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These custard cups can be found at any store that sells bakeware, kitchen assessories. Both Anchor and Pyrex make good quality bakeware so either would be a good choice if I needed to replace mine. I also noticed a few other brands that sell custard cups. These custard cups come in different sizes; 6, 8 and 10 oz. in sets of 4. Prices may vary per store but in average they go for under $6 for the set.
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I like to call these both cups and bowls. I use them for serving small portions of foods such as mixed fruit, jell-o, pudding or ice cream. They are so versatile I also use them to melt butter in and also to blend sugar and cinnamon when using it to pour over my apple coffee cake I make from scratch. The use for these are endless with an everlasting durability. They are small, heavy duty glass, making them practical and useful for a variety of individual uses. You can also freeze foods in these but I never have because of the small size. I would prefer to use a freezer bag.
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If you watch the food network on TV you will notice some cooks will use as many as 10 of these. They will use one for every pre-measured ingredient they are using in their recipe especially for herbs, seasonings and anything that will hold under a few tablespoons. They make the recipe look so easy with all the ingredients sitting in these cups ready for the camera to capture the blending of all the additives so that they can make a dish in a few minutes. I don't use mine for holding several individual spices like that but I must say it looks nice to have everything measured before making a meal in these cups. They make a nice presentation when showing someone how you make a dish with many seasonings.
I think everyone should have at least one set of these in the size that suits your needs. They are heavy making them durable and clean easily. I would rather use these than a small plastic bowl. While these are not fancy for entertaining, they are practical and durable for everyday use. Whenever I need a small mixing bowl or a cup to hold small amounts of anything to heat in the microwave I always reach for this. I'm sure that are many other uses based on each household's personal needs.


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Survey of London Monograph 2, Saint Mary, Stratford Bow. Originally published by Guild & School of Handicraft, London, 1900.
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Inaccuracy of Records
The fragmentary nature of the records relating to the venerable parish church of Bow renders any attempt to compile a complete history of this sacred edifice a somewhat difficult task. Beyond the brief references contained in the well-known works of Stow, Strype, and Lysons, and the short account of the church to be found in Insley's "Memorials of Bow Church," very little appears to have been published regarding the early history of "The Chapel of Stratford atte Bowe," as it was formerly termed. But such information as can be gleaned from those authorities, & from a study of the building itself and its monuments and registers, establishes beyond dispute the fact that for at least four centuries the church, although repeatedly repaired, has remained, generally speaking, unaltered and even unenlarged; and that for a yet longer period the same site in the king's highway has formed the consecrated spot upon which the inhabitants of the riverside town of Stratford atte Bow have been wont to perform the duties of their religion.
In trying to piece together the various records one cannot fail to be impressed with the want of preciseness on the part of both writers and artists. The latter are the greater sinners: in studying the illustrations of a century since startling discrepancies are revealed. To quote a case in point—one of the largest of the buttresses of the tower is shown in an illustration dated 1806 (fn. 1) but not in one of 1809 (fn. 1); while in 1826 (fn. 1) it reappears bearing such a venerable character that it evidently could not have been demolished & rebuilt in the interim. However, it is well known that historical accuracy was not a quality that the engraver felt himself called upon to exercise. The number of battlements shown in an illustration would depend, not upon the number existing, but upon what would, in the artist's opinion, look the best. One very badly drawn view of "Bow Church in Middlesex, 1754," to be seen at Guildhall, is so inaccurate that one can only conclude that the artist never saw our ancient structure.
The village at Bow
It seems that from time immemorial a village existed upon the banks of the Lea, around the site upon which Bow Church now stands, and that a ford was used by the villagers. Did they wish to be expeditious they would cross by the straight ford, but the crossing was fraught with some danger, & the cautious would make a détour and use the old & safer ford. (fn. 2)
Bow bridge
It was in the reign of Henry I. that the bridge "arched like unto a bowe" was erected, and so we get the name Stratford at the bow. The building of the bridge was due to Queen Matilda, Henry's wife, and she, according to Leland, was herself "well washed" in the waters of the Lea.
Stratford Bow
The name of Stratford Bow seems in the early days to have been applied indiscriminately to the villages of Bow, Bromley, Stratford & Old Ford, which surrounded the straight ford and the bridge in the form of a bow. In course of time the straight ford and the old ford gave their names to the localities of Stratford & Old Ford respectively. Later, Stratford seems to have been written Stratford atte Bowe, for so we find it in Chaucer, who lived between 1340 and 1400:
"And Frensch she spak ful faire and fetysly
After the scole of Stratford atte Bowe,
For Frensch of Parys was to hire unknowe."
— Canterbury Tales.
Evidently "the father of English Poetry," who himself lived at Aldgate, was acquainted with the peculiarities of the Bow of his own time. The school here meant was probably that of the neighbouring convent of St. Leonard Bromley. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the name of Old Ford appears to have been written as one word, Oldford. Defoe so writes it in his "Memoirs of the Plague," and so we find it on one of the monuments of the church—that erected to Thomas Rust, who died in 1704. We, in the nineteenth century, have reverted to the original mode of writing it, by separating its syllables again into distinct words, & superadding to each of them the dignity of capital letters. (fn. 3)
The bridge was in existence until some sixty-five years ago, when having become dilapidated, and being too narrow and also looked upon as scarcely safe, it was removed to make way for the present structure. This latter erection was, with some ceremony, declared open for traffic in 1835. Writing just one hundred years ago the Rev. Daniel Lysons describes Bow as follows: "The Village of Bow, as it is usually called (dropping its original name of Stratford, and preserving only the distinction), is situated two miles to the east of London on the Essex road. The parish lies within the hundred of Ossulston, and is bounded on the east by the river Lea, which separates it from Low-layton and Westham in Essex; on the north by Hackney; on the north-west by Bethnal Green; on the west and south-west by Stepney; and on the south-east by Bromley S. Leonard. It contains about 465 acres of land, of which 218 are arable, the remainder pasture, upland pasture, and marsh-land, except 13 acres occupied by nursery gardens."
The Chapel of Stratford Bow, 1311; Bishop Baldock's licence
The Chantry Returns state that the Chapel of Stratford Bow was founded by King Edward III. on a piece of ground which formed part of the King's highway; but Newcourt (fn. 4) places the date of its erection earlier, for he says: "In the year 1311 a licence was granted by Bishop Baldock (dated from Stepney) to the inhabitants of Stratford & Oldford, to build a chapel for the convenience of attending divine service, they being so far distant from their parish church, and the roads in winter impassable by reason of the floods.
By the terms of this licence, the inhabitants were to assign a sufficient income for the chaplain to attend divine service on all the great holidays at the mother church and contribute to its repair. Long after this some differences arose between the inhabitants of Stepney and those of Stratford, (fn. 5) who seem to have been desirous of rendering themselves independent of the mother church. Our villagers were worsted in the struggle in the year 1497, and an agreement was then drawn up, whereby the inhabitants of Stratford (fn. 5) promised for the future to acknowledge themselves parishioners of Stepney, and their chapel subject to that church. The inhabitants of Stepney on their part agreed to accept 24s. per annum in lieu of all charges for repairs of the mother church, & to dispense with the attendance of the people of Bow except on the feast of their patron, S. Dunstan, and on the Wednesday in Whitsun-week, when they were to accompany the rest of the parishioners in procession to S. Paul's Cathedral. In the reign of Henry VIII., when Westminster was made a bishopric, the parish of Stepney was excused from this procession to S. Paul's upon condition that the rector and church wardens of Stepney and the curate and chapel-wardens of Stratford (Bow) should attend on the said day, and make an offering of 10d. at S. Peter's, Westminster. (fn. 6)
Chantrey Roll
By reference to the Chantry Roll in the Augmentation Office it will be seen that Hellen Hilliard gave certain property producing 50s. per ann. and other persons subscribed a total of £13 6s. 8d. "to augment the priest's wages." When the chantries and guilds were seized by the King, these lands, sharing the general fate, were sold. The inhabitants attempted to recover them but without avail. Even all the "olde Latin Boks" were taken. The Minister's salary in Henry VIII.'s day was £8 per annum, but in the year 1654 the sum of £92 was voted to Fulk Bellers, minister of Stratford Bow. (fn. 7)
It is certain, then, that a chapel existed at Bow during the fourteenth & fifteenth centuries, the site & plan of which were beyond doubt identical with what is now seen, except that the vestries & organ-chamber, hereafter mentioned, have been added.
