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Deuteronomy 22:13-21 New International Version (NIV)
Marriage Violations
13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, "I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity," 15 then the young woman's father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, "I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, 'I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.' But here is the proof of my daughter's virginity." Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels[a] of silver and give them to the young woman's father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
20 If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman's virginity can be found, 21 she shall be brought to the door of her father's house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. [Aish.com on infidelity] She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father's house. You must purge the evil from among you. biblegateway.com
What is meant by a claim [denying a woman's] virginity? [A man] married a woman on the assumption that she was a virgin, and [after the wedding] claims that he did not find signs of virginity.
For there are two signs of virginity:
a) [hymenal] bleeding at the conclusion of her first sexual experience;
b) tightness that is felt during sexual relations at that time.19 * Sefaria.Org * Chabad.org
or any other way of the hymen not bleeding the first time
one has sexual intercoure
Literally, "one struck by a piece of wood," a woman who claims that she did not have hymenal bleeding at the time of her first sexual experience, because she had previously been "struck by a piece of wood" and caused to bleed at that time. As mentioned in Halachah 10, the term is used to refer to any woman who claims that her failure to have hymenal bleeding resulted from causes other than intercourse. Chabad.org
An injury to the hymen made by a piece of wood (a picket fence injury) causes loss of the status of virginity, according to the Sages (Ketubbot 1:3) jwa.org/status-of-virgin See also Halacha 10
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A text found at Qumran requires the examination of a bride who is accused of premarital intercourse. The text is an adaptation of the Biblical law in Deuteronomy 22:13-22. According to the law in Deuteronomy, if a newly-married man claims that he found his bride not to be a virgin, her parents must rebut the charge by producing a bloodstained garment or bedcloth proving that her hymen had been broken at the consummation of the marriage:
The girl's father and mother shall produce the evidence of the girl's virginity before the elders of the town at the gate. And the girl's father shall sy to the elders, "I gave this man my daughter to wife, but he had taken an aversion to her; so he has made up charges, saying, 'I did not find your daughter a virgin.' But here is the evidence of my daughter's virginity!" And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the town (Deut. 22:15-17; New JPS translation). Learn WAY more ⇒ answering-christianity.com/accused_brides
Babylonian Talmud
Kethuboth – Kesubos
CHAPTER I, The minimum amounts of the kethubah [alimony?] to which virgins, widows, divorcees or other women belonging to the various strata of social and religious life are entitled, and the conditions governing the forfeiture of her kethubah by a wife in the absence of her virginity, are duly indicated.
CHAPTER II deals with disputes on the amount of a kethubah, arising from a disagreement between husband and wife as to whether the latter was married as a virgin or a widow.
Some one came before Rabban Gamaliel [and] said to him, I have found an 'open opening'. He [Rabban Gamaliel] answered him: Perhaps you moved aside.38 I will give you an illustration: To what is this like? To a man who was walking in the deep darkness of the night39 [and came to his house and found the door locked];40 if he moves aside [the bolt41 of the door] he finds it open, if he does not move aside [the bolt of the door] he finds it locked. Some say [that] he [R. Gamaliel] answered him thus: Perhaps you moved aside wilfully42 and you tore away the door and the bar.43 I will give you an illustration: To what is this like? To a man who was walking in the deep darkness of the night [and came to his house and found the door locked]; if he moves aside [the bolt of the door] wilfully44 he finds it open, if he does Come & Hear.com
When [a man] weds a virgin who is granted a ketubah of 200 [zuz], and claims that he did not discover signs of her virginity, the woman is questioned [regarding the matter]. If she says, "It is true that he did not find me a virgin, but this is because I fell, and I was struck by a piece of wood or the ground, and my hymen was damaged," her word is accepted and she is entitled to a ketubah of [100 zuz].20
Although [her husband] claims: "Perhaps you engaged in intercourse, and I am under no obligation to you,"21 his claim is not accepted, for his claim is not absolute.22 He may, however, have a ban of ostracism issued, conditional on her having engaged in relations with another man. Chabad.org
If he claims, "I did not find her a virgin," and she claims, "He has not had intercourse with me and I am still a virgin," she should be examined. Alternatively, he should have relations with her under the surveillance of witnesses [and the truth will be clarified].24 they should inspect the sheet before and after the couple engage in relations for signs of hymenal bleeding.
If she claims, "He had relations with me and he found me a virgin like all others, and his claim is false," he is questioned [and asked to clarify his statements]. We ask him: "Why do you say that she was not a virgin?" If he answers: "Because she did not have hymenal bleeding," we check her family [history]. Perhaps [the women of] this [family] are known not to have [vaginal] bleeding at all: neither menstrual bleeding nor hymenal bleeding. If this was found to be true, we presume [that she was a virgin, and she is entitled to a ketubah of 200 zuz].
If the women in her family are not known to have such a condition, we check her [physical state]; perhaps she is afflicted by a serious infirmity that has parched her body's natural fluids, or [perhaps] she was afflicted by hunger. Therefore, we have her bathe, eat and drink until she becomes healthy. At which point, [the couple] engage in relations again to see if she manifests hymenal bleeding or not.
If she is not hampered by sickness, hunger or the like, the [husband's] claim that she was not a virgin [is accepted]. [This applies] even if he felt tightness during relations. Since there was no hymenal bleeding, her hymen was not intact. For every virgin will manifest hymenal bleeding, whether she is a minor or above the age of majority, whether a na'arah or a bogeret, unless [this is prevented by an external factor,] illness or the like, as explained.
