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Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars: Rice Krispie Treats with a Salty TwistJen Schall | My Kitchen Addiction
Don't be fooled. These salty sweet snacks are really for mom. Of course, the kids will like them, too!
Let's talk about afternoon snacks. I used to think snacks were for kids. Now that I have one (even if she's not old enough to eat real food yet), I realize that the snacks are really for mom.
By the middle of the afternoon, I am usually craving a sweet snack. Between rounding up the kiddo (who is just starting to scoot around and learn to crawl… oh my!), running errands, and trying to keep up with the chores around the house (not to mention trying to develop and photograph recipes), I find that I really need a bit of a pick-me-up in the afternoon to hold me over until dinner.
Sure, if the kiddo was old enough to eat a snack (other than mashed up peas…), I'd offer her some of mine. But there's no disputing the fact that it was my snack to start off with. I'm convinced this is the case for a lot of moms out there. Sure, we can all call it an "after school" snack, but it's really a "get mom through the afternoon snack" if we're being honest.
These Crispy Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars are what got me through a particularly busy afternoon at my house last week. They are basically Rice Krispies bars, but with a salty twist. In addition to stirring some peanut butter into the gooey marshmallow goodness, I've added some crushed up pretzels to the mix.
I threw them together quickly during nap time and then set them out on the counter so that I could cut myself a square (or two) later in the afternoon.
And, of course, since the recipe uses crispy brown rice cereal, they are whole grain. I'm pretty sure that means you can eat two.
For another delicious way to combine these flavors, consider this Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bars Recipe!
Peanut Butter Rice Krispie Treat Recipe
- 5 cups Rice Krispies
- 2 cups Crushed Pretzels
- 2 tablespoons Unsalted Butter
- 10 ounces Marshmallow
- 1 cup Peanut Butter
- Lightly grease a 9 by 13-inch pan or baking dish and set aside.
- Combine the cereal and pretzels in a large mixing bowl and set aside.
- Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium-low heat.
- Add the marshmallows and peanut butter, stirring constantly until the mixture is smooth.
- Pour the marshmallow mixture over the cereal and pretzels in the large mixing bowl. Stir to combine.
- Transfer the mixture to the prepared pan and press it evenly into the pan.
- Let cool completely before cutting into squares
- If you prefer to use the microwave, you can combine the butter, marshmallows, and peanut butter in a large microwave safe dish. Be sure to stir frequently! I prefer the stove top method because I have memories of exploding marshmallow peeps in my microwave as a kid. I also have memories of cleaning the microwave afterwards.
- You may substitute any crispy brown rice cereal for Rice Krispies.


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WorkSafeBC Revises Rules, Cracks Down On Sawmills
B.C. forest companies face new, prescriptive regulations that define how much sawdust can settle in a wood-products plant before it is considered a hazard, almost two years after the deaths of four workers in sawmill explosions. The new regime has been rolled out in the midst of a safety crackdown by WorkSafeBC inspectors on B.C. sawmills.
Sawdust has been identified as the key fuel that fed a massive fireball that flattened the Babine Forest Products mill in Burns Lake in January, 2012, leaving two workers dead and another 20 seriously injured.
A report on the April, 2012, explosion at the Lakeland Mills plant in Prince George has not yet been made public, but that mill was also processing the super-dry, pine beetle-killed timber that was a major source of dust at Babine. Two workers died in that second explosion.
"This is just a different dust," said James Gorman, president of the Council of Forest Industries, in an interview Monday. The mountain pine beetle epidemic has led to a race in B.C. Interior mills to process dead and dying wood before it loses its merchantable value.
Mr. Gorman said the new regulations from WorkSafeBC were shaped by industry-led safety reforms, and will be backstopped by a voluntary audit system that begins this month in a majority of Interior sawmills to ensure safety measures are being implemented.
From The Globe And Mail: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/worksafebc-revises-rules-cracks-down-on-sawmills/article16424268/

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'Tusi #: 024
Artist: Benjamin Rivers
Subject: Optimus Prime (Transformers)
Date: November 30, 2008
Location: Hobbystar's Fall Toronto ComiCon (Metro Toronto Convention Centre), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Notes: Benjamin is a local Toronto illustrator who has created a number of comics/graphic novels/webcomics. His choice was Optimus Prime and it turned out nicely.
I thoroughly enjoyed his most recent (I believe) graphic novel, SNOW, which I originally bought because the cover was striking yet simple.


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Memorial services for Carutherses Friday in Salisbury
A memorial service for James Wade Caruthers, an educator and historian, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Social Room of Salisbury State University. Dr. Caruthers and his wife, Gwynette Thompson Caruthers, died Sunday in an automobile crash on U.S. 50 at Mardela Springs. He was 74.
He was the son of the late Dr. T. J. Caruthers, one of the founding faculty of what is now Salisbury State University. Dr. James Caruthers was former chairman of the university's Alumni Board and received its 1991 alumni appreciation award.


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Everyone's favorite fluffy recurring character, the Rowsdower, has been subject to incredible abuse at the hands of the evil Stephan 'the Brofessional' Frost. After watching Frost blow up a whole army of Rowsdowers, WildStar fans had enough and petitioned Carbine for a Rowsdower plushie in hopes the proceeds would serve as a sufficient bribe to get Frost to cease the abuse. Also, Rowsdowers were in need of hugs, lots of hugs!
Don't be this guy!
Carbine finally answered fans' pleas at this year's PAX East with the introduction of the Rowsdower plushie and since then many Rowsdowers have been liberated from Frost's evil clutches. However, a couple of Rowsdowers, five to be exact, managed to make it through the show without a home and that's where you come in!
We want you to show us your love for Nexus' fluffy mountain goats by posting an awesome screenshot of your WildStar character with a Rowsdower in-game. Drop your screenshot in the comments below (or Tweet it @MMORPGcom with the hashtag #WildStar and #Hugs4Rows) between now and Tuesday, April 22 and we'll pick five of the most dedicated Rowsdower fans as winners of a brand-new Rowsdower plushie, courtesy of Carbine Studios! Winning entries will be announced on Wednesday, April 23.
Please only submit a single screenshot. Users found submitting multiple entries will be disqualified. The same goes for anyone submitting a screenshot subjecting Rowsdowers to bodily or psychological harm. You don't want to be like Frost, do you? (Don't answer that!)


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Over at the official Facebook page for UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: A NEW DIMENSION, a few set stills have cropped up featuring our man Jean Claude Van Damme looking like f*ckin' Papa Shango. Or better yet, Sig Haig in THE DEVIL'S REJECTS. A pretty good look for the action hero, no?!?
Now, we don't have a whole lot of details regarding A NEW DIMENSION, but feel free to revisit what director John Hyams said about the project last month. We do know the flick started filming on May 9th, with Scott Adkins, Andrei Arlovski and Michael Jai White joining JCVD and Dolph Lundgren.
Also starring Rus Blackwell, Mariah Bonner (below), Beau Brasso, David Jensen, James DuMont, Audrey P. Scott, Glen Warner, Robert Douthat, Juli Erickson, Kristopher Van Varenberg and Adam Sibley - UNIVERSAL SOLDIER: A NEW DIMENSION is due sometime next year. Keep it here for a release date!


