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Last week, the hub and I were wrapping Christmas presents and trying to find something to watch on Instant Netflix. We're going through Breaking Bad withdrawal and so we were thumbing through the Netflix menu, tweaking like a couple of crackheads, trying to find anything that would take our minds off the mind-blowing season 3 finale we had just witnessed. Trying to get our minds off of meth and into the spirit of the Holiday, we found some old Christmas cartoons from the 1930s — the very compilation my brothers and I used to watch when we were kids. What a treat! I thought. What a fun memory! When June is older, we can watch these Christmas classics together. What a great new family tradition. Pleased with myself, I pressed play.
What I then witnessed were some of the most offensive and tasteless cartoons in the history of cinema. And I'm gonna break it down for y'all.
Let's start with this treasure:
You know it's going to be good when it opens on an orphanage.
The basic premise is this – there's a bunch of little kids (girls, I think, but it's kind of ambiguous) in a dilapidated orphanage and they wake up on Christmas morning. Overjoyed at the promise of presents, the gender-bending orphans leap out of bed and dance around the room, singing jubilantly about Santa Claus. How sweet!
The first disturbing thing about this video is that there is no parental presence at all. Obviously they're orphans, but there's no headmaster or any kind of authority figure whatsoever. The place is clearly run by children, who are just dancing around and tearing their stockings off the walls, and you get a definite Lord of the Flies vibe. There's also a baby running around and tripping over her distressingly long nightgown. One of the kids is probably nursing this baby, for all we know. So the kids grab their stockings and unwrap their presents, and while this is happening you have this ominous feeling that something terrible is about to occur. And it does.
One by one, each child's sole Christmas gift breaks, falls apart, or is otherwise damaged beyond repair. There is a full thirty-second montage of orphans enjoying their presents and then sobbing miserably when they are destroyed by their own enthusiasm. In the most heartbreaking scene you'll ever see in your life, (fast forward to 2:13 if you want your spirit to be forever wounded) one of the orphans hugs her teddy bear so hard the stuffing falls out and her toy is reduced to a formless lump of skin. She kills her toy. SHE KILLS IT WITH HER LOVE.
As if that weren't bad enough, the director of this piece thought it would be a good idea to pan around the room and show all of the orphans wailing in tandem, clutching their broken presents, their battered Christmas tree drooped over in the background. I can't find a screencap of the image, but it's reminiscent of the scene in Gone with the Wind where the Union invades Atlanta and Scarlett is trying to find Doctor Meade amidst the devastation. The director zooms out and, at once, the fall of the South is apparent.
|Merry Christmas, kids!
I'm not sure what to take away from this initially — that Santa is a giant, orphan-hating dick? That he purposefully gave them the shittiest presents ever? Or maybe Santa just skips over orphans on Christmas, as punishment for being poor.
|Try not to be so poor next year, kid.
So far, Christmas is a disaster and Santa hates orphans. How can this cartoon possibly redeem itself?
Enter Grampy.
Grampy is an inventor and a professor, as evidenced by the sign on the side of his stagecoach. I'm pretty sure Grampy is a "professor" in the same way that Dr. Mary from Frasier had a doctorate from the School of Hard Knocks. Grampy rides around town in a stagecoach and sings about Christmas, as professors do, and during his ride he overhears the cacophony of wailing orphans. What the eff? thinks Grampy, and he pulls over at the Oprhanage to have a look. He peeks in and sees the kids — still wailing, except now they are trudging slowly back to bed and pulling the covers over their heads to cry separately. Seriously.
Grampy might be a lunatic, but he's not heartless. He sees the crying orphans and he just can't abide. So he puts on his thinking cap and has a fantastic idea…an idea that involves a B&E.
|Hide yo kids, hide yo wife
Most people would knock and enter someone's home through the front door. Not Grampy! Grampy breaks right the fuck in, laughing maniacally the entire time. And it's not creepy at all, because he's whimsical. Again — where are the parents? Oh right, they're orphans.
Anyway, Grampy breaks in and proceeds to upturn every shelf in the kitchen. He empties all the cupboards and drawers and puts all the silverware and plates and kitchen appliances in the center of the room in a big Hoarders-style pile. Grampy is completely oblivious to the fact that if the children were to walk in the kitchen and find a hysterically-laughing stranger in there, they would probably be rightfully upset. Thankfully, the kids are all crying too hard to even notice Grampy at all.
So Grampy continues to wreck the kitchen and the children are still crying in their beds. Then, systematically, he breaks every single one of their posessions and remakes it into a toy. While it's oddly sweet that Grampy takes the time to make them presents, and as a viewer you're starting to feel relieved that the kids will get some Christmas toys they've so wrongfully been deprived of, I'd like to remind you that these kids are poor as shit. And some psycho just broke in their house and destroyed all the things they need for their livelihood – like their washing board. And their dishes. And their sewing machine. And their clothes.
|The hell is that?
As the pièce de résistance in his spectacular Christmas felony, Grampy impersonates Santa Claus. You know, the man who couldn't be bothered to leave them nice presents to begin with. In a fit of emotion, Grampy even rips off part of their ceiling to make himself boots and forces his hand through a thick blanket to fashion himself a coat. (Orphans don't need blankets, right?) With this gesture, his fraud is complete. Santa's back, kids. And now you have no silverware.
|Blanket, you say? NOT ANYMORE! Santa needs a coat!
Ultimately, the children stumble out of bed, see their new presents, and go absolutely apeshit. They ride around on their new toys and then dance ritualistically around their new makeshift Christmas tree, and the cartoon ends on a joyous note. I bet it'll be totally awkward the next day when they realize that Santa not only is the neighborhood lunatic, but he broke in their house and destroyed everything they own, but that's neither here nor there. For now, Christmas has been saved. The spirit of Santa will live on. Or should I say, the spirit of Grampy.
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Our collegiate approach will ensure that learning and teaching will provide challenge and fun for all.
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The school has adopted a positive approach to its pupils and is happy to praise them at every opportunity. Alloa Academy is at the forefront of development of positive discipline structures. It has also introduced an assertive discipline policy to all classrooms which combines known and agreed standards with praise and reward.
This policy has been responsible for the school winning several awards including the CBI Celebration Bus 2001, Barclays New Futures Awards 2001 and the Scottish Schools Ethos Award 2002/03 and highly commended in the Scottish Education Awards 2005.
The building itself was opened in February 2009 to provide a bright, modern campus with brand new facilities and a riverside location to the south of Alloa.
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Alloa Academy is a six year comprehensive school serving the town of Alloa in Clackmannanshire. Its roll is slightly rising with over 700 pupils. It serves the town of Alloa only and has three primary schools associated with it: Redwell, Sunnyside and Park. It also welcomes pupils from St Mungo's Primary.
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Ricardo wrote an article "promoting little gifts", which @perlbuzz tweeted as "giving little gifts as thanks".
I like that idea, and it inspired me to remind people to please also consider just giving "thanks", too.
Sure, I'd love a song or a small ebook (and maybe I should set up a wishlist), but I also love getting an email saying thanks, particularly when it is from someone I don't already know telling me that they like a module I released to CPAN or telling me how they are using my code to solve some problem they have. Email is cheap, but still has huge impact.
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It also discusses the possibility of whether Internet can be used as a tool for social justice and change, particularly by the underprivileged, to go beyond caste, class, gender and other oppressive social structures. A tract for our times, this book will interest scholars and researchers of politics, media studies, popular culture, sociology, international relations as well as the general reader.
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If you are a professional logo designer, an advice from experts to consider is that you should listen to your clients but do not let them dictate when it comes to designing a logo. Your clients usually do not have expertise over different aspects of logos and so their advice may be useful only to some extent.
The clients provide design brief to the logo designers. The brief contains mostly the information regarding the business and its offerings of products or services. Some wiser details about the company's history and its aspirations are also included. But a designer usually also does own research to find out more in order to get some inspiration.
During logo design process, clients want to interfere to know about the creative process. They wish to get more insight about the design. Many of them are interested in getting their approval on every design element. Though there is nothing harmful in this approach but it should be restricted by the designer.
A logo designer is a creative person who does well by implementing own ideas. Creativity is all about unique ideas or concepts. But if the client interferes too much, the uniqueness of the logo may be spoiled and the design may end-up being a mediocre piece.
A creative logo design is not only unique but it is also imaginative and aesthetically pleasing. This can be ensured only when the designer is allowed to perform freely without any intervention. But it is also up to the designer to let the client know about the reason behind selection of the elements.
