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One Year Later: The Campaign for UC San Diego Makes Waves
UC San Diego is in the midst of a major transformation. Walk through campus and you can't miss the physical changes that are coming to life. Beyond the new buildings, there is an intellectual and cultural transformation underway that is re-energizing the student experience, sparking breakthrough research and innovation, and creating a true learning-living environment.
Fueling this growth is the Campaign for UC San Diego and, just one year since its public launch, the impact of philanthropic support is already making waves across campus. More than 110,000 donors have contributed, giving more than $1.5 billion toward the Campaign's $2 billion goal.
"Through our transformation, we are creating opportunities for our campus members so they can continue to make our world a better place," said Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. "Fostering an underlying culture of philanthropy is essential if we are to continue to evolve as an experimental, futuristic campus that is focused on the public good."
Enriching the campus community
The growth of UC San Diego is designed to foster a more connected campus that will increase our positive impact on local and global communities. On east campus, UC San Diego Health is undergoing expansions and enhancements to transform patient care for the campus and the region.
Jacobs Medical Center, which opened in 2016, represents the epitome of what modern medicine has become at the nation's top academic medical centers—advanced technologies supporting highly specialized care, delivered by multidisciplinary teams of doctors, nurses and technicians. Its forward-looking approach to medicine could only be realized with the support of many generous donors, including Joan and Irwin Jacobs, for whom the building is named.
More recently, the Koman Family Outpatient Pavilion opened at the La Jolla campus in March. The new facility offers the best in clinical care and translational medicine in one location, so that patients need not travel from site to site for different treatments. The Pavilion is named in honor of Bill and Amy Koman and family in recognition of their generosity and dedication to advancing health care in San Diego.
"We are keenly aware and appreciative of the importance of top-notch, local health care," said two-time cancer survivor Bill Koman. "Our family is committed to supporting the development of academic medical centers and teaching hospitals that offer the research, technology and care that drive 21st century medicine."
Among the changes happening on main campus is a renewed commitment to public art. From the iconic "Sun God" to the gravity-defying "Fallen Star," the renowned Stuart Collection encourages campus members and visitors alike to engage with art in a nonconventional manner.
Last summer, the campus celebrated the installation of the newest piece, "The Wind Garden" by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Luther Adams, thanks in part to a $1 million gift from Mary Looker.
Launched more than three decades ago by the vision and philanthropy of James Stuart DeSilva, the Stuart Collection is completely self-sustaining, relying on the generosity of donors to fund new projects. Looker's gift created a permanent endowed fund—the first for the Stuart Collection—to help supplement fundraising for new commissions, and ensure that this treasure trove of public art continues to flourish at UC San Diego for years to come.
Enhancing the student experience
The campus transformation is also changing the life of our students, strengthening access and affordability, offering community building experiences, and more.
Environmental systems major Lexius Waltar is the first in her family to attend college, an opportunity that has expanded her horizons more than she could have predicted. She's studied abroad in the West Indies, mentored incoming freshman through the Summer Bridge program and gotten involved with the Black Student Union.
"It means a lot to me and my family that I was able to continue pursuing my passions into higher education," she said.
Waltar is attending UC San Diego thanks to a Chancellor's Associates Scholarship. Established in 2013, the Chancellor's Associates Scholars Program aims to ensure access and affordability to higher education for qualified local students. Since its inception, the program has awarded more than 600 scholarships—and its capacity for supporting students is still growing.
Longtime campus friends Karen and Jeff Silberman recently made a $1 million gift to Chancellor's Associates, the largest ever made to the program. Their contribution will provide a dollar-for-dollar match, up to $1 million, to help increase Chancellor's Associates by 400 new donors this year and in turn, grow its namesake scholarship program.
Once students arrive on campus, they have an increasing number of opportunities to develop skills in leadership, entrepreneurism and social innovation.
For instance, the Gordon Engineering Leadership Center at the Jacobs School of Engineering—which got a $3 million boost from the Bernard and Sophia Gordon Foundation in 2014—provides hands-on leadership training, mentoring, think tanks and more for students who are interested in generating new products and jobs that benefit society.
Over 1,400 students have taken technical leadership courses through the center since its 2009 launch, and more than 230 have been accepted to the Gordon Scholars program, a comprehensive leadership certificate program. Two of these scholars, Darren Charrier and Deepak Atyam, made news in January when they were named to the Mars Generation's #24Under24 Leaders and Innovators in STEAM and Space.
Sparking breakthrough research and innovation
The Campaign for UC San Diego is also about an intellectual transformation, one that supports interdisciplinary research to tackle some of the most pressing and complex societal challenges.
With Understanding and Protecting the Planet as one of UC San Diego's strategic research priorities, Scripps Institution of Oceanography has recruited Mark Merrifield, a renowned climate researcher and UC San Diego alumnus, to lead the new Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation.
Established in 2015 with a $5 million gift from Richard and Carol Hertzberg, the center brings together climate scientists as well as experts in economics, urban planning, political science, public health and other disciplines to document the impacts of climate change and develop practical solutions to help communities adapt to changes that are widely seen as inevitable.
The center is expanding some of Merrifield's existing fieldwork, including a project coordinating with the Department of Defense to observe sea-level rise near local military bases, and working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to build a national seasonal forecast system with insight into how sea levels affect coastal flooding.
"We want to be a resource for the community where they can find expert assessments on the current understanding of climate change and what the impacts are likely to be going forward," said Merrifield.
UC San Diego is also pioneering what is arguably one of the fastest emerging scientific fields: data science. The new Halicioğlu Data Science Institute will harness the power of big data to transform research across disciplines and train the next generation of data science leaders. The institute is named for computer science alumnus Taner Halicioğlu, an early Facebook employee whose $75 million gift was announced at the Campaign for UC San Diego launch last year.
"Take personalized medicine and genomics," said Halicioğlu. "Gathering, sequencing, analyzing and storing an individual's genetic makeup will allow physicians to find causes and correlations that can determine how things are related and what they reveal. That's the kind of fundamental transformation data science is bringing to almost every field."
In addition to serving as a research hub, the institute is developing a five-year, B.S./M.S. degree program for students interested in specific areas of data science. It will also be a key resource for San Diego's high-tech and biotech industry, as well as local governments, by offering training programs and opportunities to collaborate on data-science applications for health care, transportation, energy, water and other sectors of the regional economy.
What's next for the Campaign for UC San Diego?
This is just the beginning of an unprecedented physical, intellectual and cultural transformation powered by private support. In addition to its monetary goal, the Campaign for UC San Diego aims to build a sustainable culture of philanthropy that will enable the campus to continue to drive innovation, advance society, propel economic growth, and, ultimately, solve the world's most pressing problems.