Dates of the edifice
Mr. Insley in his Memorials then says that "no part of the present structure, judging from its architecture, is older than the closing years of the fifteenth century—about 1480 or 1490." Having very carefully studied the various parts of the fabric and searched the writings of Stow, Strype, Leland, Lysons, and the Parish Registers, I can come to no conclusion other than that Mr. Insley is mistaken. Neither do I see the force of his argument when he says, referring to the dispute of 1497: "Now, what more likely than that the people of Bow, having just become possessed of a new church, should desire to be independent and to be formed into a separate parish, free from the control of, and obligation to pay dues to Stepney, the benefits of union with which parish were henceforth all on one side?"
The conjecture is groundless, and Lysons, writing about 1797, distinctly says "the original structure still remains." "It consists of a chancel, nave, and two aisles, separated from the nave by octagonal pillars and pointed arches. The tower is of stone, square and plain and not embattled."
Now we know that the church has not been pulled down since that year, and therefore we may safely conclude that it is the original structure erected under the Licence of Bishop Baldock in 1311. It has, however, been altered and restored so often that only the wall of the north aisle can be properly attributed to that date, & the following pages are an attempt to trace so far as is possible the various alterations from that day to this. It seems almost certain that a few years before the compromise of 1497 a complete restoration had been undertaken, for much of the work is of this date, viz.:
(1) The base and middle storey of the tower, including the tower arch and west window, also the two traceried windows just exposed by the present restoration.
(2) The chancel walls and ceiling, but not the gabled roof over.
(3) The roof of the nave (about half of which has just been renewed).
(4) The walls of the nave and the lower portions of the south aisle wall. For many years the exit from the church was by two doors, one at the west end of each aisle. The west doors were closed and the space within the tower (now occupied by lobbies, &c.) formed a convenient baptistry. This probably remained until shortly after the death, in 1701, of Mrs. Prisca Coborn, Bow's greatest benefactress, her trustees erected a gallery in the tower, projecting a little more than one bay into the nave to accommodate the children of the school she founded. Also she bequeathed funds for the construction of a coved ornamental plaster ceiling, with a large central dome.
The dedication
It does not appear that the dedication of the church to S. Mary took place until 1719, when the church ceased to be a chapel-of-ease to Stepney & became the parish church of S. Mary Stratford Bow. Until this date it was known as the chapel of Stratford Bow.
Sir Walter Besant states: "It was formerly the church of a nunnery founded at Stratford-le-Bow by William the Conqueror." This is quite a mistake, as was pointed out by the "Builder" of June 10, 1899. No doubt he was confusing Bow with the neighbouring church of Bromley, which exactly fits his description. The two parish churches are not more than 300 yards apart.
The Act of Q. Anne 1711; 1719
The change was brought about by an Act of Parliament in the ninth year of the reign of Queen Anne (1711), followed at intervals by supplementary Acts for the erection of fifty new churches "in and about the cities of London and Westminster & the suburbs thereof." Limehouse, Spitalfields and S. George's in the East were among the number & were made independent parishes. By the same Acts the Hamlet of Bow was separated from the parish of Stepney in 1719.
Vestry minutes 1736
In the "Minutes of Vestries and other matters," (fn. 8) is a resolution of considerable interest and importance which reads as follows:
1736. Thursday. 25th March.
The Chancel being very much out of repair and it appearing to the Vestry that it ought to be kept in repair at the charge of the Parish, Agreed that the said Chancel be forthwith put into necessary repair.
Six Vestrymen present.
It is probable that the oak panelling of the sanctuary of the chancel was introduced at this time but no record appears to exist.
The next item of interest is the fire of April 1747, which did considerable damage. It was customary to keep the valuable deeds and papers in the tower, and the original Deed of Consecration was much injured. The clock also was destroyed. The fire seems to have originated from a house on the south side of the church and the clock, which then hung over the roadway and projected a considerable distance, afforded a ready means of communicating the flames to the sacred building.
This projecting clock does not seem to have been restored, for the following minute apparently refers only to the works and dials of the clock in the tower.
1762. Sunday. 6th August.
Mr. Thwaite of Clerkenwell to thoroughly repair the Church Clock for the sum of Ten Guineas and to keep the same in repair and wind and regulate the same every week and clean when necessary for the sum of 50s. per annum.
In the year 1755, in preparation for the war afterwards known as the Seven Years' War, lead was greatly in demand and many public buildings were stripped of their roofs to provide material for bullets. The chancel of Bow, so runs the legend, shared this fate; and, it being necessary to procure protection from the weather, the gable was formed in brickwork and roofed with tiles as now seen. The fact that the roof was thus altered is certain, but no record has yet been found indicating whether the scarcity of lead affected the question. (fn. 9)
The legend of the unbaptized infants
Another legend of doubtful authenticity refers to the alleged burying of unbaptised infants in the roof of the chancel. This has been done in other churches, the parents believing, it is said, that the holy angels hovering around the sanctuary would be more likely to take the babes to Heaven than if interred in some less holy place. Though the legend may have gained some believers there can be no doubt that such a custom was never practised at Bow, for until 1755 the roof was flat, and no gable existed in which the body could be placed, and it is highly improbable that such an act would be done during the last century and a half. Nevertheless the roof was entered a few years ago & careful search was made: no remains, save those of one or two sparrows, were discovered.
The Bow Baker
In some of the older illustrations it will be seen that the westernmost windows of both aisles were at one time doors. It appears from a tale that has been handed down, that, for about a century, a baker's shop existed opposite the north aisle door. This baker cooked the Sunday dinner for several of the shopkeepers living on the south side of the way. An assistant posted inside the church gave a signal when the preacher reached his "seventhly and lastly," whereupon the baker & his boys instead of walking round outside the churchyard, took the short cut through the church, making such a clatter with their hot plates and pies that after vainly attempting to stop the practice by other means, the authorities blocked up the doors and re-opened those at the west end under the tower. (fn. 10)
It is hardly conceivable that the baker's action alone caused the doors to be blocked, though it is probable the incident related may have had some bearing upon the alterations at this time.
It would seem that after the minute of 1762 the vestry no longer undertook the repair and maintenance of the church.
The repairing of 1794
In 1794 the church was cleaned and re-decorated, and the south aisle restored and refaced externally with Portland stone as now seen. It is probable also that the pulpit and seats were altered.
The Act of 1825
In 1824 the crowded condition of the church and churchyard was becoming a scandal. Every fresh interment caused the removal and desecration of some deceased predecessor, &, perhaps the most potent reason of all, the living foresaw that they could not be interred in Bow churchyard unless the latter were enlarged. The outcome of the agitation was an appeal to Parliament for a special Act to empower the purchase of the old market-place (long since disused) at the east end; and the purchase of the taverns and houses at the west end. The Bill was passed & became law on the 20th May 1825, and shortly afterwards the demolition began of "all the premises which lie at the east and west ends of the present churchyard of the said parish church of S. Mary Stratford Bow, and between the Turnpike Roads which surround the same." (fn. 11) At the same time the low wall enclosing the churchyard was demolished & replaced by the present cast-iron railing on the granite base. Four feet, it is said, of the topmost earth and bones were removed to the Stratford marshes, and thus fresh provision was made for the rapidly increasing number of burials.
Fall of portion of the tower in 1829
In 1829 the fall of the upper part of the tower necessitated another partial restoration, which is described in Chapter IV.
The restorations of 1836 and 1844
For many years the church windows had been fitted with red curtains, but these were removed in 1836, and in 1844 the ceiling put up at the expense of Mrs. Prisca Coborn (fn. 12) was removed & the old rafters exposed. About 1850 the small addition to the brick vestry was made, which addition is now used as the choir entrance lobby. To this alteration is due, no doubt, the blocking up of the window discovered in making the new doorway by the pulpit as described in Chapter II.
Referring to the drawing of the interior dated 1820 it will be seen that two of the piers were, at that date, of much greater bulk, and that the arcading ended with a half arch at the eastern end. These piers were cut down and the arcading completed as now seen.
The west end of the south aisle was at one time filled with a gallery for the sole use of the inmates of the workhouse. (fn. 13) It was small and very low and was removed in 1855.
For years past stones of varying size had from time to time fallen from the face of the tower, especially during the prevalence of a westerly wind, & many people were afraid to enter the church. The pathway (the gates of which may still be seen) across the churchyard at that time, ran close by the west doors, but in 1883, the fall of stones & débris increasing, and one large stone falling within a few inches of a passing pedestrian, the pathway was shifted several feet to the west, and such loose stones as could be easily reached without a scaffold were wedged up with Roman cement.
