruments of Science: An Historical Encyclopedia (1998), coedited with Deborah Warner. He is currently studying the history of the dream of 'applied science'.
On behalf of the Science Museum Robert Bud serves as a project advisor for the Virtual Exhibit.

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A Million Reasons
From Mark Victor Hansen, New York Times Best Selling Author of "Chicken Soup for the Soul" with over 500 million copies sold in 54 languages worldwide.
Michelle Ericksen hits rockbottom after losing her husband in a car accident. She can't pay her bills, she loses her home, and her snobby in-laws successfully sue for custody of her two young children. Saving tips waiting tables to appeal the case, Michelle has a chance meeting with a kind self-made millionaire, and under her tutelage, starts learning the skills she needs to take her life back. When she gains the confidence to confront her in-laws, Michelle is made an offer - if she can raise $1 million dollars in 90 days, she'll get full custody of the children; if she fails, she has to leave town and give up the case for good. Michelle agrees to the deal, and with her mentor's guidance, jumps headfirst into life as a startup entrepreneur. But does this broke single mom really have what it takes to become a millionaire - in just three months?
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Hospitals offering more perks to entice more nurses
Even with a few recent downswings, the U.S. economy is booming… so why aren't hospitals happy about it?
It all comes down to nurses.
During tougher economic times when a family's personal finances might be more of a struggle, nurses tend to stay put in their jobs. They keep their shifts, work extra hours, and may even push retirement back a few years. That paycheck, after all, is vital to making ends meet.
But when the economy is stronger and family finances aren't strained, suddenly the idea of retirement or fewer work hours becomes a lot sweeter and a lot more doable. That means fewer nurses filling shifts on top of an preexisting shortage of nurses nationwide. In other words, the higher that stock market arrow climbs, the harder hospitals start thinking about finding ways to entice you.
Many hospitals are turning to pricey perks and incentives, as CNN Money reports. Some of these include five figure signing bonuses, free housing, and in some rare cases, programs may even pay for your kids to go to college.
"These are some of the grandiose examples we've heard from our members," says Seun Ross, director of nursing practice and work environment at the American Nurses Association. "Who knows what employers will come up with next?"
Other incentives include perks such as bonuses for continued education and specialized training to help career advancement—for example, training nurses for intensive care units or emergency medicine. One hospital in Ohio even offers a Knowledge Bonus for new hires who already possess certain job skills.
Of course, when you're fresh from graduation and looking for that first nursing job, signing bonuses tend to grab the attention first, and there are plenty of opportunities for signing bonuses available nationwide. But a handful of cash can sometimes distract from a less than perfect working environment.
"We've never offered nurses a sign-on bonus," says Kathy Franz, director of human resources at Washington's Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. "Sign-on bonuses typically keep nurses in their jobs for two years. Our goal is to attract candidates who want to work here for other reasons."
Instead, Franz's hospital offers lifestyle perks, such as flexible scheduling, onsite childcare, tuition reimbursement, and better opportunities for advancement. And the approach is working… the hospital constantly has a "steady stream" of applicants.
"All it takes is for one nurse to tell her friend that where she works is a great place for these reasons and applications will come in," says Seun Ross.
So remember, as you begin your job search, make sure not to miss out on the perks available. But keep in mind that not all job benefits can be quantified on the front of a check.
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Review minutes for Sprint 20: 2016-01-15
Members present
- Brylie Oxley
- Taija Björklund
- Vesa Härkönen
Item 762: Brylie giving review of updated contributing guide. Impressive new guide for new developers, including instructions about code quality.
Item 711:
PR merged.
Item 74;
Brylie showing new Branding page, but a demo effect bothers. Page does not load on develop branch on Brylie's laptop.
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Brylie giving a UI demo:
General model given. Going through the fields in Metadata.
Metadata form demo on localhost.
Way to public view metadata and edit for managers.
Going through the changes. The work is still in progress.
Gode review of metadata.
518 API backlog:
API backlog feature UI review. LAF issues still.
Adding items to backlog works. Deleting works. Editing works.
595 ensure username:
Status: Code under a review.
Problems in Brylie's local branch to demonstrate the progress.
And demo works. Brylie demonstrates how to create account with Github, and what happens if the Github name has already taken. User has to enter name, is Github (or coming name) is taken.
Update to font page. Front page is now alive, showing latest APIs - demoed by Brylie.
Brylie Giving a demo of branding work progress with task 625. Adding a logo demoed with most cool logo. Then Brylie is changing side title, and demo shows how well it works. Also site logan now customisable.
Changing colors does not yet work in this demo.
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More info about hackers:
Source: http://www.xatrix.org/It seems the military has taken to portraying hackers as having the physical appearance of the swamp creature from the black lagoon or some evil space creature with a nasty set of teeth, frog shaped legs, a Worf type face and webbed feet. Over at the Andrews Air Force web site there is a collection of anti-hacker posters.
To quote Megaera LorenzI, it seems that it is human nature to dislike ambiguity. People like to be able to classify things into distinct categories -- good vs. bad, right vs. wrong, black vs. white. This very aspect of human nature has led to countless problems throughout history.
Because of this mentality, people want their bad guys to be bad and their good guys to be good, not to be left with the uneasy feeling of not knowing whether to like or dislike a given character. After all, if the bad guy is anything less than pure evil, how can we be justified in hating him? One of the most common tactics in wartime propaganda is to dehumanize the enemy. It makes it easier to kill them.
Let us just hope that this dehumanizing of hackers is not the first step in making it easier to kill them... I can't think of any other reason to be so dehumanizing except to give me a chuckle on a Sunday night...
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On 17 February 1973, a young woman named Judy entered a hospital in Manassas, Virginia and gave birth to me. She was only twenty years old at the time, and so many years have passed since then. I can hardly believe that I'm now 42! Each time I look at the year of my birth I'm in shock. :)) How can it be, when I still feel like a twenty year old at heart, and in spirit?
The past two years, I celebrated my birthday in Moscow, but this year I'll be warm and cozy in my apartment, looking at the white snow falling from the window. Mother nature delivered a snow storm to the Washington, DC area on my special day, and subzero temps for the past week. I guess it's good for a winter baby like me, to welcome a new year of life with snowflakes and my favorite temperatures. We can never know what life will bring us each year; however, there's always a certainty there will be ups and downs. Joys and sorrows. And I hope many adventures!
Hello 42...let's have some fun! :)
Russia - see you next week! I arrive on 24 February, and the first big journey of the year begins!


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Spirit Teachings thought The
Mediumship of William Stainton Moses
[As I attempted to put other
objections, many of which occured to me, I was stopped.]
