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(Excerpt from Part I)
|This poem provides an example of Hudibrastic verse.
A wight he was, whose very sight would
Entitle him Mirror of Knighthood;
That never bent his stubborn knee
To any thing but Chivalry;
Nor put up blow, but that which laid
Right worshipful on shoulder-blade;
Chief of domestic knights and errant,
Either for cartel or for warrant;
Great on the bench, great in the saddle,
That could as well bind o'er, as swaddle;
Mighty he was at both of these,
And styl'd of war, as well as peace.
(So some rats, of amphibious nature,
Are either for the land or water).
But here our authors make a doubt
Whether he were more wise, or stout:
Some hold the one, and some the other;
But howsoe'er they make a pother,
The diff'rence was so small, his brain
Outweigh'd his rage but half a grain;
Which made some take him for a tool
That knaves do work with, call'd a fool,
And offer to lay wagers that
As Montaigne, playing with his cat,
Complains she thought him but an ass,
Much more she would Sir Hudibras;
(For that's the name our valiant knight
To all his challenges did write).
But they're mistaken very much,
'Tis plain enough he was no such;
We grant, although he had much wit,
H' was very shy of using it;
As being loth to wear it out,
And therefore bore it not about,
Unless on holy-days, or so,
As men their best apparel do.
Beside, 'tis known he could speak Greek
As naturally as pigs squeak;
That Latin was no more difficile,
Than to a blackbird 'tis to whistle:
Being rich in both, he never scanted
His bounty unto such as wanted;
But much of either would afford
To many, that had not one word.
For Hebrew roots, although th'are found
To flourish most in barren ground,
He had such plenty, as suffic'd
To make some think him circumcis'd;
And truly so, perhaps, he was,
'Tis many a pious Christian's case
He was in logic a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
A hair 'twixt south, and south-west side:
On either which he would dispute,
Confute, change hands, and still confute,
He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse;
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a lord may be an owl,
A calf an alderman, a goose a justice,
And rooks Committee-men and Trustees.
He'd run in debt by disputation,
And pay with ratiocination.
All this by syllogism, true
In mood and figure, he would do.
For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happen'd to break off
I' th' middle of his speech, or cough,
H' had hard words, ready to show why,
And tell what rules he did it by;
Else, when with greatest art he spoke,
You'd think he talk'd like other folk,
For all a rhetorician's rules
Teach nothing but to name his tools.
His ordinary rate of speech
In loftiness of sound was rich;
A Babylonish dialect,
Which learned pedants much affect.
It was a parti-colour'd dress
Of patch'd and pie-bald languages;
'Twas English cut on Greek and Latin,
Like fustian heretofore on satin;
It had an odd promiscuous tone,
As if h' had talk'd three parts in one;
Which made some think, when he did gabble,
Th' had heard three labourers of Babel;
Or Cerberus himself pronounce
A leash of languages at once.
This he as volubly would vent
As if his stock would ne'er be spent:
And truly, to support that charge,
He had supplies as vast and large;
For he would coin, or counterfeit
New words, with little or no wit:
Words so debas'd and hard, no stone
Was hard enough to touch them on;
And when with hasty noise he spoke 'em,
The ignorant for current took 'em;
That had the orator, who once
Did fill his mouth with pebble stones
When he harangu'd, but known his phrase
He would have us'd no other ways.
In mathematics he was greater
Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater:
For he, by geometric scale,
Could take the size of pots of ale;
Resolve, by sines and tangents straight,
If bread or butter wanted weight,
And wisely tell what hour o' th' day
The clock does strike by algebra.
Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read ev'ry text and gloss over;
Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,
He understood b' implicit faith:
Whatever sceptic could inquire for,
For ev'ry why he had a wherefore;
Knew more than forty of them do,
As far as words and terms could go.
All which he understood by rote,
And, as occasion serv'd, would quote;
No matter whether right or wrong,
They might be either said or sung.
His notions fitted things so well,
That which was which he could not tell;
But oftentimes mistook th' one
For th' other, as great clerks have done.
He could reduce all things to acts,
And knew their natures by abstracts;
Where entity and quiddity,
The ghosts of defunct bodies fly;
Where truth in person does appear,
Like words congeal'd in northern air.
He knew what's what, and that's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly;
In school-divinity as able
As he that hight Irrefragable;
Profound in all the Nominal
And Real ways, beyond them all:
And with as delicate a hand,
Could twist as tough a rope of sand;
And weave fine cobwebs, fit for skull
That's empty when the moon is full;
Such as take lodgings in a head
That's to be let unfurnished.
He could raise scruples dark and nice,
And after solve 'em in a trice;
As if Divinity had catch'd
The itch, on purpose to be scratch'd;
Or, like a mountebank, did wound
And stab herself with doubts profound,
Only to show with how small pain
The sores of Faith are cur'd again;
Although by woful proof we find,
They always leave a scar behind.
He knew the seat of Paradise,
Could tell in what degree it lies;
And, as he was dispos'd, could prove it,
Below the moon, or else above it.
What Adam dreamt of, when his bride
Came from her closet in his side:
Whether the devil tempted her
By an High Dutch interpreter;
If either of them had a navel:
Who first made music malleable:
Whether the serpent, at the fall,
Had cloven feet, or none at all.
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Polka Dot Cookie Bars: Gluten free/wheat free chocolate cookie bars with white chocolate 'polka dots'. Cakey, chewy, with a light chocolate flavour. These bars will become a favourite in your house, trust me!
This is the last day of Gluten Free Week. I've enjoyed experimenting with gluten free flour. I've tried using it in place of regular flour in a few other recipes with varying degrees of success. I made cupcakes that turned a little harder than I would have liked but I also made these chocolate chip cookies that turned out perfect! If you have any hints, tips or experiment with gluten free flour, please report back. I would love to hear about it!
As I said in my previous two posts, I used the Edmonds Gluten Free Plain Flour. Again, if you have another brand you like or you make your own blend then please use those.
These are like any cookie bar. Simple yet delicious and crowd pleasing. Plus it takes the hassle out of having to roll heaps of balls of cookie dough.
The beauty of these bars is that they only use one tablespoon of cocoa. This creates a loving light hint of a chocolate flavour without it being overly rich. It creates a nice balance of flavours, almost a red velvet flavour without the red velvet. Not quite vanilla yet not quite chocolate.
I hope everyone's week is starting off well. As well as any Monday can be! Mine has been a bit hectic and this week doesn't show any sign of slowing down. In saying that, I enjoy being busy so for me that's a good thing.
Gluten Free Polka Dot Cookie Bars
- 110 g Butter, Melted (1/2 Cup)
- 1/3 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1/3 Cup Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Extract
- 1 Large Egg
- 1/2 tsp Baking Soda
- 1 Tbsp. Cocoa
- 1 and 1/3 Cups Gluten Free Flour
- 1/3 - 1/2 Cup White Chocolate Buttons
- 1/2 Cup Chocolate Chips, Optional
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) and line an 8"x8" baking pan with baking paper.
- Melt the butter and mix with the brown sugar and sugar.
- Hand whisk in the egg and vanilla extract.
- Add in the gluten free flour, baking soda and cocoa and mix until all combined.
- Stir in the chocolate chips if you are adding them.
- Pour into the prepared pan.
- Sprinkle over the white chocolate buttons to create a polka dot effect.
- Place in the oven for 20-25 minutes. The sides and top will be set but the middle will wobble slightly. (If you don't want them slightly under baked, wait until the middle doesn't wobble at all.

