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"What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times … and you were there."
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Delray Beach County Fair, 1913. Delray Beach won many blue ribbons.
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After three decades, a death warrant may be near
for Palm Beach County's most notorious killer.
We look back at the case that still haunts our memories.
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Rob Sivitilli might have finally run out of ideas for saving his family's building at 5011 N. Ocean Blvd. in Ocean Ridge.
Two more chances for a reprieve fell apart during the Town Commission meeting on March 2.
Commissioners voted 4–0 to reject de-annexing the property and turning it over to Briny Breezes, a plan Sivitilli had been trying to sell for the last two months. Commissioner Gail Adams Aaskov, who has a real estate…Continue
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After getting off to a false start in February, the organizers of a movement to recall Ocean Ridge Town Commissioner Richard Lucibella say they are determined to get the effort back on track in March.
"Though the hullabaloo is over, the interest in removing him has not wavered," said Haley Joyce. "People are absolutely as determined as ever to do this."
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I expect to hear those questions. I anticipate this story may upset many of our readers. I recognize that this is a very different sort of story for The Coastal Star.
Let me explain:
When I saw late last year that Duane Owen had had what seemed to be a final clemency hearing, I felt that his imminent execution should not go unnoted. I wanted to know how a heinous killer could be lingering on death…
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In their federal racketeering lawsuit against Martin O'Boyle and Christopher O'Hare, attorneys for the town of Gulf Stream allege the two men have conspired to use the state's public records laws as weapons to extort legal fees from hundreds of municipalities and contractors across the state.
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Manalapan town commissioners are learning some hard lessons about the economics of bridge building.
Back in 2013 when they started discussing replacing the aging Audubon Causeway bridge, engineers estimated the cost at about $760,000.
Last year, when the commission started looking for contractors to do the work, the estimate had swollen to $850,000.
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The museum building anchors Old School Square, now the cultural hub of Delray Beach. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
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Delray Beach residents will have the option to buy beach parking permits for only half a year.
Beachgoers previously could only purchase an annual permit for $94.50. The permit allows them to park in the city's five beach-area parking lots.
But city commissioners gave first approval on March 3 to also sell six-month parking permits for $47.70 starting April 1. The ordinance is expected to pass at a final March 31 hearing.
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The man hired by the city to monitor sea turtles on Delray Beach beaches for 31 years is out of a job.
John Fletemeyer, a Florida International University research professor who works as a consultant, had his contract routinely renewed each year until the city required competitive bidding for all contracts.
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Andy Bregman (l) with his mentee, Logan. Logan's grades have improved to the point that next year he'll be a freshman at Florida Atlantic University. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
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Vitamin A deficiencies of pastoralists
Vitamin A levels indicate the linkages between the environment, animals and humans. Animals interconnect with the environment, for instance through their fodder, and humans expand this chain as they consume animal source food like milk.
An investigation showed that milk from cows grazing on green pastures had higher β-carotene (the precursor of vitamin A) levels and the pastoralist consumers of such milk had fewer deficiencies in vitamin A than those drinking milk from livestock grazing on less green pastures (Zinsstag et al. 2002). Another study found a high prevalence of moderate serum retinol (vitamin A) deficiency in settled children younger than five years at the end of the rainy season, while during the same period, it was as low as 1% among nomadic children (Bechir et al. 2012). Given the dependence on green pastures, vitamin A in livestock milk, and seasonality, pastoralists showed strong seasonal variation of vitamin A levels in their blood (Crump et al. 2017). Milk, as the primary source of vitamin A for pastoralists, is insufficient. Serum retinol deficiencies were high, up to 32% in the cold season, among pastoralists (Bechir 2012; Crump et al. 2017). Low fruit and vegetable consumption among pastoralists was seen in several studies in West and East Africa (Holter 1988), as well as poorer pastoral households in Central Asia and Mongolia (Save the children 2013).
The above linkage is summarised and illustrated by data from the MSc thesis of Lisa Crump (Crump 2014).
Chart one shows the variation of the vegetation index from barren to high density for the grazed pastures near the shore of Lake Chad. High density in this context means green for the past years of assessment in the same period. The lowest index is seen in the cold season.
Chart one: mean values of the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for grazed pastures
© Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute
Chart two adds the mean values of milk vitamin A (composed of both the precursor β-carotene and retinol). As expected, the lowest values are again seen in the cold season, since the livestock take the β-carotene from green feed and release it in their milk.
Chart two: livestock milk retinol mean values
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Chart three shows the proportion of pastoralists who had a daily milk consumption of more than 0.5 liters. This is highest in the dry season when they put less milk aside for butter production or for selling fresh milk on the market, and instead consume it when other food becomes scarce.
Chart three: proportion of who consumed more than half a litre milk per day
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Chart four shows how the human vitamin A levels of pastoralists depend on the quality of milk consumed (expressed by the level of vitamin A in milk) and the quantity they consumed. You see that the outcome in people can be rather predictable once you know their customs and what they consume.