We have something to say by the way of
summing up what has already been spoken. You do not
sufficiently grasp the fact that religion has a very scanty hold on the mass of mankind;
nor do you understand the adaptability of what we say to the needs and
aspirations of mankind. Or perhaps it is necessary that you be reminded
of what you
cannot see clearly in your present state, and in the midst of your
present associations. You cannot see as we see the carelessness that has crept
over men as to the future state. Those who have thought about their
future condition have come to know that they can find out nothing about
it except that the prevalent notions are vague, foolish, contradictory, and unsatisfying. Their
reasoning faculties convince them that the Revelation of
God which they are taught to believe to be of plenary inspiration,
contains plain marks of human adulteration; that it will not stand the
test of sifting such as is applied to works professedly of human origin;
and that the priestly
fiction that reason is no measure of revelation, that it must be left
behind upon the threshold of inquiry, and give place to faith, is a
cunningly-planned means of preventing man from discovering the errors
and contradictions
which throng the pages of that infallible guide which is forced upon
him. Those who use the touchstone of reason discover them readily enough: those who do not, betake
themselves to the refuge of faith, and become blind devotees,
fanatical, bigoted, and irrational; conformed to a groove in which they
have been educated, and from which they have not broken loose simply because they have
not dared to think.
It would be hard for man to devise a means of cramping the mind and
dwarfing the spirit more complete than this persuading a man that he
must not think about matters of religion. It is one which paralyses all
freedom of thought, and renders it almost impossible for the soul to
rise. The spirit is condemned to a hereditary religion, whether suited
or not to its wants. It is absolutely without choice as to that which is
the food of its real life. That which may have suited a far-off ancestor
may be quite unsuited to a struggling spirit that lives in other times
from those in which such ideas had force and vitality. And so the
spirit's vital nourishment is made a question of birth and locality. It
is a matter over which they can exercise no personal control, whether
they are to be Christian, Mahommedan, or, as you say, heathen; whether
their God is to be the Great Spirit of the Red Indian, or the fetish of
the savage; whether his prophet be Christ, or Mahomet, or Confucius, in
short, whether their notion of religion be that prevalent in east, west,
north, or south; for in all quarters they have evolved for themselves a
which they teach their children as of binding force, as supremely
necessary for salvation.
It is important that you ponder well this matter. The assumption that any
one religion, which may command itself to any one race, in any portion
of your globe, has a monopoly of Divine Truth, is a human fiction, born
of man's vanity and pride. There is no such monopoly of truth in any
system of theology which flourishes or has flourished among men. Each is, in its degree, imperfect;
each has its points of truth adapted to the wants of those to whom it was given,
or by whom it was evolved. Each has its errors: and none can be
commended to those whose habits of thought and whose spiritual
necessities are different, as being
spiritual food which God has given to man. It is but human frailty to
fancy such a thing. Man likes to believe that he is the exclusive
possessor of some germ of truth. We smile as we see him hugging himself
in the delusion, congratulating himself on the fancied possession, and
persuading himself that it is necessary for him to send missionaries far
and wide, to bear his nostrum to other lands and other
peoples, who do but laugh at his pretensions and deride his
It is, indeed, supremely marvellous to us that your wise men have been
and are unable to see that the ray of truth which has shone even unto
them, and which they have done their best to obscure, is but one out of
which have been shed by the Sun of Truth on your world. Divine Truth is
too clear a light to be tolerated by human eyes. It must be tempered by an earthly medium, conveyed
through a human vehicle, and darkened somewhat lest it blind the unaccustomed
eye. Only when the body of earth is cast aside, and the spirit soars to
higher planes, can it afford to dispense with the interposing medium which has
dulled the brightness of the heavenly light.
All races of men have had a beam of this
light amongst them. They have received it as best they might, have
fostered it or dimmed it according to their development, and have in the
end adapted to their different wants that
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which they were able to receive. None has reason to vaunt itself in
exclusive possession, or to make futile efforts to force on others its
own view of truth. So long as your world has endured, so long has it
true that the Brahmin, the Mahommedan, the Jew, and the Christian, has had his peculiar light,
which he has considered to be his special heritage from heaven. And, as if to make the
fallacy more conspicuous, that Church which claims to itself an
exclusive possession of Divine Truth, and deems it right to carry the
lamp throughout all lands, is most conspicuous for its own manifold
divisions. Christendom's divisions, the incoherent fragments into which
the Church of Christ is rent, the frenzied bitterness with which each
assails other for the pure love of God; these are the best answers to the foolish pretension that Christianity possesses a
monopoly of Divine Truth.
But the days are approaching when a new ray of light shall be shed on
this mist of human ignorance. This geographical sectarianism shall give
place before the enlightenment caused by the spread of the New
Revelation, for which mankind is riper than you think. They shall be
made to see that each system of religion is a ray of truth from the
Central Sun, dimmed, indeed, by man's ignorance, but having withing it a
germ of vital truth. Each must see the truth in his neighbour's belief,
and learn that best lessons, to dwell on the good rather than on the
evil; to recognise the Divine even through human error, and to
acknowledge the godlike even in that which has not commended itself to
his own wants hitherto. The time draws nigh when the sublime truths
which we are commissioned to proclaim, rational and noble as they are,
when viewed from the standpoint of reason, shall wipe away from the face
of God's earth the sectarian jealousy and theological bitterness, the
anger and ill-will, the rancour and Pharisaic pride which have disgraced
the name of religion, and have rendered theology a byeword amongst men.
Alas! alas! that the divine science which should tell man of the nature
of his God, and in telling should breathe into his soul somewhat of that
divine love which emanates from Deity; alas! that it should have become
the battle-ground for sects and parties, the arid plain where the
pettiest prejudices and the meanest passions may be aired, the barren,
cheerless waste, where man may most surely demonstrate his own ignorance
of his God, about whose nature and operations he so bitterly disputes!
Theology! it is a byeword even amongst you. You know how, in the
ponderous volumes which contain the records of man's ignorance about his
God, may be found the bitterest invective, the most unchristian
bitterness, the most unblushing misrepresentation. Theology! it has been
the excuse for quenching every holiest instinct, for turning the hand of
the foeman against kindred and friends, for burning and torturing and
rending the bodies of the saintliest of mankind, for exiling and
ostracising those whom the world should have delighted to honour, for
subverting man's best instincts and quenching his most natural
affections. Aye, and it is still the arena in which man's basest
passions vaunt themselves, stalking with head erect and brazen front
over all that dares to separate itself from the stereotyped rule.
"Avaunt! there is no room for reason where theology holds sway." It is
still the
cause for most that may make true men to blush, for in its stifling
atmosphere free thought
gasps, and man becomes an unreasoning puppet.
To such base ends has man degraded the
science which should teach him of his God.
We tell you, friend, that the end draws nigh. It shall not be always so.
As it was in the days which preceded the coming of the Son of Man, as it
has been in the midnight hours which precede every-day dawn from on
high, so it is now. The night of ignorance if fast passing away. The
shackles which priestcraft has hung around struggling souls shall be
knocked off; and in place of a fanatical folly, and ignorant Pharisaism,
and misty speculation, you
shall have a reasonable religion and a Divine Faith. You shall have
richer views of God,
truer notions of your duty and destiny; you shall know that they whom
you call dead are alive amongst you; living, as they lived on earth,
only more really; ministering to you with undiminished love; animated in
their unwearying intercourse with the
same affection which they bore to you whilst they were yet incarned.
