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The Health Improvements of Copper Wear
Compression sleeves are apparel usually equipped with an arm or leg, and also have an elastic, stretchable character. One of their needs is to deal with the swelling and soreness associated with lymphedema.
Another usage of compression sleeves is regularly seen in athletics and exercising. Effective copper compression offers excellent support towards the muscles and joints of the knee during sports activities or exercise. The Copper Knee sleeve boosts blood circulation for far better performance with thirty% a lot more embedded copper.
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They could be washed in chilly or lukewarm water using a mild soap, preferably right after each use, then organized flat to dry, and may never be wrung. About twice a year they may get replaced due to stretching as time passes.
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This is commonly noticed now among basketball and soccer games. They can also be used for solution shin splints by relieving distress and pain.
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Black Clover episode 21 review
In the worst and most annoying recurring joke since "End transmission!" on Lemmy's Land back in the early 2000s (or was it the "Mario-is-stupid" joke?), the character named Sol gets obsessed with her friend calling her Captain. If it had only been said twice, I could have lived with it. But she said it five times. That's beating a horse to death.
Anyway, the royal capital comes under attack, and instead of just looking out the window to see if it's true, the royal people decide to argue with each other instead. Finally Asta goes nuts and wants to save the day, and then all the others follow suit. Did I mention that Asta now has a new "forced" rival? Black Clover is becoming a parody of itself.
Character of the episode: Asta
Episode rating (out of four stars): **

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Posted by: G G
Hi to all.
I want to set a numeric column in an Access d.b., to NOT NULL WITH DEFAULT
as in SqlBase
Asking for the correct syntax in an Access forum, i got that:
"ALTER TABLE Pippo ALTER COLUMN c_nome > Int NOT NULL DEFAULT 0"
"CREATE TABLE Pippo (c_nome Int NOT NULL DEFAULT 0)"
but I get an error when trying it from SqlTalk or SqlWindows.
ACCESS:-3551[Microsoft][Driver ODBC Microsoft Access] Syntax error in
I am connected via ODBC with connection string in the Sql.ini file.
REMOTEDBNAME=MANAGER,Driver=Microsoft Access Driver
They told me to use Currentproject.Connection.Execute "ALTER TABLE Pippo
ALTER COLUMN c_nome Int NOT NULL DEFAULT 0" but how substitute this sintax
to Gupta?
Thank you.
Luigi Fantelli
Skype: gigitf


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'How The West Was Run' 5K Mud Challenge Coming To Casper
Are you ready to get Down and Dirty? Townsquare Media and the Windy City Striders are bringing you the How the West was Run 5K Mud Challenge! This epic race is designed to get you running, crawling, jumping and climbing over and through obstacles that will test your strength and will. The Casper Family YMCA has created a course for the Mini Muddies-kids ages 2-12 can get into the action and show off their mad mud skills. The kid's course will be roughly 1 mile long. This race is taking place on June 28th at the Mesa Development. Park at CY Middle School, and follow the signs to the starting line.
Registration is available for both individuals and teams of 4. Choose your level of competition, or just plan on just trying to survive.
- $40 for Individuals
- $150 for a team of 4
- $15 for kid's
- $50 for a kid's team of 4
'How The West Was Run' 5K Mud Challenge is sold out! Join us to cheer on the racers, there'll be food/drink/beer for sale. So come out for a good while people are getting down and dirty!


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Summer is nearly over, so why not enjoy what is left of the sunny months with our recipe for Fizzy Pink Lemonade cupcakes! These will be a definite hit with both kids and grown ups at parties and barbecues. The soft lemon cake paired with the tangy lemon and pink grapefruit buttercream is fruity, sweet, refreshing and a wonderful summer inspired treat!
Basic Lemon Cupcake Recipe (makes approximately 12 cupcakes)
226g self-raising flour
226g butter
226g caster sugar
6-12 drops Lemon Extract
4 eggs
Cupcake cases
Step one: Preheat your oven to Gas Mark 3/325F/170C
Step two: Cream the butter with sugar and once well mixed add in lemon extract, flour and then the eggs.
Step three: Set out your cupcake cases in your pan and fill each case 2/3 full.
Step four: Bake from around 12-18 minutes or until a golden brown on top and leave to cool on a counter. TIP: To stop the tops of cakes and cupcakes from hardening when cooling place slices of bread on top of them as they cool.
Pink Lemonade Buttercream
250g butter
250g – 350g icing sugar
6-12 drops of Lemon Extract
6-12 Pink Grapefuit Essence
Pink Food Gel Paste by Squires Kitchen
Piping bags
858 piping tip
Lemon Sherbet Crystals
Retro Paper Straw
Step one: Cut your butter into small cubes and cream your butter until soft. Gradually add icing sugar until a good consistency.
Step two: Add lemon extract and your pink grapefuit essence to taste. Colour with pink food gel. Mix in some tangy lemon sherbet crystals for a hit of fizz.
Step three: Fit a piping bag with a 858 piping tip (to get a lovely traditional buttercream ruffle like our cupcake). Fill your piping bag with your buttercream.
Step four: Pipe some generous swirls atop your cupcakes, gently top with lemon sherbet crystals and add press half a retro paper straw into your buttercream!


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Saturday, April 05, 2008
An anniverary howl for Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (above) died on April 5, 1997 and Herbert von Karajan was born on April 5, 1908. I'm probably the only person to find a connection between the two, so it's not surprising that if you type "allen ginsberg herbert von karajan" into Google.com the first two results are currently from On An Overgrown Path. Which means you can read about them here and here.
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- Pliable said...
Just to keep the record complete Louis Spohr was born on April 5, 1784 and Alonso Lobo died on April 5, 1617.
Anyone who can find a connection between them and Allen Ginsberg and Herbert von Karajan deserves a prize.
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- Dennis said...
There is, of course, another connection between Ginsburg and HvK: a somewhat ambiguous relationship and youthful flirtation with totalitarian ideologies.
While Ginsburg was never an actual party member - unlike HvK and the Nazis - he expressed admiration for fundamental Communist tenets and admired people like Trotsky and Lenin. To wit, some lines from his 1956 poem "America": "America, I used to be a Communist when I was a kid I'm not sorry...America, when will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites...?"
I've never understood how a nation is to become "worthy" of Trotskyism, as if Trotskyism were just too good for America. Would one think to ask in 1956 whether a nation could likewise be deemed "worthy" of Nazism? Another manifestation of the "Intellectuals'" double standard viv-a-vis Communism vs. Nazism.
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- Pliable said...
Dennis, there is another tenuous but interesting connection.
Karajan's second wife, Anna Maria Gütermann, who he married in 1942 was quarter Jewish. They divorced in 1958.
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Unsuccessful story of ABT-639 in neuropathic pain in different phases of clinical trials
Jasmine Sharma, Nirmal Singh, Amteshwar Singh Jaggi
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab, India
Correspondence Address:Amteshwar Singh JaggiDepartment of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research, Punjabi University, Patiala - 147 002, Punjab IndiaSource of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: NoneCheckDOI: 10.4103/jpnr.JPNR_17_18
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None
DOI: 10.4103/jpnr.JPNR_17_18
Neuropathic pain is a chronic pain state caused by injury of the nervous system, and there are various conditions associated with it such as diabetic neuropathy, postherpetic neuralgia, cancer pain, trigeminal neuralgia, cervical radiculopathy, and anticancer and anti-HIV-induced neuropathic pain. The pathophysiological role of voltage-gated T-type calcium channels in neuropathic pain has been well documented. ABT-639 is a peripherally acting, selective T-type calcium channel blocker, and it is shown to efficiently reduce nociceptive and neuropathic pain in rats in multiple models. However, three clinical studies exploring the role of single dose or multiple doses of ABT-639 (100 mg) in diabetic neuropathy have not found significant pain-attenuating actions. The present review discusses the unsuccessful clinical trials of peripherally acting ABT-639 in patients with diabetic neuropathy.
Keywords: ABT-639, clinical trial, neuropathic pain, T-type calcium channels