Chart four: proportion of men and women who are not retinol deficient
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Zinsstag, J. et al. (2002). Serum Retinol of Chadian Nomadic Pastoralist Women in Relation to their Livestocks' Milk Retinol and Beta-carotene Content, in: International Journal for Vitamin and Nutrition Research 72(4), 221-228.
Bechir, M. et al. (2012). Retinol Assessment Among Women and Children in Sahelian Mobile Pastoralists, in: EcoHealth 9, 113-121.
Crump, L. et al. (2017). Seasonal dynamics of human retinol status in mobile pastoralists in Chad. Acta Trop. 166, 280–286.
Crump, L. (2014). The Seasonal Dynamics of Human Retinol Status and its Environmental Determinants in Sahelian Mobile Pastoralists. MSc thesis. University of Basel.
Holter, U. (1988). Food Habits of Camel Nomads in the North West Sudan: Food Habits and Foodstuffs, in: Ecology of Food and Nutrition 21, 1-15.
Save the Children (2013). Shifting Livelihoods: Trends of Pastoralist Drop-Out and Rural to Urban Migration in Mongolia.
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Not many of us are aware of the numerous healthy benefits of carrots. Add some carrots to your diet and you will immediately boost its nutritional value, and increase the amount of your mineral/vitamin intake.
Thanks to their beta-carotene and fiber content, carrots are known to promote healthy digestion and even cancer recovery. Carrots are rich in vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin K, folate, iron and manganese.
Here is a summarized list of carrots' most remarkable nutritional benefits:
Health Benefits Of Carrots
Prevention of Heart Disease: A study conducted by the Wolfson Gastrointestinal Laboratory in Scotland has reached the conclusion that cholesterol level drops by an average of 11 percent if seven ounces of raw carrots per day have been consumed for the past three weeks.
Blood Pressure Reducer: Carrots are rich in potassium, which leads to the relaxation of blood vessels and arteries, thus increasing blood circulation, and reducing the pressure on the cardiovascular system.
Immune Booster: Due to their antioxidant and antimicrobial abilities, carrots have the ability to efficiently boost your immune system. They are also a good source of vitamin C, vital for one's well-being and energy levels.
Digestion: Carrots, like most vegetables, contain significant amounts of dietary fiber; fiber is one of the most important elements in maintaining good digestive health.
Prevents Cancer: Beta-carotene consumption has been linked to a decreased risk for developing several cancers, including lung cancer.
Diabetes: Due to the presence of carotenoids in this amazing vegetable, carrots are an excellent 'tool' for effective blood regulation. They also regulate the amount of insulin and glucose which is being used and metabolized by the body.


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The IT upgrade tender bypassed the final adjudication committee completely.
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Calling it a "seed of peace" a New York City community board voted Tuesday night to support a plan to build a mosque and cultural center two blocks from Ground Zero. The decision came after hours of emotional public comment in which people were shouting "No Mosque" while carrying signs with pictures of the Sept. 11 victims on them.
Manhattan Community Board member Rob Townley told the Associated Press that the group believed they were making a significant step for the Muslim community to counteract the hate and fanaticism that has occured against them.
First of all, is there really that much fanaticism occuring against the Islamic community? Granted, shortly after September 11 there were plenty of incidents where misguided people hurled inappropriate epithets at anyone who claimed to be a member of the faith. In recent years however,most Americans have stopped spewing hate,(in fact "MOST" Americans never did) realizing there is a difference between Muslims who live in peace and those who call for Jihad.
Secondly, Islamic fanatics that have caused problems for America in recent years have all been affiliated with particular mosques inside the country, so one can understand the concerns of those who would live and work nearby the proposed New York site. The building will obviously not be earmarked as a place for terrorist training, but what or who will be able to stop the fanatics from coming in? It would seem that a site so close to the place where Islamic Jihadists destroyed the lives of thousands in 2001,would hve a special spiritual significance for those who thought the attacks were justified. After all,in recent weeks, we've witnessed a couple of unsuccessful terrorism attempts in Mid-Town Manhattan, so New York obviously remains a target.
Finally, since our country has become so consumed with protecting the rights of everyone but the majority, it's no surprise that a group of well meaning do-gooders have been blinded to the reality of just how insensitive this whole proposal is. Innocent people died that day. Do their families and friends really need to
be reminded of the terror every time they look out their window at the thriving Islamic establishment near the site where their loved ones were murdered? It is cruel.
While comparing all Muslims to the Jihadists who attacked the World Trade Center is ignorant and wrong, allowing this mosque to be built is equally ignorant and wrong. The proposal should not be allowed to go forward. The victims should not be made to suffer even more.
Ultimately those who say terrorism isn't confined to one particular race or religion are exactly right. Terrorism is nothing more than a misguided reaction on the part of thugs who refuse to accept law and order, and who think vigilante justice is the only way to make their point to the world. Terrorism ultimately comes in all shapes and colors. Terrorism is not confined to Islam. That point alone should serve as a reminder to those who are trying to push this temple project forward, that crazy is crazy and if the mosque is built it will bring even more fanatics out of the woodwork, putting even more innocent New Yorkers in danger.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
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In the music industry, the busier we became the less we saw of other players and tended to become insulated within our own little circles. So when Peter Power turned up for the Oriana gig with Renee Geyer, although I knew the name, I was surprised and delighted by his energetic and competent guitar playing.