As UC San Diego Athletics transitions to NCAA Division I, the campus will need to fundraise for scholarships for student athletes as well as sports facility upgrades. As the new North Torrey Pines Living and Learning Neighborhood comes to life, philanthropy will play a critical role in equipping this living-learning experiment with the resources needed to ensure students thrive.
Backed by philanthropic visionaries, UC San Diego will continue to embrace a philosophy of perpetual optimism and inquisitiveness, and a penchant for doing things differently, to make the world a better place.


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Skardon River was declared a port in February 2002. As the port manager, Ports North's role is to maintain the port to facilitate trade.
The marine facilities are located upstream on the Skardon River and incorporate a barge ramp.
Metro Mining Ltd has begun mining at the Bauxite Hills Mine on Friday 13 April shipping out of Skardon River at a rate of 2-million-tonnes-per-annum

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I've been using NoMachine after seeing it mentioned in another thread. If both computers are on the same local network, it's pretty good.
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Iowa State University economist David Swenson predicts the economic impact from the 2012 Iowa caucuses will fall "well short" of spending from the 2008 caucuses, which saw both parties having open races for their respective presidential nominations.
Swenson authored a report in 2008 which found the major presidential candidates' economic impact to the state was $15.5 million in total sales in the six months preceding the caucuses, or about one-hundredth of 1 percent of the state's $130 billion gross domestic product value in 2007.
While the exposure generated by the caucuses gives them the illusion of a significant economic impact, "the real impact is nowhere near as much as people assume it is," Swenson said in a statement issued by ISU. He expects that to be even less this campaign cycle in which only Republicans are campaigning in Iowa for their party's presidential nomination.
Many members of the national and international media visited Iowa State University, along with thousands of Republican Party members, for the Iowa Straw Poll in Ames on Aug. 13. But while the event and a nationally televised debate two days earlier drew significant media exposure, Swenson doesn't see a major economic benefit from it.
"With the straw poll, a few thousand people descending on Ames is the equivalent of a pretty good high school basketball game. Truly that is not that big of a deal."
And contrary to popular opinion from some news outlets, neither is Iowa's economic windfall from the caucuses, he said.
"It's not an economic boon," Swenson said. "What we get is a lot of attention and that's the value of it. It's the indirect value of it. The publicity is much more valuable than (what) any of the candidates actually spend in the state. So you just consider it a large amount of free Iowa advertising and that's its value.
"I've been interviewed by members of the national media and they are incredibly disappointed when I tell them the truth [about the real economic impact to Iowa of the caucuses]," he added.
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Sports teach us a lot about life. Sports provide a platform for athletes to learn that life is bigger than winning and losing. Sports teach us the value of discipline and hard work and grit. Sports make us jump up and shout they can also make us want to cuss (notice I said, "want to" :)).
Last night after 111 straight wins, the UCONN women's team lost. Cheers to Mississippi State and their hard work. Today, the men's tournament will be whittled down to the final two teams standing. And no, I didn't pick either of them…maybe next year.
Several weeks ago, in the spirit of March Madness, I started following the #lavarballsays saga…and it has been quite entertaining.
In case you have had more important things to worry about…Lavar Ball is the father of UCLA star basketball player Lonzo Ball and two High School Basketball stars, LiAngelo and LaMelo.
There is no question, he has some incredibly talented boys, however, he could be a bit biased about his own career and the future of his sons.
He has made the claim that he could have beat Michael Jordan 1v1. Pause for a moment and let that sink in……ok…..he has also made the claim that his son Lonzo is a better player than Steph Curry.
But it doesn't stop there…he decided to go after LeBron James' son and of course found some way to involve Charles Barkley.
Now, he could end up being right about a lot of those claims…I doubt it….but we shall see. No matter what, he has successfully found a way to get the attention of the media and many other people including myself.
It takes guts to make a big claim….it takes much more to fulfill a big claim.
This Sunday, we are going to talk about the biggest claim ever made. We will study from Luke 4:16-31 about a time when Jesus of Nazareth walked into the Synagogue, read from the prophet Isaiah about the coming Messiah and then told the crowd, "today, this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."
A difference (and there are many) between LaVar and Jesus is that Jesus made the biggest claim in the history of ever…and then He fulfilled it ENTIRELY.
So what does this mean for a devoted follower of Jesus?
I hope to answer that question tomorrow :)!


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myartspace is the premier online venue for the contemporary art world. The community includes established artists, emerging artists, aspiring artists, collectors, curators, teachers, galleries, art appreciators.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Picasso Harlequin Withdrawn from Auction
A painting by Pablo Picasso has been withdrawn from a Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern art auction in New York. The painting, which is a 1909 work titled "Arlequin", was expected to fetch more than $30 million at auction. Sotheby's says that the owners withdrew the painting for personal reasons. However, critics have suggested that it was withdrawn due to the recent financial crisis that has shaken the foundation of the art market. The harlequin painting was owned by the late Italian born American surrealist painter Enrico Donati. Donati paid $12,000 for the painting in the 1940s. Is this a sign of what is to come?
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Its simply the proof of how messed up the art world is, that the market is all. This painting was bought for what would probably be the equivalent of about $60k now, by the most famous artist of the time during his key creative period. THATS what this says, art is an investment, no more important than a rare postage stamp. Speculation is all, and look where that has gotten us.
Dumbass punks straight out of art school, with no knowledge of the world, all eager to create a career, truly their most creative act as their art is absurdly stupid, want that much for childishly retarded self indulgences. The art world is completely corrupt. Period.
Art collegia delenda est.
The art world must be destroyed, and begun anew, This is in the heart and mind, forget all you have been taught, and go back to the beginning. Start with no preconceptions, lay out the great art of the world before,you, and come up with your own definition of art. In the arts, those who can do, those who cant teach. Ignore those who cant.
Should we seriously wonder about the timing of this?
I am not sure what has been more hideous to observe; the look of horror on wall street traders faces, or the pathetically inflated prices 'investors' pay for art at auction.
A correction is well over due.


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When You have YAFM installed (http://nhw.pl/wp/yafm/install) You can start filling it with data. This manual is for version 0.1 of YAFM, version 0.2 have some improvements but work flow does not changed.
After first start You should see picture similar to this one (click on pictures to see bigger ones):
First You need to create some categories. Click on CATEGORIES link on top of screen. You should see screen which let You to define categories.
Now clik on 'New category' link and create new category
After You have addes a few You shuld see something similar to this view:
Now click on ENTRIES on top of page and follow 'New entry' link. Fill form to create first entry. Enter amount, short description and date when it was paid. Something like this:
After You click 'Create' You should be looking on basic report view, looking similar to this (depending on categories You have created earlier). Now You can click on green icon next to category name to add another entry in this category.
