text:
Jessica Suzanne Showers
Jessica Suzanne (Burr Knott) Showers, age 47, passed away on Sunday, March 3, 2013 at home surrounded by her loving family.
Jessie was born on October 16, 1965 in Augusta, Georgia, to Bernard and Susanne Burr. She met the love of her life David Showers and they were united in marriage on January 30, 1988. They celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary in January 2013.
Jessie graduated from Monona Grove High School in 1984. After graduation, she started working at Meriter Hospital in housekeeping. She worked her way to being a certified nursing assistant, earned her RN degree in 2000, and became a Nursing Administrative Coordinator, all while raising three sons. She was honored recently for 25 years of service to the Meriter organization.
She enjoyed watching her sons play sports, camping with her family, swimming, and going to Badger football games. Her family was the most important thing to her.
Jessie was an inspiration to many and was always willing to help others. She bravely battled lung cancer for the past 5 ½ years and she will be greatly missed.
She is survived by David, her loving husband of 25 years, three sons, Joshua, Zachary, and Jeremy, her parents Earl and Martha Knott, siblings, Lynda (Ron) Bennett, Amy (Chris) Kroll, Michael (Jennifer) Knott, Amanda Knott, and many aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her biological parents, Bernard and Susanne Burr and brother Roland Piefer.
Visitation will be held on Thursday, March 7, 2013 from 5:00-7:00 at Cress Funeral Home, 3325 E. Washington Ave., Madison. A Florence Nightingale Tribute Ceremony will take place on Thursday at 6:30 pm. Funeral services will be held on Friday, March 8, 2013 at Door Creek Church, 6602 Dominion Drive, Madison at 11:00 a.m. with a visitation from 9:00 – 11:00. Burial will be held at Roselawn Memorial Park following the service.
A special thanks to Dr. David Hei and Dr. Stephen Howard for their never ending dedication in healing Jessie and for Agrace Hospice making her last week so comfortable.


text:
One tablespoon butter…one tablespoon vanilla extract…six eggs…
My feet were on an upper rung of a wooden ladder, my arms in the high branches of a cherry tree. The day was not so much warm as infernally hot. I wore a harness attached to a cherry picking bucket to leave both hands free. I'd climbed the ladder as high as I dared, but clusters of cherries still hung just beyond my reach.
Six tablespoons sugar…1 1/4 cups milk…two tablespoons kirsch…
I stepped down and wrestled with the ladder, a wooden, tripod-style fruit picker that my husband and I'd found behind the garage the winter before, just after we'd bought the property. I dragged its spindly front leg over a patch of rough ground, repositioned it closer to the tree trunk, and rattled it to check that it was balanced. Then I clambered back up.
Craning my neck, I stretched my arm through the cluster of leaves above my head to reach a handful of what appeared from below to be perfect cherries. My fingers plunged into something sticky. The largest and sweetest of the cherries had been pecked by robins, leaving the sides pocked with gooey craters. I leaned back against a sturdy limb and examined my hands, now stained purple. In half a morning, I'd harvested only the very easiest to reach cherries from one of our two trees.
Pinch of salt…3/4 cup flour…three cups of cherries…
In my mind, I was in my kitchen, edging a pie-serving knife under a slice of custardy cherry clafouti. For a minute I forgot the aching in my neck, forgot the heat, forgot the twigs tickling my ear. Then our Border Collie wandered up from the vineyard and sprawled out on the grass beneath the tree. I shifted the cherry pail onto my hip, eased myself off the ladder, and squatted down to share the patch of shade as I popped a few velvety sweet cherries from the pail into my mouth.
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Butter a cast-iron skillet.
Stages of my life tend to float back to me, inextricably intertwined with ingredients and aromas. Show me the cover of Diet for a Small Planet and I catch a whiff of burlap, oregano, and peanuts. Mention The Vegetarian Epicure and I hear the creak of plank floors at Community Natural Foods, the only place in 1970s Calgary, Alberta, where I could find wheat berries for honey bread and raw wheat germ for granola. Flip open a glossy magazine to a platter of nasi goreng—fried rice, made Indonesia-style—and I taste the clove-scented air of the open-air market in Borneo that I frequented in the early '80s. Ricotta cheese? I'm back in Athens, Greece, circa 1985, where my neighborhood grocer carved wedges of heartbreakingly supple slices of ricotta from mounds the size of flower pots.
Unlike the granola and nasi goreng, which I actually made, that cherry clafouti was still a flight of fancy. I'd stumbled across the recipe in Saveur in the late '90s. Though I hadn't yet made it, I'd become rather fond of the idea of it. That clafouti recipe represented a life that was so simple, so carefree as to just stroll into the kitchen and throw together dessert from what's on hand.
Blend the vanilla, eggs, sugar, milk, salt, and flour until smooth.
My husband and I had purchased the vineyard in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley in 2002. We were initially preoccupied with grapes. It wasn't until that first Easter, when honey bees were zooming around the cherry blossoms, that we'd stopped to consider the two flowering trees outside our back door, and what the heck we'd do with the imminent onslaught of fruit. The trees, a Bing and a Van, were older varieties that had fallen out of favor when growers switched to Sweethearts, Lapins, and Staccatos. Unlike the trees in newer, high-density orchards, which were compact and slim, ours stood 20 feet high with thick trunks and limbs you could climb.
We'd been told to expect 1,000 pounds of cherries. I'd wondered how many bowls of cherries we'd get from half a ton. We decided we'd eat some, share some with the neighbors, and sell the rest. I remember calling the owner of a local cherry operation to see if he'd buy a small crop.
"How many do you have?" he asked.
"Two acres?"
"No," I said sheepishly, regretting that I'd called. "Two trees."
Come July of that maiden cherry season, when the fruit was purple and juicy, I'd lined up a deal with the owner of a nearby packing house to take whatever we could deliver, freshly picked, stems still attached. I'd set aside a morning and gotten an early start on picking.
Two days later, I was in that tree, still picking, as was everyone else in the valley. Baskets of cherries made their way around the neighborhood in exchange for house sitting services, borrowed tools, fertilizer, seed garlic, fresh eggs. Truckload after truckload of cherries wheeled their way down the highway. Transient pickers—kids from Québec with dreadlocks and pet dogs—hitchhiked through the valley and pitched tents among the trees.
Pour batter into skillet. Distribute cherries on top.
That afternoon, I poured the silken batter into a skillet, scattered a handful of the hundreds of pounds of cherries I'd just picked over the top, and slid it into the hot oven. The cherries I'd sacrificed to the recipe made no discernible dent in my supply. A half-dozen baskets, heaped with cherries, still covered the floor.
I hadn't bothered to remove the pits from the cherries. According to the recipe, they'd add flavor. Most of my cherries, though, were destined for pie filling and jam. So I washed, I sorted, I stemmed, and then I fastened the cherry pitter to a cutting board straddling the sink. The instructions that came with the device showed cherries rolling off a hopper and happily falling into position under a spring-loaded rod that you drove through the fruit, which then flipped into a bowl while the pits dropped into a plastic cup. When it worked, it worked well. But if the cherries were too small, they jammed below the rod. If too large, the rod bypassed the pit. Either way, with every slam of the pitter, purple juice shot across the counter and onto my once-white wall.
Bake until golden.
When the jammy aroma of baked cherries filled the kitchen, I opened the oven to check the clafouti. It billowed from the skillet like a cloud. I set it on the counter beside the open window and stepped back to admire its golden surface studded with splashes of purple. Just then I noticed a neighbor who'd borrowed our mower ambling along our driveway, carrying a plastic bin. I wiped my hands on a kitchen towel and went out to meet him.
"Thought you might enjoy some Lapins," he said, lowering the bin onto the patio. The bin must have held at least 20 pounds of cherries.
"Wow!" I said, glad that he hadn't seen my cherry-filled kitchen. "What a treat."
I watched him drive away and wandered back to the house where I caught sight of myself in a mirror. My tee shirt was shot with cherry juice, my glasses were speckled, and streaks of purple painted my face.
Dust with confectioners' sugar, if you like.

subset: commoncrawl


text: The first draft of long awaited federal encryption legislation that would govern to what lengths vendors and service providers have to go in order to comply with court decryption orders has finally been released.It takes a stab at defining how to give law enforcement the authority to access encrypted information and under what circumstances that is OK. It also tells vendors and service providers to what lengths they would have to go to help out.The proposal has not been filed formally as a bill in Congress, but its release will generate discussion.In order to help clarify the major provisions, here are some questions and answers about the proposal:Is this a law?No. It\u2019s a draft of legislation meant to generate discussion of the major issues. But it is significant because it is the first written proposal to come forward. Hearings, rewriting, approval by the House and Senate and signing by the president are all needed before it would become a law.Who is responsible for this draft?Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina and Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California.Does it allow unbreakable encryption?No. It doesn\u2019t come out and forbid unbreakable encryption in so many words, but what it does require precludes unbreakable encryption. It says the government can\u2019t \u201crequire or prohibit any specific design or operating system.\u201dWho would have to comply with the law?Device manufacturers, software manufacturers, electronic communication services, remote computing services, wire or electronic communications service providers, and anyone who provides a product or a method to facilitate communication or the processing or storage of data.What would they be required to do?If ordered, they would have to provide the requested data or communication in an intelligible format. Barring that, they would have to provide technical assistance that enables converting the data in intelligible form.How far would vendors have to go to provide technical assistance?There are no definitions in the draft other than as much as is necessary to deliver the data in an intelligible format.Do they have to do it for free?No. They would be paid for reasonably necessary costs directly incurred in their efforts to comply.What if a service provider is just transmitting data or communications encrypted by somebody else?In that case they would not be responsible for decrypting it. They\u2019re only responsible if they encrypted it or provided the means to encrypt it.What if vendors and service providers refuse to cooperate?The draft doesn\u2019t mention anything about penalties.What about encryption products and services from outside the U.S.?The proposal doesn\u2019t address that directly, but they would be outside U.S. jurisdiction.What if someone or some business in the U.S. used unbreakable encryption from another country?The draft doesn\u2019t say.What about privacy?The preamble to the law calls for protecting privacy but not at the expense of being able to comply with court orders calling for decrypted data and communications. It says, \u201call providers of communications services and products (including software) should protect the privacy of United States persons through implementation of appropriate data security and still respect the rule of law and comply with all legal requirements and court orders.\u201d


