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October 26, 2011 – St. Jude Medical announced it has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance for its Ilumien system, the first integrated diagnostic technology that combines optical coherence tomography (OCT) and fractional flow reserve (FFR) technologies on one platform. The combined system offers physicians advanced physiological and anatomical insight to improve the diagnosis and treatment of coronary artery disease.
The Ilumien system features the St. Jude Medical PressureWire Aeris, a wireless interventional tool that measures FFR to evaluate the severity of blood flow blockages in the coronary arteries, and the St. Jude Medical C7-XR OCT diagnostic imaging technology with Extreme Resolution, a first-to-market intravascular imaging technology that allows physicians to visualize and measure important vessel characteristics otherwise not visible or difficult to assess with older intracoronary imaging technologies. Combined, the two technologies enable the optimization of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) by assisting physicians in identifying culprit lesions responsible for ischemia (coronary narrowings responsible for significantly obstructing the flow of blood to a patient's heart muscle). The technologies also provide physicians with precise measurements of lesion dimensions, as well as vessel size and structure.
The St. Jude Medical Ilumien system features the Wi-Box, a wireless device that enables the Ilumien system to receive aortic pressure readings wirelessly. The Wi-Box provides physicians and staff with a completely cable-free FFR solution, combining the ease of use of a built-in system with the cost efficiency of a mobile platform.
The C7-XR System with the C7 Dragonfly Imaging Catheter was launched in the United States in 2010 and the PressureWireAeris was launched in the United States in 2009. The Ilumien system was launched in Europe earlier this year.
About Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR)
Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR) is an index determining the functional severity of narrowings in the coronary arteries. FFR specifically identifies which coronary narrowings are responsible for significantly obstructing the flow of blood to a patients' heart muscle (called ischemia), and it is used by the interventional cardiologist to direct coronary interventions and assess results for improved treatment outcomes.
Current data show that physiological assessment using FFR prior to placement of coronary stents helps physicians better optimize clinical outcomes by determining which specific lesion or lesions are responsible for a patient's ischemia.
About Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a leading imaging technology platform that aids physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease. OCT utilizes near-infrared light to create images to visualize and measure important vessel characteristics otherwise not visible or difficult to assess with older intracoronary imaging technologies- such as fluoroscopy and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). OCT can be especially important for the assessment of stent placement because the high-resolution images show precisely how the stent is holding the artery open and whether it is positioned correctly against the artery wall, optimizing treatment and follow-up strategies.
For more information, visit www.SJMILUMIEN.com


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Cloud 23
Photography by diffordsguide.com
23rd Floor, Hilton Manchester Hotel, Manchester, Lancashire, M3 4LQ, United Kingdom
Tel: +44 161 870 1600
Website: View bar's website
Hours: Mon-Thu 5pm-2am, Fri 5pm-3am, Sat 2:30pm-3am, Sun noon-midnight
Door: Make reservation
Style: Hotel bar
Recommended for: View
Price guide: High-end
Food: Bar nibbles
Cloud 23 is set on the 23rd floor of tallest building in Manchester. This 47-storey skyscraper has a slightly unfinished look, making for a hard to miss 'Hilton' labelled landmark.
The Hilton Hotel occupies the first 23 floors with this, the hotel's bar, occupying the double-height 23rd floor and offering panoramic views of the city and surrounding area including the set of Coronation Street, red brick warehouses and the odd canal. Two portholes in the floor also allow a vertigo inducing glimpse downwards.
Cloud is a place to be seen, so expect girls in posh frocks and a red roped line-up to the express lift in the lobby. If not on the guest list expect a toll to experience the 15 second ride up to the 23rd floor where staff great each arriving lift and offer attentive table service from that moment on.
The drinks menu is well devised with signature drinks plus household name classics. A brief description of a cloud runs across the food of each page. 'Cirrocumulus' for example are, "Thin high altitude clouds that form distinct patchy and/or lightly tufted sheets, usually slightly wavelike in appearance." Interesting.

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June 02, 2020, 12:51:27 am
The Generation II glitch Egg, named "EGG" (Japanese: タマゴ) is a glitch Pokémon in Generation II with an index number of 0xFD (dec:253). It is data for an Egg assigned to hatch from another Egg, thus serving as a glitch Pokémon, or the game's attempt for looking up information for Pokémon 253.
The Generation II glitch Egg will take its typing and base stats from an earlier Pokémon in memory (in at least English Pokémon Gold and Silver and English Pokémon Crystal). It does not have a valid backsprite or Pokédex entry.
The backsprite of the Generation II glitch Egg may appear as a glitchy mess or reset/freeze the game (depending on the version).
The player is able to deposit all Pokémon except for a Generation II glitch Egg into a box, or deliver a Pokémon holding Mail to Randy on Route 31 to end up with only the Generation II glitch Egg.
The Generation II glitch Egg can be obtained with ????? party overloading and byte shifting (from a bad clone) or arbitrary code execution.


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The building of traditional wooden phinisi sailboats are seeing a revival—and being transformed from a humble cargo vessels into luxury yachts
In 2004, a 50 meter luxury yacht, the Silolona, was launched, causing a sensation when it showed off to the media and others. The cause of the commotion? The Silolona was no ordinary yacht. It was actually a wooden phinisi sailboat, which have piled the waters of Southeast Asia and beyond for hundreds of years. While most of these boats are simple cargo vessels, the Silolona charges up to $1,200 per person per day for charter trips, for a maximum of 12 guests on board. "Each trip is individually tailored and price varies by area and the client's requests," says American and longtime Indonesian resident Patti Seery, the owner of the charter company Silolona Sojourns, which now includes the Silolona and a second phinisi, the Si Datu Bua, a Torajan name given to it by its builders.
As Indonesians and others switched to conventional engine-powered cargo ships, the phinisi tradition faced an uncertain future until a market pioneered by Patti and other entrepreneurs materialized. Today the phinisi industry is undergoing something of a renaissance, with the ships now built to become high-end luxury yachts—and the shipbuilders able to charge billions of rupiah for their efforts.
Phinisi have a long and proud history, and played an important role in the country's long maritime history. They may have originated as early as the 1500s. Today they are one of the last—if not the last—all wooden traditional sailboats that are still seaworthy vessels with little change to the basic design from hundreds of years ago. Before the advent of engine-powered ships, the phinisi were the vessels that connected the many islands of the country, operating mostly as cargo ships, especially in facilitating the spice trade with the West. In their heyday, the phinisi could more than hold their own against any sailing ship from the West, and possibly one of their many uses was as pirate ships by the Bugis people. It is believed that the Western expression "boogeyman" is derived from "Bugis-man" as a name for local pirates that once terrorized Western sailing ships.
The most standard phinisi can take up to 100 tonnes of goods with the maximum length 30 meter, and was built with two masts and seven sails. Today, many phinisi can still be seen in Sunda Kelapa port in Jakarta. To be sure, many owners have added motors to supplement the windpower of the sails and the masts are now sometimes made from fiberglass, to add strength and save weight. More contemporary boats have expanded to 50 meters and can carry up to 1,000 tonnes of goods. Indonesia today probably boasts the largest fleet of ocean-going sailing cargo ships in the world.
If ones wants to make a great phinisi, Patti says, the secret to use only the best materials, such as wood that is free from crack or holes. Ulin or Borneo ironwood is one of best materials for the hull, since this type of wood grows stronger the more it is exposed to water. Other important elements of building a great boat are, of course, the design and the hiring of the right craftsmen to make it. In that last category there is one obvious choice: the Konjo boatbuilders.
Different from the Buginese who excel in sailing, the ethnic group known as the Bugis Sekonjo or Konjo are renowned as craftsmen who have honed their skills over generations of boat-building. They originally came from Ara village, in a hilly area of the Bontobahari subdistrict, part of the Bulukumba regency in southeast Sulawesi, about 209 kilometers from Makassar. If you look at the map, it can be seen at the bottom end of the island's left leg. Most men from Ara starts their careers at an early age cooking or doing other odd jobs for the boatbuilders before starting long apprenticeships to learn the craft. While some Konjo travel around the country to make boats, many have settled in the nearby villages of Tana Beru and Tanjung Bira. "A traditional wooden sailing vessels can be build anywhere in Indonesia as long as there is a Konjo boatbuilder of Sulawesi," says American Robin Engel, 65, owner of SongLine Yachts and SongLine Cruises, a yacht developer who operates a number of phinisi charter luxury yachits and who has been doing business in Indonesia's sailing industry for more than 20 years.
The country boasts a number of master craftsmen. For instance Seery likes working with Muhammad Nurka and Muhammad Nasir to create boats. Nurka, 58, is the senior of the two, with decades of experience, while Nasir, 41, is his more junior partner. Nasir's father is the one who built the phinisi Antar Bangsa, which sailed across the Pacific to represent Indonesia in the 1986 Expo in Vancouver, Canada. Robin, on the other hand, prefers to work with Hajj Muslim Baso, probably the most successful and wealthiest of the Konjo craftsmen.
Based in Tanjung Bira, Baso is now making phinisi for a growing portfolio of wealthy international customers who want to use them as luxury yachts. He has built or is building boats for customers from ten countries, including Poland and France. As such, his phinisi business may be one of the largest in the country. Over the last 20 years, he has made more than 200 vessels, mostly for fishing and cargo boats, before branching out into the luxury yacht sector.
Although a master at traditional boats, Baso charges very modern prices. He can charge up to Rp 6 billion for making only the ship's hull. He says he got paid Rp 4 billion to build the Zen, a 50 meter phinisi yacht for a Polish client, which is now being fitted with wooden furniture from Jepara.
Baso, 65, has such deep knowledge that he says he doesn't even use a blueprint to build a boat—he relies solely on instinct and experience. He says he learnt everything from his father and great grandfather, who was also a panrita lopi or boat expert. "I'm aware nowadays people are using computers to design a boat. I'm not familiar with computer, but which came first, the computer or the brain? I have it all in here," he says, pointing a finger to his head covered with white hair.
He even boasts that he can calculate much faster than the computer in projecting the cost to build the ship: "For one boat, I can calculate the cost within five minutes." All he needs to know is the basic measurements of the ship such as the length, wide, depth and the type of wood that the customer desires. Once he has those details, he gives an estimated cost and construction time—along with other details such as the thickness of the wood. Once a contract is signed with the client, he'll start construction.
Despite his success, Baso remains a traditionalist in other ways. He doesn't have business cards—and instead uses his driver's license as a form of identification. He often wears sarongs and lives in a big wooden traditional house near his workplace on the beach of Tanjung Bira. Speaking in a mixture of Indonesian and the local dialect, he says: "I didn't do anything to promote my business. It is done by people who write about me and the boats I made, which were uploaded onto the Internet."
Just has he branched from cargo ships to yachts, Baso wants to expand further into tourism, and aims to build a resort near his home on one hectare of land. The area does have potential—the beaches here are soft and white, and dotted with phinisi under construction. There are few power tools to be seen, most of the work is done with hand tools. Near Baso's home, one can see a 50 meter phinisi that will be finished next month for a French client while next to it is a cargo boat of the same size that was just started in June.
One boat can require the work of five to 15 boatbuilders—the larger the boat, the more are needed. The Konjo boatbuilders don't have fixed hours, they start work when the sun comes up and finish when the light starts to fade. They rarely take holidays, and take pride in keeping to their promised deadlines for completion. A typical craftsman can earn Rp 60,000 per day. Baso makes more than that but he's the project manager—finding the clients, securing the contracts, sourcing the materials and managing the building process. The process is steeped in tradition, including special ceremonies to celebrate the launch of a new boat onto the water. It can up to a year just to complete the hull, and up to three years to fully complete it, including all the interior design and finishings.
There are only a few men at Baso's level of expertise, who can making a giant phinisi to the quality level demanded of wealthy clients for use in charters or as luxury yachts. His son, Rusdi Mulyadi, 41, who is also in the boat making business for the last decade, admits he doesn't yet feel ready to tackle the larger boats. So far, he has made two phinisis and other smaller boats. One of the most difficult parts of the building process is the last step—launching the ship into the water without damaging it. Just as in the building process, the launch process is done manually, with dozens of men to pull the boat from the beach until it floating on the water. For 50 meter phinisi, it could take a crew of 80 to get it safely into the water. For this reason, Baso moved from his previous location in Tana Beru to the beach on Tanjung Bira, as it has a shorter beach, thus making it easier to launch the boats.
The Silolona proved its worth as a sailing vessel when it was parked in the waters off Phuket island in Thailand, on the fateful day of December 26, 2004, having just made an appearance at the 2004 King's Cup Regatta. The boat was far enough out to sea that the tsunami wave was still nothing more than a large surge that the Silolona passed over before it broke with devastating effect on the beach. Hearing that the worst damage was in Aceh, Patti immediately set sail for Aceh with supplies and a medical team, and was among the first to arrive on the scene, bringing much needed aide and help to tsunami victims.
* This story appears as cover story in the October 2012 issue of Forbes Indonesia. The grey text in the content, including the box at the bottom, is additional for the blog.


