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ADDIS ABABA — Addressing Eritrean professionals, intellectuals and political leaders in Addis Ababa on Friday, Prime Minister Meles reiterated that Eritrea posed a serious threat to the security of Ethiopia and to countries of the Horn Region. The Eritrean government was caught red-handed while plotting, executing, and overseeing subversive and terrorist acts on Ethiopia and its neighbors, Prime Minister Meles underlined. He was referring to Isaias's reported plan to cause chaos and bloodshed in Addis Ababa in March when the African Union was holding a conference of heads of state in the Ethiopian capital.
He said tougher new UN sanctions will be slapped on the Eritrean regime as soon as the Security Council agrees on measures affecting foreign companies operating in the country.
In a bid to stave off measures that would stop President Isaias Afeworki from laying his hands on revenues from the country's gold mines and from illicit money paid by nationals abroad, he is frantically seeking understanding from African leaders. His sudden diplomatic offensive is clearly too little too late. Immediately after his return home from a state visit to Uganda last month, President Musoveni issued a statement through his ambassador in Addis Ababa urging more stringent UN measures on Asmara. Unable to refute overwhelming UN and East Africa's IGAD (Inter-governmental Authority for Development) charges against Eritrea, it is unlikely Isaias's meeting in Bamaco over the weekend with Equatorial Guinea President Mbasogo, current AU Chairman, will change any African minds.
The Eritrean leader should grab the bull with the horn and face the forces that hold the key to the country's future as well as his own, namely, the Eritrean people at home and the broad-based, energized democratic opposition front which is banned from operating inside the country. An increasing number of young conscripts and students fleeing the country are joining the front in the fight for a new Eritrea.
At the same time, the sanctions and international diplomatic pressures are having their toll on Isaias and his close advisors and cabinet ministers. According to reliable sources in Asmara, some of his ministers and loyal aides are openly expressing frustrations in fear that the country may be heading for the gutters.
The same sources describe a political atmosphere developing in Asmara in a manner somewhat similar to the one experienced at the end of2000 when the Isaias armed forces lost the war with Ethiopia and were pushed out of the border village of Badme which became an annoying symbol of personal failure for him. Consequently, in late 2001, Isaias staged a palace coup in which he put in jail almost all members of his cabinet including his de facto Vice President for questioning his leadership capabilities and for calling an end to his dictatorial methods.
How the current crisis will play out is yet to be seen. What is clear is that Isaias is fighting for his life and political survival. With an impoverished and enslaved population of 5 million, with over 300,000 disenchanted armed youths indefinitely serving in a hated national service, with a dysfunctional economy and estranged intelligentsia, Isaias fears Eritrea could be hit by a Tunisia or Libya type of revolution at any moment. Indeed the Eritrean government has become so hysterical that it has accused the Nobel Peace Prize winning human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, of inciting a people's rebellion in the country – a charge vehemently denied by Amnesty.
By and large, the internal quandaries as well as the UN sanctions on Eritrea are of Isaias's making because of his frustrated ambitions to be the undisputed regional leader and his hate and mistrust of the Meles Zenawi led TPLF/EPRDF government in Ethiopia for hampering his grandiose plans. He made the destruction of Zenawi's rule as the only way if he is to stay in power and develop his country. Isaias tried to convince his people that his arming and funding of Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab and rubbing elbows with extremists was in Eritrea's national interest. He reportedly continues to arm and harbor rebels and extremists from Djibouti, Somalia, Sudan, and South Sudan, as well as Ethiopia, to try to blackmail the leaders of these countries and get them to bow to his whims and demands.
Now not only the African Union but also the UN and the superpowers identify the Isaias regime as a threat to regional and international peace and security. Isaias stands between a rock and a hard place with no easy answers. One option left is for him to start negotiations with his foe Meles Zenawi without preconditions putting everything on the table including the issue of dusty Badme. Meles told the just concluded conference of 62 Eritrean intellectuals and professionals including more than a dozen PhDs and Medical Doctors that he has no plan to leave Badme unless such a move guarantees peace for the peoples of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Meles thinks the ball is in Isaias's court. Isaias feels it is in Meles's court.
Asked by this reporter if Meles ever blames himself for what is wrong in Eritrea since he was once close to Isaias, he said "I did not create Isaias." However, Meles said he did not believe Isaias would be good for post independent Eritrea given his record as liberation front leader in which he favored violent means to resolve conflicts and his lack of concern for human life.


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Aaron Rodgers drops back, Julius Peppers hits the ball just as Rodgers arm is moving forward to throw.
Ball falls to the ground.
Just a guy watching the game in a bar, I thought it was an incomplete pass.
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You can't give Aaron Rodgers 7 points in a playoff game and expect to win.
But I have to say this about the Bears of 2013: at the start of the season, I did not expect them to even be close to a playoff berth.
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All year long this team was so up and down it was unbelievable - that they were able to pick themselves up after the revolting Eagles loss is actually very impressive.
And it was a really exciting game to watch.
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I think they do because there are too many other holes to fill.
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A firefighter examines the flames as a fire sweeps through Bucyrus, N.D., on Wednesday night.
When a grassfire destroyed most of tiny Bucyrus, N.D., this week, the "perfect firestorm" of conditions served as a reminder that the long-term drought, combined with unpredictable winds, makes for severe fire danger across the central U.S., even in the middle of autumn.
Four homes and 20 other structures were lost after the fire broke out Wednesday afternoon. Fanned by winds up to 70 mph, it consumed at least 6,000 acres and traveled 10 miles by Thursday morning, The Dickinson Press reported.
"This is like a nightmare," Linda Wiskus told The Dickinson Press. "I wouldn't wish this on anyone. ... We had about 15 minutes to get what we could. I grabbed a safe, a pair of jeans and some socks — I didn't have time to get anything else."
The cause of the fire has yet to be determined, but Bucyrus is in a county that's been in continued drought since October 2011, Adnan Akyuz, North Dakota's state climatologist, told NBC News. Conditions got even worse starting Oct. 2.
"When you combine warm, dry and windy conditions, it creates a perfect setting for elevated fire danger," Akyuz noted. Adding drought to that mix, he said, "makes it more dangerous conditions for fire."
"Red flag" fire warnings have been issued "frequently this summer and fall in the area," he added.
Located in southwest North Dakota, the county has also had the lowest amount of precipitation in the state over the last two months.
While about average for the last decade, the number of wildfires across the state this year is higher than the three previous years, which saw lots of rain and flooding, said Cecily Fong, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Emergency Services.