text:
Vitamins, minerals, supplements:
Indications for: CITRACAL PLUS w. MAGNESIUM
Calcium supplement.
Adult Dosage:
1–2 tabs twice daily.
Children Dosage:
Not recommended.
CITRACAL PLUS w. MAGNESIUM Warnings/Precautions:
CITRACAL PLUS w. MAGNESIUM Interactions:
May antagonize tetracycline, bisphosphonates (separate by 2hrs), phenytoin, other drugs. May be antagonized by phenytoin, iron supplements.
Adverse Reactions:
Hypercalcemia, hypercalciuria.
How Supplied:
Citracal + D—60, 120; 250 + D—150; Petites—100, 200; Plus w. Mg—150; Plus Bone Density Builder—120


text: by David Crane [email protected] The Refaim Advanced Infantry Weapon System, or "Advanced Infantry Rifle Grenade", manufactured by Israel Military Industries Ltd. (IMI), is an air-burst telescopic bullet trap rifle grenade that incorporates point detonation, time delay, and self-destruct functions. "Defense Update", an Israeli online publication, has some excellent information on the Refaim rifle grenade. The following is what "Defense Update" …Read More »


text:
Native Plants
Welcome to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center's collection of 82,857 plant images.
This site is not designed for commercial use
or publication. All images are copyrighted and are the property
of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and the photographers. Back to Image Gallery
About the Image Gallery Contribute Images Image Use Policy Image Request Form How to Link to the Images
rate this image
Ilex vomitoria
Ilex vomitoria Aiton
Yaupon, Yaupon Holly, Cassina
Aquifoliaceae (Holly Family)
USDA Symbol: ILVO
Image InformationPhotographer: Gillespie, Annie Paulson
City: Austin
County: Travis
State: TX
Location Notes: National Wildflower Research Center.
Accession date: 1989-02-07
Filename: PCD3898_IMG0020.JPG
Slide Index: A16 87-718
Restrictions: Unrestricted
Collection: Wildflower Center Slide Library
Original Format: 35 MM
Orientation: Landscape
Shot: Whole Plant(s)
Date Taken: 1987
NPIN Image Id: 10017
Image VerificationThis image has not been verified. If you can verify this image, please contact the Native Plant Database Manager. Please include the NPIN Image ID in your correspondence.
From the Image Gallery
Additional resourcesUSDA: Find Ilex vomitoria images in USDA Plants
Google: Search Google Images for Ilex vomitoria


text:
For 10 years Sydney painter Gria Shead lived in Hill End, a former gold mining town in country NSW which is now known for its artist-in-residence program. She spent her time there painting alongside former husband Luke Sciberras, and raising their daughter, Stella. Since returning to Sydney Gria has returned to a place where she used to paint: Vaucluse House, a historic house in the Eastern Suburbs. She is exhibiting works from this current series at the Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney until 12 August 2012.
Which five words best describe you? Artist, mother, optimistic, grateful, curious.
How have you progressed to a career as an artist? Just kept painting, painting and drawing always returning to painting and drawing.
What's the best lesson you've learnt along the way? Negativity gets you nowhere.
What's was the starting point for this exhibition? My starting point for this exhibition of paintings of interiors was to find a place that I connected with, but that also had meaning for others. I chose Vaucluse House, which is essentially a museum, so it is there to communicate with a wide audience from a historical point of view but in order to connect on a more emotional level I had to find something that resonated for me beyond the history and my own love of the place. I love researching my subject matter, discovering threads which I follow - some are stronger than others. The titles are the end result - the summation in a way, of the different threads. The Italian poet Petrarch was the strongest.
What's your proudest career achievement? My current show "In the House".
What's been your best decision? Travelling when I was 20.
Who inspires you? My daughter Stella.
What are you passionate about? Colour, nature, painting, music, film, travel, research, fabric, interiors.
Which person, living or dead, would you most like to meet? Buddha.
What dream do you still want to fulfil? To exhibit overseas.
What are you reading? The fatal shore by Robert Hughes.
images courtesy of gria shead and tim olsen gallery; portrait greg weight


text:
Platform UI/Plan/3.5
- 1 Themes
- 2 Milestones
- 3 Ideas
- 4 Legend
- Reliability
- Performance
- Support other teams
- e4 (Note that e4 work does not appear on this plan.)
The following sections contain proposed and committed items that (as of September 2008) we think will be worked on during the 3.5 development cycle. For completed work, have a look at our build notes.
Milestone M1 (2008-08-08)
Milestone M2 (2008-09-19)
- (all) 3.4.1 bug fixing
- (Dani) "Open With" in Open Resource dialog (bug 40632)
Milestone M3 (2008-10-31)
- Working on our test suites day: September 29, 2008
- Working on performance day: September 30, 2008
- (Paul) Framework Cleanup - Further conversions of action framework to command framework (see below for details)
- (Paul) Command Framework - unimplemented aspects of the command framework (see below for details)
- (Deferred until after 3.5) (Boris, Paul) Richer Compare Editor - Help the Compare, Text, and JDT Teams to produce a richer compare editor, i.e., with more Java editor features enabled. (proposed)
- (Dani) StyledString enhancement - Allow to insert characters into a styled string (see bug 227559)
Milestone M4 (2008-12-12)
- Working on our test suites day: November 3, 2008
- Working on performance day: November 4, 2008
- (Matthew Bisson, Eric) Improved Customization Support - The current "Customize Perspective" dialog is not very usable. Ideally, users should be able to hide UI elements (menu, toolbar, wizards, context menu, ...) that they don't need, and bring back previously hidden UI elements. Changing the order of UI elements may be too difficult given our current architecture. (proposed - see bug 182714)
- (Kim, Paul) Cocoa - Roll with any requirements springing from the SWT Cocoa port. (proposed)
- (Paul) ICU4.0 - Adopt ICU4J 4.0. (proposed)
- (Paul) Framework Cleanup - Further conversions of action framework to command framework (see below for details)
- (Paul) Command Framework - unimplemented aspects of the command framework (see below for details)
- (Kim) bug 246875. Extensible About Experience it would significantly improve the user experience if there was a way to tie the bundles presented in the About dialog to the mechanism that's capable of updating the bundles. However, hardcoding knowledge of the update manager is unacceptable. If the About experience was plugable, however, we might be able to achieve such a unified experience without harming the traditional RCP users who may not desire it. See bug 246875 for details. (proposed)
- (Deferred) (Kim) Unified Desktop Notification Support Both Mylyn and Jazz implement their own mechanism for displaying desktop notifications (popups). A unified API that they can both share should exist at the workbench level. Please see bug 209911 and bug 177974 for details. (proposed)
- (Francis) Common Navigator Bugs - Add tracing.
Milestone M5 (2009-01-30) (Major Features Done)
- Working on our test suites day: December 15, 2008
- Working on performance day: December 16, 2008
- (Eric, Paul) WPF Roll with any requirements, if any, springing from the SWT WPF port. (proposed)
- (Matthew Hall) Property-based Observables - (proposed - see bug 194734)
- (Markus Kuppe, Versant) Multi-instance Properties View - bug 248103 The properties view does not allow a user to look at the properties of multiple items at the same time. We would like the ability to pin a properties view to one object and be able to open a different properties view for a different object, so they can be compared. (proposed)
- (Paul) Framework Cleanup - Further conversions of action framework to command framework (see below for details)
- (Paul) Command Framework - unimplemented aspects of the command framework (see below for details)
- (Deferred) (Kim) Import/Export Workspace Settings (bug 247269)
- (Francis) Common Navigator Bugs - Resolve all major and higher bugs. Add tracing (done).
Milestone M6 (2009-03-13) (API Freeze)
- Working on our test suites day: February 2, 2008
- Working on performance day: February 3, 2008
Milestone M7 (2009-05-01) (Performance, Polish)
- Working on our test suites day: March 16, 2008
- Working on performance day: March 17, 2008
The remainder of this page contains blue sky thinking about the kind of things we would like to see in the immediate future of the Platform UI component. This is a place to collect ideas - it does not represent a commitment to implement the ideas.
Note that items marked as "proposed" are just that - we don't know yet how much time we'll have or how many of the items we will be able to work on for 3.5. If you are not currently a committer but would like to work on any of these items, please don't hesitate to contact us - you can also refer to the contribution guide.
Ongoing efforts
We usually spend time on all of the following.
- Working with the community, especially when there are patches or code contributions
- Testing (both manual testing, and improving the test suites)
- Regressions
- Bug fixing
- Performance
- UI consistency
- Exposing existing functionality as API where necessary (e.g. when important functionality required access to internals)
- Accessibility
- Internationalization, BiDi
- Polish
- Reliability / Stability / Security
- Currency (new platforms, new versions of SWT, ICU4J, ...)
- Clear backlog of bugs, certainly all major and higher
- Add support for Commands
- Come up to par with the Package Explorer (detailed list of items to be provided)
Data Binding
- Builder API. Add API for easier building of bindings and their update strategies. (proposed - see bug 203492)
- Integrating Community contributions. We have a number of patches that were submitted - these need to be reviewed and released. (committed)
Commands and Contributions
- Global Actions - requests
- Requests for new commands/actions: ex: CollapseAll, ExpandAll, Clean Project, etc
- Framework Cleanup - Further conversions of action framework to command framework
- Create similar pattern for LabelRetargetAction
- Convert more actions to commands
- Ensure that all actions respect capabilities
- Support legacy resources/Team [Contributions Need substitute for IContributorResourceAdapter]
- Command Framework - unimplemented aspects of the command framework
- Better support for toggle buttons and radio buttons, persistence of their state, etc
- More enhancements to the KeyBinding page
- Dynamic service support
- Service/SourceProvider re-evaluation. Our Source Providers need to be consistent and we should be providing useful property testers as API
- Providing appropriate context to handlers updating UI elements, for example
- provide the menu override framework - allow specific menu items/toolbar items to be customized (feature-level work)
- Examine the global application context
- perhaps provide image extension attributes can access shared images
- how should menu contributions and potentially keybindings be provided/restricted to a product or application
- Macro Recording I'd like to investigate if we can provide a simple macro recording mode, some form of key events + parameterized commands, that could then be played back (related to bug 80140?)
Tabbed Properties
- Tabbed Properties Improvements Incremental improvements to the tabbed properties support, such as the ability to get/set the currently active tab/section in the view. (proposed)
Misc (we should split this into themes when appropriate)
- Review of Cross-Boundry API Usage Review use of non-API in client code and investigate promotion of code to API where appropriate. (proposed)
- Sharable Working Sets. The usefulness of working sets is limited by the fact they are not team sharable. An option to tag resources with the information, or the ability to generate a project with the working set info could be implemented. (proposed)
- Editor Support Look at support for per-perspective editors (bug 11001) and full-screen editing mode. Also review some possible enhancements to MultiPageEditorPart (fire change events when page changes per bug 201391? MPEP as a metaphor for 1st class editor navigation?)