While the designer is at will to choose a design, he or she should be ready to explain its basis. Professional designers always are ready to explain the colors, fonts, white space, lines shapes etc used in the logo. Usually, just on seeing a design for the first time, the clients are dismissive about it as they cannot understand its implications and meaning for the company. So, while the designer should be free to create, the client must also be convinced over the usefulness of the design for the company.


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Community banks can now accept millions more in state deposits -- and make additional funds available for local loans -- after a bill sponsored by Sen. Joseph A. Griffo and Assemblyman William Magee was signed into law Thursday.
The bill permits the state comptroller and state Taxation and Finance commissioner to deposit up to $20 million in state funds at each community bank, doubling the previous $10 million limit.
The Community Deposit Program allows up to $250 million of state funds to be deposited in all community banks.
Community banks are local banks that frequently focus on local lending, including small business and farm investment. According to a report in February from the state's Department of Financial Services, the number of community banks in the state has declined significantly, from 299 in 1992 to 169 in 2011, and their assets and deposits have also declined. But the report says that since 2001, they have seen an increase in their total assets in the highly competitive banking sector.
"Depositing more state money in local banks is just good practice," said Griffo (R-Rome). "It supports jobs at the branches, in the back offices and in the headquarters, which are almost always in-state. And if the community banks have more money on deposit, they can make additional commercial loans to local businesses. I thank Assemblyman Magee for his assistance and the governor for signing this legislation."
Magee, a Democrat from Nelson, added: "This new law will play an important role in the local economy since it will encourage the placement of State deposits in local banks. The community bank deposit program creates an opportunity for New York State to help stimulate local economic development."
"Community banks hold just 22 percent of the assets of all FDIC banks in the state, yet we make 55 percent of small business loans and 90 percent of all small farm loans in New York," said Frank J. Capaldo, president and CEO of the Independent Bankers Association of New York State. "The Community Bank Deposit Program allows community banks to accept placement of state deposits to reinvest them into loans in their local communities to encourage economic development." Capaldo expressed gratitude to Griffo for his work on the bill.
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ED's note: Two technology stories on Wednesday suggested points that could indicate a trend in how we interact with each other electronically. In the news business, coincidences of that sort often call for us to look for a possible trend story.
Two random points don't make a trend, of course. It's up to a reporter to look at how they're interconnected, if at all, and how strongly. On Wednesday, the stories were Apple announcing the impending release of their next generation iPhone and iPad this coming fall, as Facebook announced they were adding a video chat feature to their ubiquitous social networking site.
Tribune business reporter Wailin Wong described the front page trend story that followed:
Video chatting is one of those technology trends that hasn't quite taken off, despite lots of buzz in the industry. But when big companies with a history of shaping consumer behavior start making serious efforts to promote mainstream adoption of video calling, it certainly catches the attention of the technology press.
Companies such as Apple, Facebook and Google are trying to bring down some of the barriers that have traditionally kept video chatting from becoming as popular as instant messaging or texting. On Wednesday, Facebook announced a partnership with Skype that allows consumers to do one-on-one video chats with their Facebook friends via the social network. This announcement follows the roll-out of Google+, the search company's new social network that includes a group video chat service within its "Hangouts" feature. Apple has FaceTime, a video chatting application that is enabled on the iPhone 4 and the iPad 2, both of which have front-facing cameras.
Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg believes video chatting is symbolic of the kinds of applications that are made possible by big social networks. Facebook now has 750 million active users.
"The driving narrative for the next five years or so is not going to be about wiring up the world," Zuckerberg said at the Wednesday press event at Facebook headquarters. "It's about what kind of cool stuff you're going to be able to build...now that you have this wiring in place, this social infrastructure."
Is video chatting the killer feature that Facebook users have been awaiting? The next few years will determine whether Facebook and others have succeeded in bringing video calling to the mainstream. In the meantime, they'll be looking for even more new ways to help people connect.
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The 2013 Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting kicked up very little Texas dust. Other than a resolution about the gay agenda finding a home in Boys Scouts of America, the biggest news coming out of Houston was the scarcity of Southern Baptists who showed up in Houston.
Low messenger registration, along with reports about declining baptisms and church membership, caused the media and doomsday prophets to place their news releases on the SBC in the obituary section. While I am as concerned as anyone about the unwillingness of many of our churches to fill out an Annual Church Profile and some of the woeful statistics that were reported, I don't believe the SBC is in need of an epitaph.
To borrow a line from Mark Twain, I think the reports of our death have been greatly exaggerated. What is my cause for optimism?
Declining baptisms and falling church membership are by no means a reason for celebration but the fact that more than 300,000 believers were baptized in our churches is causing much rejoicing among the angels in heaven (Luke 15:7).
A Lottie Moon Christmas Offering of more than $149 million for overseas missions is not the best missions offering Southern Baptists have ever given, but it is the third best. And $149 million is a lot of money!
Our overseas mission force has tragically shrunk to less than 5,000. Still, more than 4,500 Southern Baptist missionaries are taking the gospel to more than 180 nations. And those missionaries reported more than 23,000 new churches and more than 300,000 baptisms overseas. (Click here to check out the report from the International Mission Board.)
The majority of our churches are plateaued or declining but we still have more than 45,000 churches and are planting approximately 1,000 new churches every year. When accounting for churches that closed and new churches that were planted or affiliated, the overall number of SBC churches grew this past year. (Click here to check out the North American Mission Board's report.)
For all of the shocking statements about Southern Baptists no longer being "relevant" and the lists of things we must do to "stop the bleeding," I am simply not convinced that it's time to begin casting for "The Last of the Baptists." Rather, I believe that, as long as there are among us those who "contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints" (Jude 1:3), Baptists will be around to "hear the trumpet call of God" (1 Thess. 4:16).
Until then, will we be able to boast of being the "largest Protestant denomination" or continue to have the "largest missionary sending agency in the history of Christianity?" While we are grateful for the ways God has chosen to use and bless Southern Baptists as a people, we are also mindful of Scripture's admonition to "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord" (1 Cor. 1:31).


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First time I've ever rooted for Oklahoma! Thanks for doing this
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First time I've ever rooted for Oklahoma! Thanks for doing this
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Please note: Card collecting is my hobby, not my life. I don't take it that serious and like to keep it fun.
Are you kidding me? Bucknell vs Michigan St? UGH...
Go Penn!--wait, what?
Collecting Gary and Joe Gaetti, Ozzie Smith, Kenny Boyer, Albert Pujols, Kirby Puckett, Joe Mauer,and Brian Dinkleman. PM me if you have something you don't need that I might!
And if you want to friend me on Facebook, please let me know your online handle, since I may not know your real name!
MEEEEEHHHH People posted in the games post so now there will be a page 2 before there needs to So can you guys post in here for anything about the contest or comments. Because it becomes harder for me to go back and forth to up date the contest if there is 2 pages. When we get in the later rounds it's ok to have more then one page. But the bigger list take sometime. Sorry I should have said this in the beginning even though it says it in the first post
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Looks like Buffalo beat the spread......and Arizona!
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Won with purdue and losted with Ga st....Best regards, David
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So I am pretty sure I lost Michigan in the first round and just picked up Purdue?
Keep it classy.
In great shape with Syracuse playing Duke...
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Thanks for the contest! Purdue won....but losted the point spread because of injuried player.....Best regards, David
Losted in Space, on Gilligian's island without a boat, can't get back into Narnia, struck in a time machine!
Good Afternoon kiddies
I going to update this soon today after I post the games for today/tomorrow with the odds
@alexs64 I have been sick this past week starting on Sunday morning, but I'm better today and will catch up. So if you where an underdog and they didn't beat the spread then yes you have them. But I'll need to double check first
It's Fun having Loyola! I feel like I am an alumni the way I'm rooting for them!!!!
Onward to the elite 8!


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Located in the Kingdom of Lytotha on the Kingdom Highway, just north of the Nightscap Forest.
Population approx. 1,200
Having grown from not much, Bila is a rather uninteresting town in which there a few particularly interesting things, most notable as the home of the House of Squares
Axe Biter Inn: favoured by lumberjacks
Wide Bignel's Tavern: very popular with the rougher locals, owned by an ogre who literally throws people through the door and windows when closing for the night. A repairman comes every morning.


