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Charity: Not in the Constitution
Larry Elder sees people-to-people assistance as most efficient health-care 'reform'
Assisting the needy in health care is a "moral imperative" – not a constitutional right. The two are as different as a squirt gun and an Uzi.
If something is not permitted under our Constitution, the federal government simply cannot do it. Period. The Founding Fathers vigorously debated the role of the federal government and defined it in Article I, Section 8 – spelling out the specific duties and obligations of the federal government. Most notably, this included providing a military for national security, coining money, establishing rules for immigration and citizenship, establishing rules for bankruptcy, setting up a postal system, establishing trademark and copyright rules, and setting up a legal system to resolves disputes, in addition to a handful of other matters.
Charity is not there.
Congress began ignoring its lack of authority for charity before the ink dried on the Constitution. When Congress appropriated $15,000 to assist French refugees in 1792, James Madison – a Founding Father and principal author of the Constitution – wrote, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution, which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents."
But what about the Constitution's general welfare clause?
Madison said: "With respect to the words general welfare, I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers (enumerated in the Constitution) connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."
Tired of keeping quiet about increasing government control? Express yourself with the magnetic message: "No Hope in Socialism"
And consider government welfare's effect on people's willingness to give. During the Great Depression – before the social programs that today we accept as givens (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid) – charitable giving increased dramatically. After FDR began signing social programs into law, charitable giving continued, but not at the same rate. People felt that they had given at the office and/or that government was "handling it."
Government "charity" is simply less efficient than private charity. Every dollar extracted from taxpayers, sent to Washington, and then routed to the beneficiary "loses" about 70 cents in transfer costs – salaries, rent and other expenses. The Salvation Army, by contrast, spends 2 cents in operating costs, with the remainder going to fundraising and the beneficiary. They achieve this, among other ways, by relying on volunteers to do much of the work.
Following Hurricane Katrina, private companies, including The Home Depot and Wal-Mart, provided basic needs, such as water and shelter, faster than did government. What were their motives? Generosity? Positive public relations – a form of "selfishness"? Does it matter?
What about the issue of "moral hazard"? Does government welfare distort behavior and cause people to act irresponsibly? In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson launched a "War on Poverty." "Anti-poverty" workers literally went door to door to inform women of their "right" to money and services – provided the recipients were unmarried and had no men living in their houses. Out-of-wedlock births skyrocketed. In 1960, before the "War on Poverty," out-of-wedlock births accounted for 2 percent of white births and 22 percent of black births. By 1994 – just three decades after Johnson began his "War" – the rates had soared to 25 and 70 percent, respectively.
Numerous studies conclude that children of "broken homes" with absentee or nonexistent fathers are more likely to commit crimes, drop out of school, do drugs and produce out-of-wedlock children. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times asked both the poor and non-poor the following question: Do you think those on welfare have children to get on welfare? More poor people (64 percent) said "yes" to that proposition than did non-poor (44 percent).
If not taxation, how then?
In 1871, the city of Chicago burned to the ground. Contributions, with virtually no money from government, rebuilt the city. After 9/11, so many Americans gave money that the Red Cross used some contributions for non-9/11 purposes. Christianity Today wrote in January 2002: "Suddenly awash in a sea of money, relief agencies such as the Salvation Army need help. So much money – $1.5 billion so far – has come in that charities are having a hard time spending it." And Americans donated an even greater sum to those affected by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Three in four families donate to charity, averaging more than 3 percent of their income, with two-thirds going to secular charities. In total, Americans give more than $300 billion a year – more than the gross domestic product of Finland or Ireland. More than half of families also donate their time.
Absent (unconstitutional) government programs, individuals and charitable organizations can, will and – in many cases – already do provide services to the needy. A limited government – one that taxes only to fulfill its permissible duties – would allow even more disposable time and money.
People-to-people charity is more efficient, less costly, more humane and compassionate, and more likely to inspire change and self-sufficiency in the beneficiary. People can and would readily satisfy society's "moral imperative."


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Justinian Lane
If arbitration is so wonderful….
Why don't corporations use it themselves?
Corporate executives routinely sing the praises of arbitration clauses, the language buried in the fine print of contracts for mobile phones or credit cards, for example, that typically bars a consumer from going to court in the event of a dispute.
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Now three law professors suggest that companies are far less likely to use arbitration clauses in contracts with each other than they are in contracts with consumers.
"I believe they're really using arbitration as a way of avoiding class action litigation," said Theodore Eisenberg, a law professor at Cornell. Because it is not worth it to a single upset consumer to sue a big company, he said, "the only thing those companies fear is your having a plaintiffs' lawyer aggregate you and people like you into a class action."
Source: Companies Unlikely to Use Arbitration With Each Other - NYTimes.com
The law professors in the article suggest that corporations use arbitration clauses to avoid lawsuits, and particularly class action lawsuits. I made the same argument in January of this year:
So why do creditors put in mandatory arbitration clauses that prevent them from taking debtors to court?
Because mandatory arbitration clauses prevent debtors from taking creditors to court. Credit card companies get sued routinely for violations of such acronyms as the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA), and a variety of other state and federal laws. In addition, many of these lawsuits turn into class action lawsuits, which the "reformers" constantly argue are an affront to God. By placing mandatory arbitration clauses in their contracts, credit card companies get to eliminate those evil class action lawsuits before they're even filed. (Emphasis added.)
Source: Why are mandatory arbitration clauses so prevalent in consumer credit card agreements? | Tortdeform
This quote from the NYTimes article explains how corporations really feel about arbitration in general:
"If it's a big, important contract, then you don't put in an arbitration clause," said Stephen J. Ware, a law professor at the University of Kansas.
The reason why corporations don't want to be forced to go to arbitration in "big, important" contracts is primarily because of discovery. Discovery is the process litigants use to build their cases. During discovery, a plaintiff can force a defendant to produce documents and electronic records, produce witnesses for depositions, and answer a series of questions called interrogatories. No one on either side of the tort "reform" movement will argue with me when I say that discovery can be extraordinarily expensive, and extraordinarily effective. You therefore may not be surprised to learn that arbitration severely restricts the discovery process.
I don't believe that the discovery process should only be available to wealthy litigants. I don't believe that consumers should have fewer rights than corporations. I believe that we should all be equal in the eyes of the law. And that's the primary reason I oppose mandatory arbitration clauses in consumer contracts.
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May 29th, 2011
By Jennifer Olin, BSN, RN
Nursing degrees are leading the pack in the ever enlarging world of online education. Nursing schools at every level are competing to admit students. While the curricula for these nursing programs may be very similar, what may make one stand out over another is how they embrace the technology available to round out the educational experience.
To allow students to keep track of their coursework, most universities today have some kind of Blackboard offering. It is usually an intranet option of the school that allows students to track their classes, syllabi, assignments and tests. There are often chat rooms for group work and for meetings online with teachers. Now, student on the go can access all that information too. The makers of Blackboard are offering a mobile application. Students can access all that same info on their smart phones and never need to be out of touch with their studies, teachers or classmates.
We've all heard the phrase, "no more teachers, no more books" and certainly in the online classroom the instructor is not a physical preference so why lug around real books? E-book readers are taking the world by storm and English majors aren't the only ones benefitting. Owners of both Amazon's Kindle and Barnes and Noble's Nook have access to hundreds of nursing textbooks and resource books. And, since the programs for the Kindle and the Nook can be downloaded on just about any kind of computer, including a smart phone, nursing students can have their complete textbook collection at hand just about anywhere to use as reference.
Anatomy and physiology is an absolute pre-requisite for entrance to any nursing program and one of the first nursing courses students take is pathophysiology or the changes associated with disease or injury. Besides one dimensional pictures in books and actual dissections in the anatomy lab teachers now have amazing online tools to add to the mix. Innerbody.com has anatomical maps, back and front, of all nine major organ systems and it is free to any user and at visiblebody.com, for a fee, three dimensional models of the human body, from top-to-bottom, inside-to-out are available as teaching and study aids.
Due to the clinical aspect of nursing as a career, not every class can be strictly computer based, students must get out and meet other nurses and learn to work with real patients. However, what is amazing is with the continuing advances in technology and cyber tools introductory clinical work can now be addressed in the online classroom before nursing students hit the hospital halls.
At the University of Kansas, a state-of-the-art simulation lab has student nurses checking vital signs, monitoring blood glucose and treating hypoglycemia in a child. Any disease process, any injury the instructors are willing to write and make happen can be used to train future nurses without risking any real patients.
Instructors can use simulations, whether developed in the school or purchased from education corporations, which allow nursing students to practice placing a catheter or inserting an IV. There are three dimensional modeling systems that let students conduct ulcer assessments on a desk top using virtual anatomical models and many other multi-media training systems.
Community nursing is a very different aspect of most nursing education. Nursing students can find themselves working in a community health center, at a Veteran's Administration service center, an elementary school or even an inner city crisis center. The point is to learn a community, however that is defined, its problems, its resources, and its people. Now, there is even a simulation program which can help teachers introduce their students to a community and its needs.
The Neighborhood is a program which presents unfolding stories in a serial format about a virtual community. The program includes videos, photos, medical records and text to highlight the circumstances surrounding and affecting the health of the people in the community. Students hear from both the patients and the nurses. The program is designed to be used over several semesters and students can immerse themselves in the case studies. The Neighborhood is meant to lessen the gap between theoretical learning and clinical application.
Simulation is also being used to train students in nursing informatics. The University of Kansas lab allows for charting work done after students finish treating their sim patients. Elsevier, a publisher of global programs in every area of science and health information, offers a program that completely presents electronic medical records (EMRs) which students can use for tracking and studying trends in a specific patient's healthcare including electronic ordering, documentation, clinical pathways and medication administration records (MARs).
Coursework that embraces these advances in education technology are not only appropriate but necessary in today's steadily changing, technology driven healthcare environment. Students and teachers participating in distance learning are much more prepared for the automated world hospitals and clinics have become. Students who navigate health care with laptops and smart phones are better prepared for a world of telesurgery, artificial intelligence based diagnostic systems and voice activated documentation.
Online education is seen as a remedy to the nursing shortage, an asset in the battle against shrinking nursing faculty numbers, a way to keep nurses working while pursuing advanced education and a way of plugging the brain drain in many communities as their skilled workers and students leave for education and never return. Support for distance education by nursing educators, health care institutions, and nursing professionals enhanced by advances in technology are key to keeping the remedy fresh.