Coming up in music through R and R exposed young musicians to some nasty drugs, so if a pot habit was the limit of its legacy, you were lucky. It is a fallacy that marijuana helps musicians play better and there is no way Warren Daly would tolerate a drug taker. So Peter never let on he liked a smoke and I was not aware of it until Fiji.
Craig Kerchner, our piano player and I were wandering around Suva when we heard a kerfuffle and saw Peter, red faced and angry clutching a brown paper bag, yelling and pointing up the street. His Cockney accented spluttering was almost intelligible but we got the essentials.
He had been asking among the local likely lads where he could buy some pot. Of course where there is a need there is a merchant, so a young Indian told him to wait, disappeared and reappeared within minutes to exchange a bulging brown paper bag for Peter's ten dollars. Then, not waiting for Peter to examine the merchandise, he headed off at a brisk walk.
Peter's cry of anger coincided with the appearance of a navy blue beskirted constable, who took in the tableau and sprinted after the alleged thief yelling for the lad to stop. We arrived in time to be treated to a Road Runner replay as pursued and pursuer disappeared into the distance.
Peter was still carrying on so we looked into the bag. Our amusement did not assuage his anger and neither did our insistence that he come with us, taking an arm each and hurrying him away.
Ten dollars might be too much to pay for a few old banana skins, but we judged it an appropriate penalty for attempting to procure a prohibited drug.
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Clients often think that all public relations agencies do is send out press releases. PR agencies reinforce this notion, because press releases are easy to prepare and agencies can charge lots of money for them.
While press releases should be used to announce breaking news, they are typically the least effective method of publicizing your company. Unless a press release has news value, no one will run it and few will read it. A press release is also a great way to ensure that top-tier media will not run your news. The Wall Street Journal and other top media want exclusivity. If you send out a press release, it tells them that every other financial media outlet will be getting the same news.
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FIREBUGS have left a drama group needing a new storage site for its theatre props.
The equipment owned by Bedworth Theatre Guild was ruined by vandals who set fire to a storage shed.
Members of the guild, which represents music societies and theatre groups in the area, had been using a shed behind a scout hut in Park Road, Bedworth.
But when the firebugs struck they caused thousands of pounds' damage to the equipment - and left the group with nowhere to store what they had salvaged.
Bedworth Theatre Guild committee member Mike Inker condemned those behind the attack and is now struggling to find a new storage area.
He said: "I feel pretty sick that people can so this sort of thing in this day and age - they just can't leave alone.
"The fire has destroyed one end of the shed and there's a huge hole at the back of the hut.
"The building is not usable any more and we've got nowhere else to go.
"We are desperately looking for some storage space we can use to put our props in.
"The building has been attacked before. This is probably just the last straw."
Despite some props being destroyed, no shows are being can celled because of the blaze, but in future much of the remaining equipment will have to be shared between the member groups.
The lost equipment will cost thousands to replace as the guild was not insured.
Mr Inker said: "What was in there was of no value to anyone else except those who do stage productions.
"I really could not put a value on it. A lot of props had been gathered from people over the years, and there was stuff people had made, but it would take a fair amount of money to replace.
"Some stuff is salvageable - some of the stuff we've had to get rid of and we need a couple of skips to get rid of it all and we've got to pay for the skips."


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I had the honor of being invited on the Power of Purity Podcast with Tony Ingrassia. Tony has a ministry to men and women that want to go deeper in their sexual intimacy. As a pastor and a trained counselor, he has great insights into the hurts a couple experiences relating to their sex life.
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If you've been to the grocery store lately you will notice the abundant supply of Michigan Honeycrisp apples. They are sweet with a crispness that you can't ignore. They are perfect alone, topped with peanut butter or cut into slices for a salad topping. There is no wrong way to indulge yourself with this fruit.
These Baked Cinnamon Apple Pastries are a great way to incorporate the Honeycrisp apple into a breakfast or dessert dish. You can wake up to these pastries or sit down with your afternoon tea with them as a snack. The best part is that you only need four ingredients and about 20 minutes of your time.
Let's start off with the main ingredient–> Michigan Honeycrisp apples. I chose this particular kind over the others because it's my favorite and I like the crispness that it brings to the pastries after being baked in the oven. The apples are topped off with cinnamon, sugar and then placed in the center of a crescent roll before being rolled up. Off to the oven they go for 15 minutes of baking time.
I topped mine off with powdered sugar but feel free to forego the extra sugar on top.
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Although today's most popular player, LeBron James, sells millions of sneakers for Nike, the best player of all time, Michael Jordan — who's been retired for more than a decade — sells more. Now, fans of the Chicago Bulls legend and sneaker heads alike will be able to get one of Jordan's most beloved signature shoes on Saturday.
The Air Jordan Retro 13 Low will come in the celebrated Playoff colorway, originally released in 1998.