text:
Avoiding History at the National TrustHistorians/History
On May 10 the National Trust for Historic Preservation joined countless local historians who, over the years, have maintained a conspiracy of silence about one of America's most shameful secrets.
Between 1890 and 1968, white Americans established thousands of towns across the United States for whites only. Many towns drove out their black populations. Others passed ordinances that prohibited African Americans after dark or kept them from owning or renting property. Still others stayed white by boycotting, harassing, and even killing nonwhites who ventured in.
The National Trust has just listed one of these towns, Kenilworth, Illinois, among "America's Eleven Most Endangered Historic Places." Kenilworth, Chicago's richest and most prestigious suburb, is "endangered" by McMansions. The National Trust describes Kenilworth as "an ideal suburb" that offers "a welcome escape from the dirt, noise and crowding of the city."
Surely no all-white suburb can be "ideal."
Joseph Sears founded Kenilworth with four key provisos: "Large lots, high standards of construction, no alleys, and sales to Caucasians only." "Caucasians only" was interpreted to exclude Jews as well as nonwhites. Later, Sears realized he had forgotten to allow for live-in servants and sent a note to each resident of Kenilworth; none objected. By 1950 the suburb had 79 African Americans — every one a maid, nanny, or other servant.
A Jewish family, the Spiegels of mail-order catalog fame, managed to move into Kenilworth in the 1920s, but they may have been the last for decades. Certainly in the 1950s Kenilworth was notorious for keeping Jews out. Kenilworth may also have excluded Catholics, but by the 1950s that prohibition was loosening. In the 1970s, Kenilworth let in Jews.
In 1964, a black family, the Calhouns, finally moved into Kenilworth. Teenagers burned a cross on their lawn, but they stuck it out for twelve years, making some friends in the community. In 2002, however, the town's leading realtor did not think that a single black family lived in Kenilworth.
Kenilworth's overwhelmingly white character makes it harder for nearby interracial suburbs like Oak Park to stay interracial. Over time, some white residents of places like Oak Park, amassing more money and wanting to move to a still more prestigious suburb, relocate to Kenilworth. Wealthy black families don't, knowing Kenilworth's racist past.
Precisely that past is obscured by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Nowhere does the Trust mention Kenilworth's racial and religious apartheid, even though it has been a defining characteristic of the town. Such obfuscation hardly serves history.
Instead, it preserves the smokescreen essential to the prestige of elite white suburbs. This prestige depends upon the "paradox of exclusivity." Metropolitan areas have long been ranked more prestigious to the degree that they exclude African Americans (and working class people, Jews, etc.). Living in such "exclusive neighborhoods" connotes status. Such places want to be all-white, but they don't want it known that they are all-white on purpose. Open exclusion implies prejudice and is not prestigious.
Ironically, the same processes that led to sundown suburbs also led to the distress evident in the other two neighborhoods that made the National Trust's endangered list, "Over the Rhine" in Cincinnati and the majority-black parts of New Orleans. Sundown suburbs cause inner-city decay, because as whites seek status in white towns, they withdraw not only themselves but also their sympathies, connections, and investment dollars from formerly interracial areas.
The National Trust concludes its nomination of Kenilworth: "The historic character of this very special place must be protected." First, the Trust needs to revise its write-up to acknowledge Kenilworth's racial past, because the historic character of this very special place must be exposed.
comments powered by Disqus
More Comments:
William J. Stepp - 6/11/2006
By defn. a capitalist saves money (capital) and then advances it to productive factors--owners of land and labor. If a capitalist kills someone, an employee for example, he's a murderer.
Lefties love to indict capitalism because of some bad acts of a few capitalists. How many "bosses"--who may well be hired laborers of the managerial variety and not capitalists, actually had a worker killed?
Christianity has a far blacker mass murder record than capitalism.
There was never a capitalist counterpart of the inquisition, for example.
James W Loewen - 6/10/2006
Discussions with libertarians are always interesting, but "No capitalist ever murdered anyone, acting qua capitalist" goes over the top. So the boss who had a labor leader murdered is not "acting qua capitalist." This is like saying "No Christian ever murdered anyone, acting qua Christian," because a true Christian would obey the 10 Commandments. Tell that to the folks living in Palestine during the Crusades! Or to the French Protestants...
William J. Stepp - 6/8/2006
The absense of government, i.e. anarchy, is consistent with the rule of law. (See Bruce Benson, "The Enterprise of Law.")
The language of "majority," "minority," and "monopoly" have no place in a free market. On the market, politician-rulers don't vote for laws; they emerge spontaneously as a result of voluntary, market-based actions, such as the growth of the law merchant. It was anything but a monopoly.
I can't think of an actual media monopoly in the history of the media, nor do I know of a private army that ever acted in the criminal manner that the Grand Theft Pentagon does. No private army would invade Iraq, for example. It would be bad for business.
Arbitration, by definition, is not dictated to anyone.
I don't know what your political views are, but you put far too much emphasis on the accumulation of capital and its alleged ability to enable someone to exercise what is tantamount to political power.
Sorry, with no state, there's no political power.
Capitalism is far more "democratic" than the state. No capitalist ever murdered anyone, acting qua capitalist. You can't say that about politicians and generals.
Oscar Chamberlain - 6/7/2006
"Markets undermine racism and work against it."
Only if the rules of the market are evenhanded. Government rules can be bigoted: Jim Crow laws are exhibit A. But the absence of government does not mean the absence of rules.
Assuming a modern economy, the withdrawal of government would leave those rules to be set by those best able to accumulate capital. Then a majority is subject to the whims of a minority able to use its wealth to monopolize other forms of power (whether via private armies, media monopolies, or the ability to dictate the forms of arbitration).
William J. Stepp - 6/7/2006
The relevant criterion here is state-promulgated and -enforced restrictions on minorities versus contractually-based restrictions.
An example of the latter is a landlord who prevents tenants from owning pets, which is his right.
As a libertarian, I maintain that if he wants to exclude group X (e.g. blacks), that is his right. Restrictive conenants have a cost, which granted might be less than their perceived benefit to some owners, at least ex ante.
Another point to consider is that just because an enfranchised majority votes for an office holder, what about the minority who didn't vote for the winner? Moreover, an office holder by himself doesn't set policy or pass laws in a democracy; he may well oppose restrictions of the kind in question passed by his colleagues.
The market is a society of contract, as opposed to a society of status; contracts are voluntary and are not shoved down someone's throat in a take-it-or-get-out-of-town manner, the way racist laws are.
A racist landlord who doesn't want to rent to blacks might earn lower rents than someone who would.
The market certainly offers disfavored minorities more options, including the potential to become capitalists, as David Beito has shown in his work. Markets undermine racism and work against it.
Oscar Chamberlain - 6/7/2006
If the government is acting at the behest of the franchised majority, then how can you distinguish its actions from the actions of that same majority as individuals?
Isn't it more logical to assume that they would puruse their same goals by other ends? For example restrictive covenants were used in many places by individuals to maintain segregation in the absence of sunset provisions.
Jason B Keuter - 6/5/2006
Of course not. I believe the best term is "pidgin- Marxism".
William J. Stepp - 6/4/2006
I haven't read the book, but it seems like the author sees racism as the driving force in the creation of these towns. While racism is an important factor, racists have to use the power of government to exclude minorities, both racial and religious. Local governments have to pass laws and ordinances excluding these groups, otherwise they would be free to travel where they please and live wherever anyone would sell or rent property to them.
As my fellow libertarians have long pointed out, governments have always been more racially exclusive than private institutions. They also have the institutional power to enforce their racism and to push the costs of racism onto people outside the locus of state power. In contrast, on the market capitalists must bear the cost of their own racism by, for example, rejecting a higher bid for property by someone of a disfavored race or religion.
I'll look forward to seeing the author's take on governmentally-imposed and -enforced racism.
Ralph E. Luker - 6/4/2006
On that, I agree with Jim Loewen.
James W Loewen - 6/3/2006
Jason, Jason, I'm not even a Marxist. Calm yourself!
Jason B Keuter - 6/2/2006
Don't bother arguing with Loewen - he's a religious fanatic (a strange cult known as anti-Americanus) and like all communistshe believes "traditional" American history is a psychological weapon supporting an ill-defined "elite" rule. This traditional history is really a bogeyman because AMerican historiography has always been a lively and contentious field that has been far from uniform in its views of the AMerican past; but, like all fanatics, Loewen reducaes the rich diversity of the American experience to a fairy tale manichean Marxist struggle.welcomes anything that destroys what he thinks are impure relics of the old regime because he sees in it a harbinger of further creative destruction that will usher in the rule of the dictatorship of the professoriat. Presumably then, any effort to preserve any kind of historical relic other than a partially burnt draft card is a weapon to perpetuate the unjust present. Loewen's logic differs little from the Taliban's rationale for blowing up Buddhist statues. Loewen would first have us view all American icons as loathsome, which would logically lead to their destruction and replacement with statues of professors addressing true beleivers with megaphones..or perhaps just cinder block apartments for the an immiserated proletariat.
Oscar Chamberlain - 5/31/2006
Part of the problem here is that the Trust has worked very hard to be more than simply aniquarian. They actively look for places in which elements of past structure and design provide a living environment worth maintaining today. They see such an environment in this suburb
Unfortunately, when the area was created, good design included institutionalized bigotry. This presents a quandery: the Trust can't simply waltz around the origins of this suburb--that would be a denial of its history and the Trust's purpose in preserving history. However, that past does not mean, necessarily, that preserving this suburb is a bad thing. But it is a past that should be acknowledged in the process of trying to save the area, even though that may make it harder to save.
Ralph E. Luker - 5/29/2006
Well, yes, I do indeed think that you miswrote about "always". Were your universal not a contested one in years prior to 1917, there would have been no need for a Supreme Court decision and, as you know, there were subsequent decisions that followed Buchanan v Worley, so it continued to be contested. Your "always" is similar in an odd way to the claim of Southern segregationists that Jim Crow had "always" been our way of life. I'd respectfully suggest that "always" just isn't in a good historian's vocabulary or, if there, rarely to be used because what is in perpetuity is rarely of historical significance. But I also do care about the McMansions issue and am glad to know that you do, too. I do not think that the odious social practices of one-time occupants of historic sites ought exclude those sites from preservation. I don't think you believe that we should demolish surviving slave markets. To think we should would be to insist that the countryside be wiped clean of all physical reminders of our historical mistakes and tragedies.
James W Loewen - 5/29/2006
C'mon, Mr. Luker. Do you really think you have "got" me by pointing out that the world antedates 1917? Your point was that these policies "NOW" are illegal, so why should I beat Kenilworth up now about them. For me to show that they have been illegal for 89 years, yet were nevertheless enforced, informally and sometimes formally, until the recent past, and indeed may still be in place informally to some degree, is relevant.
Now, your point is, I suppose, that Kenilworth's exclusionary policies were "legal" from about 1895, when enacted, until 1917, Buchanan v. Worley. Perhaps, perhaps not. They contravene the 14th Amendment, passed long before 1895, and any case brought to the Supreme Court before 1917 would likely have been decided the same way. Indeed, some similar policies were found illegal back in the 1860s.
But we wander far from my article, from your original response, and indeed from any meaningful point. Just a meaningless "zing."
Something continues to bother you about my essay. I had thought it was that you inferred I didn't care about historic preservation vis-a-vis McMansions, but I do. If you will identify what it is, maybe I can reply cogently, maybe not. Surely it is NOT, however, that you really believe I miswrote about "always."
Ralph E. Luker - 5/29/2006
I am fully aware of Buchanan v. Worley. I have only just now learned that history is comprehended by everything since 1917. Er, unless the word "always" means something other than what I have understood it to mean.
Stanley N. Katz - 5/29/2006
Just to thank James Loewen for this. I attended New Trier High School, class of 1951 (just a year behind one Donald Rumsfeld), shortly after my family were part of the Jewish emigration to Glencoe and other increasingly open (to Jews) suburbs on the North Shore of Chicago. But Kenilworth was steadfastly restricted against Jews (not to mention Negroes, as of course they were called at the time). NTHS is situated on Winnetka Ave., across the street from Kenilworth, where I could not visit the houses of my (few) Kenilworth friends after schools, since Jews were not to enter Kenilworth homes. Not a pretty memory, but one which Should Not be Forgotten. Think again, Dick Moe.
James W Loewen - 5/29/2006
I don't favor McMansions, although applied to Kenilworth, the term is imprecise: Kenilworth already HAS mansions. The new residences are LARGER mansions. Kworth also has the social and economic power to deal with the problem. All it needs is to come to a consensus and enact safeguards. If it cannot, it's not clear to me that outsiders need to do it for them. It's not THAT valuable a historic resource.
The other half of your comment is mean-spirited. You need to know that towns that excluded blacks were ALWAYS illegal (see BUCHANAN V. WORLEY, 1917). Does this mean they didn't do it? Of course not. What my book shows is that THOUSANDS of towns did it, formally and informally, a MAJORITY of all towns in Illinois, for example. Hundreds may still, informally to be sure.
I suggest (former) sundown towns, including Kenilworth, need to (a) admit it, (b) apologize for it, and (c) state that they don't do it now and encourage people of color as new residents. A couple of sundown towns have done this. Kenilworth has not. The National Trust designation, sans any real history, is a backward step.
Ralph E. Luker - 5/29/2006
I have a question for you, Jim. Would you deny that tearing down older, less pretentious houses in order to build "McMansions" threatens to undermine the historic character of a community's appearance? That is an issue that is very lively in Atlanta these days, for instance, and it has relatively little to do with issues of racial exclusion or inclusion. In other words, the preservationist instinct isn't necessarily tied to a preservation of exclusionist policies. Does Kenilworth deny its historically exclusionist past? Aren't those policies now, as everywhere else in the United States, illegal? In other words, doesn't the piece that you've published here have more to do with getting more attention for your book than it may have as directing our attention to a serious historical issue.
- Josh Hawley Earns F in Early American History
- Does Germany's Holocaust Education Give Cover to Nativism?
- "Car Brain" Has Long Normalized Carnage on the Roads
- Hawley's Use of Fake Patrick Henry Quote a Revealing Error
- Health Researchers Show Segregation 100 Years Ago Harmed Black Health, and Effects Continue Today
- Nelson Lichtenstein on a Half Century of Labor History
- Can America Handle a 250th Anniversary?
- New Research Shows British Industrialization Drew Ironworking Methods from Colonized and Enslaved Jamaicans
- The American Revolution Remains a Hotly Contested Symbolic Field
- Untangling Fact and Fiction in the Story of a Nazi-Era Brothel