After You have entered some more entries, You can look on report to see what is here going on. In each row You have:
- Category name – and link to all entries in this category
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- Sum (rounded to integer) of all expenses in this category in current month
- How this sum relates to last year average in this category (in %, in red if more than 130%)
- Average for this category through last 12 month
- Previous month's sum
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jQuery IE7 "Operation Aborted" error
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I just got done troubleshooting an issue with a page with some jQuery on it. The jQuery was in a script called from the head of the document, and its job was to rearrange some elements into tabs once the page was loaded.
In unpredictable cases (sequential reloads had different results), loading the page in IE7 would lead to an "Operation aborted" error that provided no additional information. Through some googling, I found out that this was probably related to IE choking when some script was run against the DOM before the DOM was fully loaded.
What puzzled me was that I was using
$.ready() to wrap my jQuery, which was supposed to wait for the DOM, but it didn't seem to matter. Then I found this -- it turns out that interacting with the DOM via javascript from within a table can make IE all sorts of angry, while interacting with the DOM via javascript from within a div is just fine.
While my case doesn't directly match the example above, it seems very possible that the table-based template I was writing for was the source of the headaches. Changing the base HTML template for the page I was working on wasn't immediately in the cards, so I split the offending js file into two pieces -- one in the head of the document that contains some basic functions but didn't actually do anything, and another right before the closing body tag that does the actual talking to the DOM -- and that seemed to fix it.


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Spring Chicken
Today's writing prompt:
Spring chicken.
Inspired by 17 fluffy chicks chirping in my incubator 🙂
Today's writing prompt:
Spring chicken.
Inspired by 17 fluffy chicks chirping in my incubator 🙂
I'm sure most of us are well and truly chocolated-out 😦
I'll stick to regular eggs for a while now!
Hope this picture inspires poems, stories, memories etc 🙂
Thankfully we have enough water in our tanks during this extended heatwave. As well as the house tanks we have several small tanks around the block filled with dam water by Rod last weekend for watering the trees and plants. The water is very warm, even first thing in the morning. I've been starting at daybreak to bucket as much as I can before the sun gets too hot and doing more in the evenings until dark but the trees all look good. Poor Rod has been sweltering in his truck all week (no air-con!) so we're going to be very tired this weekend. Hopefully, the cool change expected much later today will bring some relief although authorities are saying it will possibly increase the chance of bushfires through lightning and wind. I hope everyone is safe.
I've draped my chook pens with old block-out curtains to keep a little of the sun off the tin and, fortunately, no more casualties yesterday. I can't believe a few are still valiantly laying eggs despite their discomfort. (Perhaps when I go to use them they'll already be hard-boiled!!)
Little green grub munches on tomato plants . . . chooks swallow little green grub . . . eggs 🙂
Whoever decides the designs for our postage stamps must have been listening to me this year.
A Mini Red Dachshund a few months ago and now chooks 🙂
They look so much better on the envelopes than 'Postage Paid'!!
Thank you to all the kind subscribers and contributors who have been sending stamps – it all helps and I do appreciate it 🙂
Lots of PET stories coming in for the October issue but, so far, no chook tales 😦


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"The first thing we do, let the lawyers kill them all."
-Shakespeare, as allegedly interpreted by Burton W. Gibson
Burton W. Gibson was a lawyer who had a remarkable number of incredibly unlucky clients. People who hired him had a distressing habit of dying or disappearing in various mysterious ways. The list included:
Mrs. Alice Kinnan, who on June 6, 1906, was found lying on the porch of her home in the Bronx. Someone had smashed in her skull. Sometime earlier, Mrs. Kinnan's mother, Louisa Stenton, had hired Gibson and another attorney to settle a complicated dispute involving the mortgage on some property she owned. She eventually established title to the home, but after two years of Gibson's peculiar brand of litigation, she somehow wound up more in debt than when she started. At the time of her death, Mrs. Kinnan and her mother were suing their former lawyers in an effort to recover part of their money. Just hours before her murder, Alice Kinnan had been heard to say, "that devil of a lawyer [Gibson] put me to a lot of trouble." On the recommendation of the coroner's jury, Gibson was arrested, but released on a habeas corpus writ the next day, and the investigation into the death was inexplicably dropped. Gibson later brought a suit for false arrest, but it seems to have been dismissed. Kinnan's murder remains officially unsolved.
Five weeks before Kinnan died, a man named William Clinchy was also the victim of an unsolved murder. A few days before his death, he took out a life insurance policy on himself, in favor of Alice Kinnan. Burton Gibson had handled the matter for Clinchy.
George Malcolm, Mrs. Stenton's nephew and the administrator of her estate, filed suit against Gibson to recovery property of hers he had allegedly obtained through fraud. And then Malcolm disappeared. Four days later, his body was discovered in Long Island Sound. The mystery of his death was never solved. In 1910, Gibson produced a previously-unknown "lost" will Mrs. Stenton had supposedly made out. It named Gibson as executor and a Percy McElroy as residuary legatee. Stenton's relatives contested this mysterious document, and the will was eventually rejected for probate.
Michael Shippo, the caretaker of Mrs. Stenton's estate, and his wife Marie lived on the Stenton property. They were the first to discover Kinnan after she had been attacked. The Shippos afterward testified that Kinnan's last gasping words were "Lawyer--hit--me." They also claimed that Gibson had offered them money to leave the country. Michael Shippo was attacked and nearly killed by an unknown assailant in 1907, and he and his wife both often said they feared for their lives after the Kinnan murder.
In 1909, Shippo was found dead in two feet of water in New York's Pelham Creek. The official verdict was that he drowned, but the exact circumstances of his death were never determined.
In 1911, Gibson represented John Rice O'Neil in a suit for damages against a railroad company, which netted a settlement of $10,000. O'Neil put Gibson in charge of investing this money. Not long afterwards, O'Neil left his home for a meeting with his lawyer. He was never seen again. When questioned, Gibson said blandly that he had paid his client some money he was owed, after which O'Neil left his office. That, he shrugged, was all he knew of his whereabouts.
Edward Minnicks, another Gibson client, was awarded some $5,500 from a lawsuit. The day before this money was delivered to Gibson, Minnicks also disappeared, never to be seen again. Minnicks' wife complained that all she ever received from Gibson was $100.
Mary Walker asked the Legal Aid Society to help her gain control of her son's estate, which was then in Gibson's hands. Before any action could be taken, Walker joined the list of vanished Gibson associates.