"Typically, the southwest corner and western part of our state are more prone to wildfires, but they can really occur anywhere if we go into severe drought, which we think we may be doing now," she told NBC News.
A top meteorologist at the federal command post for fighting wildfires said the time of year, combined with the dry grass, wind and drought made for prime fire conditions in North Dakota.
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"People burning leaves" this time of year is another worry, Ed Delgado, of the National Interagency Fire Center, told NBC News. But he was also hopeful the fire season would see a "very quick decline" as it gets colder and wetter.
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"Our winter snow cover lasts from November through March," he added. "Even though it may be a dry winter, it is unlikely that the entire winter will be snow free."
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Evelyn and Mike Krug were among those who lost their home, The Dickinson Press reported. Asked what she and neighbors might do next, Evelyn shook her head and said only, "I don't know."
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Even though Kristen and Rob have been working on their relationship, Rob isn't ready to fully 're-commit' to K-Stew because he can't trust her! Do you think Rob has any right to still feel this way?
Robert Pattinson just can't seem to shake Kristen Stewart's affair with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders, according to a new report on RadarOnline.com. The 22-year-old actress reportedly feels like she's done everything to prove to Rob that she's serious about their relationship.
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Philanthropically minded people often want information that goes beyond a "good feeling" when they write a check to a church, shelter or youth group or an organization working in an issue area they support, such as voter education or animal rights.
Many donors, especially those who are planning large gifts, want to know how to make their gifts more effective or to fill gaps in funding. Foundations want to ensure their grants abide by IRS regulations.
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Philanthropists in a position to make very large gifts to a public charity want information about which organizations with causes matching their interests are receiving large gifts, where their peers are giving and where gaps in funding may exist.
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- From a drop-down menu on the next page, they can choose to view million-dollar gifts by charitable sector and reveal a pie chart; it shows that just 3.3% of million-dollar gifts received by Colorado organizations go to environmental causes—perhaps indicating that such causes in the state do need funding.
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A 16-year-old Ottawa youth is facing 60 charges for alleged involvement in dozens of incidents across North America designed to get a police SWAT team to respond.
A Milton, Ont., teen was arrested and charged with public mischief two days after an April 30 incident that led to the evacuation of Jean Vanier Catholic Secondary School in the community west of Toronto.
And a 15-year-old boy from Laval, Que., north of Montreal, was arrested Thursday and charged with allegedly using a telephone or a computer to target a shopping centre, two private homes, and the same school twice.
Officers investigating the Milton incident said they learned the accused had planned for the threat — which said explosives placed in the area of the school were going to detonate — to be delivered by an "online" acquaintance.
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Authorities said they were investigating his alleged involvement in incidents targeting Ontario, Alberta, Pennsylvania, Florida, California, Texas, and Britain.
"Swatting is a term utilized online to refer to engaging emergency services with false calls to affect revenge on an individual or organization by causing the response of armed SWAT teams to active shooter scenarios or bomb threats," Ottawa police Staff Sgt. Rick Baldwin-Ooms said Friday.
"In this case, the subject is a suspect in at least 30 North American occurrences," Baldwin-Ooms said.
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By Tom Dempsey | Policy Director, Cape Cod Commerical Fishermen's Alliance
CHATHAM — Homeowners would be up in arms if a hurricane were to level this town and insurers, dealing with a finite amount of money, stipulated after the fact that only owners of homes built before 1800 would be reimbursed.
Working for the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance and serving on the New England Fishery Management Council, I talk with commercial fishermen throughout Massachusetts and New England every day. As someone committed to working with fishermen to build solutions that improve fisheries management and support stronger fishing businesses, I listen closely when life-long fishermen tell me it's getting harder to find the fish that were once the mainstay of New England's coastal economy.
No one in the New England groundfish fishery needed an official declaration to know that the fishery is a disaster. Through decades of mismanagement, a large number of the fish populations, like cod and flounders, which have supported groundfish businesses for centuries are now severely depleted. These declines led to the recent reductions in the commercial harvest levels and, ultimately, the declaration of a federal fisheries disaster and the appropriation of nearly $33 million to help mitigate that disaster.
Predictably, there were nearly as many opinions as to how best to spend these funds as there are people in the fishery. But, almost everyone recognized the urgent need to provide direct assistance to struggling fishermen throughout New England. With the declines in groundfish populations, many of these captains and crewmen have struggled to stay in business, make boat and mortgage payments and provide for their families.
But, sadly, the federal disaster plan recently announced by the National Marine Fisheries Service provides no direct assistance to the vast majority of fishermen in New England. By setting arbitrary landing criteria for vessels to qualify for relief and entirely ignoring the region's crewmen, this National Marine Fisheries Service plan simply leaves too many people behind. In Massachusetts alone, we have around 700 federal groundfish permits, more than 400 active boats and more than a thousand crewmen on groundfish vessels.
Yet, under the federal plan, only about 100 people will likely receive direct federal assistance as owners of qualifying permits. I work with captains who missed the arbitrary qualifying requirement by less than 150 pounds of fish and crewmen who saw their pay and, ultimately, their jobs evaporate over the course of just a few short years. But, right now, those guys are still waiting for help.
Fortunately, the commonwealth has an opportunity to make this right. The federal plan allocates $8.2 million directly to the state to spend in disaster mitigation with substantial latitude in how they approach that task. The process for deciding how those funds will be distributed is just underway and will likely take months of work from the recently organized task force which is helping the Division of Marine Fisheries to develop the plan.
It is essential that the commonwealth does the right thing and addresses the glaring gaps in the federal plan by prioritizing commercial groundfish fishermen that have been forgotten.
Fishermen shouldn't be left behind because they're smaller in scale or because they responded to the obvious declines in groundfish populations like codfish by targeting other fish. And hardworking, taxpaying crewmen, many of whom depended just as much on the fishery to make a living as anyone else, shouldn't have to rely on the charity or endorsement of a captain in order to get the assistance they need.
To be sure, disaster assistance is a Band-Aid and not a long-term solution to help turn this fishery disaster around. We absolutely need to improve the quality and timeliness of our fisheries science and catch information to support better management decisions. We also need to transition to a management style that better recognizes the complex interactions between fish populations and their changing environment.
Those efforts are underway and are essential. But, first, we need to prioritize getting desperately needed help to the fishermen in the commonwealth who need it.
Tom Dempsey is the policy director of the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance, a nationally recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting fish and fishing for future generations. He also serves as a member of the New England Fishery Management Council, which manages fishery resources in our region's federal waters.