If [the husband] said: "[I claim that she was not a virgin,] because I did not feel tightness [during intercourse]. Instead, I found an open passageway," we inquire with regard to [the woman's] age. Perhaps she is a bogeret, under 12 1/2, and most bogrot do not have tightness that can be felt substantially [during intercourse], for as she grew older [the adhesion of] her limbs lessened, and the virginal [tightness] disappeared.
If she had not become a bogeret yet, we ask him: "Perhaps you leaned on the side or [entered] gently during intercourse, and therefore you did not feel any tightness?" If he replies: "No. I found an open passageway," [his] claim that she was not a virgin [is accepted] with regard to any woman who has not reached the age of bagrut, regardless of whether she was a minor or a na'arah, or whether she was healthy or sick. For the vaginal channel of every virgin is closed. Even if she manifests hymenal bleeding, she is not considered to be a virgin, because the vaginal channel was open. Chabad.org
There are geonim who rule that for a bogeret, the claim that she did not have hymenal bleeding is not valid, but the claim that her vaginal channel was open is valid. This does not appear [to be based on the proper text of] the Talmud. They had inaccurate versions of the text. I have investigated many texts, including those of an early era, and I have discovered the version to be as I ruled. For a bogeret, the only valid claim is [that she did not manifest] hymenal bleeding. Chabad.org
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Knitting at Large blogger Julie Matthews gives advice on adapting patterns for plus-size women
As a plus-size woman, I spent decades wishing I could wear beautifully crafted, natural-fibre sweaters with intricate cables or colourwork. Instead, all I could buy were cheaply made, fine-gauge, acrylic garments that looked frumpy and shoddy after only a few wearings.
Frustrated, I decided it was time to learn to knit a sweater that fits regardless of my size and shape. I read every knitting book I could find, took classes with several well-known knitwear designers, and spent my leisure time knitting, knitting, knitting. Fast forward five years – I now have an entire wardrobe of spectacular pullovers and cardigans, each made with top-quality yarns, that fit well and look great.
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There are a few things in my wardrobe that I continue to buy season after season, pieces that are good timeless basics. One of which is a blue and white stripe shirt and the other is a good pair of blue jeans. They're two things I wear all the time and find great satisfaction in discovering new versions of.
The Second Female stripe shirt in the outfit above has a pale blue stripe and is made from a cotton-linen textured fabric which holds its shape. It's such a classic and could be worn in so many ways. One of my favourite ways is with a pair of blue jeans, and my current favourite jeans are these Samsøe & Samsøe straight-leg mid-rise ones. I love the fit, the straight cut with a slight taper and the little bit of distressing below the knee.
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Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) DiamondTouch table is the world's first multi-user touch technology, allowing multiple people to work simultaneously, and the system knows who is who. DiamondTouch also supports rich gesture inputs, and it is debris tolerant (meaning that you can put your coffee cup on the table – no problem). This makes DiamondTouch a useful tool for supporting small group collaborative activities.
Currently the DiamondTouch table is available commercially only as a developer's kit and includes: a selection of demonstration applications; a mouse emulator with onscreen keyboard to support common Windows applications; and a Software Developer's Kit allowing the development of new software applications that support gesture inputs and multiple simultaneous users.
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The developer's kit includes the DiamondTouch hardware and drivers, plus a software developer's kit (SDK) that supports application development in Java, C, C++, .NET and ActiveX. We will include a few demonstration applications, as well as a Windows mouse emulator or DTmouse. With DTmouse and access to a pop-up on-screen keyboard, you can drive Windows applications out of the box. If you want multi-user capabilities or gesture inputs, you can use the SDK to develop application software. The DiamondTouch developer's kit does not include a projector – you can use your own or you can purchase one from us. You will need to have the projection image aimed down onto the DiamondTouch table. Here again, you can purchase a floor stand and mounting bracket, or you can use something of your own design.
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Teera is a halfling and a former bandit from the Ozmit Sea. She participated in a wyvern attack on the airship that Vox Machina used to travel to Vasselheim.
After the fight, Teera was given the choice between death or joining the airship's crew at the lowest rank, and so started serving under Captain Damon. She eventually became a cherished part of the crew as the navigator due to her knowledge of the Ozmit Sea.[2][3] As an NPC, she is played by Matthew Mercer.
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While Teera does not know her age, she looks to be in her twenties or thirties, although her rough life of scavenging and piracy has made her look older than she really is.[1] When she attacked Captain Damon's ship, her teeth were broken and rotted.[4]
After several months of working on Damon's ship, she had nice and clean-cut hair pulled back into a ponytail, although her teeth were still in poor condition.[5]
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After the attack on Captain Damon's ship, she was very timid and nervous, likely due to having several near-death experiences and being in severe pain at the time.