Early in 1912, Gibson placed a very curious advertisement in various newspapers:
"Daughter of Paul Dillon, also known as Paul Low, and in European circles as Paul D' Ailau: Before his death your father left securities, vault keys, maps, full instructions with me. Communicate. European papers please copy. B. W. Gibson, attorney, 55 Liberty Street."
Gibson told a reporter that Dillon was a European adventurer who left an estate of several hundred thousand dollars. He knew Dillon had a daughter living in Europe, but he had no idea of her first name, or how to contact her. I have been unable to find any more about this story, so I have no idea what this busy little lawyer was up to, but with his track record, one shudders to think what it may have been.
|Rosa Szabo, via Library of Congress
In July of 1912, Rosa Szabo went boating in New York's Greenwood Lake with her attorney, Burton W. Gibson. During this outing, Gibson later explained, she fell out of their boat and drowned. A few months earlier, Gibson had drawn up a will for her, naming her mother as heir to her estate of over $11,000. When Gibson brought the will for probate, he attached a waiver of citation signed by Szabo's mother. The authorities began to show an interest in the proceedings when it was discovered that Szabo's mother had died in Austria two years before she had supposedly signed Gibson's document. They became even more interested when it became known that Szabo, who was illiterate, had told numerous people that she intended to leave her property to her five brothers and three sisters. The inference was that Szabo had had no idea of what sort of will she was really signing. And when she was exhumed, doctors who examined the corpse declared that she had not drowned, but died of strangulation. Then everyone became very interested indeed in Mr. Gibson's doings.
|Crowd awaiting Gibson's arrest for Szabo's murder. Via Library of Congress.
And a fat lot of good it did them. He was tried twice for the killing of Rosa Szabo, but neither jury was able to reach an agreement. Subsequently, however, it was established that he had fraudulently obtained over seven thousand dollars from Szabo's bank account. This time around, a jury had little difficulty in finding him guilty of grand larceny. He was sentenced to five to ten years in prison, plus a fine of $7800. (It was said that during his imprisonment, he gave "advice to the other prisoners which was not for the good of the community.")
|Every accused serial killer gets his fan club. From the Syracuse Herald, Sept. 16, 1912.
Incidentally, the source of Rosa Szabo's wealth is one of the many unanswered questions about this extraordinarily murky story. During Gibson's first trial for her murder, an acquaintance of the dead woman named Anthony Gaytz came forward as a witness. Rosa's husband, Veila, had died suddenly in 1904, supposedly of pneumonia. A native Austrian, he had been unable to make a living in New York, leaving his wife virtually penniless. Gaytz described how, on the night Veila Szabo died, he went to visit Rosa. Gaytz found her in the company of Gibson and a well-to-do jeweler named William Schumann. After her husband's death, Mrs. Szabo went to work for Schumann--who was partially paralyzed--as his live-in housekeeper. After this, Mrs. Szabo somehow banked a great deal of money--nearly $10,000. Her bank books were kept in the vaults of Schumann's jewelry firm. Then, Schumann--as people in Gibson's orbit often did--abruptly dropped dead. His relatives--who were given no advance warning of any sort of illness--were told he died of...pneumonia.
Soon after Schumann's death, Mrs. Szabo and Gibson appeared at Schumann's bank, asking for her bank books. Gibson took them into custody. And Mrs. Szabo died not long afterward.
The newspapers reported that the police would be opening investigations into the deaths of Mr. Szabo and William Schumann, but if so, these inquiries evidently came to nothing.
Gibson was disbarred while he was in Sing Sing--an action one can hardly call unjustified--but I regret to say I have found nothing more about this remarkable man's subsequent history. Once he was released from prison, he may no longer have been a lawyer, but I have the feeling he still managed to find himself many, many things to do.


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The one simple yet pretty helpful trick to extend the battery life of the Apple Watch is to allow only selected apps to bombard your Notification Center. The more peace your Watch has, the longer it will run between charges. Hence, if you don't find the notifications about your workouts worth, it would be apt to put them off.
How to Turn Off Start/End Workout Reminders on Apple Watch Running watchOS 5
Step #1. Launch Settings app on your Apple Watch.
Step #2. Now, tap on General.
Step #3. Next, tap on Workout.
Step #4. Next up, turn off the switches for Start Workout Reminder and End Workout Reminder.
Going forward, you won't receive notifications for the workout. If you ever want to get them to remain alert, follow the same steps mentioned above and then toggle off the switches in the end.
That's all there is to it!
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Transcript Osteopathic Management of Patients with Instrumented Spinal Fusions
September 5th – 8th 2013 Nottingham Conference Centre, United Kingdom www.nspine.co.uk Instrumented Spinal Fusion Spinal fusion is a process using bone graft to cause two opposing bony surfaces to grow together – Arthrodesis. Instrumentation utilises surgical procedures to implant devices that maintain spinal stability while facilitating the process of fusion. The Purpose of Instrumentation Procedures are used to: Restore stability of the spine. Correct deformity, e.g. Scoliosis. Bridge space by the removal of a spinal element, e.g. intervertebral disc. Instrumentation immobilises the involved spinal levels. ↓ Patients often actually feel they are more mobile following the procedure as their pain has been reduced or eliminated. Importance of Bony Fusion Instrumentation placed without fusion can result in hardware failure. All metal fatigues with repetitive stress. Continual stress on an implant, unsecured by a solid bone growth, can lead to screw pullout, or even fracture of the metal → complete breakdown of the construct. Consequently a solid bony fusion is crucial to the proper healing of a spinal fusion. Bony Fusion Full bony fusion takes 6 months. Instrumentation is only designed to be functional for 9 months, after that it is 'just there'. Factors such as osteoporosis and smoking are known to impair bone healing and reduce the success of fusion. These patients are more likely to have a pseudofusion, which can result in continued pain at the surgical site and hardware failure. Osteopathic Considerations Presence of localised scar tissue. New junctions will establish above and below the fusion. ↓ Important not to stress these new junctional areas when articulating – never rotate specifically at those levels. ↓ Risk of pseudoarthrosis, particularly proximal to fusion, if over rotate or thrust too hard at that level. Soft tissue structures that should mobilise fused areas no longer contract/relax as the spine does not now move. With an upper Lsp fusion, often get a pseudo SIJ problem. Treatment Strategy Examine as normal – including fused areas. Key is to optimise spinal function throughout the rest of the spine. Reduce tension in soft tissues, increase elasticity and break the pain/contracture cycle. Initiate tissue lengthening using long levers to break down adhesions. In Lsp fusions, supporting structures become very tight - particular areas to stretch and mobilise include iliocostalis, QL, gluteii, iliopsoas, iliacus, T/L & 12th rib, thorax & pelvis. Focal manipulation can be utilised when better tissue health is established. Sacral Fusion Spinal & pelvic mechanics change, and SIJ function alters. Unilateral SIJ fusion contralateral SIJ becomes hypermobile. Bilateral SIJ fusion early degeneration & hypermobility at L/S. Often have a flat back, fixed flexed posture – movement comes from hips. T/L & hips are inter-related through structures such as QL, psoas, thoraco-lumbar fascia. Patients tend to have reduced hip extension & they extend from T/L. Encourage extension throughout – hips, Tsp, shoulder girdles, etc. Give consideration to occupation – e.g. desk job – fixed pelvis increased mobility at junctional areas, especially T/L. Case Presentation Pt: M, 63yrs Presentation: Ongoing low back pain, bilateral buttock & right anterior thigh pain. PMH: L4/5 & L5/S1 ALIF & percutaneous stabilisation. Osteopathic Evaluation: Restricted flexion right L3-SIJ. Restricted extension left L1-SIJ. TTT given: Mobilisation of Lsp & hips. Myofascial treatment to gluteii, LES & LEX musculature. Pre TTT ODI: 22% Post TTT ODI: 6% Case Presentation Pt: F, 63yrs Presentation: Painful Tsp & Csp with retracted and painful trapezius muscle post 2nd surgery. Left with exposed spinous processes over upper Tsp . PMH: 5yrs previously - T5 discectomy for disc protrusion with cord compression. 1yr previously - T4-6 posterior fusion with ligation of T4 nerve root. Osteopathic Evaluation: Restricted flexion and extension C2 – T1. Hypertonic trapezius, levator scapulae, scalenes and SCM bilaterally. TTT given: Mobilise Csp & Tsp and address soft tissue component. Pre TTT NDI: 58% Post TTT NDI: 32% Significant reduction in disability, reduction of medication and increase in daily activity. Case Presentation Pt: F, 15yrs Presentation: Pain in right trapezius area. PMH: AIS - Instrumented fixation T4-T11. Chiari malformation type I (decompressed). Diagnosis: AIS (posterior correction). Osteopathic Evaluation: Restriction at L3-T4 & C4-T1 right in flexion. Restricted extension at L5-T4 & C4-T1 left. TTT given: Treatment to adjust above levels and to improve tone in trapezius and periscapular muscles. Pre TTT ODI: 15% Post TTT ODI: 6%


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I have been shying away from using this product because I was afraid it wouldn't work out in my lifestyle, although being a seemingly convenient choice for travel, I'm also not a big fan of change in these areas of my life.
So let's get to it. I'm referring to the menstrual cup, or in my case, the cup I bought from Lunette.
Now again, let me state that changing ways in the process of shoving things up my hoohaw every month wasn't on my top priority list, but because I have some big trips coming up, I thought I would give it a chance beforehand.
This is the first week I have ever used this product or any of them, so my opinion is completely unbiased.
I have been an avid tampon user since high school and while I don't like to talk about my bodily functions, this seems like a pretty critical subject for any lady out there who's a part of the traveling game.
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The cup itself isn't as big as what your mind tends to think it will be (at least from what I thought).
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I don't know how many times I just couldn't relax enough before shoving a tampon in there and it hurt so bad I wanted to cry.
Not with this cup, the silicone is a plus because it doesn't hurt at all and you can hardly feel it when it's in there.
Guiding it up into the right place and making sure it's open all the way can be hard to tell sometimes, but I never had any problems with it not working. And while you can leave it in for up to 12 hours, I would only suggest that at nighttime, but I did only empty it maybe twice during the day.
Now, let's get to the more personal, kind of gross, aspect of this. This is a cup, made for catching your blood, so taking it out and emptying it, isn't going to be the most pleasant thing in the world. It's actually quite gross having to put your fingers up there, grab it and pull it out as it's still trying to do its job. Emptying it into your toilet or where ever you are is going to look like something way worse is going on and having to wipe that slimy, bloody, kind of gooey thing off before you shove it back up there, it's not so cool. Messier than a tampon, but more eco friendly, so I think it still wins on that.
The recommendations for cleaning are to rinse it off with water every time you take it out, but that's just not convenient when using a public restroom at work, so I took some watered down paper towels to wipe it off, good and clean, before using again.
At home, I definitely rinse it with hot water and if you have a mild soap that won't cause irritation, I would use that too.
Overall though, I didn't have any leaks throughout this whole week process and while somewhat gross, it's very easy to use. The cleaning aspect is a little bit inconvenient at times, but it's doable.
For travel, it's way better and space effective than carrying around a billion tampons, although a pad or two might come in handy just in case. The do have wipes that would be good for on the go, which I'm saving for my actual trip.
Would I recommend this product? For sure. Will I use it again? Most definitely when traveling, maybe sometimes while at home. While convenient, it's tricky in an office setting at times.
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I don't know how someone
can love across the ages
or even haunt
coz I guess in strict terms
you really are a ghost
or maybe just a friendly spirit
who's decided to come around for a while
When you came into my life,
I hardly knew
you'd be everywhere I looked:
on street signs
in magazines
on the radio
and especially on TV
like last night
with that stupid Stephen King movie
about the Pet Semetary
when the guy turned out to be named (you guessed it!)
and like most days, there were others too
that popped out at me from my readings
(even when I wasn't looking
but, stranger yet, even when I was)
I tried to mind my own business
but my heart had been stolen
Harold, listen
send me a signal flare:
are you really there?
I feel you
I know it's weird
I sense you like heat in the room
and if I had those night-vision glasses
I think I could even see you
because now you live fully
in that world you half-inhabited when you were here:
full of shadow
and shine
it's said the stars
from the early screen
carried a spotlight around inside them
but the way you faced fame was different
you were just doing your job
sometimes with grim obsession
creating someone new
who stood out from all the grotesques
just an ordinary
jaunty fellow
with a bruised heart
and unexpected courage
an ordinary soul
that people couldn't get enough of
because they saw him in the mirror
Harold, I
I don't know where to start
I tried to write about you
I tried to write a story, put you in a story
and now I don't know where it'll end
Maybe nowhere
the fate of my (usual) work
This howls within me
for I wish sometimes
I had not had this inspiration
if my story goes nowhere.
It needs to be
for if pictures can be silent,
words cannot be
and I can only make story
in words.


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Rocket Town created this modern looking site for Bama Jammer Inc., a leading Huntsville-based company that offers promotional products, embroidery, and screen printing services.
With an emphasis placed upon attracting new industry and fostering strong relationships between existing commerce and local government, Haralson County tapped Rocket Town Media to help others see what makes it such a great place for industry.
Street Corner Symphony is a highly talented group of acapella musicians, who finished 2nd place on NBC's second season of "The Sing Off". Just in time for their album release, Rocket Town designed and developed this CUSTOM Nashville website as a WordPress theme.
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Category Archives: The New School
There is an article in The New York Times on a major revision by the College Board to the SAT exams. (Bill Hagens shared this in a recent email.) The College Board says its current college admission exams do not … Continue reading
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March Selection: The New School by Glenn Harlan Reynolds
At our March 2014 meeting we will discuss Neil's selection: Glenn Harlan Reynolds, The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education from Itself, published by Encounter Books, 2014
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Thursday, September 19, 2019
KRC Genk's Paul Onuachu (center) duels for the ball against FC Red Bull Salzburg player Andre Ramalho during the Champions League Group E match in Salzburg, Austria on Tuesday.
AFP, London :Liverpool captain Jordan Henderson insists he has felt "very safe" since his club returned to training amid the coronavirus crisis this week.Jurgen Klopp's side began socially-distanced training
BSS, Dhaka :Bangladesh ODI skipper Tamim Iqbal's popular programme 'Tamim' Live Show' is set to end on Saturday after it gave the fans some delightful moments over the past
Agency :South Korea's FC Seoul were fined a record 100 million won ($81,000) for using sex dolls to fill seats at a match held behind closed doors, with K-League
AFP, Germany :Kai Havertz scored twice as Bayer Leverkusen ended the first round of Bundesliga matches in over two months with a 4-1 win at Werder Bremen on Monday
AFP, Turin :Cristiano Ronaldo returned to training with Juventus in Turin on Tuesday after an absence of over two months because of the coronavirus pandemic.The 35-year-old drove himself into
Agency :Staging football matches without spectators must only be a short-term fix during the COVID-19 pandemic as the prolonged absence of fans could damage the game, former Arsenal boss
Agency :Robert Lewandowski bagged his 26th league goal this season as leaders Bayern Munich resumed their Bundesliga title chase with a 2-0 win at Union Berlin behind closed doors
Bangladesh on Monday reported more 21 fatalities of Covid-19 patients while 1,602 new cases detected in the last 24 hours. "With the new fatalities the death toll now stands at
Another policeman died from novel coronavirus infection on Monday. Sub-inspector Mujibur Rahman Talukder of the special branch of police's Paltan Zone-1, lost his battle with COVID-19 at the Central Police
Bangladesh government will begin evacuating people from its coastal areas to safety on Tuesday as Cyclone Amphan approaches with growing intensity, Disaster Management and Relief Secretary Shah Kamal confirmed it."We
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Fire TV is on sale at the moment for $75. Tepid reviews at best. LOTS of complaints about the Roku 4 – fan noise, overheating, picture breakup. Perhaps waiting for newer firmware is in order.
Also, the 4 tuner Bolt can have a maximum of 3 Minis running – it reserves a tuner for itself. You can have 7 Minis, but only three will work at any given time.
And, while the Bolt "offers 4K Ultra HD recording", it would be prudent to point out that NO CABLE SYSTEM or Off-Air source is sending 4K anywhere that can be recorded on the Bolt. It will stream 4K to your set, but at the moment anyway, the 4K recording capability is utterly useless.


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Martin Shkreli had $45 million in his E*Trade account when he secured his own bail in December 2015. That same account is now holding just $4 million, according to a federal prosecutor.
The E*Trade account has fallen apart because its biggest holding was in KaloBio Pharmaceuticals, Assistant U.S. Attorney Winston Paes said.
KaloBios is a small biotech company that develops cancer drugs. The company's shares rose by 400% in November after Shkreli took it over.
Following his arrest the company's shared plummeted to $2 and the drug company is now in bankruptcy.
Shkreli held the position of CEO at KaloBios Pharmaceuticals but left that position following his arrest.
Benjamin Brafman, who represents Shkreli, said the value of KaloBios' stock was hurt by his client's indictment. He also revealed that Shkreli would find a new way to supplement his $5 million bond if necessary.
The former KaloBios CEO is facing securities fraud charges involving Retrophin, a company he ran several years ago. He is accused of using the company as his own private piggy bank while running a ponzi-type scheme.
Brafman told the press that he accepted Shkreli's case on the condition he no longer talk to the media.
He might not be talking to members of the press but Shkreli still spends hours in front of a YouTube live stream. His 10-hour long streams often include long periods of time in which he doesn't talk to or engage in any way with his viewers.


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The Erasmus Startup Programme is a four week programme that empowers you to validate your scalable business ideas and find your first customer. We train you to implement the entrepreneurship process by heart and help you understand and find out what your customer wants.
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During the four weeks there will be a weekly, full day, session on Fridays. The sessions are filled with workshops focusing on what matters the most when you start a business and find your product-market fit. Who is your customer? What will you be selling to them? 80% of startups fail because there is no market demand. Let's start with that, in real-life with actual customers. You will create a first product from your idea (prototype).
After the first four weeks, starting entrepreneurs that are ready to take the next step can be invited to continue the development of their business in the Erasmus Business Programme.
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Erasmus Startup Programme is based on years of academic and practical experience and consists of a collection of modules covering items such as business models, value propositions, startup financials, pitching, sales and marketing, that will give you insight in how to start a company. We provide you with the tools, skills and confidence to make sure that your first steps are both effective and efficient.
Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship is the leading entrepreneurship centre in Europe.
We provide a unique platform that ranges from scholarly insights about (corporate) entrepreneurship and new opportunities, startup campuses for ambitious entrepreneurs, to exciting executive programmes for leading innovation excellence within established organisations.
We developed a 10.000 m2 entrepreneurship campus, housing over 100 startups and scale-ups, creating the learning environment to teach, train and develop people to excel in innovation.
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Since the beginning of the Startup programme, we've supported more than 400 ambitious early-stage entrepreneurs in setting up their venture. All kinds of people participated; from students to former CFO's and medical specialists, and they had all kinds of ideas; from an online digital housing platform to a more technical DNA testing kit and an online packaging-free supermarket.
The costs for the Erasmus Startup Programme are €395 including VAT per participant, for the duration of the programme. These costs cover: the four days of workshops, four weeks of access to a work space in our entepreneurial learning environment and access to our online learning management system. Students can receive a special scholarship discount, the student fee will be €250 including VAT.
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Why should I join the Erasmus Startup Programme?