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Commercial Director Bellway p.l.c.
Dear Steve
I should like to put on record my sincere thanks to BodyGuards and in particular to Wayne for your commitment to improving my general health and fitness over the last twelve months. In attending my weekly sessions, sometimes with a degree of trepidation, I actually emerged an hour later feeling revitalised and extremely glad that I decided 'to take the plunge'.
Anybody reading this letter should do likewise!
Yours Sincerely
Peter J Stoker Commercial Director
Peter J Stoker, November 2003


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Idaho's agricultural exports have more than doubled in the last seven years, according to data released by the Idaho Department of Agriculture in late January. Clearly, at least in the agricultural sector, we are emerging from the Great Recession.
This is great news, but not news that can simply be acknowledged and forgotten. Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. It must be nurtured. COMPASS is committed to doing its part to support our agricultural economy so that it can continue to grow and thrive.
In fact, support of agriculture – specifically goals to preserve agricultural land and protect and enhance transportation routes for agriculture -- is explicitly addressed in Communities in Motion 2040, the regional long-range transportation plan for Ada and Canyon Counties.
To that end, COMPASS has begun work on a farm freight study to ensure the transportation routes and needs of farm freight in Ada and Canyon Counties are being addressed in transportation planning. We are seeking to gain a more complete understanding of the routes used to move agricultural freight, the volume being moved, and the equipment used to move it. This information will then feed into Communities in Motion 2040 2.0 for documenting maintenance needs, choke points, and other issues along those routes.
Identifying key routes is a first step in ensuring they are maintained and improved so they can continue to serve the agricultural community. COMPASS will also use the study results to be proactive in developing projects that help make freight movement safer, faster, easier, and more efficient for all roadway users.
COMPASS began the study last summer by working with major regional processors to map their freight routes and volumes, and has now expanded its efforts to reach out to all local growers, producers, processors, and drivers to help gather more complete information on farm freight routes. Anyone involved in transporting agricultural freight in Ada or Canyon Counties is encouraged to take an online survey before March 10, 2015, to help COMPASS ensure your routes are included when we consider road maintenance and improvement projects.
If you have questions on the study, or would like to participate in the survey, but missed the survey window, contact COMPASS at firstname.lastname@example.com or 208/475-2231 for assistance. Study results and report will be available this fall on the COMPASS web site.
Let's keep our agricultural economy moving.


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red flags? red flag's
mr. sowdsky. i would like to take a moment and wish you and your's a healthy and happy thanksgiving and holiday season,and as always kudos on the excellent work. i have a two part question,first,it appears that you are getting many questions on lymphnodes and their relationship with hiv. you stated that a swollen lymphnode for a few days as a result of infection is normal and is no big deal,what if it lasted for a week or two?,could an adverse re-action to a medication be to blame. secondly,as a society,we all know that getting tested is the ONLY WAY to know for sure if someone has contracted the virus, but,is there a "red flag" that you could say would be a reason for concern mr. sowadsky.
Hi. Thank you for your question and I too, wish everyone in cyberspace, a happy holiday season.
As to lymph nodes being swollen for a week or two, this too, can be due to multiple causes. Medications usually would not cause this, but infectious agents that medications may be trying to fight off, could be the cause. The general rule to remember is that if ANY symptoms last for more than a week or two, or are becoming more severe, always seek medical attention to find out the cause, regardless of what you think the cause may be.
The "Red Flags" as to why a person should consider getting tested are:
High risk activities in one's past. Ongoing or severe symptoms that a physician cannot determine the cause. 3) Your sex partner having a "high risk" past.
Other than these, there are no Red Flags to watch out for. And as you said yourself, testing is the only way to determine if someone has HIV or not. Because every symptom of HIV/AIDS looks like the symptoms of other illnesses, and because a person can have HIV/AIDS and have no symptoms at all, testing is the only way to know if a person is infected or not. If you have any further questions, please feel free to call the Centers for Disease Control at 1.800.232.4636 (Nationwide). Rick Sowadsky MSPH CDS


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Publishing a photography book, magazine or article?
Use Rich Cutler's expertise – gained from three decades in the publishing industry – to make your publication perfect!
Rich provides a complete range of editorial services for artists, authors and publishers – including copy-editing, proofreading, typesetting and project management. His company Helius has been supporting writers and publishers for over two decades.
Photobooks are becoming an important part of many artists' practice, and publications on photography in art theory and criticism have never been more numerous. Rich is uniquely qualified – not only is he a practising art photographer with deep knowledge of photographic theory but he is also a qualified editor with extensive experience of publishing: he has an MA degree (distinction) in photography, and is an Advanced Member of the UK publishing industry's foremost professional body – the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP) – which has awarded him its highest qualification of SfEP Registered Copy-editor.


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Just A Rumour
-George, is it true that you're a consort of the classics?
-No, it's just a rumour, a rumour.
-It's just a romour?
-Do you enjoy singing Beethoven?
-No, been singing it for 28 years no, you know?
-For how Long?
-For 28 years.
-That's incredible. Could you manage one more performance?
-Um, possibly.
-Oh, go on say yes.
-Yes. Thank you.