During her time as a crewmate on Captain Damon's ship, Teera seemed happier and more self-confident. She smiled when Damon praised her navigation skills.[3]
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Background Edit
Teera lived in a cavern on an island in the middle of the Ozmit Sea. The people there would attack ships passing through, stealing money and supplies they needed to survive. They had very little contact with other settlements.[6]
"Skyward" (1x15) Edit
Teera was a member of the bandit group that attacked Captain Damon's skyship as they were transporting the Horn of Orcus to Vasselheim. She was the sole surviving bandit after the battle ended. She begged for her life as Grog dangled her over the edge of the airship and explained that her group had attacked the ship because they thought it would contain riches, not because they were hired to. Vex'ahlia asked Captain Damon what to do with thieving pirates, and he said he usually drops them overboard. Grog immediately did so. However, during the battle Vex had shot the halfling with a Grappling Arrow which was still embedded in her shoulder blade. Vex held onto the rope, painfully stopping Teera's plummet, and pulled her back onto the ship. Vax'ildan suggested putting her to work on board the skyship and Keyleth pointed out that one of the crew fell overboard during the battle, so they needed a replacement anyway. Teera agreed to be put to work on the ship.[7]
"The Chase to Glintshore" (1x67) Edit
Several months later, Vox Machina met Teera again when they hired Captain Damon to take them to the Isle of Glintshore. She looked much happier and healthier, and Damon considered her a valuable crewmate due to her vast knowledge of the sea. She did look a bit nervous when she saw Vox Machina, but nevertheless agreed to guide them safely to their destination.[8]
"Passed Through Fire" (1x69) Edit
After Vox Machina's battle on the Isle of Glintshore, Vex'ahlia persuaded Captain Damon to steer the airship to Whitestone in order to join the battle against the Chroma Conclave. Damon was not certain where the city was located but Teera knew it was near the Alabaster Sierras and promised to get the ship there.[9]
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- ↑ See "Skyward" (1x15) at 3:31:10.
- ↑ See "The Chase to Glintshore" (1x67) from 1:23:43 through 1:24:07.
- ↑ See "The Chase to Glintshore" (1x67) at 2:32:39.
- ↑ See "Skyward" (1x15) at 3:27:26.
- ↑ See "The Chase to Glintshore" (1x67) at 2:31:12.
- ↑ See "Skyward" (1x15) from 3:28:14 through 3:29:14.
- ↑ See "Skyward" (1x15) from 3:26:27 through 3:32:17.
- ↑ See "The Chase to Glintshore" (1x67) from 2:31:12 through 2:36:45.
- ↑ See "Passed Through Fire" (1x69) at 0:46:20.


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If the British were to follow the German press, they'd find a suggestion in the tabloid Bild that the unofficial motto of British politics has become: "If it's real then I don't want to know." But the hard-core Conservative Brexiteers who decided to try to overthrow Prime Minister Theresa May on the eve of a European Union summit, or the Labourites who revel in mocking her, most likely don't read Bild or any other "Continental" newspapers.
In the rowdy badinage of Parliament, leaving the European Union often seems a purely domestic issue in which nostalgia for empire, political ambition and British pride largely exclude any thought of European Union interests or other realities. Rare is the politician who would suggest that modern Britain should welcome inclusion and a leadership role in a Europe with which it shares so much common history and values. Far more common are declarations along the lines of the song from the old Marx Brothers film "Horse Feathers": "I don't know what they have to say / It makes no difference anyway / Whatever it is, I'm against it!"
In one of those traditions in which Britain abounds, a party challenge to Mrs. May had to be initiated by 48 letters from Conservative members of Parliament. Not surprisingly, most came from strong backers of leaving the European Union, who for reasons not entirely clear concluded that the prime minister's failure to bring the withdrawal agreement she had negotiated with the bloc to a vote in Parliament earlier this week made this an opportune time to unseat her as party leader, and in that way, as prime minister. They failed, 200 to 117, but the bitter divisions in the Conservative Party left clear that any version of her agreement stood little chance of ever passing Parliament.
One of the more widely cited of the 48 letters was from Owen Paterson, a former secretary of state for Northern Ireland and an ardent Brexiteer. Part of it read: "It was a mistake to treat Brexit miserably as a problem to be solved rather than an exciting opportunity to be grasped. The U.K. is the world's fifth largest economy. We are a key NATO member, a permanent U.N. Security Council member, a Commonwealth realm, a nuclear power. We are the source of the English language, the common law and occupy the ideal time zone for global trade. Yet from the outset we have approached these negotiations as a feeble and unworthy supplicant."
The most flamboyant of the Brexiteers, Boris Johnson, sounded a similar theme in a typically cheeky article in the current Spectator, claiming he had heard that an unnamed cabinet minister decided to support Mrs. May's European Union deal because otherwise there was a risk that the manufacturers of Mars Bars would lose access to two key ingredients. "What kind of a country is this? Are we going to abandon a thousand years of national self-rule, and adopt foreign laws — over which we have no control," wrote Johnson, because they can't be bothered "to make whatever preparations are necessary for the microscopic risk of us running out of Mars Bars?"
The funny Mr. Johnson had already contributed the term "cakeism" for the Brexit delusion when he declared, "My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it." Cakeism is hardly restricted to hard-core Brexiteers. The Labour Party and much of the British public seem to share the illusion that there is a way to reap all the benefits of a single European market and customs union while rejecting freedom of movement and other European Union rules they don't like.