The alteration of the east window is described under the head of stained glass in Chapter III. and also in Chapter IV. In fact only one alteration remains to be recorded in this chapter dealing with the History of Bow Church, viz., that in 1870 an organ chamber was built upon the south side of the chancel. The west window and the tower arch had from 1702 until this date been completely blocked out from view by the organ, the gallery & the ringers' floor. The removal of the organ, followed in 1891 by the raising of the ringers' floor and the demolition of the gallery, has resulted in an unobstructed view of the finest architectural feature in the church.
What would the worshippers of only some fifty years ago say if they stood to-day in the church as it now appears? Probably they would regret that their family pews were gone and that the "paupers and common people" now sit side by side with their more wealthy neighbours instead of being relegated to galleries. The loss of the heavy coved ornamental plaster ceiling and the exposure of the mediæval rafters would possibly excite their condemnation, and question would be raised why the choir should not face the east like other people. Doors have become windows, and in one case a window (first blocked up) has become a door. Galleries, organ, seats, pulpit, curtains and even the nave arcading and floor have been removed, altered, or re-arranged, and the ceiling gone, within this short period. Probably the church would not now be recognised.
Externally, however, the case is very different, for though the iron railing takes the place of the old low wall, and the organ chamber and choir vestry have been built, the tower, the nave, aisles and chancel remain the same.


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I knocked on the sliding door of Japan's home. Soon, it opened and I was greeted with Japan's neutral face.
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Jessica's POV
I set the tea tray on the table, setting a cup in front of both men. "Good evening, Mr. England. You look well today." I smiled as I poured tea into Japan's cup, then switched over to England's.
"I am very well, thank you, Monte Carlo. May I ask what you are doing here?" He asked, looking up at me.
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"Thank you Monte Carro-san." I heard before heading toward the sliding door.
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"It is so peaceful...I wish it was like that all the time in Italy...But with my big brothers shouting all the time..." I shrugged slightly, keeping my eyes away from England.
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Situated in Arequipa, this hotel is within a 5-minute walk of Puente Grau, Museo Histórico Municipal, and Iglesia de San Francisco. Arequipa's Historical Museum and Museo Santury are also within 10 minutes.
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This hotel features a restaurant, a snack bar/deli, and tour/ticket assistance. Free buffet breakfast and free WiFi in public areas are also provided. Other amenities include a front-desk safe.
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All 18 rooms provide comforts like pillowtop beds and down comforters, along with free WiFi, free wired Internet, and cable TV. Guests will also find room service, hair dryers, and safes.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us! Opens in a new window.
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Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a restaurant and a snack bar/deli. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This Arequipa hotel also offers tour/ticket assistance and a safe deposit box at the front desk.
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free breakfast
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Luggage storage
- Restaurant
- Total number of rooms - 18
- Number of floors - 3
- Free WiFi
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Free wired Internet
- Snack bar/deli
Family Friendly Amenities
- Free Wi-Fi
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Snack bar/deli
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Room Amenities
- Phone
- Daily housekeeping
- Turndown service
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- In-room safe
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Cable TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- Dial-up Internet access (surcharge)
- Room service
- Down comforter
- Pillowtop mattress
- Sleep Number by Select Comfort mattress
Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM.
Arthur - This fine-dining restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar.
Room service is available.
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at noon
Check-out time is 9:00 AM
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Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available.
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- No onsite parking is available.
- The national sales tax (18%) is charged upon check-out to citizens of Peru regardless of length of stay and to foreigners staying in the country for 60 consecutive days or more. Foreigners who present a valid passport and Andean Migration Card (Tarjeta Andina de Migración) at check-in are exempt from this tax. Furthermore, the tax may apply per room when the room is shared by a taxable and a nontaxable guest.
Hotel Name
- Maison Soleil Arequipa
- Maison Soleil Hotel
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Deer quest continues!
Different place, different strategy today. Hunted in Town of Saukville with Bill Worth and Charlie and Gail Thon and a TV crew of Jose Lozano and Jeff Moorbeck. Light snow covered the ground as we made our way to our stands this morning. We sat at four strategic locations in a small woodlot until 8:00, then Bill walked out and made a big swing through thick brush and pushed out two does that didn't follow the game plan. Instead of staying in the ribbon of cover leading to the woods and our waiting guns, they cut across the field within sight but just out of range of Gail, who reported their escape to the rest of us. The rest of Bill's one-man drive netted nothing, so we spent an hour taping scenes of hunters doing what hunters mostly do – sitting and waiting. Then it was lunch at Bublitz's in Saukville. Every time I pass Blau's Saukville Meats during deer season, I am reminded that I haven't dropped off a deer there yet.
The way things are going, I'll have to pick up a road kill like I did last year!
We're hunting the same plan again tomorrow, adding Jerry Kiesow, an avowed smokepoler, and perhaps one or two other hunters.
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text: With an array of options, we can help meet your transportation and budgetary needs. We are thrilled to be offering our area TWO 38-passenger deluxe motor coaches. Built by VanHool, these 2017 model year coaches offer the same amenities and smooth ride as our larger motor coaches. This is not a cut-a-away mini bus! Plush padded reclining seats with foot rests and 3-point seat belts, climate controlled, a clean on-board restroom, DVD player with multiple monitors, 3G/4G Wi-Fi equipped, 110V outlets with USB at each seat, as well as ample storage on and underneath the motor coach.


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The 2001- 2002 fiscal year marked the second year of budget reversions due the states continuing fiscal crisis. In the 2000-2001 fiscal year, the Libraries rolled back over $20,000; about half of the amount came from the materials budget, where reversions were achieved primarily by cutting the preservation budget. In 2002, the Libraries reverted over $90,000 back to the University. About $30,000 of this total amount came from the materials budget, primarily from contingency and document delivery funds, while over $45,000 was reverted from the Libraries operating budget. Indications are that the fiscal crisis could be more serious in the next biennium, threatening funding for both JMU Libraries collections, and VIVAs digital collections. In a more positive note, the Libraries received supplemental funds from university administration to support the purchase of Endeavor EnCompass hardware and software, enabling the Libraries to launch a pilot project using LinkFinder Plus to facilitate linking to journal articles, and to enable searching multiple databases at the same time.
This year saw a slight decrease in firm orders for books, videos, and other one-time purchase items, from 6,685 last year to 6,597, a 1.3% drop. This reflects steady-state budgets and low inflation. Fewer approval books were received due to refinement of the profiles. The return rate dropped to 8.8 percent, the lowest return rate since JMUs approval plan began. A total of 3,739 books were accepted compared to 3,948 in the previous year. The Libraries added a free collection of 58 University of California Press E-editions to LEO.
Looking strictly at print materials such as books and musical scores, the total purchased dropped by 3.6 percent from last year (9,693 compared to 10,051 in the previous year); however, the number of books purchased has dropped nearly ten percent from its high in 1998-99. The chart below tracks books purchases for the past decade:
Preservation: The preservation budget was slashed by nearly 45 percent with savings used to help maintain the book budget at a near static level. The Library continued its policy, established last year, of binding only reference and music materials. The Library continues to purchase lower-cost paperback editions when available, a policy that began in the early 1990s.
Journals: A total of 160 titles were cancelled in FY 2001-02. Most of these cancellations were in keeping with JMU Libraries policy of canceling print subscriptions when an electronic version is available, and moving to electronic holdings only. Print subscriptions canceled included titles from MIT, Blackwell, and Erlbaum publishers. Print subscriptions of Elsevier titles were also cancelled, even though continuation of the complete ScienceDirect online journal collection is uncertain after 2003. General interest magazines and professional library journals were also reviewed internally and sixteen of these titles were cancelled.
A modest number of new subscriptions were added in FY 2002, mainly as a result of canceling print titles and purchasing access to online journal collections. JMU Libraries now offers access to:
- All 22 Institute of Physics online titles.
- All 11 American Society for Microbiology online titles.
The Libraries also purchased new sets of law serials to replace materials that were removed when the county Law Library relocated to Massanutten Regional Library.
Electronic Reference Resources: The Dictionary of Old English Corpus, a five-year backfile of Biological Abstracts (1985-89), and the PsycArticles online journal collection were all added. The Library also added a subscription of RILM Abstracts of Music Literature after this resource was dropped by VIVA. The Library canceled subscriptions to Current Issues Sourcefile and Marcive WebDocs.