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We fell hard for the Miata on that sunset drive down 33. Its slightly immature energy, somewhat annoying on a straight freeway, made us smile. Live-wire steering hurtles you toward apexes, and this car rolls over and wants to keep playing. The Miata never stops selling the case that smaller is better.
Mazda has built a modern car that amuses like an old car. To pull off this trick, the Miata eliminates the thick veneer of refinement we've become accustomed to in new machines. Fiat puts some of that veneer back—not enough to transform the car, but possibly enough to make it more palatable to customers who don't remember the good old days so fondly.
Without that extra layer of insulation, the Miata puts you closer to the machinery. The engine hums up front with a light burble from the intake. With the top down, the exhaust putters like that of an old Miata, which itself puttered like an MG. Shift efforts are lighter and more satisfying than in the Fiat. The clutch takeup is near perfect and easy to master.
With no turbo in the way, the 2.0-liter is far more responsive than the Fiat's 1.4-liter. Horsepower and torque rise in a smooth and linear manner. Even with a relatively green engine reading just 898 miles, the Miata still outpaced the more powerful Fiat to 60 mph and through the quarter-mile.
It didn't take us long to pick a winner. The Miata might be louder and jumpier than the 124 Spider, but it's also more charming and honest than the Fiat. And that means the Miata is a better sports car where it really counts.
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This program combines the benefits of a raw food and juice fast with the deeper cleansing program, complimented by the additions of private yoga sessions, a personal trainer, spa treatments, nutritional consultations and healthy cooking classes. Fasting gives your body a chance to take a break from digestion. Once thoroughly cleansed, the body returns to a natural, healthy equilibrium.
The Lipa Lovely Beach Resort offers beachfront bungalows and rooms. Facilities, location and friendly staff create a perfect setting for your relaxing tropical island retreat. This is a place to relax and see how the island of Koh Samui used to be. There are no huge shopping malls just around the corner, just as there are no loud discos or karaoke bars.
There are no beach vendors selling you unwanted trinkets and beads, just the sound of the birds on the wind and the rustling of the coconut trees. Each room or bungalow has individually controlled air conditioning, private bathrooms with hot water, patio and chairs, satellite TV, DVD player, refrigerator, safety box, and unlimited drinking water. Each of the wonderful bungalows and rooms are decorated with a southern Thai style old world charm.
During the first five days of this program, the body is charged with freshly squeezed fruit and vegetable juices, along with vitamins and mineral-rich raw food. This increases enzyme activity in the body and ensures that it is well nourished in preparation for the fasting process.
Enhancing the program with powerful herbs and supplements boosts vitality and alkalises the body (most of us live with excessively acidic body pH, due to dietary and lifestyle stressors).
Following the five-day preparatory period, you will enter into our seven-day detox program, thoroughly cleansing the digestive tract, all the vital organs, and the bloodstream.
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Want to see what the FPD Designers have cooked up this month? It's the E=MC2 collab!
Until Aug 31st you can get it for 50% off!! What a steal! Visit FPD to pick it up!
Here's a list of what's inside:
- [65] 12x12" papers
- [106] elements
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- [3] 12x12" layout templates (1 also comes in 8.5x11" format)
- [6] 12x12" Quick Pages by the FPD Creative Team
Participating Designers: Amanda Carlson, Charlize Creations, Daybreak Scraps, Donna Duncombe, Girl Boy Girl Designs by Jen Balding, Jaclyn Bernardo, Jennilyn Designs, Michelle Batton, Misty O'Brien Designs, Recherché by KH Designs, River~Rose, Ruby Lane, Shanmomto4 Designs, Siamese Studio, Sir Scrapalot and Tootlebugz.
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How To Identify Fraudulent Emails
Since technology has expanded to the World Wide Web, fraud has been on the rise and many people want to know how to identify fraudulent e-mails. There are several ways that you can identify fraud through your e-mail but you must be alert and pay attention to detail. Fraudulent e-mails are a serious problem but there are several ways that you can identify them before you become a victim:
- Pay attention to detail when looking for fraudulent e-mails because they look like a familiar company or person that you would normally communicate with but instead it is a hacker. When receiving an email from a known source look over the letter carefully. If a known source is asking for your personal information call the company or person directly to handle the situation. Remember that businesses do not ask for personal information and your friend source is not likely to send you an email when asking for a financial favor.
- When you receive an email titled urgent or immediate attention, you should cautiously open the letter. E-mails sent displaying a sense of urgency is the most common method used to get the victim flustered so that they will immediately open the letter. Many fraudulent people send e-mails like this to their potential victims hoping at least one person will fall prey to their fraud and open the letter creating a virus to the victim's computer. If you receive an email from a known sender contact that person yourself to make sure the email is not a computer virus.
- Another way to identify a fraudulent email is by looking at the email address. Even though the fraudulent person is sending an email with a known sender if you look closely at the email address you will see it is not legitimate. Businesses do not use free email addresses so take time learn the email services that are free. Becoming knowledgeable about identifying fraudulent e-mails will make you less of a victim to fraudulent activity.
Being able to identify fraudulent e-mails is not an easy task because this type of fraud constantly changes. However, as long as you are aware that there are people out there on the World Wide Web that only want inconvenience people and steal their identity you will be more cautious about opening your email.
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In the Trenches with Derek McLaughlin
Nov. 20, 2002
Perhaps the most maligned Husky in 2002, punter Derek McLaughlin endured criticism from the media and fans after a miserable start to his 2002 season. McLaughlin - who posted one of the top seasons by a punter in UW history as a true freshman last season, averaging 41.2 yards per punt - managed just 36.6 yards per punt through the season's first nine games, subjecting the sophomore to ridicule even from fellow schoolmates, who occasionally took time out while walking on the UW campus to remind the punter just how poorly his season was going. Over the past two weeks, though - both Husky wins - McLaughlin has been booming punts from Seattle to Eugene, including an 80-yarder in last weekend's win over the Ducks that broke his own school record of 74 yards, and was tied for the eighth-longest punt in Pac-10 history. The end of McLaughlin's second year, which hopefully will be postponed into December should the Huskies earn a bowl invitation, will mark a significant point in the sophomore's life. The Mesa, Ariz., native plans to begin his three-year Mormon mission in 2003, and return to the Huskies for the 2006 and 2007 seasons. Back on track, and with much more than just the Apple Cup ahead of him, McLaughlin sat down with GoHuskies.com to look back, and forward.
GoHuskies.com: Against Oregon, in a swirling wind and rain, you had one of the best games of your career. Two punts were downed inside the five-yard line, four stopped inside the 15, and one went for 80 yards! What were your thoughts after that game?
Derek McLaughlin: 'My first thought is that we won, and everything else is just the icing on the cake. I'm happy as a clam that I punted well, and I'm happy as a clam that we won - when those two things happen together, it's great. It's one thing to kick well and lose, and it's another thing to kick poorly and win, but when you kick well and win, you're on cloud nine; it's the coolest thing ever.'
GH: You've had two solid weeks in a row, but before the Oregon State game you were having a lot of problems. What changed for you against the Beavers?
McLaughlin: 'One of the biggest things that happened was that my foot got better. I was having foot problems midway through the season, where my foot would swell up and bruise when I would kick in practice. I'd warm up and I'd be okay, but toward the end of warm-ups my foot would start swelling and I could feel it inside my shoe, so when I would kick it, it would be really painful. That was really tough. It was like that until after the UCLA game. It finally started feeling better, and now I can go out to practice like I usually do, and get back to what I've been doing for the past two years - four years, I guess, including high school. Finding that rhythm and getting back to the basics really affected me in a positive way.'