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Kellogg's Apple Jacks Coupons
Cut the Cost of Your Grocery Bill by Using Apple Jacks Cereal Coupons
Looking for Apple Jacks coupons? Apple Jacks is a popular cereal made by the Kellogg's company. Apple Jacks printable coupons can often be found on the Kellogg's website coupon page. It is a quick and easy source for coupons. Registration is a simple process which is required if you want to browse and print the coupons.
Many times Kellogg's cereal coupons, including Apple Jacks, are for $1 off when you buy multiple products such as two, three or sometimes four boxes of cereal. But grocery stores often run their own promotions or coupons for Kellogg's cereals. Depending on the coupon acceptance policy of the grocery store, you may be able to increase your savings by using an internet printable coupon on the grocery store promoted Kellogg's cereals or with a grocery store coupon. Check with your favorite grocery stores to find out about their coupon policies.
The more lenient the policies, the more you will save.
Other Sources for Apple Jacks Coupons
- Check the Printable Cereal Coupons List and the Newest Grocery Coupons List for Apple Jacks or Kellogg's coupons.
- Smartsource - This is a coupon source where you can sometimes find Apple Jacks coupons. You can find them by browsing the Smartsource website and by clipping them from the Smartsource inserts in your local paper.
- RedPlum - RedPlum works the same as Smartsource, offering coupons both online and paper coupons from RedPlum inserts in your local paper.
- Check your grocery stores' websites for Apple Jack coupons. Many stores, for example Target, allow shoppers to use a manufacturer's coupon and the store's coupon on a single product. See also: Target's Coupon Policy
- You might also find Apple Jacks coupons in grocery stores in coupon dispenser machines, or on tear pads.
- Kellogg's sometimes puts Apple Jacks coupons inside of its cereal packaging, so always check for a coupon before tossing out a Kellogg's cereal box.
Kellogg's Promotions E-News
By subscribing to the Kellogg's newsletter (E-News) you can increase your chances of getting Apple Jacks cereal coupons. The newsletter will be sent to the email address that you used when registering and it contains the latest money-saving offers and new promotions from Kellogg.
Find Apple Jacks On Sale Online
If you are looking for Apple Jacks cereal on sale online, check out the grocery section of Amazon.com. You can also search CVS for Apple Jacks and other Kellogg's products. If you are a CVS "extra care" cardholder you could save even more. However, before making a purchase online, consider the cost of shipping. If you cannot get the item with free shipping you will generally lose the savings of finding it on sale.
More About Apple Jacks Cereal
For questions about Apple Jacks coupons or other Kellogg's products, contact the Consumer Affairs Department at 1-800-962-1413.
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Need a bit of help
Moving some set pieces on Wednesday May 4
A bit of help needed ...
For Little Shop of Horrors, we are going to be moving some set pieces from Colonel Gray to the Beach House. It's perhaps an hour or so of work—loading & unloading.
It's this Wednesday morning, May 4th, from 10:30 am.
Give me a shout if you can pitch in, OK?
robthomson @ pei.sympatico.ca 902-628-6778
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The Bellaluz community at La Manga Club is well established and has become an imperative part of the resort. The most of social activity takes place around the square where you can find some of the best restaurants on the Club and all the amenities you may need during your holiday, including a supermarket, chemist and a bank.
The various areas of the village are connected by flowering walk ways and quaint garden. The Bellaluz village is considered the most child friendly community at La Manga Club so we would recommend Bellaluz to families and groups with young children. The best feature of Bellaluz is the enormous shared swimming pool which is actually one of the largest on the whole resort. The pool is perfect for enjoying the Spanish sunshine and staying cool in the water during the summer whilst enjoying the pool side bar. It also has a safe shallow section for the children so everybody can enjoy the pool fully.
All reservations include Discounted Sports fees at La Manga Club and a Welcome Grocery Pack which will be in your Bellaluz apartment for your arrival.
To check availability and prices of our Bellaluz apartments, please use the search engine at the top left of this page. This will include all special offers and late availability pricing.
La Manga Club offers guests the following facilities:
3 championship golf courses
State of the art tennis centre with weekly and weekend courses for all ages
Football Academy courses
Golf tuition courses
Childrens Club open all year round
Crazy golf and pitch and putt
Dance Academy
Private Beach
Scuba diving courses
Wide range of water sports available nearby Choice of over 20 restaurants
2 supermarkets and selection of shops
Squash Courts
Bowls Green
Bike Hire
Walking and jogging routes
Spa, gym and indoor pool
Additional large communal pool for all residents at the tennis centre
Bank and ATM
Medical centre and dentist
Laundry services
Satellite TV in all accommodation
Welcome Grocery Pack - complimentary
WiFi available
Discounted Sports Fees
Sun Loungers
24/7 on site security
Car Hire and Taxi services on site
Petrol station
Beauty Salon and hairdressers
Go Karting nearby
Horse riding nearby for all levels hacking and lessons
Wide range of accommodation options
The Club is situated on 1500 acres of beautiful countryside in the Murcian hills. 20 minutes from Murcia Airport and 60 minutes from Alicante Airport.
See our La Manga Club Special Offers.
Villa or apartment rental at La Manga Club
With so much choice of accommodation available at La Manga Club the process of choosing can be a little daunting and you will want to ensure that you make the right choice whether it be for a golf or tennis break or a family holiday.
With several thousand properties available for rent the decision between villa or apartment rental at La Manga Club maybe decided by either location, budget or preferred choice of style of property..
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The best apartment at La Manga Club
La Manga Club, one of Europe's best known and prestigious resorts, is set in the Murcia hills of the Costa Calida
Having just celebrated forty years since it was established, La Manga Club remains as popular today with visitors due its 5 star facilities.
Accommodation varies tremendously in style, type and budget but there is undoubtedly something suitable for everyone..
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Monte Verde Apartment and Villa Rentals at La Manga Club
Apartments and Villas at Monte Verde offer a spectacular hillside setting with beautiful views over La Manga out towards the La Manga del Mar Menor. Monte Verde offers a wide variety of modern high specification apartments and villas..
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Bellaluz Apartment Rentals at La Manga Club
The Bellaluz community at La Manga Club is well established and has become an imperative part of the resort. The most of social activity takes place around the square where you can find some of the best restaurants on the Club and all the amenities you may need during your holiday, including a supermarket, chemist and a bank..
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Las Palmeras Apartment Rentals at La Manga Club
The apartments at Las Palmeras are situated at the heart of La Manga Club, so if you want to be right in and amongst the activity and amenities of La Manga Club, you must consider properties at Las Palmeras. You will find a lovely range of 2 and 3 bedroom apartments at Las Palmeras, perfect for couples or families who are looking for a luxury holiday apartment..
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La Colina Apartment Rentals at La Manga Club
The apartments and duplexes at the La Colina community have well equipped kitchens complete with fridge, freezer, oven, hob, dishwasher and washing machine. All properties have spacious open plan living rooms, as well as separate utility rooms..
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Golf Bungalow Rentals at La Manga Club
The Golf Bungalows at La Manga Club are in a great location,situated alongside the hotel on the South golf course. The Golf Bungalows are primarily 2 bedroom 2 bathroom properties which will sleep up to 4 people..
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Terrazas De Montemares Apartment Rentals at La Manga Club
The community of Terrazas De Montemares at La Manga Club offers a wide choice of luxury villas and apartments. Terrazas de Montemares holiday homes come in 2, 3 and 4 bedroom properties, all having much to offer..
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Mirador Apartment Rentals at La Manga Club
The community of Mirador del Mar is in an elevated position high above the North golf course. You can relax in your own Jacuzzi on your terrace whilst taking in the stunning views across the countryside all the way to the Mar Menor..
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Miradores Apartment Rentals at La Manga Club
The community of Miradores apartments were some of the very first properties in La Manga Club and ranging from 1 bedroom studios to three bedroom apartments, you have a good variety of homes suitable for couples, families or groups of friends.
The Apartments and studios have some fantastic views due to where the community is situated, you can see right out over the oasis tranquil golf courses and right out to the Mar Menor Lagoon..
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At the moment, camps in Bulgaria are overcrowded, people are sleeping in corridors or even in the streets, because there is no place for them. According to the Bulgarian Red Cross, 1500 refugees are in urgent need of humanitarian aid, and a further 500 are in vulnerable condition. More than 2000 refugees were detained, only in the month of September 2013.
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Breaking News: Tension after the death of a refugee in Ovcha Kupel
A 58-year-old Syrian woman who had become ill in the "Reception Center" in Sofia/Ovcha Kupel had to wait more than 30 minutes for the ambulance. Her son managed it to got to hospital with her by a private car. The woman died in Sofia's Pirogov emergency hospital. The incident triggered tension, refugees called on the police by themselves to investigate the case. Few times later, Police teams arrived at the "Reception Center". A spokesperson from the UNCHR said, that the centers, operated by the government, are "overcrowded and the conditions are unsafe and dire". The State Agency for Refugees (SAR) made a press release about the incident.
Hunger Strikes in Bulgaria's Detention Centers
Refugees, who stayed this year in the 'closed camp' Lyubimetz said, that they have been beaten by camp officials. The situation in the camp is like a prison, stated a member of the UNHCR – the same goes for the Detention Center in Busmantsi. 2013 several hunger strikes were declared in these centers in June, August and September.