New electronic resources provided by VIVA this fiscal year included the InfoTrac OneFile, a Gale meta-database that enables cross-searching of Gale databases; seven online journal titles from the American Mathematical Society; and a return of Britannica Online.
VIVA anticipates it will have to deal with a projected $850,000 shortfall over the next biennium. In response, VIVA acted to cancel the following FirstSearch databases (effective July 1, 2002): Business and Industry; Business Dateline; Business Organizations, Agencies and Publications Directory; Business and Management Practices; DataTimes; Disclosure Corporate Snapshots; Education Index; EventLine; FactSearch; General Science Index; Humanities Index; Newspaper Abstracts; Readers' Guide Abstracts; and Social Science Index. VIVA also voted to cancel 172 Academic Press journals (effective December 31, 2002) because of steep price increases.
Government Documents: In FY 2002, 11,092 monograph documents were added (including online titles, microforms and print), as well as 351 serial titles. Over 60 percent of JMUs monthly download of government documents records are now for materials in electronic form.
Special Collections: Major accomplishments this year included cataloging and archival description of the unique inserts in the Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, and completion of processing of the Shenandoah National Park oral histories, although 45 interviews still lack legal releases. Special Collections began using Encoded Archival Description (EAD) for its finding aids.
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Integrated Access
The Libraries purchased and began experimenting with LinkFinder Plus to standardize and streamline linking from all of our Open URL-compliant databases to both full text content and our catalog. The early results, using a test database provided by Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, showed success.
The addition of online journal collections meant 898 journal records were added to LEO. (This was down from 1,565 in 2000-01 when titles in the ScienceDirect online collection were added.) Of the 898, 547 were new, non-government document journals, and 346 of these were in electronic format. New government document journals totaled 351, with 188 in electronic format. Selected Virginia documents records are being added to LEO; previously, Virginia documents were not cataloged.
Special Collections completed the digitization of the JMU pre-1985 historical photos collection.
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User-Centered Services
For the first time in over five years, circulation checkouts in Carrier Library increased from the previous year, going from 105,883 in FY 2000-01 to 112,416 in 2001-02, an increase of over six percent.
During recent years when the circulation rate was declining, JMUs enrollment was increasing slightly (although the large jump in enrollment had already occurred). Table 1 below compares library circulation with student enrollment for the past five years:
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Initial Checkouts per Student: 1997-2002
Initial Checkouts Student Enrollment Checkouts/Student 1997-98 121,538 14,115 8.611 1998-99 120,444 14,996 8.032 1999-00 111,685 15,223 7.337 2000-01 105,883 15,326 6.909 2002-02 112,416 15,562 7.224
Carrier Librarys gate count during its typical sample week in October, 2001, went from 17,702 to 21,235, an increase of 20 percent; however, reference questions were down by over eight percent from 955 to 876 during the sample week.
Interlibrary Loan (ILL): Borrowing increased slightly in FY 2001-02, with total filled loans rising from 12,183 in the previous year to 12,969 this year. Most of this increased borrowing was due to increased requests for returnables, which rose from 4,359 to 5,202, a 19 percent increase. (Returnables refer to books and other materials that must be returned to the lending library.) Photocopy requests dropped slightly, from 7,824 last year to 7,767 this year.
ILL lending remained at almost the same rate as the previous year, from 8,218 in FY 2000-01 to 8,013 this year. There was a slight drop in the number of photocopies lent to other libraries: from 4,061 to 3,854.
The Library ended its pilot project with Science and Math faculty that allowed them to order articles directly from CISTI (the Canadian document delivery supplier) using CISTIs online Table of Contents service. Faculty use of the service had been dropping. The Interlibrary Loan unit will continue to use CISTI as one of its science document providers. Eliminating the Table of Contents service saved the Library $5,000 but will increase CISTI ordering costs by $1.00 per article.
CISAT Library: The CISAT Library implemented E-reserves, with over 160 scanned or other electronically submitted documents posted during its first year. Students can locate E-reserves using LEO, and click on the link in the record to view reserve materials. The CISAT Library doubled the size of its reference collection, going from approximately 500 to 1000 items. The number of Carrier Library items delivered to CISAT increased by over 70 percent, from 367 in the previous year to 627 in 2001-02.
Music Library: The concurrent license for the RealSystem Streaming Media used to support the Digital Orpheus Project initiated by the Music Library to stream audio was upgraded from 60 to 100 users between the Fall 2001 and Spring 2002 semesters. This is the first streaming server the library has supported and it has provided 100 percent uptime even during heavy use on days prior to exams.
Pay for Print: JMU Libraries implemented fee-based printing at the beginning of Fall Semester, 2001. All printing jobs in the Carrier Library reference area are now sent to a central monitor where users can view costs before activating printing by swiping their JAC card. Cost is five cents per page. The new system allows for printing from all 43 computers in the reference area, an increase from the 19 workstations with print capability before the switchover. In addition, the new system also supports printing from the 16 computers in the Carrier Library computer lab. The main advantage of the new system is the elimination of waste printing. Paper and toner costs have dropped dramatically. Revenue from fee-based printing will be used to support other printing and copying services in the Libraries.
JMU Libraries had the support of the student activist group Project E.A.R.T.H. (Environmental Awareness and Restoration Through our Help), who promoted fee-based printing as a way to conserve paper. Possibly because of this support, student complaints about printing fees have been minimal. At Project E.A.R.T.H.S urging, the Libraries also began using 100 percent recycled paper, and was instrumental in moving JMU Procurement to pursue a statewide purchasing contract for 100 percent recycled paper.
Ask the Library Online Reference Service: With 374 queries last year, the service is not heavily used, although this number represents a 53 percent increase over the previous year. Interestingly, most questions are submitted during daytime hours, with additional peaks at 6-7 p.m. and 8-9 p.m.
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Empowering Library Users
Database Use: Our use of VIVA databases continues to be some of the highest among the VIVA libraries, in some cases ranking with use levels of doctoral institutions. Use of several databases increased markedly over the previous year; some examples include Annual Reviews (581% increase over 2000-01), CINAHL (374% increase), PsycInfo (323% increase), Biological Abstracts (309% increase), Gale Literary Index (290% increase), and Web of Science (195% increase).
The charts below show comparisons of JMU database use and that of other Virginia comprehensive and doctoral universities for FirstSearch and PsycInfo databases:
Database use statistics and charts provided by Jennifer Keach.
Budget Impacts on Database Access: To cut costs, JMU Libraries reduced the number of concurrent users for two databases: Web of Science was lowered from 5 to 4, and the AP Multimedia Archive from 5 to 1. VIVA also acted to reduce the number of concurrent users for the OCLC FirstSearch database service from 31 to 18 (to take effect July 1, 2002). These actions mean it is much more likely that users next year will be unable to connect to these databases during peak hours.
Content Linking: Many vendors introduced or expanded the ability to link from citations to full text content available from other vendors. Examples include linking from FirstSearch to JSTOR, and from ABC-CLIO (America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts) to both Project Muse and JSTOR. OVID continued to try to implement OpenLinking, with varying success. Some databases began providing increased linking to library services, such as the links to our catalog in FirstSearch.
Interlibrary Loan Electronic Delivery: Interlibrary Loan continued to make improvements in its ability to deliver articles electronically to patrons desktops. As of 2001-02, 65 percent of all registered Illiad users had signed up for electronic delivery. The average turnaround for articles was 8.85 days.
JMU Libraries assumed responsibility for the proxy services after determining that a Windows-based proxy system was needed to access the new Gale databases. Formerly managed on an IT server, the proxy services now reside on the Libraries main web server.
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Education for the Information Age
Library Instruction: JMU Libraries was identified by the ACRL Institute for Information Literacy as one of ten institutions or programs that exemplified best practices in information literacy programming for undergraduates. In June, Lynn Cameron and Rebecca Feind presented at the ACRL Best Practices Information Literacy Invitational Conference, along with Harry Reif, Assistant Professor of Business, and Violet Allain, Associate Dean of General Education (Kathy Clarke was also scheduled to present, but was unable to attend). The conference brought together those involved in model programs to collaborate on further development of best practice characteristics. As a result of the conference, a series of composite models for best practices will be developed.
This year, the number of library instruction sessions dropped from 306 to 273, but the number of students and faculty who attended instruction climbed to 7,104, up from 6,795 the previous year. The average class size rose to 26, compared to 22 in 2000-01.
In online instruction, 3,333 students used Go for the Gold during the 2001-02 academic year.