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In a 5-4 ruling, the United States Supreme Court justices strike down the Defense of Marriage Act, saying it is unconstitutional. NBC's Pete Williams reports.
In a pair of landmark decisions, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down the 1996 law blocking federal recognition of gay marriage, and it allowed gay marriage to resume in California by declining to decide a separate case.
The court invalidated the Defense of Marriage Act, which denied federal benefits to gay couples who are legally married in their states, including Social Security survivor benefits, immigration rights and family leave.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the majority in a 5-4 decision, said that the act wrote inequality into federal law and violated the Fifth Amendment's protection of equal liberty.
"DOMA's principal effect is to identify a subset of state-sanctioned marriages and make them unequal," he wrote.
Edith Windsor, the 84-year-old woman who brought the case against DOMA, said that the ruling ensured that the federal government could no longer discriminate against the marriages of gays and lesbians.
"Children born today will grow up in a world without DOMA, and those same children who happen to be gay will be free to love and get married," she said.
In the second case, the court said that it could not rule on a challenge to Proposition 8, a ban on gay marriage in California passed by voters there in 2008, because supporters of the ban lacked the legal standing to appeal a lower court's decision against it.
The court did not rule on the constitutionality of gay marriage, but the effect of the decision will be to allow same-sex marriage to resume in California. That decision was also 5-4, written by Chief Justice John Roberts.
Lt. Gavin Newsom told NBC News that gay marriage would resume in California within 30 days. Gov. Jerry Brown said counties could begin issuing marriage licenses to gay couples as soon as one formality was taken care of: A federal appeals court had to lift a stay issued by a lower judge.
"As soon as they lift that stay, marriages are on," California Attorney General Kamala Harris told reporters. "The wedding bells will ring."
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Celebrations around the nation as the Supreme Court struck down the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and declined to rule on California's Prop 8, legalizing same-sex marriage in the state.
The two rulings, released minutes apart, were greeted by jubilant cheers outside the Supreme Court, where crowds of gay-marriage supporters waved rainbow banners and flags bearing symbols of equality, and at City Hall in San Francisco.
"The underlying message, I think, is that these are marriages, these are relationships, that are worthy of equal respect," said Tom Goldstein, the publisher of SCOTUSblog and a Supreme Court analyst for NBC News. "It really does send a powerful message to the country that this is something that deserves fair treatment.
President Barack Obama placed a phone call from Air Force One to the two gay couples who had challenged Proposition 8. He told them, "We're proud of you guys." Paul Katami, one of the challengers, invited the president to his wedding to his partner, Jeff Zarrillo.
David Boies, a lawyer who argued against Proposition 8, said that the rulings took the country closer to realizing the Declaration of Independence's guarantee that all men are created equal.
"It's a wonderful day for America," he said.
The decisions were handed down 10 years to the day after the court decided Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down anti-sodomy laws across the country. They also came just ahead of the weekend when many large cities celebrate gay pride by observing the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, considered the beginning of the gay rights movement.
Opponents of gay marriage vowed to fight on in the states.
"We clearly have a mixed ruling here," said John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage. "Justice Kennedy did not say that all states must recognize same-sex marriage. In fact, his opinion is full of deference to the states' determination of marriage policy."
Under the Defense of Marriage Act, gay couples who are legally married in their states were not considered married in the eyes of the federal government, and were ineligible for the federal benefits that come with marriage. Not counting California, 12 states and the District of Columbia have authorized gay marriage.
The law had helped determine who is covered by more than 1,100 federal laws, programs and benefits. They include a tax exemption for health benefits for gay spouses, and the right to petition the government for a green card. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he was looking forward to extending benefits to gay military spouses.
All had been prohibited under DOMA. The Supreme Court ruling said that the law had instructed federal officials, "and indeed all persons with whom same-sex couples interact, including their own children, that their marriage is less worthy than the marriages of others."
The case before the Supreme Court concerned Windsor and Thea Spyer, a lesbian couple who lived together in New York for 44 years and married in Canada in 2007. When Spyer died in 2009, Windsor was hit with $363,000 in federal estate taxes. Had the couple been considered by the federal government to be married, Windsor would not have incurred those taxes.
"We won everything we asked and hoped for," Windsor told reporters.
Kennedy was joined in the majority by the four members of the court's liberal wing — Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Dissenting were Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.
Scalia, in his dissent, wrote: "It is enough to say that the Constitution neither requires nor forbids ou rsociety to approve of same-sex marriage, much as it neither requires nor forbids us to approve of no-fault divorce, polygamy, or the consumption of alcohol."
President Bill Clinton signed the act into law in September 1996. A court ruling in Hawaii had raised the prospect that that state might become the first to authorize gay marriage. Some members of Congress believed that the law might take the air out of a movement to amend the Constitution to block gay marriage.
Proposition 8, the California ban, was approved by voters in 2008 with 52 percent of the vote. The measure was placed on the ballot after the California Supreme Court allowed same-sex marriage.
The push to overturn it drew endorsements from what might have seemed unusual quarters just a few years ago.
In the days before the Prop 8 case was argued, politicians, business leaders, professional athletes and other high-profile figures rushed to announce their support for gay marriage.
Dozens of Republicans added their names to a paper known as a friend-of-the-court brief that argued that gay marriage promotes the conservative values of stability and mutual obligation.
And the case itself was argued, up through the federal court system, by two unlikely partners: Boies and Theodore Olson, the lawyers on opposing sides of Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court case that settled the 2000 presidential election.
Gabe Gutierrez of NBC News contributed to this report.


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We're going to call this a part: We have all of our people! The plumber came by today, gave us a (very good) estimate, and that almost completes our lineup - we have a framer and trim guy, a plumber guy, an electric guy, a drywall guy, and a painter guy! All that's left is someone to do the carpet and tiles near the end.
The framing will happen next weekend, the plumber can come out the week after that, and hopefully we can do the electric in the weekend/week after that. Barring any unforeseen events (which yes, always happen with stuff like this), we could be ready for drywall by November!
You know, for not actually having a single thing done yet, I'm pretty darn excited.
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The webapp I want to show you is a webapp to generate CSS3 based gradients. Perhaps it has not as many options (yet) as the products of Xara have, but nice to see anyway:
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His name is The Doctor, and he is afraid! 2 weeks from the start of his adventures with the Twice Dead Girl, let's have another peek at what's in store for The Doctor and Clara...
