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The colonial period was one of booming production and commerce, a deeply commercialized culture noted by its fashions, ever changing tastes, and values.
Between 1815 and 1845, the world changed more dramatically than in any other previous 30‐year period. Humanity began to break the food trap which had kept hundreds of generations barely producing enough to feed the living, keeping almost nothing to provide for the future.
Further Reading:
"Rip Van Winkle" on WikiSource
Feller, Daniel. "The Market Revolution Ate My Homework"
Charles Sellers, The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815–1846. New York: Oxford University Press. 1991.
Stokes & Conway, eds. The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political, and Religious Expressions, 1800–1880. Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia. 1996.
Martin, Scott. Cultural Change and the Market Revolution in America, 1789–1860. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2005.
Anthony Comegna: Between 1815 and 1845, the world changed more dramatically than in any other previous 30‐year period. Humanity began to break the food trap, which had kept hundreds of generations barely producing enough to feed the living, keeping almost nothing to provide for the future.
Political, social, economic systems all around either revolutionized, reformed, [00:00:30] disappeared or expanded to new heights of power and influence. Technologists and tinkerers unleashed invisible universal forces to empower human development, and even collapse space and time.
Welcome to Liberty Chronicles, a project of libertarianism.org. I'm Anthony Comegna.
[00:01:00] A growing number of Americans felt the early pulse of a new world developing beneath their feet, and by their actions during these decades. Yet the roots of these changes ran deep in Atlantic and early modern history. The colonial period was one of booming production and commerce [00:01:30] too, a deeply commercialized culture, noted by its fashions, ever‐changing tastes and bourgeois values.
During the 18th century, scientific learning and technical tinkering converged to shrink the globe as much as possible. But the pace of change started slowly, and sped up with time. As the world transformed, and new possibilities and problems surrounded people, the dislocating effects stretch from one generation to another. Across even modest leaps of time, the world looked completely different, [00:02:00] and this kind of change could be disorienting.
The classic example of history‐driven existential crisis is Washington Irving's story of Rip Van Winkle. Rip lived in an old Dutch community of late colonial New York. The countryside was dazzling and beautiful, stretching on forever and ever in every direction. But society presented certain challenges to men like Rip. He was lazy, slow, accustomed to easy work, and hen‐pecked and overburdened at home.
Rip Van Winkle escaped [00:02:30] the demands of private life by entering the field of politics, always months behind the action in Europe, of course. The ancient local Dutch patriarchs gathered in their leader's tavern to discuss the implications of policies made by men an ocean away. Delighted by their own wisdom and conversation, they sat and talked, but little else.
Speaker 2: A Posthumous Writing of Diedrich Knickerbocker, by Washington Irving, 1819. Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle, as years of matrimony rolled [00:03:00] on. For a long while, he used to console himself when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers and other idle personages of the village, which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing.
But [00:03:30] it would have been worth any statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions which sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands from some passing traveler. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary. And how sagely they would deliberate upon public events some months after they had taken place. [00:04:00] The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn.
From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquility of the assemblage and call the members all to naught. Nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.
[00:04:30] Poor Rip was at last reduced almost to despair. And his only alternative, to escape from the labor of the farm and the clamor of his wife, was to take gun in hand and stroll away into the woods.
Anthony Comegna: Hen‐pecked even in his place of escape, Rip and his dog retire to wonder the Catskills wilderness. After some hours and many beautiful visions of the countryside, the two find a clearing with most unusual inhabitants. A number of small, leprechaun‐ [00:05:00] like woodspeople invite Rip to an impromptu gin‐fest, and our hero drinks himself into a deep sleep. He awakens an unknown amount of time later, and does what any good colonial American would do.
Speaker 2: He looked round for his gun, but in place of the clean, well‐oiled fowling‐piece, he found an old firelock lying by him, the barrel encrusted with rust, the lock falling off, and the stock worm‐eaten. He now suspected that the grave roisterers [00:05:30] of the mountains had put a trick upon him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun.
As he approached the village he met a number of people, but none whom he knew, which somewhat surprised him, for he had thought himself acquainted with every one in the country round. Their dress, too, was of a different fashion from that to which he was accustomed. They all stared at him with equal marks of surprise, and whenever they cast their eyes upon him, invariably stroked their chins. The constant recurrence [00:06:00] of this gesture induced Rip, involuntarily, to do the same, when to his astonishment, he found his beard had grown a foot long.
He had now entered the skirts of the village. A troop of strange children ran at his heels, hooting after him, and pointing at his gray beard. The dogs, too, not one of which he recognized for an old acquaintance, barked at him as he passed. The very village was altered. It was larger and more populous. There were rows of houses, which he had never seen before, [00:06:30] and those which had been his familiar haunts had disappeared. Strange names were over the doors, strange faces at the windows, everything was strange.
His mind now misgave him. He began to doubt whether both he and the world around him were not bewitched. Surely this was his native village, which he had left but a day before. There stood the Catskill mountains, there ran the silver Hudson at a distance, there was every hill and dale precisely [00:07:00] as it had always been. Rip was sorely perplexed. "That flagon last night," thought he, "has addled my poor head sadly."
He now hurried forth, and hastened to his old resort, the village inn, but it too was gone. A large rickety wooden building stood in its place, with great gaping windows, some of them broken and mended with old hats and petticoats, and over the door was painted, "the Union Hotel, [00:07:30] by Jonathan Doolittle." Instead of the great tree that used to shelter the quiet little Dutch inn of yore, there now was reared a tall naked pole, with something on the top that looked like a red night‐cap, and from it was fluttering a flag, on which was a singular assemblage of stars and stripes.