The reality, as Bild would put it, is that the political spectacle in Westminster has not brought Britain any closer to any shared and reasoned notion of how to leave, or stay in, the European Union. Mrs. May has bought time, this week by putting off a vote on her deal and then surviving the Conservative challenge. Under the rules, her Tory foes can't begin another rebellion for a year, and while they were keen to humiliate her, they are wary of bringing down the entire government for fear of a general election that would usher in the old-school leftist Jeremy Corbyn and his Labour Party. So the three fundamental options have not substantially changed: a negotiated deal, no deal, no Brexit. And for all of Britain's grand history, Europe will not give it free cake or Mars Bars.
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I was asked to develop a sensor package to allow a console operator to have realtime feedback of a remote device I've settled on OSC because it allows me to push both a numeric measurement value and error messages. I'm struggling a bit with formatting my osc message. to be able to display arbitrary OSC text on an EOS Magic Sheet, I'm using dummy beam pallets and updating the label for them once a second.
/eos/set/bp/x/label=xyz is working great
But I'd love to be able to force that to user 0, or a specific user. in testing, when i'm sending that many OSC messages as the active user I have some trouble with the CIA disappearing when saving or exiting because the OSC label command is taking priority.
/eos/user/0/set/bp/x/label=xyz doesn't work, it just selects the beam pallet, and doesn't label it.
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and regarding user change: you could send the user change once: /eos/user=5 . for this session all your OSC commands (unless told differently) will be received by user 5.
Thank You for the quick response,
Sending /eos/user=5 certainly works to change for the session, I can include it in the boot of my sensor devices, but... I have a feeling as the show powers up they will boot well before the consoles. I also don't want my devices to dictate the general user of the OSC session as i'm sure that the network will also have MLA, Remotes, and other things sending OSC as well that are not under my domain.
Is there a macro I can fire to change the OSC user? I tried using local OSC command on a magic sheet, but it didn't seem to adjust the network OSC messages.
To your first point, I wasn't sucessful testing with magic sheet OSC elements that weren't using native EOS OSC. Is there a syntax that you suggest?
Ideally I'd like to display a text value being sent on /sensors//temperature/device/<id>/<value> or similar.
I settled on naming dummy pallets over setting levels on dummy subs or channels because it easily let me show negative values and error messages.
just tried sending custom strings from touchOSC to a magic sheet and it does work.
in my touchOSC layout there is a button that sends either 1 or 0 to /ueli/signal1. and in my magic sheet i have a command object that is listening to /ueli/signal1. it shows either 1 or 0 depending of the touchOSC button is pressed or not
I'll have to try with touch OSC. I have not been able to get this to work with Luminosus for testing.
Touch OSC is sending Floats, Luminosus is sending strings. Incoming Magic Sheets OSC elements seem to work with floats but not with strings, so no text characters.
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For the last couple of years, I have been chair of a relatively small mental health trust in Staffordshire, but my background is very much in the private sector, as non-executive chair of a series of corporations dealing with acute financial pressure.
Even in my limited time in the NHS, long established structures have been changing dramatically and the role of a chair is certainly not what it was. Not long ago, trusts were fairly stable things and not much changed from one year to the next. The chair had responsibilities which were largely internal to the trust, focussed on sustaining a positive and supportive culture. The imperfect internal market meant that trusts had to compete from time to time for commissioned work, and the NHS superstructure was overhauled frequently, but for a trust chair, change was not a big issue.
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In the new age, transformation is the only way to sustainability. And the currency of transformation is trust. Trust between collaborating organisations to best serve a local population. Trust does not just happen – it has to be generated by contact, by respect and by understanding. Again, chairs are central to this process. At least half of my time is spent outside of my trust, attending the board meetings of partner organisations and gaining understanding of their problems and priorities. The process can be more challenging when the partners are local authorities, with their complex structures and different financial imperatives.
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It is back again, another opportunity to get it right. Everyone is campaigning for Nigerians to sign up for the PVC cards to get a chance to express our rights. But then, voting is not just our rights, it is our responsibility. The question we should be asking ourselves is this, what are the chances that our children would not become slaves? Poverty stricken and begging for food on the street side in future? Well that is the reality of a lot of children in today's Nigeria.
When you eat that rice and onions you traded for votes, you are eating the future of your children.
I'm guessing you're reading this on your own mobile phone so that means you can afford one, so there is a chance you can read, and your children are probably going to school. In a nation where the leadership does not prioritise education let alone food and health, the future of our children is slowly being traded for their pockets.
Whose future are we trading for onions?
Some people say the leadership want this because it is easier to rule poor uneducated people than it is to rule educated ones. Our continued ignorance is a win for these leaders hence they'll rather get richer at your expense than give you a chance at an average life.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) says its crisis management center implemented through the NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme (SPS) can contribute to the fight against the challenges of trafficking and terrorism in Mauritania and the Sahel region of Africa.
According to a statement from NATO's headquarters, it says the system could also serve as a model for the neighboring countries and regional organizations which have shown interest in this innovative center.
The national center will improve civil protection, operational watch, and early warning of the population against threats and risks, and enhance preparedness against crises affecting national security. It also supports emergency response by compiling and analyzing information from various sources, using modern technology and simulations.
It is based on a system which provides modern communication equipment for crisis monitoring, alert and management. Operators, technicians and other personnel in charge of the system have been trained, at technical and operational levels, so as to be able to implement their responsibilities and follow their missions.
This comprehensive system has been referred to as an example for the entire Sahel region.