It was said of the Christ that He brought life immortality to light. It
is true in a wider sense than the writer meant. The outcome of the
Revelation of Christ, which is only now beginning to be seen amongst
men, is in its truest sense the abolition of death, the demonstration of
immortality. In that great truth—man never dies, cannot
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however he may wish it—in that great truth rests the key to the future. The
immortality of man, held not as an article of faith, a clause in a creed,
but as a piece of personal knowledge and individual experience, this is
the keynote of the religion of the future. In its trail come all the grand
truths we teach, all the noblest conceptions of duty, the grandest views of destiny, the truest
realisations of life.
You cannot grasp them now. They gaze
and bewilder your spirit, unaccustomed to such glare. But, mark well,
friend, brief space shall pass before you recognise in our words the
lineaments of truth, the aspect of the divine.


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The garage door whooshed open and my kids and I were greeted on the other side by Lori Church-Pursley and her adorable "half-golden-lab-half-polar-bear" Jake.
Lori's daughter, 3-year-old Rose, walked up to me and sheepishly handed me a stuffed dog toy.
"Thank you, Rose." I said.
Lori's garage in the Cascade area of Renton looks like any other family garage: toys, clothing bins, canned goods . . . except Lori's garage is very special.
Back in April Lori and her husband opened a new South King County branch of Sibling House out of their garage in Renton.
Located in Kirkland, Sibling House is a 15-year-old non-profit program that provides items of need to foster families willing to take sibling groups.
Although the garage was filled with toys for local foster kids, Ty, Patrick and Rose started scooping and running their hands inside a deep plastic bin containing red lentils – a simple toy Lori created for her kids to play with.
"Why did you start Sibling House?" I asked.
Back in January Lori and her husband fostered their first foster kids — two sisters, from January until April. I will refer to them as C and D.
Ten-year-old C and her 2-year-old sister D arrived on Lori's doorstep with the clothes on their backs and one pair of ill fitting pajamas in the middle of the night.
"The girls' mother had told them not to pack anything because the state will pay for everything." Lori explained. "At first we thought our kids could share clothes because the state doesn't reimburse for expenses until after the first month. My 10-year-old son has a lot of sweat pants and Rose was 3."
I thought that was a sensible idea. Both Lori and her husband work for non-profit organizations. "It doesn't pay very well but we know we're doing good."
However, C was a size 16 and D was wearing 5T so they each needed a set of clothes.
"And both the girls had issues surrounding food. The very small reimbursement rate provided by the state doesn't even begin to cover the basic expenses of food and shelter, let alone provide funds for clothing, books, toys, and enrichment activities."
On a limited budget themselves and with very little financial help from the state, the Pursley's felt overwhelmed.
Lori and her husband turned to Lynne and Michael Gaskill, founders of the Sibling House in Kirkland.
"Lynn and Michael provided us with bunk beds, clothing, and diapers."
After Lori's family fostered C and D for four months the state located a second cousin willing to take the girls.
"Having them and letting them go was the hardest thing I've ever done. Emotionally and financially."
That experience was the catalyst for the Pursleys to clean out their garage and start a Sibling House Branch in Renton to help other families willing to take siblings instead of splintering families in the foster care system.
"There are a lot of foster homes in Tukwila, Renton and Kent. The 98058 area code in Renton is in the top three areas in this entire region for the largest number of kids removed from homes due to neglect.
Through our efforts with this new Sibling House branch in Renton we can provide clothing, food, toys, books and personal care items. The main site in Kirkland has all this plus furniture."
"What happened to the girls?" my 12-year-old daughter Sophie asked?
"Foster parents are not supposed to see parents. But we were told to take the girls to the DSHS office in Kent. The girl's mother was there with the second cousin who would foster the girls somewhere over on the Peninsula. It was heartbreaking; C and D didn't want to go with them."
The Pursley's kept in contact with the mother for a while to receive information as to how the girls were doing. But eventually due to a strained relationship lost contact.
"Where does this drive to help people come from?" I asked. "Were you ever in foster care?"
"My parents were the type of people who would give you the shirt of their backs. They were leaders in the community. I often wonder why I am so drawn to helping people. I guess I'm just touched by how so many kids are growing up in such cruddy circumstances," Lori said.
It was quiet when we got into the car.
"That story with those girls was so sad." Sophie said.
"Yes. It is. But we're going to help collect donations for them and that is something we can do right now to help," I said.
The Pursley's branch of Sibling House opened this past April. They are actively seeking donations. They can be reached by email at email@example.com
My daughter Sophie's Girl Scout troop will be collecting donations for Sibling House at the Renton Farmers Market this Tuesday, July 17, from 3-7 p.m.
The troop will also be passing out a healthy snack recipe cookbooks for kids printed by PIP Printing in downtown Renton. So stop by make a donation and enjoy a healthy snack made by local girl scouts!
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In Jelly Lam, your task is to help a jelly to reach his home. Če želite to narediti, da, you will have to collect all keys, dokončanje vseh 36 challenging levels and collect all stars for a higher score. Prav tako, you have to avoid all obstacles like spikes and so on. Have fun.
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My name is Adam and I am a wannabe-web and app developer, currently taking part on the Ladders Software Development course. If I am honest, out of all the courses for coding I have been on, the Ladders course is the best for me. Rather than sitting and having someone tell you about coding and taking you through how to build a library system in Java (something I did and was extremely bored during), Phil, our mentor, gives us a lot of independence and freedom so we can learn in our own way.
We began the course by learning about something very dear to my heart, web development. I have had some basic coding experience in the past but nothing like what we began learning about here. I had missed a week but Phil was good enough to take 5 minutes out to catch me up before we moved on to more advanced and interesting things. In our first session we learnt about Javascript (the language that stops you from having to refresh your entire Facebook when one of your friends posts about the holiday in Devon they had six years ago). This is one of the few languages that I didn't have any experience with, but it was interesting to learn about and the PowerPoints that Phil had prepared for us were very explanatory to beginners like me.
With Javascript we made a quick website which allowed us to navigate around a room without having to refresh the page. While it may sound simple, to the uninitiated it is extremely confusing. However, as mentioned Phil is a brilliant teacher who broke it down to a level that I could understand.
After lunch is when the real fun began. We started learning Python, and to do that, we got to make a game. Context: I am a massive gaming nerd and I wanted to make games when I was 17. The game was extremely rudimentary but it was fun to make. We each made our game a little differently. I, for example, made my spaceship move all around the screen and gave it weapons to destroy the asteroids (the game was a basic version of asteroids from the 1980s).
I think learning about Python through making a game is a great idea because I could see what I was changing rather than seeing different text on the screen and being confused as to why I was doing what I was doing. It was a visual representation and it was glorious.