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Alder Biopharmaceuticals keeps such a low profile that even after five years in business, few people in Seattle biotech know who they are. That changed yesterday as the private Bothell, WA-based company burst onto the local, and national, biotech scene by striking a deal with Bristol-Myers Squibb that could be worth more than $1 billion over time to create a new drug for rheumatoid arthritis.
Alder obviously was playing with a strong hand of cards in negotiations with multiple pharmaceutical companies, even though it hasn't yet disclosed the results of a 120-patient clinical trial of its ALD518 drug candidate that ended this summer. But Alder has been working behind the scenes for months on this deal, and there were several serious bidders, says CEO Randy Schatzman.
Alder ultimately chose Bristol-Myers (NYSE: BMY) because it has experience in the rheumatoid arthritis field through its FDA-approved abatacept (Orencia) therapy, deep pockets, and a "very aggressive" plan to develop and market Alder's drug not just for rheumatoid arthritis, but for a variety of disorders in which the immune system attacks healthy tissue, Schatzman says. This means that Alder's drug, which is made to block an inflammatory protein known as IL-6, is thought to have the same kind of far-reaching potential that other biotech drugs that interfere with a different inflammatory protein called TNF. This approach could offer doctors an alternative to the $10 billion-a-year class of biotech drugs, like Amgen's etanercept (Enbrel) and Abbott Laboratories' adalimumab (Humira).
When asked directly whether Alder's clinical trial shows it is competitive with the Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) and Abbott (NYSE: ABT) drugs, Schatzman said this:
"We think we're going to give them a run for their money."
Seattle Genetics co-founder and CEO Clay Siegall, an Alder board member, added, "This is a superb deal. It gets Alder on a trajectory for becoming one of the important biotech companies in Seattle. They are turning from a startup into a real emerging company."
To really emerge, Alder sought a partner that had more than just money, but also a bold view of the opportunities with ALD518 and how to capitalize on them. "Their vision is for the same development plan we'd have if we had deep pockets," Schatzman says. "This is not just for rheumatoid arthritis, but for other autoimmune diseases in which IL-6 is an important player. It's a very aggressive approach."
Everyone outside the company will have to wait to see just how good the Alder drug really is. That's because the company applied for a late-breaking presentation slot at last month's American College of Rheumatology meeting in Philadelphia, but it was essentially too late to be included among just a handful of such presentations, Schatzman says. The plan is to release this data through a peer-reviewed scientific publication, and probably to present the data at the other top rheumatology meeting, the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) being held in Rome in June.
Without giving away his scoop—which medical journals and meeting organizers frown upon—Schatzman said that the mid-stage rheumatoid arthritis data was "consistent" with some publicly released data on ALD518 as a treatment for extreme cancer-related fatigue and atrophy, known as cachexia. "It's very effective in rheumatoid arthritis," Schatzman says. "We did an outstanding job of suppressing inflammation, and the onset of activity was fast."
Still, this doesn't mean Alder and Bristol are ready to leap headlong into a pivotal clinical trial with several thousand patients and rush off to the FDA for approval to start selling the drug. If these companies are ever going to beat powerhouse treatments from Amgen and Abbott, it will have to be delivered like those drugs are, through a thin-needle injection patients can give themselves under the skin. Alder's studies to date have been run in a one-hour long intravenous infusion, Schatzman says.
So Alder and Bristol's next step will be to take an interim step in a mid-stage study that looks at a variety of doses, and that examines how often the injections must be given, with a self-injectable form of the drug. That trial will probably take six to nine months, and should set the stage for a pivotal trial that looks at both the IV and self-injectable forms of the therapy, Schatzman says.
Even before waiting for that data to roll in, Bristol has its eyes on using ALD518 against a variety of other autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system goes haywire and attacks healthy tissue. This ability to treat rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and other related conditions is part of what has made Amgen and Pfizer's etanercept (Enbrel) exceed more than $7 billion in annual worldwide sales. Schatzman didn't say which diseases Alder and Bristol have on their list.
What's important strategically for Alder is that it didn't give away the entire store through this partnership. It retained the commercial rights to ALD518 as a treatment for cancer cachexia, the debilitating fatigue many cancer patients feel when they have excess inflammation, including elevated levels of IL-6 proteins, Schatzman says. Alder will use some of its new cash horde—the $85 million upfront payment from Bristol—to enhance its own development plan for that use.
Beyond that, Alder will have some money to do some hiring, and to build up a pipeline of drugs behind ALD518 that use the same yeast-based technology for manufacturing antibodies. Alder has about 45 employees now, and Schatzman wouldn't say how many he plans to add. But he did say that Alder expects to advance a second drug candidate into clinical trials in 2010, and a third clinical pipeline candidate will emerge the following year.
For those new to the Alder story, the big idea is really in manufacturing antibody drugs in a new way. Alder does this through a technology that turns yeast cells into mini-factories for antibody drugs, instead of the standard Chinese hamster ovary cells. Since yeast is a cheap raw material, and the cells divide much faster than the hamster cells, drugs made this way could cut manufacturing costs to a fraction of what it takes to make big sellers like Enbrel or Genentech's Avastin, Schatzman said in an Xconomy story in September 2008.
The yeast production techniques have a number of other advantages besides cost, as Schatzman went on to explain at the Invest Northwest conference last March. The Alder drug can last longer in the bloodstream than its competitors, so it can be injected less frequently, possibly just three or four times a year instead of once a month, he said. Alder can also give its treatment in one-tenth the dose because it's more potent, which improves profit margins and could allow Alder to undercut competitors on price. Plus, since Alder's drugs are made in those fast-dividing yeast cells, its production process is about four times faster, making much better use of all the expensive fermentation equipment that biotech companies already have invested millions of dollars to build, Schatzman has said.
If there's ever going to be a moment when it's favorable for biotech companies at this early of development to go public, Alder is going to keep its eyes open for that opportunity, Schatzman says. Alder hasn't filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Bristol deal means it doesn't have an urgent need for cash. But Alder is going to monitor the markets for the right moment that might offer returns for the company's venture investors, Schatzman says.
There is still a long road ahead in drug development before investors will likely be interested in something this speculative. Schatzman noted that the FDA standard for a new rheumatoid arthritis drug is about 2,500 patient-years on therapy—way beyond the scope of something a startup biotech could handle. In the original Xconomy profile of Alder, he noted that it would likely be 2013 before ALD518 could reach the marketplace.
Drug development is a long and risky journey, as Schatzman, a molecular pharmacologist, knows well from his past experience at Celltech R&D, Roche, and Mercator Genetics. That's why getting a serious partner for the long haul is so crucial if Alder is ever going to realize its dreams of someday creating a drug that's compelling enough for patients that it can really compete against the Amgens and Abbott Labs of the world.
"This is really a validation by a Big Pharma company that our technology is on the right track," Schatzman says.
When asked if Alder has the potential to grow into the next dynamic biotech company in Seattle, he says, "We'd like it to be. We think the potential is there."
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Bankruptcy in Edmonton, the last resort but often best solution when debt is controlling your life.
What is Bankruptcy ?
Simply put, the process to eliminate debt and rehabilitate a financial situation for consumers or corporations.
Filing bankruptcy in Edmonton is a legal process that is governed by the Federal Bankruptcy & Insolvency Act. It is a process that is administer by a licensed bankruptcy trustee, like Goth & Company Ltd., and is designed to eliminate your unsecured debt. When you file for bankruptcy there is immediate court protection that stops the collection rights of your creditors and gives you the space to fulfill the duties required during a bankruptcy.
It is through the successful completion of the bankruptcy process that an honest but unfortunate debtor is cleared from these debts in a fashion that also treats the creditors an equal and fair manner.
When should I consider the filing of a bankruptcy?
The bankruptcy process is designed as a last resort for individuals and families who are in a position where they cannot afford to deal with their debt in any other fashion. Here are the top signs you should be discussing your finances with a bankruptcy trustee
- Avoid answering the phone afraid of harassing creditors
- Paying minimum payments on credit cards
- Owe CRA back taxes for multiple years
- Wages garnished for unpaid bills
- Turned down multiple times for extended credit
- Use one credit card to pay another
- Repeatedly use cash advance or pay day loans
- Skip payments or are behind on accounts
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- Owe at least $1,000; and
- Not be able to make your regular payments as they become due; or
- Would not be able to pay all of your debts if all your non-exempt property was sold.
Does the filing of bankruptcy clear me from all of my debts?
- Secured creditors (eg. mortgage or car loan)
- Court fines and penalties (including traffic violations)
- Debts obtained by fraud or misrepresentation
- Civil lawsuits involving intentional bodily harm, sexual assault or wrongful death
- Student loans, if you have taken any classes in the 7 years prior to filing
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There is a cost to file a bankruptcy that is regulated by the Federal Government. The cost is dependent on the following factors: Income, Family Size, and Assets you own.
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Can my creditors continue to harass me after I file for bankruptcy?
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Have Got A Successful Trip Using This Type Of Travel Advice
There is no better strategy to experience anything that life offers than going on a vacation to another section of the world. Travel gives a chance for meeting fascinating people and researching different cultures while enjoying time out of the trials and routines of day to day life. Utilize the tips shared here and also a great travel adventure.
Be wise when traveling to foreign countries when you have or believe you possess food allergies. For those who have food allergies that are typically severe, it is important so that you can learn terminology for words associated with foods as well as their preparation to be able to prevent an allergic reaction. This will enable you to communicate to others what foods you are trying to avoid.
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When you drive to the port city ahead of occurring your cruise, you will discover hotels that offer free parking upon arriving the night before. You can examine with staff on the hotel for unpublished parking deals.
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Traveling is surely an unparalleled way of getting around, learn, and broaden one's horizons. These pointers can help anyone use a great travel experience..