"It is with great satisfaction that I see this project achieved," said Inspector Mohamed Lemine Haidara of the Mauritanian General Directorate for Civil protection. "This project was developed for the Mauritanian Civil Protection in cooperation with the NATO SPS Programme and my French counterparts. I want to pay tribute to all those who were deeply committed to make this project advance and succeed. Its recognition went beyond Mauritania's borders and it is considered as a model by the countries in the Sahel region," he continued
General (Ret.) Denis Opplert of the French General Directorate for Civil protection and Crisis Management concluded, "For me, this project has represented an exceptional human and technological challenge. I was happy to see the progressive and complete takeover of the system by its users and managers. I want to thank them, as well as the French experts for their contribution".
The four regional operational coordination centres across Mauritania located in Nouakchott, Nouadhibou, Rosso and Néma have also been supplied with portable kits for mobile crisis coordination.
The system facilitates situational awareness in the different provinces of Mauritania. The centres are receiving and processing emergency calls, track incidents, and share the information gathered at the national level and in other regions affected by a particular event.
The crisis management center financed within the framework of the NATO SPS Programme also received substantial national contributions from France and Canada, NATO said.


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Chef's Salad
At the restaurant, we always made three dressings to go with this chef salad...blue cheese, French and Thousand Island. At home, I had to serve all three dressings, too, because everyone had their favorite. Sometimes the kids would use a tablespoon of each. —Eleanore Hill, Fresno, California
Total TimePrep: 15 min. + chilling
Makes6 servings
- 1/2 head iceberg lettuce, torn
- 1 can (15 ounces) garbanzo beans or chickpeas, rinsed and drained, optional
- 1 small red onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup sliced radishes
- 1 small cucumber, chopped
- 1 small tomato, chopped
- 1 cup julienned fully cooked ham
- 1 cup julienned Swiss or cheddar cheese
- 1 cup Miracle Whip
- 1/2 cup each ketchup, sweet pickle relish and chopped onion
- Dash garlic salt
- In a large salad bowl, combine lettuce, beans if desired, onion, radishes, cucumber and tomato. Arrange ham and cheese on top. Cover and refrigerate until serving. In a small bowl, combine all dressing ingredients; stir until well blended. Chill for 1 hour. Serve with the salad.


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Exhibition runs Sep 24 - Nov 23
Closing Reception: Nov 23 from 2-4pm
Touch the Conversation - Fermenting OldNew
The closing reception will be held during Medalta's Heritage Christmas Market - November 23rd from 2-4pm.
Placing large Korean fermentation jars on the historic site where Canadian fermenting crock pots used to be produced has significant meaning for Grace Han, and is something she have been envisioning since she immigrated to Canada. In Korea, these types of jars are called Onggi and people use them for fermentation of foods such as Kimchi and rice wine (Mak-geol-li). When Han was first trained in South Korea, she learned a great deal of unique Korean traditional techniques, including how to make Onggi. Those traditional Korean techniques and culture are deeply embedded in her. Although Han has been living in Canada for almost a decade, the core of her work still comes from that culture. Having these Onggi jars around her growing up, learning the techniques of how to make them, and then actually creating them in her new home here in Canada, becomes a reflection of who she is – traditional vessels made with Canadian resources by using Korean traditional techniques. This New-Old style of work represents the current Han, which feels somewhere in between two cultures.
When audiences enter the installation space, they are surrounded by the sounds of fermentation that was recorded when Korean traditional rice wine was fermenting in these Onggi jars, which were created in a beehive kiln during the residency here at Medalta. Viewers are welcome to touch the vessels as they listen to the sound of the transformation that occurred inside these jars.
Grace Han is a ceramic artist originally trained in Seoul, South Korea. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Dankook University where she specialized in traditional Korean Ceramic techniques and skills. She then worked for several years in one of the largest ceramic companies in Korea and built on her ceramics knowledge and experience outside of academia. She immigrated to Canada in 2011 and received her Master of Fine Arts from University of Manitoba. Now she is pursuing her career as a ceramic artist in Canada – her new home.


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Posted on 24 October 2012
To celebrate the successful launch of GameMaker: Studio on Steam, YoYo Games announces the YoYo Games Steam Workshop Competition which gives members of our community three chances to win $1000!
Months October, November and December of 2012 will each host a competition where the best game, decided by both the Steam GameMaker: Studio community and YoYo Games, will take home the grand prize!
To enter the competition all you have to do is create a game in GameMaker: Studio and upload it to the GameMaker: Studio Steam Workshop with the current months competition tag ("YoYoCompOct2012", etc).
So if you have a great game idea, make sure and submit your entries before the 1st of November for a chance to win the October prize.
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AFC U-23 Championship: Narender Gahlot - It is a great opportunity for me to impress
India might have lost their opening game in the ongoing AFC U-23 Championship qualifiers to Uzbekistan but they still have a chance to go through if they manage to win against Tajikistan and other results go in their favour.
Defender Narender Gahlot, however, is confident ahead of one of the biggest tests of his early career.
Gahlot allowed Goal to peek into his developmental phase and admitted that he started off as a midfielder before his coach opted to put him in defence.
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"I used to play cricket. But one of my close friends always played football. So just like that, I started playing football. My family wanted me to become an athlete, so they supported me a lot. My friend lent me the boot when I first played football. Then after that when my family got to know about this, they bought me my own boots.