Session 3 was another learning session. We were introduced to Jquery, a type of language that cleans up Javascript. I think learning Jquery was beneficial as websites constantly use Javascript and Jquery and considering I want to develop websites for a living it's really great to be introduced to this.
After that was lunch. Now this isn't technically about the course but I am putting it in anyway. I had the best Chinese food of my life at lunch time. In Campus North (which is where we ended up again) they sometimes have people come in to cook. I just happened to be there when they had the best Chinese street food ever there. For £5 (well worth it) you choose 4 ingredients and a type of noodles and they cook it in garlic soy sauce. I know that sounds basic but I had to ring my friend and tell her, it was that good!
After lunch we learned about Flask in Python. Setting up a web server sounds terrifying to me and I honestly thought to myself "no, you are an idiot and you should stick to building basic stuff that people can use really easily." Boy, was I wrong. It was incredibly simple to do. We messed around with adding messages to a website. I really enjoyed this because we could be a little bit daft but we still learned a lot in the process.
The reason that I have enjoyed these sessions is because it is what I want to do. I want to learn to make websites and games and web servers and other stuff like that. I want to be able to go into that sort of job. Phil, all credit to him, is an excellent teacher and I am looking forward to doing my final project to show what I have learned.
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Health law vulnerable to errors in coverage, federal investigators find
Federal investigators from the Government Accountability Office said Thursday that they had discovered many errors in eligibility decisions under the Affordable Care Act that had led the government to pay for duplicate coverage for some people and an excessive share of costs for others.
The investigators said some people were getting subsidies for private insurance at the same time they were enrolled in Medicaid.
In other cases, the investigators said, the government is probably overpaying because it cannot always distinguish between newly eligible beneficiaries under the Affordable Care Act and those eligible under the old rules. The federal government is paying 100 percent of the cost of Medicaid for newly eligible people, but for others it should pay a much smaller share, averaging 57 percent of the costs.
The discrepancy is potentially significant, the investigators said, because the federal government expects to spend more than $400 billion on newly eligible Medicaid beneficiaries from 2014 to 2023.
The accountability office, a nonpartisan investigative arm of Congress, described its findings in three reports to the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Committee on Finance. The reports came 10 days before millions of people will start applying for subsidized health insurance through online federal and state marketplaces, also known as exchanges.
The Obama administration, commenting on the reports, said it was stepping up efforts to "prevent duplicate coverage" under Medicaid and government-subsidized private insurance policies sold through the marketplaces. In addition, the administration said it had provided "significant training and guidance" to make sure states correctly identify new Medicaid beneficiaries for whom the federal government should pay the entire cost.
In testimony prepared for a House hearing on Friday, Carolyn Yocom and Seto Bagdoyan of the Government Accountability Office suggest that the goal of expanding coverage has sometimes been a higher priority for the Obama administration than the integrity of the program.
"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cannot identify erroneous expenditures due to incorrect eligibility determinations," said Yocom, a director of health care studies at the accountability office. "The federal government could be paying twice — subsidizing exchange coverage and reimbursing states for Medicaid spending — for individuals enrolled in both types of coverage."
Moreover, the auditors said, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which runs the federal marketplace, "does not have procedures to automatically terminate subsidized exchange coverage when individuals are determined eligible for Medicaid."
The administration said on Sept. 28 that it had started a data-matching program to help ensure that Medicaid beneficiaries would not receive subsidies through the marketplace. But the accountability office said this was not enough to minimize the potential for duplicate coverage.
In a separate study, undercover investigators from the accountability office created 18 fictitious identities and filed applications in their names. Federal and state officials approved subsidies or Medicaid coverage for 17 of the applicants, even though they used nonexistent Social Security numbers, invalid immigration document numbers, fictitious birth certificates and other counterfeit documents.
"Our undercover testing for the 2015 coverage year found that the health care marketplace eligibility determination and enrollment process remains vulnerable to fraud," said Bagdoyan, the director of forensic audits at the accountability office.
In one case, Bagdoyan said, a fictitious applicant received subsidized insurance coverage from the federal marketplace and from two state marketplaces at the same time.
Federal and state officials "told us there is no current process to identify individuals with multiple enrollments through different marketplaces," Bagdoyan said. Federal officials told auditors that they would "look at the risk associated with multiple coverage," according to one of the accountability office reports.
"The undercover results, while illustrative, cannot be generalized to the full population of enrollees" in the insurance exchanges, Bagdoyan said. But the findings are potentially embarrassing for the administration, especially because Bagdoyan and his team found similar weaknesses when they conducted undercover tests in 2013-14.
The Department of Health and Human Services said that its online verification systems had thwarted the investigators' initial attempts to enroll, and that consumers must attest to information they provide under penalty of perjury.
Consumers are not eligible for subsidies on an exchange if they have coverage from an employer that meets certain federal standards. Bagdoyan said the exchanges had allowed some people to obtain subsidies without verifying their claims that their employers offered substandard coverage.
Federal and state officials often ask consumers for documents with their applications. But "if the documentation submitted does not appear to have any obvious alterations, it would not be questioned for authenticity," Bagdoyan said.
The accountability office found that states had made incorrect decisions about Medicaid eligibility, leading to the "enrollment of individuals with incomes exceeding Medicaid standards." In addition, it said, the federal government continued to pay subsidies for private insurance for some people after they obtained Medicaid, and states often have difficulty determining whether Medicaid beneficiaries have other sources of coverage.
The investigators also found a significant risk that people moving to insurance on the federal exchange from Medicaid would experience gaps in coverage because their records were not transferred promptly from state Medicaid agencies to the exchange.


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SCM318 is an Extended Lifetime Product and recommended for new designs
Support is available through a technology onboarding program; Contact Us to learn more.
The Core of Next Generation Embedded Systems
Serious Communications/Control Modules (SCMs) are powerful and extensible HW+SW platform-level building blocks designed to be the core of next generation embedded systems designs.The SCM318 family is a series of off-the-shelf comms/control modules delivering:
- A multi-generational HW/SW architecture core for embedded designers, with highly migratable SW from the SCM208 designs and into the future
- An extensible HW platform with numerous options for customization and expansion
- A strong "app ready" commercially supported and pre-licensed software runtime environment, including Segger OS and software as well as the Serious SHIPWare drivers, infrastructure and frameworks.