All this was strange and incomprehensible. He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe. But even [00:08:00] this was singularly metamorphosed. The red coat was changed for one of blue and buff, a sword was held in the hand instead of a scepter, the head was decorated with a cocked hat, and underneath was painted in large characters, General Washington.
There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm [00:08:30] and drowsy tranquility. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco‐smoke instead of idle speeches. Or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean, bilious‐looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about the rights of citizens, elections, members of congress, liberty, Bunker's Hill, heroes of '76, [00:09:00] and other words, which were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.
The appearance of Rip, with his long grizzled beard, his rusty fowling‐piece, his uncouth dress, and the army of women and children at his heels, soon attracted the attention of the tavern politicians. They crowded round him, eyeing him from head to foot with great curiosity. The orator bustled up to him, and drawing him partly aside, inquired on which side he voted. Rip stared in [00:09:30] vacant stupidity. Another short but busy little fellow pulled him by the arm, and, rising on tiptoe, inquired in his ear whether he was Federal or Democrat.
Rip was equally at a loss to comprehend the question, when a knowing, self‐important old gentleman, in a sharp cocked hat, made his way through the crowd, putting them to the left and right with his elbows as he passed, and planting himself before Van Winkle, with one arm akimbo, and the other resting on his cane, his keen eyes and sharp [00:10:00] hat penetrating, as it were, into his very soul, demanded in an austere tone, what brought him to the election with a gun on his shoulder and a mob at his heels, and whether he meant to breed a riot in the village.
"Alas, gentlemen," cried Rip, somewhat dismayed, "I am a poor quiet man, a native of the place, and a loyal subject of the king, God bless him."
Here a general shout burst from the by‐standers. "A tory. A tory. A spy. A refugee. Hustle [00:10:30] him. Away with him."
It was with great difficulty that the self‐important man in the crooked hat restored order. And having assumed a tenfold austerity of brow, demanded again of the unknown culprit, what he came here for, and whom he was seeking.
Anthony Comegna: A young woman finally steps in on Rip's behalf, and we learn that she is his daughter, and Rip has been lost, sleeping in the woods for a generation. The entire world has changed around him, and poor Rip Van Winkle is left [00:11:00] to wonder, hopelessly, how he will fit in, what he will make of himself, how he will get over what he's lost, deeply bitter about the cruelty of time.
Washington Irving published Rip in 1819, right at the beginning of America's sharp climb up the 19th century hockey stick, the explosion of economic productivity, usually called the industrial revolution. People of the day saw and understood these changes, but not their full implications. They could not, as it were, see beyond [00:11:30] the point of singularity, to imagine life after these immense changes happened.
In geometry, a singularity is a point on a circle, blocking a line of sight from the rest of the curve. In astronomy, it is a black hole that absorbs everything, including whatever light might allow us to see the hole. No one in 1815 knew exactly what was coming by 1845, but everyone knew it would be radically different. People knew something amazing, magical even, was happening before them, and [00:12:00] by their very hands.
Historians though, separated by 100 years and more, have often been perfectly content to treat these many hundreds and thousands of mini‐transformations as singular lumps. There's the 18th century agricultural revolution. George Washington read the same sorts of agricultural science and plantation organization manuals that Julius Caesar used on his own property. Two millennia separated them, but agriculture had really not changed much until inventions like the cotton gin, [00:12:30] and sciences like chemistry, entered the field.
There was the late 18th and early 19th century industrious revolution. Proper heavy industry did not exist before modern steel mills arrived in the 1860s and 70s. Instead, bourgeois middle class cultures of industriousness increased production in earlier periods.
Then we have a transportation revolution, in which steamships, turnpike roads, canals and railroads dramatically cut transit time, and shrank space beyond recognition. [00:13:00] There's a market revolution, by which people previously confined to local markets are steadily knit together into national and global scale, impersonal marketplaces. We have a communications revolution, aided by transportation and markets, but including fantastic technologies like the telegraph, collapsing time and space together in a single invention.
And finally, the industrial revolution, with levels of capital investment far beyond the individual's capacity, marked by [00:13:30] explosions of corporate charters, new kinds of labor, new forms of class consciousness, new politics, and staggeringly high amounts of output.
One after another, these revolutions seemed to absorb all events into themselves. And if the historian lets them, they easily become explanations for everything. Historians of all schools and stripes have been guilty of this sort of centralization of concepts, this constant dumping of history and human agency into the revolution garbage bins, [00:14:00] when literally everything can be neatly and cleanly explained with reference to the gargantuan, impersonal, disembodied market revolution.
We must ask, does this concept, or any of the others, actually help explain anything? Progressives and Marxists in the early 20th century, like Vernon Parrington, painted rather cartoonish divisions of agrarian heroes and bankster villains battling each other. They offered a rigid, wealth‐based classed analysis, that [00:14:30] separated everyone and everything into its proper box, specially prepared for them by impersonal economic forces, like our flurry of revolutions.
During the more nationalist 1940s and 50s, the consensus school countered progressives with reference to the all‐powerful data. Empirical history supposedly showed that class was insignificant, at least in America. Everyone was a solid Democrat and Republican here, either a capitalist, or a capitalist‐in‐waiting, with few exceptions. [00:15:00] Consensus school historians argued that our great revolutions pushed a democratic people inevitably toward the new deal historians love so much.
In the revisionist 1960s and 70s, the new social history revived the role of conflict in the social sciences, and the new left ran away with it. Historians in these generations argued that statistics must always be interpreted, and the historian's job was uncovering human stories, subcultures, gendered and racialized perspectives on [00:15:30] the same events, and so on. If one stopped looking at the big books written by old, dead white men, even just for a little while, you might just see the world differently.