text:
Gertrude's Children's Hospital is the Largest Paediatric Hospital in East and Central Africa. We give quality care and service to children since 1947. Based in Muthaiga and spread out to various outpatient clinics including in Mombasa, our services range is wide and includes giving specialist care to children as we aim to walk with your child to having a good and healthy life.
Our services also include laboratory, dental, pharmacy, radiology, wellbaby services as we aim to participate actively in achieving Millennium Development goals and reduction in mortality in in East and Central Africa. Our Main Hospital in Muthaiga is open 24 hours, the clinics are open 8:00 AM – 8:00PM.


text:
|MediaWiki バージョン:
≧ 1.18
As of MediaWiki 1.18 the context of a request is encapsulated inside of a
RequestContext instance which implements the
IContextSource interface.
Extensions should call
getContext() and then
getSomeObject() rather than rely on global state variables.
|MediaWiki ファイル: RequestContext.php
|ソース コード:
|master • 1.40.1 • 1.39.5 • 1.35.13
A RequestContext or IContextSource provides the following accessor methods:
$context->getRequest()- the WebRequest instance to fetch request variables from.
$context->getTitle()- the Title instance for the page being outputted.
$context->getOutput()- a OutputPage instance tied to the RequestContext for sending page output to.
$context->getSkin()- the Skin class instance being used to render the page.
$context->getUser()- the instance of User for the user the page is rendered for.
$context->getLanguage()- (added in 1.19 to replace the now deprecated
$context->getLang()) the Language instance of the user language the page is rendered in.
$context->getWikiPage()(1.19 で導入) - the WikiPage instance being outputted (but see below).
$context->canUseWikiPage()(1.19 で導入) - checks whether
getWikiPage()can be called, or it will throw an exception.
$context->msg()- returns a Message object with context set to the context being called. It has the same parameters as wfMessage().
$context->getConfig()(1.23 で導入) - the main Config object
The output and language are read-only, the rest of the RequestContext may be set using methods such as
$context->setTitle( Title::newMainPage() )).
Working with Request Contexts
You can access the main request context using
RequestContext::getMain(); however this should be a last resort.
Most places where you need to do something with request context data should provide access to an IContextData source and you should use that, not the main RequestContext instance or
$wg globals.
When writing a SpecialPage
- You have access to the context through
- SpecialPage also implements a number of helpers:
- You can use
$this->getPageTitle();for the title of the SpecialPage and
$this->getFullTitle();for the title of the special page and any $par data.
- SpecialPages are meant to be executable in alternate contexts so extensions should start moving away from the use of $wg's.
We may drop support for includable special pages using $wg request context related variables around MW 1.20.
When writing skin code
- You have access to the context through
- Skin also implements a number of helpers:
- The skin context is entered by
Skin::outputPage( $out );which is called by
OutputPage::output();external access to context sensitive method calls should be avoided.
When using hooks
- If your hook provides an OutputPage as an argument make use of the context provided by it.
- If your hook is executed within the
Skin::outputPage( $out );page outputting context, and is provided a Skin instance, make use of the context provided by it.
- If your hook provides a Title instance, use it as a preference to other context.
- Same goes for any WebRequest instances provided as arguments to hooks.
- Make sure you are using the right hook, if proper context is not provided then you may be using a hook for the wrong purpose and may run into unrelated bugs.
- However some hooks may be out of date and need to be provided with a proper context inside of their arguments.
When writing parser functions and hooks
- Parser functions and hooks should not be accessing request context data.
Other contextual information can be accessed from the local parser object.
- For example:
$parser->getOutput()->addModules( 'ext.my.module' );
- For example:
- Make use of the ParserOptions for anything you do need like the user lang.
- Use the Linker:: class statically instead of accessing the Skin.
- If you need to add something to the page output outside of the content area the ParserOutput should have methods that allow you to do what you want.
- If the methods in ParserOutput aren't flexible enough for what you need to do it's possible to register a callback with the ParserOutput that will be called later in a place you can freely make use of the request context.
Creating new Request Contexts
There is still code using the global
$wgUser variables.
Until those are eliminated we cannot expect custom contexts to work perfectly and will need to keep the same workarounds, however if we fix code to stop using those globals then something like this should be possible:
$context = new RequestContext();
$context->setRequest( new FauxRequest( [...] ) );
$context->setTitle( Title::newFromText( [...] ) );
$context->setUser( User::newFromName( 'Dantman' ) );
$context->setSkin( new OfflineDummySkin() );
// [...]
$html = $context->getOutput()->capture();
DerivativeContext の使用
|MediaWiki バージョン:
≧ 1.19
|MediaWiki ファイル: DerivativeContext.php
|ソース コード:
|master • 1.40.1 • 1.39.5 • 1.35.13
MediaWiki 1.19 added a DerivativeContext class. DerivativeContext is useful if you want to give a context to something which is based on the context you're in but slightly different. For example a context which has all the current context, but a different Title.
$newContext = new DerivativeContext( $currentContext );
$newContext->setTitle( Title::newFromText( 'Asdf' ) );
When designing a class api it is preferable to just use a context source and not require a separate title (or by extension WikiPage) as an argument. As the calling api would be better off making use of a DerivativeContext if it needs to pass a different context to your class api.
IContextSource および ContextSource の使用
|MediaWiki ファイル: IContextSource.php
|ソース コード:
|master • 1.40.1 • 1.39.5 • 1.35.13
The base of a RequestContext is the
IContextSource interface.
It defines the API of something from which you can get pieces of request context.
If you are writing an API which uses type hinting in the arguments or makes instanceof checks you should check for IContextSoure, NOT for RequestContext.
if ( $arg instanceof IContextSource ) {
// Treat $arg as a context object
function foo( IContextSource $context ) {
// Use $context as the request context
|MediaWiki ファイル: ContextSource.php
|ソース コード:
|master • 1.40.1 • 1.39.5 • 1.35.13
Additionally we provide a ContextSource helper class.
By making your class extend ContextSource your class will be provided with the various getOutput, getSkin, getLanguage, etc... helpers directly and will
implements IContextSource.
However unfortunately because we cannot use traits[1] yet if you need to make your class extend from another class you will have to
implements IContextSource and implement the helper boilerplate directly in the class.
From a ContextSource class you can use setContext to set the context your class is in. For example a constructor that requires a context can be written like so:
class SomeClass extends ContextSource {
public function __constructor( IContextSource $context ) {
$this->setContext( $context );
Again if you can't extend ContextSource you'll have to write the helper boilerplate into your class directly. As we unfortunately can't use traits[1] to allow something like this:
class SomeClass extends SomeOtherClass implements IContextSource {
use TContextSource;
public function __constructor( IContextSource $context ) {
$this->setContext( $context );
Using the linker alone
If your extension needs 1.18 compat and you want to use linker methods this trick can get you a linker instance you can use:
$linker = class_exists( 'DummyLinker' ) ? new DummyLinker() : new Linker();
Now instead of using a skin instance to access the linker just use $linker->, and you'll be able to update to Linker:: when you drop pre-1.18 compatibility.