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It has been a tough week. But the chemo is not responsible for it being a tougher week than usual. Sure I have little energy on Mondays and Tuesdays, but that's not difficult to cope with. It's a walk in the park compared to PEXG.
Session three went without incident, apart from a mix-up in appointment times. As I headed in to the day stay unit for my 2pm treatment I received a phone call asking me if I was coming in. I was told I had been due in at 11.30am. I got out the letter and assured the caller that the letter I had been sent said 2pm. So my friend and I got a bit flustered at that point. However, once I was in there and all hooked up everything went well. I discovered that I was not the only one who had been sent letters with incorrect treatment appointment times. So I got my next three appointment times checked to make sure we were all in agreement with what the times were on their data base.
My difficulties coping with my week was caused by people. I really thought I had got passed the stage of people I know reasonably well trying to challenge or undermine the way I have dealt with my diagnosis and disease, and with the choices I have made about how I want to live the rest of my life. But I was mistaken.
It never fails to amaze me the boundaries people are prepared to cross when dealing with people like me who have chosen to accept their terminal cancer diagnosis and get on with living the rest of their life the way they want to. Making the most of each day, each week and whatever time I have left is not good enough for them. I should be chasing miracles, constantly repeating positive affirmations, living in hope, and adopting their philosophy of life. My choices obviously make some people very uncomfortable as was made very clear by the call I got on Monday. It took all my energy to deal positively with the woman on the other end of the phone who seemed totally incapable of listening to anything I had to say.
I was confronted with another person two days later when I turned up to a meeting I usually turn up to. "Lynda, what are you doing here?" she wanted to know. Now this is not the first time she has asked me this. I replied that I intended to continue with the life I had been living prior to being diagnosed with cancer.
I cannot understand why this is so difficult for some people to comprehend or accept. I have few regrets, and I feel so privileged to have been able to have the kind of life and work I have had. Why would I want to give it up and charge off chasing miracle cures or sit around waiting to die?
She then grasped my shoulder in what may have been intended as a friendly gesture which was unfortunately followed by a comment said far too loudly (I was sitting with a bunch of 10 – 12 other people) "oh, you are all skin and bone!" I heard myself responding very defensively "Yes, well, I have lost a bit of weight since my diagnosis and treatment."
It isn't enough that these people may mean well. Their thoughtless behaviour can cause considerable distress. Fortunately, I am now linked up with some invaluable hospice services. My fortnightly art therapy sessions (no, I can't draw – these are one to one art therapy sessions, not art classes), and more recently my fortnightly upper body massage have helped me overcome most of the issues to do with my feeling alienated from my body that I have plainly laid bare in previous postings.
And my diagnosis has revealed that I actually have a great many friends who have rallied round me in so many ways and comforted and supported me. I don't have the words to adequately describe how thankful I am and how loved and treasured I feel.
Then there is my wonderful family who have also been there for me, each in their own way, all the while dealing with their own grief and distress at the prospect of losing their mother.
So as we prepare to celebrate the 5th birthday of my youngest grandchild tomorrow, I count myself as one very lucky woman. I am content – and happy most of the time – and I am looking forward to really enjoying the coming summer with family and friends.