So, what's new in this clip? We get a brief glimpse of our new Ice Warriors who show up in Mark Gatiss' Episode 3, Cold War, a submarine-set base under siege story which also stars Liam Cunningham and David Warner. Wouldn't want one of these burly dudes charging down a dark, tight corridor at me:
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And a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance by The Doctor's favourite Sanctuary Base 6 space suit! Never underestimate the Doctor Who crew's ability to reuse props and costumes - so far this spacesuit has popped up in The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, was repainted for use in 42, and most recently showed up in The Waters of Mars. Now the Eleventh Doctor's got his mitts on it - perhaps he finds it during Episode 5, Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, penned by Sherlock's Steven Thompson:
Finally, we end on this creepy bone-laden forest, with The Doctor narrating his fears over it... it looks like the spooky setting for Neil Gaiman's episode (we see Clara, some soldiers, and Porridge traipsing through a similar looking forest earlier in the post-Christmas special trailer), but considering The Doctor's distress - he's lost his bow tie! - maybe it's from Steven Moffat's Series Finale:
But what's The Doctor so afraid of? Is it the new Cybermen? Just what was that creature sneaking up behind him? Could this be the Fields of Trenzalore? Is it the answer to Clara's mystery? Is it a sign of what's to come in the 50th Anniversary special? I guess we'll find out this Easter Saturday!
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Weight Variation by Latitude refers to the claims that scales have measured masses to weigh up to 0.3% [1] less near the equator compared to the polar areas. It is asserted that this is due to a combination of the centrifugal effect from the rotation of the earth and the increased mass at the equator.
Upon assessment of the experiments supporting this, it is found that these experiments are conducted with the scale and test body exposed to the surrounding atmosphere. A scale is calibrated for one area and then taken to another area, uncalibrated. Measures are not taken to isolate the test body and the measuring device from the influences of the environmental atmosphere. It is known that pressure and humidity affects scales. It is also known that that pressure is greater at the poles and lesser at the equator. It is further known that pressure is greater at lower altitudes near sea level and lesser at higher altitudes. Humidity likewise has a relationship with the latitudes and altitudes.
Andrew Huszczuk, Ph.D., writes (Archive):
" Would you take a medication knowing that a pharmacy used an uncalibrated scale to weigh its ingredients? Would you board a plane knowing that the fuel or altitude gauges are not calibrated at frequent intervals?
In these and thousands of other applications scientific bases and rules of metrology must be obeyed to assure chaos-free operation of modern societies. To scrutinize performance of measuring devices a process of calibration must be carried out by means of applying a known standard and getting back a correct reading. "
- 1 Scales Affected by Atmosphere
- 2 Uncalibrated Scale Drift
- 3 Legitimate Measuring Device
- 4 Kern Gnome Experiment
- 5 Spring Scale Experiment
- 6 Worldwide Air Pressure Gradient
- 7 Worldwide Humidity Gradient
- 8 Addendum
- 9 See Also
Scales Affected by Atmosphere
Precision Scales
From Drift in Measurements with Analytical Balances (Archive) we read:
" Pharmaceutical laboratories and bioscience research institutes make extensive use of analytical balances that are highly sensitive. These analytical balances are greatly affected by their environment and also by the way they are installed and handled. "
One precision scale manufacture lists many factors (Archive) which can affect a scale:
Factors That Can Affect Your Scale's Accuracy
" Differences in air pressure – Scales can provide inaccurate measurements if the air pressure from the calibration environment is different than the operating environment. "
If the air pressure from the calibration environment is different than the operating environment, it will affect the scale. Also listed on the page are temperature and humidity which can affect the operation of a precision scale.
Standardscale.com says (Archive):
How does the environment affect weighing on a lab balance?
" The environment surrounding a balance is vital if you are to maintain the manufacturer's stated performance ratings. Really, the manufacturer doesn't matter in this regard, as a bad environment will adversely affect any balance. There are many influences to consider and to remove, as far as is possible, from the area surrounding the balance. "
Industrial Scale Comany
The Industrial Scale Company tells us (Archive):
Sources of Error in Weighing Instruments
" Environmental Factors – A scale's accuracy and precision are highly dependent on the environment in which it is installed. "
Bathroom Scales
Inconsistent scale readings are also readily seen at home in bathroom scales. If left uncalibrated, the reading will vary wildly.
Can I Trust My Bathroom Scale? (Archive)
" A dietician who weighed herself 15 times over the course of a day found that she'd "gained" seven pounds. "
Uncalibrated Scale Drift
On the topic of uncalibrated scale drift precisionscale.com portrays a 0.5% variance as small, and gives it as an example of why calibration is necessary.
https://precisionscale.com/scale-calibration/ (Archive)
Understanding the Importance of Scale Calibration
" In more complex terms, scale calibration involves the process of comparing a known standard, such as a calibration service's certified weights, to the results given by the unit that is being tested (your company's scales). Such a procedure ensures the accuracy of the unit being tested. When your business relies on accuracy of weights to run and operate smoothly and protect profits, calibration of your scales is not negotiable. It is an absolute must and will also ensure that your business is adhering to industry standards and Canadian laws and regulations if you use the weights and measurements to calculate truck loads.
Why Is Calibrating Your Business's Scales So Important?
While you may not realize it, your business's scales and the accuracy they produce have a direct impact on your company's bottom line. If your scales are off, your profits can be off as well. For example, let's say that your business deals in a very expensive powdered cleaning product. If the product cost is $10 per pound and on average you weigh 1,000 pounds of product per day, the total value of product weighed each day is $10,000.
Now, let's say that your scale is out of balance by just 0.5 percent. That discrepancy will cost you approximately $50 per day, or $1,000 a month. Unless your company is in the position to literally throw away $1,000 a month ($12,000 a year), then it becomes very apparent why scale calibration is a necessity. In fact, keeping these numbers in mind, one can actually say that such a service is actually an insurance policy protecting your business's bottom line, rather than just another routine business expense. "
Legitimate Measuring Device
In fact, in the EU if a scale is not calibrated before use after repositioning then it is not considered to be a legitimate measurement device. From a precision scale manual we see:
https://www.soehnle-professional.com/documents/all/406/Manual_9437_EN.pdf (Archive)
Kern Gnome Experiment
The precision scale manufacturer Kern conducted a public test of the variation of weight by latitude, showing that weight changed when a resin composite gnome and one of its precision scales were sent to members of the public at different latitudes:
Website: http://gnome-experiment.com/ (Archive)
Scale Not Calibrated
The scale was calibrated in Germany and then sent to different areas:
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/gnomadic-experiment/4924.article (Archive)
" Kern the gnome and a Kern and Sohn balance, calibrated at the firm's laboratory in Balingen, Germany, are travelling around the world to anyone who requests a visit in a specially designed flight case. Gloves and cleaning implements also come along for the ride, so the mass of the gnome isn't altered by dirt or over enthusiastic cleaning.