Today, historians have tried to synthesize these approaches to the past. They use statistics to illustrate the actions of real people. They recognize the importance of everyone, especially the marginalized, and they're careful to note the limitations of any one interpretive framework, like the market revolution. They know that no [00:16:00] one concept can explain everything, and if it seems to, it's probably not very useful.
But they still don't quite know how to present the past in a meaningful way, without leaning on these big concepts as the prime movers of change. The best historians, then, are those who manage to present the past purely as the sum total of individual choices and actions. There are many, many historians out there, who basically write as individualists, they just don't know it, or consciously [00:16:30] profess it.
In the modern Marxists, we can find history from below, and sensitivity to the marginalized. They challenge the status quo of powerful interests. In post‐modernism, we can find scholars who study the agency of all people, without forcing on them an artificial class or national experience. Though they may fall into gender or race determinism from time to time, the best of these scholars show the immense complexity of individual experience.
And in the great mass of centrist [00:17:00] liberal historians today, we find dozens and hundreds, maybe thousands, of very good studies with solid methods, that make clear contributions. They are best when they treat individuals, and worst when they project new deal liberalism back into the past. The libertarian historian can corral all of these schools together, take what's most valuable from each, add that secret element of methodological individualism, and produce robust, meaningful narratives of the past.
We can make [00:17:30] space for consensus. The marketplace, after all, coordinates billions of changing preferences pretty well. We can make space for conflict. People with power tend to abuse it, and those whose liberty is violated tend to resist. We can make space for market revolutions. Something, many, many somethings, did dramatically change about the way people lived their lives between about 1815 and 1845. But the humble, yet fundamental libertarian insight, [00:18:00] is that individual human beings with agency as such, made those revolutions happen.
It was everywhere and always, individual people, their interests and ideas that made change happen. People chose to act and live differently. [00:18:30] They chose to use scientific knowledge to manipulate their environment. They chose to think and live according to new principles. They desired to collapse time and space, and manifested their wishes with deliberate action.
Don't get me wrong. People by no means choose all of the constraints they are under, but no change ever happens without individual choice, and no market revolution ever chose anything. It's a simple [00:19:00] point, but we'll see, simple points of departure can often make all the difference.
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I would just kill it with my other hand.
And then I'd probably let out some wicked spider laugh.
OMG...are you KIDDING me? There is no way I could touch that thing...I am seriously irrationally afraid of spiders and that thing is a small animal. CREEEEEEEPY!
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Dietary L-Arginine and Antioxidant Vitamins E and C Influence on Cardiovascular Performance in Chickens
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Pulmonary hypertension syndrome (PHS) in broiler chickens adequately represents idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH) in humans, a condition that affects 300 new patients each year in the US. The factors that trigger IPAH are poorly understood but an increase in reactive oxygen species in the circulation coincides with the onset of these conditions. Broiler chickens (n=583) were fed a control diet (CTL), containing 3,200 kcal of ME / kg of feed, 23% CP, 1.55% (wt / wt) Arginine (Arg) and 40 IU of VE (alpha-tochopherol) / kg of feed; a high-Arg diet (HA), CTL diet plus 0.8% (wt / wt) supplemental L-Arg HCl; or a high Arg and vitamin diet (AEC), the HA diet plus 200 IU ?-tochopherol / kg of feed and 500 mg of ascorbic acid / L of drinking water 500 mg ascorbic acid / L of water (exp. 1 and 2) or Kg feed (exp. 3). Supplemented broilers were either exposed to hypobaric hypoxia or had a primary bronchus occluded (PBO) to induce PHS. Also, medial thickness was assessed in male broiler and Leghorn (n =80) chickens fed a CTL diet and subjected to pulmonary artery occlusion (PAO). The results show that supplementation with Arg and VE plus VC have an additive effect on the velocity at which the pulmonary arterial pressure returned to basal levels in hypoxic chickens challenged with epinephrine. Also, supplementation increased xanthine oxidase (XO) activity in the vicinity of the pulmonary endothelium with no effect on NAD(P)H-oxidase activity or oxidative stress in hypoxic chickens subjected to PBO. These enzymes are upregulated in humans with IPAH. Furthermore, supplementation reduced pulmonary artery reactivity to phenylephrine in hypoxemic broilers. Unsupplemented broiler chickens had a lower specific lung weight compared to unsupplemented Leghorns. Hypoxemic broilers showed thicker resistant pulmonary arteries and were more hypertensive than hypoxemic Leghorns. Leghorns were more hypoxemic and resistant to PHS than broilers. In conclusion, Arg and VE plus VC show an additive effect in the improvement of cardiovascular performance of hypoxemic broilers as well as in restoring reactivity to phenylephrine in hypoxemic pulmonary rings. Also, supplementation shows an additive effect in restoring XO activity in hypoxic broilers. Leghorns had a better ventilation capacity and better pulmonary vasodilation capacity than broiler chickens.
SubjectPulmonary hypertension syndrome
Antioxidant vitamins
Unilateral pulmonary artery occlusion
Primary bronchus occlusion
Hypobaric hypoxia
Bautista Ortega, Jaime (2012). Dietary L-Arginine and Antioxidant Vitamins E and C Influence on Cardiovascular Performance in Chickens. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /ETD -TAMU -2012 -05 -11138.


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Bank of Baroda has launched a special scheme "Agricultural Investment Credit for the farmers of Rajasthan" for promoting investment credit in agriculture especially micro irrigation in the Bikaner Region of Rajasthan. The first loan has been disbursed today in Sri Ganganagar.
Under the above scheme, farmers can avail of loan from Bank of Baroda branches for construction of farm ponds, installation of solar pumps, installation of Micro Irrigation, and for any other viable agriculture and allied activities. Loans will be made available at competitive terms. The Bank also will incentivise the farmers for timely repayment of loan under the scheme.