The following librarians taught credit courses:
Brian Cockburn
Kathy Clarke
Rebecca Feind
Jennifer McCabe
Music 600
Honors 300
Honors 300
HTH 390 (team-taught)
Efforts continued to encourage implementation of information literacy into the General Education curriculum. Rebecca Feind taught workshops again this year for Cluster One faculty to orient them with Go for the Gold, the new competency test, and to help them develop good information-seeking assignments.
Competency Test: For the third year, the online Information-Seeking Skills Test (ISST) was required as a competency test that all first-year students enrolled in Cluster One courses were required to pass. Eighty-five percent of all first-year students passed the test by the April deadline, a larger proportion than in previous years. The Assessment Center tested new questions for the ISST during 2001-02 and will use these questions in new forms of the test, improving its validity. Lynn Cameron also worked with the Assessment Office and the VA Community College System to modify the ISST for use by Virginia community colleges. Five community colleges used the test in Spring, 2002.
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Commitments to Innovation
The Libraries purchased two Endeavor products, EnCompass and LinkFinderPlus, with the software being delivered at the end of June. System staff began testing LinkFinderPlus on a trial database from Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.
A new online scheduling program for booking library classrooms and meeting rooms was developed in-house in a cooperative venture between reference and systems staff. The new system allows inputting and tracking of instruction data, including the number of students in a session, level, department, and instructor name. Librarians can now schedule instruction sessions and check meeting room availability from their desktops.
JMU Informational Technology installed wireless network access in Carrier Library as part of a campus-wide project. The Library plans in the coming year to acquire a small number of laptop computers with wireless cards that may be checked out to use in the building.
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Optimal Environment
New Periodicals Room: Current journals and newspapers moved to open stacks within a newly renovated reading room adjacent to the Reference area on Carrier Librarys main floor. The room also contains lounge seating with comfortable upholstered couches and chairs, study tables, and a photocopier, so users can copy articles without removing issues from the room. With the move to open journal stacks, JMU joins the trend of most academic libraries in providing open user access to current journals.
Funding for the renovated Periodicals Room was provided by donations from the Classes of 1951 and 2001. These two classes combined their fundraising forces and earmarked funds to renovate space vacated when the County Law Library moved to its new home in the Massanutten Regional Library in downtown Harrisonburg.
The microform collection moved into the space previously occupied by the closed periodicals collection. The new Microforms room has lowered lighting to facilitate viewing on microform readers. Additional study seating fills the space on the second floor opened by relocating Microforms. Closed Reserves, formerly located at the service desk on the second floor, are now located at the Public Services Desk.
Room 203 was added as a second library instruction room. It will be equipped with a whiteboard, screen, projector, and wireless access in the coming months.
The environment for the Juvenile Collection was enhanced to better meet the needs of College of Education students and faculty. Changes include furniture arrangements that allow for class meetings in the area, and displays of new books, thematic book lists, and posters.
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Quality Workforce
Two librarians joined Carrier Librarys staff: Claire Clemens was hired in September as Education Librarian. Jennifer Keach was hired in May as the Electronic Services Librarian. A third librarian position in Technical Services remained unfilled after two unsuccessful searches. Mary Wilson Stewart retired as the Preservation Coordinator. At the end of the fiscal year, one librarian position and two classified staff positions in Technical Services were vacant.
Staff Development: The Staff Development Committee provided a number of training sessions for library faculty and staff, including Gale Business & company Resource Center, Gale Health & Wellness Resource Center, ERIC, and FrontPage. General interest development sessions included Dr. Dabney Bankerts presentation on the unique Anglo-Saxon Dictionary in Special Collections, and Who are Our Students? by Michael Walsh of JMU Admissions.
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Strategic Partnerships JMU Libraries continued its strategic partnership with VIVA. The reliance upon VIVA by all academic libraries in the state is starkly apparent in the face of impending cuts in services and collections.
The Media Center collaborated with Informational Technology and the college technology coordinators to provide licensed software installation and use support. This includes distribution of installation copies of Office 2000 for PC and Mac to JMU faculty and staff.
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Continuous Improvement
LibQUAL: In 2002, JMU Libraries participated in LibQUAL, a national survey of library service quality. JMU was one of 169 academic and research libraries participating in the LibQUAL project. The survey measures library users perceptions of their librarys services and identifies gaps between minimal, desirable, and perceived levels of service. At JMU, all faculty and graduate students, along with a sample of undergraduates, were surveyed. JMU received the results of the survey in June. The results confirmed responses given in the Continuing Student Survey and in last years Faculty Morale Survey. Respondents were generally satisfied with services at JMU Libraries, but felt that book and journal collections were inadequate.
All user groups saw weaknesses in complete runs of journal titles and comprehensive print collections (gap was -.49 and -.25 respectively). This was heavily weighted by graduate student and faculty perceptions; for undergraduates only, the gaps in those two areas didnt run into negative numbers (.42 and .69 respectively).
The highest percentage of undergraduate respondents were business majors (24%). Next highest were social science majors and undecided (both 15%). Only six percent of respondents were humanities majors. (By comparison, approximately 24 percent of all JMU undergraduate majors are in business, seven percent are in social sciences, 15 percent are undeclared, and nearly 20 percent are the humanities.)
Graduate students registered the gap between minimum acceptable service and perceived service for journal collections at -.50, and for print collections, -.26. As expected given our graduate programs, most graduate respondents either were social sciences (27%), health sciences (24%), or education (16%). Humanities graduate students were present at seven percent.
Faculty registered the greatest perceived gaps in services for journal collections (-1.04) and print collections (-.97). Interestingly, the largest percentage of faculty respondents was in the humanities (18%).
Another measure, the library as a place, showed interesting results. For all user groups the perceptions were positive, but the highest score was from graduate students: .70 for all users, .78 for undergrads, .89 for graduate students, and for faculty .56.
A comparison of perceived gaps in service for all users and the three cohorts is shown in the chart below:
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Physics 103
Geometrical Optics
The mathematical model of geometrical optics says light travels in straight rays, except at interfaces, where the rays may bend. A luminous point is the source of rays going in all directions, and if some of them eventually intersect again, through being deviated by lenses, mirrors, etc., the intersection point is an image of the original object. There is nothing obvious about this, and it may not even be clear what it means in all cases. The aim of this lab is to connect this mathematical model to real phenomena. We will
(1) Build a model of the eye
(2) Check the relationship between object position o and image position i for a lens
(3) Construct two kinds of telescopes
(4) Construct a microscope
The optical benches we will use are just meter sticks mounted on feet, with lens holders that can slide on them. Notice the square notch on one side of each lens holder. If you put this notch on the side where the meter stick is ruled, you can easily read the position of the center of the holder, which coincides with the post, which more or less coincides with the position of the lens. This is how we will determine the positions of optical elements.
Model of the eye. Mount a suitable convex lens and a white screen so that images of distant objects form on the screen. The objects will have to be quite bright to show up. During the day, the scene out the window is the best source of bright objects. At night we will have to use lamps on the other side of the room. Try two different lenses for the model eye. How does the image size depend on the size of the model eye (i.e., the distance between lens and retina)? How does the brightness of the image depend on size? Why is this?
Object and Image. Mount a small light on the optical bench and use a convex lens to form an image of this (nearby) object on a screen. A good focal length for the lens would be about 20 or 30 cm. Slide the elements around and find different positions that produce sharp images of the light on the screen. (In recording the positions, be sure to take account of the fact that the light is not at the location of its post, but is rather significantly displaced along the optical bench).
Enter the data into a table in Excel, and by subtracting find the quantities o and i that give the object and image positions relative to the lens. Recall that o is the distance of the object upstream from the lens, and i is the distance of the image downstream from the lens. From geometry we expect
Here f is the focal length of the lens.
This says that 1/o should be a linear function of 1/i. Plot these quantities in Excel, and if indeed there is a linear relationship, make sense of the slope and intercept. Refer to the handout on Excel about how to do arithmetic in data tables, and how to plot, fit, etc.
Telescopes. Mount a long focal length convex lens on the optical bench. Behind it there must be a real, inverted image of distant objects in front of it. Get back behind it by much more than the focal length and try to see this real image, as if it were hanging in space. Approach it with your eye and note when you have gotten too close to see it clearly.
Once you know where the real image is, approximately, put in a second convex lens, of shorter focal length, as an eyepiece to help you see the real image from close up. Why is the total length of the telescope the sum of the focal lengths? What is the magnification, very roughly, and how does it compare to what you would expect from the focal lengths? (You can estimate the magnification by keeping both eyes open, comparing the image you see through the telescope with the one you see unaided.)