text:
Sam Kieth got interested in comics at about the age of nine, when he started collecting and reading comics avidly. He learnt how to draw from his cousins and his sister - one of his cousins made animated cartoons. So he felt like an odd man out for not drawing. He started his professional career when he was seventeen, and first came to attention as the inker of Matt Wagner's 'Mage' in 1983. He sold some work to DC and Marvel, were he got a job working on 'Wolverine' and as an illustrator of several covers.
In 1987, Kieth drew the first five issues of the epic comic series 'The Sandman', written by Neil Gaiman, at DC/Vertigo. He was eventually replaced by his former inker Mike Dringenberg. He collaborated with writer William Messner-Loebs on two volumes of 'Epicurus the Sage' and drew an 'Aliens' miniseries for Dark Horse Comics.
Together with Messner-Loebs, Kieth was the creator of the comic series called 'The Maxx', which was published by Image comics from 1993 until 1998. The success of the series spawned an award-winning cartoon on MTV, trading cards, a toy and even some statues. The story centres around The Maxx, a vagrant that has lost his memory and keeps having dreams of an outback land where he thinks that he might be from. Kieth has subsequently worked as a writer-artist on 'Zero Girl', 'Four Women' and 'Ojo'. In Britain, he has contributed to 2000 AD's 'Judge Dredd' and several covers for the 'Nemesis the Warlock' reprints.


text:
Hi folks.
I finally got to do a little catch-up blog reading, & so I know I'm not alone when I say that it feels like days are rushing by! It's the middle of July already!?!. . . really?
I've been keeping so very busy, finishing the stitching on all my new stitchery designs (counted cross-stitch) that I will be debuting next month at the TNNA Fall Market in St. Charles. I still have the framing & finishing to do, but I feel good to have all the stitching completed. . . & I loved every minute of it.
I hadn't done any cross-stitch for several years, & as I have been drawn back to it, I have realized how much the scope of it has broadened & how much love there is now for samplers & how so many stitchers are taken by & love the history of needle-working. It excites me very much, to be creating new designs that are inspired by the past & somehow, in my heart, connect with the needleworkers of the past (& hopefully of today as well!). I will try to take some peek/teaser photos of some of my new designs to share. (. . . & I will try to be a better blogger!)
I also have a few new quilt patterns that are taking a bit of a back seat to the stitching, & one that I'm finishing up the embroidery border for, as I seem to always have a needle in my hand for some project. (♥)
Because I had been away from my sewing machine for a little bit, I was missing piecing, . . . & when I saw the cute little basket block challenge from Temecula Quilt Co., I was immediately hooked. (scroll down to the June 30 post for the info & link to the pattern)
They are wee little blocks (finishing at 2" x 2")!. . . but are honestly addictive. The challenge is to make one each day for the months of July & August, but with the needlework market in August coming up, I cut all the background fabrics for all the blocks first (I'm using Moda Muslin - warm white), so that I could make some ahead of the one-a-day pace. For my basket fabrics, all the fabrics I am using are coming from my stash. Yesterday was my sew day with some friends, & so I used the time to cut all but a few of the rest of the basket pieces as well. This means that in the next few days, as I'm fine tuning the charts & patterns for the new stitcheries. . . & the *need* to walk away from the computer for a little bit, I can go in & sew together another wee little basket block!
(. . . happy girl) !
I also want to thank all of you who left comments & sent messages about Bailey & asked how he did with his 'Thundershirt'.
(Bailey says "thank you" too!)
Believe it or not. . . we didn't have to put it to the test on July 4th. Not a single neighbor shot off fireworks! I was amazed. . . (& so thankful!) Since then though, the summer thunderstorm season has started & so we have put it into use & it does help calm him. He's not oblivious to the big booms when they happen, but he doesn't pace or pant like he used to. So I'm feeling that it does help him. . . & anything that helps out my little boy not to be so scared is great in
my book.
So, for today, I'm off to finish up the charts for the new stitcheries. . . & maybe make a basket block or two. . . (. . . or three. . . or four), & I'll be checking twitter now & again to see if there is any royal baby news(!)
Thanks for stopping by!
♥ Bren


text:
Allied Transmission Ltd. is an AUTHORIZED ALLISON dealer and is committed to providing the highest standard of service. With our combined 175+ years of expertise in both the "On" and "Off" highway segments, you can rest assured that our quality of work is second to none.
We know how important it is to keep your fleet on the road, in service and making you money. We are here to make sure that happens. It doesn't matter if you are an owner/operator or if you have 500 units in your fleet, our professional and highly trained staff is here to serve all of your ALLISON needs, even if it is a quick troubleshooting question.
Don't hesitate to call us toll free 1-888-232-2203 or email us.
We are easily accessed from Stony Trail and Peigan Trail


text:
The Portable Assistance Program seeks to provide grants to Small Business Development Lead Centers that provide services to small businesses in an effort to increase the success of small business establishments and their viability in certain communities where economic hardship is apparent and is attributable to the impact of a major disaster.
This post is aligned with a network of sites interested with the intersection of small business, the philanthropic sector and government in creating healthy and sustainable communities.
Find additional information and resources on small business grants and loans, home buyer programs and impact investment programs from around the world.


text:
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (MSRS) is one of America's most notable American recording-studio "house bands." The quartet emerged during the golden age of "rock & soul" in the 1960s and early 1970s and played on hit records by soul recording stars such as Percy Sledge, Wilson Pickett, and Aretha Franklin, as well as on country-rock songs by Glenn Frey, Levon Helm, Eddie Rabbitt, and Willie Nelson. The band also played on top-selling albums by Bob Seger, Paul Simon, and The Staple Singers. Southern rock band Lynryd Skynrd paid homage to the rhythm section in their 1974 hit, "Sweet Home Alabama."
The quartet's members—Roger Hawkins, Jimmy Johnson, Barry Beckett, and David Hood—commonly known as "The Swampers," initially worked together for Florence Alabama Music Enterprises (FAME) Studios in Muscle Shoals during the early-to-mid-1960s. After leaving FAME in the spring of 1969, the quartet established itself as the Muscle Shoals (Sound) Rhythm Section and cultivated its definitive country-soul-tinged "Muscle Shoals" sound. The MSRS became a dominant presence on the American music scene for more than 25 years and continues to inspire international interest in American soul music.
Jimmy Johnson and the Del-Rays The members played separately for several Shoals-area rock 'n' roll bands in the mid-1960s prior to their work at FAME Studios. Guitarist Jimmy Johnson was a member of the Del-Rays and worked at FAME after 1962. Drummer Roger Hawkins was a member of Dan Penn's Mark V and began as a session musician at FAME and at Quinvy Studios in Sheffield in 1965. Keyboardist Barry Beckett, from Birmingham, began to work at FAME in 1966. Bass player David Hood played with the Shoals-based band The Mystics. He began recording at FAME as a trombonist in 1966 and worked as a studio bassist at Quinvy Studios before becoming the primary bassist at FAME in 1967.
Singer-songwriter Arthur Alexander helped establish Muscle Shoals in the early 1960s as a regional recording center through his plaintive and visceral hits like "You Better Move On" and "Anna." But the turning point for the future MSRS came when future members played backup to Percy Sledge on "When A Man Loves A Woman" in 1966, a song building upon Alexander's style that defined the sound of an emerging regional genre called "country-soul." The song, a textbook example of the genre, was anchored rhythmically by drummer Roger Hawkins and engineered by Jimmy Johnson at Norala Studios in Sheffield (the studio was later renamed Quinvy after its namesake, producer Quin Ivy). The recording topped both the pop and rhythm and blues (R&B) charts in April 1966. It also garnered the interest of Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler and established Muscle Shoals as a regional music center. As a result, Wexler began an association with the Muscle Shoals music scene that would last through the 1990s, ultimately providing financial support for the Muscle Shoals Sound Studios (MSSS) and promoting the MSRS.
Wilson Pickett and Jerry Wexler Realizing the musicians' abilities in Muscle Shoals, Wexler brought soul singer and Alabama native Wilson Pickett to FAME in 1966 to record "Land of 1,000 Dances." Wexler next produced Aretha Franklin's bluesy "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" and its soulful flipside "Do Right Woman—Do Right Man," which were recorded at FAME in January 1967. It was Franklin's first million-selling record and brought immediate music industry attention to the FAME rhythm section. In 1967, Hawkins, Johnson, Beckett, and Hood performed on Arthur Conley's recording of Joe Turner's R&B classic, "Shake, Rattle, & Roll," which became an instant hit. The rhythm section was soon backing FAME's soul artist roster, including Clarence Carter and Candi Staton. The uncanny cohesiveness of the four musicians earned them fame as a freelance rhythm section, and they began working on Atlantic recordings for singers Solomon Burke and Wilson Pickett and saxophone player Curtis "King Curtis" Ousley. From 1967 to 1969, Hawkins and Johnson played on Atlantic's sessions for Aretha Franklin, including "Respect," "Chain of Fools," and "Since You Been Gone." The four men played with Franklin on such hits as "Share Your Love With Me," "The Weight," "The Dark End of the Street," and "Call Me." These sessions, released on Franklin's This Girl's In Love With You, catapulted the soon-to-be MSRS onto the international scene.
Percy Sledge In April 1969 Beckett, Hawkins, Hood, and Johnson left the FAME studios and established their own studio, Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, dubbing themselves the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. They continued their relationship with Wexler and played on Cher's 3614 Jackson Highway, which was the address of the new studio. In August 1969, the Rolling Stones recorded their smash hit "Brown Sugar" at MSS for their album Sticky Fingers. From the early-to-mid 1970s, the MSRS contributed to Atlantic Records' catalogue, recording with Lulu, Herbie Mann, Wilson Pickett, Boz Scaggs, Rod Stewart, and most notably Willie Nelson on his acclaimed Phases and Stages (1974). During that period, the MSRS also backed up Joe Cocker, Millie Jackson, Laura Nyro, Linda Ronstadt, and Leon Russell. The MSRS also recorded with Percy Sledge, Bonnie Bramlett, and Eddie Hinton for the Capricorn label. Artists from the Memphis-based Stax Records frequently worked with the MSRS in the early-1970s as well, including Luther Ingram ("If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right"), Johnnie Taylor ("Cheaper to Keep Her"), and The Staple Singers ("Respect Yourself" and "I'll Take You There").
The Oak Ridge Boys In 1973, the MSRS toured Europe with Steve Winwood and Traffic, recorded On the Road and played on Traffic's studio album, Shootout at the Fantasy Factory. The quartet was also versed in Jamaican reggae, as revealed on Jimmy Cliff's "Sitting in Limbo." Paul Simon recorded There Goes Rhymin' Simon in 1973 with the MSRS, featuring the songs "Kodachrome" and "Loves Me Like A Rock." The MSRS then played on the Grammy Award-winning title track for Simon's Still Crazy After All These Years (1975). In 1976, former Stax producer Don Davis and the MSRS recorded Johnnie Taylor's Eargasm and with Bobby Womack, the MSRS co-produced Home Is Where The Heart Is. The MSRS collaborated often with Bob Seger, playing on his hits "Mainstreet" (1976), "We've Got Tonight (1978)," and the ubiquitous "Old Time Rock and Roll" (1978). The MSRS also backed Texas blues-rocker Delbert McClinton under the umbrella of the Muscle Shoals Sound label, on The Jealous Kind (1980). From the late-1970s through the mid-1980s, the MSRS supported Lou Ann Barton, Glenn Frey, Levon Helm, Dr. Hook, Julian Lennon, Frankie Miller, The Oak Ridge Boys, and Eddie Rabbitt. The MSRS began an important association with Malaco Records in the late-1970s, which resulted in a host of regional soul hits by Dorothy Moore, Z. Z. Hill, and Little Milton. In 1985 keyboard player Beckett relocated to Nashville after the sale of MSS to Malaco Records that year; he passed away in Hendersonville, Tennesee, on June 16, 2009.
MSRS and Jerry Wexler The remaining members of the MSRS continued working as a studio band during the 1990s, often with Clayton Ivey on keyboards. Highlights of that decade include Etta James' The Right Time (1992), Dan Penn's Do Right Man (1994), and Joe Louis Walker's Preacher and the President (1998). In 1995, the MSRS was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. The millennium was marked with sessions at MSS featuring Malaco stalwarts Johnnie Taylor, whose There's No Good In Goodbye, recorded in the summer of 1999, was to be his last studio effort, and septuagenarian Bobby "Blue" Bland, who returned to MSS to cut Blues at Midnight in the winter of 2001. Hawkins is now retired, Johnson works regularly as a producer, and Hood is still active as a session bassist. His son, Patterson Hood, is a founding member of the acclaimed band the Drive-By Truckers. In 2005, Malaco sold Muscle Shoals Sound to Cypress Moon Films. In October 2008, the MSRS was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville. In 2013, the Muscle Shoals Sound and its musicians were featured in the documentary Muscle Shoals, by the Ear Goggles production company.
Further Reading
- Bowman, Rob. Soulsville, U.S.A.: The Story of Stax Records. New York: Schirmer Books, 1997.
- Fuqua, C. S. Music Fell on Alabama: The Muscle Shoals Sound That Shook the World. Montgomery, Ala.: NewSouth Books, 2006.
- Guralnick, Peter. Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Dream of Southern Freedom. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
- Hoskyns, Barney. Say It One Time for the Broken Hearted. London: Fontana Books, 1987.
- Moorman, Mark, director. Tom Dowd & the Language of Music. Film. New York: Palm Pictures, 2003.