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Following last night's 2-1 win over Parma, AC Milan can now turn their attention to next week's UEFA Champions League round of 16 first-leg, while their opponents Barcelona have to first concentrate on tonight's La Liga clash with Granada. Is that an advantage for the Italian club; and to be honest, does it really matter that they have an extra day to prepare? Certainly, it seems more likely to make a difference than say, rescheduling a Clasico to kick-off just a few hours before it would have otherwise started, but at this level, I sincerely doubt it will make much of a difference. Barcelona after all can rest players for this match, and even then, they will still have the best part of four days to recover for the game against AC MIlan.
With that in mind, should we really be lowering our expectations just because Barca play an important match on Wednesday? Sure, it'd be a convenient excuse if we did drop points, but that's all it would be - an excuse. Whether the squad is rotated or not, Barcelona should have enough quality in their ranks to defeat Granada; but maybe you think otherwise? Whatever your opinion, vote in our poll below, and comment with your prediction for tonight's match. Best of luck!


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(AllHipHop News) Late last month Brooklyn based rapper/actor Stro (formerly known as Astro) was berated by Hot 97's Ebro during a visit to the New York City station. The morning show host took issue with Stro questioning NYC radio not playing more homegrown talent.
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"This is that bullsh*t rapper cop-out, because my n*gga, you're not doing the work," Ebro told Stro who managed to remain calm during the entire exchange.
The former contestant on The X Factor did an interview with Hip Hop-N-More, and the 18-year-old performer addressed the at times heated discussion with Ebro.
"I think the only valid point he made during that interview was that I gotta do more shows but I'm definitely working on that," said Stro. "All the other stuff he was saying… he was getting nervous. That's why I never really argued with him because that's like when you start arguing with somebody, you don't have any more facts and you can't beat the other with facts, you start to get mad. Oh now you wanna fight?"
The "Mighty Healthy '16" rhymer also talked about the political side of the music industry. Stro expressed he does not have any hard feelings for Hot 97, but he reinforced his critique that his music does not get supported on the station.
"It's so much politics in Rap now man. I didn't go there to break the system, I'm not even an OG," Stro explained. "I go there at Hot 97 pretty often, I've been there several times this year already and it's all love. But I'm like, 'yo when am I going to get the record played?'"
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Dear Professor Gates:
My third-great-grandfather Hypolite LaFargue Jr. (born 1819) shows up in the 1850 census in New Orleans as a mulatto tailor with his family. It also appears that his father, Hypolite LaFargue Sr., fought in the War of 1812 in the 2nd Battalion of the Louisiana Infantry led by d'Aquin.
How do I find out when or if this line of my family were ever slaves? Not many people can find free black people in their family trees that far back. I am curious as to my ancestors' origins, but have hit a roadblock in uncovering more information.
As a side note: Hypolite Jr. had a son named Leopold LaFargue who married a woman named Henriette Vignaud (born 1862) (they were my second-great-grandparents), who also comes from a line of free mulattoes in New Orleans, well prior to the Civil War. —Jeannine Fisher
To find out if Hypolite LaFargue Sr. or his ancestors were ever enslaved, you could first search for clues on records you have for him that may lead you to other family members or perhaps a previous slave owner.
Looking at the Black Battalions in the War of 1812
Your family history appears to be linked with a period of time when people of African descent chose to fight under several flags in pursuit of freedom and empowerment. In the War of 1812, black men fought for both the Americans and the British in the hope of defending their liberty, and ensuring their freedom permanently.
In the final major engagement of that war, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson (who later became the seventh president of the United States) thwarted the British attempt to take New Orleans in a series of battles between December 1814 and January 1815.
Both the British and the Americans invited black people to fight on their side, with those answering Jackson's direct appeal to Louisiana's free men of color to fight in exchange for equal treatment with white men before and after the war (a promise that fell short of being fulfilled). Over 600 of them fought under two black battalions. One, drawing from free Louisianans of color, fought under Maj. Pierre Lacoste. The other, organized by the black Capt. Joseph Savary, consisted of refugees from Saint-Domingue who had fought on the side of the French during the Haitian Revolution. Leading them was Maj. Louis d'Aquin.
In the list of Louisiana Soldiers in the War of 1812, Hypolite LaFargue is listed (viewable via Ancestry.com, subscription required) as having served as a private in the 2nd Battalion of the Louisiana infantry led by d'Aquin.
Additionally, there was a "Fa" LaFargue who served as a sergeant in the 1st Regiment led by Dejan. Despite the fact that nothing in the record indicates this soldier's race, we cannot rule out this individual's being related in some way to Hypolite. In fact, we'll come back to him later.
Meanwhile, to learn more about the environment in which your ancestor fought, pick up a copy of the black historian William Cooper Nell's 1851 book, Services of Colored Americans in the Wars of 1776 and 1812. To Nell and his abolitionist contemporaries, the brave service of black men in America's early wars bolstered their arguments for emancipation and civil rights in the years before the Civil War.
Also informative is Rosemarie Fay Loomis' 1991 book, Negro Soldiers: Free Men of Color in the Battle of New Orleans, War of 1812.
Searching Records of Free People of Color for Leads
While we did not find any records for your ancestors between the War of 1812 and the 1850 census, there are collections available on microfilm through the Family History Library that may have more information on the family during those decades. For instance, the Register of Free Colored Persons Entitled to Remain in State, 1840-1864 may include individuals with the LaFargue surname. You could order these records on microfilm and view them at your local Family History Center.
You could also search collections such as the Assessment of Property and Census of Slaves and Their Owners, 1837 to see if there were any LaFargue slave owners that year in New Orleans.
Casting a Wide Net in the 1850 Census
Moving to the 1850 census, we find 33-year-old Hypolite LaFargue (born two years earlier than the date you gave, so presumably Jr.) as the head of a household in New Orleans. His name is transcribed in the index record as "Hyppotive Lafargue." According to the record, he is living with Juliette (transcribed in the index record as "Julaia") and children Alice and Joseph, and a "Widow Lafargue" (transcribed as "Widon"), aged 61. The widow's age places her birth about 1789, the right age to be Hypolite's mother, although she could be related to him in another way. It also seems possible that the Ophelia Lafargue, age 25, in the household could be Hypolite's sister or cousin. The record claims that all of these individuals were born in Louisiana.
If the Widow Lafargue is Hypolite's mother, it indicates that his father had likely died prior to 1850. Unfortunately, the record does not contain his father's name.
You may also want to investigate further the other individuals in the household who do not have the LaFargue surname, since they are likely related or closely associated in some way. The surnames Duboy, Gayarre and Fitzgerald all appear in Hypolite LaFargue's household in 1850, so if you have difficulty tracing the LeFargue surname, you may want to explore the possibility that one of these other surnames was adopted from a former slave owner of Hypolite's ancestors.
You will likely benefit from expanding your search to anyone with the LaFargue surname in the area of New Orleans. Fortunately, there were not that many families with that surname in the area.
During our own search of the 1850 census for other LaFargues in New Orleans we noted a Mathilde Lafargue, born circa 1821 in Virginia, who was recorded as mulatto. She is living in the household of a Robert Arnet, who was born in Ireland about 1820. There were two children in the household who were 7 years old, a Eugene Lafargue and a Laura Caubette, both born in Louisiana.
Looking at the original document, we noted that in the next household were four individuals recorded as mulatto. The head of household there was Josephine Bowegegne, born circa 1820, and living in the household was Benjamin Xavier, a tailor born circa 1825, Annette Xavier born circa 1832, and a Benjamin Xavier born in 1849.
We found it interesting that Benjamin Xavier was in the same industry as your Hypolite LaFargue Jr. It's possible that LaFargue Jr. is connected to these individuals, so it would be worth researching them further to see if they can provide clues that could shed light on him.