GH: For the first punt of the OSU game, Coach Neuheisel benched you in favor of John Anderson. Did that chip away at your insides at all?
McLaughlin: 'At first, it really deflated me; it really took the wind out of my sail. When someone tells you you're performing so poorly, to the point where you're not going to play ... well, it just deflated me for two or three days. I called my dad and told him about it and he said, 'Well, you have one of two options: you can fold, or you can get to work.' I chose to get to work. John's a great punter; I was really worried I wouldn't get my job back because of how good of a punter he really is. He's got a really strong leg and when he's hitting the ball well, he kills it. It was a little windy on his punt, and the wind took the ball across his foot, and he popped it out of bounds. As much as I wanted John to kick well, inside I was kind of happy because I was going to get a shot to play again. I knew I had to capitalize on the opportunity to play. I had the attitude that these are the last games I have here because I'm going on my mission pretty soon, and so I have to make the most of them. I hope I get to finish that out this weekend and, hopefully, in a bowl game.'
GH: It was windy when John punted, but it's always windy in Husky Stadium. You've seemed to be able to deal with that better than many punters who have braved the Montlake breezes. What's the trick to punting well in poor conditions?
McLaughlin: 'The same is true of Autzen Stadium, actually; they're both fairly windy. John, being a field goal kicker, has a tendency to swing across his body with his leg, and so when you drop the ball, there's a difference in your leg swing. When you come across it [for a field goal] you have to hit it exactly right, otherwise it can either go off the inside or the outside part of your foot and be shanked. For me, I kick straight, so the ball just has to fall correctly on my foot. John had to plan out two things, and what happens is when John dropped the ball, the wind moved the ball back out across his foot. That happened at Autzen on my second punt, which is exactly what happened to John - same yardage and everything. In Husky Stadium the wind swirls a lot, and it changes direction as you go up in the stadium. You try to gauge the wind from where you're actually kicking, but once you've kicked, you can watch the ball actually change directions as it's going through the air. The hardest thing to do is just figure out what's going on.'
GH: How do you figure all that stuff out?
McLaughlin: 'By practicing here everyday and learning the tendencies of the stadium. Once you do that, you can kind of figure out what's going on. You adjust your drop and keep your swing the same. Adjusting your drop is really all you can do as a punter to be able to work in different wind conditions.'
GH: You are leaving on your mission after this year. For those of us who may not be familiar with all that a mission entails, please talk a little about what kind of work you expect to be doing.
McLaughlin: 'I want to go somewhere in South America, but I'm not sure where I'm going yet. Before I even started playing football, I decided I needed to go on a mission. When football started going well and I started to be recruited, I had to think, 'Do I still want to go on a mission?' My high school coach said even if I decided to, I shouldn't tell the recruiters, because a lot of schools would drop out and wouldn't recruit me. I felt like I needed to be honest, though, because honesty is the best policy, and so I told everyone who called, 'You can recruit me and I'll come play football for you, but I'm going to go on my mission.' Just like my coach had predicted, three quarters of the schools calling me dropped off at that point and didn't call me ever again. Coach Neuheisel called, though, and when I told him I really wanted to go on a mission he said he was O.K. with that as long as I played for two seasons. If anything now, I need even more to go on a mission. After experiencing Husky football and all of the other things that have happened, I understand the blessings that have come to me from God. This whole entire Husky experience has been a huge blessing, and I need to show my devotion to Him by going on a mission and serving Him for three years.'
GH: After those three years, do you plan to return to UW?
McLaughlin: 'Absolutely, I'll be back here. Definitely.'
GH: So if you go on your mission to say, Quito, Ecuador, will you bring a bag of footballs with you?
McLaughlin: (smiles) 'Oh, yeah. I'll go down there and I'll have one day a week called a 'P Day,' a preparation day, when I'll get to do my laundry and other stuff. I'll kick the football around a little bit, and play a football game with some little kids or something. I'll figure something out to keep up my flexibility, and make sure I don't forget how to punt. Hopefully, Coach Neuheisel will hold my scholarship for me, but if he doesn't, I'll walk on and try to earn my scholarship back. I'm just going to play it by ear. I'm definitely coming back to the University.'
GH: To put it into your own words, it sounds like you're 'happy as a clam!' That's one I've never understood. What is it that makes clams so happy?
McLaughlin: (laughs) 'I don't know, it's some idiomatic expression. I have no idea where it's from. Maybe it's because their clam shells are just smiling all the time. I don't know.'
GH: Hey, good answer to an obscure question! Let's try another: are you more of a macaroni salad or potato salad kind of guy?
McLaughlin: 'Definitely potato salad. I think that the macaroni salad tastes ... well, the texture of it is a little slimy. I definitely go with the potato salad, just for texture.'
GH: Texture, huh? What about when people throw eggs in it - does that upset the balance?
McLaughlin: 'Actually, I think the hard-boiled eggs add to it a little bit, but I'm more of a straight potato salad man myself.'
GH: This is the kind of thing that Chandler and Joey could argue about for an entire episode of 'Friends.' Are you kind of bummed that 'Friends' is in its final season?McLaughlin: 'What kills me is that 'Friends' has been in its final season for the past three seasons. The way I see it, everyone has pretty much slept with everyone else. Thus,there's no more story line, so 'Friends' has to end.'
GH: So is NBC just blowing smoke by marketing this season of 'Friends' as the 'final' season?
McLaughlin: 'I think they are. People are like, 'Oh it's the final season, I'd better watch it!' It's been the final season three or four times before. I stopped watching it a while ago.'
GoHuskies.com correspondent Steve Hitchcock contributed to this report.
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Tintype, one earliest photographic processes known to man, has made its mark in the history of photography, but very few are familiar with it at this time and age. Here, we'll show you some interesting videos on how tintypes are made.
The tintype was described and introduced in 1853 in France by Adolphe-Alexandre Martin, who wanted to speed up the work of plate engravers. Basing his process on the ambrotype, Martin replaced the glass plate with a black iron plate coated with collodion. The plate would then be sensitized before use. The result is a positive image that can be engraved with ease and later on printed.
The process was introduced in the United States by Hamilton Smith, and in the United Kingdom by William Kloen in 1856.
The tintype eventually became the photo booth of the Civil War Era and European carnivals. Photographers and street vendors took their tintype equipment outdoors, usually in fairs and carnivals, where people can have their photographs taken. Because tintypes are resilient and require no drying, the photographs can be obtained a few minutes after the shot is made.
Here are some interesting modern videos of the age-old photographic process:
From the George Eastman House:
And a brief instructional one:
Sources and additional readings:
Tintype on Wikipedia
Illustrated History of Photography on Historic Camera
Tintype on The Old Album
Have you seen the tintype process in actual? Share your experience with us through a comment below!
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Activision and Treyarch officially announced this morning that gamers with 3D-ready TVs or PCs and a set of funky 3D glasses will be able to play Black Ops in stereoscopic 3D when the game launches on November 9 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Windows PCs.
"Aiming down the sights of your weapons, flying in helicopters, rappelling down mountains, and moving through highly detailed environments are just some of the awesome experiences you will have in 3D with Black Ops," Mark Lamia, studio head at Treyarch, said in a statement.
All copies of the game will be 3D compatible, and a simple menu option will allow players to turn 3D on and off for the single-player campaign, multiplayer, and Zombie mode.
If you'd like to see what all the fuss is about, Best Buy has partnered with Activision and Treyarch to promote Call of Duty: Black Ops in 3D, and the retailer will be showing off the game in three-dimensional action at a number of its stores nationwide.
Sharkey says: I've never played a videogame in stereoscopic 3D, but it seems like FPS games would be the perfect match. I think I'll head on down to my local Best Buy to find out what the experience is like for myself.