text:
Check out my Provisions iPhone App or the printable version "Get It Now" list for my favorite everyday deals at Aldi.
Things to know…
- Prices vary by region.
- You must have a quarter to get a shopping cart; you get it back when you return the cart.
- Payment options are only debit cards or cash.
- You bag your own groceries and bring your own bags, they have bags for 5¢ at the register.
- Go here for a list of my favorite everyday Aldi low prices.
The start dates for sales are based on the map below. Prices will change on Wednesday, Thursday or Sunday depending on your location on the map.
Find more great deals in your Aldi store ad.
A reminder that Aldi stores will be CLOSED on Thursday, November 22nd for Thanksgiving.
More Aldi deals at Beltway Bargain Mom.
Looking for a coupon? Find it on my Coupon Database.


text:
September 2, 1982
PIX #1 - One view of the library in the Emerine home, now Green Manor. Look- ing through the door is a view of the entrance hall reached via the front porch. The stairs lead to the second floor apartments.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Last week's story about the Emerine house at 935 N. Main St., now known as Green Manor, was concluded in one installment, except for addi- tional photos shown here. It is unusual to be able to exhibit indoor photos from another era, showing the furnishings of these days.
Willis Wyant, 237 W. South St., a regular reader of "Potluck" and a first- rate area historian, telephoned to express his appreciation of the Emerine house article. He also revealed that the Bair and Long families, named in the article were ancestors of he and his wife.
The first installment of that story brought immediate response soon after publication. It turned up more readers who were also involved in ice cutting in this area.
The first telephone call came from Clarence Luman, 204 Vickie Lane. He said he too worked at the ice cutting operation at Reservoir No. 2 from 1910-1915, when he was just a young boy. His job was to keep the steam engine running to operate the conveyor which moved the ice into the storage houses.
It seems strange that young boys were allowed to work at such dangerous jobs.
The most important information received from Clarence was that Harry Clore, who with Ralph Clink owned the Fostoria Ice & Coal Co. in later years, was either the owner or one of the principal stockholders in the ice cutting operation.
He also recalls that the horse used at the work site fell in the reservoir one day and they had quite a time getting it out.
Luman said the tools showed in the photos looked familiar and that he still had a few of them from back then.
Eugene Peiffer, 432 College Ave., also telephoned to say that the village of New Riegel had three ice houses back in that period.
One of the ice houses at New Riegel was used by Mike Marks, restaurant owner; anotber by the Convent; and the third by Smith's Butcher Shop. He said the ice houses were demolished in about 1951.
The ice at New Riegel was cut from man-made ponds.
Mr. Marks, according to Peiffer, in addition to using ice from his pond also hauled it to Tiffin by wagon. He put layers of sawdust between the load of ice cakes to keep it from melting during the trip.
Peiffer helped with ice cutting in New Riegel when he was about 12 or 13.
Louis Zirger, 734 S. Main St., telephoned to say that he helped cut ice from the Sandusky River at Tiffin when he was about 13 years old. The Zirger fam- ily lived on a farm just south of Tiffin. They used the ice, as did a dairy farmer just up the river from the Zirger farm.
The ice house in Tiffin was just above the dam where the waterworks is now.
Zirger moved to Fostoria in 1935. He was a greens keeper at Fostoria Country Club for many years, recalling a few of the names of the caddies and golfers of those days--Dr. Prudden, Robert Wagner, Glenn Eaton and others.
Chet Kieffer told me he remembered the ice houses at Reservoir No. 2, and also the era when skating was allowed on it. He particularly remembers Jim "Grand- pa" Griffin who was always on hand to skate, even in his later years and to help the younger skaters learn some of the "tricks."
I lost track of the many readers who stopped me at various times to remark about the ice cutting articles.
Many people responded to that article, all expressing the same sentiment--that it was an interesting and beautiful human interest story which they were glad to read.
Since then on Aug. 17, Mrs. Sigman, mother of Martha Lynne, was a visitor to Fostoria at the Beeson residence. A number of her old friends who helped dur- ing those trying days stopped to see her. I was privileged to meet Mrs. Sig- man that day, our first meeting, since the data for that article was via cor- respondence.
Scores of "Potluck" readers, perhaps hundreds, have asked for several years if and when I would publish a book of the "Potluck" articles when have been printed by The Review Times.
Some of those readers have a complete set of all the articles; others have wished they had collected them from the start, yet they would like to have them in book form.
The latest inquiry came from Mr. Riser, Conneaut, father of Donald Riser, 628 College Ave. In particular, Riser mentioned those articles which detailed business areas, the business places and names of people. His final remarks were "keep up the good work and I hope you will publish the book of articles."
Riser's interest prompts me to ask the question which I have not done pre- viously: how many readers would commit themselves to purchase the book?
The only reasonable way for me to undertake the project would be for sub- scribers to place in trust in a bank the purchase price of the book, the money to be held there until the book was ready for distribution. If the project was not completed the money would be refunded.
At this point, I do not have a cost of the book. But if readers are serious they should be willing to make a commitment, which will guide me in deciding if the project is feasible. Expression of initial interest would not be binding. That would come when the price was established. I would anticipate the cost would be approximately $20.
The material from all previously printed articles would be updated and in some cases rewritten. Also, there would be some additional material which has not been previously presented.
Readers who are serious about indicating an "intention to purchase" should fill in the accompanying form and mail it to Paul H. Krupp, 927 N. Main St., Fostoria. Do not send payment with the form.


text:
Is there any programs or settings I can use/set so that at the times I choose, a computer will not work at all? It is on a network, but all the others must work. If you saw my other thread, you know about me setting up a 98 computer on a VPN. Everything was working fine until someone actually stole a key, went into a bosses office, took a Dell system restore CD, and installed XP. Somehoe while doing this they screwed up all the network settings. Now I have to start all over and get it back online ...with 98. *sigh*
Once I get it back online and in working order, I will be installing DeepFreeze! Mwhaha. That will keep it pretty much safe. Now I just need to be able to have the comp atomaticly disable it's self at the time/s I pick.
Thanks in advance.


text:
Happy Thanksgiving Eve's Day (or, whatever you want to call it)! Today, we have news briefs about a bunch of classic sitcoms coming to Hulu, what you won't be seeing on Desperate Housewives (photo at right), a Mission: Impossible partnership, what to watch this weekend, and Facebook's new phone. Plus, a few notable premieres in TV history.
Hulu Plus
The TV video website has struck a deal with Carsey Werner TV Distribution to license 11 of their vintage sitcoms. They are The Cosby Show, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Grounded for Life, Men Behaving Badly, That '80s Show, The Tracy Morgan Show, Whoopi, Damon, Game Over, Davis Rules, and Normal, Ohio. The 580 episodes are available for viewing via Hulu's subscription service, Hulu Plus. Some of Carsey Werner's biggest titles — Roseanne, That '70s Show, and Grace Under Fire — weren't included in the deal.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
It seems that the folks at Facebook have been developing a smartphone of their own that will have deep integration with the social network. The phone's codename is "Buffy," named after our favorite vampire slayer.
Desperate Housewives
If you were a resident of Wisteria Lane, it'd be a good idea to find someplace else to stay for the holidays. In past Decembers, we've seen riots, a plane crash, and a tornado come to the neighborhood. There won't be any big catastrophes this year though, mostly because of budgetary reasons. They're supposedly saving their extra dollars to put into May's series finale.
Mission: Impossible
The National Hockey League has made its first major pact with a film studio and they've chosen to work with Paramount to help promote Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. During this Friday's Boston Bruins vs. Detroit Red Wings game, NBC will air offer clips of the upcoming Tom Cruise sequel. The movie opens nationwide on December 21st. In addition, the "NHL Mission Impossible" sweepstakes will be pushed for five weeks and other NHL-related telecasts will integrate Ghost Protocol clips.
Thanksgiving marathons
If you plan on spending some time in front of the television this holiday weekend, you might want to check out TV Tango's guide to "395 TV Series & Movie Marathons & Holiday Programs, Specials & Episodes." There's certainly plenty of stuff to watch if you're not a fan of football.
2009: ABC premiered its Find My Family reality series.
2008: The CW's reality series 4Real went off the air. The program follows celebrities as they travel to remote locations and discuss issues like poverty, children's rights, and the environment.
1983: The Hitchhiker premiered on HBO and later moved to USA. The series ran for 85 episodes in all.
1963: Doctor Who debuted on the BBC and continued for many years. The current version started in 2005.
What do you think? What shows would you like to see made available on Hulu? Will you miss the annual disaster on Desperate Housewives? What will you be watching this weekend?