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New BF3 DLC announcement coming
by David Stellmack on03 February 2012
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Expect announcement next week
While Battlefield 3 is still going strong, we know that DICE and Electronic Arts have more downloadable content planned for release. DICE has said a couple of times that they do expect to release more content for Battlefield 3.
While sources are quiet on what the new DLC content could be, it is expected that the announcement will come next week in New York City at an Electronic Arts event. If rumors are to be believed, DICE has an All American content pack on deck that will feature maps in a number of city locales in the U.S.
Look for the official word to arrive at some point next week.


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John K. McDonald's 14 room house.
This Blog is to inform and display the architectural heritage of Prince Edward Island!
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
MacDonald House Fire, Kilmuir 1965
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Leard's 1888 Grist Mill receives more money!
Now for the good news today! I was informed this afternoon that another anonymous donation of $20,000 is being made to our campaign to save the last fully-intact grist mill on Prince Edward Island! Great things are happening with this project!
Below is a recent painting of Leard's Grist Mill by Mary E. MacDonald of O'Leary.
Below is a recent painting of Leard's Grist Mill by Mary E. MacDonald of O'Leary.
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62 Victoria St., Kensington - Demolished!
Today was a good news / bad news day! I had to run up to Kensington late this afternoon and to my horror this lovely house on Victoria Street had been demolished and the hole was being filled in with fresh shale. I expect it was demolished to make way for the adjacent service station! Too bad!!
Here's a photo from Google Streetview...
Here's a photo from Google Streetview...
Here's the aftermath photos!
Heritage Homes History, Property Ownership, Kensington
Kensington, PEI Heritage Homes History of Property Ownership
KenNet Research Team Winter 2011
This report contains over 250 ownership profiles of Kensington,
Prince Edward Island's historic homes.
Kensington Seniors Surfers Computer Club ©2011
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Work to stabilize Leard's Grist Mill to begin mid-December
Thanks to Melissa Heald for the article in West Prince Graphic below!!
Thanks too to Eric McCarthy of the Journal Pioneer for the recent coverage.
President of the Canadian Potato Museum, left, and Carter Jeffery, right, accept a donation of $10,000 from site manager of Engie Operations Canada Inc: West Cape & Norway Wind Farms Robbie Thibodeau for the stabilization project at LEard's Mill. Mr. Jeffery is leading the effort to save the mill in its current location. Work to save the last grist mill on the Island is scheduked to begin in mid-December. Melissa Heald Photo.
The future of the Leard's Grist Mill in Coleman is looking a little brighter now work to stabilize the 128-year-old building is scheduled to go ahead.
"It's not in great condition," said Carter Jeffery, the Island draftsman who started a campaign to save the mill.
The Canadian Potato Museum, who is responsible for the mill, has hired PD Construction of North Rustico to do the work which is scheduled to begin mid-December.
The stabilization of the mill will consist of placing a couple of large I-beams beneath the second floor and then air bags will be used to raise the mill. The ground floor will be rebuilt before the mill is set back down on 22 new cement piers.
Before Mr Jeffery began to lead the effort to see the mill saved and preserved at its current location, the museum had been planning tearing down the building, but not before removing the equipment inside to set up a display at the O'Leary museum.
But Mr Jeffery said the mill needs to be restored in its original spot and is worth saving as the last of the 118 grist mills that at one time could be found throughout Prince Edward Island.
While the ultimate goal would be to have a functioning mill again, at least now the stabilization will buy some time for those involved to decide what the next step in the process should be to restore the mill to its former self. A feasibility study that will be done over the next few months could help in deciding what that direction could look like and help in what decisions need to be made moving forward.
But the work to stabilize the mill couldn't have waited for fear that it could collapse into the nearby river, said Mr Jeffery.
The cost of the project is over $100,000 and all the money raised came from private donations, including a $50,000 anonymous contribution. A $10,000 donation from Engie Operations Canada Inc, owners of West Cape and Norway Wind farms, is the largest corporate donation to date the project has received.
Site manager of Engie Operations Canada Inc: West Cape & Norway Wind Farms Robbie Thibodeau said the national company looks for special projects to support and thought the restoration was a great cause.
The stabilization of the mill is only part of what will probably be a multiple phase project and could take up to five years before the mill is fully restored, said President of the Canadian Potato Museum Bill MacKendrick.
Mr MacKendrick said even if the museum had gone with its original plan to remove the artifacts inside in order to preserve them, the mill would have still required stabilizing the structure.
"Some of the equipment is almost part of the stability of it, the way it's attached in there," said Mr MacKendrick of the machinery inside.
But fundraising to save the mill has been quite successful thanks to businesses like Mr Thibodeau, said Mr MacKendrick.
"What we're finding out is the legacy that the mill has built. So many people say I went there with my Dad on a Saturday morning. There's a community bond for sure," said Mr MacKendrick, "We're happy that we're able to preserve it at its original site."
In addition, Mr MacKendrick said stabilizing the building could help in securing government funding for future phases of the restoration project.
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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Tignish Legion Community Centre - 1952
This clipping came from Jane N Mike Gaudet on Facebook.
December 31, 1952
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Down at the Shore during Fishing Season
Post on Facebook: Jane N Mike Gaudet Old Photos and Memories
A time when families lived at the shore during fishing season (PEI).
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Monday, November 14, 2016
Egmont Bay Church Souvenir
A friend of mine found this in a box-lot he bought at an auction recently - it was amoung trinkets and dishes for $5. The church is St. Phillippe et St. Jacques in Egmont Bay - it was demolished in 1922. This little vase would pre-date that.
Here's a previous post I made in this blog...
Here's a previous post I made in this blog...
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Labels: Egmont Bay, PEI Chuches, Souvenir, Vase
Thursday, November 10, 2016
I was down to the Farmers Bank Museum yesterday morning - it was a beautiful fall day - here area some photos of the Farmer's Bank Museum; St. Augustine's Parish Church and Manse; Barachois Inn; and Doucet Log House.
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Labels: Doucet House, Farmers Bank.
Saturday, November 5, 2016
Old Barn, Long River
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St. Mark's Anglican Church, built in 1841 - gone!!
On this sunny Saturday morning I decided to go over to St. Mark's Anglican Church in Rustico to take a few last photos and maybe some measurements of the exterior before they tear it down. I was surprised to see it gone already! All that was left was a filled-in hole and a few wide hemlock boards and a hand-hewn beam. To think of the hard work that went into building it 175 years ago - there was no going to Kent or Home Depot for supplies - it all came with hard work and the skill of carpenters.
I meandered through the cemetery and took a few photos of some old stones.
Here's a few photos I've taken over the years of St. Mark's.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Former Bishop McIntyre/MacFadyan/Cran House, Tignish - Destroyed by Fire!
OK- this is a bad day!!! One of Prince Edward Island's more historic homes was destroyed by fire last evening in Tignish!
My brother was in this house back in April of this year and took the following photos! He was back here a couple of weeks ago and bought an old table from the owners. I was awaiting permission from the owners to document and measure the house for archival purposes!
My brother was in this house back in April of this year and took the following photos! He was back here a couple of weeks ago and bought an old table from the owners. I was awaiting permission from the owners to document and measure the house for archival purposes!
Below is a painting I acquired last spring of Bishop McIntyre.
Below is a post made on Facebook a few hours ago by Architectural Historian Reg Porter.
THE TRAGEDIES OF HALLOWEENIn the 1960s my friend Elizabeth Cran and her children Alison and Anthony and I spent every summer in this huge house managing a long-term project in promoting community culture called the Tignish Arts Foundation. The house had quite a history, having once belonged to Bishop Peter McIntyre who used it for his home when he was parish priest of the area in the 1840-60 period. Later it was bought by a Protestant merchant, Alexander MacFadyen who worked for the Myrick commercial interests. He added on a very large piece on the right and turned the original Georgian house into the new Colonial Revival style. I loved that house and for many years dreamed of it being my home for life. But life had other plans for me. Elizabeth however, did live there for quite a few years.
Last night, Rose just told me, vandals burned the house down as part of their vile Halloween celebrations. Now all that remains is a framed photo that has all my mature life hung on the wall of my study, wherever I lived. The photo fades but the memories glow.
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Research by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) found slower rates of memory decline in elderly Americans who reported active social lives. It's clear then that activities must be an integral part of the services on offer at senior living facilities; but what about those residents who find themselves struggling to connect?
Be Supportive, Not Pushy
Senior living residents may experience insecurities and feelings of uncertainty – especially in new surroundings – that will only grow if they're pushed too far too fast. Make sure residents are aware of upcoming activities and present them with numerous opportunities for participation, but joining in must ultimately be their own choice. Avoid mandatory attendance decrees and don't make too big a deal when reluctant seniors opt to show up; embarrassing them with too much attention is often worse than not acknowledging them at all.
Pay Attention to Skill Levels
For some residents mastering a new skill or tackling a new craft is thrilling, but for others it just seems like an opportunity for failure or discomfort. Ensure your event calendar is full of activities that can make seniors with a wide range of abilities feel at ease. Whenever possible, offer classes such as yoga or quilting at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels or hold one class with modification suggestions made available so that everyone who wants to participate can.
Empower the People
Pride is a powerful thing, and few things instill pride faster than feeling like you have valuable knowledge or skills to share. Work to discover what interests distant or intentionally uninvolved residents and then suggest they lead a class, workshop, or discussion group on the subject. It can be anything from origami to a talk about music from a former first chair symphony violinist – the topic isn't nearly as important as the feeling of ownership and dignity a person has when their proficiency is not only recognized, but respected.
Emphasize Casual Availability
Some people just never respond to organized activities. Respect their independence while still encouraging interaction by making activities available for their use whenever the mood strikes. Some options:
- Lay out binoculars and a guide to local birds
- Have an arts and crafts table stocked and ready
- Have a music corner with a guitar, piano, and songbooks filled with the classics
- Consider a knitting corner with yarn, needles, and patterns, or a sewing corner with a similar set up of supplies
- Install a row of personal computers (many companies will donate outdated models that still work great) and post simple step-by-step instructions on how to operate and access a variety of simple, yet interesting programs
- Set up a game room or even a small table or two with chess or checkers always at the ready
- Lay out communal puzzles where residents can stop by, place a piece or two, have a chat, and then move on as they wish
It's almost impossible to resist the pull of a fun project when it's right there for the taking, and by removing obstacles like set up and breakdown, it's easier for even those most reticent residents to engage.