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It's interesting how a few hard years can be a catalyst of change. Construction is a great example. The economic downturn forced builders to find new ways to grow business. Enter social media. Though construction has a long-standing reputation of being averse to new technology, widespread adoption of social media is changing the way builders get business done.
With more than a billion users on Facebook and no cost for company pages, it's not hard to see why construction firms are boosting their brands socially. A recent study by the Construction Marketing Association confirmed construction's move to social channels. The study shows a 7% rise in social media use by builders in 2013 and reports that 97% of construction firms are active in social media.
Finding the Secret Recipe
While 97 percent is not small. But construction's life in social media is still in its infancy. Many firms are still trying to determine which channels are best for them. LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, Facebook and YouTube are now the seasoned veterans and remain the favorites. But a few newer networks are gaining momentum.
Despite continued criticism that Google+ is social media's equivalent to a ghost town, Google's digital hangout has swelled to 400 million users making it the third largest social network behind Facebook and Twitter. Not coincidentally, Google+ marked the largest increase with 16 percent more construction firms joining to the social platform in 2013. Twitter notched the second highest gain with a 13 percent bump, followed closely by YouTube at 12 percent.
Facebook followed by LinkedIn were at the bottom of the list, with gains of 2 and 3 percent respectively. As the largest social network in the world and the largest network dedicated to business, the nominal change is largely due to early adoption of these networks before expanding into more exotic networking locales.
Changing Engagement
As construction's relationship with social media matures, it will be interesting to see how companies and individuals engage each other, at what level, and how much of today's in-person interaction is replaced by content sharing, microblogs, discussion forums and instant messaging.
We believe both have a place in construction. There's still no beating a good old fashion hand shake, though tomorrow's handshakes may begin with social sharing today.
Do you have thoughts on the construction industry's use of social media? Share them with us in the comments below. And be sure to like and follow us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and Google+.


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Panama And the Canal In Picture and Prose
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ABBOT, Willis J. Panama and the Canal In Picture and Prose : A complete story of Panama, as well as the history, purpose and promise of its world-famous canal - the most gigantic engineering undertaking since the dawn of time. Approved by leading officials connected with the great enterprise. Water-colors by E.J. Read and Gordon Grant. Profusely illustrated by over 600 unique and attractive photographs taken expressly fot this book by our special staff. N.Y.: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1914. Pp 414. 4to, red cloth. First appeared the previous year. Rear inner hinge repaired with cloth tape, else vg. 80.00
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ABBOTT, Stan. HAMMILL, Harry. WILKINSON, Barry.
To Kill a Railway. 1st impression, presentation copy ill. card covers
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ABBOTT, Stan. To Kill a Railway : The run-down of the Settle-Carlisle line; the endeavours of 22,265 people and a dog to prevent its closure and the relevance of it all to transport policy in Britain. Cover graphics by Harry Hammill. Picture by Barry Wilkinson/Picture House. (Hawes, North Yorkshire): Leading Edge Press and Publishing, (1986). First Impression. Pp 161. Illustrated with photos, diagrams, cartoons, and maps to text. 8vo, illustrated card covers with erratum slip laid in. "The Settle to Carlisle railway from its birth has achieved the seemingly impossible - in engineering and scenic terms it is one of Britain's wonders And now, under the threat of death, the line is awakening anew spirit. [...]. The campaign to save the line has reached every part of the Kingdom, and a wide-ranging coalition, bringing together local authorities, consumer groups and political parties, has resulted." -from the foreword. Presentation copy signed by the author. Covers rubbed, lovingly thumbed, ow vg. 25.00
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ABEL, Deryck. KIRKPATRICK, Ivone, Sir, foreword.
Channel Underground : A New Survey of the Channel Tunnel Question. First Edition hardcover in dustjacket.
Pall Mall Press, London and Dunmow, 1961,
ABEL, Deryck. Channel Underground : A New Survey of the Channel Tunnel Question. With a Foreword by Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick. London and Dunmow : The Pall Mall Press, (1961). First Printing. Pp. (12),xiii-xvi,1-127,(1), frontispiece, + 4 p. of black and white plates. 8vo, red cloth with black letteringto spine. "The Channel Tunnel is no longer a wild dream. It is a technical ly feasible proposition and economically sound. In a few years' time, Pariswill be only a four-hour train journey from London and cars will eb whiske d through to the Continent in well under an hour. It is, nevertheless, a vast project. In this new, comprehensive survey Deryck Abel abses himself on the extensive researches carried out from 1958 to 1960 by the Channel Tunnel Study Group. After an historical survey, covering the last 150 years, he explains the initiatives recently taken bny British, French and American interested parties. his technical survey includes teh conclusions of the geophysicists and an appraisal of engineering devices and techniques -- immersed tube, bridge, railway tunnel, road tunnel, rail-cum-road tunnel. He dealsalso with potential tunnel traffic and its conditioning factors, and final ly with the financial and legal problems involved. At a time when the Common Market and growing unity dominate European development, this book is an essential guide to a project that may well prove to be a turning point in Britain's relationship with the Continent." - from the dustjacket. Fore-edge spotted, else very good in nicked, verso-spotted, unclipped dustjacket. 20.00
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Welland Canal Company : A Study in Canadian Enterprise. First Edition in dustjacket.
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1954,
AITKEN, Hugh G.J. The Welland Canal Company : A Study in Canadian Enterprise. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1954. First Edition. Pp (6),[vii]-ix,(3),-[1]-178,(2) + map. Another map in text. Tables, charts in text. 8vo, tan cloth, black lettering to spine. In the Studies in Entrepreneurial History series. "Among the transportation improvements of the nineteenth century in North America the Welland Canal occupies a position of uniqueimportance. Opened for traffic in 1829, the Canal provided a navigable wat erway around Niagara Falls, making it possible for ships to pass freely from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. Its significance for the expansion of shippingon the Great Lakes can hardly he overestimated; in addition it played a vi tal roie in the rivalry between American and Canadian transportation routesfor the trade of the West, being designed initially as Canada's answer to the Erie Canal between Buffalo and New York. Enlarged no less than three times since its original construction, the Welland Canal continues in active use at the present day and promises to acquire even greater importance, both for Canada and for the United States, with the completion of the proposedSt. Lawrence Seaway. In this book Mr. Aitkcn relates the history of the pr ivate corporation which constructed the first Welland Canal and analyzes its operations and problems in detail. He focuses particular attention on theentrepreneurial group responsible for the inception and execution of the p roject, upon their partlv conflicting interests, and upon the way in which thev created an organization to their purposes. Mr. Aitken deals chiefly with problems of promotion, construction, finance, and management, and identifies the sources of the Company's principal difficulties: managerial inexperience, scarcity of capital, inadequate engineering skills, and political opposition. While the book is primarily a biography of the Company rather than of the men who composed it, considerable emphasis is laid on the influence of individuals upon the formation and execution of policy, particularly on the roles played by three men: William Hamilton Merritt, a mill owner and merchant in the Niagara peninsula, later an important Canadian politician; John B. Yates, a capitalist of Albany, New York, by profession a manager of lotteries; and John H. Dunnn, receiver general in the government of Upper Canada. These individuals are identified as the nucleus of the entrepreneurial group and an attempt is made to analyze their motives and appraise the functions they performed in the Company." (from the dj). Contents :Preface; 1. Upper Canada: The Inland Province; 2. Promotion; 3. Construction; 4. Finance; 5. Entrepreneurshp. Appendix : Revenue, Traffic, Costs, and Sources of Capital. With notes and index. A few small marginal coffee spots, elsevery good in price-clipped dustjacket. 60.00
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AL-KHATIB, Ahmad Sh.
New Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, English-Arabic with illustrations
Librairie du Liban, Riad Solh Square, 1986,
AL-KHATIB, Ahmad Sh. A New Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, English-Arabic with illustrations, Sixth Edition. Riad Solh Square-Beirut: Librairie Du Liban, 1986. Pp(8),ix-xv,(1)1-751(1). Large 8vo, black imitationleather. This English-Arabic dictionary covers over 60,000 terms in the fi elds of aeronautics, astronautics, astronomy, biology, chemical engineering, civil engineering, electrical engineering, electronics, geology, geophysics, hydraulics, mathematics, metallurgy, mechanical engineering, meterorology, mineralogy, military science, petroleum engineering, physics, radio surveying, and television. Illustrated with diagrams as well as both black andwhite and colour photographs. Slight smudge and stain on fore-edge, spine crunched at top end, nicks, else vg in rubbed dj. 75.00
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ALCOCK, D. G. Chatto Career Book for Boys
Sam Dykes Marine Engineer. in poor dj
Chattos and Windus, 1959,
ALCOCK, D. G. Sam Dykes Marine Engineer. L: Chattos and Windus, 1959. Pp. 141. 8vo, blue cloth. A Chattos Career Book for Boys A young apprentice's dream of life at sea becomes a reality, when he finally recieves his Chief's ticket in marine engineering. Some browning to lower spine, faint brown spotting to endpapers and first few leaves, else vg in poor dj (tape repair across front panel, lower 3 inches of rear panel missing, spine ends and edges chipped, tear to front fold, rubbed). 35.00
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Aluminum Company of Canada
Welding and Brazing Aluminum
Alcan Technical Books, Montreal, 1949,
ALUMINUM COMPANY OF CANADA. Welding and Brazing Aluminum. Montreal: (Alcan Technical Books), (1949). Pp. (4),[i]-xiii,(1),[1]-163(1). Illustrated withdrawings and photos. 8vo, coilbound, illustrated blue cloth covers with si lver lettering to spine and red and silver lettering to front. Chapters: 1.Welding and Brazing Aluminum and its Alloys; 2. Aluminum Welding and Brazi ng Processes; 3. Oxy-Gas Welding; 4. Argon Arc Welding; 5. Metal Arc Welding; 6. Carbon Arc Welding; 7. Atomic-Hydrogen Arc Welding; 8. Resistance Welding; 9. Welding Aluminum Castings; 10. Brazing Aluminum and its Alloys; 11. Inspection and Testing of Gas Welded, Arc Welded, and Brazed Joints. Owner's name in ink to front paste-down, slightly edgeworn and minor soiling tocovers. 20.00
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American Iron and Steel Institute)
Handbook of Steel Drainage & Highway Construction Products. Fourth Printingof Second Canadian Edition
Corrugated Steel Pipe Institute / American Iron and Steel Institute, Cambridge, Ontario / Washington, DC, 2010,
(American Iron and Steel Institute). Handbook of Steel Drainage & Highway Construction Products. Cambridge, Ontario : Corrugated Steel Pipe Institute / Washington, DC : American Iron and Steel Institute, December 2010. FourthPrinting of Second Canadian Edition. Pp(2),[i]-viii,1-470. Illustrated. In dex. 8vo, illustrated green paper covered boards (hardcover), lettered in green, white and orange. Chapters : 1. Applications. 2. Product Details & Fabrication. 3. Hydrology. 4. Hydraulics. 5. Culvert Location. 6. Structural Design. 7. Installation and ConstructionProcedures. 8. Durability. 9. ValueEngineering and Least Cost Analysis. 10. Inspection, Maintenance and Rehab iltation. 11. Tunnel Liner Plate. 12. Guiderails. 13. Retaining Walls. 14. Sheet Steel Piling. ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES WILL BE REQUIRED FOR ORDERSOUTSIDE CANADA DUE TO ITS WEIGHT. Very good. With Water Management Solutio ns Plus booklet and DVD laid in. 50.00
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American Society for Municipal Improvements
Official Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Convention held at Detroit, Michigan, January 16-18, 1933. Volume Thirty-Eight.
American Society for Municipal Improvements, St. Louis, MO , 1933,
(American Society for Municipal Improvements). Official Proceedings of the Thirty-Eighth Annual Convention held at Detroit, Michigan, January 16-18, 1933. Volume Thirty-Eight. St. Louis, MO : American Society for Municipal Improvements, April 1, 1933. Pp [1]-693,(3). Illustrated. 8vo, green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Sections : 1. City Planning. 2. Airports and Landing Fields. 3. Street and Traffic Lighting. 4. Traffic Control. 5. Water Works. 6. Refuse Disposal and Street Cleaning. 7. Sewerage and Sanitation. 8. Municipal Legislation and Finance. 9. Public Utilities. 10. Street Paving, Design, Construction and Maintenance. 11. Municipal Field Engineering. 12. Municipal Engineering Personnel. 13. Highway Sidewalks, 14. Municipal Contract Forms. 15. Subgrades and Foundations. 16. Sidewalks and Curbs. 17. Vitrified Brick Pavements. 18. Stone Block Pavements. 19. Cement Concrete Pavements. 20. Bituminous Pavements. 21. Street Railway Pavements and Track Construction. 22. Sewers. 23. Business Proceedings. 24. Constitution, Officers, Committees and Membership Roster. 25. Material. Service, and Equipment Directory. Spine severely damp-spotted, light staining to boards, corners bumped, damp-wrinkled throughout, some corners dog-eared, else a good, solid copy. As is. 40.00
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ANDERSON, Frank J.
Submarines, Diving and the Underwater World : A Bibliography
Archon, 1975,
ANDERSON, Frank J., (comp.). Submarines, Diving, and the Underwater World: A Bibliography. Compiled and Edited by Frank J. Anderson. (Hamden, Connecticut) : Archon Books, 1975. First Edition. Pp (4),v-ix,(1),1-238. 8vo, blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine. In one alphabetical sequence, over 1,500 titles (plus authors and cross-references) cover historical works, technicaltreatises, biographical memoirs, official documents, bibliographies, and f iction for all tastes and ages. One- half the entries deal with submarines in war, but as naval combat is no longer their only use, the submarine and diving in scientific research, engineering and oceanology, and recreation account for the other titles referenced. Fundamental information on topics as diverse as ocean currents, salinity, bottom mapping; underwater archaeology; physiological and psychological experimentation; drilling, mining, and construction; underwater photography, marine life, and scuba diving as a sport; are integrated here with the victories, rescues, and disasters of battle, and the salvage efforts made in times of war and peace alike. - from the dj. Works regarding the technological advances made in man's 'mastery' of the sea are listed; such as accounts of bathyscaphe probes, underwater drift voyages, Sealab living, and deep diving with the use of the aqualung. The ocean's contempt of man's 'mastery' is also recorded in the literature of submarine disasters and the subsequent rescue and salvage attempts. The books in this list range over a period of more than 400 years of man's attempts to use the underwater world for his own ends. [ ] The books listed arewritten in various languages with English-language books predominating. Th ere is a good representation of books in French and in German. A few titlesin Russian and Spanish are included, along with a token representation of Dutch, Hungarian, Japanese, Scandinavian, and Turkish language books. p.vii. Very good in unclipped dustjacket. 70.00
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ANDRÉ, George G.
Practical Treatise on Coal Mining. 2 vols ex-lib
E. & F. N. Spon, 1888,
ANDRÉ, George G. A Practical Treatise on Coal Mining. In Two Volumes. L: E.& F. N. Spon, 1888. Pp. 563 + 84 plates . 4to, black cloth, gilt lettering to front. Errata slip tipped in Vol. I. Ex-library (pouches and stickers t o rear, inkstamps to half-title, blindstamp to title page, spines numbered), all hinges cracked or broken, three inch section of cloth missing from lower spine of Vol. II, spine ends chipped and fraying, corners bumped, frontedges of boards worn and chipped, cloth worn with some bubbling to rear of Vol. II, else vg. for the set 500.00
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Angel Lectures). BERTON, Pierre BERTON, Pierre F.W. Angel Lecture 07 ? HUBBARD, Mina
Canadians as Winners
Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, 1975,
(Angel Lectures). BERTON, Pierre. Canadian as Winners. (St. John's: Facultyof Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland), 1975. Pp (4),1-8. Illustrated. 8vo, card covers. O'Dea 5734. This was Berton's first trip to Newfoundland. Berton's "winners" include Mina Hibbard (pp.6-8). The seventh (?) annual F.W. Angel Memorial Lecture, delivered at M.U.N. on April 6, 1974. Angel (1874-1937). Vg. 7.50
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Angel Lectures). FOSTER, Dr. John S. FOSTER, John S., Dr F.W. Angel Lecture 03
Role of Universities in Public Service
(Angel Lectures). FOSTER, Dr. John S., Jr. The Role of Universities in Public Service. (St.John's: Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland), [1970/71?]. Pp (4),1-8. Illustrated. 8vo, card covers. O'Dea 4539. Foster was Director of Defence Research and Engineering for the United States Department of Defence. He was raised in Montreal, and his mother was a Newfoundlander. The third annual F.W. Angel Memorial Lecture, delivered at M.U.N. on February 23, 1970. Angel (1874-1937). Vg. 6.50
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Angel Lectures). WRIGHT, Dr. Douglas T. WRIGHT, Douglas T., Dr F.W. Angel Lecture 02
Technology, Social Change and the University
(Angel Lectures). WRIGHT, Dr. Douglas T. Technology, Social Change and the University. (St.John's: Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland), [1969/70?]. Pp (4),1-20. Illustrated. 8vo, card covers. Not in O'Dea, but he rates another entry: 4181. Foster was Chairman of the Ontario Committee on University Affairs. The second annual F.W. Angel Memorial Lecture, delivered at M.U.N. on February 20, 1969. Angel (1874-1937). Vg. 6.50
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Anglo-Canadian Wire Rope Co., Ltd.