text:
Ever been in a meeting with people speeking endlessly it seems and you wish they would somehow get a hint to stop? Now you can stop them! Pull out your iPhone and push the big red button and play any of the 40 built-in effect sounds to give them a sign to stop their speeches.
Even wanted a "careful" way to stop your wife from talking a mile a minute? Use the big red button to send her a nice dog barking sound note that you need a break!
Are your kids chewing you an ear off right after you got home from work? Tell them with the big red button you need 15 minutes to recover before they can start chewing again your ear!
The Big Red Button (TBRB) is the digital version of the famous red button we all know and have never been allowed to push, but now we are! Get your own big red button right away!
TBRB displayas a big red touch sensitive button graphics and once tapped it will play back the last used sound out of the 40 built-in effect sounds. The sounds range from dog barking over comic and bell sounds up to metal gong sounds and alarm sirens. While touching the button down it will glow and vibrate as well as sink a bit down to give the best possible haptic feedback of a big red button on a digital device. On the iPod Touch instead of the vibra alarm the internal piezo sound is played back.
The Big Red Button – get it while it's red… eh… hot!
The Big Red Button is available in the Apple iTunes App Store for US$ 0.99 / 0.79 Euro. Please follow this iTunes link directly to the Big Red Button on Apple iTunes.


text:
Google's CR-48 Chrome laptop was a rough draft of the kind of computer people will be using eventually—lean, fast, utterly and completely connected—but it had its problems. (Oh lord, the trackpad.) Samsung's Series 5 Chromebook is like version 1.0.
It's not a netbook, Google will tell you. (Vocally.) But your hands will tell you differently. It's squishy in the middle, when you press on the upper section of the trackpad. Almost like it's hollow. The rest of the plastic body bends like stale bread. It's at that weird intersection between meh plastic and good plastic. And it's thin, notably but not remarkably so.
The trackpad is better than the last Chromebook. It clicks distinctly, forcefully—but also cheaply. Like they were trying to overcompensate for Google's last trackpad while using lower quality parts. (The action isn't as seamless, as say, a MacBook Pro's.) It's still better than the CR-48's by a wide margin, with two-finger scrolling and general tracking working just fine. The keyboard? Great. Soft, in that good way, like some of my favorite Logitech chiclet keyboards, and spacey.
The 12.1-inch, 300-nit screen is nice enough. It plays YouTube videos in 1080p okay, not amazingly. Thor's trailer was watchable, but the motion was not what you'd call lovely, the odd bundle of frames dropped here and there. Hulu's interface chugged. But that's Flash for you, even with hardware acceleration. Normal tasks—tons of tabs loaded with web apps—totally fine. The 2GB of RAM and dual-core Atom chip are clearly capable, though not Olympic in strength.
All in all, it's about exactly what you'd expect for $429 of computer in the shape of a laptop. No more, and not much less. (To be less ambiguous: An iPad and Samsung's own Galaxy Tab feel like higher quality devices, by a sizable margin.) But hey, I hear these things print now, too.


text:
Introduction to geospatial analytics
In a data warehouse like BigQuery, location information is very common. Many critical business decisions revolve around location data. For example, you may record the latitude and longitude of your delivery vehicles or packages over time. You may also record customer transactions and join the data to another table with store location data.
You can use this type of location data to determine when a package is likely to arrive or to determine which customers should receive a mailer for a particular store location. Geospatial analytics let you analyze and visualize geospatial data in BigQuery by using geography data types and GoogleSQL geography functions.
Geospatial analytics is subject to the following limitations:
- Geography functions are available only in GoogleSQL.
- Only the BigQuery client library for Python currently supports
GEOGRAPHYdata type. For other client libraries, convert
GEOGRAPHYvalues to strings by using the
ST_ASGEOJSONfunction. Converting to text using
ST_AsTextstores only one value, and converting to WKT means that the data is annotated as a
STRINGtype instead of a
Quotas and limits on geospatial analytics apply to the different types of jobs you can run against tables that contain geospatial data, including the following job types:
- Loading data (load jobs)
- Exporting data (export jobs)
- Querying data (query jobs)
- Copying tables (copy jobs)
For more information on all quotas and limits, see Quotas and limits.
When you use geospatial analytics, your charges are based on the following factors:
- How much data is stored in the tables that contain geospatial data
- The queries you run against the data
For information on storage pricing, see Storage pricing.
For information on query pricing, see Analysis pricing models.
Many table operations are free, including loading data, copying tables, and exporting data. Though free, these operations are subject to BigQuery's Quotas and limits. For information on all free operations, see Free operations on the pricing page.
Next steps
- To get started with geospatial analytics, see Get started with geospatial analytics.
- To learn more about visualization options for geospatial analytics, see Visualize geospatial data.
- To learn more about working with geospatial data, see Work with geospatial data.
- For documentation on GoogleSQL functions in geospatial analytics, see Geography functions in GoogleSQL.


text:
The Victoria Miro Gallery has announced a brand new exhibition for Autumn of the work of the Scandinavian artists, Elmgreen & Dragset. It will be their second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Titled, Harvest it presents two choreographed environments which at first may appear visually and conceptually diverse, but through Elmgreen & Dragset's own refined systems of logic, they bring to life a multi-layered set of narratives that play upon childhood memories, and question issues linked to our cultural heritage and the institutional through a personally charged perception.
Displayed in the downstairs gallery is a series of new unique monochrome works, the surfaces of which consist of white wall paint carefully removed from prominent museums and public galleries by professional conservators, using techniques employed to restore frescoes and murals. The thin layer of removed white wall paint is then applied onto raw canvas and framed, so that this ordinary, typically valueless and disregarded 'background' is transcended and suddenly becomes painting with a new worth and significance. Each bears the name of its former home – such as Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; Serpentine Gallery, London – and when viewed together, the subtle variations in texture, shade of colour and quality of the paint become apparent, indicative of the self-presentation of each institution.
Drawing on the history of the readymade, as well as the legacy of Minimalism (with particular reference to the work of Robert Ryman), the canvases also serve as signifiers of how such institutions figure in art-world consciousness as a locus of desire. The series can be seen as a natural development of Elmgreen & Dragset's earliest works, exemplified by performances such as Twelve Hours of White Paint/Powerless Structures, Fig. 15 (1997), in which the artists repeatedly painted white an exhibition space over the course of twelve hours, or their witty distortion of the quintessential white cube in works like Dug Down Gallery/Powerless Structures, Fig. 45 (1998) or Suspended Space/Powerless Structures, Fig. 313 (2002).
In the upstairs gallery, and in stark contrast to the clean precision and clarity of the downstairs space, the artists lay out an altogether different setting, one that takes its cue from the rustic interior architecture of the bare-brick and wooden-beamed upper space of Victoria Miro. Here Elmgreen & Dragset present their playful version of a hayloft, replete with strewn hay and works that operate within a lexicon of rural iconography: a bronze hay bale and scarecrow, a sculpture of a young farm boy, abstract paintings derived from lines of timber work in medieval Northern European architecture and traditional German barns, and a timber wall-frame which reads KUNST, amongst others. One clearly sees the references to 1950s abstract formal language, as in Franz Kline's paintings, but instead of claiming the aesthetics of the concrete or sublime, these works reveal a direct inspiration from humble farmyard imagery.
In this juxtaposition of works, all definitions of 'culture' are acknowledged – from the simple lived experience to the institutionalized fine arts. The basic process of growing and cultivating and also the harvest become the central topic. Characteristic of Elmgreen & Dragset's practice, the exhibition explores both personal and shared cultural identity and memory – and presents them alongside one another, in no hierarchical order.
Based in London and Berlin, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have worked as an artist duo since the mid-1990s. Their winning sculpture for the Fourth Plinth commission, Powerless Structures, Fig. 101, is currently on view in London's Trafalgar Square. Important solo exhibitions have been presented at the Boijmans van Beuningen Museum Submarine Wharf, Rotterdam (2011); ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (2010-2011), MUSAC, León, Spain (2009), Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (2007), Serpentine Gallery, London (2006), MCA Chicago (2005), Tate Modern, London (2004), and Kunsthalle Zurich (2001). In 2009, Elmgreen & Dragset were awarded Special Mention at the Venice Biennale for The Collectors, their highly elaborate exhibition for the Danish and Nordic Pavilions.
21 Sep – 10 Nov 2012 Victoria Miro Gallery London


text:
Something to suit every taste
In addition to the great taste, you'll also be impressed by the new monochrome design of TASSIMO VIVY 2 (T140). In five fresh colours, it is a real design statement in every kitchen.
CUSTOMER BENEFITS TASSIMO VIVY 2 (T140) Detailed description.
Great drink and brand variety Over 40* specialties of espresso, coffee crema, filter coffee, latte macchiato, cappuccino, hot chocolate and tea.
Drink expertise from famous brands like Carte Noire, Jacobs, Kenco, Gevalia, Cadbury, Milka and Twinings.
Perfect drink quality thanks to INTELLIBREW. Thanks to the patented Barcode Technology each drink is perfectly prepared with the right drink length, temperature und brewing time. The TASSIMO brewer reads the specific barcode and brews the perfect drink.
Easiest drink preparation Fully automatic drink preparation with just one button. Very space saving Compact brewer dimensions. No heat up time after switch-on Instantly ready to start your drink.
Dimensions L x W x H
251 x 169 x 310
Easily accessible and fillable water tank: removable water tank with a capacity of 0.7 litres.