The sneaker features an all-black upper, with hints of red on the tongue. The shoe also features a red lining and a gold Jumpman logo near the ankle. The outsole is white, black and red. The Jordan Retro 13 Low will have a retail price tag of $160.
This classic silhouette in the black-and-red colorway isn't the first Jordan retro signature shoe in those colors to hit retail shelves recently. The iconic Air Jordan 11 sneaker was released in the True Red colorway on May 23, complete with an all-black mesh upper and a patent leather overlay, with a white-and-translucent red outsole and red lining. Worn on the court by Michael Jordan during the Chicago Bulls' 1996 NBA Finals championship run against the Seattle SuperSonics, the sneaker retails for $170.


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College Student Found Dead In Colorado Frat House
Authorities say alcohol likely played a role in the death of a Colorado State University student from Nebraska.
Friends say Samantha Spady was popular in high school and a natural-born leader. She had been an honor student, homecoming queen, class president and captain of the cheerleading squad.
Published reports state Samantha Spady's blood-alcohol level was 0.43 percent, more than five times the legal limit for driving in Colorado.
Her body was found in an unused room at the Sigma Pi fraternity house on Sunday. Autopsy results show no signs of physical trauma, but that alcohol contributed to the 19-year-old's death. Spady was not sexually assaulted, and foul play was not suspected, police said. Toxicology tests were also planned but those results won't be known for 10 days.
Police were reportedly investigating whether Spady and a friend were involved in a one-car accident over the weekend. Officials believe that Spady was drunk at the time, abandoned her car and called a member of Sigma Pi for a ride.
It's not clear whether Spady drank at the fraternity house on Saturday night, but police believe members of the fraternity occasionally checked on her and thought she had passed out.
Fraternity president Darren Pettapiece said there was no party at the house that night -- the night of the big in-state football rivalry with the University of Colorado -- and no one he had spoken with had admitted drinking with Spady. Members of the fraternity are trying to deal with the tragic events.


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n i'm sooooooooooooo hupsited.
you guys may have to assist me today by sticking my feet to the floor
keep me a bit level headed please
cos in my ed its Christmas and my birfday all at once
thinking * hmmm could Santa get down my chimney with that in his sack ?*
I'm bursting to tell you all what "it" is,your gonna be surprised i think...but then again..nah probably not.
dont think anything i could do will shock you lot anymore.
ya used to my antics by now
so... new bus,yes it is a "bus",not a boat,tree house,fire enguine or tank(seriously ,why did someone suggest a tank might be a good vehicle to own )
i'm going undercover
in disguise ..
how long d'u recon it'll take fellow motorhome owners to suss me eh ?
pmsl,d'u recon i'd get in the motorhome owners club n onto them posh caravan parks where i should sit beside my vehicle..
visualise this ,
george n ethel n their matching deckchairs,brolly up sipping iced tea
oh yea...that does it for me big time :p
fuk it shall i bring out Granny jo's tweed skirt n rollers to finish the look
i proper got it about me today :bounce: :wiggle: :huglove: :sun2:
look out world,Jo's on one


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The giant lizard was an ordinary lizard subjected to Professor Tansbury's experiments. In a disused lighthouse off the coast of Porthferiot, Cornwall, Tansbury harnessed the power of a lightning storm to accelerate the lizard's growth. The circuits overloaded and the lizard grew to giant size, destroying the lighthouse and killing Tansbury. This was witnessed from shore by a local fisherman.
A few days later the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith visited Porthferiot to investigate. After the giant lizard destroyed a fishing boat, the Doctor had UNIT call in the Royal Navy. Against the Doctor's advice, they tried using depth charges to kill the creature, but this only angered it. After it destroyed the Navy ship and went on a rampage, the Doctor used an amplified recording of the lizard's mating call to lure it into a harbour, where UNIT soldiers killed it with a missile. (COMIC: The Tansbury Experiment)


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Population Health Management
Watch the short video beneath to see Alice Stollenwerk Petrulis, MD – Health-related Director, Care Management, The MetroHealth System go over population health approaches. Though there is evidence that the health-related home promotes greater adherence to guideline based care, the DMCB wonders if that will be adequate to have a noticeable effect on regions of the U.S. with higher levels of unwarranted utilization for preference-senstive care.
As a supporter of 'disease management,' I'm worried that underfunding of the Healthcare House will doom it. In my humble opinion, the Healthcare Residence will turn out to be a essential component of future population-based wellness care options for individuals with chronic illness.
Age-standardised death rates for GBD's most detailed causes between Japan and the 47 prefectures in 2015 are shown in figure 3 figure three. A subnational comparison of age-standardised rates for YLLs are shown in figure appendix two (p 2) appendix 2 (p 2). Quite a few of the leading causes of mortality and YLLs showed striking variation by prefecture ( figure 3 figure three). For instance, due to cerebrovascular disease (combined mortality of ischaemic stroke, haemorrhagic stroke, and other varieties of stroke), Shiga's age-standardised death prices (37.9 per 100 000 people today)—the lowest in Japan in 2015—was 1.6 occasions reduce than Iwate's, which was the highest (62. per 100 000 folks).