The Bank has already entered into tie ups with leading suppliers of irrigation equipments to boost micro irrigation. Initially the above scheme will be implemented in the districts of Sri Ganganagar, Hanumangarh & Bikaner and will be gradually extended to all the districts of Rajasthan. This scheme is also in line with the Government's intent "to disseminate technology to farmers in simple manner and make "Per Drop More Crop" a mantra to promote farming through optimum utilization of water.
Mr Ambrish Kumar, IAS, Director of Agriculture, Govt of Rajasthan said "We welcome the initiative taken by Bank of Baroda and urge the farmers to utilise this opportunity to save water and also to improve their income levels I also urge other Banks to follow suit and launch similar schemes for the farmers of Rajasthan".
On this occasion, Mr Mayank K Mehta, Executive Director, Bank of Baroda said "We at Bank of Baroda believe that there is a need to look beyond performance targets and work for the economic betterment of our farming community. We intend to work with the farmers to address all their needs. We are focusing on an outcome based approach and this in tandem with other initiatives being undertaken by the Bank will help the farmers in doubling their income by the year 2022."


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A walk around the Scaldwell Bay and part of the Walgrave Bay on the reserve section at Pitsford Res this afternoon was very warm and sunny (in between the heavy showers of this morning and this evening). At this time of the year the meadows are noisy with the whirring and clicking of grasshoppers and bush-crickets and the thistle and knapweed flowers are adorned with common butterflies, day-flying moths and other nectar-seeking insects. Literally thousands of Common Blue Damselflies cruise the air-space just above the water surface and the larger dragonflies of several species are continually on the hunt around the margins and woodland rides.
Birds this afternoon included a drake Red-crested Pochard in the Scaldwell Bay, three Wigeon, a Kingfisher, a few each of Marsh and Willow Tit in the mixed tit/warbler flocks, five Little Egrets and the very smart leucistic Great Crested Grebe still.
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Back into the sun I go! Hopefully this slight cooling will hold tomorrow as I head to the Olympic Sculpture Park to participate in Seattle Art Museum's family programs "Celebrate Wildflowers" event. Back in April I took part in "Climate Day for Kids", had a blast, and I'm sure this event will be just as fun. Here's a quick look at all the activity stations for tomorrow:
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, King County Noxious Weed Board, Seattle Art Museum, Skokomish Tribe, TASTE Café, University of Washington Botanic Gardens Education, Washington Native Plant Society, Washington Rare Plant Care and Conservation.
Please come join me! And also, a huge thank you to writer/artist/curator Sharon Arnold for her continued enthusiasm for MMMM (and help crocheting AND yarn donations AND cheering me on in this last leg of this art marathon!)
She has been posting about the project, including tomorrow, at her blog "Dimensions are Variable". Check it out and her posts about art – writing, making, viewing and loving.
SUNDAY! I'll be back at the Sculpture Park on my own, inviting you to join me in a little handwork, amazing views and hopefully cool and sunny weather. I'll be in the Cafe if another windstorm blows through. 10 am – 2pm.
MONDAY!! You can catch up with me on Monday, of all days! During lunch 11 am – 2 pm, I'll be back under Leo Berk's conference room cloud in the 4Culture conference room. All my blue looked so good under his blue, and I forgot my camera last time, so Tina Hoggatt made it happen for me again! If you work downtown, hope you can stop by, bring your lunch!


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The overall performance of cigars, cigarillos and smoking tobacco continued to be negatively impacted by significant price hikes due to the changing tax structure in 2016. Rising prices forced many smokers who had previously migrated to this category to revert back to cigarettes, resulting in a "crowding out" effect.
While traditional cigarillos have a stable and loyal consumer base (which is however declining due to ageing and health concerns), price fighter cigarillos supported the stronger performance of the category, continuing to gain retail volume share from other cigarillos and recording double-digit volume growth in 2018. This was a strong recovery from the previous year's decline.
While the larger category within smoking tobacco, fine cut tobacco, continued to suffer heavy losses in 2018, following a continuing trend throughout the review period, the smaller niche of pipe tobacco fared marginally better. The trend for Middle Eastern-style pipe tobacco over the review period led to some high retail volume growth rates.
Despite being a declining category in 2018, fine cut tobacco witnessed the stronger performances in terms of gaining retail volume share by traditional cigarettes brands. Leading brand Chesterfield, along with Camel, West and Winston all gained retail volume share in 2018 as they benefit from marketing and strong brand positioning supported by higher consumer recognition in cigarettes.
Unsurprisingly, the strongest performing category of cigarillos, resulted in the most impressive performances by its brands. Although leading player Tabaqueira SA lost retail volume share to Scandinavian Tobacco Group Iberia SA and a number of smaller players under "others", it continued to record positive volume sales, supported by Chesterfield (originating from cigarettes), which managed to recover after poor performances in the previous two years.
Due to increasing health awareness amongst local consumers, a niche has emerged within fine cut tobacco that is being positioned specifically to appeal to millennials. Fred Rose was launched by Fred & Fly GmbH, using tobacco that is additive-free, uses packaging made from recycled newspapers (targeting sustainability concerns) and includes a humidity regulation system integrated into the pouch to control humidity of the tobacco.
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I am honored to serve as your State Representative and I remain committed to being a voice for you and a vote for Milford at the State House. Thank you for your feedback and input in 2017. I've really appreciated your emails, tweets, Facebook messages, and phone calls. I've enjoyed meeting so many of you at Town Hall during my office hours. Your concerns and priorities are important to me and your perspective helps me to make better decisions for you and our Milford community, so please keep in touch!
Our 2018 legislative session kicks off this Wednesday, January 3rd. The session will begin with votes on retained bills (those 2017 bills that were held over in committee). I've highlighted a few of these key retained bills below, including ones I've received input and questions on from you.
The number one concern I've heard from constituents is our rising local property taxes. Retained bill, HB 413, aims to restore payments by the state to towns for their portion of teacher and state employee retirement costs. The State used to pay towns 30% of these costs which yielded millions of dollars to our town and school budgets. Downshifting decisions like this one which began in 2009 imposed a huge cost burden to towns, causing our local property taxes to surge in order to make up the difference. HB 413 aims to provide Granite Staters with local property tax relief by reinstating 15% of state funding for state employee retirement costs. Although I, along with a majority of my House colleagues, voted 267-83 to pass this bill in February, the Finance Committee retained it during the budgeting process last spring. Unfortunately the majority of House and Senate Finance Committee members chose NOT to include local property tax relief as a priority in the state's final budget; HB 413 was buried. This week in the House, we will vote on Finance's new recommendation to kill (ITL) HB 413. I will be voting against killing it, and will be working with colleagues to try to reverse this decision in an effort to bring much needed property tax relief to Milford.
I've also heard from many of you on SB 193 which would establish education freedom savings accounts for students. This bill would allow eligible parents to pay for private school tuition and home schooling expenses with state public school funds. Were this bill to pass, parents could access adequacy funds ($3000+ per student) that would normally go to public schools. According to the Concord Monitor, if this bill passes it would become one of the furthest reaching voucher-style state education programs in the country. I have heard from many of you — the overwhelming majority expressing concern about the potential loss of revenues for our school district and along with that, more local property tax increases. This is a very complicated bill that also poses many constitutional questions. Once again, thank you for your emails and phone calls. I plan to be a voice for Milford and vote against this bill. There has been a lot of media coverage on this bill. Click on the articles below for more information and feel free to email me with your input and/or questions.
- School Choice Bill Up for A Vote, NHPR's the Exchange, discussion
- SB 193: Analysis of Potential Impact on Tax Rates in Rural New Hampshire
I remain committed to listening to you, my constituents, and to collaborating with my fellow legislators to solve our community's and state's challenges. I will continue to work in a bipartisan manner to develop creative solutions and support smart policies that foster a strong community promoting Milford residents' well-being, as well as strong economic policies to support our working families, children and seniors.
Here is a link to the full list of retained bills to be voted on this week in the House. Please take time to email me and your other Milford State Representatives and Senator with your input. Please stay tuned and continue to provide your input. Thank you and Happy New Year!


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I can't remember the last time I felt so tense watching a film!
Reading a synopsis of the story (CIA involves Hollywood in creating a fake film in order to extract Embassy workers hiding from revolutionaries in Iran), you could have expected something unreal and downright stupid.
But the fact that we know this actually happened just ramps up the tension even more.
OK, we can allow that it didn't happen exactly as portrayed in the film, but it's testament to the excellent directing skills of Ben Affleck that this doesn't matter a bit.
He doesn't allow time to find out too much about the 'houseguests', and there is no opportunity to stop and think about what's happening – but that's the point. The CIA man in charge (played by Affleck himself) doesn't have time for any of that either; he just needs to extract the six people. And we need to watch him succeed.
A tight, excellently constructed film, and the 'will they, won't they' sequence towards the end are some of the most tense few minutes I have ever experienced watching a film.


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How is Mitte Home different from other soda makers in the market?
Mitte Home is an at-home device that creates mineralized still or carbonated water, it has a built-in purification layer that removes common contaminants like bacteria, lead, microplastics as well as chlorine. And then enhances water with essential minerals as per the preference. You can check out this page for more information on Mitte Home.
How is Mitte Home Plus different from Mitte Home?
Mitte Home Plus uses a proprietary distillation and remineralization technology to first purify and then add back all the minerals and trace elements that other water purifiers remove.
Used by the WHO as an indication of water quality, the Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) present in water, expressed as parts per million (ppm) are the total amount of mobile charged ions – minerals, salts or metals – that are dissolved in a given volume of water. The smaller the TDS value, the purer the water.
After purification, water from Mitte Home Plus has a TDS value of 1-2 ppm. It produces perfectly distilled water that is many times cleaner than reverse osmosis and other filtration appliances. After purification, this device enhances your pure water with essential minerals.
Our proprietary distillation technology is inspired by the natural water cycle to purify tap water. We remove contaminants such as bacteria, viruses, organic and inorganic compounds, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, hormones, microplastics and more.
You can check out this page for more information on Mitte Home Plus.
Can I buy your products now?
We appreciate your interest in Mitte. We are driven to reinvent the way we drink water at home. Both our products are currently in the development phase, and will be released in limited batches in 2021 to ensure the quality and performance of each unit. You can join our waitlist to be the first to purchase a Mitte product when it's available.
How can I get a refund on the pre-ordered I placed for Mitte Home Plus through the Kickstarter/Indiegogo campaign?
We have a no-questions-asked refund policy. Simply email your Order ID and Payal details to [email protected]
What types of contaminants can potentially show up in my tap water?
In many parts of the world, tap water is increasingly contaminated with the following substances:
- Chlorine
- Fluoride
- Bacteria and viruses
- Lead
- Nitrates
- Mercury
- Drugs and hormones
- Pesticides and herbicides
- Toxic heavy metals
- Volatile organic compounds
- Microplastics
Do note that this is not an exhaustive list. For more details, read these blog articles on Tap water: Do you know what's in your drinking water? and The microplastics threat and what we're doing about it.
Why do I need a water purification system at home?
Before tap water is delivered to your house, the public water system treats it in an effort to remove chemicals, particles, and bacteria. They do not always succeed as some contaminants are particularly hard to eliminate, such as pharmaceuticals, BPAs, hormones, and microplastics.
In addition, even if some substances do get removed by public water treatment systems, this doesn't mean your water is completely pure, only that the levels of any present contaminants don't pose any serious, immediate health risk.
Furthermore, the municipal water is only guaranteed until the point of entry to your house, so there are still possibilities for drinking water to be contaminated despite regulations and water quality standards. For instance, if the pipes in your house are contaminated or made of lead, the water that was previously clean will be contaminated due to leaching again.
Thus, it is best to take your drinking water quality into your own hands, control your drinking water, so you can know for sure that you are drinking safe and mineralized water.
How are Mitte products different from other water purifiers in the market?
1. Purity of water
Both Mitte Home & Mitte Home Plus first purify water using advanced filtration and distillation technology, respectively. Our distillation technology stands out from the crowd because of its high performance and efficiency – giving you clean water with a low TDS value of 1-2 ppm. No parts of the machine allow for contaminants to re-enter the water.
2. Personalized enhancement
Other solutions remove both harmful contaminants and beneficial minerals in water via their "catch-all" purification process, while Mitte devices do not just purify water; we also enhance it with essential natural minerals. There are different mineral cartridge options available, with varying levels of different minerals that you can pick for your needs and lifestyle.
3. Long-term consistency
Our foolproof machine and fail-safe mechanisms also ensure consistent performance over time. For example, if a membrane in a reverse osmosis system is damaged, the user has no way of knowing about that even though the water quality is impaired. Mitte devices, on the other hand, constantly monitors the quality of the water that it produces via our built-in sensors. If one part of the machine breaks down, there will be no water output at all to ensure your safety.
4. Smart and connected
Mitte devices are part of a connected ecosystem that can be synced up with our mobile app to further improve user experience and give you more control over the water that you drink.
What's the difference between bottled water and Mitte water?
Typically, bottled mineral water contains health benefits because of its rich mineral compositions. However, due to regulations limiting treatment to bottled water, we cannot be fully certain that it is clean or safe. In fact, bottled water is less regulated than tap water.
So by first purifying tap water and enriching it with minerals afterward, you can be certain that Mitte water is safe, mineralized and more importantly a sustainable alternative.
How do I personalize the water that is dispensed from the machine?
We offer three different types of mineral cartridges with varying mineral ingredients and mineralization levels, allowing you to personalize and create mineralized water that suits your lifestyle and taste. They are:
Mitte Balance
A soft water with a balanced neutral taste and zero sodium, Mitte Balance is everyday water, perfect for baby food preparation and tea or coffee brewing.
Mitte Vitality
A crisp drinking water with high mineral content and complex flavor profile, Mitte Vitality is great for those looking to benefit from essential minerals for improved physical and mental performance.
Mitte Alkaline
A high-PH water rich in minerals and antioxidants, Mitte Alkaline helps combat acidity and fights free radicals in your body. It also eases recovery after intense physical activities leading to increased energy levels.
You can check out this page for more information on our mineral cartridges.
What minerals are there in the cartridges and what are they good for?
Each mineral cartridge comes with different mineral types (like Calcium & Magnesium) and levels, you may refer to the compositions, ingredients, and benefits of each cartridge on this page.
What minerals in water can contribute to dietary nutrition?
These are some of the top important dietary minerals in the diet and water that are essential for nutrition and wellbeing (taken from this blog article):
|Its functions
|Deficiency symptoms
|Benefits in water
|Iron is necessary for normal body functions such as oxygen transport, metabolism of neurotransmitters, and DNA synthesis.
|Impaired mental and motor development and altered behavior.
|Significant when dietary intake of iron is low.
|Zinc is required for growth, normal development, DNA synthesis, immunity, and sensory functions.
|Growth retardation, delayed sexual and skeletal maturation, and impaired resistance to infections.
|Significant when dietary intake of zinc is low.
|Copper is responsible for infant growth, host defence mechanisms, bone strength, red and white cell maturation, iron transport and brain development.
|Anaemia, neutropenia, and bone abnormalities are the main manifestations of copper deficiency.
|Significant for most of the population.
|Besides being the primary structural constituent of the skeleton, calcium is also important for the regulation of enzymes and hormonal responses, blood clotting, nerve transmission, and muscle contraction/ relaxation.
|Calcium deficiency leads to a decrease in bone mineral content and mass, leading to increased risk for bone fractures.
|Significant for most of the population.
|Magnesium is essential for the mineralisation and development of the skeleton, and also plays a role in cellular permeability and neuromuscular excitability.
|Deficiency of magnesium has been implicated in hypertension and type II diabetes, while low magnesium intake has been associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases.
|Significant for most of the population.
|Sodium helps control blood pressure and electrolyte balance, and regulates the function of muscles and nerves.
|Cramps, weakness, confusion and seizures.
|Minimal, as sodium levels in drinking water are minimal compared with those in the diet.
|Potassium is crucial to heart function and plays a key role in skeletal and smooth muscle contraction, making it important for normal digestive and muscular function.
|Muscle weakness, cramping, diarrhoea or vomiting.
|Significant when dietary intake of potassium is low.
What are the sources of ingredients for the mineral cartridges?
We take the greatest care to make sure that the best ingredients are used. First and foremost, we are only using ingredients that are FDA (Food and Drug Administration in the US) approved and are certain and certified to not include any harmful substances.
For sourcing and quality control we have been working with Doehler, one of the world's largest natural ingredient providers based in Germany. Doehler has over 500 food scientists and nutritionists. In addition, we have been working with great institutes and laboratories in Germany (e.g. Institute Kirchhoff in Berlin) to make sure that our products reach the quality we strive for.