text:
This is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:30 AM. It's the
It's the LA Auto Show and Tokyo Motor Show, both going on at the same time. Here are all the important cars revealed so far, including the Design Vision GTI pictured above, which isn't new but is glorious to behold.
Subaru Crossover 7 Concept Honda Vezel
Nissan Juke RS Honda FCEV Concept
Ford Edge Concept 2015 Subaru WRX
Nissan Sentra NISMO Mercedes Gran Turismo Vision
Youabian Puma Range Rover Long Wheelbase
Subaru Legacy Concept Mercedes GLA45 AMG
2015 Chevy Colorado 2014 BMW 4-Series Convertible
Nissan IDx NISMO Concept BMW M235i Racing
Subaru Levorg Concept Subaru Cross Sport Design Concept (aka BRZ Wagon)
2015 Subaru WRX 2015 Chevy Colorado
Jaguar F-Type Coupe R Jaguar F-Type Coupe
Porsche Macan Jeep Wrangler Willys
2015 Mini Cooper Nissan GT-R NISMO
Volkswagen Twin-Up Concept SRT Viper GTS Anodized Carbon
Reverse: Keepin' Cool With Coolidge
On this day in 1927, Time magazine puts the week-old Holland Tunnel on its cover. The tunnel, which runs under the Hudson River between New York City and Jersey City, New Jersey, had opened to traffic the week before, at the stroke of midnight on November 13. (Earlier that day, President Calvin Coolidge had ceremonially opened the tunnel from his yacht on the Potomac by turning the same key that had "opened" the Panama Canal in 1915—Time called it "the golden lever of the Presidential telegraphic instrument"—which rang a giant brass bell at the tunnel's entrances.) On that first day, 51,694 vehicles traveled through the tunnel.
Neutral: Best Reveal So Far? A wagon-y BRZ ? A futuristic Mercedes GT? What tickles your fancy? Photo Credit: AP Images


text:
Common diseases - Chronic renal insufficiency
Renal insufficiency occurs when the renal function deteriorates to a point where the kidneys are unable to fulfill their functions to eliminate waste, maintain a water and electrolyte balance, and produce hormones. Generally, chronic renal insufficiency has been present for some time (months or years) when the diagnosis is made and the disease is irreversible. Dogs and cats with chronic renal insufficiency cannot be cured but in some cases their clinical signs can be controlled successfully.
Animals are born with such an abundance of renal cells that the signs of renal insufficiency only appear when more than 2/3 of the kidneys are already damaged. Because of this great reserve of renal cells, it is often difficult to diagnose chronic renal insufficiency at an early stage. Consequently, chronic renal insufficiency is a deceitful disease that declares itself just when the renal damage is already advanced.
Typically, the first signs of chronic renal insufficiency are an increased water consumption and an increased quantity of urine. Other signs are weight loss, a dull coat and an increasingly difficult appetite. As renal insufficiency progresses, the kidneys are unable to eliminate metabolic waste and clinical signs become worse: vomiting, loss of appetite, ulcers in the mouth area, halitosis, weakness and depression. Other consequences of chronic renal insufficiency are anemia and hypertension. Anemia can worsen the loss of appetite, weakness and depression. Hypertension can cause eye damage (sudden blindness), cerebrovascular accidents, and heart and kidney damage.
The diagnosis of renal insufficiency is confirmed with blood and urine analyses. Other diagnostic tests are sometimes necessary (X-rays, urinary culture, ultrasonography, measuring the arterial blood pressure, fundoscopic eye exam, etc.).
Fortunately, some animals that have renal insufficiency can be treated (not cured however) and have a good quality of life for months or years. Depending on the stage of renal insufficiency, many treatments can be useful for the affected animal: a diet change (low in protein, salt and phosphorus), fluidotherapy and some medications (antacids, anti-nausea, appetite stimulant, etc.).
With humans, chronic renal insufficiency can be controlled with dialysis (hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis) or a renal transplant. With small animals, dialysis usefulness is limited
because of the cost involved and the decrease in the quality of life that is associated with it. With some cats that have renal insufficiency, renal transplant is possible but very expensive. Renal transplant is reserved to cats for which the standard medical treatment does not work.


text:
This Afresh – Parallax Responsive Creative PortfolioTemplate is suitable for creative portfolio and corporate base website. The popular effect parallax is implementing in this template.
It looks great in Desktop, Tablet and Mobile device.
Both one page and separate pages versions are available in download file in separate folder.
It's very easy to change the template color by just editing a single color.css file.
Complete Help document is included
- Responsive design
- Parallax effect
- Set High and low resolution image for Desktop and Mobile device. so that Mobile devices will load low resolution version of images to gain performance as well as saves download time.
- One page and Separate pages Template are available in separate folder
- Contain 17 modules
- Flexible Portfolio and News page.
- Lazy-load for project images. The images are load only when the project display
- Full Screen gallery with text animation. Option to set High and low resolution image
- Isotope filterable gallery
- Three variation of Blog post. Open the separate page for single blog post
- Flexslider
- support video and YouTube. Option to set video cover image
- Ajax contact form
- Fancybox plug-in
- Easy to change the color
- PSD files included
Code Update28 Jan 2014
Chrome browser (Version 32.0.1700.76 m) have update on TouchEvent. please replace the below code in custom.min.js file
/* Find touch device */ try { isTouch = true; document.createEvent('TouchEvent'); } catch (e) { isTouch = false; }
/* Find touch device */ if( /Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry|IEMobile|Opera Mini/i.test(navigator.userAgent) ) { isTouch = true; }
Updated:16 FEB 2013 – Replace # tag to #! in url to make search engine friendly
In this template the google font (Open+Sans) is used for Menu, Ttile and some body text. The other text are Helvetica font family, 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', Arial, sans-serif.
You can easily change the google font by linking the google font in custom.js file
Sources and Credits
skeleton – www.getskeleton.com
History – http://tkyk.github.com/jquery-history-plugin/
jQuery Parallax – http://www.ianlunn.co.uk/plugins/jquery-parallax/
jScrollPane – http://jscrollpane.kelvinluck.com/
Mouse wheel – http://brandonaaron.net/code/mousewheel/docs
Vegas – http://vegas.jaysalvat.com/
FancyBox - http://fancybox.net
isotope – http://isotope.metafizzy.co/
FlexSlider – http://www.woothemes.com/flexslider/
tipsy (tool tip) - http://tooltipsy.com/
About preview images:
All images are purchased and licensed from http://depositphotos.com/
The preview images doesn't included in purchase download file.
If you have any questions about this file contact me through my profile page.


text:
CLEH Summer Internship
NCEH/ATSDR will offer a 10-week summer internship for undergraduate students in Environmental Science/Studies and related fields...more
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Hazardous Chemical Incidents in Schools --- United States, 2002--2007...more
AJPM special issue on climate change
American Journal of Preventive Medicine examines global climate change and public health in November 2008 special issue, including five free full-text articles ....more [Exit]
The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ATSDR serves the public by using the best science, taking responsive public health actions, and providing trusted health information to prevent harmful exposures and diseases related to toxic substances.
ATSDR en Español
Trabajando, ayudando, sirviendo y educando...más
A-Z Index
Links to information posted on the ATSDR Web site, arranged alphabetically by main topic...more
Data Resources
National Exposure Registry, World Trade Center Health Registry, Tremolite Asbestos Registry; links and contact information for state cooperative agreement partners and information resources; ATSDR annual reports; interactive map and links to hazardous waste site documents...more
Education & Training
Includes cases studies and online learning programs for medical and public health providers, health assessors, and others; some versions in Spanish and Japanese...more
Emergency Response
Information to help emergency staff repond quickly to incidents involving chemical agents or hazardous substances, and to prepare for those emergencies...more
Hazardous Waste Sites
Find information about current activities at focus waste sites; search lists of sites by state, by contaminant, or by site ownership; read public health assessments; become involved...more
Publications & Products
Links to a range of ATSDR documents, including "A Citizen's Guide to Risk Assessment and Public Health Assessments at Contaminated Sites," the "ATSDR Public Health Asessment Guidance Manual," documents released for public comment, fact sheets, annual reports, newsletters, papers, and more...more
Special Initiatives
Partnership projects and initiatives focused on such topics as bioterrorism, children's health, Great Lakes human health effects, fish consumption advisories, tribal affairs, Alaska traditional diet, scientific review, etc...more
Toxic Substances
Evaluations of hazardous substances and their potential health effects, including Toxicological Profiles, ToxFAQs™ , and information on specific substances, such as dioxin and PCBs...more


text:
Rome, August 6th, 2014 Enel Green Power S.p.A. informs that the Half-year Financial Report at June 30th, 2014, pursuant to art. 154-ter, paragraph 2, of the Legislative Decree February 24th, 1998, No. 58 - as well as the report of the external auditors - is available to the public at Enel Green Powers registered office, in the relevant section of Enel Green Powers internet website (www.enelgreenpower.com, Section Media & Investor/Financial Reports/Interim Financial Reports/2014) and on the mechanism for the central storage "1Info" (www.1info.it).
All Enel Green Power press releases are also available in versions for smart phones and tablets.
You can download the Enel Mobile app at: Apple Store, Google Play and BlackBerryApp World
Enel S.p.A. provides for the dissemination to the public of regulated information by using SDIR NIS, managed by BIt Market Services, a London Stock Exchange Group's company, with registered office at Milan, Piazza degli Affari, 6. For the storage of regulated information made available to the public, Enel S.p.A. has adhered, as from July 1st, 2015 to the authorized mechanism denominated "NIS-Storage", available at the address www.emarketstorage.com, managed by the above mentioned BIt Market Services S.p.A. and authorized by CONSOB with the resolution No. 19067 of November 19th, 2014. From May 19th 2014 to June 30th 2015 Enel S.p.A. used the authorized mechanism for the storage of regulated information denominated "1Info", available at the address www.1info.it, managed by Computershare S.p.A. with registered office in Milan and authorized by CONSOB with resolution No. 18852 of April 9th, 2014


text:
Services BPKI
BPKI Enrolment Process
Table of contents
- BPKI Enrolment Process
- How to request a BPKI certificate
- Accepting/reject a BPKI request
- Invitation to request your BPKI certificate
- Invitation to request your BPKI certificate
1) Introduction
A BPKI certificate, also known as a client X.509 certificate, is used to identify a user or a client. They are meant for authenticating a client to a server. In the case of AFRINIC, the client certificate delivered will hold your NIC-HANDLE as Common Name (CN). You must be an authorised contact of your organisation to obtain a BPKI certificate. A BPKI certificate is needed to access Resource Certification (RPKI) services.