Nutritional supplements are added to the diet regime to boost all round overall health and power, to give immune system support and decrease the risks of illness and age-connected conditions, to enhance performance in athletic and mental activities, and to assistance the healing course of action throughout illness and illness.
Following a standing ovation for a plenary session presentation by the charismatic CEO of a pretty thriving well being care organization on the merits population health, the electronic record and systems integration, the DMCB found itself behind him and one particular of his minions trying to get a cappuccino.
Pairing nurses and physicians in team-primarily based care, no matter if it's performed remote telephonic "disease management" style or in the clinic "healthcare house" style is eventually a fantastic concept with obvious face validity The Annals' difficulty is that we never have pristine scientific methodologies that can identify, capture and measure the advantage.
MedSolis pairs a basic, intuitive and scalable care management system with an simple-to-use hand-held patient app.†This cloud-based technologies can be integrated into virtually any team-primarily based care setting, which includes health-related residences, specialty clinics, post-acute care, readmission reduction applications, ACOs and health plans.
Herrin and colleagues correlated CMS's Hospital Examine readmission information with every hospital county's socioeconomic information (rural vs. urban, persons living alone, employment status and educational level), access to care (the per capita density of key care and specialist physicians as nicely as hospital beds) and nursing home number and quality (the quantity beds and the number of high-risk, extended-term individuals with bed sores).
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Hello. My names Tom and Im a Tolkien geek.
I have been a fan of Tolkien since I picked up a copy of the Hobbit at the local library when I was a grade schooler and have read the Trilogy every few years ever since. I even packed a copy to take with me on deployment. The scene above is one of my favorite parts. Theoden, an aging king is answering a call for aid from an ancestral ally. It is a battle he knows is hopeless. Drastically outnumbered, he goes anyway. This passage in the book has always spoken to me. It speaks of duty, honor, courage, good vs evil and standing up for what is right against all odds.
The film of course took liberties with the original text and it wasn't quite portrayed "the way I saw it in my imagination", but I still get that hair prickling on the back of my neck feeling when I watch it.
Then suddenly Merry felt it at last, beyond doubt: a change. Wind was in his face! Light was glimmering. Far, far away, in the South the clouds could be dimly seen as remote grey shapes, rolling up, drifting: morning lay beyond them.
But at that same moment there was a flash, as if lightning had sprung from the earth beneath the City. For a searing second it stood dazzling far off in black and white, its topmost tower like a glittering needle; and then as the darkness closed again there came rolling over the fields a great boom.
At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before:
Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
Spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
A sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
With that he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightaway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!
Suddenly the king cried to Snowmane and the horse sprang away. Behind him his banner blew in the wind, white horse upon a field of green, but he outpaced it. After him thundered the knights of his house, but he was ever before them. Éomer rode there, the white horsetail on his helm floating in this speed, and the front of the first éored roared like a breaker foaming to the shore, but Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the Great in the battle of the Valar when the world was young. His golden shield was uncovered, and lo! it shone like an image of the Sun, and the grass flamed into green about the white feet of his steed. For morning came, morning and a wind from the sea; and darkness was removed, and the host of Mordor wailed, and terror took them, and they fled, and died, and the hoofs of wrath rode over them. And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City.


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The Re-feed
A compact composter and plant feeder for indoor urban spaces.
The Re-Feed is your personal food waste processor that grinds organic waste into instant liquid fertilizer for your plants. Originally inspired by lacking food waste recycling infrastructures in flats and high-rise housing in Central London, the Re-Feed provides a simple alternative to sending waste to landfill or composting.
The design was inspired by the psychological phenomenon called the 'Tamagotchi' effect, which focused on evoking emotional responses while using an object or completing everyday tasks to encourage behavioural change. In this case, feeding the Re-Feed creates positive feelings by allowing the user to fulfil their responsibility towards the plant in a sustainable way.
The Re-Feed can be moved to feed any plants in a space due to its rechargeable battery and interchangeable charging plugs.
Info http://cargocollective.com/fannymenilsson
Photos and text courtesy by Fanny Nilsson
1. How exactly does the system work? The organic waste is blended with water to create the instant fertilizer. How long this takes depends on the waste used and how much of it there is. Things that can be ground up in the Re-Feed are vegetable and fruit scraps and peelings, egg shells, coffee grind, tea bags and any food leftovers that are not saturated in oils and fats. Once the fertilizer is made, the plug is removed from the plant pot and the feeding spike is inserted. By pressing the feeding button the fertilizer is pumped through the feeding tube through to the plant. Any food waste that isn't directly absorbed is stored in the vessel behind the feeding spike. The Re-Feed also has a function that allows it to be programmed to feed at certain times. This makes the product very useful for when you are away or extremely busy; as urban lifestyles often are.
2. Why is a battery necessary to power the device?
I decided to include the rechargeable battery in my design to allow for flexibility. Plants are not often located near power sockets and I felt this was a suitable solution that also underlines that the Re-Feed is primarily like a life support system for the plant, as well as the other way around.