Features & Variants
SCM318 FeaturesThe SCM318 family has numerous members, or "variants" with combinations of the following features:
Powerful ARM Processor & Memory System
- 400MHz ARM Cortex-A9 Renesas RZ/A1LC or RZ/A1L MCU with up to 3MB on-chip RAM
- 8MB SPI Serial NOR Flash for build-in SHIPv5 Boot System code and user application storage
- 128MB QSPI NAND Flash for file and data non-volatile storage (Segger emFile File System stacks included)
- 802.11bgn 2.4GHz WiFi via a GT1216 (or similar) certified module with the Qualcomm QCA4004 "Kingfisher" chipset
- Bluetooth 5 Thread-capable certified module (Rigado BMD340 or similar) with the Nordic nRF52840 chipset
- Primary port on the Comms Header, normally delivered via the SPM052 Comms Riser Card as an RJ45 jack
- Secondary switched Ethernet port on the Ethernet Expansion Header for off-board addition of magnetics & jack with optional PoE
- 2/4-wire half/full duplex RS485/RS422 with on-board termination option
- 2xCAN and LIN MCU ports exposed for off-board transceiver/network connectivity
- Numerous UART, SPI, I2C MCU ports exposed for off-board connectivity options
- USB device port for programming, updates, and PC connectivity, with secondary override input on SIM Passthru Header
- Up to 4 USB Host outputs, including two USB Host A connectors on the SPM052 Comms Riser Card
- 40-pin board-to-board Serial Header (GPIO, ADC, I2C, SPI, UART, etc.) for custom daughtercard expansion
- 30-pin board-to-board Bluetooth Expansion Header exposing numerous BT chipset signals
- 30-pin board-to-board Comms Header, including Ethernet, dual USB Host, and UART+transceiver control signals normally populated with the SPM052 Comms Riser Card
- 10-pin board-to-board Ethernet Expansion Header, for 2nd switched Ethernet port expansion and PoE options
- 30-pin board-to-board HMI Header, including direct dock option to Gen5 SIMx52 and SIMx62 families
- 10.8-35VDC wide input power supply
- -40 to +85C operation
- Dual USB Host A jack with power control
- 10/100 Ethernet RJ45 jack
- 6-pin 3.5mm RS485/Power Connector for simple in-chassis and/or industrial network connectivity
Discover a complete list of available Serious communications/control modules (SCMs) and Serious Integrated HMI Modules (SIMs).
|System Features
|Operating Temperature
|-40 to +85C
|-40 to +85C
|Power Good LED (Green)
|Main Power Input
|+10.8 to +35VDC
|+10.8 to +35VDC
|Processor/Memory Subsystem
|Renesas 400MHzARM Cortex-A9 MCU
|External SPI NOR Flash
|External QSPI NAND Flash
|Communication Ports
|10/100 2-port Ethernet Switch
|10/100 Ethernet Ports
|Bluetooth Smart w/NFC™-A Tag
|WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
|RGB LED User Status Indicators
|RS422/485 2-/4-wire w/Transceivers
|USB2.0 HS Host w/A Connector
|HMI Connectivity
|USB2.0 HS Host
|RESET#/SHDN# Control
2Available via custom riser card and/or daughter card
Serious can support semi-custom or new variants the SCM318.
Contact us for more details.
SW Development
SCM Development Engagement Model
There is no cost or royalty for the out-of-the-box software/firmware for Serious Comms/Control Modules (SCMs). However, getting access to this software and firmware for initial development with SCMs requires a one-time "kickstart" engagement with our Services team to ensure a smooth first project experience. First-time access to SCM dev kits and downloads is predicated on having this engagement in place. Once you've been through this initial process, ongoing support (including new revisions of firmware and access to new SCMs) is available at a nominal charge through an annual maintenance and support contract. Contact Serious for details.
A Complete No-Cost Commercial Development Environment
You can waste months porting an OS and developing the board support package, basic support utilities and communication protocol stacks — even before writing the first line of traditional C- code. Using "free" software stacks can lead you down of path with minimal support and a hodgepodge of building blocks constant requiring attention.
Serious gives you a complete, no-cost, commercially supported development environment, including tools and software, to enable you to focus on your communications and control software, not the infrastructure. We call it Leveraged Embedded.
Full Commercial Dev Tools
Every SCM Development Kit comes with an unlocked, single seat commercial license to Segger Embedded Studio, enabling powerful cross-platform C development and debugging for your SCM projects. All Serious ARM-based SCM example projects come pre-engineered out-of-the-box for Segger Embedded Studio.
SHIPWare – A Complete Firmware Platform for Comms/Control App Development
Every SCM also comes with Serious SHIPWare – a starting set of code and firmware on which you can build powerful control and communications applications, leveraging all the features of your module. SHIPWare complete, commercially supported software including:
- Segger OS and Stacks
- Serious frameworks and infrastructure, including the SHIPv5 Boot System with firmware update and version management
- Drivers and high level abstractions for on-board peripherals, including UART, SPI, I2C, WiFi, Ethernet, FLASH storage, and more
- Segger embOS RTOS kernel, pre-ported and optimized for the platform
- Segger emFile file system, including FAT and embedded file system support with journaling, and all the necessary drivers pre-integrated for the platform
- Segger emUSB-Device USB device/host stacks with various classes, and pre-integrated for the peripherals
- Segger emTCP/IP and TLS/SSL security stacks (including DHCP, web server, ftp, and more), pre-integrated with the WiFi and Ethernet peripherals
- Segger MQTT and CoAP stacks for IoT data connectivity
- Segger emCrypt, the foundational NIST-validated security you need for IoT and device connectivity
In addition to these ingredients, SHIPWare includes numerous application level frameworks, drivers, and example code for developing a communicating and controlling application, including heap and buffer management, the SHIPBridge device and host protocol stacks for communicating with the HMI. This software is provided in source code format and is fully supported by the Serious team.
Production Line and Application Installation Tools
Out of the box, the SCM also includes the SHIPv5 Boot System, including pre-installed boot-strap and boot-loader applications enabling you to install and commission your custom embedded application on the board on the production line using the no-cost SHIPCrane tools or even over-the-air/wire.
Dev Kits
The SCM318 Development Kit
- SCM318-A00 module, including standard SPM052 Ethernet/USBHx2/RS485 Comms Riser Card
- Segger JLink LITE ARM Debugger/Programmer
- 110/220V AC to 12VDC power adapter with barrel jack adapter (for use with 6-pin plug)
- 6 pin 3.5mm industrial connector screw-terminal plug
- Example prototyping daughter card
- Example WiFi patch antenna
- USB Micro B cable for SCM to PC connection
- Segger Embedded Studio IDE & C Compiler (full license, one seat, fully unlocked; Segger registration required)
- SCM318 Software Bundle, including Segger binary libraries & Serious SHIPWare frameworks (one-time onboarding program required)
Contact Serious to enroll in the SCM318 early adopter program Today!
The SCM318 is currently in development. Technical documentation is available to approved early adopters. Contact Serious for more informaton.
The Serious documentation zone has extensive documentation, downloads, resources, training, and more.
Quick Links:
- Request SCM Platform Software
- Download Embedded Studio: Select Embedded Studio v3.26a
- Embedded Studio Activation Registration Page


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A native from Buffalo, NY, Chef Carmello LoCurto served in the US Army for 20 years. He served over 1000 soldiers a day throughout his military career.
Chef Carmello was one of a few selected (out of 300 chefs) to compete in Culinary Circuit Competitions across the US and Europe. He gained awards & recognition for both his cooking and baking talents!
Forum Cafe Catering is managed by his wife Olivia "Oli" LoCurto.