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Perhaps the most powerful lesson of the Northridge earthquake is that living where we do--in one of the most seismically active areas of the world--we must take as many realistic steps as possible to reduce the hazards we face in our homes.
We have heard a lot about the importance of bolting houses to their foundations, anchoring furniture and water heaters, installing automatic gas shut-off valves to protect against fire and other safety measures.
One very important precaution that has not been publicized, however, is anchoring or bracing brick chimneys to the roof-rafter system to help keep them from collapsing.
Chimney failures were extraordinarily widespread on Jan. 17. A number of people were injured by flying debris, and it was only the luck of the timing of the temblor that many deaths did not result from tons of bricks falling into living rooms all over the area.


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Tradacoms is an early standard for EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) primarily used in the UK retail sector. It was introduced in 1982 as an implementation of the UN/GTDI syntax, one of the precursors of EDIFACT, and was maintained and extended by the UK Article Numbering Association (now called GS1 UK).
The standard is obsolescent since development of it effectively ceased in 1995 in favour of the EDIFACT EANCOM subsets. Despite this it has proved durable and the majority of the retail EDI traffic in the UK still uses it.
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- Ipso Facto Clauses: Are They Enforceable?
- November 21, 2011 | Author: Susan J. Klein
- Law Firm: Gordon Feinblatt LLC - Baltimore Office
Contracts and leases typically contain a provision, called an "ipso facto clause," which states that the filing of a bankruptcy case or the occurrence of another listed event is a default entitling the other party to terminate the agreement and to begin exercising remedies. The term "ipso facto" comes from the Latin phrase meaning "by the fact itself." Thus, the filing of the bankruptcy or other action itself triggers the default. Some ipso facto clauses require notice first; others are automatic.
A. Triggers for Ipso Facto Clauses
Typical ipso facto clauses are based on the following events:
Filing of a voluntary bankruptcy petition
Having an involuntary bankruptcy filed against a party (sometimes, if the petition is not set aside within a set number of days)
Insolvency or financial condition
Admitting in writing that a party is insolvent
The making of an assignment for the benefit of creditors or the appointment of a receiver for all or a substantial portion of a party's assets.
B. Ipso Facto Clauses Are Generally Not Enforceable in Bankruptcy Cases
Section 541 of the Bankruptcy Code sets forth what interests in property become property of the bankruptcy estate. Section 541(c) provides that property interests of the debtor become property of the bankruptcy estate notwithstanding a provision in an agreement that requires forfeiture of the interest based on the insolvency or financial condition of the debtor, the commencement of the case, or the appointment of a custodian before the commencement of the case.
Section 365(e)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code expressly invalidates ipso facto clauses that might otherwise result in forfeiture of an executory contract or an unexpired lease. Section 365(e)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code provides that the invalidation of ipso facto clauses does not apply to contracts that are non-assignable under applicable non-bankruptcy law or to contracts to make a loan or extend financial accommodations or debt financing to or for the benefit of the debtor.
Provisions in unexpired leases for real property containing ipso facto clauses would be invalided as to a debtor under the Bankruptcy Code. Section 365(f) of the Bankruptcy Code states that notwithstanding language in an executory contract or lease to the contrary, the trustee (or debtor-in-possession) may assume a contract or lease provided the trustee (or debtor-in-possession) furnishes adequate assurances of future performance and cures all defaults as required under §365(b) of the Bankruptcy Code.
C. Why Put Ipso Facto Clauses in Agreements?
Ipso facto clauses typically are only unenforceable in a bankruptcy. If the party never files a bankruptcy, then the clause may be enforceable. However, if a later bankruptcy is filed, an insolvency-based termination made prior to the bankruptcy may not be enforceable in the later bankruptcy case.
Further, an ipso facto clause may trigger a default under a guaranty of a non-bankrupt guarantor or liability of a co-debtor that does not file a bankruptcy petition.
Although an ipso facto clause may not be enforceable in bankruptcy, these clauses are commonplace and will not prejudice the landlord. If a commercial tenant is a debtor in a bankruptcy case, it is required under §365(d)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code to assume the lease (which means the debtor will need to cure defaults and provide adequate assurances of future performance) within the earlier of 120 days from the commencement of the case, or the entry of the order confirming the plan. Without the landlord's consent, at most the bankruptcy court can extend this period for 90 days for cause. If the lease is either rejected by the trustee (or debtor-in-possession) or not assumed in these time periods, the lease is considered to be rejected and the debtor is required to immediately surrender the property to the landlord. Accordingly, notwithstanding the unenforceability of ipso facto clauses in commercial real property leases, a commercial landlord is not without remedies in the bankruptcy arena.