3. How many parts are in the system and what are their respective functions?
The main parts of the Re-Feed include the blade which grinds up the waste, the on/ off and 'feeding' button, a hook for the feeding tube when it is not in use, the tube and feeding spike with a small collection vessel for fertilizer- which allows the plant to absorb nutrients when it needs them -and separate flower pots. Inner components include the motor which allows the blade to run, a pump for the feeding of the fertilizer and a receiver and transmitter that communicates with your electronic devices over the internet to allow you to program your Re-Feed.
4. I imagine some people are reluctant to compost at home because of the associated smell. Have you tried to address that concern?
The smell associated with food waste is one of the biggest barriers for people to try outdoor composting in the first place, let alone inside their home. The aim of the project was to address this negative association with a positive one, which is embodied by the nurturing of the plant. On the practical side, I have sourced an additive that can be added to the ABS polymer before it is injection moulded, which neutralizes odours. Also, the design of the Re-feed allows it to be easily cleaned/ rinsed to get rid of any smells and the lid acts as a barrier for any odours if it happens to be in the Re-Feed for a longer period of time.
5. Did you design special flower pots as well?
I did design flower pots to underline the concept of the plant relying on the Re-Feed as a type of life support. When the feeding spike is placed into the hole it is reminiscent of an umbilical cord. In addition, the placement of the hole was deliberately chosen to allow the fertilizer to be absorbed closer to the root of the plant, meaning it received it's nutrients quicker.
6. Are you still a student, or did you graduate this year?
I graduated this year, just last week in fact!
7. Would you like to put the prototype into production?
Who wouldn't like their work to go into production!? Based on feedback I have been receiving I am aware that this would require some development, but I would not turn down the opportunity to explore this further!


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Disney recently released the first photo of Emma Watson and Dan Stevens in character as Belle and the Beast. And, how do we put this gently, the Beast could have been anyone, based on the photo at least: So. Much. Fur.
But now we get to see the two of them in action in the just released trailer for the live-action adaptation of the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast. It feels like we've been talking about this for years, with so many casting updates, and, well, we have been, two to be exact. That's why we're so excited the first look has arrived.
In the trailer below we see Belle run into a castle to save her father, who has been imprisoned. He warns her to leave because the castle is alive.
What's a girl to do?
Belle doesn't even have a chance to heed her father's warning because she is greeted by … none other than … the Beast.
The Beast makes her an offer:
Now that we see the Beast all moving and talking, we can see past his whiskers.
Beauty and the Beast hits theaters on March 17, 2017.
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WWE's Performance Center in Orlando has been a massive success in the past several years. Wrestling Observer Newsletter's Dave Meltzer reports that there have been talks of WWE opening up another Performance Center overseas in the Middle East. This would be to focus on helping Indian and Middle Eastern talent, which Meltzer says is a "high priority" for the company.
This report comes on the heels of WWE announcing the "Greatest Royal Rumble" in WWE history in Saudi Arabia. WWE recently signed a 10-year deal to hold events in the country, which has a massive WWE fanbase. The Performance Center aspect, however, is only in the discussion fazes and has yet to be confirmed.


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Going home
"For years a chord progression that I liked very much, had been waiting for words. In 1987 they came. I used to sleep in my car in a parking lot in front of the hospital, whenever I was in Florence. Although I had cancelled the rent of my house before leaving Holland; although I was in Italy and alone; I knew I was on my way home. Meaning, on my way to myself, to God, to a reunion of the person with the soul. The words came easily. This is not the usual way for me to write songs. Normally, at least some words come with the melody, so that I know what the song is about. "Going home" has been a favourite with many listeners these years. This version, even though it wasn't really finished, I like for its mellow and dreamlike atmosphere. The Leelaband was the best band I've had. Unfortunately my personal circumstances were such that I couldn't give it the time and energy it needed."
Going home 6.50 (1981 / 1987)
I'm just a little boy that's lost in the big world
hoping to go home
with not much left to say
I'm trying to find my way
my way home to you
it's not that I am old
it's not that I'm unhappy
it's just that it's high time
for I have heard your call
pretending not to hear
for almost thirty years
and oh my soul
you waited patiently
for us to reunite
like a mother and her grown up child
o yes it's getting late
I can't afford to hesitate
the only time is now
but not with empty hands
shall I stand on your doorstep
my singing is for you
and o my soul etc.
I'm going home
I'm so tired of running around
wanna come home and rest my head on your shoulder
wanna lay my head on your shoulder
just like way back in Avalon
take me back to Avalon
o how we walked through the mist
the mist of Avalon
I recall that I laid my head on your shoulder
and I knew there and then
I was home
going home
Peter van Kan : Vocals; acoustic guitar
The Leela Band:
Cees Leurs : Piano; synthesizer
Hans Feiertag : Bass
Tigran Mansour : trumpet
Karka Speelman : flute
Mischa van Hoogh : acoustic lead guitar
Arie de Bruyne : sax
Melcher Hillmann : drums
Previously released on "Such is Live".