Because you are curious to know if your LaFargue ancestors were ever slaves, we also searched for white families in the area with that surname. (Keep in mind that a black person's surname was not always taken from that of a previous slave owner.)
We noted two very interesting individuals with the LaFargue surname living in New Orleans in 1850. The first was Francois Lafargue, who was born circa 1792 in the West Indies (a region that includes Saint-Domingue, which became Haiti in 1804). Living in his household, was Rosalie Lafargue, born circa 1775 in Louisiana; Clara Lyon, a widow; and two other members of the Lyon family. We also speculated based on his age that this could be the "Fa" LaFargue we located in the list of soldiers that served in the war of 1812.
Additionally, in the same area was a Widow Lafargue, born about 1790 in the West Indies. She was living with a Clemence Lafargue, born circa 1834 in Louisiana. Neither of these families were recorded as being persons of color, however, it does suggest that the Lafargue surname had ties to the West Indies.
Looking at Slave Schedules and Sale Records in America and Abroad
Working back in census records, it appears that Francois Lafargue did own slaves in Louisiana. In 1830, he was recorded with 11 slaves in his household. Knowing that there were slave owners with that surname in New Orleans, you could search the database Slave Sales in Louisiana, Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy, 1718-1820, for the LaFargue surname to see if any slave owners with the LaFargue surname have slave sales included in the database. This database includes the names of the enslaved person, the buyer and the seller, as well as any other information included in the original records that could indicate where different parties included in the record resided and if the sale was of an individual or a group. The database usually also records the age and racial description of the enslaved person in the sale which could be helpful in identifying potential ancestors. In our brief search of the database, we also noted that a slave owner named Antoine Lafargue appears in a number of records.
Knowing that there were Lafargue slave owners that originated in the West Indies provides you with another location to look for records. It was common for French plantation owners to own land on the islands and in Louisiana, so this could explain why Francois Lafargue moved from the West Indies to New Orleans. Based on the surname, you will likely have the best luck searching for more information in areas that were occupied by the French. A database of Plantation Owners of St. Domingue in 1789 records a number of individuals with the LaFargue surname.
One of the individuals was named Antoine Lafarge, which could be a match to the individual we located in the database of Slave Sales. This suggests that there could be a connection between the Lafargue family of Louisiana and the colony of Saint-Domingue. Reconcile that with Hypolite LaFargue Sr.'s service in a battalion of refugees from Saint-Domingue, and you have a promising avenue of exploration into his early life and origins.
Good luck!
Henry Louis Gates Jr. is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and founding director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University. He is also chairman of The Root. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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This answer was provided in consultation with Meaghan E.H. Siekman, Ph.D., a researcher from the New England Historic Genealogical Society. Founded in 1845, NEHGS is the country's leading nonprofit resource for family history research. Its website, AmericanAncestors.org, contains more than 300 million searchable records for research in New England, New York and beyond. With the leading experts in the field, NEHGS staff can provide assistance and guidance for questions in most research areas. They can also be hired to conduct research on your family. Learn more today about researching African-American roots.


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Youngevity is the only company of its kind to have exclusive rights to the minerals. While there are other mining operations nearby, they are very much "mom & pop" operations in comparison. They can't match the filtering system or the years of expertise that stands behind Dr. Wallach's very own Majestic Earth Minerals. Other operations, typically, drill down to, at the most, about 3 feet. Contrast this to the average depth of over 70 feet for the veins of plant matter we harvest. Since minerals in the earth's top soil are distributed unevenly (like chocolate in chocolate ripple ice cream) plants growing during different geological eras and in varying geological conditions will draw up a differing "mix" of minerals for each era and set of conditions. Thus, to get a full spectrum of minerals, it is important to have at least a 7 foot vertical draw in order to acquire plants grown in a variety of contexts. As a potential consumer of liquid minerals, two important questions to ask before purchasing a liquid mineral product from a company other than Dr. Wallach's are, "How do they achieve a 'full spectrum' of minerals," and "Is there an independent laboratory report on their minerals verifying a 'full spectrum' of minerals?" Independent laboratories regularly analyze the organic minerals in Dr.Wallach's Majestic Earth Minerals. For a look at one such, what is called an "assay," please click here.
Minerals and the Human Body
It is difficult to overstate the importance of minerals as they apply to human biology. Every job our body does from fending off infection, to keeping a regular heartbeat, to growing hair is performed by a series of biochemical events and every such event requires the presence of one, two, three, four, sometimes a dozen different minerals. Try making, for example, elastin (fibrous tissue in skin, muscle and blood vessels) without the presence of trace amounts of the mineral, copper. It is simply physically impossible. Various metalloenzymes are involved, Vitamin C must be available, as well as certain proteins and the mineral copper. If a person's stores of copper are low, if he isn't taking in bioavailable copper on a regular basis either from the food he eats or from supplements he is using, if this has been the case for years and years, then, predictably, his skin will begin to sag and wrinkle. Elastin, after all, provides the tensile strength for skin tissue. His blood vessels, too, will weaken, increasing the likelihood of aneurysm or stroke. A weave of fibrous strands of elastin keep blood vessels strong just like the nylon weave in the walls of a garden hose or bicycle tire keep those "vessels" strong, protecting against a blow out. Copper is just one essential mineral out of sixty, in yet besides serving in this one small role of making elastin, it is required for physiological functions as diverse as RNA, DNA, lysiloxidase and melatonin production (hair and skin pigment), electron transfer for sub cellular respiration, etc. The list goes on and on. To describe every biochemical event in the body requiring one or more of the essential minerals would require an entire library shelf.
Does this mean that supplementing with colloidal copper, specifically with the colloidal copper contained in Dr. Wallach's Majestic Earth Minerals, will rid you of gray hair or make your wrinkles go away or render you bullet proof against stroke or aneurysm? No. Certainly we get reports of all of the above, restoration of natural hair color, for example, after around the seventh or eighth month of consistent supplementation. But in no way is such a change guaranteed. Why not? Because, besides the presence of trace amounts of copper, there are other factors, some of which we can control and some of which we cannot, that play into the equation of melatonin production and impact the chemical processes responsible for delivering pigment to the hair follicle. For example, diet, food allergies, vascular health, environmental stressors, age, genetics, hormone levels, exposure to radiation, personal hygiene, etc. By supplementing, one takes a giant step forward in terms of making conditions ripe for such a "result," to occur but, again, nutrients are not drugs. They don't force a specific, direct reaction. Instead they serve in the wider context of a complete and complex and interdependent and interconnected biological system. As long as we are good stewards of that system, of our own body, as long as we "do the basics" of supplying our body with clean air and water and plenty of rest and moderate exercise AND the 90 nutrients essential to human health, we can reasonably expect optimal function. Again, it goes back to the plant analogy. Provide that little seedling with sunshine, fertile soil, adequate water, space and the right temperature and good things will happen.
