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This post is the fourth in a series of articles by guest authors sharing their experience with courses offered at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy. Here is Vicki Wright on the Advanced Genealogical Methods course.
Top 5 Signs You're Ready for Tom Jones'
Advanced Genealogical Methods Course at SLIG
Advanced Genealogical Methods Course at SLIG
- You tell your kids the choices for breakfast, and wonder what the source citation format for that would be.
- You can recite what all those letters stand for after Thomas W. Jones name (Ph.D., CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS) without having to look any of them up.
- The County Recorder knows you by name – and you don't work there.
- When excitedly showing your family a copy of an old deed, you lose your temper when they get hung up on the "long s" and the "thorn".
- When the family is planning a vacation, you bring along Evidence Explained, just in case.....
But, joking aside, if you're serious about producing quality genealogical work, then Dr. Tom Jones' Advanced Genealogical Methods course at the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) is for you.
Not only will you learn to research more intelligently, but you will also learn to tease relevant information from all records – even the ones that aren't there. And you will learn to methodically, and critically, put all that evidence together to complete the jigsaw puzzle that is each and every genealogical problem.
You know you are in for an exhausting week when emails start arriving weeks before the Institute begins. Some of the attachments to these emails are dozens of pages long. You are expected not just to read them, but study them. These "hand-outs" form the back-bone of the course. In almost every lecture, you will systematically, and interactively, draw out each element of the genealogical method from those pages. "Find 5 examples of indirect evidence." "...of primary information." "...of original sources." You get the picture.
You will work together with your classmates, desperate to get the answers "right". But you won't. Not all the time, and maybe not even most of the time. That's why you're here. To learn how to get it right. By the end of the week, you will be on your way to understanding what he is trying to teach you. Just know for now that your mis-steps are aiding the teaching process by giving Dr. Jones the best gift you can give a teacher – a teachable moment!
The guest lecturers, masterful CG's Claire Bettag and Rick Sayre, will allow your mind to take a break from methodology, and instead fill it to overflowing with their unparalleled knowledge of federal records and map sources.
There will be homework. It is optional. Choose to do it. Take advantage of every opportunity offered you to apply the knowledge you have received that day. By doing the homework, you will reinforce the lessons. And then you won't spend the first hour of the next day wondering what everyone else is talking about. And you will experience that swelling sense of pride when you realize that you found the elusive source, or you correctly identified how many different "Tom Jones'" there were in the records you were analyzing.
You owe it to yourself, and to the genealogical community, to keep advancing your knowledge base, and your skill set. Dr. Jones is a legend in the genealogical profession. No doubt. Look at all those letters after his name! But he is also a patient, generous, funny, and gifted, teacher. Don't miss the opportunity to learn from him.
Advanced Genealogical Methods is not a lecture course. It's a hands-on, minds-on genealogical learning experience. And if you're serious – really serious - about producing quality genealogical work, then you must take this course.
Vicki Wright trained to be a lawyer, but would rather be a genealogist. She is making up for lost years by attending as many quality genealogical institutes, conferences, and events as she can. She completed the Genealogical Research Program at Boston University's Center for Professional Education in 2010. She attended the Institute of Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) and the National Institute on Genealogical Research (NIGR) in 2011, and the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy (SLIG) in 2012. The rest of 2012 will see her again attend IGHR, as well as the Genealogical Research Institute of Pittsburgh (GRIP), and the Forensic Genealogy Institute (FGI). She will also graduate from the ProGen Study Program in June 2012.


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3D Reconstruction for Optimal Representation of Surroundings in Automotive HMIs, Based on Fisheye Multi-camera Systems. IWR, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Univ.\ Heidelberg(2015).
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Just a short note about an article in the Skeptical Inquirer on the subject of "Judging Authority" and the necessity of critical thinking.
Living well requires that we be able to evaluate our environment rationally. Simple things, like crossing the street, shopping, eating, and listening to our doctors, involve three skills: critical thinking, evidential reasoning, and judging authority. Many people, including previous authors writing for the Skeptical Inquirer (Lett 1990; Wade and Tavris 1990), have discussed the first two of these. Here I focus on the last of them, judging authority, but I must revisit the other two first because they are central to it. These same skills are fundamental to scientific reasoning as well, since the ordinary person and the scientist both need to understand our personal or scientific surroundings. Indeed this short article is an outgrowth of material I present to science students first learning the methods of science, but this should not discourage the nonscience reader, for science and everyday life are far closer in function than most would suppose.
The article then goes on to list the skills required in critical thinking as well as how to judge authority (specifically scientific authority) and extraordinary claims.
In the section on Evidential Reasoning, the author lists the following:
1. Falsifiability
2. Logic
3. Comprehensiveness
4. Honesty
5. Replicability
6. Sufficiency
Now obviously, in the case of MBH98, it's the issue of replicability that is most at issue. On sufficiency the author notes that the burden of proof is upon the claimant, and that authority and/or testimony is alway inadequate.
The article is at this link


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JDO defines a mechanism whereby a persistable class can be marked as a listener for lifecycle events. Alternatively a separate listener class can be defined to receive these events. Thereafter when entities of the particular class go through lifecycle changes events are passed to the provided methods. Let's look at the two different mechanisms
JDO defines an interface for PersistenceCapable classes so that they can be notified of events in their own lifecycle and perform any additional operations that are needed at these checkpoints. This is a complement to the Lifecycle Listeners interface which provides listeners for all objects of particular classes, with the events sent to a listener. With InstanceCallbacks the PersistenceCapable class is the destination of the lifecycle events. As a result the Instance Callbacks method is more intrusive than the method of Lifecycle Listeners in that it requires methods adding to each class that wishes to receive the callbacks.
DataNucleus supports the InstanceCallbacks interface .
To give an example of this capability, let us define a class that needs to perform some operation just before it's object is deleted.
public class MyClass implements InstanceCallbacks { String name; ... (class methods) public void jdoPostLoad() {} public void jdoPreClear() {} public void jdoPreStore() {} public void jdoPreDelete() { // Perform some operation just before being deleted. } }
So we have implemented InstanceCallbacks and have defined the 4 required methods. Only one of these is of importance in this example.
These methods will be called just before storage in the data store ( jdoPreStore ), just before clearing ( jdoPreClear ), just after being loaded from the datastore ( jdoPostLoad ) and just before being deleted ( jdoPreDelete ).
JDO2 adds 2 new callbacks to complement InstanceCallbacks . These are AttachCallback and DetachCallback . If you want to intercept attach/detach events your class can implement these interfaces. You will then need to implement the following methods
public interface AttachCallback { public void jdoPreAttach(); public void jdoPostAttach(Object attached); } public interface DetachCallback { public void jdoPreDetach(); public void jdoPostDetach(Object detached); }
JDO defines an interface for the PersistenceManager and PersistenceManagerFactory whereby a user can register a listener for persistence events. The user provides a listener for either all classes, or a set of defined classes, and the JDO implementation calls methods on the listener when the required events occur. This provides the user application with the power to monitor the persistence process and, where necessary, append related behaviour. Specifying the listeners on the PersistenceManagerFactory has the benefits that these listeners will be added to all PersistenceManagers created by that factory, and so is for convenience really. This facility is a complement to the Instance Callbacks facility which allows interception of events on an instance by instance basis. The Lifecycle Listener process is much less intrusive than the process provided by Instance Callbacks , allowing a class external to the persistence process to perform the listening.
DataNucleus supports the InstanceLifecycleListener interface. .
To give an example of this capability, let us define a Listener for our persistence process.
public class LoggingLifecycleListener implements CreateLifecycleListener, DeleteLifecycleListener, LoadLifecycleListener, StoreLifecycleListener { public void postCreate(InstanceLifecycleEvent event) { log.info("Lifecycle : create for " + ((PersistenceCapable)event.getSource()).jdoGetObjectId()); } public void preDelete(InstanceLifecycleEvent event) { log.info("Lifecycle : preDelete for " + ((PersistenceCapable)event.getSource()).jdoGetObjectId()); } public void postDelete(InstanceLifecycleEvent event) { log.info("Lifecycle : postDelete for " + ((PersistenceCapable)event.getSource()).jdoGetObjectId()); } public void postLoad(InstanceLifecycleEvent event) { log.info("Lifecycle : load for " + ((PersistenceCapable)event.getSource()).jdoGetObjectId()); } public void preStore(InstanceLifecycleEvent event) { log.info("Lifecycle : preStore for " + ((PersistenceCapable)event.getSource()).jdoGetObjectId()); } public void postStore(InstanceLifecycleEvent event) { log.info("Lifecycle : postStore for " + ((PersistenceCapable)event.getSource()).jdoGetObjectId()); } }
Here we've provided a listener to receive events for CREATE, DELETE, LOAD, and STORE of objects. These are the main event types and in our simple case above we will simply log the event. All that remains is for us to register this listener with the PersistenceManager, or PersistenceManagerFactory
pm.addInstanceLifecycleListener(new LoggingLifecycleListener(), null);
When using this interface the user should always remember that the listener is called within the same transaction as the operation being reported and so any changes they then make to the objects in question will be reflected in that objects state.
Register the listener with the PersistenceManager or PersistenceManagerFactory provide different effects. Registering with the PersistenceManagerFactory means that all PersistenceManagers created by it will have the listeners registered on the PersistenceManagerFactory called. Registering the listener with the PersistenceManager will only have the listener called only on events raised only by the PersistenceManager instance.
DataNucleus supports the following instance lifecycle listener types
The default JDO2 lifecycle listener StoreLifecycleListener only informs the listener of the object being stored. It doesn't provide information about the fields being stored in that event. DataNucleus extends the JDO2 specification and on the "preStore" event it will return an instance of org.datanucleus.api.jdo.FieldInstanceLifecycleEvent (which extends the JDO2 InstanceLifecycleEvent) and provides access to the names of the fields being stored.
public class FieldInstanceLifecycleEvent extends InstanceLifecycleEvent { ... /** * Accessor for the field names affected by this event * @return The field names */ public String[] getFieldNames() ... }
If the store event is the persistence of the object then this will return all field names. If instead just particular fields are being stored then you just receive those fields in the event. So the only thing to do to utilise this DataNucleus extension is cast the received event to org.datanucleus.FieldInstanceLifecycleEvent