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The Egypt FA has announced its decision to withdraw from the race to host the 2017 African Cup of Nations.
Egypt had been up against Algeria and Ghana in the bidding to host the biannual tournament.
Sports minister Khaled Abdel-Aziz, revealed that they are backing out of the race and would now support Algeria to win it.
"We have decided to withdraw our application and will support that of Algeria," he said.
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Today at Sao Martinho Do Porto we look at some of the Portugal house and property prices in the real estate agent windows. And just like Portugal's micro climates it seems like property prices follow the same rules. Varying wildly just a few kilometers in each direction. You can definitely still get affordable property and land here on the silver coast, but you need to search in the smaller villages away from the sea.
Who knows what the property market will be like in 10 years from now.
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For McCollum High School junior Naucalli Mendoza Fraga, soccer isn't just a sport, it's a way of life.
Her passion for the game recently landed her a training session with some of the best soccer players in the nation and air time on Nickelodeon's reality TV series "Soccer Superstar" on NickSports.
The show follows the search for the best teen female soccer player in the nation and is hosted by Heather Mitts, the three-time Olympic gold medalist and defender for the United States Women's National Soccer team.
Acclaimed judges on the show include National Soccer Hall of Famer Marcelo Balboa, two-time Olympic gold medalist Angela Hucles and youth development expert Dan Metcalfe.
When Naucalli found out the show would be hosting try-outs in four U.S. cities, she packed her soccer gear and headed to Dallas - the first stop on the show's route.
The McCollum HS Cowboy made quite an impression on the judges and came in fourth place. America will get to see Naucalli's skills when the first episode airs on July 15 at 8 p.m.
During the episode, Naucalli talks about her hometown and her soccer journey at McCollum HS, where she is now part of the varsity soccer team and was the top scorer when she played on the JV team.
Although Naucalli didn't make it to the final round, she is grateful for the opportunity and came back home just in time to help her JV team win the District Championship.
Prior to joining the McCollum HS soccer team, Naucalli played for Terrell Wells Middle School, but her love for soccer was etched in her heart years before she joined a team.
She remembers it being a cold and gloomy day when her second grade teacher at Carroll Bell Elementary Mr. Robert Soto took the class outside for recess. As the kids were unimpressed with a wet playground, Mr. Soto rolled a soccer ball on the field and yelled, "Boys against girls!"
Eight-year-old Naucalli was hooked.
"Ever since that day I've kept going back to the field," Naucalli said. "I'd say it's because of my second grade teacher that I love this sport so much."
Before middle school it was hard for her to find a team to join, so she rolled the ball around at school, at the park, with friends, cousins and mostly with boys.
"I actually think playing with boys helped me because they are aggressive and they won't back down," Naucalli added.
She assumed it was a male sport until she was 10 years old and her dad showed her that there are professional female soccer players. Ever since then, her goal has been to play for the U.S. Women's National Soccer Team.
She knows the road won't be easy, but she's determined to make her dream a reality. And she's not too far off.
After trying out for the TV show, her skills caught the attention of major sportswear corporation Adidas. Naucalli won the Adidas "Here to Create" contest that asked women to submit a creative video showcasing their athletic talents.
Her prize included a letter from Adidas encouraging her to follow her dreams and a poster of the U.S. National Soccer Players signed by professional soccer defender Becky Sauerbrunn.
Naucalli hopes to one day play alongside the pros, but for now the young athlete is happy training every day.
"When I'm playing soccer I get this feeling that I can't describe, I just forget about all of the problems out there," Naucalli said. "The ball is my best friend."