Anglo Wire Ropes
Anglo-Canadian Wire Rope Co., Ltd., Montreal, 1960,
Anglo-Canadian Wire Rope Co., Ltd.. Anglo Wire Ropes . Montreal: Anglo-Canadian Wire Rope Co., Ltd., [1960]. Publication 59. Pp. 1-72. Illustrated. Small 8vo, stapled printed blue card covers. A catalogue of the Quebec-based company's wire ropes, used largely for shipbuilding and fisheries purposes.A bit musty, a few faint spots to front cover, else vg. 25.00
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ANGUS, James T.
Respectable Ditch : A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway 1833-1920. First Edition in dustjacket.
McGill-Queen's, Montreal and kingston, 1988, ISBN:0773505970
ANGUS, James T. A Respectable Ditch : A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway 1833-1920. Kingston / Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, (1988).First Printing. Pp. (5),[vi]-xiv,(2),3-455,(3), including plates. Illustra ted in black and white. 8vo, decorated brown cloth with black lettering to spine. "In some respects the history of the Trent-Severn Waterway resemblesthe history of Canada. One parallels the other. The same political and eco nomic tensions that have constantly beset the country can be identified in the canal's story: defence against American invasion, free trade versus tariff protection, private enterprise or government intervention, the problem of moving vast quantities of grain from the central plains to deep-water ports, freight rates, energy production and who should control it, and the obsessive preoccupation with federal and provincial responsibilities. What follows is a record of how these national questions affected the development of a waterway that the country could ill afford and only a handful of people wanted. Consequently, this is not a story about transportation or engineering. It is a book about politics -- the politics of dreamers." - from the dustjacket. Contents: I: The Colonial Years, 1833-41: 1. James Bethune's Waterway; 2. The Bobcaygeon Lock; 3. The Question of Routes; 4. Improvements on the Inland Waters; 5. Improvements on the River Trent; 6. Stoppage of the Works. II: The Union Years, 1841-67: 7. Hamilton Killaly and the Board ofWorks; 8. The Timber Slides; 9. The Lumbermen's Committee; 10. The Union L ocks. III: The Macdonald Years, 1867-96: 11. The Ontario Locks; 12. A Crucial Debate; 13. A Barge Canal; 14. Buckhorn, Burleigh, and Fenelon Falls; 15. Tom S. Rubidge; 16. The Trent Valley Canal Commission. IV: The Laurier Years, 1986-1911: 17. The Conversion of Wilfrid Laurier; 18. The Peterborough-Lakefield Division; 19. The Hydraulic Lift Lock; 20. The Simcoe-Balsam Lake Division; 21. R.B. Rogers; 22. Mulock's Madness; 23. Hydroelectric Power and the Port Hope Canal; 24. The Ontario-Rice Lake Division; 25. Kerry and Culverwell. V: The Borden Years, 1911-20: 26. The Western Outlet; 27. The Port Severn Lock; 28. The Marine Railways; 29. The Couchiching Lock. With bibliography and index. Very good in crisp dustjacket. 25.00
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Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co. Ltd.)
Construction Engineer's Compendium
Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co. Ltd., Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, 1941,
(Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co. Ltd.). A Construction Engineer's Compendium. Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England : Appleby-Frodingham Steel Co. Ltd., (1941). Pp (2),3-905,(3),(16). Illustrated with diagrams. 8vo, limp black leather, green lettering to front board and spine, all edges gilt. Contents : Foreword; Plates and Sections; Stanchions and Struts; Beams, Compound Girders, Gantry Girders, Plate Girders and Roof Trusses; Electric Welding of Structural Steel Work; Frodngham Sheet Piling; Other Piling; Reinforced Concrete; Timber; General Information Formulae Tables, etc. Spine and e dges worn, else very good. 60.00
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Aquitania) Engineering
White Star Triple-Screw Atlantic Liners Olympic and Titanic
Offices of Engineering, London, 1914,
(Aquitania). The Quadruple-Screw Turbine-Driven Cunard Liner "Aquitania" constructed and engined by Messrs. John Brown and Co., Ltd., Sheffield and Clydebank. Reprinted from Engineering. London: "Offices of Engineering", 1914. First Edition. Pp.(6),vii-viii,[1]-84 + 12 double-page plates. Illustrated throughout with photos, drawings and diagrams. Triple column. Large 4to, original blue cloth with gilt lettering. Text Sections : 1. Introductory; 2. The Structural Details, Passenger Accommodation and Equipment of the Ship; 3.The Propelling Machinery of the Ship; 4. The Works of the Builders. Plates: I. The Aquitania Before the Launch. II. Longitudinal Section and Hold Plans. III. , IV., Deck Plans. V. High-Pressure and Intermediate-Pressure Ahead Turbines and High-Pressure Astern Turbines VI. The Low-Pressure Ahead and Astern Turbines, with Details of Thrust-Block. VII. General Arrangementof Turbine Machinery. VIII. , IX. Steam Valves for the Manoevering of the Ship. X. Starting Platform and Valve Interlocking Gear. XI. Weir's "Uniflux" Condensers. XII. General Arrangement of Two of the Four Boiler Rooms. XIII. Double-Ended Boiler. Light wear to cloth, corners bumped, an attractive copy. Very scarce in the original. 750.00
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ARBOUSSE-BASTIDE, Paul
Um Engenheiro Frances no Brasil. 2 vols
José Olympio, 1960,
ARBOUSSE-BASTIDE, Paul. Um Engenheiro Frances no Brasil. Rio de Janiero: José Olympio, 1960. In two volumes. Pp. 920. With 39 illustrations. Text in Portuguese. 8vo, white printed card covers, french flaps. Partially unopened. Obras Reunidas de Gilberto Freyre, 1st series. Browning to spines, ends chipped, front hinge just starting on Vol. II, slight waterstaining to spineof Vol. I, front sunned, else vg. for the two volumes 100.00
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Architecture and Building. SHEPPARD, E.J. BROWN, Frank Chouteau. WILLIAMSON, Russell Barr.
Architecture and Building : A Magazine Devoted to Contemporary Architectural Construction. Vol. 53, January, 1921 - December, 1921
William T. Comstock Company, New York , 1921,
(Architecture and Building). Architecture and Building : A Magazine Devotedto Contemporary Architectural Construction. Vol. LIII, January, 1921 Dec ember, 1921. New York : The William T. Comstock Company, 1921. Pp (4),[1]-96,+ 210 plates. Text Illustrations. Double Column. 4to, black half-leather,green cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine. Sample of contents : Paint as an Engineering Material (by E.J. Sheppard, pp 3-5, 7); Foundation Work for the Harbour View Building, Broad and Front Streets, New York (by Jacob Lan gfuer, pp 27-29); Solving the Concrete House Design Problem (by Russell Barr Williamson, pp 56-57); and much more. ADDITIONAL SHIPPING CHARGES WILL APPLY DUE TO THIS VOLUME'S WEIGHT. Spine repaired with black tape (with part of original spine taped on, but upside down), corners worn, cloth rubbed, front inner hinge cracked, else good to very good internally. As is. 75.00
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Changed mic/dock, now the phone wont charge
Hello! I was having problems with my microphone (not the speaker mic), I followed a tutorial on this site and changed the mic/dockconnector.
After I put everything back again the mic worked, but now the phone wont charge. I can't see what I did wrong when I put everything together as written in the tutorial.
I used a spare dock/mic connector that came with a white Iphone case if that matters, (I have a black front & back).
The mic/dock for the white Iphone, sort of had a different size(?), so I couldn't put the left screw at the dock back in, if that matters?
Thankful for any help
/ Michael
Is this a good question?
Have you checked battery connection? Does phone connect to iTunes or work on ac power, but not once you remove? Then it would more likely be battery connection..