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A South Bay health clinic won a significant grant this week to expand a new system of tracking low-income patients with chronic conditions – which officials hope will be a model for the county.
South Bay Family Health Care, which sees about 25,000 patients a year, received $100,000 from L.A. Care Health Plan to expand its "i2iTracks" chronic disease management system.
"This greatly improves our ability to make very sound judgments in treatments for our patients," said John Merryman, a spokesman for the clinic. "It's fairly unique for us to have this level of sophistication in patient care."
The electronic system allows physicians, nurses and health workers to input data on patients and group them together according to race, gender, age and a range of health problems. The data allows medical workers to figure out the best plan in treating a variety of patients with chronic conditions such as diabetes, asthma and hypertension.
The system, which has been phased in over the last year, recommends treatment plans to help patients manage conditions such as obesity and help curb poor lifestyle habits such as smoking and lack of nutrition and exercise.
The grant will allow the clinic to expand the system to all of its patients who receive care in Inglewood, Redondo Beach, Gardena and at a school-based clinic at Carson High School.
In tracking the patients, the clinic also will be able to ensure that they are receiving routine tests such as mammograms and Pap smears, said Jann Hamilton Lee, executive director of the clinic.
"We can ensure that they've received these tests and counseling, as well as make sure they don't miss any scheduled appointments," she said.
The county Department of Health Services has slowly begun to get its hospitals and clinic partners on the same electronic system so that patient records will be available throughout the county. For now, however, the local clinic only tracks those who are seen in the South Bay.
The majority of patients treated at the clinic are low-income with no health insurance, or are covered by Medi-Cal and Medicare. These are often the patients who fall through the cracks when it comes to chronic disease management, Merryman said.


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That is one thing ticked off my to-do list.
I have to admit I think I suffered a mini burn-out after rushing to get the Gallery finished in time. I didn't even want to go into my craft room for a number of days. However this weekend, after a bit of a tidy up, I have managed to tick another thing off my to-do list (well almost). Yesterday I re-papered my vintage triple gable Amersham with reproduction Amersham papers. I got the papers from Trevor Cain of Dolls House Restoration (dollshouseman on e-bay).
I also gave it a bit of a clean and tidy up (although it still needs a bit of work). Working closely with it I also noticed that where a previous owner has installed plastic windows (assumably because the original windows were lost) they have inserted some extra wood to make the windows fit. In time I will try to get some old Amersham windows and try to restore the house more to its original design. I still need to fix a bit of the roof where it is broken and work on the garage (bottom left room). The bedroom floors also need a bit of work. Amersham also had quite distinctive fire places and I might try to make one for the lounge. See this link for an image of an original:
I couldn't uncover enough of the original papers safely because a previous owner had used sticky contact papers over them throughout the house and had taped some lighting wires over the original papers with sellotape. However I have left the remains under the reproduction papers. The original papers in the house were all different coloured tulip papers. I have used a mix of reproduction Amersham papers (possibly from different eras) but I couldn't resist the cute lamb paper in one of the bedrooms and I chose not to have a tulip paper in the kitchen opting instead for a blue circle design.
The exterior appears to have also been overpainted and there are signs that the roof was originally green.
Today I reverted back to childhood and just had a play. A while ago I won an auction lot of vintage Barton and Dol-toi furniture and I had fun setting out my rooms and finding some little accessories to give the house a life. I still need to find some bathroom items. My tiny cook decided he would like to take up residence with his collie dogs. It is a perfect bachelor pad for him.
The house and furniture is 1/16th scale. To give an idea of scale the two wardrobes (the tallest pieces of furniture) are only about 10cm tall (4 inches) as is the cook.
It is hard to guess the age of the house. Amersham houses were available between about 1930 to 1957. My initial guess was that this house is from the late 1940s/early 1950s. However, there are also many things that indicate the house could be from an earlier period. Trying to date the house is made more difficult by changes made to the house by previous owners. Clearly I need to do more research.
Just to finish off I just want to thank everyone for all their well-wishes and good luck wishes with regard to my husband losing his job and seeking new employment. They are really appreciated by all of us. No good news yet but we will keep you posted.
Veronique, for many recent comments you have had your fingers crossed for my husband. Your thoughtfulness is so appreciated but I am concerned your fingers may remain forever crossed if you don't relax them now and then! Thank you my friend.


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inspired by my daughter's toy phone, i created a collection of lenticular art prints in 2017 featuring my hand-painted illustrations.
lenticular images change depending on the viewing angle. tilt the card to reveal a second image!
perfect for sending to someone special or displaying somewhere prominent for yourself to enjoy!
these lenticular prints are blank on the back for you to add a message and are sold with an envelope if you decide you can bear to part with them.
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After the main force of Nurgle and the herald of Slaanesh, Khorne's Flesh Hounds and Tzeentch's Flamers entered the fray.
Let's start with the Flamers first.
These guys provide me with some much needed magical firepower, D6 S4 shot's a piece at 18" is not something you take lightly.
For once I've allowed myself to be tempted to buy them new in Finecast...... never again.
I've seen better detail on a spat out piece of chewing gum... at last young Padawan, at the end you understand why they nicknamed it... Failcast...
Don't get me wrong, the models themselves are great and all credit to their original sculptor but moulds made for metal don't seem to be made for moulding plastic-resin...
I'll happily field them, I've tested them last monday in a small 500 pts battle and since then my friend suffers from severe Flamerphobia.
I've got a bid on 6 more of them on e-bay cheapish but after that my Finecast adventure ends.
3 basecolours were chosen: yellow, purple and turquoise.
These were used on different parts of the models to give them a riot of colours and yet to tie them together as a unit.
Such is the mutating power of Tzeentch that the moss on the base is a pinkish orange and the sand turned to gold, Fool's gold no doubt.. as in parting a fool with his gold when buying Finecast...
The Flesh Hounds were a different story alltogether, they came in at a fair price from Heresy miniatures, took some fiddeling to assemble and were a bliss to paint.
I had them for some time and only now found use for them, it also gave me the good excuse to get some of Black Cat's skullbases.
I've got no idea how they'll behave on the battlefield, this I will find out this evening so fingers crossed.
I think the red skin turned out alright and they contrast nicely with the sombre bases.
I've always excperience red as a hard colour to paint, espescially on a black undercoat, but ever since I've discovered to used fine layers this difficulty has vanished like the morning mist.
Their poses are very dynamic, the heads are separate so you can assemble them to some degree of variety.
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The Machining Technology course is a manufacturing environment where students create a wide variety of parts usually from metal. You learn to use different machine and hand tools to shape metals into precision working parts while having fun! Students machine different projects for each course which they take home at the end of the course.
This program is offered at the following institutions:
Dauphin Regional Comprehensive Secondary School, Dauphin
Lord Selkirk Regional Secondary School, Selkirk
Technical Vocational High School, Winnipeg
Winnipeg Technical College, Winnipeg
*Course info taken from Tec/Voc High School website
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Barcelona agree David Villa deal
MADRID - Barcelona snapped up Spain striker David Villa from Valencia for 40 million euros on Wednesday, moving swiftly to strengthen their squad just three days after winning the La Liga title.