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Scholarships Top $1 Million
Posted by Web Master 2 on October 18, 2013 7:50 AM EDT
First time!
Scholarships Top $1 Million for the First Time
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation awarded in September 2013 more than $1 million in college scholarships – the largest amount awarded in a single year since its founding in 1950. Recipients include 358 area students attending more than 65 different colleges and universities during 2013-14. Since 1951 the community foundation has provided more than $18 million in scholarship funding that has helped more than 3,900 college students.
The scholarships were approved during the community foundation's recent meeting, which also awarded more than $1.1 million in grants to 11 nonprofit organizations working in health and human services in Hampton Roads.
Click here to see a list of recipients and the projects the community foundation grants will support.


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SURREY — Free is good, and we found a list of no-cost things to do around town during the month of August on the city's website.
Thirteen such events made the list.
"Check out the free events and programs in your community and soak up the rest of summer without spending a dime!" reads the post.
Here's the list:
1. Dancing in the Plaza at Surrey City Hall Plaza from Aug. 2 to 30, 4:30 to 7 p.m. "Kick up your heels at Ceilidh Tuesdays at City Hall Plaza this month for lively jigs and Celtic folk dancing. This dance series is open to all skill levels." View details
2. Family Movie Nights: "This summer, enjoy free movies on Friday's in Cloverdale! Bring your own lawn chairs, blankets and snacks. Family activities and entertainment begin at 8:00pm. Movies begin at dusk and are offered at two locations: August 5, 2016 (Minions), August 19, 2016 (Finding Nemo) at Don Christian Park. Also, August 12, 2016 (Lion King) and August 26 (Monsters Inc.) at Katzie Elementary School.
3. Pop-Up Junk Drop at Surrey Operations Centre Parking Lot on August 6 and 27 at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. "Get rid of household items you can't put out during your regular waste collection service with junk drop off events in Surrey. Please note this is for City of Surrey residents only! Learn which items can or can't be thrown away. View details
4. Movie Under the Stars: Fraser Heights Recreation Centre on August 12 starting at 8 p.m. "Bring your friends and family to an outdoor movie! The big screen will play Zootopia starting at dusk, but arrive early with your own chairs to secure your spot." View details
5. Amazing Farm Scavenger Hunt at Historic Stewart Farm on August 13 from noon to 3 p.m. "Would you have made it as a pioneer? Find out as you team up with friends, coworkers or family in this race around the Farm. Come early to book your place in the hunt!" View details
6. Fibre Arts and Craft Festival at Surrey Museum on August 13 from 1 to 4 p.m. "Get your hands on all things fibre with this family-friendly, fun and interactive event. It's a great and free way to get the kids involved in an artistic activity before they go back to school!" View details
7. Family Dance at Chuck Bailey Recreation Centre on August 19 from 6 to 8 p.m. "It's easy to find a dance partner when it's a member of your family! Get everyone into the groove with music and fun before the kids go back to school. It's active and free!" View details
8. Sounds of Summer concerts at various locations in Surrey, on various dates until Aug. 31 (from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on select nights). "Join a free summer concert series in various garden parks across Surrey! Summer sunsets, live music and stunning garden settings. Bring your own blanket or folding chairs to enjoy the performances with your family and friends! All ages welcome." View details
9. Seniors in the Park events at various locations, on various dates in August (events are from 1 to 3 p.m.). "Seniors can get active outdoors and drop-in for free games of bocce, cards, horseshoes, lawn darts and more! Sessions are rain or shine." View details
10. Free Swims 2016 Sponsored by Westminster Savings, on Saturdays (once per month) all year long (various times and locations). "Join us for our free family swims held once per month at each of our indoor pools. Free swims are part of Westminster Savings' Project Better Balance." View details
11. Newton Days 2016: Nooner Wednesdays Hosted by the Newton BIA, at 7238 137 St., from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. "Let's kick off summer in Newton! Join us every Wednesday to listen to some live music and enjoy the outdoors." View details
12. Park Play events at various locations, various dates until August 26 (various times, too). "Park Play Staff will be in your neighbourhood park with free art, inclusive games, and activities! Note: Don't miss out on the Park Play Wrap-Up Picnic on August 26, 2016 from 11:00am to 2:00pm at Holly Park." View details
13. Outdoor Pools: various locations, open now until Sept. 5. "All of the City's outdoor pools are opened for free swimming. Take a dip and cool off. New this year: Bear Creek Outdoor Pool will offer free aquacise classes." View details


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Daily life can be increasingly difficult for people living with chronic or advanced illness — and a constant challenge for their caregivers. Our private-pay Care Connections Program helps by adding a layer of expert assistance for any patient with any chronic or advanced illness who is not enrolled in hospice care. Through personalized care coordination that focuses on symptom and pain management, patients regain independence and enjoy a better quality of life.
Expert Assistance
Our care begins with an in-home medical screening by your nurse case manager, who will:
- Review medications
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- Conduct a home safety screening
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Our Care Connections program provides multiple services, including:
- Pain and symptom management
- 24/7 telephone support
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- Advice on whether symptoms require a doctor's appointment
- Monthly visits from your nurse case manager
- Visits from trained volunteers for companionship, errands or transportation
- Referrals to community resources to meet your needs
- Education on your illness and symptom management
- Regular updates for your caregivers and family members, if requested
Additional nursing visits can be added for a fee.
Benefits of Care Connections
The $350 monthly fee covers all services plus the comfort of knowing you have access to a registered nurse by phone 24-hours a day. This extra layer of support can help you:
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Sustainable Energy 4 Rural Communities (SE4RC) 2015-2019
The project evolved from lessons and experiences of past projects on rural electrification and sustainable agriculture in Southern Africa. The project is designed to serve poor rural communities, whose needs are not met by the current rural electrification modus operandi.
Lessons were drawn from rural electrification projects led by the consortium, including Practical Action's EC-funded regional micro-hydro project (2007-2012), which established 11 micro-hydro mini-grids using community based models in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. Important lessons around ownership and management of off-grid systems and the economic social and technical impacts of RE mini-grids in isolated areas, have informed the design of SE4RC.
This project shows that unless mini-grids are anchored to productive end use, financial viability is a challenge.
Locations of the project: Nsanje, Chikwawa Districts (Malawi); Gwanda District (Zimbabwe)
Total duration: 48 months
Overall objectives:
- Contribute to the attainment of the SE4ALL goal that aims to ensure universal access to modern energy services in rural areas of Malawi and Zimbabwe.
- Improve access to modern energy services that contribute to better well-being (economic and social) of rural men and women in Malawi and Zimbabwe.
Specific objective: To create an enabling environment in Malawi and Zimbabwe that allows public and private sector energy actors to engage in the rural electrification market
Target groups: Rural District Authorities (Gwanda Rural District Council in Zimbabwe, and the Nsanje and Chikwawa District Assemblies in Malawi); Government policy & regulatory authorities (Ministries of Energy, Ministries of Agriculture, and the Zimbabwe National Water Authority, ZERA & MERA); Rural Electrification Agencies (MAREP and REA); Private sector (Energy consultants, IPPs, agricultural companies).
Final beneficiaries: 30,000 men, women and children in isolated rural Malawi and Zimbabwe (including two primary schools and one clinic; four Irrigation Management Committees (one in Zimbabwe, three in Malawi); 16 Rural Entrepreneur Kiosk Operators; four Community Energy Service Companies (CESCos) and nine small businesses)
The areas which the project is being implemented from are so poor and remote. They are not connected to the national electricity grid and unlikely to ever be connected because of their remoteness. Even if they were, the cost of the electricity would be exorbitant.
However, using the abundant, free resource of the sun for solar voltaic panels to power pumps, water can be drawn from significantly deeper depths than a treadle pump that were being used before.
Instead of spending up to six to seven hours incessant pumping to irrigate their farms per day, farmers can be using this valuable time to do other things like household chores, start small businesses, and attend to their children. Furthermore children can also attend school.
With this technology the farmers can be sure of a viable and consistent supply of water for their crops.
Further information
Sustainable Energy for Rural Communities
This project is helping families survive future droughts, put food on their tables and sell surplus crops to earn a living by connecting irrigation schemes to solar-powered mini-grids.Read more