No, i had about 20% battery left when i started up the iphone again, it wouldn't synchronize or charge with neither the computers or the ac adapter at all.
Could the battery connection have been the problem?
I put everything back toghether thogh, with the old mic/dock and suddenly everything worked as it should, even the mic.. strange. The mic worked from time to time before aswell, so I think it's only a matter of time before it stops to work!
A new problem is now that my Iphone turns off somethimes, and I need to start it up again
Seems like my poor Iphone has been torn down and put toghether again too many times :P


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#1 posted 07-22-2012 11:16 PM
Nice work bench. What size is it? I like the base. too!..........Jim
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#2 posted 07-23-2012 01:05 AM
I like that base. Great idea.
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#3 posted 07-23-2012 02:29 AM
Both workbenches are about the same size, 84" x 33". I'm in the process of building the other base and will add pics of the wheel system. I can't take credit for the cam system, I got that out of a plan for the table saw base. I'll locate the plan for that too, it's easy to do.
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The Root of ALL Chronic Disease and How YOU Can Save Your Life
By: BuyNonGMOSeeds
Almost all of the chronic health problems and diseases that face people these days can be attributed to one common factor: an impaired digestive system. knowing the causes of and how to prevent an impaired digestive system can literally save your life.
Having an impaired digestive system has been known to lead to a condition called Dysbiosis, which is an imbalance of good and bad bacteria in the gut.
Dysbiosis has been shown to be a direct result of eating the Standard American Diet (SAD), which is:
- High in sugar
- High in fat, cholesterol, sodium
- Full of refined and processed foods
- Low in fiber, minerals, EFA's (essential fatty acids)
- Full of preservatives
- Loaded with hormones, etc. in meat, fish, eggs
When you factor in elements like stress and chronic antibiotic usage, Dysbiosis can lead to Leaky Gut Syndrome or Intestinal Permeability. Leaky Gut Syndrome spreads a low-level chronic inflammation through the body, and that inflammation often leads to an autoimmune disorder that immediately affects your health, and can even kill you.
It is estimated by the CDC that between 60 and 70 million people are affected by a digestive disorder, making it the third most common illness in the United States. In the book The Healing Powers of Food, Dr. Michael T.Murray explains "Impaired digestion leads to Intestinal Toxemia then Candida and Parasites, which lead to an imbalance of your Gut Flora, then Leaky Gut progresses to chronic disease."
For food to be absorbed in the body properly it has to be broken down. Carbohydrates are converted into glucose, protein is broken down into amino acids. The problem occurs when you are under stress or you are eating on the run or eating too fast. If your food is not broken down properly, it will start to putrefy and produce toxins. If you are not eliminating those toxins properly, they will begin to build up and lead to chronic illness.
Some of the other factors that can cause impaired digestion are:
- Eating too much processed food, lacking in fiber and making the body work harder with little in return
- Drinking too much fluid while eating impairs digestion by diluting your stomach acid (hydrochloric acid, of HCl)
- Eating too fast
- Overeating, especially the wrong foods
Diet aside, the other major contributor to Leaky Gut Syndrome is stress – be it physical, mental, or emotional. When your body is under stress, there are chemical processes designed to divert or stop any energy that was going to the stomach for digestion and redirect it towards dealing with the stress. Stress ZAPS your energy levels and can be a major contributor toward Intestinal Permeability, Autoimmunity and even Cancer.
Chronic stress plays a major role in the following unhealthy conditions:
- Nutrient absorption decreases and nutrient excretion increases
- Blood cholesterol and triglycerides go up
- As cortisol levels rise, it is associated with weight gain, abdominal obesity and inability to lose weight or build muscle
- This excessive cortisol output results in premature aging of the body, which increases oxidative stress
- The body retains sodium
- Food sensitivities increase
- Insulin resistance rises
- Protein metabolism decreases, therefore muscle mass decreases
- Inflammation greatly increases
Another thing to take into consideration is your surroundings. The more toxic your environment, the greater burden to your body – especially your liver. For example: Do you drink out of plastic bottles? Drinking from plastic containers exposes your body to Bisphenol A (BPA). In a study by the National Institute of Agronomic Research in Toulouse, France, researchers exposed both rats and human intestinal cells to a dose of BPA, which was 10 times lower than the amount currently considered safe by most governments. They found that on exposure to the chemical, the intestinal lining of both human and rat guts developed 'leaky gut syndrome' or damage to the lining of the gut. This damage allows toxic substances and foreign pathogens to enter the body through this leaky gut and because gut lining also contains immunoglobulin A, its disruption can affect the entire body's immune system.
Some of the factors that can further lead to Leaky Gut are:
- Gut irritants (caffeine, alcohol, gluten/grains)
- Parasites/Bacteria (from contaminated water and food)
- Chemicals (in food, plastic and environment)
- Deficiencies in enzymes
- Junk food carbohydrate diets
- Excess hormones (prescriptive and food)
- Mycotoxins (mold and fungal)
- Steroids
- Antibiotics
Leaky Gut can lead to:
- Lupus
- Rheumatoid arthritis
- Fibromyalgia
- Crohn's disease
- Vasculitis
- Hives
- Polymyalgia
- Sjogren's syndrome
- Hashimoto's thyroiditis
- Vitiligo
- Ulcerative Colitis
- Diabetes
- Or any other Autoimmune condition!
The 5 R Program
1. Remove
Remove the bad. The goal is to get rid of things that negatively affect the environment of the GI tract, such as inflammatory foods, infections and gastric irritants like alcohol, caffeine or drugs. Inflammatory foods such as gluten, dairy, corn, soy, eggs and sugar can lead to food sensitivities.
2. Replace
Replace the good. Add back in the essential ingredients for proper digestion and absorption that may have been depleted by diet, drugs (such as antacid medications), diseases or aging. This includes Enzymes and sometimes HCL and bile acids are needed to re-establishing proper digestion.
3. Re-Inoculate
Restoring beneficial bacteria to re-establish a healthy balance of good bacteria is critical. This may be accomplished by taking a Probiotic supplement that contains beneficial bacteria, such as bifidobacteria and lactobacillus species. It is recommend anywhere from 25 -100 billion units a day. Also, taking a prebiotic (food for the good bacteria) supplement, or consuming foods high soluble fiber is important as you want your bowels to be moving these toxins out of your body daily.
4. Repair
Providing the nutrients necessary to help the gut repair itself is essential. My favorite supplements are Glutamine, an amino acid that helps to rejuvenate the gut wall lining; zinc carnosine; omega 3 oils; vitamin A, C, E as well as herbs such as slippery elm and aloe vera
5. Relax
"Activating the relaxation nervous system – the one that allows us to "rest and digest" – is an effective means of easing symptoms and restoring an anti-inflammatory state. You can start with something as simple as listening to a guided meditation for several minutes a day and working up to 20 minutes twice a day for a therapeutic effect.
Understanding the the interconnected nature of your gut, brain, immune, and hormonal systems is imperative. Until you begin to appreciate this complex relationship, you will not be able to prevent or intervene effectively in depression, which is slated to become the second-leading cause of disability in this country within the decade. You need to take steps every day toward sending your body the message that it is not being attacked, it is not in danger, and it is well nourished, well supported and calm.
Managing stress is a lifetime learning process, but here are a few suggestions to get you started.
- Learn how to breathe properly. Anytime you are feeling anxious, stressed or overwhelmed by what is happening, take a deep breath in and count to 5, hold for 3, then let it out slowly to a count of 8 with a long sigh. Do this 3 times. This is also helpful before you eat.
- Sip on a cup of Tulsi tea. Tulsi is an ayurvedic herb that can help you adapt to stressors in your life.
- Do not create stress in your life by eating too fast. The faster you eat, the less nurtured your body feels.
- Do not consume caffeine on an empty stomach, especially first thing in the morning. Add a healthy fat source (like coconut oil or ghee) or protein (like collagen powder) to help stabilize glucose levels and avoid the spike/crash roller coaster.
- Do not engage in a deep or heated conversation before breakfast.
- No extreme exercise before breakfast.
Being aware of what causes a leaky guy, and how to avoid it can quite literally add years to your life. Much of the factors of this condition are purely environmental, but that doesn't mean you can't take steps to avoid them. Proper diet, and proper mental conditioning are key factors in improving your health.