Several factors affect the gravitational field at different locations on the Earth, for example the closer Kern gets to the equator, the less he should weigh because the velocity of the Earth's spin at the equator (1670km/hr) counteracts the force of gravity by up to 0.3%. This weight loss will also be increased by the equatorial bulge that means Kern would be further from the centre of our planet and gravity is proportional to the inverse square of the distance between two objects. "
Long weigh from gnome: The bizarre experiment where a garden ornament travels the world to measure gravity (Archive)
" Kern travels in a reinforced case containing himself and a Kern EWB 2.4 Scale calibrated according to local gravity in Balingen, Germany, to ensure any weight change he encounters on his travels shows up. "
Members of the public were instructed to place the gnome onto the scale and to record their results:
Spring Scale Experiment
The Spring Scale Experiment shows a similar methodology of calibrating in one area and taking to another:
http://physicstasks.eu/930/spring-scale-on-the-pole-and-on-the-equator (Archive)
" We calibrated a spring scale on the North Pole and then we moved the scale to the Equator.
Does the spring scale give the same readings as on the pole? Give reasons. "
The book Practical calculations for engineers (Archive) describes the same method:
" Suppose such a spring balance be made and calibrated in London by suspended weights which are mutiples or sub-multiples of the point weight. Then if the balance and the standard pound weights were taken to different latitudes, it would be found that the balance would show increasing readings for the same weight in passing from the equator to the poles. "
Worldwide Air Pressure Gradient
The following sources explain that air pressure has a relationship with latitude, being lower near the equator and greater near the poles:
https://www.pmfias.com/pressure-belts-pressure-systems-equatorial-low-sub-tropical-high-sub-polar-low-polar-high/ (Archive)
World Distribution of Sea Level Pressure
" The atmosphere exerts a pressure of 1034 gm per square cm at sea level. This amount of pressure is exerted by the atmosphere at sea level on all animals, plants, rocks, etc.
Near the equator the sea level pressure is low and the area is known as equatorial low. Along 30° N and 30° S are found the high-pressure areas known as the subtropical highs. Further pole wards along 60° N and 60° S, the low-pressure belts are termed as the sub polar lows. Near the poles the pressure is high and it is known as the polar high. "
and further down:
" Polar High Pressure Belt
- The polar highs are small in area and extend around the poles. - They lie around poles between 80 – 90° N and S latitudes.
- The air from sub-polar low pressure belts after saturation becomes dry. This dry air becomes cold while moving towards poles through upper troposphere. - The cold air (heavy) on reaching poles subsides creating a high pressure belt at the surface of earth. "
" Polar High
The polar highs are areas of high atmospheric pressure around the north and south poles; the north polar high being the stronger one because land gains and loses heat more effectively than sea. The cold temperatures in the polar regions cause air to descend to create the high pressure (a process called subsidence), just as the warm temperatures around the equator cause air to rise to create the low pressure intertropical convergence zone. "
Worldwide Humidity Gradient
Humidity, like temperature and pressure, has a relationship with the equator as well:
" The most humid cities on earth are generally located closer to the equator, near coastal regions. Cities in South and Southeast Asia are among the most humid. Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Jakarta, and Singapore have very high humidity all year round because of their proximity to water bodies and the equator and often overcast weather. "
When one examines the properties of the air they will find that other elements too are related to pressure, temperature, and humidity; such as air viscosity and thermal diffusivity -- all of which may affect the operation of scales. If a scale is affected by any of that then those factors should be excluded, ideally in a vacuum chamber experiment. Yet a search on such types of experiments finds none.
Any singular assessment appears insufficient. It is due to the complex nature of the air that scale manufacturers and metrologists recommend calibrating often, whether a scale is indoors or outdoors. Indeed, a company's failure to calibrate its scales in certain fields can result in fines and even legal action.
Adopting this basic and reasonable level of scrutiny, an experiment which is based on bringing uncalibrated scales to different environments and then looking for differences of a fraction of one percent of a body's weight must only be questioned for validity. The European Union has mandated that any scale that is not calibrated after being relocated is not a legitimate measurement device. Insisting that one can move such a device without control of the environment is an offence against both reason and regulation.
Historical Fudging
Of interest, upon reviewing the history of weight changes by latitude we find that the nature of the Earth was modified because the theory did not meet the data. This is the origin of the flattening of the poles.
From Voltaire we see (Archive):
" The celebrated Huygens, by calculating centrifugal forces, had proved that the consequent diminution of weight on the surface of a sphere was not great enough to explain the phenomenon, and that therefore the earth must be a spheroid flattened at the poles. "
Hence, the theory was changed to fit the result, giving us a round world with flattened poles. However logical a bulging equator is in concept, the ability to change a theory to meet a desired result exists as a fudge factor. Had the results been any more or less different, the theory or associated theories would have been changed to fit those results, either by bulging out the equator more or less to fit the data or by looking for other elements to modify.
Time Dilation by Latitude
In contradiction to an uncontrolled three hundred year old practice of bringing weighing devices to different environments and adapting the theory to fit the results, other situations involving devices which are not affected by atmosphere do not show changes by latitude. See: Time Dilation by Latitude
See Also
Change by Latitude Topics
- Time Dilation by Latitude - Time does not dilate due to rotation of Earth
Flat Earth Gravity Topics
- Universal Acceleration - The Universal Accelerator Main Page
- Evidence for Universal Acceleration - Experiments and background foundation showing that Earth is accelerating upwards
- Variations in Gravity - Various experiments have failed to find variations in gravity or violations of the Equivalence Principle
- Gravitational Time Dilation - Time dilates in accordance with the uniform prediction of the Equivalence Principal to various heights
Round Earth Gravity Topics
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[Hook - Curtis Mayfield:]
Add a little sugar, honeysuckle lamb
A great big expression of happiness
Boy, you couldn't miss with a dozen roses
Such would astound you
The joy of children laughing around you
These are all the makings of you
[Verse 1 - Kanye West:]
I do it for the forefathers and the street authors
That are now A&Rs in the cheap office
Rappers that never got signed but they keep offers
Girls that's way too fine for us to keep off of
Gave her a handshake only for my man's sake
She in her birthday suit cause of the damn cake
Now there's crumbs all over the damn place
And she want me to cum all over her damn face
I never understood planned parenthood
Cause I never met nobody plan to be a parent in the hood
Taking refills of that Plan B pill
Another shorty that won't make it to the family will
If I don't make it, can't take it, hope the family will
They ain't crazy, they don't know how insanity feel
Don C just had a shorty, so it's not that bad
But I still hear the ghosts of the kids I never had
[Verse 2 - Kanye West:]
No electro, no metro, a little retro, ahh, perfecto
You know the demo, your boy act wild
You ain't get the memo? Yeezy's back in style
Now one room got Gidget, the other got Bridget
What's more tripped out, dawg, is they sisters
Nah, you ain't listen, they black, they "sisters"
They momma named them after white bitches
So next time you see me on your fallopian
Though the jewelry's Egyptian, know the hunger's Ethiopian
Stupid questions like "Is he gon' be dope again?