"I joined Chandigarh Football Academy in 2015. In Delhi, I had to travel a lot to attend practice sessions. I used to get tired. But in CFA, along with good food and hostel facilities, the ground was also very near. I used to play regular tournaments for CFA which helped me progress as a player.
"I started as a midfielder but my coach felt that I would play better as a defender. I started as a defender in one match and I played really well. Since then, I've been playing as a defender," he said.
The 17-year-old made the most of the opportunity that befell him and featured for the country in the U-17 World Cup held in India in 2017. He gave an insight of how his time wiith the U-17 team and Indian arrows helped him grow as a player.
"I got selected in SAI's football team. We had two training camps in Dehradun and Haryana respectively. Then a practice match was organised between SAI and the U17 World Cup team. I played well in that match and Nicolai (Adam) Sir selected me.
"I don't want to complicate things for myself. I try not to make mistakes. We are always focused on not conceding. Communication with the goalkeeper is very important. We support each other very well so that we don't make mistakes."
He went on to credit former India international defender Mahesh Gawli who is part of the support team for the youngsters at Arrows.
"Mahesh Gawli helps me a lot. He was a great defender himself. He has improved my understanding and match reading. I am grateful to him for improving me as a player.
"Indian Arrows like to play out from the back. I like to pass and play with the ball. So, the coach handed me a chance. I work regularly with the ball to improve my passing," he continued.
Indian Arrows had an impressive campaign in the I-League this time around. The youngsters did well to beat top teams like Mohun Bagan and put on appreciable performances against the likes of eventual champions Chennai City and Real Kashmir. Gahlot admitted that he felt they did a great job against those teams.
"It was difficult to play Chennai City in the very first match. But we grew in confidence as the tournament progressed. Playing RKFC was tough as they play long balls and they have physically dominant strikers upfront. But I think we did a good job against them as well."
Narender has set his eyes on the ongoing AFC U23 qualifiers and wants to leave no stone unturned to make his mark at the international stage.
"Coach (Derrick) is supporting me very well. I am playing just the way he wants me to play. If he picks me then I will give my 100%. It will be a great opportunity for me to impress," he concluded.
(With inputs from Sooraj Kamath)


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Building 111 on the Xerox engineering campus, near Rochester, New York, is vast and labyrinthine. On the social-media site Foursquare, one visitor writes that it's "like Hotel California." Conference Room C, near the southwest corner, is small and dingy; it contains a few banged-up whiteboards and a table. On a frigid winter afternoon, a group of engineers gathered there, drawing the shades against the late-day sun. They wanted to see more clearly the screen at the front of the room, on which a computer model of a paper jam was projected.
The jam had occurred in Asia, where the owners of a Xerox-manufactured printing press were trying to print a book. The paper they had fed into the press was unusually thin and light, of the sort found in a phone book or a Bible. This had not gone well. Midway through the printing process, the paper was supposed to cross a gap; flung from the top of a rotating belt, it needed to soar through space until it could be sucked upward by a vacuum pump onto another belt, which was positioned upside down. Unfortunately, the press was in a hot and humid place, and the paper, normally lissome, had become listless. At the apex of its trajectory, at the moment when it was supposed to connect with the conveyor belt, its back corners drooped. They dragged on the platform below, and, like a trapeze flier missing a catch, the paper sank downward. As more sheets rushed into the same space, they created a pile of loops and curlicues—what the jam engineers called a "flower arrangement."
"It's the worst-case scenario," Erwin Ruiz, the leader of the paper-jam team, said. In the study of paper jams, Ruiz has found his Fountain of Youth: he is fifty but looks almost two decades younger. Born in Brooklyn, he grew up in Puerto Rico before going to graduate school in Rochester, where he is now a fixture of the city's wintertime indoor beach-volleyball scene. Wearing designer sneakers, hip-hugging maroon trousers, a trim plaid shirt rolled to the elbows, and elegant stubble, he began to pace in front of a whiteboard.
Bruce Thompson, the computer modeller who sat at the head of the table, had spent days creating a simulation of the jam. "We're dealing with a highly nonlinear entity moving at a very high speed," he said. On the screen, his wireframes showed a sheet of paper in mid-flight. He called up a shadowy slow-motion video made inside the press. "There's a good inch before the vacuum takes effect," he observed.
The team began to consider their options. The most obvious fix would have been to buffet the paper upward from below using a device called an air knife. This was off limits, however, because the bottom side was coated with loose toner. "An air knife will just blow the toner right off," Ruiz said. Another possibility was to place "fingers"—small, projecting pieces of plastic—where they could support the corners as they began to droop. "That might create a higher jam rate on different paper shapes," an engineer said—it could be a "stub point." A mystified silence descended.
A mechanical engineer named Dave Breed pointed toward the upside-down conveyor belt. "The vacuum pump actually works by pulling air through holes in the belts," he said. "So what is the pattern of those holes relative to the corners? Maybe there's no suction there."
On the whiteboard, Ruiz sketched a diagram of the conveyor belt—the V.P.T., or vacuum-paper transport—showing the holes through which the suction operated. "Optimize belt pattern," he wrote.
"If my understanding of air systems is right," Breed went on, "then the force that gets a sheet moving isn't really pressure—it's flow."
Thompson nodded, miming the pushing of air away from himself with his hands. "It's flow," he concurred.
"Could we somehow create more acquisition flow?" Breed asked.