Also try using a concave eyepiece, to form a Galilean telescope. Answer the same questions as before.
Microscope. Use the same strategy as before, now to look at something close up. As before, choose an objective lens, this time with as short a focal length as possible, and put it a bit more than a focal length from a suitable object. Find the magnified, inverted image in space behind it. This may take considerable fiddling around. If the image you see is not inverted, it is not the one you are looking for! Once you know where the real image is, add a suitable eyepiece. Since our lenses are not the very short focal length lenses that would make truly powerful microscopes, your microscope will superficially not resemble the familiar microscope, but its operation will be exactly the same. What magnification can you achieve?
Geometrical Optics worksheet: use the questions above as a guide to writing an expository paragraph about each item, with relevant sketches to aid the exposition.
(1) Model of the Eye
(2) Object and image:
Data table: Sketch of graph:
Interpretation: what do the slope and intercept mean? What is the uncertainty?
(3) Telescope
(4) Microscope
OPTIONAL: if you wish, please say what you liked or didn't like about this lab, and how it might be improved.


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The Facts of Light: What are the different types of solar energy technology?
We get a lot of questions about solar power. That's why we've introduced "The Facts of Light" ‑ a place where you can inquire about all things solar, and we'll do our best to get you the answers.


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Flash mobs are usually known for their seemingly spontaneous dance routines. A new flash mob performance in Denmark is being hailed more for its singing. With the movie version of the novel and musical "Les Misérables" being released on Christmas Day, it's only fitting that the latest hit flash mob video revolves around a song from the soundtrack.
The video begins as Danish couple Suzanne and Sune Vibæk Svanekier are delighted when their guests stand to sing 'One More Day.' Members of the wedding party stand one by one and add their voices to the song. Although this is not one of the musical's more romantic pieces, it was chosen because the wedding took place at the Worker's Museum of Copenhagen, a nod to the working class in singing 'One More Day.' The performance peaks when the group gets up to sing in unison. For the big finish, guests are showered with confetti, and the singers are given a standing ovation.
The video is a huge hit. So far, it has been viewed more than 380,000 times on YouTube in the past few days. Several commenters send their best wishes to the newlyweds. One commenter hopes for something similar in his or her future, writing, "This is how I want my wedding dinner."
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China Wants Albania To Hand Over Uyghurs
Uyghurs in the city of Kashgar in the Chinese province of Xinjiang (epa) July 28, 2006 -- China's Foreign Ministry said today it wants Albania to hand over five ethnic Uyghurs suspected of terrorism in China.
The five Uyghurs, Turkic Muslims from northwestern China, were released recently from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and granted asylum in Albania.
China says the five belong to a group the United Nations recognizes as a terrorist organization.


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The Wake Forest School of Medicine residency program in Obstetrics and Gynecology is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a city of about 200,000 people, in Forsyth County. The principal affiliated hospitals, Wake Forest Baptist Health (WFBH) and Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center (FMC), are located in Winston-Salem with an additional Area Health Education Center (AHEC) hospital, Catawba Memorial Hospital (CMH) located in Hickory, North Carolina (about 70 miles west of Winston-Salem on Interstate 40). The principal referral area includes Northwest North Carolina, Southwest Virginia, Southeast West Virginia and Eastern Tennessee, an area of greater than three million people with approximately 30,000 deliveries per year. Additional referrals come from proximate communities to the east and south of Winston-Salem.
The Wake Forest School of Medicine (WFSM) and WFBH are co-located in the Ardmore section of Winston-Salem. The tertiary care hospital has 821 beds and serves as the primary site for gynecologic oncology, reproductive endocrinology, and complicated general gynecologic care. Residency programs in almost all specialty and subspecialty areas of medicine are available with a total house staff complement of over 500 physicians.
The Forsyth Medical Center (FMC), a facility of 805 beds, houses our unique consolidated perinatal service in a well equipped Women's Center (The Sara Lee Center for Women's Health) which was opened in March 1992. The Sara Lee Center for Women's Health is one of the largest birthing centers in the region, and the second largest in North Carolina with more than 6,600 births per year. The Center offers the only obstetrical service for a four county area (Forsyth, Davie, Stokes, Yadkin) with about 422,000 inhabitants. This is of particular importance in the present rapidly changing medical climate where frequently large segments of patient populations have been shifted away from teaching institutions. With a single obstetrical service this cannot happen for our residency program. There has been a continuing increase in the number of deliveries requiring expansion of the current facility at FMC. A 30 million dollar addition to the Sara Lee Center is currently in the final stages of completion.
Under the aegis of North Carolina's Area Health Educational Program, Catawba Memorial Hospital (CMH) in Hickory has been developed as a level II care institution. Each third year resident rotates for 10 weeks on the gynecology service attending gynecology, colposcopy and cervical treatment clinics at the county health facility and private physicians offices. This rotation is highly valued by our residents for the extensive gynecological surgical experience. This rotation also affords our residents an opportunity to experience the practice of our specialty in a non-ivory tower environment.
Ambulatory patient care is delivered at several locations:
The Downtown Health Plaza (DHP), a NCBH Outpatient Department, is located in east Winston-Salem and delivers ambulatory care in medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology to indigent and semi-indigent patients. In September 1993, a continuity clinic system was implemented allowing residents to follow their own patients during the four years of their residency under direct faculty guidance. This arrangement provides our residents with important educational experiences in primary care.
In December 2005, the Department opened our new OBGYN clinic at 500 Shepherd Street (about 5 miles from the Medical Center campus. Residents staff a weekly LEEP, laser, cryotherapy clinic at this location.
Connected to our Shepherd Street Clinic is the Comprehensive Fetal Care Center (CFCC). The CFCC houses six ultrasound suites with 4D ultrasound technology. Here, our residents work with our Maternal Fetal Medicine specialist, six certified sonographers, genetic counselors and cadre of other fetal care specialists.
The residents staff a colposcopy clinic with our GYN Oncology section once a week in the Comprehensive Cancer Center.
In 2003, the Department completed construction of the WFU Center for Reproductive Medicine (WFUCRM), home to our reproductive endocrinology and infertility clinic. The center features a state of the art on-site IVF lab with an adjoining procedure suite.
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Traveling through Ukraine on the #MongolRally #TTOT
After waiting through a long line to cross the Ukrainian border, we immediately found rough roads. It was late so we stopped at the first place we thought to a "hotel." With us not speaking Russian and the clerk not speaking English, we somehow managed to negotiate a fair rate and decided to spend the night and brave the roads the next morning. Except for a few cock roaches, It appeared that we were the only guests.


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Astrid Krieger is not your average teenager. For starters, she lives in a rocket ship prototype in the backyard of her parents' mansion. Then there's the fact that her family is rich, and she's been kicked out of multiple fancy, private schools for various pranks and other school code infractions. When David Iserson's teen novel Firecracker begins, Astrid has just been kicked out of her latest school, Bristol Academy, after she's caught in a cheating scandal. As punishment, her parents inform her that she's being sent to public school, not another ritzy boarding school. Astrid, who has been raised thinking she'll always get what she wants, is shocked when they follow through on their plan and she ends up going to the local high school.
Once she's at the public school, she ends up begrudgingly making friends, and demands their help in her grand quest for revenge. Astrid knows that someone turned her in for cheating at Bristol Academy, so she becomes determined to find out who did it and seek vengeance. Her scheming nature, which she learned from her grandfather (the head of the family company and the only person Astrid really likes), keeps her going even when things don't go according to her plan. David Iserson, who writes for the television show New Girl, delivers a snarky new comedy with Firecracker, which older teens will enjoy. Astrid may seem like a shallow character at first, but she ends up learning a lot about herself throughout the novel, and keeps readers laughing until the very last page.


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Mickey Mantle Fabulous, Bold Rookie-Era Pencil Signature.
Lot 165. Mickey Mantle Fabulous, Bold Rookie-Era Pencil Signature. Removed from a scorecard, the signature is neatly mounted to a 3" x 5" index card with Mantle's photo from his 1961 Topps card. An inoffensive piece of tape covers the bottom portion of "Mickey." Early Mantle signatures are indeed rare. This one is extremely nice, and authenticated by Kevin Keating.