Have you seen him? has anybody spoke to him?"
This beat deserves Hennessy, a bad bitch
And a bag of weed; the Holy Trinity
In the mirror where I see my only enemy
Your life's cursed, well mine's an obscenity
[Verse 3 - Jay-Z:]
This is my momma shit; I used to hear this
Through the walls in the hood when I was back in my pajama shit
Afros and marijuana sticks, seeds and the ganja had it
Popping like the sample that I'm rhyming with
Pete Rock, let the needle drop
I seen so much as a kid they surprised I don't needle pop
Taking sips of pop, six pack of Miller nips
Pink Champale, Ballantine Ale
Bally's on my feet help me balance out well
That and the shit I used to balance on the scale
I got it honest from the parties from my momma's
Virgin Marys try to judge her
I'm like "Where the Madonnas now?"
Give all glory to Gloria
They said "you raised that boy too fast, but you was raising a warrior"
We victorious, they'll never take the joy from us, uh
[Outro - Kid Cudi (w/ Pete Rock):]
Keep your hands up, get mine up
Don't let them take your fire
Yeah, okay
(It's Pete Rock, Kanye, one, two, okay)


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The city of El Banco is among the top listed cities of India for tourism. Be it someone living on the mainland of the country or anyone who is visiting our beloved nation. El Banco is definitely on their list.
There are several reasons for the same. The culture and tradition, the hospitality of the people, the long list of places to visit with each of them holding a million stories in themselves. All of this accounts for the popularity of the city.
There is no best time to visit this particular city. Be it the summers, the monsoon or the winters. IN each season there is a whole new shade the city wears.
Definitely one cannot stay for an entire year unless he or she is a resident but one can surely befriend them. The version of history and stories of the city is not better heard from other than the locals. They can even give you tips and help you have a better view of the city. The famous ones you must already be knowing but there a few gems in every place which are limited to the knowledge of the permanent residents.
Moreover, the cuisine of the place is mouthwatering. The taste of the top dishes of the city from the hands of years old expertise and improvisation tastes delicious.
There are places of great height and places on the round which hold equal importance. Make sure you make a wise decision in choosing which are places are on your list and don't miss out an amazing angle of the city.


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Alex Rodriguez, legal team preparing medical malpractice lawsuit against Yankees' team doctor
According to ESPNNewYork.com, a source in Alex Rodriguez's camp said the Yankees' third baseman's legal team is preparing to file a medical malpractice lawsuit against the Yankees' team doctor.
Rodriguez's camp believes they have the evidence to back the theory Chris Ahmad, the team's doctor, incorrectly diagnosed Rodriguez's hip during last October's playoffs.
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The suit has not been filed, as Rodriguez's legal team is still collecting the details for the case.
During the postseason, Rodriguez struggled mightily. Raul Ibanez pinch-hit for the third baseman for the first time in the American League Division Series against the Orioles. After the game, Rodriguez informed the team his right hip felt "off." An MRI revealed the right hip was fine, but the left hip needed medical attention.
Medical records provided to ESPN, the radiologist working with Ahmad on Rodriguez's MRI on Oct. 11 reported, "Stable postoperative appearance of the right hip with no evidence of labral re-tear, stable degenerative change, and only minimal gluteus medius insertional tendinosis. Partial evaluation of left hip revealing superior labral tear with small parabal cyst."
The record is a description of the radiologist report and does not include any interpretations or clinical documentation from Ahmad.
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The record was later sent to Dr. Marc Philippon. Another MRI, this time on Rodriguez's left hip, revealed he needed surgery on his left hip.
A-Rod's legal team interpreted the records as Ahmad knew Rodriguez had a tear in his left hip but did not inform him.
Rodriguez played through the injured his through the playoffs, but his performance severely lacked.
According to ESPN, when Rodriguez suffered a Grade 1 quad strain in July, Rodriguez told team president Randy Levine he did not trust Ahmad.
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The Yankees released a statement on the potential malpractice suit that read:
"We relied upon Dr. Christopher Ahmad and the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for medical diagnosis, opinions and treatment. The Yankees neither had any complaints from Alex Rodriguez pertaining to his left hip during the 2012 regular season and the Yankees postseason, nor did the Yankees receive any diagnosis pertaining to his left hip during that same period of time. Given the various allegations that have been made by Alex Rodriguez and his counsel, if you have any medical questions they should be directed to the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Dr. Christopher Ahmad."


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We have district goals.
I have Superintendent goals.
We encourage our teachers to establish learning goals.
Another way to look at goals is captured by Candy Chang in her talk about "Before i die I want to . . ."
I like goals.
Goals help me focus.
This TED talk gives me an important perspective on goals. Perspective is important in life. Focusing on things that matter, things that make a difference, things that will bring joy to my life will in turn provide others the opportunity to gain perspective as well.


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Benedictine monks, Cistercian nuns and Jesuits were once based here. It has been owned privately and by the state and has been used as a local government building: as time goes by, the changes have left their mark on Wöltingerode Monastery. Today, it serves as a monastery hotel and a haven for those undertaking the pilgrimage through the Harz region or visitors seeking time out.
Nobody knows where the monastery's treasure is hidden. All that remains are the monastery's foundations and the former monastery church, a Romanesque basilica with a Baroque interior, high altar, pulpit and ceiling frescos, fully intact to recount tales of former glory, but also downfall. Tales of its heyday in the 13th to 15th centuries, and of the unrest caused by the Reformation and the Thirty Years' War. The monastery burned to the ground in 1676. Although it was rebuilt, it took a long time to restore the peace. It was secularised and then used as a local government building and a women's school for many years, until it was renovated in 1976 and the gallery of the church was converted into a concert hall in 1979.