Valencia president Manuel Llorente said they had accepted Barca's bid for the prized striker, who scored 21 league goals last season to finish his fifth consecutive campaign as the club's top scorer.
"There was a big offer from England that was not from Chelsea but Barcelona's was the best for us and the footballer," Llorente told a news conference.
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FEATURE: Messi & Villa already on good terms
The 28-year-old is Spain's second-highest scorer with 36 goals from 55 matches, eight short of the record held by Real Madrid striker Raul, and he will be spearheading Spain's World Cup campaign in South Africa next month.
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"After five marvellous seasons I take away many feelings and leave behind many friends but also knowing that it is a good thing for the club.
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Barcelona confirmed the deal in a statement on their website, saying Villa would sign a four-year contract with an option for one more year.
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France striker Thierry Henry spent most of last season on the bench and is expected to move on.
Barca sporting director Txiki Begiristain told the club's TV channel on Wednesday Villa was a similar player to Messi in that he could play as a centre forward or drift in from the right wing into goal-scoring positions.
"He has the profile of a player who makes very good diagonal runs and moves very well into space," Begiristain said.
Valencia have been forced into the sale by the precarious nature of their finances. They are burdened with debts of more than 500 million euros, they have a half-built new stadium and have yet to sell their current one, the Mestalla.
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The following pages are extracts of the minutes of "The Provincial Grand Lodge of Roxburgh, Peebles and Selkirk Shires." The dates given are from 1808-1869, and I received them from a member of "The Antiquarian Society of Selkirk," who felt that they would be of more use to me as she had been given them by a male friend who was also a member of the Society. I print them as I feel that a little piece of history may be lost if the original should be destroyed.
An extremely interesting feature of these minutes is the list of French prisoners of war who became "Freemasons" during their compulsory sojourn in Selkirk from 1811-1814. It is evident that the Secretaries had great difficulty in spelling the foreign names, which are indeed, seldom spelt twice the same way. In two or three instances a space has been prudently left blank, so that the entrant could write his name in himself. The following is a complete list, with the dates of entry, and the actual spelling being retained even when presumably wrong.
Dec. 3rd. Wilhelmin Tieman, 1st Lieutenant (Hanoverian Cavalry). It is doubtful if this was a prisoner.
Dec. 26th. Frederic. Baron de Lynckersdoff and Lynamsdorpht or Lykersdorf.
1812 Jan. 6th. Elie Mausfras.
Jan. 6th. Bernard Duboscq.
Jan. 11th. Pierre Etienne Laurent.
Jan. 24th Joseph Clement de Villeneuve.
Jan 29th. Joseph Mangan.
Mar. 9th. Charles Antoine Lefovronnes or Leforsonnez.
Mar. 9th. Henri Catalau.
Mar. 9th Vincent Simon.
Mar. 9th. Jean Baptiste Passement
Mar. 19th. Jean Francon Verron.
Mar. 19th. Jacques Manciet.
Apr. 15th. Louis Arnaud.
Apr. 21st. M. Belleval or Bellville.
Apr. 21st . M. Guitaud.
Apr. 21st Geraud Foungreves.
Apr. 21st. Lt. Froussart.
Jun. 24th. M. Salmier
Oct. 20th. Nicolas Citron.
Oct. 24th. Amand Giller.
Nov. 14th. Jean Baptiste Joseph Degree. native of Doullen.
Nov. 14th. Jean Bertrand St. Lary.
Nov. 14th. Charles de Corbie.
Nov. 17th. Richard Harlant.
Dec. 23rd. Pierre le Cog.
Dec. 31st. Louis Jacques Pierre Gauvain.
Jan. 3rd. Simon Timon.
Jan. 7th. Jacques M'ce Pat-Veillon.
Feb. 2nd. Nicolas Chardanel.
Sep. 10th AntoineCondamine.
Dec. 10th. Antoine St. Michel.
Dec. 24th. Jean Louis Joseph Revaux.
Feb. 24th. John Schendhutor.
Of 93 prisoners, 34 appear to have become Freemasons.When peace was declared and Napoleon was sent to Elba early in 1814, the Frenchmen returned to their own country, some of them no doubt to fight under their old leader once more at Waterloo.
The Lodge resolved to meet on the 25th of October at 7 p.m. to walk in procession in honour of His Majesty George 111. Having attained the 50th year of his reign, and afterwards to go to Bro. William Thomson's at the "George and Dragon Inn".
Entered George Haldane, gunner of the Royal British Artillery. Purchased Walter Henderson's property for £311; intending to build a new Lodge next year.
Resolved to agree with Mr .Watson (Schoolmaster) at a reasonable sum to put the new articles into grammar in order that they may be got ready for printing.
Entered William Rodger, R.N., son of George Rodger, Esq. Of Bridgelands, no doubt the Captain Rodger whose patent anchor was largely adopted by the Royal Navy after many years use by merchant vessels. Baillie Clarkson made an honorary member by being entered apprentice, passed into fellow craft and raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason at one sitting, in return for his honourable conduct to the trades of Selkirk at Carterhaugh on the 14th day of December, at the ball their.
Mr. Walter Hogg having succeeded in raising £280, resolved to build a new Lodge at a cost not exceeding £500, large enough to accommodate at least 130 people at dinner. The Marquis of Lothian, Prov. Grand Master, to be asked to lay the foundation stone. Entered Andrew Lang, Writer. Evidently Lord Lothian was not to be had, and the good Freemasons no doubt felt that they had to be content with somebody less important in their Sheriff, Walter Scott, Esq. Of Abbotsford. They had a mind, however, to do justice to so great a ceremony, and on May 28th. They drew up the following order of procession;-
Town Officers
Drum and Fife
Incorporated Trades
Merchants Colour
Magistrates Colour
To be carried by Thomas Phillip (a native of Selkirk), a gallant Scots Grey who fought and bled at Waterloo.
Tyler of the Lodge
Bible carried by a brother, the Chaplain on his right.
The Master and Deputies according to Masonic order.
The Treasurer (with a purse) and Secretary.
A Senior Steward with a rod.
Committee of Management- Senior 3 Junior 2 abreast.
Plans to be carried by the principal manager.
A junior steward with a rod.
Vocal music.
Past Masters, two abreast.
Members of Lodge, two abreast.
Two Stewards with rods.
Deputations from neighbouring Lodges.
Apprentices, Royal Arch Lodges, their music in front.
From Town Hall eastwards, up Back Row and down Kirk Wynd, then to wait while a deputation escorts Mr. Scott from Mr. Lang's house.
Inscription on parchment to be inserted in stone. Also deposited in the stone the different coins of his Majesty's reign, with the newspapers of the day and the inscription.
Walter Scott, Esq. Of Abbotsford.