Other versions of "Going home" were released on "Alive and Flying" and "How can I tell you ?".


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Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a nosocomial pneumonia that develops more than 48 hours after endotracheal intubation. It is one of the most common infections acquired by adults and children in intensive care units (ICUs) and is a cause of significant patient morbidity and mortality, increased utilization of healthcare resources, and excess cost.1
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Can psychics and rationalists get along? I went to a parapsychology center to find out.
By Glenn McDonald
The Rhine Research Center in Durham, N.C., is one of the last institutions in the world dedicated to parapsychology, or the study of psi phenomena, the fun and spooky stuff at the fringes of science telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, apparitions, and hauntings.
On a recent Friday night, the Rhine hosted one of its semi-annual community outreach events, Psi Games, in which the curious can spend an evening getting tested for latent psychic powers. I signed up, because why not?
I am neither skeptic nor believer. I do have one undisputed psychic talent the uncanny ability to predict future celebrity couples. You think Im joking, but Im totally not. It goes all the way back to the 1980s: Depp and Ryder, Pitt and Aniston, Kidman and Cruise, DeGeneres and de Rossi, a dozen others. My psychic gift is extremely specific, but essentially useless. Maybe the Rhine could at least help me monetize it.
For the majority of scientists worldwide, parapsychology is hmm, unfashionable is perhaps the polite term. The discipline enjoyed a brief period of expansion in the mid-20th century as science started feeling out its own borders, but ultimately collapsed due to a fundamental evidence problem. These days, parapsychology has a fervent core of defenders, but is largely dismissed as pseudoscience by the scientific establishment.
Thats never particularly bothered folks at the Rhine, who have been conducting paranormal research since founder J.B. Rhine established the Parapsychology Lab at Duke University in 1935. Initially trained as a biologist, Rhine was a legitimate man of science and is credited with more-or-less inventing the methodologies and laboratory protocols for ESP testing. But his research drew attacks from skeptics, and he eventually left Duke to set up his own independent lab off-campus literally across the street. Remember that scene from Ghostbusters when Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd get kicked out of their university lab? That scene was loosely based on Rhines adventures in academia.
Though the Rhine Research Center is no longer affiliated with the university, it still draws independent researchers and rogue academics from around the world, hosting conferences and presentations, and publishing the peer-reviewed Journal of Parapsychology, in publication since 1937. Parapsychology may no longer be fashionable, but its still an active discipline, says Rhines executive director, John Kruth.
Peer reviewed articles have been published for decades on these topics, and they are summarily ignored by most of the popular skeptics some of whom admit to never reviewing the data or being out of date related to current research, Kruth says.
The Friday night testing program is held at Rhines modest two-story offices near the Duke campus. Around 30 people show up, a mix of curious locals, date-night couples, college kids, and a few True Believers. You can tell the True Believers by their intensity. One of these is a tiny little Southern woman lets call her Alice whom I learn is a regular at Rhine public events.
Alice knows for sure for sure that she is psychic, and it is her burden in life to be surrounded by unbelievers. I knew the minute you walked in the door that you were a firefighter, she tells another man in our group, after he had just introduced himself as a firefighter. Neat trick, that. You get the feeling Alice initiates exchanges like this about a dozen times a day.
Our first stop on the evening tour is a brief presentation in the Rhines research library, which is filled with books from the history of parapsychology research. I pluck a title off the shelf and am amazed to see that its an early-edition printing of The Case for Spirit Photography, an obscure 1922 book by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The creator of Sherlock Holmes was famously involved in the Spiritualism movement of the late Victorian period, but I didnt know hed published on the topic. I show the book to Alice. She smiles knowingly.
Alice knows for sure that she is psychic. I knew the minute you walked in the door that you were a firefighter, she tells an man in our group, after he had just introduced himself as a firefighter.
At the other end of the library, the ESP testing session is facilitated by Steve Barrell, research fellow with the Rhine and lead investigator with Haunted North Carolina, Inc. Barrell looks like the actor Liam Neeson, except somehow even more intense. He shuffles up a stack of the Zener cards used to test ESP: the star, the square, the squiggly lines.
Barrell stares at each card for five seconds as we try to read his mind, scribbling our guesses onto standardized printout sheets. If Sheldrakes theory of morphic resonance is right, youll do better than the last group, Barrell tells us. Theyve already added to the collective consciousness to which you now have access.
We finish the test, but my numbers are discouraging. Theyre below the range of pure chance, actually. Barrell says that if I were to score really bad like, consistently and mathematically-significant-bad that would be flagged as a phenomenon known as psi missing. It can indicate an unconscious desire to suppress my own psychic abilities. Wont my therapist be surprised!
In the next room, Kruth shows off some of the Rhines most prized artifacts, including an electronic psychic testing apparatus invented by the German parapsychologist Helmut Schmidt. In the 1970s, Schmidts random-number generators were used in experiments concerning precognition and micro-psychokinesis, the ability to influence matter on the atomic level like scrambling the photons in a cathode tube TV display.