While the east wing of the former monastery church is used for worship services, concerts and other events are now held in the lower church in the west wing, which resembles an undercroft and was most probably used as a crypt. The monastery's distillery, brewery, bakery and garden are still reminiscent of times gone by, but the hotel has lost all hint of the austere lives led by the monks, nuns and Jesuits who once resided here. On the contrary: the 3-star superior hotel offers all the mod cons needed for an exclusive conference, romantic wedding or personal wellness retreat.
Accommodation: Wöltingerode Monastery Hotel, www.klosterhotel-woeltingerode.de
Nearest train station: Braunschweig
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Blue Ridge's premiere Aerial Adventure Park is an obstacle challenge course designed to challenge participants both mentally and physically. The course features three levels of suspended bridges and tight ropes from 15 to 45 feet in the air, with each level becoming progressively more difficult. Each participant will be clipped into the safety line while on the course. Designed to be self-guided for ages ten and older. Participation is at each individual's own pace with up to 1.5 hours allowed to get through the course.
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Chris Raschka
In order to talk about how I create picture books, I need to tell you about my audience. My audience is children. First of all, I consider them to be very much the same as adults. Which is to say that I consider myself to be very much the same now, and some things are harder. Talking to strangers is a little bit easier today. The entire month of August has improved since I was eight. On the other hand, learning another language is a lot harder now. And I ran much more as a child than I do today, which is too bad. However, I don't feel that the me of thirty years ago is much different from the me of today. I don't recall any single moment of the great change, or many little steps. I just remember a long, gooey flow from the beginnings of my self-awareness to now. This view of my childhood definitely influences my work.
Usually a number of events will be going on around me to start me on a book. What I mean is, I will have read a poem or seem a picture that is lingering in my mind. I will be brooding about something going on in my life, and then Iw ill remember something that happened to me as a child. Some of this will just come to me; some of it I will actively pursue-for instance, maybe what it was that worried me the most when I was eight. So then I will have this thing I want to get down. It might be just a single picture in my mind, or an image suggested by a line of poetry, or a turn of phrase I heard in the street, something that I want to nurse along into a picture book.
No I have to wait: I have to wait for the structure. What I mean is that these ideas coming together need to find a form. Part of the form is already given: it will be thirty-two pages. Whatever I'm thinking about has got to fit into thirty-two pages, the standard picture book size. So that's something. But the structure and the form for me are almost the most important, because these will express as much as words and images will the content of the work. Sometimes I'll have to wait for this part for a long time. Often I will follow the wrong path for months and then have to discard what I have done. Sometimes it takes getting to know the book better. Sometimes the structure comes to me intact almost at once.
Somewhere in this process, I begin reading and showing my book to my audience. When I say my audience I mean a single imaginary child who is a blend of myself as a young person, the students in my wife's classroom of first- through third-graders, and the students from two classrooms I visit regularly in the Bronx, New York. I think about reading the book to this imaginary child, or this imaginary classroom, and I try to see what their reaction is. Finally, I will actually read a dummy of the book to some of these children, or better yet, I will have the book read to them by someone else, who will take notes for me. And then I make some changes.


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Catholic Encyclopedia – Saint Anne
Anne (Hebrew, Hannah, grace; also spelled Ann, Anne, Anna) is the traditional name of the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
All our information concerning the names and lives of Saints Joachim and Anne, the parents of Mary, is derived from apocryphal literature, the Gospel of the Nativity of Mary, the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew and the Protoevangelium of James. Though the earliest form of the latter, on which directly or indirectly the other two seem to be based, goes back to about A.D. 150, we can hardly accept as beyond doubt its various statements on its sole authority. In the Orient the Protoevangelium had great authority and portions of it were read on the feasts of Mary by the Greeks, Syrians, Copts, and Arabians. In the Occident, however, it was rejected by the Fathers of the Church until its contents were incorporated by Jacobus de Voragine in his "Golden Legend" in the thirteenth century. From that time on the story of Saint Anne spread over the West and was amply developed, until Saint Anne became one of the most popular saints also of the Latin Church.
The Protoevangelium gives the following account: In Nazareth there lived a rich and pious couple, Joachim and Hannah. They were childless. When on a feast day Joachim presented himself to offer sacrifice in the temple, he was repulsed by a certain Ruben, under the pretext that men without offspring were unworthy to be admitted. Whereupon Joachim, bowed down with grief, did not return home, but went into the mountains to make his plaint to God in solitude. Also Hannah, having learned the reason of the prolonged absence of her husband, cried to the Lord to take away from her the curse of sterility, promising to dedicate her child to the service of God. Their prayers were heard; an angel came to Hannah and said: "Hannah, the Lord has looked upon thy tears; thou shalt conceive and give birth and the fruit of thy womb shall be blessed by all the world". The angel made the same promise to Joachim, who returned to his wife. Hannah gave birth to a daughter whom she called Miriam (Mary). Since this story is apparently a reproduction of the biblical account of the conception of Samuel, whose mother was also called Hannah, even the name of the mother of Mary seems to be doubtful.
The renowned Father John of Eck of Ingolstadt, in a sermon on Saint Anne (published at Paris in 1579), pretends to know even the names of the parents Saint Anne. He calls them Stollanus and Emerentia. He says that Saint Anne was born after Stollanus and Emerentia had been childless for twenty years; that Saint Joachim died soon after the presentation of Mary in the temple; that Saint Anne then married Cleophas, by whom she became the mother of Mary Cleophae (the wife of Alphaeus and mother of the Apostles James the Lesser, Simon and Judas, and of Joseph the Just); after the death of Cleophas she is said to have married Salomas, to whom she bore Maria Salomae (the wife of Zebedaeus and mother of the Apostles John and James the Greater). The same spurious legend is found in the writings of Gerson and of many others. There arose in the sixteenth century an animated controversy over the marriages of Saint Anne, in which Baronius and Bellarmine defended her monogamy. The Greek Menaea (25 July) call the parents of Saint Anne Mathan and Maria, and relate that Salome and Elizabeth, the mother of Saint John the Baptist, were daughters of two sisters of Saint Anne. According to Ephiphanius it was maintained even in the fourth century by some enthusiasts that Saint Anne conceived without the action of man. This error was revived in the West in the fifteenth century. (Anna concepit per osculum Joachimi.) In 1677 the Holy See condemned the error of Imperiali who taught that Saint Anne in the conception and birth of Mary remained virgin (Benedict XIV, De Festis, II, 9). In the Orient the cult of Saint Anne can be traced to the fourth century. Justinian I (died 565) had a church dedicated to her. The canon of the Greek Office of Saint Anne was composed by Saint Theophanes (died 817), but older parts of the Office are ascribed to Anatolius of Byzantium (d. 458). Her feast is celebrated in the East on the 25th day of July, which may be the day of the dedication of her first church at Constantinople or the anniversary of the arrival of her supposed relics in Constantinople (710). It is found in the oldest liturgical document of the Greek Church, the Calendar of Constantinople (first half of the eighth century). The Greeks keep a collective feast of Saint Joachim and Saint Anne on the 9th of September. In the Latin Church Saint Anne was not venerated, except, perhaps, in the south of France, before the thirteenth century. Her picture, painted in the eighth century, which was found lately in the church of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome, owes its origin to Byzantine influence. Her feast, under the influence of the "Golden Legend", is first found (26 July) in the thirteenth century, e.g. at Douai (in 1291), where a foot of Saint Anne was venerated (feast of translation, 16 September). It was introduced in England by Urban VI, 21 November 1378, from which time it spread all over the Western Church. It was extended to the universal Latin Church in 1584.