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Apple Dippin' Peanut Butter Cookies
Tags: apples
Good Sunday morning! I am so excited to share this little gem of a cookie with you all today. One of my all time favorite flavor combinations is apples and peanut butter, alright just about anything with peanut butter is fantastic. It's ridiculous the amount of peanut butter we go through in this house! I remember dipping apples with peanut butter as a kid and have recently introduced it to my little rugrats. They seem to love it as much as I do.
In celebration of my love for this mighty fine combo I created a cookie that is hands down Fabulous! Make sure you find yourself some Turbinado Sugar at your grocery store. It gives the best sweet little crunch to each bite. I've seen it in quite a few grocery stores, so look a little closer down the baking isle and pick some up for these cookies.
Next time you feel like making a batch of cookies, you gotta try these babies, just try not to eat all the dough so you have some cookies to make! Enjoy!
1 stick softened butter
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/4 Cup packed light brown sugar
1/2 Cup creamy peanut butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 Cups all purpose flour
3/4 Cup vanilla flavored granola clusters
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 Cup diced apples, about 1/4 inch, I used fuji
1/2 Cup turbinado sugar, or other sugar of choice to roll cookies in
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a stand or electric mixer, cream butter and sugars until light mixed well. Beat in peanut butter until combined then add the egg and vanilla until well combined.
2. In a large bowl mix together the flour, granola, baking soda and salt. Slowly mix into the wet ingredients following the apples until just combined. With a medium cookie scoop, scoop dough, roll into sugar then place onto a silpat or parchment lined baking sheet. With tines of a fork, press down slightly making an X on top of each cookie. Bake for 8-9 minutes, cookies should look somewhat soft inside when you take them out. Let cool/finish baking out of oven for 5 minutes then transfer to a cooling rack.
3. Grab some milk and dig in!
3 dozen cookies
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You can't go wrong with the apple and caramel combo. I can't wait to try these cookies!
APPLE peanut butter cookies! You are brilliant!!! I love putting peanut butter on apple as a snack!
Oh how tasty! I remember dipping apples in pb as a little girl, it's a genius idea to combine them into a cookie. 🙂
I made these cookies and put vanilla granola that had flaxseed in it, and boy were they delish! Thanks for sharing this great recipe!
I can't wait to try these! I am sooo excited about it I can't even tell you!
We are on Spring Break this week and I can't wait to let my boys bake these. These look good enough to eat for breakfast.
those look so tasty.
Those look and sound so good. What a great flavour combination!
I made these this week for our small group and they were delicious! However, I noticed they must be eaten within a few hours or they get soggy. Did you have the same result?
We made these this weekend, and they are delicious! They are very soft, and can get sort of soggy, so we just stuck them in the freezer and have been just grabbing them out a few at a time to eat! SO GOOD!!
Jenny, I LOVED these! Perhaps the most fabulous (and SOFT) peanut butter cookie I've ever tasted! Thanks!
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EDINBURGH, Scotland--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The MD of one of Europe's leading private equity advisers has warned that technology and IT 'red flags' could put at risk the exits or re-financings of companies that would otherwise be seeing deals get over the line successfully with international and London-based institutions and corporate investors.
"In a typical sale process, any significant technology or IT problem presenting a current or future risk will be likely to delay the process and may also depreciate the value that you're trying to extract. In the worst instance, it could even derail the sale completely."
While various reports have indicated a surge of interest from foreign investors in UK private-equity-owned assets during the second half of 2016 - partly driven by a sharp drop in the value of the pound - that shows signs of continuing into 2017, forward planning in the twelve months leading up to the exit can have a huge impact not only on deal value but whether the deal concludes.
Fixing technology and IT operations can require considerable time and effort, warns Intuitus MD and founder, Calum Stewart:
"Technology has never been more critical to exit readiness than it is today and our client base consistently tells us that if IT problems are discovered in the lead-up to exit it is often too late to redress the situation before potential buyers start taking a look. Potential issues and deal-breakers include intellectual property disputes, contractual disputes, capacity planning and product development problems."
"In a typical sale process, any significant technology or IT problem presenting a current or future risk will be likely to delay the process and may also depreciate the value that you're trying to extract. In the worst instance, it could even derail the sale completely."
- Intuitus - whose private equity clients include Inflexion, The Carlyle Group, Dunedin, Triton and Scottish Equity Partners - is in on track to advise on over 100 deals during 2016, with approximately 30% of deal activity involving non-UK assets.
- Intuitus offers its private equity and corporate clients commercially-focused, independent technology and IT expertise throughout the full investment life cycle - at the point of acquisition, during ownership and at exit. Supported by a network of internationally-experienced consultants, mainly former CEOs, CTOs, CIOs and IT Directors from a wide range of industry sectors, and managed through the company's unique, integrated delivery model, the company is targeting expansion in the UK, Benelux, France, Germany and the Nordics in 2017.
- Intuitus won the Specialist Adviser of the Year award at The Private Equity Awards 2016.


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User Home Pages: The Dona Arrant Family Home Page
|This is just a quick overview, I will fill in more later.I am researching several surnames, most from Maine, New Brunswick, PEI, and Scotland.
Surnames:McCarville, Robinson, Glidden, Murchie, Doherty, Stone, Hunton, Beale, Yerxa, Howard, Ganong, and McCleary.
I am also researching these surnames from Louisiana and surrounding states: Arrant, Haddox and Fisher.
I am currently working on the Murchie surname.I have very little to go on.His name was John Murchie. He is on the 1910 census from Oakfield, ME.It records that he was born in Scotland and came to the states in 1865.I have found no further info on him.He married Mary Doherty of Cary Mills, Maine and had eight daughters.His daughter Odray Murchie was my great-grandmother.
Any info welcome and will gladly return the same.
|The Dona Arrant Family Home Page
Updated September 5, 2000
|Dona Louise McCarvill Arrant
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 03:26:30PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > what for? Branden has already `fixed' the Xsession scripts to ignore > /etc/X11/Xmodmap as well as the ~/.Xmodmap (or whatever) since xmodmap > is allegedly `deprecated' > > apparently were supposed to just hack the raw keymaps themselves or > patch Xsession to support this again. no other solution has been > presented. Please see my reply to Adam's mail. As far as hacking keymaps goes, yes. If the xkb data is wrong for a model of keyboard, I think it should be fixed and I'd like to receive patches to this effect. -- G. Branden Robinson | It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to firstname.lastname@example.com | license their software however we http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | like. -- Craig Sanders
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January 31, 2014
One day, two "States," and many declarations. Were you happy with what you heard in Governor Patrick's State of the Commonwealth or President Obama's State of the Union? This week on Basic Black our panelists talk about what they heard, what they wanted to hear, and what they think will get accomplished as the Governor and the President head into the home stretches of their administrations.
(L) Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, center, greets law makers and guests as he enters the House chamber at the Statehouse before his State of the State address, Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
(R) President Barack Obama acknowledges Army Ranger Cory Remsburg during his State of the Union address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Jan. 28, 2014. Behind the President are Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker John Boehner. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)


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Lightning Provide More Hope For Tampa Than RaysApril 21, 2010
The buzz on Opening Day in Florida is that the small-market Tampa Bay Rays will be able to contend with the Goliaths of the AL East.
The Rays have generated excitement by reaching the World Series in 2008; however, people on Florida's west coast should not forget about their hockey team, the Lightning, who won the Stanley Cup six years ago and employ 20-year-old Steven Stamkos.
This year the sophomore shared the Rocket Richard Trophy—which is awarded to the athlete with the most goals in the regular season—with Sidney Crosby and should become recognized by the NHL community as one of the best players in the world. It may come as a surprise to fans in Tampa, but in all likelihood the Bolts have a better future ahead of them than the Rays.
It is understandable that this may be difficult to believe.
The Lightning just finished the season second-to-last in their division and are outside of the playoffs for the third straight year. However, as long as Stamkos and Hedman continue to improve they should complement the play of Tampa mainstays Martin St. Louis—who had 94 points this season (the same number he had when the Bolts won Lord Stanley's Cup in 2004) and Vincent Lecavalier—who was considered the "Michael Jordan of hockey" when he was picked first overall in 1998—the Lightning stand to benefit from the parity in the NHL.
The problem with the Rays is not their front office management (skipper Don Maddon and GM Andrew Friedman have effectively created a contending team with their limited resources) or how their prospects have developed (homegrown Evan Longoria, Carl Crawford, and BJ Upton have grown into legitimate superstars) but that they play in a poorly-run, big-market dominated league.