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West Valley district students learning the election process
Mock vote follows candidates speeches, compiling voters guide
Sat., Oct. 6, 2012
Most of them may not be old enough to vote in the general election Nov. 6, but they still hold strong opinions about the issues.
Students across the West Valley School District are learning about the local, state and federal candidates and issues before holding a mock election at the end of the month.
Juniors at West Valley, RiverCity Leadership Academy and Spokane Valley High School are studying the issues and candidates so they can write a voters guide for their election, understandable for even the youngest students. Teachers Ned Fadeley of RiverCity, Brandon Bouge of SVHS and Stacy Delcour of WVHS are coordinating the efforts of the junior class to write the voters guide.
"The only way democracy works is when citizens, young and old, exercise their right to vote and are active in the electoral process," said Superintendent Gene Sementi in a letter that went home to parents.
Along with Sementi's letter, parents received a voter registration for the mock election, plus Spokane County voter registration forms for any adults living in the house.
Students spent time listening to representatives from both the Democratic and Republican parties from Spokane County. Two weeks ago, students listened to Amy Biviano, the Democrat running against Republican Rep. Matt Shea in the 4th Congressional District of the Washington State Legislature, and Dave Koch, the vice chairman of the Spokane County Democrats.
A week later, Matthew Pederson, chairman of the Spokane County Republicans spoke to students. At each event, speakers talked about their party's platform and where they stand on the issues before answering questions.
"The differences are there, but it's more of a different approach to the same issue," Biviano told students, saying roads don't care whether the funding to fix them comes from a Democrat or a Republican.
One student asked them where they see the economy going in the next five years. Another asked where they stood on legalizing marijuana. They were asked what they thought about the federal budget. There were many questions about the Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare.
Students asked questions of Biviano and Koch about the issues, but when Pederson spoke a week later, the atmosphere of the sessions became more contentious.
When Pederson visited the students, he told them how he first became involved in local politics, becoming the mayor of Airway Heights by the age of 30.
"All politics are local," he told them. He said there were cuts in funding to a local sports team he was working with and approached the city council to find a solution. Not only did they find a solution, residents there talked to him about running for the city council.
One of his duties as chairman of the Spokane County Republicans was to co-write the 2012 Washington State Republican Platform – which received 90 percent approval from his party. He read it to the students.
Students had many questions about Republican Party stances for Pederson. One student asked how the GOP can say that all men are created equal, but still believe marriage should be defined as one man and one woman. Students asked about the Republican Party's stance on abortion, even in cases of rape or incest. One student asked about concealed weapons.
The questions the students asked were emotionally charged, so much so Fadeley asked students to start focusing on other topics such as the economy.
Students also asked Pederson about Obamacare and why the Republicans don't agree with the act.
While there was a lot of discussion on social issues, there were specific questions they asked both sides. They asked about the state's statute requiring a two-thirds majority to raise taxes. They asked both parties about immigration.
West Valley students will write a voters guide appropriate to each grade level. Fadeley said high school students will vote on more issues and candidates than the grade school students. After the election, Fadeley hopes students will have an understanding of what democracy and voting are all about.
Sementi's letter to parents emphasized the district's commitment to teaching citizenship.
"It is our hope that participating in our mock registration and election will increase the likelihood that students will register to vote on their 18th birthday and begin participating in democracy as soon as possible," Sementi said.
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As a consequence of the takeover of Costa Crociere by Carnival Corporation and Airtours, Carnival has temporarily and indirectly entered the Cuban cruise market. A spokesperson of the U.S. Treasury Department confirmed that an agreement was reached with Carnival allowing the Cuba ties to exist for a period of time followmg the acquisition date.
Winding Down Costa Playa
A Carnival spokesperson explained that Costa's Cuba-based cruise ship, the Costa Playa, "is currently winding down its operations" and "will be sold." The Carnival spokesperson also referred to the "wind-down agreement with the U.S. government" which allows such an arrangement to legally exist during the transition period.
As a condition of the Carnival/Airtours takeover bid, Costa had agreed to divest all of its interests in Cuba. Nevertheless, the Carnival spokesperson explained why Costa could not cease operations with the ship immediately following the Carnival/Airtours takeover, stating, "Costa had sold cruises on the ship (after the acquisition date), and they have a reputation to maintain." Also, Costa could not sell off the ship before the deal went through because there was always at least the theoretical possibility that the deal would not be consummated, he added.
Beyond its Havana-homeported cruise ship, Costa Crociere also remains the owner of Milestone, a Monte Carlo-based company which operates a 50-50 joint venture with the Castro government called Silares Terminales. Silares Terminales renovated the Havana cruise docks, and continues to operate the facility. As of June 26, a Milestone representative confirmed it was still under Costa's ownership. Thus, Milestone is now under the ownership of Carnival and Airtours.
According to a Treasury spokesperson, "On Feb. 13, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) gave a license to Carnival to purchase Costa Crociere provided that Carnival agreed to abandon or terminate Costa's existing business interests in Cuba." The deadline for such divestment is reportedly six months following the date of the acquisition. The Treasury spokesperson could not confirm that deadline, stating only that "OFAC and Carnival came to an agreement on a mutually acceptable period of time."


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Stars & Garters at The Electric CircusThis is part of a fashion editorial originally published in November 1967, which celebrated the continued popularity of the mini and also the return of the garter as a fashion accessory. There were in fact six other dresses included in this editorial, all quite expensive/high-end fashion with price tags ranging from $735-$1,225 for the dresses and $40-$50 for the garters, and they were indeed beautiful, however, none of them were to my particular taste. I found them to be a little bit too conservative for my liking and not in keeping with what was happening on the street at the time, especially when considering that this was published just a few months down the road from the 'Summer of Love' after all. The model in the photo below (Cathee Dahmen) is wearing the very last outfit to be featured, it may have only cost $38 in total, but it is definitely my favourite look from the piece. It is also interesting to note that the shoot took place at New York's premier psychedelic night club The Electric Circus located at 19-25 St Marks Place on the lower east side. The club, which had opened in july of the same year, invited its patrons to "play games, dress as you like, dance, sit, think, tune in and turn on" amidst the psychedelic light shows, live music, circus performers, experimental theater, astrologers and freaks! It was billed as the ultimate legal entertainment experience! I've included several links at the end of the page to more detailed information about the club, including a link to a fantastic blog called 'It's all the streets you crossed not so long ago' which has written extensively about the venue and its origins and many more of New York city's rock 'n' roll haunts of the 60s and 70s.
A Snappy Bit of Leg ArtIn this the year of the leg, with plenty on view, and everything from flashy stockings to high-rise boots devoted to emphasizing the fact. The snappiest attention-getter is the old garter. A dated but delightful showbiz gimmick, garters fit the current theatrical spirit of late-nite fashion. They provide instant razzle-dazzle and what's especially good about them is that if you feel you are getting too much attention at any point during the evening, you can just slip them off and cool it without ruining the effect.
Star and Garter in the East VillageLounging in the psychedelically painted doorway of the Electric Circus, a discothèque in New Yorks East Village hippie district, a girl wears a feathered garter ($7) which goes with her Indian-style headband ($5), like the star dress ($26) they come from discothèque's boutique.
Opening night of the Electric Circus June 1967.
All images scanned by Sweet Jane from LIFE Magazine 10 November 1967, model: Cathee Dahmen, Photographer Milton H. Greene. Electric Circus photograph scanned from Radical Rags-Fashions of the Sixties by Joel Lobenthal. "If the Electric Circus were to open today" can be found here. The excellent "It's All The Streets You Crossed Not So Long Ago" blog can be found here, and you can read a review from the Village Voice Archive about the opening night at the Electric Circus here.