The supposed relics of Saint Anne were brought from the Holy Land to Constantinople in 710 and were still kept there in the church of Saint Sophia in 1333. The tradition of the church of Apt in southern France pretends that the body of Saint Anne was brought to Apt by Saint Lazarus, the friend of Christ, was hidden by Saint Auspicius (died 398), and found again during the reign of Charlemagne (feast, Monday after the octave of Easter); these relics were brought to a magnificent chapel in 1664 (feast, 4 May). The head of Saint Anne was kept at Mainz up to 1510, when it was stolen and brought to Düren in Rheinland. Saint Anne is the patroness of Brittany. Her miraculous picture (feast, 7 March) is venerated at Notre Dame d'Auray, Diocese of Vannes. Also in Canada, where she is the principal patron of the province of Quebec, the shrine of Saint Anne de Beaupré is well known. Saint Anne is patroness of women in labour; she is represented holding the Blessed Virgin Mary in her lap, who again carries on her arm the child Jesus. She is also patroness of miners, Christ being compared to gold, Mary to silver.


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PORTLAND – When Jim Brady looks around inside the debris-strewn, empty husk of the former Portland Press Herald building in downtown Portland, he sees elegant guest rooms, conference rooms, a floating staircase, an upscale restaurant and a luxury health and fitness center.
"I can tell you where every little wall goes, and what room sizes are what, and how many suites there are versus standard (rooms)," he said.
Brady, a longtime hotel developer and Olympic silver medal winner in yachting, specializes in recycling historic commercial buildings.
He returned to Portland in 2011 after spending two years in Italy and already has two projects in the works: a planned hotel in the former Press Herald building and redevelopment of the Portland Company Marine Complex on the eastern waterfront.
Brady has worked on renovation projects for Doubletree Hotels, Holiday Inn, Holiday Inn Express, Hampton Inn and Hilton Garden Inn branded hotels.
But The Press Hotel, as he plans to call it, will be different. It's Brady's baby.
"The projects I worked on in Italy, I was just a consultant for the development company," he said. "I was not an owner."
Brady said he plans to take a far more hands-on approach with The Press Hotel, although he will hire a professional management company to handle day-to-day operations. His plan is to open the 110-room hotel in the spring of 2015.
"Because I'm local and I'm going to be right here, I'm going to be heavily involved in the operation from a standpoint of trying not to get in the way of the operator but actually trying to help them," Brady said.
The former Press Herald building, at 390 Congress St., was built in two sections, a seven-story portion in 1923 and a five-story addition in 1948. It has been sitting vacant since the newspaper relocated to One City Center in 2010.
Brady, former president of the Olympia Companies, and Kevin Bunker, an advocate for downtown redevelopment, signed a purchase-and-sale agreement for the property in June 2012 with John Cacoulidis, president of Grand Metro Builders of New York Corp.
Cacoulidis purchased the building in 2009 from the newspaper's parent company, MaineToday Media Inc. He gutted the interior with plans to convert the property into an office or mixed-use building, but later opted not to move forward.
"The whole building was taken back down to the concrete floor," Brady said. "(Cacoulidis) did a lot of the work."
Still, Brady estimates his construction costs will be in the neighborhood of $10 million.
And he doesn't even own the property yet.
Brady said the delay in closing on the building, the price of which he would not disclose, is intentional. His plan is to complete the purchase late this year and begin construction in February.
That way, he can open in spring 2015, in time to ramp up and train the staff before tourist season hits its seasonal peak, he said.
And the $10 million estimate for construction does not include a 45 percent discount in state and federal historic preservation tax credits that the project will receive.
"Projects like this wouldn't be getting done without that tax credit," Brady said.
Redevelopment of a historic property is a laborious endeavor that involves complex financing and multiple levels of regulatory approval.
Some developers won't touch them, but Brady seems to gravitate toward them, said Drew Sigfridson, president of the Maine Real Estate and Development Association.
"Jim's a pretty tenacious guy, and a very smart individual," said Sigfridson, principal and designated broker at CBRE/The Boulos Co. in Portland. "If he doesn't know something, he'll just really spend the time to figure it out."
Sigfridson said he worked with Brady through his former venture, The Olympia Companies, a developer in the Portland area from 1999 to 2009. The company completed more than $200 million in development projects, including five hotels, three office buildings and three mixed-use projects.
Then Brady went to Italy, but Sigfridson said it's almost like he never left.
"My impression is that he kind of stepped right back in where he left off," Sigfridson said.
In the meantime, other developers have begun building or renovating hotels in downtown Portland. In all, the downtown supply of hotel rooms is expected to increase by about 50 percent based on projects already under way.
Brady admits he's a little uneasy about that. "I do have concern about the total amount of supply of rooms coming into the marketplace," he said.
However, Brady said The Press Hotel would be a full-service, boutique hotel with historic and newspaper themes that would not compete directly with the bulk of Portland's hotels, which he said are bland and offer more limited service.
He also believes waiting to open in 2015 will give consumer demand more time to grow into all of the additional room supply.
Portland Regional Chamber CEO Chris Hall said Brady was able to convince him with market data that Portland's tourism industry can accommodate all of the additional hotel rooms being built in the city.
"He did an extraordinarily good job of making the business case for these investments," Hall said. "I was persuaded."
J. Craig Anderson can be contacted at 791-6390 or at:
Twitter: @jcraiganderson
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