Majestic Earth Minerals as a Source for the Major Minerals
Dr. Wallach's Majestic Earth Minerals are not a particularly rich source of the major minerals like calcium, magnesium and zinc. If you look at the laboratory assay, you will see that the major minerals appear in the same very minute quantities as do the other, more scarce and rarified minerals (like ytterbium). This is because Majestic Earth Minerals come directly from plants and plants only need so much of each mineral for their own, internal purposes. Lucky for us, we, too, need only "trace" amounts of most of the sixty essential minerals. In fact, too much of some of the trace minerals, like arsenic or mercury, for example, can harm us. They can't harm us in a liquid, organic, colloidal form since, in that form the body can easily excrete them if they are unneeded, but they can harm us in a metallic or salt form. We do need a higher daily intake of the major minerals. Since there is a greater stock of major minerals in our soils, for example the calcium we all know about contained in limestone particles, it is not all that difficult to get the major minerals we need from our diet. Bananas have a lot of potassium. Almonds contain high quantities of magnesium. There is calcium in milk and yogurt and broccoli and cottage cheese. Of course, many of us, stuck inside the typical, Western diet, may miss out on even the major minerals or have them crowded out of our system by processed, nutrient empty foods. So, Dr. Wallach includes extra quantities of these major minerals in the form of mineral chelates in his other core supplement products. But the Majestic Earth Minerals are important and make it to the list of "core supplements" because there is no better or more complete or higher quality source of all the minor minerals, trace minerals and rare earth minerals so vital to optimal function.
The Saturation vs. the Maintenance Dose
The Majestic Earth Minerals come in a 32 fluid ounce (1 quart) container and cost $19 at wholesale. Dr. Wallach advises that we saturate our system for the first 90 days. A saturation intake is a case of "one size fits all," two fluid ounces (4 Tablespoons) mixed in water or fruit juice with to be taken in with food, twice daily, with breakfast and dinner. After the ninety days, a person can cut back to a maintenance intake, which is tagged to body weight. A maintenance intake is one fluid ounce (2 Tablespoons) per 100 pounds of body weight, once daily. Thus, regardless of body weight, a person will need 4 bottles per month the first three months. After the three months, a person weighing, say 180 pounds, will need roughly two bottles per month to maintain.
If Nothing Else, Use the Minerals
The Majestic Earth Minerals comprise 60 of the 90 essential nutrients we all need on a daily basis. Because the body works in balance, they are best used in combination with other supplements (to be discussed in the pages that follow), containing a complimentary profile of essential nutrients. However, if budget prevents this, it is best to concentrate one's purchasing power exclusively on the minerals. After all, since it is the minerals, particularly the non-major minerals, we as a population are most at risk for in terms of deficiency disease and since the Majestic Earth Minerals are ideal for providing this crucial component to our diet and since it is possible with very disciplined and conscientious eating patterns to get the other nutrients from food, a person can get the best bang for their (limited) buck by supplementing, properly and consistently, with the Majestic Earth Minerals.
If budget allows, of course, it is far preferable to use the Majestic Earth Mineral product in combination with the other core supplement products. The combination is formulated to fill out an individual's insurance policy of complete essential nutrient intake. Since the Majestic Earth Minerals are used as a base to all of Dr. Wallach's liquid supplements, (they are that important!), one doesn't need as much of the straight Majestic Earth Minerals when using them in combination as one needs using the Majestic Earth Minerals, exclusively.
How Best to Take the Majestic Earth Minerals
It is best to take in the liquid minerals with food. Eating switches on your digestive system, gets all the right juices flowing, making the body ready to receive the minerals. Use plenty of water, as well, with the minerals (10 to 12 ounces of water is ideal). Refrigerate the bottles after opening and shake hard before serving. To enhance the effectiveness of the Majestic Earth Minerals it is best to avoid sugar, caffeine, phosphoric acid (in soda pop) and vegetable oil.*
* Plants take up some minerals from the soil "altruistically." In other words, the plant itself does not need the particular mineral to sustain its own life but takes up the mineral, nevertheless, as a "favor" to higher life forms.


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Brent Scowcroft endorses Hillary Clinton
Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser under Republican presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president on Wednesday.
"Secretary Clinton shares my belief that America must remain the world's indispensable leader," Scowcroft said in a statement, touting her experience as secretary of state. "She understands that our leadership and engagement beyond our borders makes the world, and therefore the United States, more secure and prosperous. She appreciates that it is essential to maintain our strong military advantage, but that force must only be used as a last resort."
Clinton, Scowcroft stated, "brings deep expertise in international affairs, and a sophisticated understanding of the world," qualities he described as "essential for the Commander-in-Chief."
"Her longstanding relationships with a wide array of world leaders, and their sense of her as a strong and reliable counterpart, make her uniquely prepared for the highest office in the land," he added.
Scowcroft's endorsement comes after his fellow foreign-policy realist Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state under George W. Bush, told POLITICO last week that he would support Clinton over Donald Trump if he is the Republican nominee.
"I believe Hillary Clinton has the wisdom and experience to lead our country at this critical time," Scowcroft stated.
Scowcroft has said little on the record about Trump's foreign policy ideas and qualifications. But Bush, his former boss in the White House, has made no secret of his distaste for Trump. And the Atlantic Council, of which the Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security is a part, has offered pointed criticism of Trump's foreign policy prescriptions.
"If Donald Trump wants to 'make America great again' on a global stage, he cannot do so without NATO," wrote Robbie Gramer, an associate director of the Scowcroft Center's Transatlantic Security Initiative, in a March 23 blog post.
R. Nicholas Burns, a board director and Clinton adviser who served as the No. 3 official in George W. Bush's State Department, denounced Trump as "dangerous" in a late April interview.


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South and Central Asia: U.S.-India Joint Fact Sheet: Sustainable Growth, Energy and Climate Change
At the June 24, 2013, U.S.-India Strategic Dialogue in New Delhi, Secretary of State John Kerry and Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid reaffirmed their countries' strong commitment to work collaboratively to help ensure energy security, combat global climate change, and support the development of low-carbon economies that will create opportunities and fuel job growth in both countries, recalling the 2009 U.S.-India Memorandum of Understanding on clean energy, energy efficiency, energy security, and climate change. Both sides reaffirmed that technological and business innovation, scientific cooperation, research, development and deployment of environmentally-friendly technologies and products, open trade, and sound regulatory frameworks are needed to deliver solutions for sustainable growth.
U.S.-India Energy Dialogue
The two sides noted the robust and full range of cooperation under the U.S.-India Energy Dialogue, highlighting ongoing engagement in the areas of electrical grid cooperation, energy efficiency, expanding markets for renewable energy technologies and addressing barriers to clean energy deployment, shale gas resource assessments and sharing lessons on exploitation, clean coal technology development, and civil nuclear energy.
U.S.-India Climate Change Dialogue
The two sides plan to enhance the existing U.S.-India Global Climate Change Dialogue to engage in constructive discussions on the Durban Platform negotiations under the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change, to facilitate climate policy dialogues and exchanges, and to identify opportunities for further and significant bilateral cooperation.
U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Energy
Over the past year, negotiations leading to the construction of U.S. nuclear power plants in Gujarat and Andra Pradesh have continued with notable progress made towards land acquisition. Additionally, our nuclear regulatory agencies have increased their scope of cooperation on key safety issues. Both the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the Indian Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) have been working to finalize an arrangement for the exchange of technical information and cooperation in nuclear safety matters, which is needed to expand upon their current level of cooperation. A key example of cooperation under this arrangement would be the NRC working with the AERB to assist with AERB's work to prepare to certify and license the operation in India of U.S.-origin nuclear power plants.
Oil and Gas Working Group
The U.S. Department of Energy and Indian Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas are working to renew an MOU for Cooperation in Gas Hydrates aimed at increasing the understanding of the geologic occurrence and the potential of methane production from natural gas hydrates in India and the United States.
New Joint Working Group on Sustainable Growth
On May 7, 2012 USAID and the Planning Commission of India signed a Statement of Principles forming a new Joint Working Group on Sustainable Growth that will support efforts to "enhance Indian and U.S. capacity to develop long-term plans and strategies to achieve low carbon inclusive growth." It should also help us in development and adoption of clean technologies.