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Monday, September 15, 2008
Development principles for Ohio cities
While this was written in 2003, the principles are valid today, especially #2 when it comes to Toledo's economic development approach.
Five Development Principles for Ohio Cities
Local regions in Ohio are faced with 21st-century challenges that fundamentally question both the logic of existing economies and the ways we approach economic development policy. Citizens and local policymakers must take a fresh look at how the economy repositions itself in an information-driven, globally competitive world market and what, if anything, public policy can do to influence these shifts.
There are five key observations and principles that would be helpful to include in any discussion of local economic development policy:
1. Focus on the achievable. Any elected official's first inclination is to create and implement a positive program for change. Unfortunately, reality, political and economic, often gets in the way of grand plans, and elected officials need to factor this into their policy recommendations. Cities must focus on what they can achieve, not on visions, hopes, or aspirations that are no longer within reach or impossible to achieve under the best of circumstances. While vision can provide a general context, it cannot provide a workable action plan. Thus, a practical key to successful economic development policy is the ability of local leaders to be realistic in their expectations and in the programs they create to achieve them.
2. Private-sector participation will be key. In the late 20th century, many elected officials believed that government could create jobs by investing directly in projects, or seeding projects that would create a catalyst for long-term investment and growth. Most of these plans have achieved results far below expectations.
Over the past two decades, economic development specialists have recognized that good projects almost always have a significant private-sector component because entrepreneurs have a better grasp of market conditions and the long-term viability of certain kinds of projects. In short, the private sector does a better job of leading and managing projects and leveraging public dollars than does the public sector investing on its own.
Nowhere is this more evident than in downtown revitalization efforts. Downtowns across the nation continue to struggle despite significant public subsidies. Downtowns that in fact have revitalized are those that recognize long-term growth depends on creating a viable market and a business climate in which private investors and entrepreneurs could thrive. More often than not, this requires local officials to recognize that downtowns are boutique markets and serve a specific niche; they no longer serve the historical role of economic engines for regional economies.
3. Providing core services efficiently is paramount to long-term success. Local governments must not lose sight of their core competencies - the services and products local governments provide that no one else can (or will) provide. These core competencies include local infrastructure, certain kinds of regional planning, law enforcement, criminal justice, the quality of public education and other services. To ignore these core services risks compromising economic development in the short and long run.
4. Private investors create sustainable economies. Government investment does not create long-term job growth. Certain types of investments, such as road and sewer infrastructure, help lay a broad-based foundation for private investment. Their job creation and impact on local wages, however, are relatively small. Public works projects may provide a short-term infusion of cash that increases the number of jobs in the short run but they don't provide a foundation for sustained investment.
The vast majority of jobs come from local small businesses starting up, expanding and diversifying over time. Local officials rarely can pick and choose among those private businesses to determine which will be successful. Indeed, the history of economic development is rife with examples of companies that became successful as a by-product of their efforts in their core competencies. Wealth creation, from a public official's perspective, is largely a spontaneous process where the logic and rationale of the success of a particular business can be determined only in retrospect.
5. Leadership requires focus, drive and simplicity. Sometimes, policymakers tend to take a shotgun approach to economic development policy that captures the following philosophy: try as many ideas as you can and hope two or three have an impact. This approach tends to diffuse accountability in the process, and often sets in motion initiatives that work at cross-purposes. A more effective strategy has been for local leaders to identify two or three key areas and goals, and then develop a timed, phased action plan to achieve them. The results are easier to measure, and implementation is clearly and more likely to succeed.
Ohio cities should strive for programs that are focused, market-driven and provide a basic foundation for private investment and wealth-creation. That is what generates tangible results in the long run.
3 comments:
- Timothy W Higgins said...
This is information that every community should take to heart, but which will fall on deaf ears in Toledo. First, it is written by someone who is part of the Buckeye Institute, a bastion of conservative thinking. Second, it points out this that cannot be government driven, the opposite of current government thinking. Lastly, it does not take into account the current "tax and spend" philosophy in local government.
Like a plant, no business can grow and prosper when planted in inferitle ground. Even our local politicians cannot spread enough natural fertilizer to make up for the desolate wasteland that they have created in the region. Significant change will be required to turn this desert into a garden again.
- navyvet said...
Could we put a copy of this under Carty's pillow and hope that the osmosis thingy works?
It is our only chance....
- Cynical Counsel said...
Abandon Residency Requirements for city workers.
Court of Appeals (Second District) upholds State ban on residency restrictions - holds statute does not violate home rule.
State v. Dayton, 2008-Ohio-2589