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Last minute cancellation. Teacher was not able to get a sub for the class but will be back next week!Read more →
Our classes are changing starting December 1st to the following: Saturday 9:00 to 10:30 am Core Vinyasa with Ceci Morales @ IMU 1418 W. Howard Chicago IL 60626 Monday 5:30 to 7:00 pm Hatha Yoga with Gina Maria@ IMU 1418 W. Howard Chicago IL 60626 Thursday 7:30 to 9:00 pm Forrest […]Read more →
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Late last year, I told you about Mag+, BERG's re-envisioning of the digital magazine for iPad-like devices, and showed you a prototype video.
Today, Bonnier and BERG launch Popular Science +, the first magazine on the actual Mag+ platform, for iPad.
They even got Jack Schulze to shave within a week or so of having a camera put on him to explain things. I think they sedated him, because he doesn't swear at all.


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Mobile applications that don't load quickly don't succeed. We recently worked with Twitter and Microsoft on their official Twitter application for Windows Phone 7 (WP7), and the Twitter application is all about users getting their timeline items quickly.
Loading speed also affects tombstone performance; tombstone is the term used to describe when an application is shutdown because it is deactivated. Deactivation can occur for a variety of reasons: a user hits the start button; or an application uses a launcher or chooser (except for the photo browser and camera). If your application is activated, it is like starting over again. You can see me and Jaime Rodriguez talk about tombstoning and its performance at a PDC 2010 session here.
To improve loading speed, I tried several serialization techniques for Windows Phone. We've been sharing our Lessons Learned with the dev community, and many of our discoveries are likely to make it into vNext apps.
Here are a few of the techniques:
Avoid Using ApplicationSettings (or don't store too much data here)
IsolatedStorageSettings.ApplicationSettings is a dictionary-based storage, and it uses XML serialization under the hood. The first time you use it, it will load all settings stored in the dictionary. This isn't very efficient since you will get data loaded on the main UI thread that you might not need. When I used this for Twitter, I was getting 8 second load time, which is much too long for a mobile application. If you take longer than 10 seconds to load (or show UI) while activating, the OS will shut your application down.
Use File-based Storage for Settings and Cache
I quickly moved to file-based storage in isolated storage. This gave me three benefits:
- Saving and loading can be done off the main UI thread. For Twitter, settings are loaded on the main UI thread while cached data (timeline, lists, etc.) is on a worker thread.
- The load and save can be split in separate files to further reduce the amount loaded or saved. Twitter has separate files for home timeline, mentions, messages, lists, etc. These are loaded on demand.
- I can quickly change the serialization strategy and find the best one.
Use Binary Serialization
I went through several xml and json serializers, but the timeline loading still functioned like I was calling Twitter again for the data. I wanted to make sure the application really functioned like it was loading cached data, so we looked into why xml and json serialization were slow on the phone. It wasn't isolated storage because the transfer speeds are fast, so we determined that it must be a CPU issue. Binary serialization allows us to avoid parsing and reflection, thus saving time spent on the CPU. It made a major difference for Twitter and in some cases more than 10 times faster loading times.
Implementing binary serialization is straight forward but can be tedious for a large objects. Here is how we implemented binary serialization for Twitter:
- All classes saved implement a custom interface ISerializeBinary. ISerializeBinary has Load and Save methods along with a FileVersion property.
- Load and Save methods use BinaryReader and BinaryWriter to load and save the objects.
- We wrote separate loading code for each file version since the file is read in order and not parsed like XML and JSON. Adding data to the middle of a binary file broke the existing loading code. To help branch the loading code, we used the FileVersion property that is read from the file.
- Method extensions on BinaryReader and BinaryWriter helped make the code easier to read and reuse.
Check out the sample for implementation and see how it runs on your phone. The charts below show the speeds on a pre-production LG phone.


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Learn more.
Parsing a malformed DNSSEC key can cause a validating resolver to exit due to a failed assertion in buffer.c. It is possible for a remote attacker to deliberately trigger this condition, for example by using a query which requires a response from a zone containing a deliberately malformed key.
Recursive servers are at greatest risk but an authoritative server could be affected if an attacker controls a zone the server must query against to perform its zone service.
Servers which are affected may terminate with an assertion failure, causing denial of service to all clients.
CVSS Score: 7.8CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)For more information on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System and to obtain your specific environmental score please visit: https://nvd.nist.gov/cvss.cfm?calculator&version=2&vector=(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Servers which are not performing validation are not at risk from this defect (but are at increased risk from other types of DNS attack.) ISC does not recommend disabling validation to deal with this issue; upgrading to a fixed version is the preferred solution.
Active exploits:
None known
Upgrade to the patched release most closely related to your current version of BIND. These can all be downloaded from http://www.isc.org/downloads.
development releases scheduled to be published at the same time as the
public disclosure of this vulnerability will also contain the fix for
this security issue.
ISC would like to thank Hanno Böck from the Fuzzing Project for discovering and reporting this defect. We would also like to express our appreciation to the developers of the American Fuzzy Lop tool, which has been instrumental in revealing recently-disclosed vulnerabilities in BIND.
Document Revision History:
1.0 Advance Notification 19 August 20151.1 "Versions affected" information clarified 24 August, 20152.0 Public Disclosure 2 September, 2015
Related Documents:
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Pediatric Braces in San Jose
At Children's Dental Group, we specialize in children's braces in San Jose. Pediatric braces are a good way to get your child's malocclusions treated early enough before the teeth start changing and setting. We provide early orthodontic treatment as well, to check the supporting structures of the teeth and to figure out what needs to be done later on by mapping out a plan for orthodontics when the child is old enough to have braces put on.
Orthodontic treatment is the practice of aligning teeth or problems with the bite. At Children's Dental Group, our specialist is experienced in all types of braces, including for both children and teenagers. We first have patients come in for a full exam, because the teeth and gums should be healthy and in good shape before we recommend the right kind of braces for your child. It is important for your child to receive early interceptive care if necessary before getting their children's braces in San Jose. Interceptive orthodontics are designed to create room for crowded teeth while helping reduce the need for any teeth to be extracted. Sometimes teeth need to be extracted before the interceptive orthodontics are placed.
Bad bites that are not treated quickly enough can cause more damage and future expensive dental bills, so children should have their first orthodontic exam as early as possible. This allows us to check for dental issues and to correct bite problems before they become more serious. The main goal of orthodontics is to prevent a bad bite. Bad bites can affect the way a person eats, chews and even smiles. If left untreated, a bad bite can result in protruding or crowded teeth. That's why we provide children's braces in San Jose, so kids can have their teeth treated before problems get worse.


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Her Redness's School for Exalts
Peleps Melynda
Aspect: Water
Primary Virtue: Temperance
Core Attributes:
- Dexterity
- Charisma
- Perception
Core Abilities:
- Awareness
- Bureaucracy
- Investigation
- Larceny
- Martial Arts
- Presence
- Sail
- Socialize
A charismatic and gifted young woman, Melynda rose to the position of student council president as a sophomore. And though she did well in the role, the rest of the council was made up of seniors, and the closer they came to graduation the more Melynda was forced to absorb their responsibilities. As the end of her term neared the burden of the position became too much to bear and the efforts of the student council were notably lack-luster.
To make matters worse, Melynda lost her re-election campaign to an upstart sophomore by the name of Sesus Kai who at times seemed genuinely confused to be in the running. It wasn't until after her defeat had been confirmed that the Peleps discovered the true reason for her defeat, Mnemon Alcyone. Another sophomore, the girl had orchestrated an impressive campaign made up of smoke and mirrors to attain a seat on the council herself while at the same time surrounding herself with her allies.
In the time since Melynda has taken any opportunity she can to tear at the schemes of the girl who took her power from her.


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The Death of the Middle Class Rivalry
February 19, 2014 by Corrie Trouw • Print Story •
There is a divide growing within this country. Where once existed a thriving class between the elite and the ordinary gasps a shrinking middle ground.
What happened to college basketball's middle class rivalry?
Duke and Maryland met for the last scheduled time Saturday in an entertaining if otherwise unremarkable game. (To be fair, the two teams could still easily meet in the ACC tournament and much less easily meet in the NCAA tournament.) The Blue Devils fought off a late Terp scare to defeat the game-but-less-heralded visitors. It was just like many previous chapters in the series.
The shadow of recency may shuffle our memories, but there was a time last decade when Duke and Maryland played some of each season's best games. But unlike Duke/Carolina, college basketball's polite ruling elite of rivalries, Duke/Maryland seemed to come armed with an edge of working-class nasty.