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The king wanted to go fishing, so he called on the royal weather forecaster and inquired as to the weather forecast for the next few hours.The weatherman assured him that there was no chance of rain in the coming days, so the king went fishing with his wife, the queen. On the way he met a farmer on his donkey.Upon seeing the king the farmer said, "Your Majesty, you should return to the palace! In just a short time I expect a huge amount of rain to fall in this area".The king was polite and considerate, he replied: "I hold the palace meteorologist in high regard. He is an extensively educated and experienced professional. And besides, I pay him very high wages. He gave me a very different forecast. I trust him."So the king continued on his way. However, a short time later a torrential rain fell from the sky. The King and Queen were totally soaked and their entourage chuckled upon seeing them in such a shameful condition.
Furious, the king returned to the palace and gave the order to fire the professional. Then he summoned the farmer and offered him the prestigious and high paying role of royal forecaster.The farmer said, "Your Majesty, I do not know anything about forecasting. I obtain my information from my donkey. If I see my donkey's ears drooping, it means with certainty that it will rain."So the king hired the donkey.And thus began the practice of hiring dumb asses to work in the government and occupy its highest and most influential positions.The practice is unbroken to this date and thus, the democrat symbol was born!!!
The Racist, Hate-Preaching 'Anti'-Fascists Are Back
The trouble with being a "revolutionary" who is against everything, including fictional Forces of Evil, is that in the long run, you end up doing Hitler, Pol Pot, Mao Tse-Tung, and Mussolini all over again.
The logic of lynch mobs is simple, and it was well summarized by Saul Alinsky, who knew all about raising mobs: "Pick the target, freeze the target, and destroy the target."
The U.S. Army had its own slogan in WWII, which went, "Find 'em, fight 'em, fix 'em." (Except that in practice, the G.I.s used a different word for "fix.")
The principle is the same. Lynch mobs are war mobs, which is why they like to lynch people. They are equal-opportunity mobs, and in Africa, they pit black Africans against other black Africans, like the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda, who look like the exact same ethnic group, because they are. But the French colonial administration pitted the two against each other, educated only the Tutsis to speak French, and scapegoated the Hutus. The Rwandan genocide was only a matter of time, because lynch mobs are what they are all over the world.
It's always done for the sake of peace and love, of course.
The psychiatric term for mob psychology is "displacement," which comes down to blaming a safe enemy (who can't strike back) to take out your rage and impotence on your real hate object. It's primitive, infantile thinking, and you're supposed to grow out of it, if your indoctrinators will let you.
These days, white folks are the favorite hate objects of the campus left, especially white boys and men, who are now forced to apologize for their genitals. If they fail to humiliate themselves adequately in their brainwashing groups, they are punished by the commissars. (This was started by the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in the '60s, which was a Big Lie from the very start. The idea that they started off believing in honest free speech is just another lie. They were always Stalinoids.)
Yes, indeed. Those annoying genitalia make all the trouble in the world, and left-feminists, who are secret prudes, Victorians, and man-haters anyway, are now trying to change their genitalia – or rather, they are relabeling their own organs in order to scapegoat the male variety. Freud was a great ironist because he saw so much self-imposed human nuttiness and suffering in his therapy practice, and the hippie cafés in Vienna were split between hateful Marxists and hateful National Socialists. By 1938, toward the end of his life, Freud had to escape the Nazis to London, where the Freud Museum is now located.
The last time I was in Vienna, the city council had worked up the courage to put a brass plaque on his house in Vienna.
Freud proposed that women, or at least some women, or maybe super-neurotic women, suffer from something he called penis envy. It may sound like a joke to most of us today, but then...then you see the inverted, perverted, and retroverted world of the campus left, and you sort of scratch your head and wonder. Could "The Vagina Monologues" just be a kind of castration mania produced by the ladies of the left?
Since mass delusion, hysteria, and infantile regressions are now a hot theme of the campus left, you just have to wonder.
Vienna around 1900 was a hotbed of interesting sexualities, and Freud found many customers in its cosmopolitan residents. There was Dr. X, the homosexual with paranoia. There was Anna O., who really did have a "museum of symptoms" that changed from day to day, including false pregnancy and every disease imaginable by a whole medical school. We call it "medical student syndrome" today, because when you study one horrible disease after another every week, you're always looking for your own symptoms. Many people are very suggestible anyway, and for poor Anna O., growing up in Victorian Vienna and taking care of her dying father for months on end, coming down with a psychosomatic illnesses was the natural thing to do.
In the end, Bertha Pappenheim (which was her real name) became a famous feminist and the founder of the social work movement in Austria. I feel nothing but compassion for the heroic Ms. Pappenheim.
Freud wrote many case histories of his patients, which often turned out to have a major sexual dimension. But even before Freud, medical doctors in Vienna, Paris, and Berlin talked about multiple sexualities.
There's nothing particularly new about that – the Roman emperor Caligula had his own museum of neurotic symptoms – and when a ruling class has complete control over other human beings, importing their slaves of every color, sex, age, and combat style to fight to the death in front of tens of thousands of cheering Romans, or facing lions like the early Christians had to, all for the sadistic entertainment of the masses...well, every conceivable kind of sexual turn-on and turn-off eventually shows up.
Just like the cultural descent of the left today. Our college campuses are not that different from imperial Rome. Hollywood is an exact copy of the Weimar Republic.
On our free speech-killing campuses, there is a much feared power class that knows how to punish dissidents, just as Stalin did in Moscow.
Today, the fascist lynch mobs are flying the "Antifa" flag, but we can recognize them by their actions, all right. During the Hitler-Stalin time, it was said that you could turn a Hitler kid into a Komsomol kid in about two minutes, about as fast as Anna O. would turn from one hysterical symptom to another one. Freud and other pioneering sexologists were very good at diagnosis, but as far as I know, they never figured out a way to turn conversion hysteria (which is what Anna O. suffered from) into a mass lynch mob.
But we do know that neurotics and hysterics can be very easily hypnotized, which is what Mussolini did through the first mass electronic medium (radio). All of Italy, all of Hungary, and then all of Germany would be glued to their old-fashioned radios, ready to Sieg Heil in unison, by the millions.
The web is an even more powerful medium than radio and TV, because you can tailor the immersion experience to the user. It's your personal medium of indoctrination. In Italy, the first paranoid web cult was created in the 1990s by Giuseppe Grillo and his internet twin, called the Guru. Starting with old-fashioned computer bulletin boards in the '90s, they attracted thousands and thousands of utterly ignorant teenagers, gave them paranoid scare stories about "jet trails" spreading mind chemicals all over the green countryside of Italia, and hooked them with classical paranoid propaganda.
What is now called the Five Star Movement in Italy controls a quarter of the votes in the national parliament, and it's still run by exactly the same two guys. Mussolini controlled a quarter of the parliament before he decided to overthrow the king via coup d'état, which was cleaner and faster.
This is the same formula that's still used by Kim III in North Korea, by the Pals in the Middle East, the Wahhabis in Saudi Arabia, the mullahs of Qom. You take a child of three and subject him to 24/7/365 hate propaganda – it's always the same – and by the time he's eight or nine, he's learned to parrot the Party Line, to the great delight of his parents (if he has any).
The rest of their lives are amazingly predictable, because children are very, very vulnerable. They're not going to be able to judge true from false until age ten or older – very much older, in the case of liberals.
It is interesting, therefore, that Hillary's favorite Muslim Brotherhood representative, Huma Abedin, was raised in Saudi Arabia until the age of sixteen. Saudi Arabia allows only one kind of religious children indoctrination, the kind generously shared by the Wahhabi tribe, which has not changed since the 6th century. Huma had sixteen years of Saudi indoctrination. Then the Abedin family came back to the U.K. and later the U.S., and they still make their money from the family "charity," a well known Muslim Brotherhood front. Mr. Abedin Sr. was an M.B. honcho, and Mrs. Abedin is now in charge. Huma is still employed by the "charity," which spreads MB propaganda because that's the only thing they've ever known.
When that Voice of Absolute Power on the radio, or in college ethnic studies groups, peddles the Party Line over and over again, college students are just as helpless as toddlers. They never built a capacity for independent, critical thought. Certainly not in school.
In the first Obama election I talked to a college-age kid who told me he was voting for the Bamster "because Hillary is too white." What?
I asked him where he got indoctrinated, and he told me about the "Anti-Racist Movement" in Minneapolis. I don't think he's ever grown out of that, and you can see the thrills and chills among the marching yoots as Obama is piping up again, threatening to make President Trump respect his (Obama's) "red lines."
Really. He said that.
And the mind-twisted morons who are fighting the cops in Berkeley today are carbon copies. They even wear the same uniforms, practice the same tactics, and shout the same slogans. No wonder Gyuri Schwartz (that is, Soros) loves this stuff.
There is nothing new under the sun, and, as Einstein said very accurately, "two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity." Freud would agree.
One of these days, American taxpayers will get the joke, too.


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Germans monitoring England star's situation.
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Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich have emerged as surprise contenders for the signature of Arsenal contract-rebel Theo Walcott.
Walcott is stalling on signing a new deal at the Emirates Stadium and, with boss Arsene Wenger growing increasingly frustrated, the 23-year-old has been linked with a move to Liverpool.
Wenger has hinted that Walcott could be left on the bench until his contract situation is resolved one way or the other, with 19-year-old Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain currently keeping him out of the team for both club and country.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers is a big admirer of Walcott and enquired about the availability of the England star this summer.
It is understood that Rodgers is interested in signing the former Southampton man in January or next summer but will face competition from Bayern.
The German outfit are keeping tabs on Walcott's situation and are understood to be ready to bid £14m for the speedster in January.
Bayern want Walcott as competition for wingers Arjen Robben and Franck Ribery and believe his directness could be a major weapon in the Bundesliga.
It is thought that Wenger would be much more comfortable selling Walcott abroad, rather than strengthening a direct competitor, and the player is also thought to be interested in the prospect of playing overseas.
The unlikely deal could be completed in January, as Walcott's contract expires next summer and Arsenal are reluctant to lose him for nothing in the close-season.
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Agfa Announces Enhancements to Entire Newspaper Prepress Line
Monday, June 21, 2004
Press release from the issuing companyWashington, D.C. – NEXPO (Booth #2502) – June 19, 2004 – It's been a busy eight months for Agfa since the conclusion of IFRA 2003. Since that show, Agfa has taken an already impressive product portfolio and made it even stronger, giving newspaper publishers few reasons to look anywhere else for their prepress needs. Advances in Workflow. :Arkitex, launched at IFRA 2003, is clearly the leading choice for prepress digital workflows as more than 150 modules have been sold since its release just eight months ago. :Arkitex uses advanced production planning techniques to simplify and automate the workflow. It is modular and scalable, so it accommodates any size operation and lets the user add functionality as needed. It integrates easily with existing Agfa or non-Agfa systems, so users can make use of current technology, extending the return on assets and lowering the cost of investment. The latest :Arkitex module, :Arkitex Courier, is being shown for the first time in North America at NEXPO. :Arkitex Courier is a complete transmission solution that provides total control and at the same time, gives users full automation. Each operator is provided with a full range of simple-to-use capabilities to make real-time decisions to meet changing production needs. CtP: More, Faster, Better. Since its initial release, Agfa has continued to make enhancements to the :Advantage line. At Drupa, Agfa announced an addition to the :Advantage line of violet systems, the :Advantage CL and :Advantage CLS and they are making their North American debut at NEXPO. These new violet laser-based systems feature a multiple cassette option and automation designed to provide high productivity. The CL does up to 160 plates per hour, while the CLS can reach speeds of up to 220 plates per hour. Agfa launched the :Advantage line with the :Advantage DL at NEXPO last year, specifically to meet the needs of newspapers in North America. To date, 40 systems have been sold. West Penn Printing/CNHI Corp. recently got an :Advantage DL and uses it to produce The New Castle News (New Castle, PA), a daily afternoon paper, and The Sharon Herald (Sharon, PA) a daily morning paper. "We recently went full run with the :Advantage DL on both papers. It was perfect. The papers look awesome, just awesome," said Brad Susen, production director, West Penn Printing/CNHI Corp. "We are now going full production with CtP, and feeling very comfortable doing it. The :Advantage is a great machine. The plates just look great coming out and the register on the press is awesome. Our color on the paper seems more vibrant and colorful, using the same ink densities. This is great for us, as well as our customers," he added. Also at Drupa last month, Agfa launched new violet :Polaris systems. The :Polaris XTV-S and XCV-S are more than 25 percent faster than the XTV and XCV. Each new system is now capable of producing 260 plates per hour, enough to satisfy even the most demanding newspaper environments. "Agfa leadership in the CtP arena cannot be denied," said Agfa's Sheila Nysko, business development manager, newspaper business, North America. "Agfa leads the market, industry sources indicate, with nearly two-thirds of the CtP installations worldwide. Newspapers in North America and around the world know that for leading CtP solutions, Agfa is the place to go. Customers clearly like Agfa's concept of providing a full system."
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A two-post lift uses adjustable swing arms to support and lift a vehicle by the frame. This style of lift is easier to use when working on wheels, tires, axles and differentials. The weight of the vehicle is supported by the frame, not the drive components, making it easier to access and remove tires and wheels. Because tire height is effectively eliminated from the lift height, a two-post lift is also more effective in garages with lower ceiling clearance.
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Where the Taw and Torridge rivers meet, the delightful quayside village of Appledore, next to the River Torridge, boasts a great range of shops, pubs, guesthouses and art galleries. A thriving fishing and trading village since the 14th century, Appledore has been a famous boat-building centre for many years and the shipyard is still active today.
The Quay is very central to life in the village and it is here you will find many activities including fishing trips, crabbing contests on the quay, Morris Dancers, and in summer, a ferry across the river to Instow. This quaint fishing village has a maze of narrow streets leading to the quay. A settlement here can be traced back to Saxon times, and Viking raiders lead by Hubba the Dane, were defeated here in the Battle of Bloody Corner circa 878 AD (a plaque to the battle is visible between Appledore and Northam on the Churchill Way corner near the swimming pool.
In Elizabethan times, Appledore along with Bideford, was the largest importer of tobacco, and tales of smugglers and a nautical air can be found around every corner!
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Music video by The Checks performing What You Heard. (C) 2007 Full Time Hobby Records under exclusive license to Sony BMG Music Entertainment (UK) Limited
The Checks are a New Zealand rock band formed in 2002 that are well known for their brand of blues-driven and high-energy rock, similar to contemporaries such as The Hives and fellow New Zealanders The Datsuns, and are at the forefront of the North Shore/Devonport sound,[citation needed] along with Brain Slaves, The Electric Confectionaires, and White Birds and Lemons. In 2006 they moved to England to begin work on a debut LP, titled Hunting Whales, which was released on October 1st, 2007, and spent four weeks in the New Zealand Top 40 Album Charts, peaking at number 21. The album was produced by Ian Broudie. Their single "What You Heard" debuted at #16 on the UK Indie charts, and peaked at 21 on the New Zealand Top 40 Singles Chart. The band released their second album Alice by the Moon on June 8th 2009 through their own label Pie Club Records. The album peaked at number 13 on the NZ Top 40 Album Charts.
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Why her name is "Bean"
Bean has been confined to the bedroom at night, as I still don't know how she does with the housetraining, and I didn't want to take any chances. She sleeps very soundly sprawled out on the floor, and there have been no problems.
Until 6am rolls around.
At first, she'll just nudge my foot. She's not a large dog, so it's a light nudge. Just once.
Then, if I don't give any response, she'll nudge again and whine. Nudge-nudge, whineeeee.
Nudge-nudge-nudge, whineeeeeee whineeeeeeee.
If I still don't get up, she comes up to my face. She'll try a whine there, too. If I still don't move, she'll go lie down on the floor with a big sigh. That lasts about five minutes, before she decides that it's Time To GET UP. It's something akin to being attacked by a black, furry, chirping cannonball with long, gangly legs and a tongue that seems to have a range of 360 degrees and that is faster than the speed of sound. It's the same treatment I get when I walk through the door, except in the morning, I am usually sound asleep when it happens.
And even if I push her off, she comes back for MORE.
Until, of course, I get up, which is the signal to Run Up And Down The Stairs As Loudly And As Quickly As Possible, until the neighbor bangs on the wall and shouts, at which it is time to Stop In The Middle Of The Stairs And Bark At The Wall, until it becomes Time To Go Outside And Pee On Everything At Least Four Times.
I will say this: after about four mornings of this, you learn to get up and get the dogs outside very, very quickly, very possibly taking all the stairs in a single bound, finishing with a quick roll and simultaneously dislocating your shoulder to open the door, Jason-Bourne-Style.


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Forward Air Corp (FWRD) was one of the Russell 2000's biggest losers for Wednesday February 10 as the stock slid 9.83% to $38.73, a loss of $-4.22 per share. Starting at an opening price of $45.50 a share, the stock traded between $38.17 and $49.01 over the course of the trading day. Volume was 565,636 shares over 3,525 trades, against an average daily volume of 198,834 shares and a total float of 30.83 million.
The losses send Forward Air Corp down to a market cap of $1.19 billion. In the last year, Forward Air Corp has traded between $57.65 and $36.57, and its 50-day SMA is currently $43.49 and 200-day SMA is $46.99.
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Before starting the mast I had laminated the Oregon for the boom and gaff. Below is the gaff being laminated from 60mm x 30mm Oregon with a little shaping, 3300mm long plus jaws. The boom is 4250mm long plus the jaws, two laminations of 90mm x 32mm Oregon cut to shape.
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Round cairn 435m south west of Langlee
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Round cairns are prehistoric funerary monuments dating to the Bronze Age
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compartments called cists. In some cases the cairn was surrounded by a ditch.
Often occupying prominent locations, cairns are a major visual element in the
modern landscape. They are a relatively common feature of the uplands and are
the stone equivalent of the earthen round barrows of the lowlands. Their
considerable variation in form and longevity as a monument type provide
important information on the diversity of beliefs and social organisation
amongst early prehistoric communities. They are particularly representative of
their period and a substantial proportion of surviving examples are considered
worthy of protection.
The round cairn south west of Langlee survives well and lies in a prominent position in the Harthope Valley. It does not appear to have been disturbed and will contain significant archaeological deposits.
Legacy Record - This information may be included in the List Entry Details.
The monument includes the remains of a Bronze Age round cairn situated in a
prominent position on a ridge between the Harthope and Leech Burns. The cairn
is roughly circular in plan with a slight `tail' on the south west which may
represent a later addition by field clearance. It measures 10m by 8m and
stands up to 1.2m high. It has a rounded profile with several kerb stones
visible and does not appear to have been robbed.
MAP EXTRACT The site of the monument is shown on the attached map extract. It includes a 2 metre boundary around the archaeological features, considered to be essential for the monument's support and preservation.
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 29303
Legacy System: RSM
This monument is scheduled under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979 as amended as it appears to the Secretary of State to be of national importance. This entry is a copy, the original is held by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
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DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia -- As ground clashes between allied and Iraqi forces grow in size and number, U.S. commanders face continued frustrations in trying to determine Iraq's battlefield capabilities and strategies.
Their frustration is due in part to Iraq's willingness to portray apparent weakness as strength. Iraq unabashedly claims the propaganda value of a victory even when results in the field add up to a defeat, as appears to be the case with the battle in and around the Saudi border town of Khafji.
Iraq's version of events was simple and dramatic: Iraqi troops invaded a previously inviolate country. They captured a town. In the process, 11 U.S. Marines were killed. It was a potentially powerful story for home consumption and for the propaganda effort aimed at mobilizing Arab and Muslim support for the Iraqi side.


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Postdoctoral position in human population genetics of African populations
Sort on published: 2017-10-16
Uppsala University is a comprehensive research-intensive university with a strong international standing. Our mission is to pursue top-quality research and education and to interact constructively with society. Our most important assets are all the individuals whose curiosity and dedication make Uppsala University one of Sweden's most exciting workplaces. Uppsala University has 42,000 students, 7,000 employees and a turnover of SEK 6.7 billion.
The Department of Organismal Biology teaches and explores the evolution, development and function of whole organisms. For more information see www.iob.uu.se.
The Postdoc position will be financed by an ERC starting grant awarded to Dr. Carina Schlebusch and the research will be conducted within the Human Evolution sub-Program at the Department of Organismal Biology (Evolutionary Biology Center, Uppsala University). The Schlebusch group is specifically interested in studying human history on the African continent and uses genetic data from modern day populations and ancient remains as a tool for the inference of African history. The Human Evolution sub-Program, in which the Schlebusch group is situated, has a broad interest in population genetics and human evolution. There are ample opportunities to work closely with postdocs and PhD students that focus on related projects. The research environment is international with English being the working language. See Dr. Schlebusch web-page for more information on the research and recent publications (http://www.iob.uu.se/research/evolution-and-development/schlebusch/) and Human Evolution Program web-page for more information on the Program (http://www.iob.uu.se/research/evolution-and-development/human-evolution/).
Project description: The spread of farming practices has had a marked influence on how humans are distributed around the globe today. Inferences about the spread of farming in Africa are mostly based on linguistic and archeological studies. Genome-wide studies started to make a contribution to research on the history of African farmers but many populations remain poorly represented, making detailed inferences problematic. The present study proposes to investigate spread of farming in Sub-Saharan Africa. The successful postdoc candidate will help to coordinate various projects in the group (including field work, laboratory work and computational analyses) with the aim to generate and use genomic data from current day African populations and ancient remains to investigate the spread of farming to the various parts of the African continent.
Requirements: Doctoral degree, or an equivalent foreign degree, in a relevant field. To be qualified for an appointment as a postdoctoral fellow you must hold a doctorate or a foreign degree equivalent to a doctorate, and have completed the degree within three years before the application deadline. In special circumstances, the PhD can have been completed earlier, including leave of absence due to sickness, parental leave, etc.
A general eligibility requirement is that the applicant must possess the personal capabilities necessary to carry out fully the duties of the appointment. Greater emphasis will be placed on the quality of individual scientific publications than on the number of publications.
Additional qualifications: The ideal candidate is highly motivated with thorough education and strong interest in evolutionary genetics/genomics, population genetics and human evolution. Previous experience with large-scale genetic data analysis, bioinformatics, and programming is advantageous. Mathematical, computational and statistical training is also advantageous. Field work experience (especially in Africa) and an interest/background in African history is also advantageous.
Uppsala University strives to be an inclusive workplace that promotes equal opportunities and attracts qualified candidates who can contribute to the University's excellence and diversity. We welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people of all backgrounds.
Pay: Individual salary
Starting: 2018-02-01 or as otherwise agreed.
Type of employment: Temporary position ending 2020-01-31
Working hours: 100 %
For further information about the position please contact
Carina Schlebusch, e-mail email@example.com.
You are welcome to submit your application no later than 19 November, UFV-PA 2017/3553.
Are you considering moving to Sweden to work at Uppsala University? If so, you will find much information about working and living in Sweden at www.uu.se/joinus. You are also welcome to contact the International Faculty and Staff Services at firstname.lastname@example.com.
We decline offers of recruitment and advertising help. We only accept the application the way described in the advertisement.
Placement: Department of Organismal Biology
Type of employment: Full time , Temporary position longer than 6 months
Pay: Fixed pay
Number of positions: 1
Working hours: 100%
Town: Uppsala
County: Uppsala län
Country: Sweden
Union representative:
Ellena Papaioannou, Seko
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Number of reference: UFV-PA 2017/3553
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I'm new to this site. In June this summer my mum was diagnosed with stage IIIC ovarian cancer. She's now had lots of chemo and a complete hysterectomy surgery. We've just got her pathology report and discovered she has carcinosarcoma (or ovarian MMT).
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In response to a question, Saddam stood up and began reading aloud from a copy of the Qur'an he carried into court.
Judge: Mr Saddam, we ask you to write down your identity, your name, occupation and address and then we will allow you to talk. Now it is time to write down your identity.
Saddam: I was not about to say much.
Judge: We want your identity, your name, then we will listen to what you have. We are writing down the identities at this time. We will hear you when we need to listen to you.
Saddam: First of all, who are you and what are you?
Judge: The Iraqi criminal court.
Saddam: All of you are judges?
Judge: We don't have time to get into details. You can write down what you like.
Saddam: I have been here in this military building since 2:30, and then from 9 I have been wearing this suit. They have asked me to take it off and then put it on again many times.
Judge: Who are you? What is your identity? Why don't you take a seat and let the others say their names and we will get back to you.
Saddam: You know me. You are an Iraqi and you know who I am. And you know I don't get tired.
Judge: These are formalities and we need to hear it from you.
Saddam: They have prevented me from getting a pen and a paper because paper, it seems, is frightening these days. I don't hold any grudges against any of you. But upholding what is right and respecting the great Iraqi people who chose me I won't answer to this court, with all due respect ... and I reserve my constitutional rights as the president of Iraq. You know me.
Judge: These are the procedures. A judge cannot rely on personal knowledge.
Saddam: I don't recognise the group that gave you the authority and assigned you. Aggression is illegitimate and what is built on illegitimacy is illegitimate.


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Wines along the coast to Fréjus
By Elizabeth Gabay MW
This Guide was last updated on 15 January 2010
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Blended wines are still popular, especially for the main wines of each estate and are on the whole, robust with southern flavours. There also lighter, fresher styles for drinking young, and often labelled as Vin de Pays and made with a greater proportion of Carignan, Cinsault and Grenache the old Provencal stalwarts. But there is an increasing number of good wines with the structure to age for a few years often made with high percentages of a single variety Syrah and Mourvèdre in particular, and often from old vines. Most of the latter will have been oak aged. A growing number of winemakers are also experimenting with fermenting different varieties together (an old tradition and now a new trend) as well as pigeage (punch down) and extended maceration. The fine red wines of Provence are losing out to the increase in rosé wines hopefully their charm will win drinkers back! A small association of six growers (Ch Bas, Coteaux dAix; Ch. Henri Bonnaud, Palette AC; Domaine de Jale Provence AC; Domaine Lafran-Veyrolles, Bandol AC; Ch la Verriere, Luberon AC and Ch Margui, Coteaux Varois AC) is campaigning to show the variety of Provencal reds.
The traditional Provencal white wine is made from a blend – Ugni Blanc for acidity, Clairette for softness and perfume, Grenache Blanc for weight and any other oddments – resulting in dry wines, herby fruit but either a little robust and needing to be drunk very cool, or soft and mellow for early drinking. These wines are still available in quantity. But there is a growing amount of better quality white wine being produced often using Rolle either as a Vin de Pays single varietal wine or with an obligatory 5%-10% Ugni Blanc for acidity. With careful use of barrique ageing - these are showing potential to age well.
Rosé wine is the ambassador of coastal Provence and amounts to around three-quarters of the production. Generally fresh, dry and delicate with a range of colours from pale pink/onion skin hue to almost pale red, they are produced mainly from blends but sometimes sold as an interesting single varietal wine, such as Tibouren. Mostly to be drunk young, they are often sold in the traditional skittle bottle though more serious producers avoid this! Some rosés are being aged in barrique to produce a more serious weighty wine which is disapproved of by the purists but appreciated by many. Since 2003, the hotter vintages have resulted in an increase in alcohol levels, threatening to unbalance the traditional Provencal rosé. Since the vintage of 2008, the rules for Côtes de Provence have been changed to allow for 4g/l residual sugar in the wine the end result is that instead of very dry, high alcohol wines, the alcohol is lower and the wines will be rounder and richer. Bellet rosés, (generally 100% Braquet) have good fresh acidity with ripe raspberry fruit, but with lower permitted sugar levels (3g/l) Bellet rosés will be fractionally drier than the 2008 Côtes de Provence rosés.
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Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who with Zac Efron is filming "Baywatch" on the Georgia coast, took a break to visit young hospital patients in Savannah.
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"I surprised the children at Savannah's Pediatric Specialty Ward aaaaand look at the concentration on lil' Aiden's face!" the actor posted Saturday with the sweet photo above. "We shot #BAYWATCH scenes at Memorial Health Hospital and thought I'd pop up to the ward. Awesome experience and THANK YOU to all the hard working and caring staff who helped make this visit possible. To all the kids I met - you guys keep smiling and staying strong. All the mamas and daddys I met, y'all stay strong too.
"Gotta tell ya little stuff like this will always be the best part of fame.
And good Lord I wish I had Aiden's concentration when I was in my high school math classes. I wouldn't have failed Algebra twice!"


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This article originally appeared in the October 2009 issue of Architectural Digest.
Building a house is rarely, if ever, a painless undertaking, but some residential projects seem to come together with just a little less Sturm und Drang than others. Consider the experience of Dick and Sue Wollack. Dick Wollack develops vineyards in California and the Pacific Northwest, and several years ago the couple decided they wanted to relocate from their San Francisco neighborhood of Presidio Heights to Napa Valley, where they own two wineries. They purchased property outside the picturesque town of St. Helena and began making plans to build a farmhouse on it.
"We were at a wedding in Napa on a Saturday, and I mentioned our ideas to someone who said, 'There's this architect you ought to take a look at, named Howard Backen,' " recounts Dick Wollack. "So then on Sunday morning I'm visiting another friend in Oakville, and driving up, I see next door to his entrance a sign that says Backen. My friend called Howard up, and Howard said, 'How would you like to come over and see my house?' He was just finishing his own house. And guess what? It was a farmhouse [see Architectural Digest, September 2004]. It was just so beautiful and open and so much our aesthetic that I called Sue on the way home and said, 'I found him.' If you want a real story, though, Howard designed a Greek restaurant in San Francisco called Kokkari, and years before, when we first went there, Sue said, 'I want my house to look like this.' "
Given that auspicious beginning, a curveball or two was probably inevitable. Howard J. Backen (of Backen Gillam Architects in St. Helena) spent a year working on the plans for a modest but airy rural-flavored house that could function just as well for the couple alone as for large gatherings of friends and family.
In the meantime, the Wollacks bought another property nearby to live in during construction—a small yellow 1890s farmhouse on a single acre within walking distance of St. Helena's historic Main Street. "Then Howard came and saw the place," reports Sue Wollack. "He said, 'You know, this could really be neat.' "
Out with the new, in with the old.
"The house was very small and not in great shape, but it had a nice feeling and nice proportions," explains Backen. "The Wollacks just wanted a one-bedroom house with a guesthouse, so my idea was to hold the scale of the farmhouse and its front porch—not go up a story or glom on a huge master bedroom—but have a glass connector run to a master suite, so it's sort of like a compound. The third element is the guesthouse, which forms a courtyard around an old oak tree." The majestic 400-year-old oak is now ringed by a brick terrace that defines the central gathering space between the farmhouse and the two added structures. "That big oak is a very important element," says Backen. "We spent a lot of time making sure it was healthy."
And the terrace is only one of a sequence of outdoor spaces—a border garden between the farmhouse and the master suite, a swimming pool patio behind the farmhouse, rose gardens behind the master suite—that Backen, landscape designer Claudia Schmidt and project manager Edmund Juncker created to fashion "a house sitting within the landscape with large-scale openings that pull the landscape into the house and vice versa."
In addition to the new master (which has its own gym and "bath garden") and one-bedroom guesthouse, the Wollacks enjoy the use of a spacious kitchen and dining area at the rear of the rebuilt farmhouse. It has a screen porch that overlooks the pool area and is echoed by a porch off the master suite commanding a view of the surrounding foothills. Wide openings, screen porches and pocket doors are Backen trademarks, and they were critical elements in establishing the sense of space the couple sought within a relatively small building footprint. "The house keeps unfolding and opening up," notes Dick Wollack. "It has—Howard taught us the word—cadence."
The three buildings employ the same classic farmhouse vocabulary—cedar siding, French windows and brick pavers outside; reclaimed-fir floors, white-painted ceiling beams and trusses, and cozy fireplaces inside. Rustic antiques, contemporary paintings and DeSimone pottery—all of which the couple have collected for years—tie together the interiors of this versatile compound.
"The Wollacks had a strong program in the sense of how they wanted to live," explains Backen. "They didn't want it to come out looking big or being big. They wanted to maintain the character of being small."
The couple recently hosted their daughter's wedding at the house. Some 200 guests were invited, and all indications are that the event went off without a hitch. "We had a couple of big parties right when we moved in," Sue Wollack noted shortly before the wedding. "It was summer, it was still warm, and when you opened up the doors on the big porch and on the porch of our bedroom—again this idea of balance and cadence—and you had all the lights on and all these people outdoors, it was magnificent."
And that's the point, says Backen. "A hundred people leave, and it feels like it's built for two."


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Next Meetup
What we're about
Welcome to the Davis Meetup Group "Buddhist Study & Meditation for Cultivating True Happiness". Come meet with other warm-hearted, sincere Buddhist Practitioners and spiritual seekers, as we explore the precious Mahayana & Vajrayana Teachings and learn incredible meditation practices helping us to transform our lives. This group is wonderful for both newcomers to Buddhism and students who have been studying Buddhism for awhile.
Society has trained us to search on the outside for happiness, yet true happiness is an inner journey. We seek to answer the question of how do we create true inner peace, satisfaction and happiness within our life and the lives of others? Buddhism gives us the tools to investigate why and how negative emotions affect our lives and how to overcome them through the develop of inner qualities such as compassion, loving-kindness and wisdom.
Our group is under the guidance of our precious Lama Namnang Mingjo Dorje Rinpoche, a very humble yet immensely accomplished yogi, whose sincerity, dedication & guidance are very inspiring & bring the Buddhist teachings alive in our daily lives.
We aim to provide our members with both an in-person as well as online learning environment to explore the incredible wisdom and application of Buddhism. We have teachings and meditation/study groups that provide practitioners with an opportunity to learn Buddhist philosophy, helping us to better understand the interplay of cause and effect (the law of karma) and contemplate ways to change ourselves. We will also learn Buddhist meditation practices that help us to increase & stabilize key virtues (charity, ethical discipline, patience, diligence, meditative concentration, and wisdom) within us, and give us a first-hand experience of what it is like to experience a mind that is stable, quiet, joyful and light. In addition, we will be posting insightful & inspiring quotes from teachings by our Lama Mingjo Rinpoche, as well as other great masters on our message board. We encourage everyone to ask questions, discussion, & post on these precious gems of insight.