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|Method and apparatus for operating a multiple hearth furnace
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|Apparatus for waste incineration
|Okuno et al.
|Method and apparatus for treating waste material in a counter-current incinerator
|Barry et al.
|System for controlling the operation of a multiple hearth furnace
The present invention relates to incineration, and more particularly, to a method and system for controlling the combustion in a furnace, such as in a multiple hearth furnace used in waste treatment industry.
The safe disposal of certain toxic waste is difficult to achieve since removal of the toxins from the waste usually involves complex systems. For example, the fly ash from a coal burning furnace includes toxic levels of mercury, which render the ash unsuitable for subsequent use or easy disposal, such as in a land fill. With land fills becoming over filled, pressure from environmental groups mounting, and legislation directed at stopping many kinds of dumping (such as ocean dumping), incineration of the waste is becoming more popular.
A multiple hearth furnace is conventionally used for treating sludge, garbage, etc., such as from a waste water treatment plant. FIG. 1 shows a counter-flow multiple hearth furnace 100 which usually comprises a feed zone 110 (also serving as a drying zone if the waste to be burned is wet), a combustion zone 120 and a cooling zone 130. Each zone may include a plurality of hearths. The waste, which may be wet, is fed from above through the drying or feed zone 110 so as to be dried by the flue gas, and becomes solidified. The solidified material enters the combustion zone 120 to be burned.
A fan 140 is operable to introduce air through the cooling zone 130 and into the combustion zone 120 from below. In this way the incinerated material from the combustion zone 120 is cooled by the air before exiting the furnace through the output port 131. Exhaust gas exits the drying or feed zone 110 through an exhaust gas port 111.
Almost all materials that are incinerated produce a residual ash. The softening and melting points of the residual ash are important parameters to the combustion operation. In particular, if the temperature of the bed of burning solid material reaches the softening point, of the residual ash, the solid material will become sticky, clog the system, and interfere with rapid incineration of the waste. Therefore, the temperature in the combustion zone 120, especially in the bed of solid material, must be controlled such that it is lower than the melting point, and preferably lower than the softening point, of the residual ash.
A solution to the clogging problem is to cool the combustion zone 120 using large volumes of excess air. However, excess air tends to increase the gas phase oxygen concentration, which increases the burning rate of the solid material, and, thereby the temperature of the bed of the burning solid material. The increased air in the system may also result in other problems, such as extinguished combustion and quenching effect. Another problem occurs in some multiple hearth furnaces when more air is introduced into the system, particularly in furnaces that heat the exhaust gas at the top of the furnaces or are forced to afterburn the entire furnace exhaust gas for pollution control. Indeed, some states require that the exhaust gas exit at a specified temperature, such as 1500 degrees Fahrenheit, which usually means that fuel is added to the gas and ignited just prior to exiting the furnace, or in a subsequent external combustion chamber. Thus, with increased air in the system, more fuel is required to heat or burn the exhaust gas so as to raise the exhaust gas temperature, thereby increasing processing costs.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,957,064 discloses a flue gas recirculation (FGR) system to cool the temperature of the combustion zone. In particular, the flue gas from the drying or feed zone is fed back into the combustion zone through the cooling zone. Typically the bed temperature of an FGR system like this is about 300–500 degrees Fahrenheit lower than that of other furnaces because the recirculating flue gas in the combustion zone helps to limit the peak temperature of both the gas and the solid material. Moreover, introducing flue gas into the combustion zone may decrease the oxygen concentration, thereby decreasing the combustion rate and lowering the solids burning temperature. However, this approach lowers the burning rate, as measured by mass burned per hour per square foot of furnace hearth area, thereby increasing the size of the furnace and cost for a given combustion mass rate.
Therefore, there is a need in the art for an improved method of incinerating waste, which limits the temperature of the combustion zone without sacrificing the solid material burning rate of the furnace.
To realize the above object, the present invention provides a method and system for controlling the combustion within the furnace, in which the flue gas is fed back to the combustion zone via a recirculation path to limit both the gas and solid material temperatures in the combustion zone. In particular, as taught by the present invention, the flue gas is used to heat water so as to generate water vapor which is also introduced into the combustion zone, and at the same time, the flue gas is cooled by losing heat to the water before it enters the combustion zone, which helps to lower the temperature of the combustion zone. Further, the water vapor introduced into the combustion zone increases the burning rate of the solid material. Preferably, the water is introduced into the flue gas in the recirculation path, and the generated water vapor is introduced to the combustion zone together with the flue gas.
The above and further features and advantages of the present invention will be clearer from reading the detailed description of the preferred embodiments of the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 illustrates a conventional multiple hearth furnace of the prior art;
FIG. 2 is an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprising a recirculation path of the flue gas; and
FIG. 3 is another exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprising a recirculation path of the flue gas.
Reference is made to FIG. 2, in which an exemplary embodiment of a multiple hearth furnace 100A in accordance with the present invention is illustrated. As shown in FIG. 2, a recirculation pipe or path 422 is provided for the flue gas to be fed back from the drying or feed zone 110 to the combustion zone 120 from below through the cooling zone 130. Alternatively, the recirculation pipe 422 can be arranged to feed the flue gas directly into the combustion zone 120. A fan 421 is provided in the path 422 to extract the flue gas from the drying or feed zone 110. The amount of flue gas to be fed back to the combustion zone 120 can be controlled by adjusting the cubic feet per minute (CFM) of the fan 421. Remaining flue gas may exit the drying or feed zone from the exhaust gas port 111. The flue gas increases the efficiency of the system for burning solid material by limiting the temperature of the combustion zone 120.
According to the present invention, the flue gas is used to generate water vapor by heating the water that is introduced into the path 422 to mix with the flue gas. The water is vaporized by the heat of the flue gas. The generated water vapor is fed into the furnace at or below the combustion zone 120 together with the flue gas along the recirculation path 422. Because the water is heated and vaporized by the heat of the flue gas, the flue gas is considerably cooled, e.g., from about 1400 degrees Fahrenheit in the drying or feed zone 110 to about 600 degrees Fahrenheit after evaporation of the water. Compared to the flue gas recirculation system disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,957,064, such cooled flue gas (of much lower temperature) significantly improves in cooling the combustion zone 120. At the same time, the burning rate is less sacrificed because less flue gas is required to limit the temperature of the combustion zone 120, therefore the oxygen concentration in the combustion zone 120 is less decreased.
Moreover, introducing the water vapor into the combustion zone 120 increases the burning rate without increasing the temperature of the burning solid material in the combustion zone 120. For example, when the furnace is used to incinerate fly ash from a coal burning furnace, the exothermic reaction between oxygen and residual carbon contained in the fly ash is balanced in part by the endothermic reaction between the steam and carbon. More specifically, if the bed of solid material (including carbon) is hot enough, the carbon will react with the water vapor according to the reaction C+H2O H2+CO, which is an endothermic reaction that cools the bed. The CO and H2 thus formed are burned when they diffuse into the gas phase in the presence of free oxygen. This regenerates the water vapor according to the reaction CO+H2+O2 CO2+H2O. It is noted that this is an exothermic reaction that heats the gas phase without overheating the solid material in the bed.
Therefore, in accordance with one or more aspects of the present invention, the temperature of the solid material within the combustion zone 120 can be efficiently controlled within a limit, e.g., below the melting point (and preferably below the softening point) of the residual ash in the solid material, without lowering the burning rate.
In the foregoing example, controlled incineration of the fly ash from the coal burning furnace may burn off the carbon, leaving a substantially carbon free ash plus mercury vapor. The mercury vapor may be removed using a heat exchanger and powdered activated carbon system. The resulting substantially carbon and mercury free ash may be used in subsequent commerce, such as a filler for concrete. Without this incineration process, the ash was both toxic and carbon rich, making it unsuitable for nearly any commercial venture.
FIG. 3 illustrates a multiple hearth furnace 100B in accordance with another embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, the water is heated by the flue gas, but not directly added into the flue gas as in the previous embodiment. Resulting water vapor is introduced to the combustion zone 120 through a separate path 423, but not through the recirculation path 422. This may bring more flexibility in controlling the solid material combustion temperature in the combustion zone 120, e.g., by separately calculating and adjusting the amount of the flue gas to be recirculated and the amount of water vapor to be added to the combustion zone 120.
As shown in FIG. 3, the water vapor is introduced directly into the combustion zone 120, while the flue gas is introduced into the combustion zone 120 from below (through the cooling zone 130). Alternatively, the flue gas is introduced directly into the combustion zone 120, while the water vapor is introduced below the combustion zone 120, or both of the flue gas and the water vapor can be introduced directly into or below the combustion zone 120.
While the above describes the preferred embodiments of the present invention, it shall be appreciated that numerous changes, modifications and adaptations are apparent to those skilled in the art without departing the spirit of the invention. For example, the furnace does not necessarily have to be a multiple hearth furnace as described in the embodiments, but may be any type of furnace having a solid material burning with flue gas above. The water may be heated inside the drying or feed zone 110 by the flue gas instead of in the recirculation path 442. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention is intended to be solely defined in the accompanying claims.


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We took advantage of our short week and hit up some of our science concepts in full force! We studied how objects can be sorted into different groups based on their properties (or attributes). An attribute could be the size, shape, color, texture or thickness of an object. Some objects can have the same attributes, other are very different.
After learning that all things can be sorted based on their attributes, we continued to study three additional scientific properties: the states of matter, magnetic/non-magnetic, and sink or float!
The kids learned that there are 3 different states of matter: Solid, liquid, and gas. We talked about the different attributes that go along with each state of matter:
We also talked about changing matter from one state to another (solid ice cube to liquid water & liquid water to the gas water vapor).
Another attribute we studied was sinking or floating. The kids really enjoyed investigating different objects and predicted what might happen when these things were placed in water.
We also studied magnets. We explained that in order for an object to be magnetic, it needed to be made of a special kind of metal: iron, steel, nickel or cobalt. We went around the classroom tested different items.
We also talked about was how magnets have 2 poles, a north and a south. The kids learned that opposites attract and the same poles repel, or push away from each other.
It was an exciting day! Our first grade scientists can't wait to study more!!!


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Guy Félio Ph.D, P.Eng., FCSCE, is R.V. Anderson's Infrastructure and Facilities Management (IFM) Group Leader and an infrastructure management specialist. Dr. Félio has more than 30 years of experience in the area of municipal engineering and management as a university professor, researcher, consultant and policy advisor. During his career at the National Research Council, he led the Urban Infrastructure Research group, focusing on technological and management improvements such as InfraGuide. He was a City Councillor in Clarence-Rockland (ON) from 2010 to 2014. He authored the first Canadian Infrastructure Report Card published in 2012.
Nick Larson MEPP, P.Eng. is a consulting engineer with GM BluePlan Engineering where he works with municipalities on a variety of asset management and infrastructure planning initiatives. Nick represented the CSCE on the Project Steering Committee (PSC) that developed the 2016 Canadian Infrastructure Report Card. Through his role with the PSC, he helped to shape both the survey that was used to collect infrastructure data from municipalities, as well as the structure of the 2016 CIRC.