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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - Jim Harbaugh has watched each of his two quarterbacks lead the San Francisco 49ers to big wins in hostile, road environments - Alex Smith in the season opener at Green Bay's Lambeau Field back in September among others, and Colin Kaepernick on Sunday at the New Orleans Superdome.
Which one gets the ball on Sunday when the 49ers travel to St. Louis? Harbaugh is still mum on that, though he did say Monday he will formally announce his starting quarterback by mid-week so the players don't have to face constant questions about what they know about the situation.
Kaepernick said he was told late Saturday in a team meeting ahead of Sunday's start against the Saints.
Then, on Monday, Harbaugh offered this for thought: Yes, he's keeping everybody guessing again. Sort of.
"Alex Smith is our starting quarterback. He has not done anything to lose that job," Harbaugh said. "In fact, he's playing at a very high level. Also, Colin Kaepernick, you can't categorize him as a backup quarterback, because he's started games and played very well in those games."
Clearly, Harbaugh is growing tired of all the talk about his quarterback situation, even if much of the drama is of his own creation - and he refuses to categorize it as a "controversy" with two capable guys in the mix each week. He said again Monday that anything is possible this week, even using both quarterbacks in the game.
"The guys will be hammered," Harbaugh said. "You go to Colin, you go to Alex, 'Should you be the starter?' He's got no good answer for you. He says, 'Yes, I should be the starter' - we're talking either one - and you look like you're just building up yourself. If you say no, then they hammer you because you don't think you should be the starter. Then the people, so-called subject matter experts, who talk about, "You should be making a fuss about it or a stink about it, you shouldn't be that accommodating," it sends a completely wrong message, to me, for young athletes out there, or high school quarterbacks, where their coach is trying to tell them it's about the team and all of us working together. So that one gets me upset. That's not what our two guys are about."
The NFC West-leading Niners (8-2-1) now own the second-best record in the NFC behind Atlanta as they head to face the Rams in a game that will mean plenty for both teams after their 24-24 tie Nov. 11.
In recent weeks, Harbaugh has vowed to go with the "hot hand" as his quarterback. Now, he has two guys who fit that mold, yet Kaepernick has won back-to-back games in his first two NFL starts - the first last Monday night against the Bears before Smith was medically cleared from his concussion.
For now, Harbaugh seems to be playing both sides. He wouldn't say when asked whether he has already made a decision for Sunday.
"I think it starts with this week, this game, what gives our team the best chance to win this game, like it would at any position," Harbaugh said. "So in a unique situation, you have two quarterbacks that are playing at a very high level. One's your captain, your starting quarterback. The other has played great football the last three football games."
Smith, the 2005 No. 1 overall draft pick, hardly looked happy on the sideline Sunday. Last week, he said the 49ers have a good problem with him and Kaepernick able to lead the team to victory, and he plans to remain positive regarding what's best for the 49ers.
"He's a class act all the way -team player, that's why he has been voted captain by our players," Harbaugh said. "They're great team guys, they're great example guys. We need them both. Both have played extremely well."
In his two NFL starts last week and his other brief moments in relief, Kaepernick has completed 48 of 74 passes for 680 yards and three touchdowns with one interception and was sacked six times. He has a 102.3 passer rating.
"He's a good athlete and I know that we respected him. You don't really know until you get on him for real," Saints defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo said Monday. "I tip my hat to him. We had some people on him who could have finished him and didn't and that's because he's a pretty good athlete and that makes it tough. He's going to make a lot of people miss."
Smith, meanwhile, has completed 26 of his last 28 passes and sports a 104.1 passer rating with 13 touchdowns.
While so much attention is on the team's quarterback situation, the 49ers' opportunistic defense produced a pair of pick-sixes - by Ahmad Brooks and Donte Whitner - and sacked record-setting Saints quarterback Drew Brees five times Sunday.
Harbaugh will be looking for the same kind of performances Sunday against the Rams. Both teams missed field goals in overtime and left Candlestick Park feeling as if they let the game slip away. It was the NFL's first tie in four years.
Not that Harbaugh is looking back at that frustrating finish.
"Really have a whole new light on unfinished business. I think all this is new business," he said. "The new business is this game, this most important game because it's our next game. It's just that hard focus on that. It's not about unfinished business, it's about new business. New business is getting prepared to travel well, prepare to practice well and prepare to go there and do what it takes to be victorious."
Notes: WR and return man Kyle Williams said Monday he will miss the rest of the season with a torn ligament in his left knee sustained Sunday. Williams posted on his Twitter account that he has a torn anterior cruciate ligament in the knee. Surgery would be the likely next step. The team didn't release anything on his injury, or that of RB Kendall Hunter. They were hurt on the same play in the third quarter. Harbaugh did say Williams was hurt before contact when his foot stuck in the turf.
AP Sports Writer Brett Martel in New Orleans contributed to this story.
Online: http://pro32.ap.org/poll and http://twitter.com/AP_NFL


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More trains will be running from Glasgow to Troon to cope with the increased demand of The Scottish Golf Open Championship.
An enhanced temporary timetable will be in place between Thursday July 14-17 with trains calling at both Glasgow and Troon in both directions from 7am on Thursday through to Saturday 16 July, and from 8am on Sunday 17 July. There will also be extra carriages available. The Stagecoach 'Golflink' bus at Troon will take golfers directly to the course.
Bus and train tickets can be bought from staffed stations, but it is advised to buy in advance to avoid queuing at Troon station.
Golfers should also be aware that the improvement works taking place in Glasgow Queen Street Tunnel may affect those travelling to The Open with journeys taking an extra 20-30 minutes. Trains which normally run to the High Level station are being diverted to either the Low Level station or Glasgow Central.
ScotRail Alliance MD Phil Verster, said: "The Open Championship is a hugely exciting event, and we're proud to play our part in helping fans get to the course. In order to make sure our customers get to the event safely and as quickly as possible, we're encouraging customers to check their journeys on our website and buy their train tickets in advance. Leaving plenty of time to travel is also a good idea."
For more information, please visit www.scotrail.co.uk/theopen


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Mainsheet magazine is a quarterly magazine that contains exciting and informative feature articles, columns, destinations, and association news. It also features an exclusive TECHNICAL SECTION full of articles about modifications, installations, and customizations written by owners and approved by the factory.
New boat owners receive a one year subscription compliments of their dealer. Afterwards, once you join or renew an Association, you will receive Mainsheet as part of your association dues.
You can research the Class web sites through our links section. If a particular Class does not have a web site or a join/renew option available (or if you are a Catalina owner without organized association) join the International All Catalina Alliance (IACA) by clicking here to download an Adobe Acrobat mail-in form. You can also use this form to request a change of address.


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It's hard to believe there is a bike ride in San Jose that goes 20 miles and sees little traffic. Even better, it passes by two of the city's most vital public works – the sewage plant (water pollution control plant) and the garbage dump (sanitary landfill) on Zanker/Los Esteros Road.
I call this route the Eau de Cologne Tour of San Jose (map). You get to see Alviso, one of my favorite out-of-the-way South Bay excursions, which has somehow avoided the gung-ho Silicon Valley lifestyle. Oh, there's also the Calpine natural-gas-fired power plant where sheep and goats are seen grazing.
The key to avoiding cars is the creek paths of San Tomas Aquino, Coyote Creek, and Guadalupe River. San Tomas is paved, but Coyote Creek and Guadalupe on this route are not. Los Esteros Road out by the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge sees little traffic.
While this area is constantly changing, the creek paths are here to stay and will only get better with time (paving). In the past week a large tract has begun development off Orchard Parkway. Let's hope the Guadalupe River path was incorporated in the planning.
Progress has its price. The homeless man's wood and tarp shack next to the development area was torn down. I only saw him once during my many rides past his encampment.
It was great to see the San Jose airport car rental area north of the airport shut down and moved. It made cycling across the narrow river bridge to Ewert Road a real pain. That's what I call progress.


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The DBG was formed in 1999 to promote the discipline of Developmental Biology at both institutions. Each year we hold meetings in the third and fourth quarters; the Northwestern Developmental Biology Meeting is held in March; and the Developmental Biology Training Grant Meeting is held in the spring. In addition, the DBG actively solicits applications from prospective graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
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The Rev. John T. Carter, a retired Roman Catholic Navy chaplain who later pastored several churches in Western Maryland, died Tuesday at the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center of respiratory failure. He was 71.
"Our Uncle Martin Hyland was a priest, and I think he was somewhat of an influence on my brother as well as the priest at St. Ambrose," his sister, Sally Louise Protokowicz of Bel Air, said. "Since he was 14, he always wanted to be a priest. It was the only thing he ever wanted to do."
The son of Blight G. Carter, a Baltimore Sun photoengraver, and Agnes L. Hyland, a homemaker, John Thomas Carter, one of seven children, was born in Baltimore and raised in the city's Pimlico neighborhood.
Father Carter attended Pimlico elementary and junior high schools and graduated in 1960 from City College. He earned a bachelor's degree in 1964 from Maryknoll College Seminary in Glen Ellyn, Ill.
"He was initially attracted to becoming a Maryknoll missionary after reading the Maryknoll Magazine, but found he was called to a different kind of ministry," his sister said.
Father Carter enrolled at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Roland Park, where after the completion of his religious studies, he was ordained a priest in 1970 at the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Mary Our Queen by Cardinal Lawrence J. Shehan.
Father Carter held pastoral assignments at St. Clare Roman Catholic Church in Essex and at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church in Woodlawn. In 1972, he was assigned to St. Philip Neri Roman Catholic Church in Linthicum, where he remained while receiving training as a chaplain at the Newport, R.I., Naval Station, and later at Parris Island, S.C.
"As a priest, I was exempt from joining the service but I thought I should serve my country, and that's what I did," Father Carter told the Catholic Review in a 2006 interview.
In 1979, he began serving as a circuit chaplain at the Naval Air Station in Norfolk, Va., while concurrently serving as associate pastor at St. Louis Roman Catholic Church in Clarksville.
Father Carter became a Navy chaplain in 1981, and was assigned to the Naval Air Station in Assuage, Japan, and was re-assigned later that year to the Naval Air Station in Kingsville, Texas.
In 1983, Father Carter joined the officers and crew of the USS La Salle, a command ship, as the command chaplain assigned to the staff of the Middle East commander during the Iran-Iraq War.
In addition to Catholics, Father Carter also ministered to Protestants, and flew from ship to ship aboard a helicopter he named the "Holy Helio."
He also provided assistance to the Roman Catholic parish in Bahrain, as well as sacramental assistance to the U.S. State Department and the expatriot community in the area.
Recalling his experiences during the Iran-Iraq War, Father Carter said in the Catholic Review interview that they had spent "12 arduous months drifting around monitoring the situation," and that once during that time he was allowed to leave the ship.
"I think my presence was a help to the men," he said.
Father Carter was transferred in 1987 to the Subic Bay Naval Air station in the Philippines, where he oversaw pastoral care of the military community including the naval hospital and Cubi Naval Air Station.
He later returned to the naval air station at Norfolk, where he was stationed until 1992, when he was subsequently assigned to the Naval Air Station in Bermuda, where he was supervising chaplain.
When the base was closed in 1994, he was named senior chaplain and pastor at the Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., which is the largest Roman Catholic parish in the Atlantic Fleet.
In 1995, Father Carter was sent to the naval station in Cuba where he worked with 2,000 Cuban and Haitian refugees, and after three months, took on his final assignment as command chaplain for the commander of Submarine Squadron 11 and the submarine base at the naval base in San Diego.
He had attained the rank of commander by the time of his 1998 retirement from the Navy. His decorations included three Meritorious Service Medals, which are the second highest peacetime decorations presented to members of the armed forces.
Father Carter was also awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, Navy Expeditionary Medal and National Defense Medal, the latter two for his service during the Persian Gulf War.
After leaving the Navy, Father Carter returned to Baltimore where he was assigned in 1998 as associate pastor at Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church in Towson. In 2001, he was named pastor of both St. Augustine in Williamsport, and St. James Roman Catholic Church in Boonsboro, where he remained until retiring in 2006.
After retiring, he moved to the Mercy Ridge Retirement Community in Timonium, where he lived with other retired priests. He enjoyed reading and traveling and was an inveterate collector of lighthouse replicas.
A Mass of Christian burial for Father Carter will be offered at 11 a.m. today at St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, 36 E. Potomac St., Williamsport.
In addition to his sister, Father Carter is survived by four brothers, Blight G. Carter Jr. of Lake Forest, N.C., James Carter of Berlin, Dennis Carter of Hanover, Pa., and Stephen Carter of Tennessee.


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Big hit: But kinda stale taste in Para 3
"Paranormal Activity 3" is a prequel, revealing that the characters in "PA1" and "PA2" had already been through the all-night video surveillance ordeal. At least in this film they are undergoing it for the first time, which is less than can be said for us. The formula for the films involves pallid characters, perfunctory dialogue, and very long waits for something to happen.
When something does, it's often a sudden shock accompanied by a startling musical chord. Sometimes there are loud bangings and other noises. Sometimes the shocks are false alarms. The audience screams, and then laughs. At my screening, it also did a lot of talking. Usually I find that obnoxious, but this time I wish they'd spoken louder; the "Mystery Science Theater" approach might enrich this film. [Click for full review.]Read more on: paranormal activity 3


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TravisP necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
BikeAble requires a logo for use in print and on the web that conveys empowerment through cycling.
I am looking for a logo that combines the ideas of disabilities and bicycling. Ideally, it would convey a sense of mobility empowerment. It must applicable to a variety of media (web, print, screen).
As I have only recently founded BikeAble, I have no existing prior logo. This logo will cement the BikeAble brand and be used for all communications.
Here is some background for the organization that should aid in providing you inspiration:
I'm engaging in an effort to
create a free consultancy and resource for folks with physical limitations who
wish to get into or return to bicycling. This will mostly apply to people
with disabilities but will also encompass those who have simply developed aches
and pains, injuries, and other conditions that make traditional cycling
The organization (as mentioned above) is called
BikeAble and its slogan is
"Putting People to Pedals".
The background on all of this lies
with my own son who has cerebral palsy. We spent about six months
researching all the options for him and found a solution that worked well for us.
Since then, we've been continually modifying his setup as we've encountered
problems. To get an idea of this background, give http://www.abikeforgareth.org
a peek. The "About Gareth" and "About the Bike" areas probably give the
most concise information. Since then, I've talked to senior citizens to let them
know about biking options and have worked with Easter Seals of Central PA to
equip their special needs students. I want to expand the scope of my audience and
offer this type of help and creativity to a larger group. It shouldn't
take anyone six months to find out what options and possibilities exist.
- Include the BikeAble name
- BikeAble must be capitalized exactly as it appears here to emphasize both components of the name. There is no space between the two words.
- Optional: Include the slogan "Putting People to Pedals" if it fits your design without making the logo unwieldy
- Style should convey professionalism with a touch of friendliness.
- Simple color scheme
- Components of cycling (wheels, gears, chains, cranks, pedals)
- Logo delivered in vector format
- Too many gradients. Logo should look acceptable when reduced to black & white.
- Low contrast color schemes - some of our patrons may have varying degrees of visual impairment
- Cartoon figures or anything humorous
- No depictions of typical upright riders as a good number of my clients will likely use trikes and recumbents
- No background color
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The East London History Society, (founded 1952) exists to further interest in the history of East London, namely the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Newham. The Society publishes two or three newsletters a year and organizes a program of talks.
Please click on the links, to the left, to find out more about us, our publications and programme of talks. You can take a virtual tour (London Hospital, Bow Road/Mile End Road, Victoria Park) or view a picture gallery of postcards (Comic, Greetings or East End Markets). The Map Gallery illustrates the growth of Tower Hamlets over the centuries.
- Telephone (020) 8980 5672
- Email firstname.lastname@example.com
- Site URL www.eastlondonhistory.org.uk
- Webmaster Harry Mernick firstname.lastname@example.com
- Privacy notice (GDPR 2018)
This site is hosted by mernicks.com at www.mernick.org.uk/elhs


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One of Miami's most beautiful neighborhoods, Coconut Grove offers many scenic locations for your wedding photography sesssion! Begin your photo shoot at the Plymouth Congregational Church, a treasured historic landmark. Have your wedding photographer take a photo of the happy couple at the beautiful arched entrance. The church itself will make a great backdrop for a photo of the entire bridal party in the courtyard. For another great photo-op, venture into the side yard, where the bride and groom can pose on the lawn or beside the colorful flower beds. And, of course, the church's gorgeous interior is certain to keep your wedding photographer busy!
After you finish at the church, head over to The Kampong, a tropical botanical garden located in the heart of Coconut Grove. Stroll through the 11-acre garden as your wedding photographer captures all the surrounding lush greenery. Pose beside the peaceful ponds or next to any of the exquisite fountains. The numerous benches scattered throughout the garden can serve as great spots for seated photos of the bride and groom. Finally, visit the garden's Fairchild-Sweeney House, whose stunning Spanish architecture will provide an ideal background for a photo of the entire bridal party.
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North Miami Beach is one of the most picturesque areas in all of Florida and you'll have a blast exploring its many sites during your wedding day photo shoot! Your first stop will be the palatial Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club, whose scenic grounds will have you wishing you could stay forever. Take your time perusing the expansive golf course, while your wedding photographer captures some of the bride and groom's candid moments. The stone bridge overlooking the pond at the resort's exterior is also a charming place for a portrait of the couple. For an escape from the heat, walk inside the immaculate front lobby, and take photos beneath the hanging crystal chandeliers, beside the grand piano, or simply seated on the elegant sofas and chairs. You'll almost surely be convinced that you're in paradise!
Next, take a short limo ride over to the St. Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, whose medieval Spanish-style architecture will provide a truly romantic backdrop for your wedding. Your wedding photographer can arrange for group photos in the central courtyard, as well as some individual shots. The arched doorway at the monastery's entrance is also a great spot for a bride-groom photo. Wander through the halls of the church's and you'll be amazed by the interior cloisters. Finally, don't forget to check out the vibrant gardens surrounding this one-of-a-kind structure.
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Travel may broaden the mind but it can also leave you dehydrated, tired and cranky. And those are just minor afflictions.
When David Spratley's mother flew out to visit from his native Britain a couple of years ago she had to be rushed to hospital for a scan after a deep vein thrombosis (DVT) scare.
She was fine but it got Spratley, 48, thinking about his own health during the frequent long-haul flights he needed to take for his business.
Talking it over with friend Chris Watkins, the owner of a company that supplies honey and jams to airlines, they came up with the concept of a flight drink to combat the downsides of flying abroad.
Together they enlisted the help of nutritionist Nikki Hart and researchers from the University of Otago to create a solution.
They were able to tap into $45,000 of government funding for research and development, matched dollar-for-dollar by the founders and two early-stage private investors.
Flyhidrate was born.
Consisting of three different drinks, it aims to address the issues that arise at various stages of long distance flights.
"We couldn't achieve what we wanted to do in one drink and that was to deliver the specific ingredients the body needs at the right stage of the flight," says Spratley.
The goal is to fight the main physiological stresses of flying: poor circulation, radiation exposure and dehydration, he says.
The brightly coloured beverage line-up includes a take-off brew containing relaxants, an in-flight drink with digestion assisters and a landing pick-me-up containing caffeine.
All three beverages contain electrolytes for hydration, circulation assisters and antioxidant boosters.
"There is a rationale for the three drinks, and they are three different formulations; they're not just three different colours," Spratley says.
One of the biggest challenges was getting the blends to taste right. "Most of nature's useful compounds are bitter and astringent and if you're going to make a truly functional beverage that can work in this sort of time space it's very hard to come up with a beverage that's pleasant tasting, so we had to overcome that and I think we have."
After the research, including flight, altitude chamber, blood and plasma tests, plus trials on aircraft acceptability and flavour profiling with the public, Flyhidrate had a trial run in Relay stores at Auckland airport last April.
At the end of 90 days Relay decided to stock the drinks in its two Auckland airport stores and is introducing Flyhidrate into Relay shops in Wellington, Christchurch and Queenstown airports as well as the major Australian airports.
It's not a cheap tipple: the long-haul version costs $18.99 and the short-haul variety, which would suit a hop across the Tasman or a trip to the Pacific islands, is $15.99.
Spratley says the premium price results from not skimping on anything, with two of the ingredients costing more than $7000 a kg.
Since they began developing the product more than three years ago several competitors have appeared, including New Zealand-based in-flight drink 1Above.
Spratley believes Flyhidrate has the most advanced formula.
The next stage of development is a new brew to help broaden the market, which restricts the sale of Flyhidrate to the post-customs side of the airport.
The new version also makes it possible to continue to use the product on multi-leg flights, circumventing liquid security issues that can occur when transiting, and which vary from airport to airport.
Flyhidrate has attracted a loyal following from international sportspeople.
Money can't buy the sort of publicity that comes from the likes of Piri Weepu telling his 70,000 Twitter followers he's about to slug some Flyhidrate on an international flight.
The combination of an efficient vascular system and sports-related trauma to muscles and veins put elite athletes at a higher risk of developing DVT, creating a market for the product that wasn't envisaged when Flyhidrate was conceived.
The company has been approached by a number of rugby teams, with players in the All Blacks, Crusaders and South Africa's Sharks trying out the drink on long flights.
An appearance at a catering industry show in Abu Dhabi has also resulted in interest from Etihad and Emirates airlines.
Ultimately the company would like to form a partnership with a global drinks player to boost international growth, says Spratley.
"It would be a real goal for us to crack the airlines and have them as partners.
"But I suppose the Holy Grail for us would be to get on the radar scope of a large beverage brand that can take this forward a lot faster than we could do without them."


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Over the past week, the Nasdaq (ONEQ) reached 3,000 for the first time in 12 years. According to reports, ancient business jargon like "new economy," first mover advantage, and zaibatsu are back, along with friending and tweeting (SOCL). (To give you some perspective on just how long 12 years is, if you were 9 years old, now you're the legal drinking age of 21 and if you were an old 60, now you're an even older 72.)
And while the Nasdaq's upward march is impressive, the benchmark technology index is still a whopping 67% lower compared to its closing price of 5,048.62 on March 10, 2000. (I had to include some bad news in this return to glory story, to give it some balance and to throw a few cheap shots at tech, which has doled out more than its fair share of dogs.)
The Nasdaq Composite measures all domestic and international stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange – which doesn't necessarily make it a technology index per se. Nonetheless, with more than 53% of its exposure is to technology stocks, its fortunes are closely linked to how the sector performs.
(Side note: By comparison, the much smaller Nasdaq-100 (QQQ), which excludes financial companies, has almost 70% exposure to technology.)
Here are a few lessons we learn from the Nasdaq Composite's slow climb back to 3,000:
Large gains from investing in stocks can take decades, but large losses can occur in a flash.
It took the Nasdaq Composite decades to reach its pinnacle point of 5,000. But after hitting that amazing level, it took the Nasdaq just nine months to be cut in half and another 24 months to fall 75% from its peak.
Big losses are almost impossible to recover from.
People that consistently lose money in the stock market often double or triple down on their losers. As a result, they end up taking greater financial risks in attempt to recoup their losses, which almost never works. A $500,000 investment that loses 50% in value needs to experience an incredible 100% gain just to get back to even.
Concentrating your wealth in one stock or one industry sector is always a gamble.
Great wealth can be obtained by concentrating investments in one fantastic performing area, but it can also massively backfire and it often does.
Making money from tech IPOs is easy.
How do you make a boatload from technology IPOs (FPX)?
Be a company insider, a venture capitalist, or an investment banker – not the poor fool buying the stock at a 50% plus premium to its IPO offer price on the first day of trading.
Losing money from tech IPOs is easy.
How do you lose a boatload from technology IPOs? Be a company insider, a venture capitalist, or an investment banker – or the poor fool buying the stock at a 50% plus premium to its IPO offer price on the first day of trading.
People have short memories.
The mere mention of the countless technology failures like Flooz, Kozmo, Nortel Networks, Webvan and others that have destroyed trillions in shareholder capital serves as no warning to people who suffer from financial amnesia. If they refuse to remember, nobody can make them!
There are always exceptions.
In retrospect, even a dummy could've seen that Apple (AAPL), LinkedIn (LNKD) or Facebook would be huge winners. But unfortunately, we don't live in retrospect nor can we invest in retrospect. There are always a very tiny number of winners in the stock market (SCHB), with an even tinier group of investors that are able to pre-identify those winning stocks before they become that way.
Ron DeLegge is the editor of ETFguide.com and author of Gents with no Cents: A Closer Look at Wall Street, its Customers, Financial Regulators and the Media. (Half Full Publishing, 2011.)


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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — The latest InvestmentNews cover is so powerful you can actually hear sirens atop a flashing neon billboard, megawarning in huge bold type: "Tick, Tick ... Boom!"
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A warning: InvestmentNews wants to make damn sure its readers, the 90,000 professional financial advisers who rely on the timeliness and accuracy of every INews forecast, understand: "What will your clients' portfolios look like when the bond bomb goes off?" Get it? Not "if" but "when" that happens.
Yes, they do expect the bond bomb to explode and are publishing "a special report on the impending crisis in the bond market."
Yes, you heard them. "Tick, Tick ... Boom!" Wake up, it's an "impending crisis," and it lies dead ahead. And to punctuate the message, InvestmentNews added a photo of an alarm clock with huge bells, wired to rolled-up bonds looking like a stack of dynamite sticks. "Tick, Tick ... Boom!"
InvestmentNews is not staffed by a bunch of alarmists. Quite the opposite — it's conservative, trustworthy and methodical. The publication knows that the 90,000 registered investment advisers who rely on it are, in turn, responsible for advising millions of Americans and managing trillions of dollars' worth of retirement assets. Yes, the audience demands reliable forecasts.
So listen closely, and we'll summarize Andrew Osterland's lead article, "Fear Rising With Rates," along with an interview with bond king Bill Gross. And INews editorials on "repositioning client money" with "strategies for rising rates." And a couple of opposing portfolio suggestions: "The case for, and against, stocks."
The bull says we're on the verge of an even bigger run-up. The bear warns that if your goal is to avoid losses, stay out of equities altogether.
Either way, the INews report reads like a Stephen King story, and in the background you hear the ticking ... ticking ... louder ... and louder ... "
Bond bubble has doubled in four years
Since the crash four years ago, investors have been wary of stocks and have been putting their money in bond mutual funds. In the INews interview with Gross it's noted that assets in bond mutual funds have more than doubled to more than $2 trillion.
Gross reiterated Pimco's "new normal" warning: "The future for bonds is a lower-return future than investors have come to assume. Bond investors should be expecting 2% to 3% returns over the future years ... bond returns will be lower than expected, but ... still better than cash and will provide positive returns." Also see Tell post on Pimco's view of the euro zone and the Cyprus crisis.
Interesting that Gross is warning that while interest rates will go up 10 or 15 basis points annually, "a big spike in interest rates is certainly a worry for bonds, but it wouldn't be friendly for stocks, either."
Latest stock bubble even more deceptive, more deadly
Over at Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Peter Coy also picked up on the "imbalance between the Dow and the economy. ... Bond yields are so low that savers who used to keep their money in, say, Treasurys are being driven into the stock market in search of positive returns. They have no choice."


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President Trump Had Enough, Urging Every American To Start Praying
As the Democrats continue to play a disgusting con-game in their efforts to destroy an innocent man and his family President Donald Trump has suggested people do what the left in this country despises most of all.
In an effort to once again defend his nominee for the United States Supreme Court the president has taken to Twitter to suggest that people do what's inexcusable in the liberal playbook. To actually pray for Brett Kavanaugh and his family at this time when the left is showing more than ever what their true colors really are.
The Democrats are playing a high level CON GAME in their vicious effort to destroy a fine person. It is called the politics of destruction. Behind the scene the Dems are laughing. Pray for Brett Kavanaugh and his family!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 26, 2018
"Pray for Brett Kavanaugh and his family!" Trump wrote on Twitter, denouncing Democrats for trying to destroy Kavanaugh.
As reported on The Gateway Pundit the following is a transcript by pool reporter Nancy Cook with Politico of a recent question and answer session with the president. He said the following:
"I think he is just a wonderful human being. I think it is horrible what the Democrats have done. It is a con game, they are really con artists. They are trying to convince they don't bite, they don't believe it themselves They know he is a high-quality person, they don't believe it, it is just resist and obstruct. They are playing a con game, and they are playing it very well, much better than Republicans.
"They are lousy politicians, they have lousy policy, they don't know what the hell they are doing. They want to get rid of ICE, they want to get rid of law enforcement, they don't want to take care of our military, they want to raise your taxes, but they are good at one thing. That is obstruction and con [Trump's voice starts to sound angry here].
"He is one of the highest quality people. He said when he was focused on being No. 1 in his class at Yale, to me, that was so believable. I understand college very well, being number 1 in your class, I understand a lot of things. When he said that, I understood exactly. He was so truthful. But for the Democrats to be trying to make him into something–lets be nice about it: Something he is not.
"This isn't his footing, he's never been here before. He's never had any charges like this, charges come up from 36 years ago that are totally unsubstantiated. I mean, you, as a president of a great country, Columbia, I mean how is this possible 36 years ago?…and now a new charge comes up and she says it may not be him and there are gaps. And she was totally inebriated and all messed up, and she doesn't know. It might have been him, or it might have been him. Gee, let's not make him a Supreme Court judge.
"This is a con game being played by the Democrats. These are the same lawyers who have been fighting for years. It is a shame you can do this to a person's life. I'll tell you: Maybe even more important, who is going to want to go before the system to be a Supreme Court judge or even a politician?
"I can tell you that false accusations of all type are made against a lot of people. This is a high-quality person, and it would be a horrible insult to our country if this doesn't happen. And it'll be a horrible, horrible thing for future political people. It cannot be allowed to happen. And the Democrats are playing a con game, C-O-N.
"Q: Should the second accuser be allowed to testify?
"Trump: The second accuser doesn't even know, she thinks maybe it could have been him, maybe not. Admits she was drunk. She admits time lapses, this is a person, and this is a series of statements that is going to take one of the most talented intellects from a judicial standpoint in our country keep him off the U.S. Supreme Court?
"He has the chance to be one of the greatest justices in the United States Supreme Court. What a shame. His wife is devastated, his children are devastated. I don't mean, "Oh gee, I am a little unhappy". They are devastated. And it is because of these Democrats."
If there is one thing this whole Kavanaugh saga has taught us it is that the left has no scruples whatsoever and let us hope and pray their own side sees this. And let's also hope that out of this comes a renewed vigor by the right to go out and vote since we know all too well the right tends to get complacent and "forget" to vote on election day.
This upcoming midterm election is perhaps the most important of our lifetimes. And we just can't hand over this great nation to the "mob rule" mentality the left in this nation is starting to display. Don't you agree?
WATCH: "She admits that she was drunk," President Trump says of Deborah Ramirez, the second woman to accuse Judge Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct; accuses Democrats of playing a "con game" pic.twitter.com/lK6EOkR8Gd
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 25, 2018
President Trump Announced How He Just Got Mexico To Pay For The Wall
When President Trump said he would have Mexico pay for the wall on our southern border, he meant it. He just announced how they are going to do it too… through the USMCA (the revision of NAFTA). Which I suspect was the plan all along.
Very early this morning at about 4:38 am, Trump tweeted: "I often stated, "One way or the other, Mexico is going to pay for the Wall." This has never changed. Our new deal with Mexico (and Canada), the USMCA, is so much better than the old, very costly & anti-USA NAFTA deal, that just by the money we save, MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!"
Do you think Facebook should be regulated so they're forced to treat everyone the same, regardless of their political beliefs, considering their size and influence in society?
— Amanda Shea (@TheAmandaShea) December 13, 2018
For those doubters on Twitter (and you will see some of them below), I highly doubt the plan was ever to have Mexico pay for the wall up front. We would fund the wall and recoup the funding from Mexico. I don't see what is so hard to understand about that. But it seems to be a financial move many can't seem to grasp and that is beyond their comprehension.
I fully support that if Congress just won't fund the wall, having the military build it through Pentagon funding and then reimbursing them for it. Why? Because it is a national security issue and always has been. That border is a clear and present danger.
Why shouldn't Trump have Mexico pay through the USMCA? And why all the negativity from people who are obviously poorly informed and just politically biased? They let their hate for the president dictate all their thoughts and actions rather than looking at the mechanics of the move and the benefits from it. I just don't get these people. They have not even given this a chance and already they are shooting it down. That's a leftist for you.
Check out the moves on Twitter over this:
I often stated, "One way or the other, Mexico is going to pay for the Wall." This has never changed. Our new deal with Mexico (and Canada), the USMCA, is so much better than the old, very costly & anti-USA NAFTA deal, that just by the money we save, MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 13, 2018
The government didn't spend or receive money from NAFTA. So unless you're going to raise taxes, there is no money coming into the government from the new deal.
— pastajoe (@pastajoe5) December 13, 2018
Good, now you can stop bothering Chuck and Nancy about getting our money for it.
— S.Danielle (@sdanielle) December 13, 2018
I am losing faith in you, sir. Why are you asking us taxpayers for 5 billion dollars if the new deal will pay for the wall? You promised that we wouldn't have to pay for it! Please keep your promise, a free border wall, or I will not vote for you again. #NoWallNoVote pic.twitter.com/eDopbpl7T1
— Ridgely Gibbs (@Patriots4Truth_) December 13, 2018
Also the deal still has to be ratified and approved by Congress which probably won't happen until the end of 2019 Or possibly mid 2020. So you're making promises using money you don't have and may possibly not get. What a shocker Mr. Bankruptcy
— Alan Volante (@VolanteAlan) December 13, 2018
Well wait until that money is coming in and build it then
— Caren Sykes (@misscsykes12) December 13, 2018
I've decided I'm not buying a Maga hat from you, but instead spend the money on drugs. So, now you pay for my drugs.
— Vincent Carmiggelt (@graphincent) December 13, 2018
Great so you don't need a penny from Congress or US Taxpayers then. Let us know when Mexico sends you the check for the $5 billion you want for the first payment on the wall. Until then don't bother Americans for the $.
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) December 13, 2018
No, this means consumers will pay for the wall.
— Carolyn McClanahan (@CarolynMcC) December 13, 2018
If you buy something that normally costs $1000 on sale for $750, you didn't save $250. You spent $750.
— Cannie Ware (@CannieW) December 13, 2018
The #FakeNews media and #Dems are not smart enough to figure this out though‼ They think everything is done with a "Magic Wand"???????????????? #BuildThatWall #FundTheWall #MAGA #KAG
— ????????❌TrumpedUp❌???????? (@TrumpedUp20) December 13, 2018
Bait and switch
— Greg Stanton (@GregStanton) December 13, 2018
Jeez… I saw that one coming.
— Honest Abe (@honestpotus16) December 13, 2018
Most of these people don't seem to get that a great deal of the funding for the wall was approved before Trump started all of this. I have never seen so many people so intent on leaving themselves open to attack. What a bunch of foolish, self-involved individuals. Just sad. Build the wall whatever it takes and do it fast before one of our many enemies gets a chance to severely cripple this nation once again.
Three Clinton Foundation Whistleblowers Will Testify This Coming Week, "Explosive" Allegations to Come…
"With regard to the investigation, which doesn't get a lot of attention, into the Clinton foundation, the DOJ designated John Huber to look into this. They have 6,000 pages of evidence that they've gone through. The foundation raised $2.5 billion, and they're looking into potential improprieties. What's next on this investigation?" the Fox News host questioned Congressman Meadows.
"Well, I think for the American people, they want to bring some closure, not just a few sound bites, here or there, so we're going to be having a hearing this week, not only covering over some of those 6,000 pages that you're talking about, but hearing directly from three whistleblowers that have actually spent the majority of the last two years investigating this," Meadows answered.
The Gateway Pundit reports:
Some of the allegations they make are quite explosive, Martha and as we just look at the contributions — now everybody's focused on the contributions for the Clinton Foundation and what has happened just in the last year, but if you look at it, you know, it had a very strong rise, the minute she was selected as Secretary of State — then it dipped down when she was no longer there and then rose again, when she decided to run for president. So there's all kinds of allegations of you know, pay-to-play and that kind of thing, "Meadows said.
Take a look:
In the three years following Hillary Clinton's departure from her position in the State Department, the Clinton Foundation donations dropped by 90%.
The Gateway Pundit writes, "Hillary Clinton left the State Department in 2013 and it looks like nobody wants to pay since she can no longer play."
Currently, the Clinton Foundation is being put under investigation by the Justice Department and the FBI for a whole plethora of reasons.
The Hill reports that the Clinton Foundation is also being investigated by the IRS in order to find out whether or not any "tax-exempt assets were converted for personal or political use."
Numerous Clinton emails backing up the idea that the Clinton Foundation was involved in "pay-to-play" schemes during Clinton's time serving as the head of the Department of State have been found by Conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch.
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Every week, a DIY expert spares us a trip to the grocery store and shows us how to make small batches of great foods at home.
Jeni Britton Bauer is the founder of Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream and the author of Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home. To kick off next week's Ice Cream Week at FOOD52 (that's right -- stay tuned!), Jeni shares the blueprint for making her famous, splendid ice cream.
Let me cut to the quick: I was never too excited about eating or making ice cream at home. Growing up in Illinois and Ohio, I can't remember ever eating one bowl of homemade stuff that ever lived up to the hype. It was usually icy, eggy, slushy, and overly sweet, with little other flavor. Making ice cream at home was one of those "good, ol' days" things that always seemed like a neat idea, but never tasted worth the effort—not when there was a Häagen-Dazs just around the corner and fully loaded with their dense, super creamy ice cream in a multitude of flavors.But the thing is, you can make ice cream worth the effort at home. All it requires is a balancing act. Ice cream is a frozen emulsion of water, butterfat (the concentrated fat in milk), proteins (whey and casein), sugars, starch, air, and flavor ingredients. It's the balance of ingredients that determines the sensory facets: taste, texture, body, and finish.When I set out to adapt my recipe to countertop machines to write Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home, I wanted the homemade results to match both the texture and flavor of the ice creams we sell in our shops; I also wanted it to have the dense, creamy body that rolls beautifully into a frozen scoop and melts slowly like buttercream on your palate.My home recipe requires a slightly unconventional balance of ingredients that work together to create what I call "American scoop shop ice cream" — hard-pack, scoopable, super creamy, and flavored any way you like it.
Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream BaseMakes 1 quart (2 pints)
2 cups whole milk1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon cornstarch1 1/2 ounces cream cheese softened/room temperature1/8 teaspoon fine sea salt1 1/4 cup heavy cream2/3 cups sugar2 tablespoons light corn syrup
So you have an idea of what to do before jumping in, here's an overview of the four steps you'll take to make any ice cream flavor in my book.ADVANCE PREP: Some ice creams will call for ingredients that must be made in advance. Recipes for roasted nuts, sauces, candies, and cakes can be found in Basics (page 191). Have these components chilled and ready to go before beginning the process.24 hours before you want to make the ice cream, wash the canister, dry it well, and place it in the coldest part of the freezer. Do not remove it until you are ready to pour the chilled cream into it.PREP THREE BOWLS:In a small bowl, mix about 2 tablespoons of milk with the cornstarch to make a slurry. In a medium bowl, add the salt and room-temperature cream cheese and whip all the bumps out. In a large bowl, make an ice bath (heavy on the ice) and set aside.
COOK:Pour the milk, cream, sugar, and corn syrup into a saucepan. Bring to a boil and set a timer for precisely 4 minutes—the timing is critical. Turn off the heat and add the cornstarch slurry to the ice cream base in the pan.CHILL:Incorporate the hot cream mixture into the cream cheese. Do this a little bit at a time so that you can whip out any lumps of cream cheese. Pour the hot ice cream base into a Ziploc bag and seal. Submerge in the ice bath until very cold.
FREEZE:Cut the corner off the bag, pour the chilled base into the ice cream machine, and turn on the machine. When finished, transfer to a storage container and freeze until firm, about 4 hours.
HOW TO TELL WHEN YOUR ICE CREAM IS DONE:The ice cream is finished at the exact moment when the machine isn't freezing the ice cream anymore; the ice cream will begin to pull away from the sides (about 25 minutes). If you stop too soon, there will be a thin layer of really dense ice cream on the sides of the canister (see photo). Sorbets are done when they achieve the consistency of a thick smoothie; they should be frozen enough to be just barely pourable. If you fully freeze sorbets, too much air will be whipped in and they will become fluffy and crumbly.SWIRLING IN A VARIEGATE AND STORING YOUR ICE CREAM:If you are packing the ice cream with a sauce (or variegate), alternate layers, creating pockets with the sauce. Be sure to put a bit on the bottom of the container and reserve some to put on the top of the ice cream. If you are adding chunks, layer them in evenly ?as you go.Then, working quickly, pack the ice cream into a container, cover with parchment paper or wax paper to seal out air, and let the flavors bloom while it hardens in your freezer for at least 4 hours.SERVE:When you remove the ice cream from the freezer, let it sit and relax for 5 to 10 minutes before you scoop? and serve it — it doesn't need to melt, but it does need to thaw slightly. Ideally, serve and eat it while it's quite firm but pliable and you are able to easily roll it into a ball. Once you've scooped it, return any remaining ice cream to the freezer. If the ice cream has melted too much at room temperature, refreezing it will result in an ice cream that is too icy.
Save and print the recipe here.
Jeni will be answering questions about ice cream on the Hotline for those of you who want to take on this project at home. For the quickest response, go to her recipe and ask a question from there -- we'll email her your question right away!
Excerpted from Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home by Jeni Britton Bauer (Artisan Books). Copyright 2011. Photographs by Stacy Newgent.
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The Canadian Women Artists History Initiative is a newly founded collaborative endeavour that brings resources and researchers together to enhance scholarship on historical women artists in Canada.
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Based in the Department of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal, we foster and circulate research into women's contributions to the cultural and material history of Canada. Our focus is on the period prior to 1967. We also maintain a consultable Documentation Centre and web-based research tools. We welcome participation from scholars across the country and donations of research materials, so please contact us if you are interested in becoming involved in any of our three main areas:
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Google Wallet hasn't exactly grown into the beast Google probably wanted it to, but it at least had a major carrier—Sprint—in its backpocket. But now, as recent rumors and leaks suggest, Sprint is now working on a NFC-based mobile payment system of its own.
Android Central got its hands on some leaked slides which show what appears to be the UI for Sprint's new system, dubbed Sprint Touch Wallet. Like Google Wallet, the framework would not only support credit card payments, but also deals/discounts/offers from vendors and retailers.
Obviously this isn't good news for Google, which has already had problems getting its Wallet-enabled phones on other carriers, especially Verizon. But is this good for the concept of digital wallets in general? In theory, it doesn't matter how many different services there are because they can all use the same terminals in shops. But when it comes to getting corporations and consumers to embrace the idea en masse, it might be difficult when a handful of different services are fighting each other tooth and nail for supremacy, each tearing off their own chunk of card providers and retail partners. This could get ugly. [Android Central via Mobile Burn]


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K10D Auto ISO finally works with EV Compensation?
Here is a good news about the K10D. A new user states that the EV (Exposure (Value)) Compensation function does not defeat the Auto ISO function, finally:-
I think in order to firmly confirm the case, this is to be verified by more than one user, though. Moreover, as all Pentax user manuals of their DSLRs have *never* mentioned anything about this long-lasting significant "limitation" (strictly speaking, it can be regarded as a "bug"), we are actually having no idea from official source if this time it really works or not.
The more interesting thing is that I did report this problem on the Net back to early 2004, about my *ist D. However, I did receive numerous surprising responses like: "DSLR users should learn and know how to choose ISO manually", or "it is of no big deal" or "Auto ISO is for P&S shooters only", or alike and etc. Of course, there were even some more vigorous responses to my (just simple) statement of such a trivial design "limitation" which is indeed causing much inconvenience and is simply annoying.
While this problem has now been widely recognised by many Pentax DSLR users since it has been with us for years, and also with the growth of Pentax DSLR user base, I deeply feel sorry for Pentax that they have not improved their firmware for such a minor unthoughtful design for such an unreasonably prolonged period, even after their *ist Dx series of cameras have been discontinued. And still, the inability still holds true for my K100D.
Hopefully, this "improvement" is true. BTW, anyone can verify the case and re-confirm here?


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What makes something a dystopian? Well, it's kind of like a utopia gone wrong. Where the world is trying so hard to be perfect, that it ends up with some serious scars (think too much plastic surgery gone way wrong). Usually, the government, or some sort of governing body, plays a huge role in this—regulating or modifying behaviors, enforcing strict laws, etc. Apocalypses can be good catalysts for these kinds of societies, because obviously it's a whole hell of a lot easier to create a society like this if there aren't so many people. But apocalypse or not, you're going to see some attempts to control and perfect.
And what makes something post-apocalyptic? An apocalypse, pretty much. Maybe it's five hundred years into the future, and the world is well rebuilt. Maybe the apocalypse just happened, and the world is in ruins and everyone is running around crazily doing whatever they can to survive. Maybe wild viruses are turning everyone into zombies or have killed off 90% of the population. It's pretty broad. And even if the society that comes up after an apocalypse is dirty, troubled, and violent, that doesn't necessarily make it a dystopian.
These terms sometimes have that same confusion factor (for me, at least) as urban fantasy vs. paranormal romance. So much potential for overlap, but really, they are their own unique snowflakes. And to finish up, some wondrous examples of each.
THE HUNGER GAMES by Suzanne Collins*
FEED by M. T. Anderson
THE GIVER by Lois Lowry
CANDOR by Pam Bachorz
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR by George Orwell
Apocalyptic or Post-Apocalyptic:
THE FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH by Carrie Ryan
SHADE'S CHILDREN by Garth Nix**
LIFE AS WE KNEW IT by Susan Beth Pfeffer
HOW I LIVE NOW by Meg Rosoff
THE ROAD by Cormac McCarthy
*A good example of a dystopian society born of an apocalypse.
**Wait, what? You haven't read this book? Get on it ASAP because it's one of the best books ever. Also I would argue that this one has a dystopian society within the larger post-apocalyptic world. You'll have to read it to understand what I mean. So…why aren't you reading it yet?


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Archive for Friday, January 28, 2011
Organizers ready for Lansing DAZE
January 28, 2011
Lansing DAZE 2007 features a new date, a new venue and slimmed-down offerings, but it's still the same family-fun festival, organizers say.
The festival was moved from its traditional second weekend in June date to this weekend. Instead of most activities taking place on the grounds of City Hall and in the parking lot adjacent to The Overlook restaurant, festivities this year are scheduled to be in Towne Center and in the Rock Creek Medical Plaza parking lot.
The changes were prompted, in part, because of the closing of The Overlook in April.
Organizers, however, have worked around the changes and have a full slate of activities for the city's premiere festival.
"It was a lot of organizing on our part to move it up, but we're pretty excited about all the activities," said Shanae Randolph, the city's director of economic development/ Convention and Visitors Bureau.
This year marks the return of the festival being coupled with the city's Brew, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cook-off. This will be the third Brew, Blues & Bar-B-Q Cook-off. The first, in 2005, was conducted in conjunction with Lansing DAZE. A year ago, the contest was moved to the first weekend in May to all it to gain sanctioning from the Kansas City Barbecue Society. This year, it's back with Lansing DAZE.
"It was nice pooling the resources," Randolph said. "We always had Friday night band for Lansing DAZE, and we still do for the barbecue. On Saturday, we'll have the children's inflatable rides, the Kid Tent with children's performers, the petting zoo, face-painting and games, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m."
Barbecue contest
The barbecue contest, sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society, has drawn 30 entrants, all of which will vie for $4,000 in cash and prizes and the chance to earn a coveted spot in the American Royal International Invitational, the granddaddy of barbecue competitions.
The competition gets going Friday when the barbecuers set up their massive smokers. The setup coincides with a concert by Kansas City blues band Lonesome Hank & the Heartaches, scheduled from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
On Saturday, 25 of the 30 cook-off entrants will submit barbecued pork butt for the popular "People's Choice" tasting. For a $5 donation, the public gets to sample as much of the barbecue as they prefer and then submit their vote for the best of the lot. The donations go to the Kansas Regional Prisons Museum.
Once the People's Choice entries are in, the barbecuers will focus on their entries for the regular competition. Judging begins at noon, with prizes being announced at a 3:30 p.m. ceremony.
Last year's overall champion, Jumpin Joe's Bar-B-Q, led by Leavenworth cook Joe Denny, will return to defend its title.
"I think he was one of the first to enter," Randolph said. "Wonderful Walts, the People's Choice winner, will be back. We have quite a few returners and quite a few first-timers, too."
Other events
The Lansing Historical Society and Lansing PRIDE will team together again this year for their annual Lansing DAZE quilt show. This year, the quilts will be on display at MidAmerican Bank.
"That's usually in the Lansing Community Center, but we didn't know we'd be needing it and it was booked for this weekend. But the people at MidAmerican have been gracious and are working with us and allowing Lansing Historical Society and Lansing PRIDE to have the quilts in their lobby," Randolph said.
The Lions Club's Mike Neve Memorial Car Show will draw show-quality automobiles from around the area. This year, the show will be Saturday in the lot of J and J Car Wash, at the southern edge of Towne Center.
The usual complement of vendors offering everything from crafts to food is lined up for Saturday. And the Mid American Trials Team will be showing off its motocross skills again.
Beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, a number of events earmarked for children begin. The Kansas Army National Guard will have its rock wall available for climbing. Leavenworth County Fire District No. 1 will have its smoke tunnel open. There'll be pony rides, inflatables and a petting zoo. The Kid Tent, sponsored by Lansing Community Library and Lansing Parks and Recreation, will be in operation from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with different activities, ranging from face-painting to a balloon artist to a magic show, scheduled on the hour.
At 4 p.m., activities in Towne Center will shut down and attention will shift to the Rock Creek Medical Plaza for a Street Dance from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. At dusk, the annual Lansing DAZE fireworks show will be staged, with viewing suggested from the Street Dance venue.
The moved-up date caused some traditional Lansing DAZE-related activities - notably the annual golf tournament, the Lansing Historical Society's 5K run and Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast - to not be a part of this year's festival. Instead, those events will remain on the second weekend of June this year.
"Those are advertised so far out, it's hard to change the date," Randolph said. "But we look forward to having everything together next year."
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Why do you think the information you have is correct and that another family member's is wrong? I have been primarily involved in civil litigation. What that means is that I represented clients that thought they were right and someone else was wrong. As an attorney I represented my client's interests. Usually, the other side of the case identified me with my client and so I was vilified and of course was dishonest because I represented the other party who was obviously wrong and falsely claiming to be right.
Eventually, one of three things happened. Somebody ran out of money, died or otherwise quit fighting. The parties got tired of paying their attorneys and got together and settled the case or, the case went to trial and a judge or jury decided the case. Sometimes the judge or jury agreed with my client and then of course, we were right all along. Other times, when we lost, of course we were still right, but the judge or jury was either stupid, dishonest or didn't understand our position.
Any of this sound familiar? I see the same kinds of attitudes among highly possession oriented genealogists. They are right and everybody else is wrong. Hmm. That might be true. It is entirely possible that the opinionated genealogist is right and everybody else is wrong. But unfortunately, there are no genealogy police, courts, judges or juries. So if we think we are so right, how do we prove we are right?
Here is the great mystery of practicing law. How do you represent a client when you know that they are wrong (or guilty or whatever)? In criminal law the answer is simple. Our law system is supposed to abide by the principles of due process and equal protection. Everyone, guilty or not guilty is entitled to representation in court. On the other hand, civil law is a little more problematic. No one has any kind of constitutional right to an attorney in a civil case. In fact, many people represent themselves. As an attorney, I had to represent my client, so I chose my clients based on what I thought were the merits of their case. If I didn't think a client had a chance to win, I didn't take the case. When a client didn't have a case, if allowed to do so, I would explain why I thought the case was weak or non-existent and send them on their way to try another attorney or drop the matter.
Here is the problem with genealogy. We do not have anyone who has the role of an attorney, judge or jury that can tell someone when their evidence isn't good enough. So one genealogist can believe that the family members and births are "proven" by one census record, while at the same time another genealogist my still question the accuracy of the information after logging thirty or forty sources. When is enough, enough?
In law, if we keep going, some day the case will end. No matter how persistent the litigator, no one can keep a case going forever. Somewhere, sometime, a judge will finally decide a party has had enough opportunity in court and end the case. In genealogy, on the other hand, we pass our problems on down to the next generation. Some genealogical issues never get resolved because there is no one around to say "It is over."
So how do you "prove" you are right? It depends. Even if you read all 800 plus pages of Mills, Elizabeth Shown. Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace. Baltimore, Md: Genealogical Pub. Co, 2007, somehow you have to come to a consensus with the opposition (it there is any) and agree to disagree. You many be the best professional genealogist in the world and write the ultimate proof statement of all time, but guess what? I don't have to believe a word you say. I don't have to agree with any one of your carefully reasoned conclusions. I don't have to even read your proof statement and I can hold my own opinion based on the flimsiest of evidence or lack of evidence and what can you do about it? Absolutely nothing. Genealogy isn't court and the law. I can't force you to agree with me or pay me money if you do not.
Think about this aspect of genealogy for a minute. I have a family group record with a husband, wife and five children. I have birth dates for most. I have no places of birth at all and I have no marriage date or any other information. When you ask me if I have checked the Census records, I respond, "What is a census record."
In this first case, is there any room for discussion about the identity and personal information of the family members? Of course, you say. How can you tell you have the right family? What if I don't care? What if I think I have all I need to substantiate the family?
You see proof is kind-of slippery. I might think I have all the "proof" I need and you might disagree, but if we are genealogists, how do we determine who is right or do we care?


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