Shale Gas Feasibility Studies
On May 3, 2013, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) signed an agreement to conduct a study to support Essar Oil Limited in further assessing its coal bed methane license areas for the presence of commercial grade shale deposits, moving India closer to a potential new domestic energy resource offering cleaner alternatives to coal. USTDA signed a new grant agreement during the Strategic Dialogue for a second study to support Deep Industries Limited in assessing its conventional oil and gas license areas for the presence of commercial grade shale deposits.
Regional Gas Markets
The Department of State held an energy security roundtable with Indian counterparts in May 2013 and discussed the development of an Asian natural gas market to provide more secure and diversified supplies of natural gas throughout the region. The U.S. will continue to engage with India including through the U.S.-India Energy Dialogue to address challenges such as financing gas infrastructure, share data on regional and global natural gas trends, and partner on market development capacity building activities.
Unconventional Gas
The Department of State's Unconventional Gas Technical Engagement Program (UGTEP) has promoted unconventional gas development in India by hosting a delegation from the Ministry of Petroleum and natural gas in the U.S. and holding a workshop in New Delhi in 2013. UGTEP is increasing its engagement with India by funding a tight gas and shale oil resource assessment to be concluded this year.
At the request of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, USTDA brought representatives of India's Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas and directors of state-owned refineries to the United States to meet with U.S. companies specializing in a range of refinery efficiency and residue up-gradation technologies. The Indian refiners are looking for ways to improve refinery efficiency and productivity by integrating slurry hydro-cracking and advanced conversion process technologies, presenting opportunities for U.S. firms in this sector. The delegation visited Chicago, Houston ,and New Orleans in May 2013.
Energy Efficiency and Sustainable Cities
The U.S. Department of Energy is working in two Indian states – Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu – that are in the process of implementing the Energy Conservation Building Codes (ECBC). One city in each State (Jaipur in Rajasthan and Chennai in Tamil Nadu) has been selected to showcase implementation at the local level; the work should have benefits beyond those cities. DOE through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is working with India to adopt Building to Grid (B2G) best practices to improve the energy efficiency of data centers and measures to improve energy efficiency performance of exemplary IT office buildings.
Renewable Energy
DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is collaborating with India's Solar Energy Centre (SEC) to increase understanding of how solar photovoltaic modules perform in different climatic environments over long periods of time and to develop testing procedures to help improve product reliability. NREL is updating solar maps for India with new data obtained on aerosol optical depth from the Indian Space Research Organization. DOE/NREL and India's Centre for Wind Energy Technology (C-WET) are collaborating to enhance existing wind resource characterizations for priority areas in India.
U.S.-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE)
Prime Minister Singh and President Obama announced PACE in November 2009 to improve energy access and promote low-carbon growth. Under PACE-Research, in 2012, the Government of India and the Department of Energy are supporting three innovative public-private U.S.-India consortia work in solar energy, building efficiency, and advanced biofuels under the $125 million Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center. The Clean Energy Finance Center, a partnership between OPIC, the Ex-Im Bank, USAID, the Department of Commerce, and USTDA has provided roughly $2.0 billion in renewable energy financing to India, including financing nearly 40 percent of India's first 1,000 MW of installed solar energy capacity. USTDA also supports the U.S.-India Energy Cooperation Program, a partnership of U.S. companies and the two governments which provides project development support to the Indian energy sector in such areas as energy efficient buildings, smart electrical grid development, and solar power generation, including as part of a rural micro-grid initiative. Under PACE-Deployment, USTDA has also supported a package of smart grid feasibility studies, pilot projects and technical assistance aimed at improving the reliability and efficiency of India's electricity supply, and was able to announce a new commitment to develop a Smart Grid Test Bed with India's Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), USAID's $20 million PACE-Deployment technical assistance program is improving end-use energy efficiency and increasing the supply of renewable energy with a focus on strengthening policy and regulatory institutions, increasing access to finance, and enhancing institutional capacity.
In May 2013, USTDA signed a grant agreement with Reliance Infrastructure Limited. The grant agreement supports funding for a feasibility study and pilot project for the installation of a demand side management (DSM) power system on Reliance Infrastructure's Mumbai distribution system. Reliance Infrastructure has selected Innovari, Inc. (Austin, Texas) as the contractor for the project. Innovari will assist Reliance Infrastructure in deploying and utilizing the new smart grid DSM system to manage peak demand and more efficiently utilize its electric power infrastructure. Reliance and Innovari were able to sign their contract for the execution of the pilot during the Strategic Dialogue.
Clean Energy Finance
USAID announced a new loan guarantee under the Development Credit Authority that will mobilize at least $100 million for clean energy investments.
Clean Energy Ministerial
The United States and India acknowledged the important role of their joint efforts in the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a global forum to share best practices and promote policies and programs that encourage and facilitate the transition to a global clean energy economy. The Government of India hosted the fourth Clean Energy Ministerial on April 17-18, 2013, in Delhi, with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh providing opening remarks. At the Clean Energy Ministerial, India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and the U.S. Department of Energy launched the beta version of the Indian Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policy Database (IREEED), an online repository of India's central and state government renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, regulations, and incentive programs for the benefit of policy makers, project developers, businesses, and consumers. The United States and India co-lead the CEM's 21st Century Power Partnership and the Super Efficient Appliances and Equipment Deployment (SEAD) initiative. India's participation in the Clean Energy Ministerial has led to significant domestic achievements, such as becoming the first country in the world to comprehensively regulate the performance, safety, and quality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Through the CEM, India is also paving the way forward for a new model of power sector work, focusing on peer-to-peer engagement with international experts on grid integration of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency.
U.S.-India Collaboration on Smart and Efficient Air Conditioning and Space Cooling
The United States and India announced collaboration on smart and efficient space cooling that will aim to facilitate the AC market transformation to super-efficient space cooling technologies. Under the collaboration, the United States intends to support sharing of technical expertise and experience, building on and contributing to several existing collaborations like SEAD, the 21st Century Power Partnership, and PACE–D/PACE-R.
Arctic Council
On May 15, India was welcomed as a new Observer State to the Arctic Council. The Arctic environment is changing rapidly, primarily as a result of global climate change. The emergence of new challenges and opportunities in the Arctic is drawing greater global attention. India is a major player in global scientific climate studies and has a research station in the Arctic. India's observer status in the Arctic Council should bring reciprocal benefits to the global community by enhancing global science collaborations and data exchanges on climate modeling and research.
Forest-Related Initiative
A Partnership agreement was signed between the U.S. and India for the Sustainable Forests and Climate Adaptation programme on September 30, 2010. Under President Obama's Global Climate Change Initiative, in July 2012, the Indian Ministry of Environment and Forests and USAID initiated a five-year, $14 million contract to take Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) actions to scale in India. The program is to: (1) develop and deploy scientific tools and methods for improved ecosystem management, forest carbon inventory, and monitoring; (2) design modalities to provide better incentives to forest-dependent communities for forest management and conservation; and (3) enhance human and institutional capacity. USAID works in collaboration with the U.S. Forest Service on this initiative.
Disaster Preparedness and Climate Change Adaptation
USAID/India's Disaster Management Support project, in collaboration with the Indian Ministry of Home Affairs aims to reduce the vulnerability of eight Indian cities to climate change-related disasters. The project, which started in October 2012, should enhance institutional capacities to integrate climate risk reduction measures in development programs, undertake disaster risk mitigation activities based on scientific analyses, and enhance community preparedness and measures. The U.S. Geological Survey collaborates with India on ground water and aquifer studies.