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Americans alarmed about impending French defeat
After a force of 60,000 Viet Minh with heavy artillery had surrounded 16,000 French troops, news of Dien Bien Phu's impending fall reaches Washington.
French General Henri Navarre had positioned his forces 200 miles behind enemy lines in a remote area adjacent to the Laotian border. He hoped to draw the communists into a set-piece battle in which he supposed superior French firepower would prevail. He underestimated the enemy. Viet Minh General Vo Nguyen Giap entrenched artillery in the surrounding mountains and massed five divisions around the French positions. The battle, which far exceeded the size and scope of anything to date in the war between the French and the Viet Minh, began with a massive Viet Minh artillery barrage and was followed by an infantry assault.
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other members of the Eisenhower administration were stunned at the turn of events and discussions were held to decide on a course of action. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Arthur Radford proposed the use of nuclear strikes against the Viet Minh. Other options included massive conventional air strikes, paratrooper drops, and the mining of Haiphong Harbor. In the end, President Eisenhower decided that the situation was too far gone and ordered no action to be taken to aid the French.
Fierce fighting continued at Dien Bien Phu until May 7, 1954, when the Viet Minh overran the last French positions. The shock at the fall of Dien Bien Phu led France, already plagued by public opposition to the war, to agree to grant independence to Vietnam at the Geneva Conference in 1954.


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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Jozan come lately
I'm a relative latecomer to tabletop RPGs, having only started playing about four years ago. I had wanted to play for a long time, but various factors prevented it. Probably the greatest obstacles were:
1) In the 80s, for those of us who grew up in Christian environments, playing D&D was considered a hop, skip and a jump away from sacrificing virgins to Satan himself. My parents knew such a thing had no place in a good Baptist family like ours. They let me know in such stark terms, I never even asked for the game. I didn't personally feel that playing would make me start painting pentagrams on the floor with the blood of a black goat, but I was a good kid who minded his parents.
2) Apart from the religious condemnation of RPGs, the social stigma attached to those who played D&D and other games remained strong. So even when I felt more freedom in college, and when churches weren't quite so preoccupied with the dangers of D&D, I still stayed away. Call it a lack of self-esteem or self-confidence, but I actually was worried if playing RPGs would hurt my chances with the ladies. In my mind, it was bad enough that I played scifi/fantasy video games and read scifi/fantasy novels, actually pretending to be a wizard myself would be too much of a risk for my social life.
So fast foward a few more years to when I'm married. My wife has a few quirks of her own, and in a lot of ways doesn't feel bound to convention. She knows I like fantasy books and games, so when I ran across an announcement for a D&D 3.5ed one shot game through the local RPG Meetup group, she actually encouraged me to go.
I went, and I loved it.
We didn't get very far that day, as the DM (Norm, of Troll and Flame fame) had to walk me through character creation, and I'm sure I annoyed the other players with my constant questions. But it was a ton of fun anyway. I still recall how our entire party nearly got wiped out by a few flame-breathing kobolds. They were sitting at the top of a tall makeshift barricade made from the piled remains of broken furniture and other trash, and I could not make a Climb check to reach the buggers to save my life.
So now I've been bitten by the RP bug, and I'm trying to play catch up for all the years of gaming I've missed. I've played in a D&D 3.5e campaign, and have played one shots of Savage Worlds, Tunnels and Trolls, Mutants and Masterminds, and Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay. I'm currently playing in 3, yes 3, rotating D&D hybrid 1e/2e campaigns. Because that's not enough, I've got couple of Labyrinth Lord one shots lined up, and I'm joining another group playing Call of Cthuhlu.
In the posts to come, I'll give a more complete recount of each gaming experience. I plan both to blog about what I recall of my older games, and also give a comprehensive overview of my current games. I'll use these as a base to explore the mechanics, styles and flavors of the different systems, as well as the experiences they produce.
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Huh, I had forgotten/didn't realize that was your first game.ReplyDelete
I should have tried harder to be better. But I guess I was good enough to not drive you away.
Awesome that you started playing.
No, I thought you did a great job. Partly because right off the bat you challenged some of assumptions about play. When those kobolds started breathing fire, I recall a moment of confusion, because even back then, I knew that kobolds didn't have breath weapons. I'd played enough Baldur's Gate to know that. But came to understand that while D&D had rules, including rules for what a kobold is supposed to be able to do, that we aren't bound by those rules. We can change them as we like.ReplyDelete
That adds more than a touch of realism and danger to games, as you never really know what you're going to face.


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Follow the Stories | Tulsa, OK (2012)
Alabama Stoneware — A Jug-full of History
Posted: 1.16.2012
The inscription on this jug reads "Made by JB Skinner Sterrett Ala." Skinner was a little-known potter in the small, mountainous Alabama "jugtown" of Sterrett.
LeAnn's jug is the same shape and color as the jug made famous in the late 19th-century folk song, "Little Brown Jug."
This stoneware's rich chocolate color was produced by a clay slip from the Hudson Valley of New York, called Albany slip.
At the Tulsa, Oklahoma, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW in July 2011 a woman named LeAnn lugged in a not-so-little brown jug she'd purchased at auction three years ago for $50. It was "dirty and gunky," she remembers, but when she cleaned it up, she saw it was inscribed with the name "J. B. Skinner" and the town of "Sterrett, Alabama." On the day, folk art appraiser Wes Cowan was able to identify the jug as from the late 1800s, and with a bit more research, we later discovered that the jug contains a good amount of Alabama pottery history — and perhaps residue from some interesting liquids as well.
If this jug was once used for alcohol, "it would be a party jug," says LeAnn, the jug's owner.
LeAnn's jug was stoneware — a remarkable material for its time. Earthenware made by American Indians and colonists was absorbent and porous, making it less effective for storing and preserving food and liquids. But stoneware, which had largely supplanted earthenware in the United States by the time Alabama was being settled in the 1830s, was fired at a higher temperature with clay that contained more silica. The resulting container was revolutionary. "You have a more durable pottery," says Joey Brackner, the author of Alabama Folk Pottery and director of the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture, who notes that earthenware had the fragility of garden pots. "But the stoneware, if they dropped it, wouldn't break."
"You also get a vessel that is impervious to liquid," Brackner says. This meant that stoneware jars and jugs could be used to store water, cider, oils, turpentine, syrup, molasses, vinegar, and whiskey. "They could also be used to preserve candied, smoked, salted, pickled, and dried foodstuffs." The ability to protect food and drink was crucial to Alabama's earliest settlers, who swept into the territory during the 1830s in a migration known as "Alabama Fever," which followed the forced displacement of Native Americans to the West. The new settlers fed themselves locally by farming, gathering, hunting, and fishing, preserving whatever they could in stoneware for leaner times that inevitably would come. They wanted practical vessels, such as jugs and jars, as well as pitchers for milk and churns to make butter. They'd also seek out clay marbles for their children; gardenware, such as plant pots and birdbaths; or smoking pipes, "more popular than wooden or corncob pipes in the 19th century," Brackner says.
Entrepreneurial potters followed these settlers into Alabama, establishing studios in what became known as "jugtowns," almost always located near clay deposits. "Young men would settle into a pottery community and make their way, often marrying a daughter of another potter," Brackner says. He notes that J.B. Skinner's father, also a potter, migrated from Georgia before settling in Sterrett, Alabama, a typical jugtown situated in the southernmost reach of the Appalachian Mountains. All the jugtowns served local needs — in the case of Sterrett, the major market was nearby Birmingham. By the early 1900s, at least 10 potters lived in Sterrett, including some of the Skinners.
These jugtown potters were almost always men, in large part because the work was physically demanding. Potters dug their own clay and transported it and their finished wares on wagons. Before pottery wheels were electrified, great leg and arm strength was required to turn them, Brackner notes. These pottery studios often served as community meeting places. During the all-night vigils necessary to keep the kilns burning hot enough to fire the stoneware, men often came together to drink and tell stories.
But what was the jug that showed up in Tulsa made for? Jugs of this same shape were often used for whiskey, made from corn that wasn't eaten, sold, or used as animal feed. In fact, LeAnn's jug is the same shape as the kind made famous in the folk song, "Little Brown Jug," its chocolate color a result of the Albany (as in New York) slip that Southern potters began using to glaze their pots in the late 1800s. The jug in the song was clearly made for alcohol.
"Me and my wife live all alone/
In a little log hut we call our own/
She loves gin and I love rum/
And don't we have a lot of fun!/
Ha, ha, ha, you and me/
Little brown jug, don't I love thee!"
LeAnn says that if her jug, which could have held a few gallons, was used for alcohol, "it would be a party jug."
But Brackner says that moonshiners usually didn't want such large jugs for alcohol. "The moonshiners would want a half-gallon jug, because that's what their customers would want to drink," he says. "Its main use was probably as a syrup jug." Syrup was made from the sorghum or sugar cane they sometimes grew.
Local Alabama stoneware died out as a result of a few forces: the advent of mass-produced stoneware, as well as glass and metal containers, cheaper to make than handmade pottery. Another blow came from a strong railroad network rebuilt in the South after the Civil War, and then the advent of trucking, which could get cheaper stoneware and alternative containers to the rural market quickly and inexpensively. Refrigeration also made some of the containers, such as churns and jars, less essential.
"It was really a Walmart effect," Brackner says. "The potters couldn't compete with products that were shipped, usually from the North. It was an economy of scale. Even with the transportation costs, they could undersell local potters. It was a dramatic decrease in family pottery after World War I."
Today Alabama stoneware has largely become the domain of local collectors. Stoneware from the 19th century that's signed is more valuable, Cowan notes, because it helps nail down a piece's provenance, and is harder to find. Brackner put the value of this brown jug in the $1,000 to $2,000 range. Cowan put it between $2,500 and $3,500. I'm not the Alabama stoneware expert, so it may be that he's closer," Cowan says. "I couldn't find comparable pots sold by that potter. No way!" On the other hand, if two Alabama stoneware collectors both wanted this pot, the price could well escalate, Cowan notes.
For now, this brown jug is not for sale. LeAnn's says the jug sits decoratively in the corner of her kitchen. And after she found out it might be worth a few thousand dollars to Alabama stoneware collectors, she's worked especially hard to protect it.
"My grandkids," LeAnn says, "no longer get to drop stuff into it."
For more on this topic, see:
Alabama Folk Pottery, by Joey Brackner, University of Alabama Press, 2006.
More ANTIQUES ROADSHOW articles from the Pottery & Porcelain category:
Ordinary Jardinière or Genuine George Ohr? (Biloxi, 2011)
Next of Kiln: The Overbeck Sisters (Houston, 2006)
Firing Miss Daisy: What Happened at Wedgwood? (Houston, 2006)
See the Tulsa, OK (2012) page for a list of all appraisals from this city.
Dennis Gaffney is a freelance writer in Albany, New York. He has been a regular contributor to ANTIQUES ROADSHOW Online since 1998.