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The ideal
in the barefoot world is a barefoot
horse who can handle extremes
in terrain... a horse that can
move easily across rock, sand,
mud, and water.
The assumption in recent times
has been that most domestic
horses are incapable of having
tough, durable feet, because
"good footedness"
has been bred out of domesticated
But even barefoot fanatics
are skeptical about the mythical
"gravel crunchers",
bare feet that can go anywhere,
do anything....
These horses and riders aren't
stupid! Ridden on a loose rein,
barefoot horses avoid rock if
there is an alternative, and
while we trot trough rough trail,
we let the horse set the pace
and don't interfere with where
they walk.
When riding on trail that starts
bothering our horses movement,
we either pull out boots
or change trails! The trails
that slow us down barefoot should
slow down a shod horse, too,
because that narrow band of
1/4 inch metal can't protect
a horses feet from severe stone.
boots like Old Macs, Epics and Renegades offer excellent protection.
They take 3 minutes a set to
put on, and they stay in place
in all conditions. Riding booted
is just as cool as riding barefoot!
My horse almost never needs
rear boots, but I do carry rear
boots when his feet are extremely
wet and soft and the terrain
is extremely rocky.
Robby, 12 year old Arab
Tinker, an 18 year old shetland
concept of passive conditioning involves using rock or gravel
around watering tanks, gates
and feeding areas.
Xenophon, a fourth century BC Greek cavalry commander, had a lot to say on horse management
for the development of rock-hard
feet. Some of the oldest writings about the care of hooves are found in the works of Xenophon, who wrote "naturally sound hooves get spoiled in most stalls," and included the instruction that their hooves should be toughened by putting a cobblestone area in their paddock, (a practice still in use today).
Building a tough hoof is dependent on the right LIM (Less Is More) trim, a lots of time and
travel, good low-carb diet (See http://www.hoofrehab.com/diet.htm) , and booting when necessary.
While the process takes
time and riding, it isn't difficult...
feed right, trim just enough, get rid of thrush and provide good footing in the living environment and los of exercise.
Sonoma County has lots of rocky
trail, so my guys had to either
develop great feet or be booted
in the front. I'm close to
Armstrong Woods, Austin Creek
Parks, Annadale
and Point Reyes National Seashore.
Some of this trail is easy on
bare feet, but most of the trail
has a considerable amount
of sharp shale or fist sized rocks.
There may be an ideal shape
for most conditions, but many
shapes are possible.
cagey grew up in a tough 300 acre pasture. The mares and foals were again
turned out to pasture until
the foals were 3 to 4 months
old, when they were again brought
in and essentially round penned
as a herd, taught the essentials
of natural horsemanship. There
were handled a bit, then turned
out again to mature.
Cagey matured into
an awesome almost bomb proof
trail horse. Danielle tried
shoeing him, but the farrier
said his feet were too hard
to trim, so wait until he wears
them down and then he'd nail
shoes on. After thinking about
this - and trying to wear his
feet down unsuccessfully - Danielle
decided to skip the shoes.
Tinker is an almost 20 year old Welsh pony who is Deb Weathers favorite horse to ride. Don't let his size deceive you! This is an Equine to be reckoned with!
Tinker easily does 15 to 20 mile trail rides at top speed carrying owner Deb. He blows the socks off of Arabs and TBs, shod, unshod or booted, and he has ALWAYS been barefoot!


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Everyone's your brother until the rent comes due. - Ronin 1998The Chicago Bulls season ended last week with a trouncing by the LeFlop James led Miami Heat. Derrick Rose the erstwhile Bulls Superstar did not play a single minute during the Regular Season or Playoffs while rehabbing his knee. Rose suffered a torn ACL during the 2012 playoffs .
On August 28 2010, Hillenmeyer suffered a concussion during a pre-season game. He was placed on injured reserve before the season and has never played again. The Bears terminated his contract Feb. 28, 2011, one month after the team's concussion consultant, Dr. Elizabeth Pieroth, a board certified clinical neuropsychologist, examined him and recommended he no longer play. The Bears cut him with one year and $1.8 million remaining on his contract. According to the union, Article 45 of the collective bargaining agreement stipulates Hillenmeyer is eligible for an injury protection benefit of 50 percent of his base salary up to $1 million.The Chicago Bears have not paid the 50% of Hillenmeyer's final contract. In the modern world of Sports you're earning a million dollars one day and out of work the next. Careers, most often, end in men's early 30's. Derrick Rose doesn't owe Bulls Fans anything. When his career is over no one in Chicago is going to help him out.
Several Bulls players hit upon hard times after their playing careers have ended.
"Jerry has been very warm towards me over the years and has never turned me down for anything," said Pippen.In 2003, another Bulls Point Guard, Jay Williams injured himself. This time it wasn't on the court but a motorcycle accident during the off-season, which almost resulted in Williams losing his leg and requiring Williams to undoe multiple surgeries, extended hospital time and an arduous long recovery.
So, I think Rose has reached an incorrect conclusion about his post playing career but I don't fault him for reaching it.


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Could a Whale Sink a Ship?
Left: Woodcut illustration from The Mariner's Chronicle of Shipwrecks, Fires, Famines, and other Disasters at Sea, Volume 1 (Boston, 1835).
While it was the business of whalers to hunt and kill whales, sometimes a whale would fight back. Among the more famous of the several incidents of whales attacking whaling vessels are those of the ship Essex of Nantucket in 1820, the ship Pocahontas of Tisbury in 1850, the ship Ann Alexander of New Bedford in 1851, and the bark Kathleen of New Bedford in 1902.
Left: Woodcut illustration from The Mariner's Chronicle, of Shipwrecks, Fires, Famines, and other Disasters at Sea, Vol. 1 (Boston, 1835).
All four stories have one element in common. The species encountered was a sperm whale and in each instant the whale rammed the vessel with its head after a prolonged fight with the whaleboats. The Essex under the command of George Pollard, Jr., with Owen Chase, first mate, sank two thousand miles off the west coast of South America in a region called the "Off Shore Grounds." The whale attacked the ship "with vengeance in his aspect" according to Chase. The event became famous not only for the sinking itself, but for the terrible suffering of the crew members who were at sea for ninety days in three open whaleboats and gradually resorted to cannibalism with only eight of the original crew of twenty surviving. The Essex story provided inspiration for Herman Melville's great novel Moby-Dick, where Captain Ahab's relentless pursuit of the great white whale resulted in the sinking of the Pequod. The same year that book was published the Ann Alexander suffered a similar fate in the same general area of the Pacific.
Wood engraving, "Destruction of a Whaleboat from the ship Ann Alexander of New Bedford,"
from Gleason's Pictorial Drawing Room Companion ( Jan 5, 1852).
Kendall collection, 2001.100.7111.1
Postcard issued by H.S. Hutchingson & Co., of New Bedford, 1902
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New Year, New Approach to My Blog Focus!
I started this blog in September with the goal of expressing my thoughts and hopefully helping other parents realize that we are not perfect and that we are all doing the best we can. I feel like I got off to a great start, but I hit a wall. Like I often face when trying something new, I start strong then something happens to throw me off course.
In November when I got sick, I started blogging less. And when I got sick again over Thanksgiving, I completely stopped. As often happens to me when the going gets tough, I quit. I listened to the voice in my head that said, "I have too much to get done, and my blog isn't as important as everything else."
Enter the New Year
I realize that not only do I need this blog to succeed for myself, but I know that there are parents out there that suffer from the same overwhelmed feelings I have. I am back and creating not only my usual blog posts about everyday parenting issues we all face, but I am also going to blog about new ways to manage a household and take back some control in our everyday lives.
Through my blog I am hoping to create a space where all parents (mom, dads, working parents, SAHM, single, married) can come to receive help and sometimes validation for their thoughts and feelings. I am an occasionally working parent who struggles with voicing my opinions and feelings out loud. Which is the main reason I began blogging. I can write my thoughts instead of saying them! I work as a substitute teacher whenever my schedule and the jobs are available. This gives me a unique insight into both stay at home parenting and working outside the home. While I might reap the benefits of both worlds, I also can also understand the struggles both face.
I want you, my readers, to share in this journey. Please leave me comments with problems you face in running a household or issues you have as a parent. I promise you are not alone! If I don't have an idea on how to help, maybe one of my other readers will. We are all in this together with the goal of getting through life while raising decent little humans in the process.


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Max Dollars for Education - County Market
Max Card Dollars for Education is designed to aid local schools in the difficult task of fundraising, simply by shopping with the Max Card! Customers register their Max Card to support a local school and at the end of the program, spending is tallied and rewards are given to schools with the most Max Card spending.
Don't forget to scan your Max Card on every purchase, because every dollar counts!
Click here to select CTK as your school for Max Dollars for Education
Amazon Smile
AmazonSmile is a website operated by Amazon with the same products, prices, and shopping features as Amazon.com. The difference is that when you shop on AmazonSmile, the AmazonSmile Foundation will donate 0.5% of the purchase price of eligible products to the charitable organization of your choice
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Box Tops for Education
General Mills Box Tops for education is an easy way for families to earn money for our school. Box Tops can be found on hundreds of products. Simply clip the box tops and turn them into school. Remember to collect box tops over the summer, when we return to school, the homeroom that collects that most box tops wins a classroom party of their choice – either a pizza party or an ice cream party! Click here to download a Box Tops Collection Form.
Box Top Bonus App
Earn even more cash to help your school get what it needs through the Box Tops for Education® Bonus App. Turn your everyday receipts into cash for your school. It's free and as easy as 1-2-3. Click on the link to see how it works and to download the app!
Shoparoo is a free app available from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store that turns your everyday receipts into cash donations and sweepstakes entries for our school. Download the Shoparoo App onto your phone and choose to support "Christ the King Elementary School – Springfield IL". Then all you do is shop and snap a picture of the receipt with the app. Our school earns points, which then become a cash donation for our school. Visit www.shoparoo.com for more information.
Schnuck's e-scrip
You can get a Schnucks eScrip card at any Schnucks store. You register your card online, or call (800) 931-6258, and designate Christ the King as the school you would like to support. When you shop at Schnucks and have your card scanned at check out, your purchase creates an automatic contribution of up to 3% of your purchase price. Schucks eScrip cards can be picked up at any Schnucks grocery store or at our school office.