Short-Lived Climate Pollutants
Through the Global Methane Initiative, the United States and India collaborate on a range of joint projects and programs to capture methane and use it as a clean energy source. Additionally, the U.S. EPA has collaborated with Indian oil and gas companies to capture and reuse fugitive methane from gas facilities, and has established a research clearinghouse with Coal India on coal mine and coal bed methane. Coal India is using this facility to explore prospects for commercially viable methane capture systems to both reduce emissions and recycle methane as an energy source. India and the U.S. will work together to exchange information on short-lived climate pollutants, including black carbon.
India has long standing collaborations on environment and forestry with various U.S. agencies including the U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS). EPA has been an active partner with India in several areas, including environmental governance and air quality. The USFS and the USFWS have collaborated over the past few decades with India in the areas of watershed management, wildlife conservation, improving forest health and productivity, and integrated forest planning and management for conservation of biological diversity in India. The USFS has also conducted workshops in India on carbon monitoring and assessment, and climate adaptation and mitigation issues in the Eastern Himalayas.


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Artist: Clifford Brown & Max Roach
Year: 1956
Genre: Hard Bop
Grade: A
The drums announce themselves with thundering crashes before settling into an agitated groove, apocalyptic, an urban swirl of foreboding and prophetic introduction, emerging out of the Basin Street underground and casually off into the night. On the LP cover, Max Roach is barely visible from behind his foregrounded drum kit, looking off into the distance.
"What Is This Thing Called Love" announces the final album by the legendary Clifford Brown/Max Roach with reckless abandon. There is added agitation to the arrangements, as if Roach and Brown are both retroactively fighting back against time.
Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street is the final recorded appearance by trumpeter Brown and pianist Richie Powell. Their impending car crash, in hindsight, can't be ignored—shadows filling every space. A nervous atmosphere haunts the record, and even drives it forward. Roach delivers the most ferocious and intense performance of his career, while Brown and saxophonist Sonny Rollins match each other in spirited vehemence.
The result is both ancient and infinite — the hardest hard bop ever recorded.
Every song carries a dark, foreboding undercurrent — subdued, yet openly expressive — but there is still room for Brown & Roach's signature optimism. "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" is warm and summery, while the fast-paced "Powell's Prances" heedlessly bops away at breakneck speed.
However, it's the edgier moments of introspection that Brown & Roach have placed more emphasis on. The cover of "I'll Remember April" is propelled by a nervous energy that never ceases (mostly owing to Roach's percussive attack). Meanwhile, "Time" — one of Richie Powell's masterpieces — plays like an eerie mixture of Miles Davis, Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk.
But it is the final song, "Gertrude's Bounce," the Brown & Roach swansong, that ends things with a subtle bang. The melody is almost sing-song in its casual demeanor, yet the breakdown of the chorus carries an astute hint of modality, causing the entire composition holds an impossible sense of mysticism.
Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street is the sound of things ending too soon. And it almost sounds like the musicians, uncannily, can realize. It is a fitting, cogent end to the greatest partnership in hard bop history.


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About Amber
We hope you find the answer to your amber question below. Please get in touch if there is anything we have not covered here. Always happy to help! Email: firstname.lastname@example.com. Phone: 353-94-9257115
Amber is the fossilized resin of trees. 40 million years ago, these trees produced copious amounts of resin. The resin aged and hardened to become a fossil, the semi prescious gem we know as amber today.
This is amber from shores of the the Baltic Sea in Europe. Baltic Amber is the only type of amber you should use for healing. It contains a higher percentage (8%) of succinite, its healing element, than amber from any other area. We stock ONLY Baltic Amber, handpicked from reputable amber artisans with exceptional experience and knowledge.
Amber has natural pain relieving and anti-inflammatory properties. It is particularly well known to help with pain of bones and joints. But its positive benefit does not end there. Our customers have reported that amber has helped for many chronic conditions including skin conditions, migraine, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, repetitive strain injuries. Amber can also help ease stress and promotes more restful sleep.
It should be worn against the skin. The warmth of the skin against the amber will allow the body to benefit from the healing element in amber - succinite. Best results will be had if it is worn 24/7.
Customers have reported back to us that amber has been helpful in easing the suffering of many complaints such as headaches, rheumatism, insomnia, thyroid problems, throat problems, ear problems, joint inflammation, stress, carpal tunnel, sleep issues, recurring mouth ulcers, repetitive strain injuries, damage from injuries to bones, joints and muscular damage. We caution that amber will not 'cure' a problem. It simply relieves the symptoms. We also caution that it might not help every problem! Please note that we are not medical professionals and medical advice should always be obtained.
No color amber is better than another, in our long experience. It is all amber and will work in the same way regardless of colour. The key is that you leave it against the skin all the time. Traditionally, they were put together in a mix of colours so maybe there is some benefit to this ancient wisdom.
Some people find they notice an improvement by the next day. But it can take longer for others. Just like taking a food supplement, you will not feel an immediate effect. We ask adults to commit to wearing it for 3 to 4 weeks.
The amber itself is good for roughly 2 years, depending on how it is cared for. It can become brittle and faded over time, especially if exposed to soaps and creams, perfumes, chlorine or heat. Please check your amber occasionally for signs of wear and replace if you feel the amber is 'spent'. It will take on a white clouded hue.
Here at www.ambersos.com, we buy only from reputable suppliers directly from the Baltic area. We test all our deliveries to ensure it is genuine amber. It is not in our interest to sell anything other than genuine Baltic amber because we want you to be happy and benefit from your amber. Please read our article on how to test your amber.
From our experience, a very small number of people, maybe 1 in 500, may develop a localized rash which will clear on the removal of amber. This may have a connection to colophony, a resin sensitivity. Once the amber is removed, the rash subsides and no ill effects are subsequently reported.
Some people who are highly sensitive to the world around them can feel a sense of dizziness when wearing amber at first. In this case it may need to be avoided. Or introduced slowly for short periods of time.


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This set of number puzzles will be going into a morning bin!
I might copy these in a 2-page layout, to create 4 puzzles per page.
Of course, I'll be laminating!!
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We report the results of an isotopic study designed to determine the source of solutes and carbon dioxide in the famed Saratoga Springs (New York) mineral waters. These waters have thousands of milligrams per liter total dissolved solid concentrations and are highly charged with carbon dioxide gas. The spring waters are cold (similar to12 degreesC) and there is no local, deep-seated thermal anomaly. They emerge through thick shale caprock along the surface expression of normal faults. The delta(13)C (-5.8parts per thousand to +0.8parts per thousand Vienna Peedee belemnite) of the dissolved inorganic carbon and elevated He-3/He-4 ratios suggest that the source of the CO2 is the mantle or an ancient deep crystallized igneous melt. The stable isotopic content of the spring waters defines a mixing line between modern local meteoric waters (delta similar to 70parts per thousand) and a component with heavier deltaD but similar delta(18)O values. This trend and that of Sr-87/Sr-86 of dissolved strontium versus 1/Sr are consistent with the hypothesis that Canadian Shield-type brines contribute salinity to the springs. These brines plausibly migrate from the Adirondack Mountains to the topographically low McGregor fault system in the Hudson River lowlands, where the Saratoga springs discharge.
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The class URLfileLoader is the default handler for many HTTP server requests. Its role is to load files located on the local file system (e.g, HTML, GIF, JPEG, etc.) that were referenced by HTTP requests.
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The initialize method takes three mandatory arguments. The urlDirectory argument specifies the URLdirectory object for the site. The objClass argument specifies the class to be used when creating any cached objects; normally, this is HTTPcachedFile. The root parameter specifies the logical root of the document tree for which the URLfileLoader object will be responsible. If the section of the tree is to be protected from access, the object Id of an URLprotectedFile object is provided as the checker argument; otherwise is is specified as nil. All remaining arguments specified directories in the locally accessible filesystems that should be searched for files.