Sheriff Depute of Selkirkshire
Laid this foundation Stone
Of the Freemasons Hall, Selkirk
Upon the 4th of June in the year of our Lord 1816
And the reign of George 111. King of Great Britain,
56th year of his reign, and of the era of Masonary 5816.
James Inglis and David Laidlaw contractors of the work.
David Laidlaw, Master. Walter Hogg, Principal Manager
Wm. Tweedie D. Master. Andrew Lang, Tres. & Secretary
Alex. Mercer, Treasurer George Young, Manager.
Alex. Hay, Secretary Thomas Scott, Manager.
John Bruce, S. Warden. John Dobson, Manager.
Wm. Hogg, J. Warden. James Robertson, S. Steward.
Andrew Cowan, J. Steward.
Committee of Management of present undertaking.
F . D . O . M. ;- Favente Deo Optimo Magimo.
(With the favour of God greatest and best)
Q . D . B . V.;- Quod Deus Benedicere Volat
(Which may God be pleased to bless.)
On the 4th of June, before setting out in procession, the Lodge entered the Rev. James Nichol, Minister of Traquair an honorary member, that he might be enabled to act as their Chaplain; and also Thomas Phillip, of the "Scots Greys", that he might be enabled to carry the Magistrates Colour, albeit, the latter was not a Masonic emblem. The Rev. James Nichol of Traquair, gave an excellent prayer, well adapted for the occasion. After the ceremony the brethren returned to the Town Hall, and on the motion of Brother James Robertson, Mr. Scott was admitted an Honorary member with three cheers.The meeting then walked to Mr. Minto's Inn, where they dined and spent the evening with the utmost conviviality, Mr. Scott filling the chair to the satisfaction of all present. Writing to the Duke of Buccleuch next day, the Shirra says, " I was under the necessity of accepting the honour done me by the Souters who requested me to lay the foundation stone of a sort of barn, which is to be called a Freemasons Hall. There was a solemn procession on the occasion which, that it might not want the decorum of costume, was attended by weavers from Hawick, shoemakers from Jedburgh, and pedlars from Peebles, all very fine in the scarves and trinkums of their respective Lodges. If our musical band was not complete, it was at least varied, for beside the Town Drum and Fife, which thundered in the van, we had a pair of Bagpipes and two Fiddles, and we had a prayer from a parson whom they were obliged to initiate on the spur of the occasion and who was abominably frightened, although I assured him the sanctity of his cloth would preserve him from the fate of the youngest brother, alluded to by Burns in his "Address to the Deil".
July 10th. Letter signed "Robert Weir"on behalf of himself and other Freemasons in Galashiels, desiring a certificate from the Selkirk Lodge, with a view to the formation of a Lodge in Galashiels.
Nov. 28th. Agreed to send deputation to assist at the erection of new Lodge. Grand Lodge requested to empower Selkirk Lodge to consecrate their new hall on 27th December.
No mention of consecration in minutes of that date.
One enquiry at the Innkeepers "for to know what they would find the dinner for". Reported that John Thomson would " provide it 1/8 per man and small beer, the Lodge to find the drink and candles".
Resolved owing to the very great and general disatisfaction, which has prevailed on account of the beggardly manner of estimating the dinner, and for the honour of the body, that they have a respectable one, and at as low a price as possible, with small beer and each member to have a glass of spirit. Agreed with Mr. G. Young at 2/- and toddy at 1/- a bottle
Impossible owing to state of funds to send deputation to Jedburgh, on laying foundation stone of new prison.
Sent deputation to Hawick to assist in laying foundation stone of new Lodge.
Deputation of five to Galashiels on occasion of laying foundation stone of new Gas House.
Similar deputation to assist in laying foundation stone of new Church at Galashiels.
Use of Lodge room for monthly meetings granted to the Tee Total Association for 20/- per annum. A motion made by some of the brethren that as they could not drink toddy, they should not pay for it, or if they did, the profit should not go to the purveyor, but into the Lodge funds, was lost by a great majority. The brethren then "sat down to a good dinner and spent the evening with that mirth and glee which the fraternity were used to do."
Use of Hall prohibited to strolling play actors.
Lodge apparently sold and members shares divided.
Treasurer's box and contents ordered to be obtained from late Treasurer, the Bible to be searched for and delivered to the Master, as also with the chest with all the regalia.
From 1849 there is a gap in the minutes till 1864, when eleven Masons met with deputation from the Galashiels Lodge, and sent a petition to Grand Lodge for re- openment.
Ceremony of Re-opening on 19th August, when Grand Lodge was represented by the Hon. William Napier, Broadmeadows, S.P.G.M. William Chambers of Glenmoriston, P.G.S.M. Rev. David Waddell, P.G.G. and Robert Sanderson, P.G.S.; and assisted by deputations from the Lodges. A very solemn and impressive address from from the Honorable William Napier occupies four closely written pages of the minute book. Closing the Lodge, the members walked in procession round the Haining loch, and were entertained to dinner by Mr. Napier, Brother Chambers, (afterwards Lord Provost of Edinburgh), singing Maggie Lauder, in Grand style. The brethren of the Lodge cannot close this minute, without expressing the deep sense of gratitude they owe to their much esteemed and highly respected brother, the Hon. William Napier. It is rare indeed, that such a noble and dis-interested person is to be met with, e.t.c. A month later Mr. Napier presented the Lodge with a new and handsome set of Silver jewels, and on St. John's day, he was elected Master of the Lodge for 1865.
March 2nd. Date of last minute.


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A Partner in the Perfumery Dept. of Tyrrell and Green, another of the Partnership's department stores, 1950
John Lewis Partnership Archives - Ref. 359eiii
The following was sent in to us by retired Partner Joyce Smith. Now ninety-two years old, Joyce shared these memories of her long career in the Partnership in a letter, which she wrote to us after reading about the Memory Stores in the March 2015 issue of Connections magazine:
I picked up on the paragraph about the chocolate factory and sweet store. My memory went back to 1946, when I was working at Jones Bros Holloway, in the Perfumery Dept. I could not understand how it was that we were selling jars of sweets in the Perfumery Dept.? Now I can understand! Nobody explained it at the time.
I was 24 years old, had served almost 4 years doing farm work in the Women's Land Army in Hertfordshire. I was looking for a job with only a limited experience of office work pre-WLA, and Jones Bros only wanted sales staff, so what could I do but try to do my best! However, the Manageress of Perfumery was inclined to treat me like a child, shouting at me in front of customers. At 24 years old I was not happy, so had written out my notice to quit! However, the Assistant Manageress of the department at that time - I think she was called ADM - advised me to wait, because she believed that the DM was about to leave. So I tore up my notice to quit and went on to serve 37 years! 7 on the selling side and 30 in buying.
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Later on in my career I was sent on a Good Work Party to Paris, Geneva and Zurich, and was one of the few lucky ones chosen to go to the Partnership College at Cookham, in Berkshire, in 1948, the last year before it closed. As I said, the John Lewis Partnership is a wonderful, unique organization and I am so pleased to see how it has grown and is still growing.
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