To make sure that our devices and cartridges also comply with microbiological risks (e.g. fungi and bacteria growth) we are also working with a laboratory in Barcelona focused on such long term tests.
This is also complemented by self-testing at the microbiological laboratories at our manufacturing partner in Taiwan. The safety of our cartridges will also be visible and accounted for by a voluntary NSF certification, which is based on rigorous testing.
Can Mitte devices be used without a mineral cartridge?
At Mitte, we strongly believe that drinking water should not be just pure, but also enriched with essential minerals, and this cascades down to all aspects of our solution. Thus, the mineral cartridge is required for Mitte devices to do its job.
Which cartridge should I choose?
All three mineral cartridges are designed to give you the best experience with water, and they are all suitable for everyday use. You should choose a mineral cartridge based on your health, lifestyle, and taste preference. For example, if you lead an active lifestyle, go for the Vitality cartridge that helps to hydrate and recover electrolytes quickly. If you have a baby, choose the Balance cartridge for preparing baby formula, as it is the safest option for babies' digestive systems. And if you'd like to restore the pH balance in your body and drink water with antioxidant properties, go for our Alkaline cartridge.
How often do I need to replace the mineral cartridge?
Each mineral cartridge is good for mineralizing 250 liters (almost 66 gallons) of water. Thus the cartridge lifetime depends on how much water your household consumes. For example, if each person in a two-person household consumes 2 liters of Mitte water per day, the cartridge will last about two months.
How do I know when my mineral cartridge lifetime is up?
You will be notified by both the LEDs on the machine and the Mitte app when your mineral cartridge needs replacement.
If I don't finish a cartridge in one go, can I use it again later? What is the expiry date of a cartridge?
You can use the cartridges for up to 6 months after the first use. Mitte devices will detect if the cartridge that you have hasn't been used in a long time, and it will automatically trigger a flush of the first round of water (it will go directly to the waste tank). This is to ensure the proper sanitation of the water. Also, if a cartridge is expired, you will get an LED notification on the machine and also a notification in your app indicating that your cartridge needs to be replaced with a new one.
How do I buy a new mineral cartridge?
You can set up the demand-driven automatic ordering of mineral cartridges on your Mitte app. Each cartridge comes with an RFID tag, allowing the system to track usage, and automatically deliver you a new cartridge when your current one is running low. The process is based on actual usage, thus reducing wastage while ensuring that you'll never run out of water. Otherwise, cartridges can also be purchased individually on our website.
How does this automatic ordering feature work?
Sensors inside our devices monitor cartridge life so a new one will be delivered to your doorstep via automatic ordering (on the app) just before the current one runs out.
As the automatic ordering process is based on actual usage, you'll only receive a new cartridge when you actually need it. You can change, pause and cancel your subscription anytime.
Can I purchase mineral cartridges without signing up for automatic ordering?
Yes, you can purchase mineral cartridges individually on our website without signing up for automatic ordering.
What type of materials are used in the production of Mitte devices?
We have chosen our materials carefully based on quality, costs, manufacturability and of course safety. The plastics that we are using are high-grade food grade like PP and do not leach unhealthy compounds into the water. The heating parts consist of stainless steel 316 and high-grade food grade aluminum.
Can Mitte devices work without an internet connection?
Not connecting your Mitte devices to the internet won't prevent you from using basic functions such as dispensing water. The system is designed so that you don't need the app to use the machine.
However, we'd strongly encourage you to take full advantage of this is a connected device. The hardware in itself has all the basic functions you need to operate the machine, but using it with the app gives you extra features and the best user experience. For example, you can choose the exact volume of water you want to dispense, check the quality of water, monitor machine performance, receive maintenance notifications, and get support while setting up the system.
Why do I need the Mitte app?
The Mitte app gives you more functionalities and control over the machine. For example:
- It sends you reminders when the machine needs some kind of maintenance.
- You can set up automatic cartridge ordering, allowing you to receive mineral cartridges based on usage. So you get fresh new cartridges just when you need them, only when you need them.
- You can actively monitor the machine when you are not home and check the water quality in real-time, giving you peace of mind.
- It tracks the amount of water dispensed from the machine, and consequently, the amount of water donated to the developing world via our partner, Water.Org.
Why are Mitte devices connected to the internet?
Connecting Mitte devices to the internet allows you to use extra features offered in the app, such as the automatic ordering of cartridges that ensure you'll never run out of water and tracking your own personal social impact based on usage.
Why am I automatically donating water to a developing country?
We developed a 1-for-1 program based on our guiding vision of improving life with better water.
Right now, 159 million people in the world are getting water from untreated surface runoff and streams. A further 663 million people lack any access to safe water. With our 1-for-1 guarantee, we want to help change some of these shocking figures and tangibly improve more lives with better water.
We have designed Mitte app so that it tracks usage and every time you dispense a liter of water, a donation to a water project in developing countries is made. We are making you the promise that for every liter of Mitte water you drink, someone in need will get his yearly requirement of clean water too. This happens automatically and is built-in. You are not paying any extra money for this project, and no extra action is needed on your part.
Why can I not choose to whom and how much I am donating?
With our NGO partner, Water.Org, we have selected the project that can generate maximum positive social impact, to truly realize the vision of improving lives with better water.
At what stage is your product development?