As nationally-recognized columnist Jay Mariotti articulated in his latest article people are progressively losing interest in what he calls the "national past-its-time." Cities in which baseball used to generate significant interest—such as Baltimore, Cleveland, and Toronto—have parks full of empty seats. Last week Baltimore had 9,129 fans in attendance, the smallest crowd in Camden Yards history.
The reason for this is simple: small-market teams like the Rays—whose payroll is approximately $72 million this year—cannot retain the players they develop (see: Scott Kazmir) because they are offered blockbuster contracts by large-market teams like the Yankees and Red Sox (and to a lesser extent the Cubs, Dodgers, Angels, Mets, and Phillies), with who have payrolls of $206 and $162 million respectively. These East Coast behemoths throw around dollar bills like Pac-Man Jones at a gentlemen's club.
Of course there are exceptions. The Twins have won the AL Central five times since Selig tried to banish them in 2002 (were threatened with closure by league contraction) and were able to reach the ALDS with $65 million last year only to be slain by the Yankees and their mammoth $201 million payroll.
Despite their perennial success the Twins have been treated as a glorified minor league team by having to relinquish ace pitcher Johan Santana and dynamic fielder Torii Hunter to the Mets and Angels, respectively.
The Twins were fortunate to keep hometown hero Joe Mauer in Minnesota, who signed an eight-year, $184 million extension this year. Even with a new ball park and an avid fan base Minnesota's increased payroll—up $33 million from last year—is less than half what the Yankees are spending on their team.
Knowing that the NHL is fueled by puckheads in small-market cities like Calgary, Edmonton, Minnesota, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh, Commissioner Gary Bettman continues to distance his policies from Selig's pay-per-win guiding principle. He has created a league where the most successful teams in the league must be well-coached, have excellent scouts, and make crafty transactions.
Bettman is not without fault. The NHL is still recovering from the 2005 lockout, the Phoenix Coyotes are losing astronomical amounts of money, and the commissioner has failed to acknowledge the importance of having his players compete in Russia's 2014 Winter Olympics. However he has created a fan-friendly league that is a couple years—and an ESPN television contract—away from attracting fans in warm weather, non-traditional markets.
NHL coverage on Versus, which has limited viewing because it is excluded from the basic DirecTV package, went up 17 percent between 2008 and 2009 and NHL attendance increased 1.5 percent between 2007 and 2008.
Scores of people in warm weather areas are flocking to NHL arenas in places once considered unsuitable for hockey. The Washington Capitals (100 percent), Los Angeles Kings (93.6 percent), and Dallas Stars (92.9 percent) all had above 90 percent attendance in the 2010 regular season. The San Jose Sharks, who occupy the same market as the absurdly unpopular Oakland Seals, sold out every game this year and "This is Sharks Territory" signs are posted throughout the Bay Area.
Residents of Tampa Bay and the surrounding area should get on board with the Lightning. They have a head start on the Carolina Hurricanes and the Atlanta Thrashers who look like they will contend for the Capitals in the Southwest Division as soon as their prospects mature.
Carolina took an inexplicable nosedive in the beginning of the season after upsetting the New Jersey Devils and Boston Bruins before being swept by the eventual Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins in last year's playoffs. The team captaincy has been removed from longtime Hurricane Rod Brind'Amour and was awarded to a young stalwart in Eric Staal.
The team traded away Joe Corvo and Matt Cullen—who were both part of the 2006 Stanley Cup team—but retained winger Ray Whitney and goaltender Cam Ward, along with Brind'Amour and Staal, who will bestow their winning ways on a slew of young prospects.
The Atlanta Thrashers—who occupy the same market as the Atlanta Flames before they left for Calgary in 1980—set their quest to dethrone the Capitals a few years back by dealing Ilya Kovalchuk to the Devils at the trade deadline. However, they did acquire Nicklas Bergfors and prospect Patrice Cormier, who should complement young standouts Evander Kane and Zach Bogosian in the near future.
While the Hurricanes and the Thrashers have question marks about their young players' productivity in the NHL, the Lightning know that Stamkos and Hedman are NHL-ready and, as long as they continue to add players like veteran Ryan Malone as a supporting cast and shore-up their goaltending, the Lightning should continue to win as the Rays are victimized by big-market teams Selig is allowing to destroy the great sport of baseball.
Tampa Bay, this is your invitation to ride the Lightning.


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The Slip - Children Of December
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Here is Children of December by the Slip, a great song. I figured this out by watching youtube video of them playing it, so it's pretty accurate. I'm just laying out the right you can figure out the rest. Enjoy and message me with comments (guitaretab.com)


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A weekly column by Dr Miles Langdon of South Lincolnshire Clinical Commissioning Group, addressing topical
health issues
Cholesterol is a chemical in the body that does lots of good things.
It is used to make bile acid which helps digest food, male and female sex hormones, and Vitamin D which strengthens bones.
However, too much cholesterol is problematic and can lead to hardening and narrowing of the arteries. This increases the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Cholesterol is one of many risk factors for heart and stroke and circulation problems.
It is more important to tackle these other factors which include: not smoking, regular physical activity (ideally 30 minutes of sweaty exercise every day), keeping your weight and waist size down and drinking alcohol in moderation.
Ensuring your blood pressure level is not raised (or taking medication to lower it if it is high), and not adding table salt to food is also important.
Looking at the packaging on food can be quite confusing.
It is best to reduce eating saturated fats, such as pastries, cakes, butter, biscuits and cheese because these are high in cholesterol.
Low fat foods are defined as having less than three grams of fat in every 100 grams of food.
Statins are a group of tablets that reduce cholesterol.
Statin therapy is usually recommended for people with heart disease, people who are healthy but have a high risk of developing heart disease at a later date (such as people who have parents or siblings who had heart attacks under the age of 50), and patients who have a very high cholesterol level (above 7.5) because of a faulty gene they have inherited from their parents.
Many people who take statins experience no or very few side effects.
Some people do experience troublesome but usually minor side effects such as achy leg muscles, upset stomachs, headaches or problems sleeping.
If people do experience side effects with one particular statin, then it is quite easy to switch to an alternative statin, or a different cholesterol lowering medication, and give that a go.
Statins do not work properly if taken with grapefruit juice.
There has been media coverage focussing on serious side effects such as kidney failure and memory problems.
The British Heart Foundation reports that only one in every 10,000 people who take statins will experience a potentially dangerous side effect.
The risk of side effects has to be balanced against the benefits of preventing serious conditions such as heart attack and stroke.
Indeed, it is estimated that statins save 7,000 lives a year in the UK.


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Simple and cute, the color is also gorgeous!
Another Hat to Highlight
This hat is called Temperate. It was recently released by Sweet Fiber. I have been drooling over the rest of their patterns and would love to try some of their yarn too. This was a super simple hat and one that I had a hard time putting down, it was a little addictive to knit! I love how the cables stand out against the reverse stockinette.
This hat will get a matching pair of fingerless mitts, also a really great pattern.
I used Malabrigo Rios. I hadn't seen this colorway before but really love the results! It's going to be hard to give this set away, but the recipient deserves it and much more!
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Really nice! HHHmmmmm! Which one is mine?
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Originally posted on Puck Drunk Love | Last updated 8/15/13
Jonathan Toews had some interesting comments regarding steroid use in the NHL in a recent interview with Sportsnet The Fan 590. Toews stated that he believes it's "naive" to think that there aren't steroids in the NHL and he'd like to see the league test players more often. The bulk of Toews' comments can be seen below: I think it would be naive to say that there's no one in the NHL that is trying to get the edge in that fashion. But at the end of the day, whether you get caught now or not, down the road at some point those sort of things come out as we've seen in Major League Baseball and cycling. Eventually ... someone is going to save their own butt and throw you under the bus. And that's your legacy. That's what people remember: that you're a cheater and you took performance-enhancing drugs. I think guys that apologize and plead that they didn't know what they were doing, I think they know exactly what they're doing. So the more tests the better. It protects the guys that are being fair and are putting good things into their body. So I have no problem with (more testing). Currently the NHL tests players twice a year. One test is conducted with the player's team while the other takes place at a random time without the player knowing that it's coming. In addition to these two tests, the NHL has the ability to test as many as 60 players a year at their discretion. According to Toews, it's foolish to think that these tests are keeping steroids out of hockey. The Chicago forward believes that it's only a matter of time before steroid usage in the NHL leaks out as it has in baseball and cycling. If it were up to the Chicago captain, the NHL would test players more frequently in an effort to keep steroids out of the game of hockey. Do you think Toews is right? Would you like to see the NHL test players more often? (H/T Toronto Sun) [follow]
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