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Once you generate a contingency table in the 'ANALYSE' – 'Statistics' – 'Crosstabs' tab, the Chi-squared value is displayed. Within the table, cells will be displayed in different colours, based on residuals.
Residuals provide an extremely simple and effective analysis of developments in the table. Unlike the Chi-square value, which gives only a general diagnosis of the correlations in the table, residuals accurately show where we can find correlations. Chi-square can prove to be statistically significant due to correlations in a single cell, but it does not tell us where it is.
A residual is a term used in connection with analysis of nominal variables. A residual is simply the difference between the actual frequency of the given cell and the theoretical frequency, as it would have been if the variables of the two-dimensional table in this cell were not related (assumption of the null hypothesis). Theoretically, the frequency is calculated very simply as the product of two margins, divided by the total size of the table.
If basic residuals – which with the standard assumption follow the Poisson distribution – are standardised (subtract the expected value and divide by the standard deviation), we get standardised residuals, which are asymptotically normally distributed. With standardised residuals we utilize the commonly used interpretation of hypothesis testing and the usual critical values, i.e. 1.65 or 1.96 at 10% or 5% risk.
Adjusted residuals additionally correct for un-equal margin dimensions. Some researchers have proven that they are more suitable than conventional standardized residuals, which is also our recommendation, and is used with analysis.
The 1KA application uses and colours the values 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0 for values of adjusted residuals, which roughly signal the strength of the correlation in a particular cell, i.e. the strength of deviation from the assumptions of the null hypothesis. The meaning of the values for standardised residuals:
Blue coloured cells indicate that the cell contains less units than expected, while red coloured cells indicate that the cell contains more units than expected.
For example, if the cell contains 30 units, and the expected value is 20, the basic residual in 10. Thus there are 10 more units in this cell than would have been expected if the variables in these two categories were not related. For example, if we are looking at gender and opinion, we could say that men are more IN FAVOUR than expected if the gender did not have an effect. If we subtract the expected value for the residual 10 and divide it by its root (root of 20 is 4.5, since the Poisson distribution has an expected value that is equal to variance), we get a standardized residual which is larger than 2, since we get (20-10) /4.5>2.0.
If we correct this on the basis of the formulas found in the annexes below, we get an adjusted residual, which has – if there are no exceptional asymmetries in the margins (YES: NO, male: female) – a rather similar value. A detailed example of calculating residuals is found here >>. In any case, we can conclude that in this cell there are statistically significant deviations, and on this basis we can form the substantive interpretation (e.g. reasons why men are more IN FAVOUR).
The colouration of 1KA is indicative, simplified, and simply functions as a screening (exploratory) analysis. In the formal interpretation of either the exact standardized or – even better – adjusted residual, we interpret it in the standard way, as indicated in the examples below.
The exact value of the residuals is obtained by selecting their calculation in the 'Settings' option, in one of the horizontal links above the table.
We can of course interpret the entire table and its Chi-squared value. However, residuals are more precise than the entire Chi-squared value, since they focus precisely on the individual cells where deviations occur. Further insight is obtained by analysis of the difference in shares based on the t-test.
Of course, all of this is only valid for nominal variables. In case of a 'good' ordinal arrangement of one of the variables – even more so in the case of unequivocal interval or ration scales – we use the T-test or variance analysis.
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George Scott was 18 years old on the morning when his life changed forever. He was venturing from home, for the first time, and riding on a Nashville-bound train.
Planning to support the war effort—by making powder at the DuPont plant located in Old Hickory, Tennessee—George had an unsettled feeling. Riding the No.1 Express Passenger Train from Memphis, he kept waking up through the night. George had a feeling that something bad was going to happen.
Around 6 o'clock—on the morning of July 9, 1918—George left his seat. He walked to the passenger car behind his—also made of wood, not steel—and sat down. Then, for no apparent reason, he pulled the shade and, as he later said, waited.
Meanwhile ...
The local Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis train ( No. 4) was preparing for its trip. Passengers boarding the train, at Union Station, took their seats. A young bookkeeper spotted Willis M. Farris, a respected Nashville businessman, and offered his seat to the older man who gladly accepted it.
It would be one of the last things Farris ever did.
David Kennedy, the engineer aboard the No. 4 train, guided his westbound train out of the Nashville station at 7:07 AM. He was seven minutes late.
William Floyd, making his last trip before retiring the next day, guided his eastbound train along the track toward Nashville. He was running thirty-five minutes late. No. 1 had the right of way when the tracks changed from double to single.
West of the Nashville station, a single-track stretched for about ten miles. If the men aboard No. 4 did not see No. 1 pass them—while they were still on the double track—they would have to stop.
Conductor Eubank, aboard No. 4, was collecting passenger tickets when another train rolled by. Without confirming, he assumed it was No. 1, since it was due to arrive at Union Station around 7:10 am.
The passing train was not No. 1.
At the fork in the track, where a double rail gives way to a single rail, J.S. Johnson was at his post in the tower. From the top of the tall wooden structure, Johnson displayed a green sign for Train No. 4. It was a signal letting the engineer know that he had a clear path ahead on the single track.
Johnson made a note in his record:
No. 4 passed tower 7:15 a.m
Then, utterly stunned, he froze. He had just given the No. 4 train a "clear" signal," but his record book revealed that the No. 1 train had not-yet passed by the tower.
Reporting the situation to the dispatcher, Johnson received a troubling message:
He [No. 4] meets No. 1 there, can you stop him?
Although he blew the emergency whistle, and changed the green sign to red, Johnson did not see anyone standing at the rear of No. 4. No trainman had heard the warning sound. Kennedy continued his westbound course along the now-single track.
Dutchman's Curve—a blind spot along the single track near White Bridge Road in the Belle Meade section of Nashville—was directly ahead of both trains. Each train was traveling between 50-60 miles per hour.
Robert Corbitt, the brakeman on No. 1 that July day, had just left his normal post in the train's engine. Thomas Vester, Corbitt's nephew, later recalled:
He told me that he was riding in the engine like he normally did. But he went to the rear of the train. Something just told him to go back there.
Soon thereafter the engineers, on both trains, saw the unimaginable. America's deadliest train disaster was about to occur at the sharp and steeply graded curve.
Forcefully pulling No. 4's brake lever, Kennedy tried to avoid a head-on collision. There was nothing he could do as two 80-ton engines crashed into each other. People could hear the sound of the disaster two miles away.
The force of the impact, as one train telescoped into the other, sent wooden passenger cars flying through the air. Although their experience was traumatic, fortunate survivors were thrown clear of the wreckage.
George Scott, unhurt but visibly shaken, was one of the survivors. In 1983, he told his story to Bobby Braddock, a Nashville songwriter. It is a harrowing tale:
I had to raise up the window and the glass was falling all over everywhere...and finally I got out of there. And I wandered out past a cornfield, best I can remember, and I run across one of the trainmen laying there. Every time he was breathing, blood run out of his mouth. It done knocked me down...You couldn't tell one part of the bodies from another. They were just all cut to pieces.
After he'd moved from his original seat to a different passenger car, Scott sat near a young mother and her child. Neither survived the crash.
For three days, the young man was in shock as he walked around Nashville in his blood-stained clothes. He soon returned to Memphis.
Local journalists sound nearly breathless as they reported events associated with the crash.
Although the exact death toll was never really clear, the following is an excerpt from the Nashville Tennessean's July 10th issue. Be mindful it uses words employed by Americans living in 1918:
...Both engines reared and fell on either side of the track, unrecognizable masses of twisted iron and steel, while the fearful impact of the blow drove the express car of the north-bound train through the flimsy wooden coaches loaded with human freight, telescoped the smoking car in front and piling high in air the two cars behind it, both packed to the aisles with Negroes en route to the powder plant and some 150 other regular passengers.
Just where lies the blame, it is impossible now to say. Officials of the road are silent. But one of three things is reasonably sure - that the engineer of No. 4 was given wrong instructions, ran by his signal, or overlooked, the schedule on which he was supposed to run. That he knew the Memphis train to be a little late, leads to the conjecture that he was attempting to reach the switch at Harding station, a short distance beyond the scene of the wreck, before the inbound train arrived at that point.
The speed of the two trains when they met is estimated by old and experienced railroad men as being not less than sixty miles an hour.
How did the scene of the disaster appear in its immediate aftermath? The Tennessean's article continues:
The scene immediately following the collision is indescribable. Those escaping unhurt or with lesser injuries fled from the spot in a veritable panic. The cornfield on both sides of the track was trampled by many feet, and littered with fragments, of iron and wood hurled from the demolished cars. The dead lay here and there, grotesquely sprawling where they fell. The dying moaned appeals for aid or, speechless, rolled their heads from side to side and writhed in agony. Everywhere there was blood and suffering and chaos.
Robert Corbitt, the brakeman from train No. 1, was among the motionless bodies. He, like so many others, ended-up at one of the local morgues. Corbitt's nephew, Thomas Vester, picks-up the story:
They were ready to embalm him. Then he moved.
Instead of being cared-for at the morgue, Corbitt went to the hospital where doctors thought he would lose his leg. He didn't and, decades later, he survived another train wreck, in 1951, when he was able to jump from the train.
The story, of America's deadliest train wreck, quickly fell out of the news. Perhaps that is because the country was still at war. Perhaps, however, there was another reason.
About 80% of the victims, during the country's Jim-Crow era, were African-Americans on their way to work at the DuPont factory. The Nashville Tennessean's July 10th article provides the details:
Of the train crews five are dead: Engineer William F. Floyd and Fireman Thomas Kelley of train No. 4 and Engineer David C. Kennedy, Fireman Luther L. Meadows and Baggage Master Tom Dickinson, of train No. 1. The first four resided in Nashville.
Of the known dead at least 80 per cent were Negroes. In the majority of cases the end came to them without warning. Corpses were piled everywhere beneath the heaps of iron and shattered wood and tin work of the fragile cars. An entire day was employed in undoing the work of devastation that an instant had wrought.
Fortunately fire played no part in piling on the horrors of the day, a slight blaze started at the end of one of the coaches being almost instantly extinguished by those first arriving on the scene.
During the ensuing years, train wrecks have continued in America and in other countries.
Sometimes the wrecks occur because trains "jump" the tracks or become derailed. Sometimes—as in the case of the Great Circus Train Wreck which happened just weeks before the Dutchman's Curve disaster—they occur due to human error. The deadliest train wreck of all happened, in Sri Lanka, because of the 2004 tsunami.
In 2015, a train traveling around 100 mph as it approached a tight turn not far from Philadelphia's 30th Street station, resulted in at least eight deaths and at least 200 injuries. During World War II, in nearly the same place, another disastrous train wreck occurred, killing nearly 80 people in 1943.
Fortunately—despite the disasters which have occurred on America's train tracks—traveling by rail remains a safe method of transportation in the States, just like it does in other parts of the world.
Image of the 1918 Dutchman's Curve trainwreck, online via Tennessee State Library and Archives.