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Drysdale River Station
We are not a hotel, not a motel, not a farm stay, not a bed and breakfast, not a roadhouse, but we ARE an Australian outback mixture of all these things. A service center for the North Kimberley.
Drysdale is a family owned and operated million acre working cattle station, running approx. 10,000 head. We cater to visitors and offer something for everyone, something to suit all budgets. Sick of driving?! Need a cup of coffee, a cold drink, a meal and a beer? How about a camp site with a hot shower? Dinner in the beer garden, yarns around the log fire? A warm bed or a nice hot dinner in the licensed dining room. A cooked breakfast will give you a good start in the morning. We offer all you may need or want. If you feel like the bed but wish to cook for yourselves also included with the accommodation is the use of a kitchen for use with your own cooking gear. Camp riverside at Miners Pool or choose the Homestead Camp with bathroom and laundry facilities. No matter where you choose to lay your head the restaurant and bar are open to all. It is advisable to book ahead for dinner to avoid disappointment. We will do our best to fit you in even if it is a last minute request but some nights we are simply unable to do so without a prior booking. A quick list of what we offer: Shop, small general store. Fuel, diesel and unleaded. (sorry no gas)
- Guest Laundry
On the Gibb River / Kalumburu Road, North Kimberley, Western Australia. Just 59kms North of the junction and only 1 km off the Kalumburu Road.
Nearest Towns East: Kununurra 360 km and
West: Derby 470 km.
Double Room No-ensuite
Bedding- fully supplied- one double bed & 2 single beds. Price for 1A or 2A.
Extra child $30 . Extra adult $50.
Meals not included. All meals available at restaurant, please book for dinner.
Cot- N/A room not suitable
Room Configuration: 1 Bedroom
Max # of Persons: 4
Family room - No en suite (max 2 Adults & 4 kids)
All bedding supplied- 1 double bed & 2 sets of bunks for children
Meals not included- Meals available at restaurant. Please book for dinner.
Rate of $170.00 per night for 2 adults. $30.00 extra child. $50 extra adult.
Room not available to all adults unless last room vacant. Cot-N/A
Room Configuration: 1 Bedroom
Max # of Persons: 6
New small Queen Room- with en suite
Queen room with en suite, air conditioning, fridge & tea /coffee facilities.
Breakfast is not included but is available at the homestead restaurant.
Room Configuration: 1 Bedroom
Max # of Persons: 2
No infants permitted.
No children permitted.
Small Twin Room - no en suite
All bedding supplied : small room with two single beds- no en suite
Meals not included. All meals available at restaurant. Please book for dinner.
Cot : N/A
Room Configuration: 1 Bedroom
Max # of Persons: 2
Arrival Time: 14:00
Departure Time: 10:00
Cancellation Policy
Cancellation Policy which is taken as agreed to if booking is made;
All percentages shown are of the taotal value of the booking being cancelled.
90-60 days=15%
59-30 days=25%
29-15 days=50%
14 days or less=100%
Travel insurance is highly recommended. If a cancellation occurs then a matching invoice will be issued


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Take a ride with Uncool Laurence on this Gil Scott-Heron inspired EP, venturing through his hometown of Los Angeles, life struggles, and other shenanigans. Leaving you with thought provoking rhymes and smooth beats to vibe to.
Take a ride with Uncool Laurence on this Gil Scott-Heron inspired EP, venturing through his hometown of Los Angeles, life struggles, and other shenanigans. Leaving you with thought provoking rhymes and smooth beats to vibe to.
Over the past few of months I've been met with the adversity that life hands us to test, and build strength. My thoughts were running rampant in my mind, which led to me falling back in love with writing, hence it's my way of self-expression and finding tranquility. I took all my thoughts at the time and created metaphors and witty punchlines to share my feelings with the world. I then picked out beats that matched my emotions and smooth rap voice, to create my first EP, The Wave. Read the rest of this entry »
This is my 250th post, and I wanted to take the time out and thank all of my readers. I appreciate all the positive recognition and props, and I ask that you keep the support comin'. Don't be afraid to drop a line on my blogs and voice your opinion, I love feedback. Keep checking back daily for the latest and greatest in hip hop. Click the full story to peep my 10 most visited blogs. The results are quite interesting and you'll never guess what number 1 is!
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Me, myself & I. Every issue of KING Magazine, they have a contest on who can pen the best 16 summarizing the previous issue. I came thru with a dope 16 about Hoopz (the cover girl), Teirra Mari, fashion, and many other things that were covered in the previous issue. Big ups to the good peoples of KING Magazine for selecting me and acknowledging my talents. I am greatly appreciated! This marks my 3rd victory of the "Gotta Win" column, congrats to myself.
Today is my born day! 23 years ago history was made. 22 was an excellent and progressive year for me, and 23 will be even better. I can definitely say I've been blessed thus far, and the best is yet to come.
Thanx to all those who came out to the celebration this past Saturday at Sugar. Don't forget to peep the pics on my myspace page.
*Other birthdays:
Jermaine Dupri
Layzie Bone
Laurence Holmes Est. 1985
I attended the Common & NERD concert on Sept. 14th. It was an entertaining, energetic, and all around dope show.
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3d Designs in Bright Colors, Modern Wall Panels Show Creative Trends in Decorating
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Wall paneling is one of the modern trends in decorating empty walls. 3d designs and colors transform home and office interiors creating gorgeous accent walls or dividing wall spaces stylishly. Mid sections or upper and lower portions of the wall look beautifully decorated with contemporary 3d panels. Check out the beautiful ways of adding color and texture to blank walls.
Decorative wall panels are practical and attractive. They can cover a part of a wall in the center, or decorate an entire wall, adding drama to modern interior design. Colorful, practical and universally appealing, decorative wall panels bring fabulous carved patterns and require minimum cleaning. Paint, wallpaper and decorative wall paneling are three easy and attractive ways to enhance a modern interior design.
3d designs make rooms quieter and more beautiful. They look spectacular in all living spaces and can add interest to your office design also. Textured and bright, decorative wall panels offer a fantastic alternative to personalize your interiors and brighten up rooms. If you are budgeted and cannot afford large panels, you can apply 3d tiles and small wall panels to create an accent that boosts your interior design presentation.
Carved wood wall paneling for contemporary room decorating
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Carved wood panels, stone, metal, leather wall tiles or paneling made of synthetic materials are modern trends in decorating walls that allow creating exciting combinations and 3d designs. Black and white decorative wall panels mix with colorful elements or green wall units with plants and create bright accent walls for unique interior design.
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Some eye candy for your Xmas tree? Some bling for your holidays?
These beauties(4.5" & 6") are for sale this holiday season at the shops listed below.
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Sunday, December 9, 2012 | Noon – 4 p.m.Free admission
Lakefront Brewery Palm Garden
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40 LOCAL vendors
Beer and other beverages available for purchase from Lakefront Brewery
Food available for purchase from a variety of vendors
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Weaving a National Map draws on contributions to a September 2002 workshop and the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) "vision" document for The National Map, envisioned by the USGS as a database providing "public domain core geographic data about the United States and its territories that other agencies can extend, enhance, and reference as they concentrate on maintaining other data that are unique to their needs." The demand for up-to-date information in real time for public welfare and safety informs this need to update an aging paper map series that is, on average, 23 years old. The NRC report describes how The National Map initiative would gain from improved definition so that the unprecedented number of partners needed for success will become energized to participate. The challenges faced by USGS in implementing The National Map are more organizational than technical. To succeed, the USGS will need to continue to learn from challenges encountered in its ongoing pilot studies as well as from other federal-led programs that have partnered with multiple sectors.
Table of Contents
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|Front Matter
|Executive Summary
|1 Introduction
|2 The Need for a National Map
|3 Components of a National Map
|4 Implementation of a National Map
|5 Conclusions and Recommendations
|6 References
|Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members
|Appendix B: Oral and Written Contributions
|Appendix C: Previous Recommendations and Observations on National Mapping Activities
|Appendix D: Selected Points Raised in Written Comments of Workshop Participants
|Appendix E: Acronyms
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At Peak Performance & Athletics, we believe in an athlete centered, long-term approach to youth athlete development that follows many of the principles of the Canadian Sport for Life Long-Term Athlete Development (LTAD) model, now adopted in most elite Canadian sport programs nationwide. We offer off-season and pre-season training for a variety of sports, including but not limited to, hockey, football, baseball, rugby, soccer, boxing and wrestling.
LTAD involves teaching and coaching athleticism, movement, balance, and strength at an age appropriate and skill based progression of programming in a variety of youth development and sport specific programs for athletes, from beginner to elite.
Peak Performances athletes will be instructed by certified Strength & Conditioning (ISSA) coaches. Our instructors work in small groups based on age, skill and sport specific development needs, every session is programmed with purpose, energy, challenge and some fun that ensures each athlete enjoys the process as well as the results.
SPEED, AGILITY & QUICKNESS – SAQ Speed, agility and quickness are three of the most important physical components for athletes. The Peak Performance & Athletics Speed Agility and Quickness program will teach you how to move more efficiently through postural correction, biomechanical analysis and movement skill patterning. Once a foundation of movement is built athletes will focus on increasing their first step quickness, deceleration, explosive speed, reactivity and multi-directional movement skills. Become a quicker, faster and more reactive athlete with Peak Performance's Speed Agility Quickness training programs.
ADVANCED ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT The development of any athlete is a continuous process from the first time they participate in sports to the time they are fully matured both physically and mentally. Throughout this process athletes want to continuously work to build the qualities that will help them excel in the sport of their choice. Peak Performance & Athletics Advanced Athlete Development (AAD) will help each athlete reach their true potential. This advanced program for ages 14 – 21 is focused on building strength, explosive power, linear & multi directional speed, deceleration, quickness and more. At 1.5 hours training time AAD is for the athlete ready to take their game to the next level.