The URLfileLoader object registers itself as a directory handler by sending the URLdirectory object a registerDirectoryHandler message.
URLfileLoader:handlerReplaced(string path)
If a new handler is registered for the path associated with an existing URLfileLoader object, the URLdirectory object sends a handlerReplaced message to the previously registered URLfileLoader handler object.
This method returns the object Id of the URLprotectedFile object that validates access to section of the document tree for which the URLfileLoader object is responsible.
Returns the set of top-level directories that will be searched for files.
Returns the set of file names that will be searched when a URL refers to a directory. The default names are Default.htm and index.html, but alternate names can be specified using the setDefaultFiles method.
URLfileLoader:setDefaultFiles(string file1, string file2, string file3)
Replaces the set of file names that will be searched when a URL refers to a directory with the list of names that are passed as arguments. Order is significant: each argument has precedence over subsequent arguments.
URLfileLoader:loadFile(array uriInfo, assoc substVars, any requestOp)
The loadFile method is the means by which a document is located and cached using an HTTPcachedFile (or allomorphic equivalent) object. The first argument, uriInfo is a parsed URI, which is typically obtained from a URI string using the parseHTTPuriData() function. The second argument, substVars is an associative array of environment variables that can be used by a newly created object. As an example, HTML pages with server-side-include directives can be automatically processed by a HTTP_SSIprocessor object and the substVars argument holds the initial environment.
The third argument, requestOp indicates the HTTP method associated with the retrieval. If not present, it is assumed to be "GET".
Note: the newly created object is not registered with the URLdirectory object; if desired, this must be done later using the registerObject method.
If the requested file cannot be loaded, nil is returned; otherwise an array describing the cached result is returned. Subscript 0 holds the object Id of the HTTPcachedObject (or equivalent). Subscript 1 holds a set of names that refer to the cached document; these names normally should be registered with the URLdirectory representing the logical site.


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Increasing Global Collaboration for a Management Consulting Firm
How Aciron does it
A consulting firm with locations in six countries was struggling with global collaboration. The firm wanted to enhance online teamwork across the offices, share information faster, and implement a technology plan for achieving business goals. This consulting team was looking for SharePoint consulting.
The challenge
The firm attempted to address their requirements internally by developing a centralized IT plan. It succeeded in aligning 4 of the 6 locations onto one technology platform. However, this plan failed to address the specialized needs of each office. The company distributed a cross-collaboration survey to leaders at each location to get a high-level understanding. The company then approached Aciron for help in evaluating their processes, identifying areas of improvement, and developing an organization-wide plan.
Our approach
Aciron began the project by reviewing the company's existing documentation. Aciron's consultants conducted interviews with key stakeholders. They took place across the 6 locations in order to better understand their current workflow and to validate key requirements. Aciron raised awareness around the business need for teamwork and using technology together. The consultants shared ideas for how to effectively implement cooperation tools. We obtained feedback from the interviewees on these ideas.
Following these stakeholder interviews, the Aciron team assessed their findings. The interviews highlighted the need for a common people reference database, a common project reference database, and a specific collaboration business plan. The interviews also highlighted areas for improvement. It including overcoming the language barrier between locations and offering more opportunities for relationship building. Aciron presented our team's business and technology recommendations.
In Phase I of the project, Aciron's consultants made actionable recommendations for how the company can improve global partnership. This advice included:
• Hosting a brainstorming workshop to elicit ideas from each office's employees and establishing a cross-office committee
• Developing a people-reference database and project-reference database to make it easier to find people who have project expertise
• Implementing a common Knowledge Management System to house the company's intellectual property and share knowledge across the organization.
• Sponsoring "Lunch & Learn" sessions to enhance collaboration


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The Rudolf Magnus Institute in Utrecht, The Netherlands is looking for a highly motivated postdoc interested in neural signal processing for Brain Computer Interfacing.
The Utrecht BCI group, led by Prof. dr. Nick Ramsey, is part of the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at the University Medical Center Utrecht and participates in the nationwide BrainGain Consortium, which is devoted to application of Brain Computer Interfaces for patients and healthy individuals.
The main focus of the group is conducting neuroscience research towards an invasive BCI application for paralyzed patients. We perform experiments with both healthy subjects and patients (~10 patients with electrode implants available for research each year). Available techniques: 128-channel EEG systems for extracranial and intracranial (ECoG) recordings, fMRI (1.5, 3 and 7 T human Philips systems), TMS and 64-channel intraoperative recordings in awake neurosurgery. Our highly interdisciplinary group consists of 4 postdocs, 10 PhD students and 6 master students, who have a background in neuroscience, psychology, biology or physics and their own expertise in the research field.
The postdoc is expected to investigate new ECoG signal processing techniques for BCI purposes, as well as for cognitive neuroscience research. He/she will work in close collaboration with neuroscientists and needs to have excellent communication skills.
The candidate is likely to have a PhD in biomedical engineering, computational neuroscience, electrical engineering, mathematics or physics, with a record of publications. Solid experience in signal processing of any kind, a deep understanding of the underlying mathematical principles and excellent programming skills in Matlab are required. Experience in neuroscience is not a prerequisite, but we expect the candidate to acquire knowledge of underlying psychological and biological processes.
Earliest starting date of the two-year position is March1st, 2010. Application deadline is January 15th, 2010. Applications and information requests can be sent to Prof. dr. Nick Ramsey, through the following email-adress:
a(dot)elbertse-schouten(at)umcutrecht(dot)nl. Please indicate the vacancy number 2009/0495 in the subject of your email correspondence.
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If you could be perfect, who would you be? Answering this rhetorical question can tell you a lot about yourself, your values and your goals. Just imagine in an ideal situation, how would you want to look like, what would you want to know, how would you like to behave?
I started this blog in order to share tips and things that I learned on gaining weight and bulking up, but on the way, I discovered that it's more than that. There is a reason why people want to gain weight and muscles. It's just a piece of a bigger part.
You need to know this bigger part in order to keep yourself motivated, even in such things as gaining weight. There is a reason why skinny people want to look bigger. For example they want to be respected or just be able to do things that they are not able to do in their skinny frames. They want to be big in order to do something else.
So getting big is just a subset of something bigger. It's a part of self-development and growing yourself inside and out. That's why I expanded this blog to cover other topics. You not only grow big on the outside, but the inside as well.
It's actually a two way process. Knowing other things, gives you bigger self worth as a person, which then keeps you driven in areas such as fitness. Getting bigger physically, gives you more confidence and spills over to other areas of your life, which then means you are successful in those areas as well.
These things are interlinked in many ways and when being treated together, they reinforce the positive benefits you get from each individual area of your life. Human beings are more than a sum of their parts. The different areas of your life create a unique you.
We sometimes lose this overall perspective in the modern world. In order to survive, people have to become more and more specialized. Generalists are not valued anymore, only specialists are. In today's world, people specialize more and more in very niche areas. That's where the money is.
In the old days, people used to be much more well-rounded, both physically and mentally. Being well-rounded was actually encouraged. The most successful people were philosophers, athletes and warriors, all in one.
The world has changed over the years. We have discovered new things, the means of getting from one part of the globe to the other has changed and gotten exponentially faster. The ordinary person cannot keep up with all the knowledge that is being created. So specialization is the key to getting ahead now. However I believe that also having the generalist perspective on top of that, is still something important and to be valued.
In order to truly enjoy the wonderful benefits of this world, people should strive to be more well-rounded. You still need be a specialist in at least one area, because that's just the reality of this world, but having a breadth of knowledge in other areas, and also having a healthy body, can only make you stronger and happier.