We are moving both Mitte Home & Mitte Home Plus to the production stage right now and will be shipping in 2021. We have been working on our products for over three years to create a connected eco-system: our hardware, app, mineral cartridges, and cloud back-end. We are currently moving from the prototype stage towards ready-for-mass-production with our manufacturing partner. The mass manufacturing process goes like this until shipping:
DFM process:
- Enter product specification discussion
- Carry out detailed optimization of machine design and structure for mass manufacture
- Review outcome of design, finalize and order parts for next stage
Prototyping and tooling:
- Build 1 prototype based on DFM process outcome so as to confirm that the design matches the specification
- Craft 2D drawings needed for tooling and preparations
- Tooling creation
- Assembly line setup
- Tester box building
Sample testing:
- Produce first Mitte samples of 20 – 30 units
- Test samples, carry out inspections, attain certification and evaluate production
At this stage, if we can assure the performance, reliability, and quality of these first samples, then we can move ahead with getting everything ready for production and shipping. However, if there are issues with these samples, we'll have to go through iterations and modifications to fix them. We will keep you informed as we go along — please join our waitlist.
What is the warranty for Mitte products?
We will have a standard warranty of 2 years as required by law, but everything is engineered with great care to last at least 5 years under the highest usage. We will also provide after-sales support in the countries that we ship to so that if anything goes wrong, the issue can be solved within your home country.
Do you have any other questions?
Simply get in touch at [email protected]. We will gladly answer your questions personally.
Do you have any other questions?
Simply get in touch at [email protected]. We will gladly answer your questions personally. For any press-related queries, email us at [email protected].
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The Bechdel Test Film Club is a free film club on the last Wednesday of every month at the Amersham Arms, New Cross.
We show films that pass the Bechdel Test:
1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man.
Connect with us on Facebook and join us at the Amersham Arms for our next monthly screening.
NXL Films is a free film club in New Cross. We host free screenings at 7pm every Wednesday at New Cross Learning, a volunteer-run community library on New Cross Road.
Our programme is available to view on our members page, and our weekly newsletter will keep you up to date with all our upcoming screenings. You can also follow us on Twitter where we drop massive hints about what we're screening each week.
We screen films we love and think deserve a bigger audience, as well as films you may not have had a chance to see on the big screen. For an idea You can see the films we've screened previously on our website.
The 2014 New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival was held from Friday 25th April to Sunday 4th May. The festival, now in its third year, was planned and run by local volunteers with FREE screenings at local venues and open to all.
The 2014 Festival featured ten days of FREE film events at venues across the area, including an outdoor, bike-powered screening of Grease in Telegraph Hill Upper Park. Other venues included a housing co-op, St Nicholas' Church, Old Deptford Police Station and Deptford Market.
Some of the free films shown included Bend it Like Beckham, But I'm a Cheerleader, Project Wild Thing and Spirit of '45 introduced by the director Ken Loach.
Full details of the 2014 programme can be found on the Free Film Festivals website.
Stay up to date by following us on Twitter and/or Facebook.
Cinetopia have been holding film events since 2005 at various venues in SE London including The Crown & Greyhound in Dulwich Village and the Lewisham Art House.
Cinetopia combine the magic of film with the warm conviviality of the pub quiz and add a touch of mystery. Each event includes a quiz, food and a bar. To add extra frisson the audience do not know what the film is until they turn up. In other words, always expect the unexpected.
Previously shown films include classics such as Orson Welles' Touch of Evil and John Ford's My Darling Clementine as well as contemporary arthouse gems by Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips) and Lukas Moodysson (Together).
You can also find us on Facebook.


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Some days you just have to thank God for your health and for the life you have – today was another one of those days for me.
I spent the day with 100+ people (including many Deputies) at the Guernsey Drug & Alcohol Team's conference on kick-starting a recovery culture in Guernsey. We listened to experts: people with first hand experience of addiction and mental health and professionals who work with addictions.
Afterwards, we had the opportunity to get into smaller groups and listen to experiences in Guernsey and try to come up with ideas on what can be done to improve things. There is a lot to do but there are many, many good people on Guernsey who wish to help each other.
We can all play a part to promote a recovery culture and break the addiction cycle whether it is by supporting a family member or friend who is an addict, fellow addicts helping each other or just by our own individual actions which break down the barriers created by prejudice.


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John Armstrong, 1913 – 2011
The Mulberry Bush School and the family of John Armstrong invite people to join together for a Celebration of John's life and work on Friday, 6 July 2012 at the school in Standlake, Oxfordshire.
This is an opportunity for people connected with John and the Mulberry Bush across the years to come together and honour him and all that he did to make the Bush a place that affected so many children and adults, quite often changing the course of their lives.
Such a gathering will be a fitting and much deserved tribute to John himself. Equally, for all of us who come together on this day and for the Bush itself it will serve as a vital reminder not only of the nature of the commitment required to sustain the therapeutic task but also of the character and substance of the kind of person who can see it through over many years and the many hours and weeks of daily living and learning.
A more detailed programme for this occasion will be available in due course. For now we can confirm that the event will begin at 3 PM and its formal end will be at 7PM. Many people when remembering John will likely associate him with events like Open Days and Friends of the Bush evenings held on the front field in the lovely summer brightness and warmth. Therefore it will be no surprise to learn that the Gathering itself will begin at 3 with an informal mingling of all participants around food and drink. This will be followed by a session of slightly more formal spoken recollections and tributes from those who knew and worked with him, and as part of this there will be a chance for anyone else to share their thoughts and memories of John.
Further informal conversations can recommence after this, with further opportunity to look at some of the displays about John and the Bush of that era. If anyone has an item – photo, object or..? – that you wish to send on to be included or to bring on the day, please do so. Alongside recording the event, we shall also have a facility to record at least some people's brief memories of John to add to the Mulberry Bush Archive held at the Planned Environment Therapy Trust.
If you wish to come along, can you write directly to email@example.com confirming your intention, or e-mail Richard Rollinson at email@example.com. We also request that if someone knows another person who might wish to attend they alert him/her to this information, or send us contact details so we can advise them.