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Forest Legacy Program
The Tennessee Forest Legacy Program currently conserves 35,000 acres across Tennessee, and is growing. Its mission is to protect environmentally important, working private forestlands threatened with conversion to non-forest uses.
The Forest Legacy Program identifies and permanently protects environmentally important private forestlands that are threatened by conversion to non-forest uses. This USDA Forest Service Program, authorized by the Farm Bill, works to identify and maintain well-managed, working forests on the landscape. Delivered through Forest Service Cooperative Forestry, Tennessee and most other US states qualify as a participant and compete nationally for 75% grant funding each year. Tennessee's State Forest Legacy Ranking Committee consists of experienced officials, professionals, and landowners of diverse environmental and conservation interests who grade and rank proposals annually for consideration. Forest Legacy in Tennessee specifically targets and perpetuates traditional forestland values and benefits on environmentally valuable forest lands by requiring each tract to have a detailed forest management plan, known as a Forest Stewardship Plan, to address all resource elements and land management objectives. On Tennessee's Forest Legacy tracts the benefits of timber production, wildlife management, soil and water conservation and other tangible and intrinsic values are maintained locally and will continue to produce benefits to Tennesseans.
Since initial involvement in 2000, fee simple and permanent conservation easement purchases to-date total 53,315 acres valued at $59 million. Over half of the $59 million land value ($32.9 million) was funded with federal Legacy grant money with the balance being private, non-federal matching lands and funds. Except for extremely rate situations, money from the Agriculture's budget are not used to permanently protect or purchase these lands.
The Tennessee Department of Agriculture and the Tennessee Forest Legacy Program staff are working to expand the State website to include pertinent information along with expanded details on Forest Legacy Program project status.
To download specifications and applications (Request for Proposal) for nominating a tract for ranking and grading consideration, please click on the link below - Tennessee Forest Legacy Program Project Nomination Request for Proposal Packet (FFY 2021).
Program Materials
- Tennessee's Forest Legacy Program Assessment of Need (excerpt as presented in the Tennessee Forest Action Plan)
- Forest Legacy Areas Map
- Tennessee Forest Legacy Program Project Nomination Request for Proposal Packet (FFY2021)


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Hi! How Are You Today?
Please Allow Me 2 Introduce Myself->
My Name is Allen D which is short for Allen Darman.
I am also known as SmokeMasterAllenD, and Adogg (or Adogg or ADOGG), a new nickname someone gave me and I like.
I am an Old Hippie that Went to the Original Woodstock in '69…
I am a Truth Soldier for God; the "little piece of God in me" also known as "my conscience".
I am also the Leader of a Revolutionary WordPress Collaborative Patriot Movement Team that is pumping out Websites, Web Pages, and WordPress Blogs as fast as we can in an effort to help the brewing Justifiable Revolution here in the United States (and Worldwide as well!).
Our WordPress Collaborative Patriot Movement Website Development Team has been "Collaborating Intuitively With Each Other Using WordPress" over the Internet since April 2012.
"Collaborating Intuitively With Each Other Using WordPress" means that although a number of people are working together using WordPress to achieve the same ends (an Internet Woodstock or one here… and a Justifiable Revolution In America) and Worldwide as well, we are not in direct contact with each other in any way (such as email, chat, messaging, video conferencing, phone, or talking face to face).
I am the sole Author for our WordPress Collaborative Patriot Movement Website Development Team, but I admit to having more than one "intuitively collaborative editors". These editors often "steer me" to the copy section that needs work of blogs I am working on. They sometimes also seem to "steer me" to what blogs and websites to work on. These anonymous editors from afar also tell me via a pretty obvious hint whether "I am being too wordy or not" (using too many words is a strong tendency of mine).
Besides being an Internet Patriot Movement Revolutionary in charge of a WordPress Collaborative Internet Team, I also seem to have become "an expert of sorts" in regard to the Suppression of Truth, a man that may have awakened Silicon Valley in regard to the U.S. Government's Censorship Plans, a Catalyst in Convincing the American Mafia "to Switch Sides" and Work with Silicon Valley to Replace Our Corrupt Federal Government (or so I hope), a Catalyst in Bringing the Upper Echelon of Silicon Valley and the Mafia together "for the Good of Both America and the World" (or so I hope), and a Catalyst in Making the 1st Internet Woodstock Happen Worldwide sooner or later (or so I hope as well).
How did an old hippie from Utica New York, and a man really no different than anyone else, end up being some, or perhaps all, of the above?
My Story to the World got its start in April 2000.
Over thirteen years ago, I knew that I had gained a World Leading Degree of Knowledge in regard to How To Treat A State of Depression, No Matter How Mild Or How Severe, and No Matter How Longstanding.


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Product delivery elbows are a dual point system allowing you to deliver product or vapor to an underground tank. Options available for product and vapor delivery elbows include both 3" and 4" male adapter or female coupler. Product delivery elbow lines include Civacon, Dixon-Bayco, and PT Coupling.
Nozzles are used for the re-fueling of vehicles, aircraft, or containers. Gas/diesel nozzles are usually found on petroleum trailers or bobtail units and vary in flow rate, manual or automatic cut-off, inlet size, spout size, and spout material. Nozzle product line includes Dixon and EBW. Swivels are also available which connect the nozzle to the hose, and offers several size options and designs.
Replacement nozzle parts vary on the nozzle model, but typically include latches, spouts, and seals.


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Happy Father's Day: Facts on Father's Day – June 18, 2017
Published June 18, 2017
Happy Father's Day from Native News Online!
WASHINGTON – Today Americans celebrate Father's Day. It is a day set aside to honor fathers across America.
Being a good father brings a lot of responsibilities to demonstrate leadership, love and commitment within families.
Today is a great day to honor our American Indian and Alaska Native fathers across Indian Country.
The following statistics about fathers were compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau:
The idea of Father's Day was conceived more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm. A day in June was chosen for the first Father's Day celebration,
June 19, 1910, proclaimed by Spokane's mayor because it was the month of Smart's birth.
The first presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Father's Day has been celebrated annually since 1972 when President Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent.
How Many Fathers?
72.2 million
The estimated number of fathers across the nation in 2014, the most recent year for which data are available.
24.6 million
The number of fathers living in married-couple family groups with children younger than age 18 in 2016.
2.0 million
The number of single fathers in 2016 living with their children under age 18; 17 percent of single parents were men.
- Nine percent were raising three or more children younger than age 18.
- About 40 percent were divorced, 38 percent were never married, 16 percent were separated, and 6 percent were widowed.
- About 46 percent had an annual family income of $50,000 or more.
The percentage of dads who have kids with their current spouse or partner, but also have kids with someone else.
29.2 million
The number of fathers who are also grandfathers.
Thinking of You, Dad
The number of clothing stores, department stores, warehouse clubs and supercenters around the country where you could buy dad a dress shirt in 2012. Sales totaled an estimated $2.6 billion at these locations.
The number of hardware stores in 2015, a place to buy hammers, wrenches, screwdrivers and other items high on the list of Father's Day gifts. Additionally, there were 6,505 home centers across the country in 2015.
The number of sporting goods stores in 2015. These stores were good places to purchase traditional gifts for dad, such as fishing rods and golf clubs.
The number of men's clothing stores around the country in 2015, a good place to buy dad a tie or shirt.
Stay-at-Home Dads
The estimated number of stay-at-home dads in 2016. These married fathers with children younger than age 15 have remained out of the labor force for at least one year, primarily so they can care for the family while their wife works outside the home. These fathers cared for about 392,000 children under age 15.
Child-Support Payments
$3.1 billion
The amount of child support received by custodial fathers in 2013; they were due $4.2 billion. Custodial mothers received $19.4 billion of the $28.7 billion in support that was due.
The percentage of custodial fathers who received all child support that was due in 2013, not statistically different from the corresponding percentage for custodial mothers, 46.2 percent.
The percentage of custodial fathers receiving noncash support in 2013, such as gifts or coverage of expenses, on behalf of their children. The corresponding proportion for mothers was 59.9 percent.