The series peaked in 2001 when the squads played four times, including Duke's improbable comebacks from 10 down with 55 seconds to go in College Park and 22 down in the Final Four. Maryland earned some momentum the next year by winning the national championship, and the two sides played to a virtual stalemate for the better part of the decade, including several Terrapin victories in vaunted Cameron Indoor Stadium.
But this particular history is not the point. There are countless Duke/Marylands in the rivalry history books whose existence couldn't survive the caustic assault of time.
As the recent wave of conference realignment has shown, there are very few college sports rivalries with the gravity to survive on their own merit. In fact, I will argue there are only two: Duke/Carolina and Louisville/Kentucky, the latter of which is an all-business, non-conference contract.
The college basketball landscape is fully post-apocalyptic. The two great leagues of my lifetime changed overnight as if some great earthquake rewrote geography. The Big East is in two pieces, one of which is going to crown Creighton's Doug McDermott as its player of the year, while the other includes road trips to Houston and SMU. Meanwhile, Syracuse's undefeated ACC record includes wins over Notre Dame and Pitt.
Many basketball dogs have been wagged into submission by their football-money tails.
Look, I am hardly a change-fearing heel digger. Change often brings growth and improvement, and to that end, I'm sure some new rivalries-of-the-moment will emerge in these shuffled deck conferences.
But all of this feels so temporary. The players of quality are gone within five months of their introduction. Conferences are being reconstituted en masse. At this point, the college basketball regular season is little more than a training camp for some kind of post-AAU/pre-NBA purgatory showcase.
One of my favorite "rivalries" in sports is really no rivalry at all. Like Duke/Maryland, UNC/Clemson pits a legendary ACC program against one of the "rest." But the similarity ends there, as the Terps earned Duke's 2000s attention by winning on Tobacco Road, while Clemson, in 57 tries, has never won in Chapel Hill.
The context of these matchups adds untold richness to sports. Every game has its own context that creates narrative starting points like the blind bets in poker. For the North Carolina players, every home date against Clemson must bring pressure and anxiety, as that group tries like mad to avoid being responsible for ending the streak. On the other bench, each year the Clemson players have an opportunity, no matter what else has gone on that season, to earn a place in history. That history settles into layers of context that we can excavate and appreciate like a geologist.
Realistically, Maryland had little choice when presented with the opportunity to jump to the Big Ten next year. By all accounts its athletic department was broke, and more people will watch the Terps' football team get dump-trucked in Columbus and Ann Arbor than in Tallahassee and Clemson.
But let's take caution. What might have been the best matchup in college basketball 12 years ago won't exist going forward, and there really wasn't much debate. The real power in college sports belongs to an elite few, and they aren't doing business on the hardwood.


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In a few-mode optical parametric amplifier, which is based on intramode four-wave mixing, mode coupling between degenerate modes causes gain reduction, and the signal gain varies depending on its mode pattern. Hence, it is highly desirable to eliminate degenerate mode coupling in a few-mode parametric amplifier. We propose an elliptical-core dispersion-shifted few-mode fiber to suppress the mode coupling between degenerate modes. Simulation results show the fiber can be used for a four-mode parametric amplifier with over 30 nm gain bandwidth across the C-band in a 300-m-long fiber.
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Its been a small hiatus while I have had final exams and whatnot. In short the last two weeks, I passed my course portion of EMT, I went home and got some days off, I pigged out, went blonde (more on that later…) and started my hospital practicum in a rural hospital north of Edmonton, AB.
Now I'm very sleepy and it's my 24th birthday tomorrow, but the hospital has been great. I've learned three good lessons:
1. Young South African doctors are hot, have hot accents, but unfortunately the moment you walk into their emergency room with "student" on your uniform, you are now a nuisance, invisible, and have no chance.
2. Watching a woman have a biopsy on her breast in a table in front of me has taught me I will probably never do well in a surgery. I can handle having to take action in stuff…but watching a scalpel on a breast was unfortunately enough to make me woozy in the legs. Thankfully the nurse said if I had fainted, it wouldnt be the first time that's happened in the room. I guess some lady's husband dropped flat while she was giving birth, and all the doctors and nurses were so busy, there was nothing you could do but grab him by the shoes and drag him to the corner out of the way. Hilarious.
3. Never ever make a pirate joke to a one-eyed patient. Had to help change a dressing on a guy who got his left eye and sinus cavity removed. Way gross, and cool, but as in taking his vitals and talking to him, he's telling me he's got big plans for the night. In my head I thought "yo ho ho, and a bottle of rum."
"Sir, do you smoke?"
Patient: "Uh, we'll that's complicated"
"The doctor needs to know. It's an Arr or no question"
Ok I didn't say THAT but I thought about it.
Anyways, sleep is coming, and I'm hoping they call me in the middle of the night for a guy that's shot or something. You know…good stuff.
Night 🙂


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Project: Multi-storey residential development in Jumeirah Village Circle, United Arab Emirates
Developer: Nakheel PJSC, Dubai, UAE
Contractor: Gulf Technical Construction Co. LLC, Dubai, VAE
MEVA Systems: Wall formwork Mammut 350, Slab formwork system MevaDec, All-plastic facing alkus, Special formwork designs for circular columns
Engineering and support: MEVA KHK Formwork Systems, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Jumeirah Village Circle in Dubai is the scene of several large-scale residential developments catering to the influx of inhabitants and a growing need for housing in the metropolis. Several multi-storey complexes with up to 1,000 units are being erected.
Typical for residential projects is the demand for the best possible efficiency and speed. Since slabs constitute the largest part of concrete works in terms of area, Gulf Technical Construction Co. looked at the formwork methods very closely. The MevaDec slab system proved best in class in terms of cost, speed, efficiency and quality. These advantages come from flexibility with minimised compensation areas, easy adaptation to building layouts, reduced inventory through the early stripping method and quick cycles without crane. Safety and ease of assembly with zero error (the prop positions are defined by the system) allow for easy planning, logistics and work flow, saving time and money.
MEVA KHK provides full-service engineering and complete supply of formwork to the site from its logistics centre in Dubai.
Referencen for Projets in Commercial & Residential Construction, Architectural Construction, High-Rise Construction and Civil Engineering Construction
The focus of MEVA's first collaboration with Austrian company GLS was nature conservation and the construction of two fish passes on the River Traun.
Four apartment buildings at heights up to 202 m by 2020: the city centre redevelopment project Deansgate Square. In use for a total of 194 storeys: the automatic MAC climbing system from MEVA
One of Ontario's busiest transportation corridors, Highway 400, began a major expansion project through Kings Township in late 2016. This $79.3 million dollar (CAD) project includes the widening of the highway from three to six lanes in each direction for a two mile stretch and also entails safer on and off ramps, the expansion and realignment of culverts, and the replacement of two bridges − one of them the South Canal Bridge.
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Did two versions of this cake. Not sure yet which one I will go with.
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Want to stand out from your peers?
Try this really cool mini~project in Photoshop. Create an "animated gif"
From the Genius Marketing Guru's at Hub Spot. A Tutorial on How to Create Animated
GIF's in Photoshop. http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-create-animated-gif-quick-tip-ht
To create this masterpiece, you have to use Scripts & Layers then merge your layers into a single frame. Then you turn your static image into a GIF. You will use your Timeline Window in Photoshop…wait…wasn't that only used in Flash & Illustrator…nope…you can utilize this tool in PS too.
Then you will create a "frame animation" by making each layer a frame of your GIF. You determine the time between frames and how often to loop it [ to drive people a little crazy 😉 ] Finally you save it as a dithered gif…a "dither"…ha, ha! What the heck does that mean?
From the Web Style Guide, here is what it says about "dithering"
Full-color photographs may contain an almost infinite range of color values. Dithering is the most common means of reducing the color range of images down to the 256 (or fewer) colors seen in 8-bit GIF images.
Dithering is the process of juxtaposing pixels of two colors to create the illusion that a third color is present. A simple example is an image with only black and white in the color palette. By combining black and white pixels in complex patterns a graphics program like Adobe Photoshop can create the illusion of gray values.
If you have a GIF with color gradients, choosing "dithered GIFs" prevents color banding. A higher dithering number translates to the appearance of more colors and details. Then save your file as a animated GIF to use in Wowing your clients.
Here is the Animated GIF they made over at Hub Spot: