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A Wisconsin medical supply firm blamed for serious infections and death from tainted alcohol prep wipes has issued a new nationwide recall for another product potentially contaminated with different dangerous bacteria.
H&P Industries Inc., the parent company of the Triad Group of Hartland, Wis., has recalled all lots of povidine iodine prep pads used to prevent infections in cuts, scrapes and burns and in preparation for surgery.
The recall notice says the pads may be contaminated with Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, an organism that has caused rare but serious infections in humans, including meningitis in newborn infants, pneumonia in patients on ventilators and necrotizing fasciitis, more commonly known as flesh-eating bacteria disease.
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A press release issued by the company but not posted on the firm's website says that the new recall has been initiated because of results of investigation and sampling tests conducted by the federal Food and Drug Administration and the firm's own internal investigation.
The newly recalled products include povidine iodine prep pads made by H&P Industries Inc. and packaged under the names Cardinal Health, Medical Specialties, VHA, Triad, Triad Plus, North Safety and Total Resources. It's not clear how much product the new recall covers.
The FDA has issued no notice of the recall, which was announced late Wednesday. FDA officials could not immediately be reached for comment. Triad Group chief operation officer Eric Haertle, who issued the recall, did not respond to an e-mail from msnbc.com.
Company officials issued the notice under the H&P Industries name, not the Triad Group name, and have changed all documents on the Triad Group site to H&P letterhead.
The new recall comes more than two months after H&P Industries issued a global recall of hundreds of millions of contaminated alcohol prep pads and wipes because of potential contamination with a rare bacteria, Bacillus cereus.
A Colorado hospital cultured the potentially life-threatening bacteria from the Triad Group wipes after children came down with bloodstream infections caused by the organism. Triad Group is facing at least two lawsuits from people who became infected with Bacillus cereus blamed on the wipes, including a 2-year-old Houston boy who died in December from bacterial meningitis.
Government inspection records show that FDA officials knew as early as 2009 that company had serious problems with contamination and sterilization at its Hartland, Wis., plant. But an FDA official said the agency did not detect an imminent public health hazard until the Colorado infections were reported.
FDA officials have refused to comment on the outcome of a new investigation of H&P Industries and the Triad Group. A spokeswoman, Shelly Burgess, says the investigation is continuing.
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Last month, Triad officials sent a letter to customers, vendors and employees saying they were shutting down the line that produced the alcohol wipes and lubricating jelly, which has also been found to be contaminated. The move was initiated in part because of news reports by msnbc.com, as well as the FDA investigation and pending lawsuits.
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica, formerly known as Chryseobacterium meningosepticum, is a bacterium often found in frogs and fish and elsewhere in nature, but rarely linked to human infections.
It was discovered in 1959 by American bacteriologist Elizabeth O. King, who isolated an organism linked to meningitis in infants.
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Canucks' marvellous season turns to dust … then shame on us
City loses its class in violent aftermath, but not the Sedins who stand up for team
Head coach Alain Vigneault of the Vancouver Canucks looks on from the bench against the Boston Bruins.
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VANCOUVER — Whatever the Vancouver Canucks have planned for their 41st anniversary season, it will be hard to top this one.
Pity about the ending.
Seconds after Alain Vigneault had finished a very brief post-mortem attended by very few reporters after his Canucks' 4-0 loss, the NHL setup people were already changing the Stanley Cup Final banner behind his seat at the podium to one that read: Stanley Cup Champion Boston Bruins, in preparation for Claude Julien's remarks.
Tee-shirts signifying the Boston victory were draped on the table. An email was already in the in-box, advertising Boston championship merchandise.
Funny how all that happened in an instant, when the Beantown media made such a big deal of Vancouver parade plans last week. Because, of course, no one else plans these things. They just appear, like magic.
And just that quickly, the Canucks were yesterday's news.
Their marvellous season, dust.
Flummoxed, frustrated, driven mad by an inability to shoot, run, kick, bulldoze or otherwise squeeze a puck past Boston's Tim Thomas for most of seven straight games, the Canucks let a dream season go to waste Wednesday night, losing Game 7 and the Stanley Cup on home ice to an infinitely better-organized, stronger Bruins team.
And then the whole damned city lost its class.
Again. Just like 1994. No lesson learned. The Olympics was the exception. Civil disobedience is the rule.
It started outside the arena, where the usual thugs and goofballs took their frustrations out on cars and cops and property, though they'd probably have just found a different reason to do it if the Canucks had won.
"It's terrible," Henrik said, told there were already fires and cars overturned. "This city and province have a lot to be proud of."
The stupidity crept into the rink where NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was four feet away from being beaned by a full cup of Coke, and several plastic water-bottles sailed past, as he was about to present the Conn Smythe Trophy to Thomas.
Then there was Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini, directing the same coarse, four-letter obscenity repeatedly at reporters, including CBC's Karin Larsen, who were trying to interview him in the locker room, where as usual it was the Sedin twins — stand-up guys to the end — and very few others facing the music for their teammates, most of them hiding in the back rooms until the crowd thinned out.
So what are the chances of that unfortunate part of the team culture changing, when it starts at the top?
Look, there were a thousand good things about the Canucks this season, and in a few days, once the mess is cleaned up and the idiots are out of jail, and the owner has stopped being a petulant rich kid whose toy broke, and the head coach has pulled the cotton out of his mouth, we'll be able to properly reflect on some of them.
But for now, all the good just makes the ending more sour.
Thomas was near enough to impregnable the whole series, turning the last two winners of the Art Ross Trophy — Henrik and Daniel — into non-issues, and when the autopsy is performed on the Canucks, it is there that the scalpel is bound to be inserted first.
The league's regular-season-leading offence scored four goals in the first two games, and just four more in the last five. Boston outscored them 21-4 in Games 3 through 7.
Any questions? The twins knew they were coming.
"For sure, [Thomas] was obviously great, but it's still our line's job to score, and if we don't do that, its going to be tough for us to win," said Daniel. "Eight goals in seven games isn't enough. It was enough to get us to Game 7, but when we got the chances we needed to step up."
"Tim Thomas," said Henrik. "Couldn't beat him. If you look at the games, their goalie was unbelievable. We talked a lot about chances. You go through the games, see the chances we had … We can't bury it."
Given that paucity of offence, Roberto Luongo would have had to be all-world for the Canucks to win the series, and among critics who thought the team stood a better chance with rookie Cory Schneider between the pipes, he was barely all-Vancouver.
In the final act, the Bruins leapt to a 3-0 lead over two periods on a pair of goals by Patrice Bergeron, one shorthanded, and another by amazing rookie Brad Marchand — and the twins were on the ice for all three.
Marchand added one into an empty net at 17:16 of the third, and the Sedins were on for that one, too.
Apart from Thomas's virtuousity, and the ace work of the shutdown defence pair of Zdeno Chara and Dennis Seidenberg, the Bruins played such sound positional hockey in the defensive zone, many a quality Canuck scoring chance turned to nothing.
Vancouver had much of the early play but had little to show for it, and then the Bruins got a goal out of nowhere at 14:37 of the first period — a backhand pass from Marchand that went between two Canucks' skates right to Bergeron, who whacked it in off the post. And though the fans stayed in the game, for a while at least, the Canucks seemed to lose their legs.
Early in the second, Marchand sped around the Vancouver defence and rang a shot off the near-side post, and while the Canucks were thwarted on their few really good chances — Thomas stopping Henrik Sedin, some, Chara blocking an Alex Burrows try for an open net — Boston pounced on theirs.
Marchand scored on a wraparound, which Luongo actually knocked into his own net, and then on a slow-motion shorthanded break, Bergeron split the Vancouver defence, was hauled down by Christian Ehrhoff, and somehow the puck continued into the net with Luongo gesturing as if to say: "What just happened?"
All of Vancouver must be wondering the same thing.
The season in Vancouver was all about celebrating 40 years of NHL history — with a subtext including the word "Cupless" — but the drought was just one year shorter in Boston, where the Bruins last won in 1972, the second championship of the Bobby Orr/Phil Esposito era.
The Bruins, though, did this with no help from history.
From the very beginning of the series, they showed no respect for the Canucks' gaudy regular season numbers, pounding the Vancouver skill players at will with little fear of retribution. All of the Bruins' wins were lopsided, and they outscored the Canucks 23-8 in total.
With the Sedins neutralized, the task of supplying offence fell to the second line, which in happier days consisted of Ryan Kesler, Mikael Samuelsson and Mason Raymond. But Samuelsson was lost in Game 5 of the second round, Raymond was kayoed with a fractured vertebra in Boston on Monday, and Kesler was a ghost of his ordinary, feisty, speedy self after injuring his groin in the Western Conference final.
The city was throbbing with nervous, edgy energy hours before the puck dropped Wednesday. Something had to happen.
Most of the hundreds of thousands who crammed into streets, lined up for last-minute liquor or to get into watering holes, were too young to have suffered all 39 previous years of Canuck disappointments, but they were ready to erupt, nonetheless — in joy or sorrow, delirium or anger, depending what transpired up on the giant screens scattered through the downtown area.
Now we know which way it went. Shame on us.

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Saw the recent news on Openright and this leaves quite a bit frustrated, infuriated and angry. While my understanding may be flawed but this is the way I see it.
From what I understand from the news link given is that the labels and the big guys will profit from this new arrangement and not the little guys 😦 Also the consumers would not be able to have and remix that music (hence becoming an artist) for an additional 45 years.
From what I understand as we stand its right now (borrowed from Copyright law in England) is right now 50 years from the date of Original recording .
Copyright in a sound recording expires either (a) 50 years after the recording is made, or (b) if the recording is published during that period then 50 years from the publication, or (c) if during the initial 50 years the recording is played in public or communicated to the public then 50 years from that communication or playing to the public, provided the author of the broadcast is an EEA citizen. Otherwise the duration under the laws of the country of which the author is a national applies, unless such a duration would be longer than offered in UK law, or would be contrary to treaty obligations of the UK in force on 29 October 1993.
(Taken from wikipedia) . Now if one adds the proposed extension to the copyright term it would become 95 years. Who stands to gain, not the commons, nor so much the musician on the street, its the big labels and the rock singers.
Now while its in UK, if such a revision were to take place there is possibility of peer-pressure effects in other developed countries as well.
At some point of time its sure to reflect in newer and more stricter agreements then the TRIPS Agreement (TRIPS PLUS) which as far as India was concerned I felt we were just unprepared to know the nuances of what we were signing (or perhaps we wanted to fall in step with the rest of the world) .
Wouldn't this extension also reflect at some point in time to additional extensions for literature, for additional patent life-term in medicine ?
Few Interesting links :-
While I don't think creation would stop, much of the remixing culture would surely go underground and that would be a sadder state of the world 😦 .
Also I'm sure that I dream of a nightmare but we have seen nightmares coming true if nobody speaks out against them.
Hoping for some more light on the matter, let's fight the good fight 🙂


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Compression stockings come in a variety of sizes, lengths and colours. They're also available with different strengths of compression.
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|Photo: Lemon & Oregano Lamb Chops Recipe
The kitchen (The Home of Delicious Arabic Food Recipes) invites you to try Lemon & Oregano Lamb Chops Recipe. Enjoy the Arabic Cuisine and learn how to make Lemon & Oregano Lamb Chops.
Juicy lamb chops take a trip to the Middle East with a quick herb-and-lemon rub and a tangy cucumber-tahini sauce. Serve with couscous or rice pilaf and a green salad.
4 servings, 2 lamb chops & 3 tablespoons sauce each
Active Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 45 minutes
Freshly grated zest of 2 lemons
1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano or 1 teaspoon dried
1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt, divided
Freshly ground pepper to taste
8 lamb loin chops (1 1/2-1 3/4 pounds total), trimmed
1/4 cup tahini (see Tip)
1/4 cup nonfat plain yogurt, preferably Greek-style
1/4 cup diced seeded cucumber, peeled if desired
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
1-3 tablespoons water
2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
Preheat panggangan to 400°F.
Combine lemon zest, oregano, 3/4 teaspoon salt and pepper in a small bowl. Rub the mixture onto both sides of lamb chops and set aside for at least 10 minutes or refrigerate for up to 1 hour.
Meanwhile, combine tahini, yogurt, cucumber, lemon juice, garlic, parsley and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt in a small bowl. Whisk in enough water to thin the sauce to desired consistency.
Heat oil in a large ovenproof nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add the lamb chops and cook until browned on one side, about 2 minutes. Turn them over and transfer the pan to the oven. Roast until an instant-read thermometer inserted horizontally into a chop registers 135°F for medium-rare, 8 to 14 minutes, depending on thickness. Serve the chops with the tahini sauce.
Tips & Notes
Make Ahead Tip: Prepare sauce (Step 3), cover and refrigerate for up to 3 days. Prepare rub and rub onto lamb chops (Step 2) and refrigerate for up to 1 hour.
Tip: Tahini is a thick paste of ground sesame seeds. Look for it in large supermarkets in the Middle Eastern section or near other nut butters.
Per serving: 284 calories; 17 g fat ( 4 g sat , 8 g mono ); 68 mg cholesterol; 7 g carbohydrates; 0 g added sugars; 25 g protein; 1 g fiber; 429 mg sodium; 432 mg potassium.
Nutrition Bonus: Vitamin C (27% daily value), Zinc (26% dv)
Carbohydrate Servings: 1/2
Exchanges: 1/2 carbohydrate (other), 3 lean meat, 2 fat
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Lawyer: Snowden's Father Invited to Visit Russia
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MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian lawyer for Edward Snowden said Tuesday that he has sent an official invitation to the National Security Agency leaker's father to visit Russia and help his fugitive son decide his next steps.
Lon Snowden needs the invitation to be issued a Russian visa, which the lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, said he hoped would happen in the coming days.
The elder Snowden received the invitation and plans to travel to Russia, Russian state news agencies reported, citing a representative of his lawyer. No date has been set for the trip, but it will happen this month, the reports said.
Edward Snowden is looking forward to his father's visit and once he comes "they will decide together all the questions" about where he will live and what he will do, Kucherena told journalists, adding that he is in touch with the elder Snowden.
Russia granted the younger Snowden temporary asylum last week to help him evade espionage charges in the U.S. His whereabouts in Russia remain unknown, and Kucherena once again refused to say where he was living.
Russia's decision angered the U.S. government and may scuttle President Barack Obama's plans to visit Moscow in September. The White House said Monday that an announcement would be made in the coming days.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow does not understand why Washington is making such an issue over Snowden.
"We had nothing to do with this situation in any way until he appeared in Sheremetyevo (airport), and even afterward we tried in all possible ways to avoid developments that would make this situation anything more than a purely humanitarian issue and about something other than decisions that Snowden had made on his own," Ryabkov is quoted as saying in an interview with the Interfax news agency.


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Four years ago, I walked away from Amazon and a million dollars. I was a twenty-something kid running a billion-dollar team, but I wanted more.
I started Vittana, a non-profit trying to end youth poverty. I wanted to help people like Ana Lizbeth, a mother who dreamed of becoming a programmer. Because of a $713 Vittana Loan, that became possible.
It's so rare that you're given a chance to build something that could really matter. As the idea for Vittana started emerging, it was so clear to me it'd matter. To be given that chance and let it fade away — that'd be morally wrong.
Since launching in 2009, Vittana has helped over 7,000 youth in 12 countries on five continents. Ana Lizbeth doubled her income and has already fully repaid her loan. In fact, the average Vittana graduate triples their earning power and 99 percent repay their loans. This year, we'll be a $5 million organization.
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Justine Tyerman and her mum take a trip and never leave the rest home.
I took my mother for a "walk" to Macetown the other day. She's 95, blind and deaf but she wanted to touch, taste and smell all the things she remembered from 50 years ago when we used to hike the track as part of a summer pilgrimage.
Dementia has stolen her short-term memory, clots to the optic nerves have taken her eyesight and osteoporosis has robbed her of mobility but her memories of Central Otago and our little crib in Arrowtown are so vivid, she still lives there in her mind. It is a far happier place than the recliner chair, bed and bathroom that make up the narrow life she now leads.
Last time I went to visit Mum in her little rest home room in Timaru, I told her all about our recent trek to Macetown. Her face and eyes lit up like an excited child and she said she would love to go back there just one more time.
So we set off very early next day, like we used to when I was young, to avoid the midday heat.
She can barely remember what she had for lunch five minutes ago but her sensorial memories of our expeditions up the Arrow River to the site of the old gold mining ghost town were astonishingly detailed.
She wanted to feel the smooth rocks on her bare feet as we forded the river, taste the tart gooseberries and sweet raspberries growing wild and dusty on the side of the track and smell the pastel-coloured lupins which appear every year from nowhere.
She couldn't see the geckos sunbathing on the warm rocks, the play of light on the golden tussocked hills or the dark shadows cast by the high mountain ranges and deep gorges.
But she remembered the distinctive smell of cold river water on hot schist and the shimmery silver powder of the river silt on her skin.
There were tears in her eyes as she relived the discovery of a horse's skeleton in an old hut near Macetown. The wretched animal must have wandered inside in search of shelter from the snow or rain or sun, and become trapped when the door blew shut. The poor creature would have starved to death standing upright.
Macetown was much as Mum remembered - a peaceful place with remnants of a main street, stone walls and fruit and shelter trees where cottages once stood. Dad used to make a little fire to "boil the billy" for a cup of tea and we ate sandwiches and apples under the trees.
The town was first settled in the early 1860s as a result of the discovery of gold in the Arrow River. At first the rush was for alluvial gold from the river. Later the miners turned their attention to the hills and several quartz mining operations were established. But when the gold ran out, the town slowly died and by the 1930s, Macetown was just a ghost town.
A project completed in 2008 carefully restored an old cottage, bakehouse and quartz-crushing battery, the only known all-metal stamping battery in Otago.
The 24 river crossings Mum remembered so well are now reduced to a handful, thanks to new bridges and a track cut around the hillside - but I didn't tell Mum that. She would have considered that cheating.
And I certainly didn't confess that on the way back from Macetown, we hitched a ride in the lead vehicle of a 4WD club whose members were having huge fun fording the river and negotiating the steep, narrow, former dray track.
In our defence, we were running short of water on a scorching hot summer day so accepting a ride was the sensible thing to do - and the gremlins had obviously been playing with my memory too because the track seemed longer, steeper, dustier and hotter than when I was a youngster. So much for that song about Christmas trees being tall when we were small and small when we were tall.
At the end of the day, we sat outside a lovely cafe in Arrowtown in our tramping gear, drank ice-cold lager and demolished a plate of hot chips - Mum would have loved that.
In her mind, our crib is still there, on the hill in Arrowtown with a view from the kitchen window of the lopsided crown on the Crown Range - there's a smart new holiday house there now but she didn't need to know that.
As we pitched our little tent at the upmarket camping ground with its five-star kitchen and ablution facilities, I struggled to recapture the fierce sense of ownership I have always felt for Arrowtown. But when we left two days later, I felt like a visitor, an outsider. I didn't belong there anymore.
Then all of a sudden, rather than feeling sorry for Mum, I had an overwhelming sense of peace about her. She still lives there - and I don't.
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Fluvanna County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies
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More than 25 family history books and articles have been published about Fluvanna County's families.
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Fluvanna County, Virginia Genealogy General Resources[edit | edit source]
As of November 2010, a query for individuals born in Fluvanna, Virginia at World Connect, results in more than 20,000 entries.
Fluvanna County, Virginia Surnames (courtesy: Linkpendium) contains links to more than 20 online resources about this county's families, including compiled genealogies.
Fluvanna County, Virginia Genealogy Books and Articles[edit | edit source]
It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:
- Locate publications about direct ancestors
- Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
- Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors]
- [Alford] James, Jessamine Bland. Family Records of Andrew Hunter of Louisa County, Virginia, and Jacob Alford of Garrard County, Kentucky, and Charles Alford of Garrard Co., Ky.: Copied from Court Records, Bibles, and Tombstones. MSS., donated in 1958, FHL Collection
- [Allen] Obert, Isabelle Board, Donald Dougherty, and Penelope Woodford. The Allen Family of Albemarle and Fluvanna. Baltimore, Maryland: Margaret Isabelle Board Obert, 1999. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library - free; FHL Book 929.273 AL53o.
- [Ashley] See Johnson.
- [Bain] Bain, Ethel M. The Bain Family: Ancestors and Descendants of Peter Bain of Tennessee, 1775-1980. San Angelo, Texas: E.M. Bain, 1980. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library - free; FHL Fiche 6117098.
- [Bain] Bain, Ethel M. The Bain Family, 1775-1980: Revised and Updated 1981-1998. Grand Junction, Colo.: E.B. Kennamer, 1998. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library - free; FHL Collection
- [Baskett] Martin, John Robert. Valentine Martin of Cumberland County, Virginia Also a Short Sketch of the Family of Rev. William Baskett of Fluvanna County, Virginia. Typescript. FHL Book 929.273 M363v.
- [Baskett] Ward, Rebecca Ann Eastman. The Baskett Family: Including the Families of Christie, Ford, Martin and Shepherd. Spokane, Wash.: R. Ward, 1992. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library - free; FHL Film 1750735 Item 7
- [Beckner] Sanchez, Margaret Tuttle. Documented American Lineage of Viola Culver Tuttle. Provo, Utah: M.S. Tuttle, 1988. FHL Collection
- [Bernard] Macy, E.E. Data Assembled on the Bernard Family for Archibald F. Bennett, Having Particular Reference to that Branch Located in Fluvanna Co., Va. MSS., 1944, FHL Film 6018101.
- [Bernard] Bernard, William Dallas and Pauline K. Skinner. The John Bernard and Mary Abney Genealogy, Fluvanna County, Virginia. Lascassas, Tennessee: W.D. Bernard, 1975. FHL Book 929.273 B456bw.
- [Bugg] Brochu, Francis Louis. The Buggs of Big Albemarle County, Virginia: In Three Parts. 3 vols. Salem, Virginia: F.L. Brochu, 1995. FHL Collection.
- [Cary] Meade, William. Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia. 2 vols. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co., 1861. Digital versions at Internet Archive: Vol. I and Vol. II - free.
- [Cary] Harrison, Fairfax. The Virginia Carys. New York: De Vinne Press, 1919. Digital version at Internet Archive - free; FHL Film 1011836 Item 3.
- [Cheatham] Dennstedt, Alberta Marjorie. "The Cheatham Family of Colonial Virginia," in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 27, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1983):163-173; Vol. 27, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1983):273-279; Vol. 28, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1984):38-43; Vol. 28, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1984):102-112; Vol. 28, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1984):209-216; Vol. 28, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1984):293-297; Vol. 29, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1985):32-40; Vol. 29, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1985):123-127; Vol. 29, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1985):179-185; Vol. 29, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1985):262-265; Vol. 30, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1986):17-23; Vol. 30, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1986):99-104. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 27 (1983)-v. 30 (1986).
- [Claxton] Norris, George W. and Claxton Family Historical Committee. Henry Claxton and Descendants, 1790-1980. Warner Robins, Georgia: Claxton Family Historical Committee, 1982. FHL Collection
- [Claxton] Claxton, Brazle Hubert, James T. Martin, George W. Norris, and Claxton Family Historical Committee. Henry Claxton and Descendants, 1980-1990. Utica, Kentucky: McDowell Publications, 1992. FHL Collection
- [Cocke] "Genealogy of the Cocke Family in Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Jan. 1896):282-292, 340; Vol. 3, No. 4 (Apr. 1896):405-414; Vol. 4, No. 1 (Jul. 1896):86-96; Vol. 4, No. 2 (Oct. 1896):212-217; Vol. 4, No. 3 (Jan. 1897):322-332, 334; Vol. 4, No. 4 (Apr. 1897):431-450; Vol. 5, No. 1 (Jul. 1897):71-89; Vol. 5, No. 2 (Oct. 1897):181-198; Vol. 5, No. 3 (Jan. 1898):303-327; Vol. 5, No. 4 (Apr. 1898):449. Digitized by JSTOR - free.
- [Duncan] Dobson, Mary Ann Duncan. Duncan Research Files of Mary Ann (Duncan) Dobson. MSS. 1975-1999. FHL Film 795592 Item 6 Includes Fluvanna County.
- [Harlow] King, Martha Eheart. Harlow - Harlowe: Descendants of Henry Martin and Mary Elizabeth (Hawley) Harlow. Manassas, Va.: M.E. King, 1980. FHL Book 929.273 H227k.
- [Henley] Small, Deborah Ann Kraemer. Osborn--Randolph--Henley--Bland Family Group Sheets. MSS., FHL Collection
- [Johnson] Greenlee, Martha Sansom. Some Indiana and Kentucky Descendants of Dilmus Johnson, Virginia Soldier of the Revolution: Including Allied Lines Ashley, Pace, Bowden, Gray, Bradley, Porter and Descendants of Margaret E. Johnson, Wife of Benjamin Darby Sansom. MSS., FHL Collection; another copy FHL Collection
- [Lowry] Koetting, Jerome D. and Patricia G. Lowery Koetting. Descendants of James Lowry of Caldwell County, Kentucky. Rio Rancho, New Mexico: J.D. & P.G.L. Koetting, 1996. FHL Collection
- [Mayo] Harter, Mrs. Bert. "James Mayo (1711-1776) of Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1963):51-64. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 7 (1963).
- [Mayo] Mayo, Charles Edward. Joseph Mayo, 2nd Lt., Fluvanna, Va., Patriot: A Genealogy and Family History, 1620 to 2001. Prichard, West Virginia: C.E. Mayo, 2001. FHL Book 929.273 M454mc.
- [Moore] Moore, Charles R. The Moore Family of Central Virginia: Covering the Counties of Albeharle, Amherst, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Fluvanna, Louisa, Nelson, and Orange, Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia: C.R. Moore, 1985. FHL Book 929.273 A1 no. 6921
- [Osborne] See Henley.
- [Page] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. Page Family Records in Virginia Counties. 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 1982-2006. FHL Book 929.273 P141rdc v. 2 [Fluvanna County appears in Vol. 2 Part 2]
- [Page] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. The Page Family in Virginia Personal Property Taxes (1782-1850). 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 2002. FHL Book 929.273 P141rd v. 1-2 [Fluvanna County appears in Vol. 1]
- [Perkins] Perkins, William Robertson. Papers 1929-1943. Section 2. MSS. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
- [Quarles] Sammis, Lucetta Crawford and John H. Tennent. "James Quarles and Descendants," Virginia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 4 (1977):130-134; Vol. 16, No. 2 (1978):59-63; Vol. 16, No. 3 (1978):86-92; Vol. 16, No. 4 (1978):140-144. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
- [Smithson] Kennedy, Marvin S. John Smithson Pedigree. MSS., FHL Collection
- [Snead] Hatcher, William E. The Sneads of Fluvanna. Fork Union, Va.: Sneads of Fluvanna, 1959. FHL Book 929.273 Sn21h 1959; digital version at Ancestry ($).
- [Strange] Alloway, Harold Jay. The Alloway History of a Strange Family. Derby, Kansas: H.J. Alloway, 1994. FHL Collection
- [Toney] Taylor, George Earl. A Brief Visit with the Old Folks. La Grange, Illinois: Taylor, 1975. FHL Collection
- [Westbrooks] Goodwin, Sarah Jones, Rutherford County Historical Society (Murfreesboro, Tn.), Estelle Jones Potts, and Leoma Smotherman Smotherman. Westbrooks-Williams and Related Smothermans of Rutherford County, Tennessee: With Histories of Midland Community, Oak Grove School, Old Leb Church. Murfreesboro, Tenn.: Rutherford County Historical Society, 1984. FHL Collection
- [Williamson] Harter, Mrs. Bert. "The Williamson Family," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1963):163-166. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 7 (1963).
- [Wilson] Shinn, Josiah Hazen. Pioneers and Makers of Arkansas. Little Rock, Ark.: Democrat Printing and Lithographing Co., 1908. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.
- [Winks] Dozier, Rebecca Leach. The Winks' Family of England and Fluvanna County, Va., 1700-1990. Augusta, Ga.: R.L. Dozier, [1991?]. Digital version at FamilySearch Digital Library - free; FHL Book 929.273 W729d.
- [Wood] Bayne, Margaret Williams. The Wood Family of Fluvanna County, Virginia, 1795-1969. Norfolk, Va.: M.W. Bayne, 1984. FHL Book 929.273 W85bm.
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Hi Archinect,
My thesis project has been keeping me from live blogging lately, but I wanted to share some clips of my thesis work in progress. I'm calling the project "Drawn out: performances of mundane inhabitation."
It's not a design project, but an essay in the form of a video, exploring the reciprocal relationship between the built environment and our bodily states and experience. How do our surroundings draw out responses and actions from us in our everyday lives, and vice versa? How can video be used to show our immersion or extension in our built environment, rather than objectified views of buildings as designed objects (and of people as "entourage" or props)?
The video's techniques, certainly, are subjective. The project isn't aiming to be scientific or prescriptive; it's not as if I'm developing techniques that I think can be universally used to study or design the built environment. It's been an experiment, and a way for me to think about some questions that interest me and to work on them through aesthetic and representational techniques. I'm extremely grateful to my thesis advisors, Danielle Etzler and K. Michael Hays, for being so supportive and constructive throughout this process, which really has been about asking questions and working towards answers, rather than about preparing answers that I already know.
The video is to be projected across three screens, as below, so the clips have an extreme aspect ratio that makes them tiny online. In the actual presentation the aim is to have a dialog between the content on each of the screens, at times, and at other times to make use of the effect of peripheral vision. Like this:
Thanks for reading!
P.S. Though it's probably obvious, just to add that this isn't a 'typical' GSD M.Arch.I thesis project. Actually, there is no 'typical,' as every project is so different in its questions and format. But a more common type of project is one that asks a question that is addressed through designing a building (or something in the built environment at a larger or smaller scale) and to develop the thesis through a range of artifacts including models, drawings, renderings, and videos. I am always amazed at the work my classmates do, and our small crop of January thesis projects includes a range of design and non-design projects. As they post their projects online over the coming weeks I'll try to include their links at my blog in case you'd like to see.
P.P.S. I'll still be around as a school blogger through May 2013! Though I chose to do my thesis now, I have one more semester to go with a few classes and other things to finish up.
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How can you steal something that wos never there? I have spent most of my life listening to live music, my ears are usually left ringing on a Monday morning (quite regularly), to acheive the same levels in my house, it seems it would be cheaper to just hire the band, I think you are all talking pish! I hate audiophiles, not because Iam jealous of what they own, but becuase of the pure pish they talk. Come down to the real world of music and domestic Hi-Fi, if you never hear it, you will never miss it will you? I hear you all waxing lyrical over Naim, Linn, Krell, Wadia, etc etc, 90 percent of the world will never be able to afford the hardware they sell, should they just give up on Hi-Fi and take up mountain biking or something else? NO, they shouldnt, because back in the real world, where the Mission 760i`s and Mordaunt Short Ms10`s live, there is some really really good hi-fi at large... and bollox to your high end nonsense, I buy Hi-Fi so I can listen to my music, I dont buy music so I can listen to my Hi-Fi. The Nad 3020 took the audiophile world by its Nads in the 80s, the Pioneer A400 took a bite in the 90s, everynow and then, audiophile equipment will be embarrassed by peasants, when this happens, it should be celebrated, not nocked and dissed, I have listened to some pretty high end Hi-Fi in my day of building my budget priced Hi-Fi in the listening rooms of the RETAILERS (that is another word for salesmen, well trustworthy yeah) and no, I could not afford the cables you needed to run them let alone the components, can I live without them? Is my budget Hifi awsome (which incedently includes a pair of 20 year old Mordaunt Short MS 10s which I have never been able to depart with despite having a rather larger budget to play with nowadays) HELL YEAH! If I won the lottery, I would re-commission the Nad 3020, Mission Cyrus One and Two, and the Pioneer A400 along with some of those crappy 80s mini speakers you talked about, and I bet they could shake up some of 2011s offerings all over again. Infact....if you can afford such awsome Hi-Fi, you obviously have money to throw away, so why dont you try that? I live in a terraced house, and I dont think the kind of speakers you say I should own would fit, and if they did, the neighbours would probably shoot me.
Who Stole The Bass? / No One Stole The Bass
When compiling the recommended listing, performance parameters are weighted equally: midrange verisimilitude has to be counted as equally important as the ability to produce well-focused stereo imaging; a clean, uncolored high end is no more or no less important than the ability to provide thunderous levels of low bass. If all loudspeaker designers aim at providing a complete performance package, then there should be very little disagreement about what models to recommend. But when a designer has chosen, instead, to sacrifice one area of performance in order either to push the others as far as possible with the technology at hand, or, with a low-priced model, to allow more of the limited resources to be concentrated where he thinks appropriate, this brings taste into the equation. To some listeners, on some kinds of music, the deficiency will be unimportant; others will argue that such a sacrifice denies the loudspeaker any chance of producing a high-end sound, no matter how good it is in other areas.
We present, therefore, a Minority Report on loudspeakers from AHC to accompany this issue's "Recommended Components."---JA
by Anthony H. Cordesman
A reviewer is supposed to be reasonably catholic in his or her taste. The point of a good review is not to impose one's personal taste on the reader, but rather to judge in terms of a range of accepted value, and to communicate enough information to the reader that the review can act as a guide in letting the reader make his or her own decision. Accordingly, I tend to be more tolerant in reviewing audio equipment than I am in choosing what I like to listen to---although I make no claims for excessive tolerance, even as a reviewer.
I also fully accept the fact that no loudspeaker is perfect. Let's face it---no loudspeaker does more than approximate the sound of live music, and all loudspeakers involve audible compromises with reality. Regardless of whether a speaker costs $50 or $50,000, the loudspeaker designer is always forced to make tradeoffs, and these tradeoffs are all too audible.
For example, there is no right pattern of dispersion. Limited side- and rear-wall reflection means more accurate imaging, but only in a comparatively narrow listening area. Most speakers have only a comparatively flat response within a relatively limited dynamic range. Many speakers only perform best at relatively moderate listening levels and have trouble with both soft and loud passages.
Drivers have to be chosen with careful compromises in terms of dynamic range and loudness limits, distortion, and bandwidth. Crossovers involve complex tradeoffs between phase accuracy and amplitude accuracy, and so on. No matter how good the illusion of music, any experienced audiophile will always be aware that something is missing or unnatural.
As a result, I tend to be only moderately critical when reviewing loudspeakers with restricted dynamic range and bass. Given all the tradeoffs that speaker designers must make, it is still possible to make a loudspeaker with a midrange good enough to partially compensate for the fact that it will not play loud or low. At a given price point, such a speaker may even be the speaker of choice, many listening rooms either being too small for a speaker with deep bass, or having other limitations.


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redsky necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 67 diseños de 35 diseñadores freelance.
We need modern, corporate and professional logo that we'll use for a number of things. Initially we need it for our website but eventually we'll use it for business cards, letterhead and brochure.
We understand how valuable communications is with these contests and will be prompt with feedback and replies to questions.
Red Sky IT Solutions
We need a modern, corporate and professional logo that we'll use for a number of things. Initially we need it for our website but eventually we'll use it for business cards, letterhead and brochures.
Red Sky IT Solutions is sort of going through a transformation at the moment, the current website won't give you much direction. My business partner and I run a small but growing consulting company, we build websites using a content management system (Drupal) for small and medium sized businesses. Our angle is putting clients in control of their website with the CMS and educating them on SEO.
I don't want to sway any creative ideas too much but here are some ideas I've
considered in the past. Please don't feel too constrained by these
ideas. I've visualized having the words "Red Sky" in a
larger more prominent font than the words "IT Solutions". I cannot
think how you you could depict a Red Sky in a logo but it might be
interesting. My only fear of that is that the result would end
up being a "feel good sunshiny logo" - not something I want. Think "Corporate", not Retirement home :)
We'd like the winner to provide a vector image, the original source file, preferably Adobe Illustrator.
- Professional Image
- Clean
- Probably on a white background for versatility but a colored background might be interesting.
- cartoony
- too busy
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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Guys, it's election season — obvious, I know, right? But this is important when it comes to "The Voice" because tonight's show was cut short because of the third and final presidential debate.
Now, this is a space free of any politics (a safe place, if you will) but I have to hammer this home: IT IS SO IMPORTANT YOU VOTE…for your favorite singers on "The Voice." But, right now we're still wrapping up the battles, and audience votes won't count just yet, but they will. So yeah, voting is important.
New Orleans native Alexis Marceaux and second-time Voice-er Daniel Rosa were the first battle of the night, with Adam Lambert's "Whataya Want From Me."
Daniel found the notes to be scary, and Alexis, with her classical training was over-enunciating words, which is a no-no in rock, Rob Thomas said. (As if the song title wasn't enough of a giveaway that proper diction can get thrown right out the damn window when it comes to music.)
But they both brought it; both have a pleasant, raw raspiness to their voice. Alexis soared on the notes, but Daniel went deep, and I think he's strongest in his lower register. Cee Lo went with Daniel because he felt more connected to his flaws.
Nicole Nelson went up against Brandon Mahone with the Motown classic "Ain't No Mountain High," which is a nice change of pace for the show's battles, because it's actually duet. Still, this seemed like a mismatch — on the surface, they're two soulful singers whose voices back all the power of Motown. But, she's 34 and has been a semi-professional singer for years, and he's in high school.
Still, it was a good show. Brandon over-performed a bit in his physicality, while Nicole seemed to rest on her laurels a bit. Adam went with Nicole, who was lauded by other coaches like Christina for her consistency.
NBC, THIS MADNESS MUST END. We had six battles tonight, and three were clipped to all hell. For recap sake, here you go:
Adam paired up Loren Allred and Brian Scartocci with Lady Antebellum's "Need You Now," and chose Loren to stick around.
He also paired up Joe Kirkland with Samuel Mouton to sing "You Get What You Give" by the Zac Brown Band, and then saved Joe, sending Samuel home.
Blake Shelton (sadly the only mention this beautiful man gets tonight) paired up Hey Monday frontwoman Cassadee Pope and Ryan Jirovec with Gavin DeGraw's "Not Over You," and picked Cassadee to move on.
And that is literally all I know about these battles and contestants. You can thank NBC for that.
Christina put together Devyn DeLoera and MarissaAnn (who literally look and sound exactly the same but one's 15 and one's 20) with R&B hit "Free Your Mind." I'll let you all bask in the 90s glory that is En Vogue for a second here …
This song is brash, loud, unforgiving, and these girls were so cute and sweet and, as Christina put it, "squeaky clean." While I disagree with Billie Joe Armstrong that this is a "rock song; if you accidentally spit on us it's OK," I was worried that these two couldn't handle this raw of a song. Example: "I'm 15, but I have emotions," said whichever one is 15 years old.
But when they took the stage, Devyn and MarissaAnn were fierceness embodied. Christina went with Devyn, but Blake picked MarissaAnn with a steal. "Come give me a hug!" he said, and MarissaAnn went to Christina's arms first. Awkwardddd.
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With the last night of battles just a day away, Adam has filled his entire team, while Blake and Cee Lo have one spot left each. However, Christina has a spot AND a steal left, so we shall see how this plays out. Avery Wilson, Chevonne, Adriana Louise, Jordan Pruitt, Kelly Crapa and Michaela Paige all have yet to battle it out.


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Making calls doesn't even register in the top 10 uses of our smartphones, a new survey has found.
27 per cent of Brits use their phones for their original purpose less than once a week according to the poll, which sees phone calls listed in 11th place, with just 41 per cent of those asked using their smartphone to talk every day. The Top 10 uses are:


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South Korea's won led a weekly advance in Asian currencies as signs of an improvement in the global economy brightened the outlook for the region's exports and spurred demand for emerging market assets.
The Bloomberg-JPMorgan Asia Dollar Index, which tracks the region's most active currencies, rose 0.2 percent this week and touched 117.87 Friday, the highest level since February. The won completed its best week of the month and the yuan had an 11th week of gains, the longest winning streak since March 2008. India's rupee fell for a second week as the government reported this year's fastest inflation.
China's factory production, retail sales and fixed-asset investment accelerated last month, data showed Friday. Retail sales in the US, the world's biggest economy, increased 1.1 percent last month while housing starts climbed 15 percent to a four-year high, reports showed this week.
Taiwan's dollar climbed 0.3 percent from a week ago to NT$29.286, while the won appreciated 0.7 percent this week to 1,103.45 per US dollar in Seoul, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The yuan rose 0.22 percent from Oct. 12 to 6.2535 after touching a 19-year high of 6.2446 Friday.
The won touched 1,102.50 on Wednesday, the strongest level since Oct. 31 last year. South Korea's economy probably expanded 1.7 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, the least in three years, a Bloomberg survey showed before data next week.
The yuan has extended its rebound from this year's low of 6.3967 on July 25 to 2.3 percent after data pointed to an improvement in the world's second-largest economy.
"We believe China's economy has bottomed out in August or September," said Tommy Ong (王良亨), a Hong Kong-based senior vice-president of treasury and markets at DBS Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd.
The rupee lost 1.9 percent from Oct. 12 to close at 53.835 per US dollar amid concern faster inflation will erode returns from local assets. India.
Elsewhere, the Malaysian ringgit rose 0.2 percent this week to 3.0495 per dollar. Indonesia's rupiah fell 0.1 percent to 9,595 from last week's 9,588, prices from local banks compiled by Bloomberg show. The currency reached 9,657 on Oct. 11, the weakest level since October 2009. The Philippines peso appreciated 0.1 percent to 41.385. Vietnam's dong climbed 0.1 percent from a week ago to 20,843.
The yen fell the most in nine weeks versus the US dollar as speculation the Bank of Japan will boost monetary stimulus sapped demand for the nation's assets as a haven.
The Japanese currency weakened versus all but one of its 16 most-traded counterparts on the better-than-expected US figures. The yen depreciated 1.1 percent to ¥79.32 against the US dollar this week, reaching ¥79.47, its lowest level since Aug. 21. The Japanese currency decreased 1.6 percent to ¥103.28 per euro after touching ¥104.14, its most depressed level since May 8. The euro added 0.6 percent to US$1.3024.
The euro declined against the US dollar Friday after Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said his nation does not feel any pressure to ask for a bailout, fueling concern the crisis will be prolonged.
The Dollar Index, which measures the currency against the euro, yen, pound, Swiss franc, Canadian dollar and Swedish krona, ended the week little changed at 79.626, after touching the lowest level since Sept. 18.


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OK, so in hindsight, the previous post didn't seem very miraculous at all did it? I revealed I nag, my husband could be a jerk, and I am far from the perfect Christian…..I give up when I get frustrated or confused by God. Nothing at all miraculous in that post.
Except……. that God continued to work, when I had washed my hands of all of it, threw in the towel, and said "NO MORE".
That was Sunday.
No more discussions. No more praying about it. No more nagging.
And then that very Thursday, out of the blue, my husband called me from work at 9:45 in the morning. He never calls me at work, he can't! So, my thoughts go immediately to "Oh no, he's lost his job again!" (Yes, I live in fear apparently, I already said I'm not perfect.)
I answer quickly and he immediately starts talking, like we'd been in this long conversation already, and he hadn't just called me from work at 9:45 in the morning.
"God showed me a brand new baby girl."
"God showed me a brand new baby girl. Brand new…..so new in fact, I don't even know if she's born or not."
Complete silence…..what do I say to that?
"She isn't white. I don't think she's all black, but she's definitely not white."
I almost dropped the phone. Instead, the tears well up in my eyes so much the kitchen window is now completely blurry.
You see……I've seen the same thing. I've never breathed a word of this to ANYONE except my Mom, because, like I said before, I tell her everything. A baby girl. Not white. That's it. And I didn't know what to do with that, you can't tell people that because people think you've gone insane. So instead, you write it in your journal…..or call your Mom, because you can tell her anything and she doesn't think you're insane.
We didn't talk about it much when he got home, I was frankly afraid I'd dreamed the entire thing. But, he did share it with Austin because Austin gets that sort of thing too. He's good like that.
I did ask him what he thought we should do now. Do we foster? Where is this baby going to come from? And he said he had no idea, I guess we'll pray about it. But I'm NOT nagging, and I'm NOT discussing.
So, Friday, Mike comes home from work very anxious, excited, but anxious. And he tells me that he's worried now. "I just feel like she's here and we're not there and she needs us! We need to hurry!"
Yes, I cried again. Don't hate.
But, I still have ONE large obstacle to overcome: I am licensed through the State for in-home child care and I cannot do both. I cannot foster and work at the same time, it's against the rules and I know this. But I'm proceeding with fostering because I know this is what God has now placed on BOTH of our hearts!
So, I emailed my caseworker and told her what we were looking at doing and I know already, I cannot do that, it's against the rules. So, as I'm typing this letter, I pray, "Lord, if she comes back and says YES, then I'll know it's You and I'm on the right path. But, if she says NO, then I'll know it isn't what You want us to do, and I'll stop." And I send the email terrified of the answer.
Within 15 minutes, she called me. She begins immediately with, "DHS has a policy about child care and fostering, you cannot do both." OK, so there's my answer I guess…..I got it wrong. Big shock. But then, she continues on, "But we do it on a case by case basis, and only kinship care." (meaning we have to know them, or be related to them, or know of someone that knows of someone, etc. It's very muddy water there.) "But, take the classes. Go ahead and take the classes just in case. Take those classes in case you need them and then we'll re-evaluate."
Wait. So is that my YES or is that my NO? I'm confused. So I do what all confused people do: call their Mom. My wise and wonderful Mom listens to all of it and I ask her the same thing…..is that YES or NO? What do I do with that? And she tells me, because she is wise and wonderful……"You take the classes and when you are finished with the classes, then you wait for God to lead your next step. You don't have the answer because He's leading you one step at a time. You take those classes and you pray!"
I emailed the lady at Cherokee Nations about fostering. Mike's Cherokee and so are the kids.
And Saturday, our packet came in.
A large stack of papers to fill out. Doctor visits to make. Fingerprinting to have done.
And peace.
God is trying to lead us stubborn people and we continue to make it awfully hard on Him. But, He changed my husband's heart. And He's teaching me patience.
And we're on our way to fostering because God called us to do that now.
Now that's a miracle post!


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Best Picture: "Brown Goes to the Conference Committee." The spectacle of a governor testifying in front of a legislative committee is a rare one -- it hadn't been done in decades -- and Brown pulled it off. The exchange may have gotten him no closer to an agreement, but it laid bare the legislative Republicans' unwillingness to bargain at all. And it was highly entertaining. Video is here.
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Best Director: Anne Gust Brown. The governor's team, with his wife as indispensable member, has created a series of high-impact moments (like the legislative appearance) and announcements (such as cutting back on cell phones and cars for state workers). The only question is: does team Brown have a third act for this movie?
Best Actress: California cities and local redevelopment agencies. Emoting more forcefully than even Natalie Portman in Black Swan, these local governments are crying oceans of tears about the horrors that will ensue if redevelopment is ended. They may not have convinced anyone who understands policy (redevelopment doesn't produce much in the way of jobs and shifts schools costs to the state), but one has to admire their commitment to the role of victim.
Best Screenplay. Grover Norquist. The anti-tax powerhouse from Washington DC writes the script -- no tax increases, no ballot measures on tax increases. Legislative Republicans, who took a pledge enforced by Norquist, simply mouth his words.
Best Supporting Actor: Sutter Brown. The governor's dog, a Corgi, is a scenery-chewing ham, but he's gotten nothing but good press. He also distracts from the fact that his master is ducking, at least for now, the kind of constitutional reforms necessary if California is ever going to fix its budget.


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To which god do you pray?
Well, that was the most boring five minutes of my entire life - I just returned from your site. I now understand why you came to this site in search of some enlightenment. The only 'mercy' I felt was on my clicking the "close" button as I went out.
Did Peter write his letters to the church in Greek or Hebrew?
The History Channel has a series called, Who Wrote the Bible. Their so-called experts say it is improbable that Peter wrote his letters at all, since he was not learned and most likely did not know how to write in Greek. They say that he most likely dictated his letter to a scribe. In their eyes, they discount the whole notion that Peter wrote the letters at all.
My question is, what say you on this matter?
(I don't think it quite relevant because we do not know for sure if it was written in Hebrew and translated to Greek. Who really knows. There is no hard evidence either way. Hence, we come back to reason vs faith.)


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Some of the jewels of the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection are featured in this exhibition, which explores the birth of modern drawing practice during the Italian Renaissance (1480–1550). During this period, drawing transitioned from a slavish part of the design process to an esteemed and independent activity.
Drawing in Venice and the Veneto
Venetian drawing sought pictorial effects through fragmented forms, depictions of light and shade, and a concentration on atmosphere over precise detail. Venetian draftsmen popularized blue-colored paper, which provided a useful midtone for such effects. A tradition emerged of small, meticulous drawings made in pen and ink or with a fine brush. Later, black chalk was adopted, allowing broad forms and intense contrast, a good match for the blue paper.
Andrea Previtali was a pupil of Venetian artist Giovanni Bellini, whose drawings Fortitude and Standing Man Wearing a Turban are also on view in the exhibition.
This is a preparatory study for an altarpiece in the church dedicated to Saint Zeno in Verona, Italy (see images on Wikipedia). The altarpiece was remarkable for its unification of figures, frame, and architecture. In this preparatory study for the left panel, a column is visible at right and a base at left.
With one hand raised in blessing and the other holding a celestial orb, God the Father looks out from among clouds in this drawing by Venetian artist Vittore Carpaccio.
This intensely atmospheric drawing was made in preparation for a figure in Savoldo's altarpiece in the church of Santa Maria in Verona. Savoldo also used it in another painting depicting only Saint Paul.
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In both Florence and Rome, drawing became a central activity in every artist's studio. Making sketches on paper was a vital component of artists' training and of every step in the creative process toward making paintings and sculpture.
One of the most influential draftsmen of the Florentine Renaissance, Andrea del Sarto here rapidly threw down figures on the page. In two parallel sketches he studied a youth with a book standing behind a balustrade, particularly examining the positions of the arms.
This drawing, a study of a figure for a print, was created near the end of Raphael's short life (he died at age 37).
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I have been using Matlab Java Virtual Machine (Java 1.6.0_27-b07 with Sun Microsystems Inc. Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM mixed mode) for the past 2 years to login to an https site to look for high school teaching substitute job postings, and accept jobs that I would want. Everything was working great until a couple of months ago. I started getting an error when I ran the program. I looked deeper and saw that I was still able to securely log into the site, but when I went to the job search page, it read:
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The problem is that http://www.aesoponline.com/login.asp is not the page I want to go to. When I use any browser to go to the search page, I get the correct page and there is no "Object Moved" error.
I have read this may happen if the server thinks you are not a normal browser (an automated computer program trying to access the site). So I have tried adding:
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to make the server think it is a browser. But this did not help.
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to see if it would redirect, but this also did not work.
The strange part is that this all of a sudden started happening a couple months ago, when it worked fine for 2 years before that.
I should mention I am using Matlab because I need to use the image proccessing toolbox because a captcha is used when I accept jobs.
I would appreciate any help I can get. Thanks in advance!
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Four Louisiana men were found guilty of poaching Iowa deer from a case that started when someone made a call to the Turn in Poachers hotline.
The investigation began in late November 2011 when the Kansas Wildlife and Parks Department received a TIP call from a concerned citizen about the activities of these men. The information led authorities to possible illegal activity in Iowa. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources received a TIP call about illegal deer activity around the same time that linked the two cases together.
"These men came to Iowa specifically to road hunt trophy bucks during the rut," said Deb Howe, state conservation officer for the Iowa DNR. "They did not have any licenses or tags to hunt in Iowa during the time they were here."
Michael Fralick, of Ponchatoula, La., was convicted on all 32 counts of deer hunting violations in four southwest Iowa counties. Fralick was assessed $6,123.90 in fines and court costs, forfeited two rifles and received a five year license suspension. He was ordered to pay $22,500 in civil damages.
James Moore, of Ponchatoula, La., pleaded guilty to discharge firearm from roadway, having a loaded gun in vehicle, failure to tag deer, illegal method of take in Adams County, Iowa, and was fined $604.50. He also pleaded guilty to two counts unlawful transportation/possession of whitetail deer, no valid non-resident hunting license, no valid non-resident any-sex deer license, no habitat fee, illegal method of take in Montgomery County, Iowa, and was assessed $1,688.50 total fines and court costs. Moore received a five year license suspension and was ordered to pay $10,000 in civil damages.
Moore was in possession of an illegal deer in Oklahoma when he was served with the Iowa citations by officials in Oklahoma.
Stanley Russel, of Roseland La., and William "Heath" Chambliss, of Kentwood, La., were both found guilty in Montgomery County, Iowa, of no valid non-resident hunting license, no valid non-resident any sex deer license, no valid non-resident antlerless deer license (required) and no habitat fee. Their fines and court costs totaled $1,433.40 each and they received a two year license suspension.
The four men pleaded guilty to various wildlife crimes in Kansas as well.
These convictions were the result of a 10 month investigation by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Bureau, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Louisiana Department of Game & Fish, the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.
Information received through the TIP hotline in both Iowa and Kansas was critical in this investigation. If you have information on wildlife crimes please call TIP of Iowa at 1-800-532-2020 you can remain anonymous.


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After five straight years of recession, Greece greets 2013 with an economy set to further contract. Unemployment has increased 13% in the past year, reaching 26%. The largest increase has taken place in the age group 20-24; 55% of people aged between 15 and 24 can't find work.
Just before this Christmas, the Greek finance minister admitted that despite being the recipient of €240 billion in European Union and International Monetary Fund rescue funds – the biggest bailout in global history – Greece is still in danger of default on its massive debt. About a month ago, The IMF's top economist acknowledged that IMF policies for Greece and other European economies were not appropriate since they were based on forecasts that vastly underestimated how government austerity efforts would undermine social and economic prosperity.
Presently, a quarter of the Greek population is living in poverty – a proportion worse than Iran's or Mexico's. (Eurostat) And with taxes rising, the minimum wage falling, and social welfare being withdrawn, it's hard to see a bright side. As a result, many Greeks feel depressed, helpless, and angry. Worse, many of these individuals are sacrificing the environment in their efforts to survive. National Public Radio reported that as fuel prices have shot up, people have turned to harvesting wood, even burning furniture to keep warm, leading to deforestation, worsened air pollution, and related lung ailments. The Institute of Environmental Research and Sustainable Development measured harmful micro-particle concentration – particles released in the atmosphere through fireplaces – in the atmosphere of larger Greek cities to have doubled this winter.
A part of the population attributes this economic crisis to a deeper social and cultural crisis; the crisis of badly applied capitalism combined with disappearing values and traditions.
The eco-community of Spithari (courtesy of Spithari)
But the good news is that some of these Greeks are coming to terms with the collapse of the failing social and political system. They are taking matters into their own hands and addressing crucial issues through grassroots activism and local collective action. Signs of lifestyle transformation are starting to appear, integrating both new technologies and traditional values.
Greece has had a history of social movements concentrating on what we now refer to as social sustainability, with most of these developing after the turbulent years of the civil war of 1946-1949 and the dictatorship of 1967-1974.
Strong political action remained within Greek society even after the restoration of democracy. Most of this activity was developed in squats of unused public buildings, renamed "free spaces", which were colored by the ideology of anarchism and later social ecology. These squats were the first places Greeks would try to escape modern societal norms, where citizens would create, share and live in communities. These squats acted as beehives for participatory processes, involvement in the commons and the promotion of alternative living.
Presently more people are searching for alternative lifestyles to the ones promoted by the capitalist consumer model so fondly followed by Greek society during the last 20 years. Young Greeks, many with postgraduate university education, found themselves unemployed and unable to support themselves. Some immigrated to northern European countries, others remain frustrated and some, instead of being angry and helpless, chose to actively change their lifestyle.
Diverse small collectives are spreading across Greece, mainly ecological communities in rural areas. Contemporary ideas of sustainable living and ethical consumption are being woven into old-style economy and self-sufficiency. This bottom-up transition is pointing to the need for a new model of economy and uncovering the potential for cultural change towards true participatory democracy, equality, and ethical living.
On a hill above Marathon in Attica is situated a transitional eco-community called Spithari (or "Waking Life" in English). Its members, mostly engineers, met during the protests of 2011 and soon realized they shared common values and beliefs. They envisioned a society based on the principles of sustainability, solidarity, and self-sufficiency. The team moved to a small farm just outside the city of Athens, practice small-scale natural farming, cover their energy needs partially by wind energy and operate a carpentry workshop.
The people of Spithari aim to create a living model of sustainability by reaching nutritional, energy and housing self-sufficiency. Additionally, they wish to offer a meeting point for the nourishment of participatory processes as well as the creation of a network of Greek eco-communities to help share experiences. Through this cooperation, volunteers in the network even helped install a wind turbine at Spithari.
An interesting project taking place in Greece at present is the Caravan Project. Two artists have set about to go on a journey, a passage through Greece with the aim of highlighting the personal stories of the people of the land. Focusing on the richness of human testimony and providing the necessary dialogue that will reevaluate current lifestyles, values, and ideals to the ones that can bring us closer to our real needs. The mosaic of images, narratives and documentaries focus on emphasizing a different way of life than the one systematically promoted by the media and has been imposed on Greek society in recent years catalyzing the current economic crisis. The "Caravan Project" plans to shed light on a land that continues to create, dream, and proclaim that "Another World Is Here".
Watch 3 minutes from the story of Fred, who fell in love with Greece and is now living with his partner in the island of Mytilene, trying to live an alternative lifestyle (film part of the Caravan Project).
In Athens, again following the 2011 protests, another group of people fighting for solidarity came up with the idea of creating a different kind of bank; one in which instead of money you save time. The Time Bank is a network built around the principle of an inclusive economy through which one can exchange knowledge and services through the unit transaction of time.
The content of services one offers is treated with respect, one hour of service is equal to one hour of any other service, regardless of it being mental or manual work. The time gained from each transaction can be spent using the services of any member of the Bank. It all works through an online portal that facilitates the saving and usage of work-time between its members. For example, one hour of Spanish class equates to one hour babysitting, one hour visit to the doctor is equal to one hour of self-defense course, one hour of guitar lessons can be exchanged for one hour of cleaning a house.
The motive behind the creation of the Time Bank is to work for the benefit of the community and not for profit. There are no formal requirements for participation in the network but there are some basic principles of respect among its members like the will to offer to the community, creative collaboration, equality and protection of the communities' members against any kind of discrimination.
Finding the many initiatives like these in communities around Greece, it becomes clear how many people are striving to build a different future. These people envision a world of peace and freedom, with technological development that operates as an extension of human potential, a world that will strategically and consciously manage with balance earth's natural resources; a world where the social reality is healthy living conditions, equality, free-spirited people, and real incentives away from modern city-living complete with its social isolation, artificial barriers, and work-spend cycle. And they do not stop at having a vision, they also take action—taking the best from both modern Greek culture and technologies but also from the traditional ways of their grandparents.
This article originally appeared on the Worldwatch Sustainability Blog.


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- Latin: harpa
A musical instrument, roughly triangular in form, whose strings of various lengths are plucked by the fingers in order to produce sound. Drawings of the harp appear on early Egyptian, Assyrian, Hebrew, and Celtic monuments; it is mentioned in the Bible, e.g., Genesis 4; 2 Paralipomenon, 9; Psalms 70; Apocalypse 5; and was used by the minstrels of the Middle Ages. The modern pedal harp was perfected by Sebastian Erard, 1810.
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