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A simple chain stitch gathers up one edge and the multicolor chevrons become a beautiful rose to pin on your jacket or in your hair.
Finished Measurements
Approximately 5½" across (at widest point)
1 Hank Berroco Ric Rac, #1117 Alder Bark
Straight knitting needles, size 2 (2.75 mm)
Banana hair clip or pin
Sewing needle and matching thread
When picking up loops along straight edge of Ric Rac, only pick up the loops at the points of multi-colored zigzags, not the ones on the solid colored triangles between the zigzags. (If more help is needed, please look at the video on our website for Bewitch scarf).
Knot one end of Ric Rac. Insert point of RH needle from front to back through first loop on top edge (straight edge); insert point of RH needle through next loop on top edge, then with the other needle, lift first loop on RH needle over the second loop as if to bind off (this gathers Ric Rac). Continue in this manner until you have worked across a total of 31 zigzags, binding off the last st. Knot the end, then cut off.
Coil the ruffle you have made into a flower shape with both knots on the underside. Untie the knots carefully and knot them together. With sewing needle and thread, sew through center of the flower, joining all layers together, then sew to banana clip or a pin.


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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Queer judge blames Christians for spreading AIDS!
How offensive and perverse! Article below by Michael Kirby, a retired Australian High Court judge who is openly homosexual. Christians are like Apartheid practitioners according to His Honour.
Instead of blaming Christians, might it not be a more productive strategy in the fight against AIDS to dissuade homosexual penises from entering homosexual anuses?
In 2010 Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town, South Africa declared that the time had come, particularly for Africans, to stop the "wave of hate" and to stand up "against wrong".
He was referring to the wrong to "gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people" who are "part of the African family" and who "are living in fear."
This news from Africa would be bad enough. But the same fear extends far beyond that continent. And in the struggle against HIV/AIDS, which has afflicted humanity since the 1980s, the vulnerable are not only gays but also sex workers, injecting drug users (IDUs) and women.
This fear exists in many countries where, despite the knowledge that science now affords us about human sexuality, irrational hatred of sexual minorities and sexual activities is encouraged and even sometimes promoted by religious leaders, in supposed reliance upon their understandings of religious texts.
They rely on their imperfect understanding of what was written in ancient books long before Dr. Alfred Kinsey, American biologist and founder of the Institute of Sex Research, demonstrated the realities of human sexual experience, the frequency and variety of its manifestations, and the dangers and injustice of punishing people for adult, private, consensual sexual conduct. [Relying on the perverted Kinsey and his discredited "research" shows the intellectual shallowness of Judge Kirby]
Most religious people are good and kind. Love for one another exists as a basic tenet in all religions and all cultures. I have myself been brought up in religious faith. I honour brothers and sisters in all religions who are struggling to make a charitable, informed and unbiased contribution to the global struggle against HIV/AIDS.
However, officially the Roman Catholic and Greek and Orthodox Christian churches are still in serious denial about the scientific evidence available about human sexuality. As they have often been in denial about science and its teachings in the past.
Just as they originally denied the opinions of Galileo and Copernicus that the earth circled the sun. And as they, and the Anglican Church, originally denied Darwin's thesis of evolution of the species, expounded 150 years ago.
Clutching onto imperfect understandings of ancient scripture, leaders of most of the spiritual faiths, instead of re-examining their holy texts by reference to science (as they did in other instances in the past), have adopted a new, irrational approach.
In other parts of the world, the hate may not always be so intense. But the stigma over sexual conduct that is often taught by religious people cannot be accepted any longer. It is now a major cause of death in the AIDS epidemic.
It has to stop. Not only because it is immoral, conflicted, irrational and wrong. But also because it is now seriously impeding the global struggle against HIV and AIDS for the saving of lives. The magnitude of the suffering demands blunt speaking at this time.
As Bishop Tutu has said: "All of us, especially Africans, need access to essential HIV services…Show me where Christ said 'Love thy fellow man, except for the gay ones'. Gay people too are made in my God's image. I would never worship a homophobic God.
Rightly, Bishop Tutu has drawn a parallel between the earlier, successful, global struggle against racial apartheid and the present global struggle against sexual apartheid. To the moral struggle against sexual apartheid must now be added the urgent needs of the struggle against HIV and AIDS.
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Britain returning to its old measurements
About time too. You don't make decimal point mistakes with Imperial measurements
Strawberries will be sold by the pound on supermarket shelves again today as the clock is turned back for shoppers who prefer old-style weights. Asda is to sell 1lb punnets of strawberries for the first time in 16 years to gauge shopper demand ahead of a potential roll-out of imperial measurements to other fruit and vegetables. The punnets will display both imperial and metric weight labels.
The move follows consumer research which found that 70 per cent of the supermarket's shoppers were confused by metric and would prefer products to be labelled in pounds.
Around 20 per cent said they took longer to shop because they spent time translating metric into imperial.
'No one wants to order a litre of beer in the pub, so why do we have to buy 453.39g of strawberries?' Asda strawberry buyer Andy Jackson told trade magazine The Grocer.
Consumers had the right to see both types of measurement on their groceries, according to John Gardner, director at the British Weights and Measures Association. All packs have to display metric weights, but imperial can be used as a 'supplementary indication', since an EU law change in 2007.
Asda said it may extend pounds and ounces to other fruit and vegetable if the trial was successful.
The Left ignores the truly oppressed
By Barry Cohen (Barry is a former member of an Australian Labor Party government and one of my favourite people)
FREEDOM is not something that occupies the minds of most Australians for they have always had it. It has, however, gained a new lease of life in the Middle East where only one of the 18 countries in the region has ever experienced freedom. This must come as a shock to the motley collection of left-wing academics, students, trade unionists, journalists and the idiot brigade that controls Sydney's Marrickville council.
One institution that was not surprised was a body formed in New York in 1941 to fight Nazism, fascism, communism and totalitarianism in all its forms - Freedom House. From its birth, Freedom House illustrated its independence by having as its co-founders Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband's Republican opponent in the 1940 presidential election, Wendell Willkie.
It has continued to devote its resources to monitoring and measuring political rights and civil liberties on a global basis. Factors taken into account are free and fair elections, freedom of association, freedom from domination by the military, foreign powers, religious hierarchies, freedom of speech, free trade unions, the rule of law and the basic human rights that democracies throughout the world take for granted.
In 1973, Freedom House began its annual survey that rates every country according to a series of freedom indicators. The survey has a seven-point scale for both political rights and civil liberties with one being the best and seven the worst. The average determines the overall status with the free scoring 1 to 2.5, the partly free 3 to 5.0 and those countries who are not free scoring 5.5 to 7.0.
The organisation's most recent report Freedom In The World, 2011 - The Authoritarian Challenge To Democracy, was scathing in its comments on the backward movement in China (the appalling treatment of Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo); Egypt (Hosni Mubarak's 95 per cent vote in his last election); Belarus (Alexander Lukashenko's 80 per cent vote in its election); Venezuela (pretty well everything); Russia (corruption, arrest and murder of journalists, activists and those opposing the government and the sentencing of regime critic and former oil magnate Mikhail Khordorovsky).
The regional pattern of freedom makes for interesting reading. In the Americas 24 (69 per cent) are free, 10 (29 per cent) are partly free and one (3 per cent) is not free. In Western Europe 24 (96 per cent) are free, one (4 per cent) is partly free and none is not free.
In the Asia-Pacific 16 (41 per cent) countries are free, 15 (38 per cent) are partly free, and eight (21 per cent) are not free. In Central and East Europe/former Soviet Union 13 (45 per cent) countries are free, nine (31 per cent) partly free and seven (24 per cent) are not free.
In the Middle East and north Africa only one (6 per cent) country is free, three (17 per cent) are partly free and 14 (78 per cent) are not free. In sub-Saharan Africa nine (19 per cent) countries are free, 22 (46 per cent) are partly free and 17 (35 per cent) are not free.
The figures illustrate that freedom is very strong in the Americas and western Europe, where only one country is classified as not free, in contrast with the tyranny that reigns throughout the Middle East where only one country is considered free - Israel. Sub-Saharan Africa with 17 countries out of 48 that are not free is better, but only just.
The terms used to describe the three categories are a little insipid. They don't come close to describing the appalling oppression that rules most Middle Eastern and sub-Saharan countries where elections are rigged, dissidents are persecuted, jailed, tortured and often executed. The executive, without the rule of law, has total control of its citizens resulting in regimes where women are treated as 10th-rate citizens, homosexuals and adulterers are often executed and corruption is rife. Westerners find it impossible to imagine what life is like in such brutal regimes.
What is bizarre is that the United Nations not only ignores the absence of basic human rights in these countries but has devoted more than half of its condemnatory resolutions (more than 400) to one country - Israel.
Forty seven out of 194 rated not free is bad enough but it gets worse. Freedom House now has two "unofficial" sub-categories: the worst of the worst - Belarus, Chad, China, the Ivory Coast, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, South Ossetia, Syria and Western Sahara - and the worst of the worst of the worst - North Korea, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Libya, Sudan, Burma, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Somalia and Tibet (under Chinese jurisdiction). These are vile, thuggish regimes who brutally oppress their own people with but one goal - to stay in power. They don't tolerate genuine elections for if they did they would be out on their ear. Those who have defended or ignored this thuggery are now doing the greatest volte face in history as one country after the other in the Middle East rebels against dictatorships.
Which begs the question. Why did they remain silent all those years? How did the "geniuses" in our universities, the media, trade unions and politics get conned by the propaganda of the Palestinians and their Arab cohorts? Was it stupidity, ideology and bribery or just the latest fad of the cafe latte set who searched to find something to replace their love affair with the Soviet Union and its satraps when they collapsed in 1989? Many gravitated towards the Greens as another means of attacking capitalism.
How could those who claim to be committed to propagating basic human rights close their eyes to the denial of them in 47 countries and concentrate their efforts on the one country where such rights exist? Their hypocrisy is breathtaking. If they were serious about alleviating the plight of the oppressed they would have been equally loud in their condemnation of the 47 countries that are not free.
Those involved in the boycott, divestment and sanctions of Israel will tell you that the dispute is different and complex. It is nothing of the sort. The day the Arab/Muslim countries accept Israel's right to exist and end their oft-repeated goal of destroying Israel will be the day when there is genuine peace in the Middle East.
To pretend the proposals being put forward by the Palestinians and their supporters are a peaceful solution is ignorance, stupidity or blatant anti-semitism. Solve that problem and they can then turn their attention to the 47 countries that have no basic human rights.
Sexist French politicians 'in trouble' over treatment of women
France's male politicians are becoming increasingly anxious about their futures after one female minister warned half of the country's male MPs were potentially "in trouble" due to their treatment of women.
Still reeling from the arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund chief, on sexual assault charges, France's political class was struck by a fresh sex scandal on Sunday with the resignation of Georges Tron, the public works minister accused of molesting two former female staff members.
The massage enthusiast's "foot fetish", which two ex-town hall employees in their thirties claim morphed into full-blown abuse, has sparked a backlash from France's embattled female politicians. They are calling for an end to the "French exception" of "everyday machismo" among male peers often bordering on harassment.
"I think that there are a lot of (male politicians) who must be a touch stressed right now," warned Rachida Dati, the former justice minister and fallen star of President Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet whose love of designer clothes received as much coverage as her policies in France.
Miss Dati was herself the butt of countless sexist jokes after using the word "fellatio" instead of "inflation" in a recent interview. She ruffled male reactionaries by refusing to name the father of her child and returning to work just five days after giving birth.
"Many will be looking at their shoes and saying to themselves: 'I hope to goodness we can move on to something else,'" the euro MP and mayor of Paris' 7th arrondissement said.
Sexism in France's National Assembly has got so bad that Chantal Jouanno, the sports minister and a former French Karate champion, said she can no longer turn up to parliament in a skirt without a volley of cat calls.
One female cabinet minister said that male politicians were so incorrigible that "if all those who mix power and sex had to account for their actions, half of our (male) politicians would be in trouble".
A Socialist woman MP said that when she turned up in tight-fitting clothes to a parliamentary commission, a male MP from Mr Sarkozy's UMP party exclaimed: "Dressed like that, don't be surprised if you get raped." "A kind of infantilisation of women reigns in parliament that I had never seen before," said Sandrine Mazetier, Socialist MP for Paris."
The trigger for the backlash was the arrest of Mr Strauss-Kahn, a former French presidential hopeful, who faces charges of sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a New York chambermaid.
"This scandal will do more for feminism than all the articles of law," predicted Chantal Brunel, who leads France's gender parity watchdog.
Political correctness is most pervasive in universities and colleges but I rarely report the incidents concerned here as I have a separate blog for educational matters.
American "liberals" often deny being Leftists and say that they are very different from the Communist rulers of other countries. The only real difference, however, is how much power they have. In America, their power is limited by democracy. To see what they WOULD be like with more power, look at where they ARE already very powerful: in America's educational system -- particularly in the universities and colleges. They show there the same respect for free-speech and political diversity that Stalin did: None. So look to the colleges to see what the whole country would be like if "liberals" had their way. It would be a dictatorship.
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Today I just had enough.
Money doesn't come easy these days but it seems it is very easy to lose the little that we have.The companies we deal with are doing very little to help the consumer and if we are not watchful they plain steal from us.
I always try to teach my kids how to handle their finances and help them become independent but yesterday we had a big lesson taught to my daughter and me, DON'T TRUST FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. I will not mention the bank I dealt with but I would say that we have been with this bank for over 20 years, in the past they have worked with me and did their best to keep me as a customer, not so this week.
I took my daughter to open her first checking/savings account with this bank couple of weeks ago and in the past it has always been a pleasant experience. They usually explain everything, work with the new client and even offered a bonus for referring the account to them. Okay, they were courteous and tried to explain everything but there are things you need to read for yourself. They said the account was free for students (false). There is a charge for a lot of things and her being new at this and not taking the time to read everything in detail missed some vital information. It has happened to all of my kids, they make mistakes, they get charged and then the officials credit them in good faith because they know how it is. It is not an habitual thing, once they knew what could happen they never done it again and we are always in that bank. All our accounts are there: checking, savings, business, credit card, investments, everything.
Anyway, my point is this. She could not get online for a few days for some reason. And she overdrew on her account 5 times and resulted in a whooping $135 in charges. They usually give you couple of days to cover the charges and don't add the fee but in this case they did not. There was no way they will take out anything but $35, she lost $100, awesome! You know how long it took her to build that money? And her impression? Banks are thieves, my thoughts also.
Well, there are plenty of banks trying to get new customers and I will close all my accounts with this bank and go somewhere else. I need to be watchful of how they do things and how my money is handled. But let me tell you the same is going on with credit card companies as well. In these difficult times when people can hardly pay the minimum amount on their accounts they triple their interest rates, so how in the world are they going to get ahead if their accounts is next to impossible to pay off??? It is all about them and not the consumer. I am seriously considering going back to the times when nothing was bought on credit and people kept their money under the mattress, it will be safer that way. They only thing will be to give up the convenience to pay my accounts online and not having to get money orders to pay my bills. All I know is that I am losing more money than I can afford at this time and it is my responsibility to manage my money in the best manner possible.
On the same token I received a call from a collection agency trying to contact my son, the Marine. There is an account he needs to pay and I come to find out through him that it might be a cable company he asked to have disconnected before he was deployed. At the time his roommate wanted to keep the connection for another month so they asked to have the account transferred to his friend's name. They said they would but then they said they needed to call him in order to confirm the change (0f course, to delay the process), hello!! He is on the phone line with you right now making the request why can't you confirm it right that moment? By the time they called he was already gone (0f course, what they wanted), the transfer never made, the service continued, his friend is gone now also to Afghanistan, they are serving this country, for Heaven sake write off the freaking charges instead of having a collection damaging his credit. My son said he heard the same happening to other Marines. He has an excellent credit rating, so far he managed to build it up to nearly perfect and now this. It is ridiculous!!
Every company is out there trying to pull a month here, a charge there, interest rates, not processing cancellations, whatever they can to steal money from us!!! I am outraged! A well known internet provider used to do the same by offering a free month of connection and letting cancel the service at no charge but you would call to cancel and they would never process the request on time and you would always got charged for at least one month. That's stealing!!!!! Now a see a free month ANYTHING and run as fast as I can from it.
What are you doing with your money? How are you protecting yourself?