If you are an ambitious entrepreneur with an innovative idea, but need some help to turn it into an actual business: the Erasmus Startup Programme is the perfect push forward. Over the past five years, we've helped more than 400 early-stage entrepreneurs test their ideas. Our goal is to further develop your entrepreneurial talent. We're not going to create your company for you, but we are going to give you the knowledge, skills and network to enable you to do so yourself and do so fast! Additionally, we'll give you a workplace at our ECE Campus, which is home to over 100 innovative companies for you to meet and learn from.
Do I need a team to join the Erasmus Startup Programme?
Contrary to many other startup programs, you do not need a team to the join Erasmus Startup Programme. Our focus is on early-stage entrepreneurs, and we know many of them don't have a team yet. That being said, having the right team is a very a important ingredient for the future success of your startup. That's why during the programme we also talk about how to find the right co-founders and team members, something many of our coaches have experience with. Perhaps even more importantly, the network you'll gain through our startup programme, can be of great help in finding team members. For example, every year more than 20.000 people visit the events held at our ECE Campus.
What kind of people can join the Erasmus Startup Programme?
We are looking for ambitious people with innovative ideas. Your professional background doesn't matter and our alumni come in all shapes and sizes: from students to lawyers and from former CFO's to medical specialists. What they have in common is a passion about the idea they want to develop further and, perhaps most importantly, a drive to take action and make it happen.
Can I join the Erasmus Startup Programme while I have a full-time job?
Yes, it is possible to join the programme while you have a full-time job, however we do require you to be present during all the sessions. Some of our alumni have done so successfully. It will be a busy time, but that is what it takes when you want to start your own business. In the end, it simply depends on how effective you are in using the time that you have. Testing your idea and building a business is no walk in the park and we will push you to go as fast as possible and expect you to make real progress in-between sessions. We do require you to be present at all of the sessions of the programme. Many of our alumni who combined the programme with a full-time job tell us that having the structure, rhythm and a fellow group of entrepreneurs around them actually forced them to take steps much faster than they would have otherwise been able to do.
Is it possible to get a discount on the participation fee for the Erasmus Startup Programme?
ECE encourages entrepreneurship amongst students. Therefore, students can receive a special scholarship discount, the student fee will be 175,- Euro including VAT. This is applicable to Dutch and international students from universities and universities of applied sciences (HBO). It is not available for students of post-initial education (MBO and other).
What does it take to get accepted into the Erasmus Startup Programme?
Our application process consist of two simple steps. The first is an online questionnaire in which you tell us more about you and your startup. Based on your answers, we decide if we want to invite you to the second round, a personal interview. During both steps, we review your application by looking at the idea itself on the one hand, and you as a person on the other. With regards to the idea, we consider to what extent it is something new or innovative and if it has the potential to scale. When it comes to you as a person, we look at your professional and entrepreneurial background, what you've achieved so far in moving your idea forward and your personal ambitions. If you can show us your potential, you're most welcome to be a part of our Startup community.
What does the Erasmus Startup Programme look like, and do I have to be present at every session?
The Erasmus Startup Programme is a four week programme that empowers ambitious young entrepreneurs to validate their innovate and scalable ideas and find the right product market fit. We fill focus on learning you the entrepreneurial process and adapt the right entrepreneurial mindset.
It consists out of four full day sessions (always on Friday) in which we coach you, through various workshops and tools, how to validate your business idea, interact successfully with your customer group and to become an entrepreneur.
If the dates of one of our classes do not work for you, keep an eye out for our next programme; we run three of them every year!
I'm looking for an investment, can you connect me to investors?
Yes and no. ECE has a huge network that does include many investors. A number of our coaches are also active as angel investors or venture capitalists and the ECE Campus is home to companies such as Symbid, Equidam and Maas & Kleiberg who can all support you in your quest for funding. That being said, it is our experience that many of our participants are not ready for an investment yet and raising money is therefore not the primary purpose of the Get Started programme. These subjects are covered in other programmes for later stage startups.
What kind of workplace will I get at the ECE Campus when I join the Erasmus Startup Programme?
The ECE campus consists of more than 10.000m2. We've got 7 amazing new floors that all have their own theme (including the Life Sciences & Health hub). Our campus is the home base for our community, consisting of 100+ innovative companies that are situated here: start-ups, scale-ups and corporates. During the six weeks of the Get Started programme, you'll have a Business Membership of ECE; that means you can make free use of our dedicated desk area on the sixth floor as well as the numerous flex working spaces throughout the building. That also means you can reserve all the meeting rooms to host customers or partners and can even host your own event if you'd like. Did we already mention we also have a ping pong table, bar and stunning view over the port of Rotterdam?
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No respite for 72-year-old Sitaram, a month after #NepalEarthquake
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72-yr-old Sitaram and his wife have no home after #NepalEarthquake. Help them. http://bit.ly/1Rh6xQx #1monthNepal.
When the massive aftershock of 7.3 magnitude hit on May 12, 2015, 72-year-old Sitaram and his wife Vishnu were inside their small house in Milbichauna village, Gorkha district.
Now their home is reduced to a rubble and they are have to live in the open. With his voice breaking from the pauses he takes to catch his breath, Sitaram recalls the trauma of that day.
"When the tremors started, me and my wife rushed out of the house, covering our heads and stones from the roof started to fall. We barely made it out of the house, when it collapsed," said Sitaram.
After having worked in India as a security guard for shops and corporate houses, Sitaram eventually decided to come back to his village and make his own house.
"It was not big house, but I made it from my own hands. Now it is ruined," he says.
With no children to look after them, Sitaram and Vishnu only have each other for company and are facing a bleak future. But the septuagenarian is quick to thank Oxfam on the relief supplies being provided to them.
But he has some difficult questions that need answering. "Now the monsoon will arrive, then where will be stay? What will we eat? What will we do? There will be landslides, we could fall and get hurt. So the future does not look good for us," said a gloomy Sitaram.
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The St. Clair Theatre Guild will be holding it's annual General Membership Meeting on Sunday, September 21, 2014. The meeting will begin at 5:00 p.m. in the Guild Building on Goffe St. in St. Clair.
There will be a minimum of five and up to a maximum of nine board seats available this year. If interested in joining the board, or know someone you might want to nominate, please contact us prior to the meeting via Facebook or the contact form on the website. You must be present at the Annual Meeting; dues paid and been active this past year.
Come share your ideas on what shows and activities you would like to see the Guild participate in.
The board would like to thank Tom, Sharon, Mike and Aaron for their leadership in making SCTG a success this past year. Tom has been instrumental advertising, Sharon with her organizational skills, Mike with his "let's get moving" attitude and Aaron with the optimism of youth, and all have brought laughter and focus to this year's board.