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French Visa for Airport Transit
Who needs an Airport Transit French Visa (ATV)?
This short-stay visa type is destined for foreigners who want to temporarily stay in the international zone of a French airport, between connecting flights to travel to another international zone/s of an another Schengen country/ies. Apart from the international zone of a French airport, this visa type does not allow its holders to have access to the Schengen territory, before flying back to their final destination.
Such visa is needed because Schengen Area does NOT allow foreigners to stay or travel from the French international zone without the appropriate French Visa.
Foreigners who NEED an Airport Transit French Visa to transit through a French airport to another destination are citizens of the following countries:
- Afghanistan,
- Angola,
- Bangladesh,
- Cameroon,
- Chad,
- Cuba,
- Republic of Congo,
- Democratic Republic of Congo,
- Dominican Republic,
- Eritrea,
- Ethiopia,
- Ghana,
- Guinea,
- Guinea Bissau,
- Haïti,
India( Since July 23, 2018, France has abolished the Airport Transit Visa regime for Indian citizens. Despite that Indian passport holders no longer need an ATV to transit through the international zone of French Airports, they still need a regular short-stay visa to leave French airports and visit France.)
- Irak,
- Iran,
- Ivory Coast,
- Libya,
- Mali,
- Mauritania,
- Nigeria,
- Pakistan,
- Senegal,
- Somalia,
- South Sudan,
- Sri Lanka,
- Sudan,
- Syria,
- Togo and
- Palestinians holders of a travel document for a refugee which has been issued by Egypt, Lebanon or Syria.
Foreigners who DO NOT NEED an Airport Transit French Visa, regardless their nationality are the following cases:
- Holders of a diplomatic, or, service passport;
- holders of green card,
- French re-entry permit holders,
- residency permit in one of the countries of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland, Monaco, Andorra, Holy See, San Marino, Canada, Japan or the United States of America,
- holders of the valid US visa;
- spouse or minor child of an EU national;
- as well as flight crew members.
Which are the additional visa application requirements for such visa type?
Apart from the general requirements, the following are the specific additional documents to apply for this French visa type:
- Supporting documents that indicate that the visa applicant does not plan to stop over in the Schengen Area
- Supporting documents that prove the legitimacy and authorization to travel (for third country nationals)
- Proof of Status in US or UK (for non-US or non-UK citizens living in US or UK)
- Visa for the country of last destination
*Note: General requirements to apply for a French Airport Visa include:
- Setting Up An Appointment with the French Diplomatic Office
And submitting the following documents:
- A Valid Passport (with at least three months beyond the return date, having at least two blank pages)
- Two Copies of The Passport Photo Page with The Address of The Applicant
- 2 Newly Made Photographs
- A Duly Filled Application Form For Short-Stay Visa
- Copy of Confirmed Air Tickets.
- Paid Visa Fee Of 60 €
Learn more about General requirements to obtain other French Visas.
Who needs a French Visa for the Transit or Transfer of Merchant Navy Seafarers?
This short-stay visa type is intended for seafarers desiring to join a ship halting in France or other French territory.
Which are the additional visa application requirements for such visa type?
Apart from the general requirements , the following are the specific additional documents to apply for this French visa type:
- A letter stating stopping and sailing dates of the ship in France from the shipping company
- A valid seafarer certificate (plus a copy)
- A work contract mentioning ship's ensign (copy)
- Copies of the Schengen, American and British visas (for the past two years)
- Embarkation order from the ship's owner
- Supporting documents that indicate that the visa applicant does not plan to remain in the Schengen Area
- Supporting documents that prove the legitimacy and authorization to travel (for third country nationals)
- Visa for the country of last destination
Airport transit privilege does not apply in the following cases and you will need to get a visitor visa if:
- You have to pick up your baggage and/or have to check-in again
- You are transiting through two or more airports in the Schengen Countries
- You have an open ticket
- Your stay in the international transit area more than 12 hours
For individual Schengen States' Airport Transit Visa requirements, click here!
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by Blexbolex; trans. from the French by Claudia Z. Bedrick; illus. by the author
Primary, Intermediate Enchanted Lion 280 pp.
11/13 978-1-59270-137-7 $22.95
The French illustrator (Seasons, rev. 7/10; People, rev. 9/11) is as provocative as ever in this graphic celebration — and parody — of the very idea of story. Like Dr. Seuss's And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937), Ballad compounds the fantastical — literally, here: each chapter has twice the pages, less two, of its predecessor (4, 6, 10, 18…); at 130 pages, the seventh and last chapter is half the book — just one instance of Blexbolex's intricate crafting. Meanwhile, the story expands from chapter one's uneventful walk ("The school, the road, home") to closer observation of the real world before entering an imagined world and its characters ("the stranger" — storyteller, musician, hero; "bandits" resembling Pinocchio's Cat and Fox; "the witch"). Each chapter begins with a précis, but it is Blexbolex's square illustrations, captioned with just a couple of nouns, that convey the action and accumulate references—a queen, a kidnapping, a dragon, a volcano, mountains, a waterfall, a castle, a captive elf, night, storm, rescue, escape. Ultimately, at dawn, the stranger and queen arrive "home." Blexbolex's simple forms range in colors from gentle blues and greens to the arresting yellow of the stranger's raincoat and his trouser's fluorescent pink; coarse grids of halftone dots add modeling and subtlety to the elegantly composed scenes. An intriguing book — one to unravel, decode, and ponder in successive re-readings.
From the March/April 2014 issue of The Horn Book Magazine.