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Visby Programme Scholarships open from 1 November 2016
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Visby Programme Scholarships for PhD studies and postdoctoral research application call for the academic year 2017/2018 is open from 1 November 2016 to 10 January 2017. About 40 scholarships will be offered.
The aim of the Visby Programme is to support individual mobility, thereby contributing to increased contacts and collaborations between actors in Sweden and countries in the EU Eastern Partnership and Russia. The goal is to build an integrated, knowledge-based and research-intense region, centred on the Baltic Sea while also including EU Eastern Partnership countries and Russia. The Programme is open to citizens of the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine.


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My hands were shaking.
We'd been together for almost three years, had lived together for over two, and still, I couldn't steady my hands. I had planned to propose a long time ago, but the ring I wanted to get her cost a bit of money, more money than I could afford under regular circumstances. She had told me that she didn't want something fancy or expensive, but I knew it was perfect, and it had to be hers.
Finally, hands shaking, in Manchester, Connecticut, standing in the middle of a beautiful garden, under a beautiful gazebo, I get down on one knee… and promptly forget absolutely everything I wanted to say to her.
What do you say to the woman you want to spend the rest of your life with? Everything you can come up with will almost inevitably fall short of the goal. You strive for perfection, because that is what you have, the woman that fits with you perfectly, but you can't possibly describe the feeling you have for her.
Flash forward a few short months. Ever since you've been engaged, you've talked about getting married. How could you not? You want to be this woman's husband, and you want to be that as soon as possible. The two of you decide on October 17th, the day she asked you to be her boyfriend, and you accepted without question. Three years to that day, you get married.
It's a small ceremony. Nobody you know is there, except your soon-to-be wife. You're nervous and she's nervous, and you're sure and you're unsure and the emotion swirls, and your head swims. The time draws near. The ceremony starts. She walks towards you, and taps you on the shoulder. You turn around. Instantly, you're a ball of tears. This woman, standing before you. Smiling. Radiant. Gorgeous. Her dress is stunning, a beautiful lacy number that makes her look like she walked off the set of an old Hollywood movie. This woman. And she wants you.
We go through the ceremony, repeating words, and saying our own. The proceedings are a blur. The only memory is her face, her eyes, her smile. This woman.
Today, I've been married for a little over a week. In all ways, I've never been happier than I am now. There's just something about the love of an amazing woman, a woman who makes you feel more than the sum of your parts… there's just something about her. Something indescribable, something I scramble to put into tangible description every day. It's impossible.
To you, my love. And to the time (and space) we will spend together, travelling through life, together.
I love you.