By this point, Ruiz appeared to be vibrating. "Here's a stupid idea," he said. "Bernoulli!" Bernoulli's principle, discovered in 1738, entails that fast-moving air exerts less air pressure than slow-moving air. Because the top side of an airplane wing is curved, while the underside is flat, the air above moves faster than the air below, and the wing rises. "If you have jets of air shooting above the corners, the airflow will lower the pressure, and they'll lift," Ruiz said. Using the flat of his hand, he mimed the paper levitating like a wing.
"We could take the output from the vacuum pump and port it around to make it the air source for your Bernoulli," Breed said.
"Stupid idea No. 7!" Ruiz said, grinning triumphantly. The whiteboard now contained an elaborate diagram of rollers, conveyors, vacuum pumps, air knives, air jets, stub points, and fingers. "Jets on corners to lift with Bernoulli," Ruiz wrote. Outside, the wind howled. Lake-effect snow had begun to dust the parking lot. The engineers were aglow: conspirators who'd just planned the perfect crime.
Late in "Oslo," J. T. Rogers's recent play about the negotiation of the Oslo Accords, diplomats are finalizing the document when one of them reports a snag: "It's stuck in the copy machine and I can't get it out!" The employees in Mike Judge's 1999 film "Office Space" grow so frustrated with their jam-prone printer that they destroy it with a baseball bat in a slow-motion montage set to the Geto Boys' "Still." (Office workers around the country routinely reënact this scene, posting the results on YouTube.) According to the Wall Street Journal, printers are among the most in-demand objects in "rage rooms," where people pay to smash things with sledgehammers; Battle Sports, a rage-room facility in Toronto, goes through fifteen a week. Meanwhile, in the song "Paper Jam" John Flansburgh, of the band They Might Be Giants, sees the jam as a stark moral test. "Paper jam / paper jam," he sings. "It would be so easy to walk away."
Unsurprisingly, the engineers who specialize in paper jams see them differently. Engineers tend to work in narrow subspecialties, but solving a jam requires knowledge of physics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, computer programming, and interface design. "It's the ultimate challenge," Ruiz said.


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This shirt, which is a real licensed shirt from DC, was found by an intrepid Batman fan in the Junior's section in Walmart.
I have never wanted to set a piece of clothing on fire so much in my entire life. I can't even BEGIN to express how wrong every aspect of this shirt is.
What does "training" mean here, anyway? Training to be thin enough, pretty enough for the likes of Bruce Wayne? Or perhaps training on how to cook and clean for the caped crusader? That Bat Cave gets AWFULLY dirty, you know. Better learn how to get blood stains out of his clothes, girls! You don't want your superhero husband to wear dingy, stained armor!
So ladies, the take away from this is that we can't be superheroes but we can marry them... if we train ourselves to be good enough. Thanks DC!
If you'll excuse me, I need to go punch a wall. Wait, is that unladylike? I suppose we can just call it superhero wife "training" for the inevitable fridging that would happen as Batman's beloved!


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The immune response to influenza virus infection comprises both innate and adaptive defenses. NK cells play an early role in the destruction of tumors and virally-infected cells. NK cells express a variety of inhibitory receptors, including those of the Ly49 family, which are functional homologs of human killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR). Like human KIR, Ly49 receptors inhibit NK cell-mediated lysis by binding to major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) molecules that are expressed on normal cells. During NK cell maturation, the interaction of NK cell inhibitory Ly49 receptors with their MHC-I ligands results in two types of NK cells: licensed ("functional"), or unlicensed ("hypofunctional"). Despite being completely dysfunctional with regard to rejecting MHC-I-deficient cells, unlicensed NK cells represent up to half of the mature NK cell pool in rodents and humans, suggesting an alternative role for these cells in host defense. Here, we demonstrate that after influenza infection, MHC-I expression on lung epithelial cells is upregulated, and mice bearing unlicensed NK cells (Ly49-deficient NKCKD and MHC-I-deficient B2m-/- mice) survive the infection better than WT mice. Importantly, transgenic expression of an inhibitory self-MHC-I-specific Ly49 receptor in NKCKD mice restores WT influenza susceptibility, confirming a direct role for Ly49. Conversely, F(ab')2-mediated blockade of self-MHC-I-specific Ly49 inhibitory receptors protects WT mice from influenza virus infection. Mechanistically, perforin-deficient NKCKD mice succumb to influenza infection rapidly, indicating that direct cytotoxicity is necessary for unlicensed NK cell-mediated protection. Our findings demonstrate that Ly49:MHC-I interactions play a critical role in influenza virus pathogenesis. We suggest a similar role may be conserved in human KIR, and their blockade may be protective in humans.
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) are the major producers of type I IFN during
the initial immune response to viral infection. Ly49Q, a C-type lectin-like
receptor specific for MHC-I, possesses a cytoplasmic ITIM and is highly expressed
on murine pDC. Using Ly49Q-deficient mice, we show that, regardless of strain
background, this receptor is required for maximum IFN-α production by pDC.