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Cale Yarborough is set to return to the legendary high banks of Darlington Raceway.
On Sunday, Sept. 4, the South Carolina native and NASCAR Hall of Famer will pace the field as the honorary pace car driver for the 67th running of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Bojangles' Southern 500.
"This is quite an honor and I'm really looking forward to being the honorary pace car driver for the Bojangles' Southern 500," Yarborough said. "The Southern 500 is the reason I got into racing. When I saw my first one, I knew that's what I wanted to do. Darlington is a tough, ol' race track that can give you fits. When I was racing, I wanted to win the Southern 500 more than any other race. I still get goose bumps when I drive by the race track. I just may have to run a few laps and show those young folks how it's done."
Yarborough has five career wins at his hometown track, all coming in the Southern 500 on Labor Day weekend (1968, 1973, 1974, 1978 and 1982). He won three consecutive NASCAR premier series championships from 1976-78. He also won four Daytona 500 races and posted 83 career NASCAR Cup Series victories with 69 pole awards.
Yarborough also will be honored by Darlington Raceway with a special ceremony during the Bojangles' Southern 500 race weekend for his contributions to the sport. Details on the ceremony will be announced at a later date. He is also set to participate in the Bojangles' Legends Breakfast on Sunday morning, along with other NASCAR Hall of Fame members. He was elected to the NASCAR Hall of Fame as part of the Class of 2012.


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Known for the dimension and fluidity in their existing designs, Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled yet another breathtaking masterpiece. This time, an architectural wonderland comprised of four ovular volumes fluidly connected by weaving bridges and interlocking passageways, called the Galaxy Soho—a name that befits the sublime urban utopia.
The massive corner-less complex, set in the heart of Beijing and hoped to serve as a central hub to the bustling metropolis, will house retail and entertainment facilities on the first three floors, restaurants and bars on the top few floors, and innovative office and work spaces sandwiched in between.
With grand open expansions internally woven between each superstructure, the project is meant to embody the perpetual motion displayed in traditional Chinese architectural spaces, creating a natural continuity in the rhythmic flow of movement between the buildings.


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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
UFO Looked Rectangular No Lights And Silent Seen Over Leduc Alberta
Date: March 23, 2015
Time: Approximately 12:15 a.m.
So I saw something this past weekend and I cannot explain it. I came across your website while searching for similar sightings. Here is my account:
Monday March 23, 2015 approximately 12:15 a.m. (Sunday night). I took the dogs out to pee out the front door of our home in Leduc, AB, on the eastern edge of town.
I stood at the corner of our house and attached garage and looked up at the stars, while I waited.
Fairly clear night, the big dipper was perfectly centered in my line of sight between the house and front yard spruce trees. The sky was quite bright, light pollution and possibly slightly overcast.
As I gazed at the stars, something came in to my field of vision. It flew directly over our house from the West. As soon as I picked it up in my peripheral vision, I stared directly at it. It was moving very fast, but not unearthly fast.
It looked to be about 2,000-3,000 feet up. Difficult to say. Its trajectory was such that I could track it from above my house across the sky in front of our spruce trees. It looked rectangular in shape, no lights. Silent, or extremely quite.
Whatever its altitude, I could not hear any sound from it. Could not see wings or any obvious propulsion. It is difficult to come up with an accurate size, if it was indeed in the 2000' range, it looked to be the approximately size of a car. Maybe 15-20' long and 6-8' wide? Two lighter colored, maybe white, strips running the length of the object. One on each side.
Keeping with the approximately dimensions, maybe 1-2 feet wide, running the length of the object on the left and right hand side. Majority color was like a dark brown/rust color.
As it flew away from me towards the east, it seemed to veer slightly north as it, ironically, approached the flight path of one of the Edmonton Int'l airport runways. I lost sight at this point, blinded by the street lights and light pollution of the surrounding area. I could not see any of the shape vertically.
Seemed to be relatively flat, low profile. In total, I had a direct visual for approximately 5 seconds. Can't explain it.
Thought maybe some kind of UAV or drone, but no lights at night flying that close to an international airport and at that low of an altitude? And definitely did not see any kind of wings or propulsion system. I work in aviation and have not seen anything like it. It was a little eerie seeing something in the sky moving that fast and no sound coming from it.
Thank you to the witness for their report.
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