Kruth runs us through a battery of tests, in which we try to either predict the outcome or influence the result of a random-number occurrence. Schmidts main randomizing device is charmingly low-tech: a chunk of 1970s analog electronics housed in a wooden box with big red lights and clunky levers. The idea is to predict which randomized light will flash next (precognition) or mentally try to trigger the next light (micro-psychokinesis).
Its surprisingly fun in a B-movie sort of way, and Kruth is good at keeping the party going, hustling everyone through four separate testing stations. Once again, however, my numbers fall within the range of pure chance. Our psychic friend Alice tests poorly too, but she is determined to make the best of the situation. I knew this was going to happen, she says.
The physics professor leads us in a communal shout: Bend! Bend! Bend! Sure enough, within a few moments, a cascade of bent spoons are clinking down onto the tables.
Next up is a session on remote viewing, hosted by Rhine researcher Benton Bogel, who specializes in this particular variant of extrasensory perception. Remote viewing is just that, Bogel says: the ability to see or otherwise perceive a distant or unseen target image. He tells us that during the Cold War, the U.S. government operated several classified projects on mind reading and remote viewing. Some say they still do, Bogel adds.
For our demonstration purposes, Bogel has the 10 or so people in our sub-group concentrate on an envelope across the room, inside of which is a randomly selected photograph. We are instructed to write down any descriptors that come to mind as we focus on the envelope. I close my eyes and get a series of vivid impressions that include a rusted-out farm vehicle and beams of light in a dusty barn. (In the interest of full disclosure: I also kept getting flash images of The Bangles 1986 Manic Monday video, for some reason.)
The physics professor leads us in a communal shout: Bend! Bend! Bend! Sure enough, within a few moments, a cascade of bent spoons are clinking down onto the tables.
The photo is revealed to be a randomly selected Associated Press wire photo of kids in a snowball fight near the Colosseum in Rome. No cars. No dusty barn. Sigh.
I kept seeing water! Alice says. That explains the snow!
The evening ends with a brief presentation on spoon bending, the notorious psychic scam popularized by Uri Geller and other show business professionals. As a pop-culture punch line, spoon bending is too well known to be considered a legitimate paranormal phenomenon. It would seem to present a dilemma for the Rhine team who takes this stuff seriously?
Half the audience, evidently. Kruths presentation is a delightful study in nudge-nudge, wink-wink ambiguity. He never says spoon bending is real. But he never says its fake, either. In fact, he brings out a Duke physics professor, who provides some notional misdirection about atoms and magnetic fields and energy transfer matrices. A plastic bucket full of metal spoons is passed around. Sitting in groups around a half-dozen library tables, were instructed to hold our spoons by the narrowest part, rub gently, concentrate severely, and see what happens. The physics professor leads us in a communal shout: Bend! Bend! Bend!
Sure enough, within a few moments, a cascade of bent spoons are clinking down onto the tables. Because were all concentrating on our spoons, as specifically instructed, no one actually witnesses others spoons spontaneously bending. Still, several of the participants look startled, even a little freaked out. How did that happen?
The secrets of spoon bending are practically public domain in the information age. Google can provide you with 6,920 videos in 0.37 seconds. The quick explanation: Test subjects simply bend the spoons with their thumbs, either deliberately or if youre feeling charitable unconsciously through repetition and pressure. Professional spoon-benders mix in basic stage magic tricks like misdirection and forced perspective, but the only phenomenon manifesting at the Rhine this evening is cheerful self-deception.
Our hosts at the Rhine know this, but part of the job is to keep the conversation light and confine all conclusions to the designated gray areas of parapsychology. The Rhine is privately funded, after all kept afloat by individual donations, membership programs, workshops, weekend classes and events like tonights gathering. Psychic testing is a little J.B. Rhine, sure. But its a little bit P.T. Barnum, too.
As if on cue, Kruth wraps up the spoon bending party with an announcement about the Rhines latest membership drive. Ten dollars a month, $120 for the year. Help us buy more spoons! someone yells. The line sounds a little rehearsed, but it gets a big laugh.
To be fair, the Psi Games event is not intended to be all that serious or scientific, and the subject matter is intrinsically intriguing. Its a fun time. The purpose of Psi Games isnt to show people their ESP abilities, but rather to show people how ESP was tested in the past, Kruth says. Its a night of entertainment and education.
At the end of the evening, everyone is happy. The Psi Games at the Rhine Research Center is a carefully calibrated event. Its not science, but its not a swindle, either. Its science-adjacent. (Parapsychology means besides psychology.) Anyway, I think we can all agree that, these days, righteous rationalists can be every bit as exhausting as goofball Believers. Its fun to hang out in the gray area for a while; to point the healthy skepticism of science right back at itself; to let poor Alice do her thing.
Speaking of, as you may have foreseen, Alice turns out to be a world-class spoon bender. Shes deliriously happy, looking down at her three bent spoons. Wow! she says, looking genuinely surprised. I never saw that coming.
Published on July 27, 2019
Glenn McDonald is a writer based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Illustration by Jack Richardson
This article was updated on July 26, 2019.
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