Furthermore, Ly49Q expression on pDC, but not myeloid dendritic cells, is
necessary for optimal IL-12 secretion, MHC-II expression, activation of CD4(+) T
cell proliferation, and nuclear translocation of the master IFN-α regulator IFN
regulatory factor 7 in response to TLR9 agonists. In contrast, the absence of
Ly49Q did not affect plasmacytoid dendritic cell-triggering receptor expressed on
myeloid cells expression or pDC viability. Genetic complementation revealed that
IFN-α production by pDC is dependent on an intact tyrosine residue in the Ly49Q
cytoplasmic ITIM. However, pharmacological inhibitors and phosphatase-deficient
mice indicate that Src homology 2 domain-containing phosphatase 1 (SHP)-1, SHP-2,
and SHIP phosphatase activity is dispensable for this function. Finally, we
observed that Ly49Q itself is downregulated on pDC in response to CpG exposure in
an ITIM-independent manner. In conclusion, Ly49Q enhances TLR9-mediated signaling
events, leading to IFN regulatory factor 7 nuclear translocation and expression
of IFN-I genes in an ITIM-dependent manner that can proceed without the
involvement of SHP-1, SHP-2, and SHIP.
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In September 1941, one of the twentieth century's most apparently non-political artists secretly took up arms against fascism. Samuel Beckett, who with exquisite timing for a notorious pessimist was born on Good Friday (and Friday the 13th) 1906, had been living in Paris since 1937, self-exiled from his native country in the manner of many an eminent Irish writer. The Irish, unlike their erstwhile colonial proprietors, have always been a cosmopolitan nation, from the nomadic monks of the Middle Ages to the corporate executives of the Celtic Tiger. If the oppressiveness of colonial rule turned some of them into nationalists, it turned others into citizens of the world. Joyce, Synge, Beckett and Thomas MacGreevy, men already caught between two or three cultures and languages, were to flourish in the rootless, polyglot, ambience of high-modernist Europe, rather as half a century later their compatriots were to embrace the European Union. It helped, in signing up to a linguistically self-conscious modernism, to stem from a nation in which language, as a political minefield, could never be taken for granted.
Beckett had volunteered to drive an ambulance for the French forces in 1940, but when the Germans invaded the country he and his wife Suzanne fled south, a mere forty-eight hours before the Nazis marched into Paris. Stopping briefly in a refugee camp in Toulouse, they arrived exhausted and almost penniless at a friend's house in Arcachon on the Atlantic coast. Some months later, lured in part by reassuring tales of the Germans' conduct in the capital, the couple returned to their Parisian apartment, surviving the bitter winter of 1940–1 on little more than a handful of vegetables. James Knowlson, Beckett's official biographer, sees this as the origin of Vladimir and Estragon's animated discussions of carrots, radishes and turnips in Waiting for Godot.footnote1 Beckett's characters, true to his own wartime experience, are vulgar materialists, too busy keeping biologically afloat to indulge in anything as grandiose as subjectivity. They are more body than soul—mechanical assemblages of body parts, as in Swift, Sterne or Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman, in which human bodies betray a distressing tendency to merge into bicycles. The mystery of the human body, like the mystery of black marks on a page for the Tipperary-born Laurence Sterne, is how this inert piece of matter comes to be more than itself—how it keeps crawling or bleating, when it ought by rights to be as silent as a stone. If the focus of Beckett's play Not I is the human mouth, it is because there meaning and materiality mysteriously converge.
Once back in Paris, Beckett joined the Resistance, his growing revulsion at the Nazi regime brought to a head by the deportation of a Jewish friend to a concentration camp. With characteristic generosity, he donated his meagre rations to the victim's wife. The eighty-strong Resistance cell of which he became a member was co-founded by the redoubtable Jeannine Picabia, daughter of the celebrated Dadaist painter, and was part of the British Special Operations Executive. From the viewpoint of pro-Nazi Republicans in the officially neutral Irish state, the Dublin émigré was now in cahoots with the political enemy. His role within the group drew on his literary skills: he was set to work translating, collating, editing and typing out scraps of information brought in by agents about German troop movements, information which was then microfilmed and smuggled out of France. Like the boy in Waiting forGodot, some of the agents' messages proved somewhat unreliable. Despite its sedentary nature, the work was highly dangerous, and after the war he was to be awarded both the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille de la Reconnaissance in honour of his services. His silence and secretiveness, qualities apparent in his art, proved to be signal advantages for a maquisard.
Even so, the cell's cover was soon blown. A comrade cracked under torture, and more than fifty of the group were arrested, many of them later deported to concentration camps. The Becketts, advised to leave the capital immediately, perilously delayed their departure by forays to alert other members of the cell, in the course of which Suzanne was arrested by the Gestapo but managed to bluff her way out of trouble. The couple escaped being picked up by a whisker, vacating their apartment only minutes before the secret police arrived at their door. Scrambling from one small hotel to another under false names, they took shelter for a time with the writer Nathalie Sarraute, and later, duly armed with forged documents, hid away in the village of Roussillon in Provence, where most of the locals mistook them for refugee Jews.
It was here that Beckett rejoined a Resistance cell in 1944, hiding explosives around his house, undergoing some basic training in handling a rifle and occasionally lying in ambush for the Germans at night. If Vladimir and Estragon sleep in ditches, so did their creator. Indeed, he was more of a vagrant than they are, since the play does not actually tell us that they are tramps. On their return to Paris after the war, the couple found themselves once again emaciated and half-famished, along with the rest of the city's population. When Beckett took up his pen, it was sometimes with fingers blue with cold. Sometime during these years, he is said to have suffered a severe psychological breakdown. Ten years before, he had taken a course of psychotherapy with Wilfred Bion.