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Norman Foster. Drawings 1958–2008
This publication reflects architect Norman Foster's career from the 1950's until nowadays. The catalogue of the exhibition Norman Foster: Drawings 1958-2008, held in September 2009 at Ivorypress and published in collaboration with Foster + Partners, consists of two bilingual volumes in English and Spanish. The first is a transcription of the conferences which took place at Ivorypress, in which a group of experts discussed key issues in the architecture of the last half century. The second volume contains around 200 drawings and sketches by Foster from his 50 years in the industry. This graphic record of his work clearly evidences his desire to integrate architecture into its surroundings and his concern for sustainability.


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by Terry Duffy
Lewiston Town Board members addressed tax and property issues among others at its brief regular meeting Monday, Sept. 26, at Town Hall.
With budget time just around the corner, Supervisor Steve Reiter announced the town would hold a public hearing Monday, Oct. 24, at 5:30 p.m. to address the state's 2 percent property tap cap problem that Lewiston, like other municipalities, is now facing.
"We have had town increases. We have to figure out how to adjust to these," said Reiter.
Spending increases, notably a 70 percent increase in trash fees by Modern Disposal, were cited.
Reiter, responding to queries from town residents, clarified the issue of the town selling green space by announcing that only selected properties in the Lewistowne Park Estates housing subdivision, which border green space areas, would be considered.
Under earlier pacts reached in prior administrations, the town agreed to take control of the small green space lands found throughout the development and maintain the areas for recreational purposes. Many contain utility right-of-ways and are considered too small for any uses other than natural or recreational.
In turn, the town was compensated by subdivision developers at $250 per property bordering the green space in order to maintain them. Little had been done with the green spaces over the years. Some bordering property owners had installed pools, child play equipment or built small sheds. And the town, tired with addressing maintenance issues and responding to inquiries from residents on buying them, decided to try selling them.
Reiter, calling the problem "a logistical nightmare," commented at the session that it has cost the town "much more to maintain the parcels" than the $250 per property it was compensated.
But the matter remains far from settled. Town Attorney Mike Dowd reported he is still trying to figure out a host of logistical issues affecting the parcels and the interests of properties and the owners that surround them. He said issues involving how the properties were acquired - even going so far as examining individual deeds - needs to be considered. "Individual properties need to be considered if they are considered surplus properties," said Dowd. "There's questions with logistics; how the properties are divided."
Dowd indicated he was continuing to address the matter and no final decision on selling was reached on Monday.
In other news:
•The board reported Halloween trick or treat hours throughout the town would be from 4 to 7 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 31.
•Town Councilman Mike Marra reported the town would start construction of a girls' softball diamond in Kiwanis Park over coming weeks. The town parks and highway departments, using town funds, would do the work.
•Reiter reported that Modern has expressed interest in introducing compressed natural gas as a fuel source for its vehicles and is seeking town permission to install new pumps. Dowd indicated that no site plan would be required and that Modern would need a building permit, monitored by town Building Inspector Tim Masters to allow it to proceed. National Fuel would provide oversight for the project, which would be at Modern's expense.
Councilman Ernie Palmer, who sponsored the motion with Councilman Al Bax, suggested that compressed natural gas could be a route for the town to follow. Board members concurred and unanimously passed the measure.
•The board took no action on an ongoing request by resident Marie Parkhill to rename The Circle as The Circle Drive. The woman has requested the name change due to the undesired courtesy title "Sir" found on several of her mailings. Dowd suggested the name change, which would affect up to 50 residents, could come as soon as next month's work session.


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Black Erotic Art and Poetry Meets Soulful Sounds at the 3rd Degree Glass Factory
For the 3rd consecutive year, St. Louis artists and photographers collaborate to bring the city a taste of sensuality, seduction and soul as GLoveBoxX Arts & Ent. presents: The 3rd annual SeptembERotica Art Showcase. Adorned with erotic exhibitions, the aesthetic…Read more


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Sorry. Its been about three months since I last updated the blog.
Many things happened, and so, many things to share.
For there are actually some postings that I have already prepared.
Alas there was no chances for me to post inside the blogger.
But today, soon, there will be one.
At least one in the next 5 days. InsyaAllah...


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Veteran Africa reporter, and now foreign editor of the Economist, Robert Guest talks about mock executions and being stranded in Kinshasa. On a lighter note, he recalls a lemur with a penchant for itching his balls with a fork. He is the author of the Shackled Continent, a book on how Africa can prosper.
Impressions from reporting in Kenya?
I love visiting Kenya, though it's always complicated and hard to keep up with what's going on. I've met a lot of really smart Kenyans, and a lot of brave ones, too. I've watched the way Kenya has been transformed by technology, for example, leading the world in its adoption of mobile money.
I was last in Nairobi a few months ago, talking to a telecoms executive who explained to me how incredibly useful it would be if Kenya was able to process and analyse all the data produced by people paying for things with M-Pesa, which is a very exciting idea. On the same trip, in marked contrast, I also interviewed human-rights campaigners in Mombasa who were worried at the number of Muslim youths who were being "disappeared" by the police.
If you could pick out one anecdote from your time in Africa, which would it be?
My wife Emma and I were on a scuba-diving holiday in Madagascar. We were eating bananes flambees, a scrumptious dish of bananas swimming in rum and set on fire. Our guide book told us that a banane flambee is the local slang for a ladies' man, which amused us.
As we were eating, a tame lemur jumped onto a nearby empty table and started vigorously scratching himself with a fork. He scratched himself all over, and I mean everywhere. Then he put the fork back down and hopped away, leaving it for the next unsuspecting diner to use it.
Hairiest reporting trip?
I got stuck in Kinshasa [in DRC] in August 1998, just as the great Congo war was starting. I came in across the river by boat from Brazzaville [in neighbouring Congo-Brazzaville]. I was only planning to spend a week there, but Rwandan-backed rebels attacked the airport just before I was supposed to fly out, so my flight was cancelled.
The atmosphere in the city was pretty grim. There were bodies in the street of suspected rebels who had been doused with petrol and set alight. The radio urged locals to "bring a machete, a spear, an arrow, a hoe, spades, rakes, nails, truncheons, electric irons, barbed wire, stones, and the like, in order, dear listeners, to kill the Rwandan Tutsis." I wasn't a Tutsi, but I was still scared.
A couple of my colleagues were put through mock executions by Congolese soldiers. I got out after two weeks, back over the river by boat again. I had run out of money, so I borrowed $1,000 from another journalist and booked myself onto the first flight out of Brazzaville, regardless of where it was heading.
What do you never travel without?
Something to read. I used to lug around stacks of paper books, to make sure that I was never stuck on a bus or in an airport with nothing to read. Now I just load books into a tablet. The latest books on wherever I am travelling to, plus all the past issues of The Economist and a crime novel or two. Wonderful.
Favourite hotel in the world
The Victoria Falls hotel was lovely when I went there in the late 1990s. Emma and I spent an idyllic weekend holding hands and admiring the "Smoke that Thunders". The only downside was that virtually no one else was there – recent footage of police beating up protesters in Harare 700 km away had convinced all the tourists that Zimbabwe was too dangerous to visit.
Favourite view in the world
I love the view over Lake Kivu from the Orchids Hotel in Bukavu. But if it's jacaranda season in Johannesburg, you can't beat the view from the Four Seasons at Westcliff. You're looking down on one of the biggest cities in Africa, but all you can see is a carpet of purple blossoms stretching for miles. And if you look closely through the trees, you can just make out the tigers in the zoo.
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