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A Kentuckian through and through, James J. Douglas was born in 1846 to parents who themselves were native Kentuckians. During his lifetime he would be known by several names: Jim Douglas, J.J. Douglas, Colonel Douglas and occasionally as Douglass. He was just 14 when the Civil War broke out and even though Kentuckians fought for both sides, there is no evidence of his participation and certainly not as an officer. The rank of "Kentucky Colonel" was first formalized in 1813 to honor military heroes, but in the late 19th Century, administered by the governor, it became an honorary and ceremonial title for persons who had achieved distinction in other fields, particularly business.
The public record says little of Douglas' early years. It is documented that he settled in Louisville and he likely was engaged in the whiskey trade, a leading industry of that city. In 1879 he married Ella K. Douglas, a Kentucky-born woman. There was a 12 year difference in their ages. He was 33, she but 21. There would be no children.
In 1886 after many years in apprenticeship to other whiskey men, Douglas struck out on his own. He created a wholesale liquor business in Louisville and called his firm, J.J. Douglas Co. At first he was located at 135 Third Street but with success he soon needed more space and moved down the street to 148-150 Third Street. When that space eventually proved to be too small, the company moved to 122 Second Street, its home for the next 13 years. Although Douglas claimed to be a distiller, he more likely was a "rectifier," that is, someone blending the whiskey from a variety of sources in Kentucky to achieve a smoothness and taste appealing to consumers.
The firm's flagship brand was "Jim Douglas Whiskey." As shown on the bottle here, the whiskey was openly advertised as a "blend." Jim Douglas was one of the few labels that he troubled to trademark with the federal government. A key item of the trademark application was the circular band on the label with the name in the center and "rays radiating from said band." The company also used a number of other brand names for its liquors, including "Yosemite Pure Rye," "Carlton," "Douglas Gin," "Eagle Elk," "Glynn Valley," "Meleager," "Pastime Rye," "Pewee," "Salvator" and "Winetrop Club."
Like other Louisville whiskey men, Douglas was competing vigorously for the business of saloons, bars and restaurants to feature his liquor, as well as attempting to broaden his retail base. An essential part of his merchandising strategy was to provide ample giveaway items. Douglas seemed to have special flair for these gifts. His advertising shot glass is a finely etched example, with the script the same as his letterhead. He gave favored customers milk glass paperweights or celluloid pocket mirrors featuring a long tressed beauty displaying considerable bosom. The slogan on the latter was: "A Whiskey That Is a Whiskey." More unusual were an ornate metal watch fob with a compass in the center and a cardboard baseball on which to calculate innings, outs and scores. The scorecard was particularly appropriate for Louisville, the home of the Louisville Slugger bat company and a noted baseball town.
As his liquor dealership grew and prospered Douglas became very wealthy. When asked his occupation by the census taker in 1900, he replied, probably with tongue-in-cheek, "capitalist." Moreover, his interests were growing away from the liquor business and toward horse racing. Called "an ardent racing fan," in 1895 he developed and owned a trotting track known as the Douglas Park Racetrack. Later the track expanded to thoroughbred racing and competed directly with Churchill Downs, eventually becoming the home of the renowned Kentucky Handicap race. About this same time, Douglas appears to have turned over management and perhaps elements of ownership of J.J. Douglas & Co. to a Louisville resident named Jacob Bloch, born in Texas of French immigrant parents.
In 1896 Douglas moved from Louisville to the nearby village of Middletown. There he bought a 300-acre estate from the widow of a Louisville tobacco merchant who had established it as a horse farm. As one account put it, Douglas lived there "in elegant style." He also made improvements on the property, including building a stone waiting station along the inter-urban line to Louisville.
His estate, which came to be called "Douglas Place," proved to be an excellent location to raise thoroughbreds. His horse barns are shown here. Douglas imported fine Irish stallions provide stud services. Among them was a renowned racer named "Eothan." When Eothan died after siring such champions as "Requital" and "Other Crack," his demise made headlines in the New York Times. Douglas named his stables as the Eothan Stock Farm. The annals of Kentucky horses are replete with his sale of thoroughbreds. An example: "Epilaska," a chestnut filly foaled on April 4, 1904, "bred and consigned by J. J. Douglas." It was during this period that Douglas was designated a true "Kentucky Colonel" by the governor of the state.
Meanwhile, under the direction of Bloch, J.J. Douglas & Co., was continuing to thrive. About 1905, the company moved to 224 Main Street, on the periphery of Louisville's famed "Whiskey Row." That was followed four years later to a location in the heart of that famed strip of whiskey distillers and dealers, shown here. In 1915 the company underwent a corporate change. It was incorporated, capitalized for $100,000, and the name changed to Douglas, Edelman Distilling Company. The incorporator was Jesse Bloch, Jacob Bloch's son.
Douglas lived to see the business change but died two years later in 1917 at the age of 71. Shortly after, control of his racetrack was taken by rival Churchill Downs which operated the facility until 1958. Douglas' liquor dealership was terminated by National Prohibition in 1919. After his death, his horse farm went through several owners, his home eventually was demolished and the farm developed into a residential subdivision known to this day as "Douglass Hills." How the extra "s" evolved into his name is unclear. Of the several names by which he was known in his lifetime, I believe this Kentuckian who so successfully mixed whiskey and horses should be remembered as Kentucky Colonel Jim Douglas.


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Add value with certified seedBy Dairy News
KNOWING THAT you're planting certified seed that will perform on farm is critical, according to Rob Mathieson, the new Northern Victorian Sales Agronomist with PGG Wrightson Seeds.
Mr Mathieson has been a member of the PGG Wrightson Seeds production team for six years and was Operations Manager for Assure Quality Australia, was the seed certification agency reporting to the Australian Seeds Authority, before this.
"Certification in the Australian seed industry is very important, mainly to keep the purity and integrity of seed varieties that farmers purchase," Mr Mathieson said.
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"PGG Wrightson Seeds invest a large sum of money annually to research and develop the best seed genetics that will add value for farmers.
"It gives that peace of mind to a farmer that what they're purchasing can help them achieve the desired outcome," he said.
Rob says there are specific PGG Wrightson products that he will be particularly focussing on in his work in northern Victoria.
"A couple of the varieties that would be very beneficial to the farmers in this region are our Ascend annual rye-grass and our perennial grass called Base AR37," he said.
"These varieties will drive long-term hay and forage production, and will help farmers with their feed requirements."
With dry conditions impacting many areas of Australia in 2018, using good varieties and quality seed has been highlighted as a really important way to increase resilience in a pasture system, and increase the odds of maintaining production in good times or bad.
"It all helps to make sure the seed that growers put in the ground is going to produce a good establishment, whether they're relying on the heavens to open up with rain or they've got water rights," he said.
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