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Frockin' up - Emmys 2012
I can't go past an awards show, the frocks, the cheesy speeches, the tears - I love it all. Do you love awards shows? The frocks really are the best part though, aren't they? The frocks I loved the best this year are:
Leslie Mann in Naeem Khan - I love the neckline of this dress. I wanted something similar for my wedding & ended up with something completely different. Leslie's dress would make the perfect wedding dress in white, don't you think?
Clare Danes in Lanvin - Bright colour and casual classiness.
Amanda Peet in Calvin Klein - classy with a hint of sparkle.
Lena Headey - Billowy black is my go to evening wear option. I saw closer photos of this dress from different angles and I don't think I like it as much as I do in this photo. The dress underneath is too sheer for my liking, but I do love it from this angle.
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World Record Week: stan34powa tops field of 35,000 to win in Guinness World Record tourney
PokerStars went for the record books this weekend--the Guiness Book of World Records to be precise, putting together the largest poker tournament in history--a 35,000 player, $10+1 buy-in event with a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000. Selling out days before cards ever went on the screen, the capped starting field hit the felt at 4:30 pm EST and a whopping 8,750 of them hit the money less than three hours later. With a tournament of this gargantuan size, would it surprise you that eighty players were lost during hand-for-hand play on the bubble as the action on 876 tables played out?
As we reached the final table of ten, the stack sizes looked like this:
Seat 1: Goldman007 (9,863,968 in chips)
Seat 2: gustave44 (11,654,326 in chips)
Seat 3: stan34powa (11,516,965 in chips)
Seat 4: Nekochan48 (8,822,692 in chips)
Seat 5: alepolice (9,373,489 in chips)
Seat 6: meiky777 (20,884,333 in chips)
Seat 7: FuFish (6,384,140 in chips)
Seat 8: n0ideahh (7,239,435 in chips)
Seat 9: rumred14 (4,506,500 in chips)
Seat 10: ONE_TIMEE (14,754,152 in chips)
FuFish, who was being cheered on by an enthusiastic bunch of railbirds, was unfortunately the first to be eliminated from the final table. With the blinds at 250,000/500,000 with a 62,500 ante, gustave44 opened for a raise to 1.5 million from middle position, FuFush moved all in for 5.75 million and gustave44 made the call, turning up Kh-Qs to FuFish's pocket sevens. With a king on the flop and a queen on the river, the overcards outran the underpair and FuFish finished in 10th place, good for $1,500.
Next to exit was ONE_TIMEE, who fell to Goldman007 on a blind vs. blind hand. After open-shoving from the small blind for 6.2 million and getting a call from Goldman007 in the big, ONE_TIMEE was no doubt verbalizing the clarion call of his screen name as he awaited the flop, his Kd-9s trailing Goldman007's Ks-Js. The flop, though, was Jc-7h-2c, making top pair for Goldman007 and ONE_TIMEE could not catch running cards to improve, ending his long day of poker with an extra $2,000 in his account for his 9th place finish.
After a much-deserved break, the final eight returned to blinds of 500,000/1,000,000 and an ante of 125,000. Stacks were shallow, with the average stack at that point at about 13 big blinds. Even dominant chip leader meiky77 only had 32 big blinds. This action was going to move fast.
Seated under the gun and facing the 1,000,000 big blind on the next hand, alepolice pushed in for 1.6 million. Meiky777 flat-called from UTG+1 and the action folded around to stan34powa, who moved all in for 9.9 million from the small blind. Neckochan48 gave up his big blind and meiky777 mucked as well, leaving their two opponents heads-up. Alepolice's Ks-9s was dominated by Nekochan48's Ac-Kc and he could not improve, hitting the rail in 8th place for $2,500.
Four hands later, stan34powa opened for 2.75 million and n0ideahh made his stand, moving in for 3.1 million with Qd-Js. Stan34powa called the additional 385,000 with pocket sevens and they held up to send off n0ideahh in 7th place. Two hands after that, Nekochan48 curiously limped in from UTG and the action folded around to gustave44 in the small blind. He moved all in for 19.6 million only to have stan34powa move all in for 19.9 million from the big blind. Nekochan48 got out of the way and the cards were turned up, gustave44's Ad-Ts trailing stan34powa's Qc-Qs. The flop was a tantalizing As-Ks-2s, gustave44 flopping top pair but stan34powa still in it with the nut flush draw. The turn was the 2d, but the river was the 3s, making both players a flush, stan34powa's the higher one as gustave44 exited in 6th place.
Rumred14 started talks of a chop once play became five-handed, but no one was ready to talk deals yet. He'd be the next player to get action, moving all in pre-flop for his remaining 9.1 million and earning a call from Nekochan48 in the big blind, who had him slightly covered. It was a race situation, Nekochan48 holding pocket sixes and rumred14 the Ad-Ks. The board ran out As-8c-3d-Tc-Jd and rumred14 doubled up, crippling Nekochan48 to only 585,209, all of which was posted in the small blind on the next hand. Nekochan48's 4d-Ts could not improve against rumred14's Ah-Td and he was eliminated in 5th place, collecting $7,500.
A dozen unanswered open-pushes later, meiky777 opened for 6 million with blinds of 750,000/1.5 million. Goldman007 reraised to 10.5 million and meiky777 four-bet to 15 million, setting Goldman007 all in. He quickly called and turned up As-Ac to meiky777's Ah-4h. Though Goldman007 was in one of the best pre-flop situations a player can be in when it comes to hold'em, the flop opened doors for meiky777, coming down 6s-3h-2s. The turn was the Kh, but the river was the disastrous 5d, making meiky777 a six-high straight and bouncing a very unlucky Goldman777 from the tournament in 4th place. Though he came out on the wrong end of that hand, he still managed to turn $11 into $10,000 in the space of eight hours.
Rumred14 asked about a chop again when play was three-handed and the chip counts had evened up. Once again, his suggestions were met with silence from his opponents. Only a few minutes later, rumred14 called meiky777's 3 million opening raise and they saw a flop of Th-8s-7s. With rumred14 holding Qs-Js for straight and flush draws and meiky777 with 7c-8c for bottom two, it was inevitable that the money would go in the middle. The turn, though was the 8h, making meiky777 eights full of sevens and leaving rumred14 drawing dead. Rumred14 took home $15,000 for a stellar performance.
As heads-up play kicked off between meiky777 and stan34powa, the chip counts looked like this:
Seat 3: stan34powa (37,213,054 in chips)
Seat 6: meiky777 (67,786,946 in chips)
After all the open-shoving that marked most of the play at the final table, the 57-hand heads-up battle was a real back-and-forth chess match, with the lead constantly swinging back and forth between our final two players. Stan34powa wrestled the lead away from meiky777 when he made kings and fives against meiky777's sevens and sixes, but meiky777 took it back just as quickly after stan34powa attempted a river bluff with ace high and meiky777 called him with two pair. The pendulum kept swinging, with neither player taking more than a 7-3 chip lead, until this hand came up:
Meiky777 limped in from the small blind and stan34powa checked. The flop was 8h-5s-3s and stan34powa checked to meiky777, who bet 2.5 million. Stan34powa raised to 7.5 million and meiky777 shoved over the top for 31.2 million. Stan34powa called, having meiky777 covered and the hands were revealed--stan34powa with 2d-8d for top pair and meiky777 looking to improve with Ac-Kd. The turn, though was the Js, the river was the 7s and it was all over. Stan34powa had outlasted 34,999 opponents to win the world's largest-ever poker tournament and $30,000 for his performance. Runner-up meiky777 added $20,000 to his bankroll.
With no deals made, here's how the final table finished up:
Guinness World Record Attempt $500,000 Guaranteed
1. stan34powa $30,000
2. meiky777 $20,000
3. rumred14 $15,000
4. Goldman007 $10,000
5. Nekochan48 $7,500
6. gustave44 $5,000
7. n0ideahh $3,500
8. alepolice $2,500
10. FuFish $1,500


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