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CABIN REIMAGINEDTwo prefab modular boxes are made into a modern getaway with a little reshaping.
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RUSTIC ELEGANCEThe open-air entry nods to the cabin's connection with nature.
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DIVIDING LINESThe wood screen also separates the dining area and wood-burning fireplace.
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LIGHT BOXESCompact sleeping berth cubbies have framed views of the backyard.
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SCREEN TIMECedar slats in the entryway play with light and volume for a dramatic entrance.
From the architect who brought us FlatPak comes a whole new kind of prefab dwelling that's bound to give cabin culture a double take. Charlie Lazor's "Week'nder" is modular and minimalist, with simplicity in mind from the entire design and build process to the rustic, chic outcome. This Week'nder, designed for a client on Madeline Island, is made from two prefab modular units constructed offsite (which saves on cost and time for remote areas) that "bookend" a central stick-built home. The 1,600-square-foot structure is on a post foundation, maintaining the natural landscape—here being tall Wisconsin prairie grass (read: no lawnmower!).
"It's about connecting the natural and the manmade," says Lazor, who spared a roof over the front entry to open up the sky. The antithesis of a dark old cabin, the Week'nder is filled with light. Bedrooms are step-up sleeping berths where windows frame the view and white paint throws the sun around, turning each cubby into a light box of sorts. Simple materials, including pine, glass, powder-coated steel, and corrugated metal, keep things affordable, durable, and low-maintenance. An abundance of glass keeps the eye looking out. Says Lazor: "By opening up to the landscape and letting the light pour in, it's everything that we love in modern houses while honoring the simplicity of the traditional cabin."


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Teaching Democracy
Teaching Democracy was a partnership between the CHSSP and Cal Humanities as part of the latter's Searching for Democracy initiative. The program featured a free webinar series (April – August 2012) geared toward educators of American history and government. Renowned scholars and CHSSP teacher leaders led the webinars, addressing questions and subjects critical to the study of American democracy:
- Presidential power
- The origins of the Constitution
- British monarchy and colonial rule
- Civil rights and citizenship
- Representative government
Teaching Democracy sought to enhance students' ability to understand and grapple with becoming an engaged participant in a democratic society. We hope the program's primary sources, lessons, and presentation recordings will help students make connections between our founding principles and our current government. These curricular resources include:
Primary Sources
- How did the President's war-making powers evolve over the course of the Vietnam War?
- What was the purpose of the Preamble?
- How did the Patriots justify their separation from Great Britain?
- What were the challenges to African American citizenship after the Civil War?
- How did the Stamp Act increase tensions in the colonies? (and lesson PowerPoint)


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Brighton have accused a number of Crystal Palace fans of causing disorder which left two stewards in hospital after Tuesday night's match between the two clubs at the Amex Stadium.
Brighton said that a number of Palace fans had travelled south without tickets and sought to gain entry to the ground shortly after kick-off in the so-called 'M23 derby', prompting the club to close the turnstiles at 7.51pm - six minutes into the match which would finish goalless.
That decision left some fans with legitimate tickets locked outside the ground, and they were escorted back to the railway station and sent back to London.
A statement from Brighton said that a number of stewards suffered minor injuries, with two - one from each club - sent to hospital.
Brighton chief executive Paul Barber said: "Firstly, we hope the two stewards hospitalised in the disorder have not suffered serious injuries.
"The disorder was caused by a minority of individuals who attempted to gain entry to the stadium without tickets.
"Thanks to the swift action of the club's stewarding team, supported by Sussex Police, we avoided further, major disorder - and while some genuine fans were left extremely disappointed and unable to get into the stadium, the correct decisions were made.
"I'd like to thank the majority of fans of both clubs for their good behaviour and patience in complying with the instructions of our stewards and police."
The club said those fans with genuine tickets who were not allowed into the ground will be able to seek refunds via Crystal Palace.
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A woman and her boyfriend are facing charges after police say they held her 76-year-old family member against her will in the Woodbridge home they share.
Officers responded to a domestic call about 1 p.m. Saturday at a home in the 900 block of Burke Drive. Lauren Renee Wilson, 23, and Alexander William Atkinson, 22, had kept the woman inside the home for several hours, Prince William County Police said.
Wilson, Atkinson and the relative live in the home together, police said.
The woman was held in the house from late morning until about 1 p.m. Saturday, Prince William County Police said in an email. She had attempted to leave the home more than once, and at one point, she was dragged back inside and locked in a room after attempting to escape, police said.
Eventually, the woman was able to leave the house and yelled for help, police said. A neighbor helped the woman and called police.
No injuries were reported.
When officers tried to arrest Wilson and Atkinson, Atkinson resisted and tried to run away through a back door of the house, police said.
Both suspects were eventually arrested. Wilson is charged with abduction, and Atkinson is charged with abduction and resisting arrest, according to police.
Both are being held without bond.


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Hi! Lucas wrote in his plateform: For example, we have been providing a fairly good rolling release for almost 13 years with testing, but we totally fail at advertising it as something supported and usable by end users. Even if a dedicated team is supposed to care about security in testing [1], the dedicated mailing-list [2] has not seen an announcement since February 2011. Dear candidates, do you think it would be wise to advertise `testing` as a usable distribution to our users given that state of affairs? Given that our security support for stable is already not as best as it could be, do you think we should encourage volunteers to be more active in security support for testing? Do you have ideas on how to attract more volunteers to the dull, hard, and sometimes boring tasks of taking care of security issues in Debian? [1] <http://testing-security.debian.net/> [2] <http://lists.debian.org/debian-testing-security-announce/> Thanks for your answers. :) -- Jérémy Bobbio .''`. firstname.lastname@example.com : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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A three-day service credit will appear on the bills for customer of Horsham Water & Sewer Authority following last weekend's well malfunction and boil water advisory.
A three-day credit will be granted to customers of the Horsham Water & Sewer Authority after a malfunction last week in one of the authority's wells prompted a boil water advisory for township residents and businesses.
A statement released by the authority Tuesday afternoon said that impacted customers will receive a three-day service credit, which likely will start appearing on bills in July.
"The calculation will look at the number of days in the billing period and then take each customer's total charges divided by the days in the cycle to arrive at a daily rate," the statement reads. "That daily rate will be credited to your bill for the three days your service was affected by the boil advisory."
A phone call to the Horsham Water & Sewer Authority was not returned Tuesday.
A malfunction Thursday afternoon in one of the four public wells owned by the authority led to the release of an advisory to residents and businesses in the area of the township impacted. Residents were told to bring to a boil for one minute all water used for drinking, making ice, brushing teeth and food preparation. The advisory lasted from Thursday evening until Saturday afternoon when officials reported no contamination was found.
Restaurants in the affected zone, bordered by Welsh Road, Limekiln Pike, County Line and Blair Mill Roads, were forced to close if they could not find a health department-approved alternative source. The authority partnered with Aqua PA and arranged for tanker trucks to give out free, safe water to residents at the Horsham Public Library all day Friday. Uncertainty of the water quality and forecasted thunderstorms led to the township's decision to cancel its annual Horsham Day annual celebration and fireworks show Saturday.
A representative from the water authority said Friday that a chlorinator in one of the wells failed to feed chlorine into the water supply. Normally, this would cause the well to automatically shut down, but that did not happen Thursday, said Mike Pickel, director of compliance. The water was tested twice for contamination, and the lab needed 24 hours for the samples to incubate. Results showed Saturday that there was no contamination, allowing the affected residents to resume using the public water.
The water authority said in its statement Tuesday that it would review the entire incident, including the notification process and follow-up communication with township customers.


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By: John Banville
Format: Paperback
The Sea is John Banville's Man Booker prize-winning exploration of memory, childhood and loss.
When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared that long-ago summer as if from another world.
Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow.
Published in 2008.
Published by: Picador
It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist.
Years earlier the friends had persuaded David to write a philosophical and political book on their behalf. But opinions and loyalties have changed, and on this summer evening the long-resting ghosts of the past come careering back into the present.
Published in 2003.
Drawing on history, literature, and his own experience of unrequited passion, Love is a thinly disguised picture of the author's innermost feelings.
Stendahl's obsession with Mathilde Viscontini Dembowski is at the heart of this book. For her part, she neither returned his love nor understood him. In an attempt to expain his feelings to her—and to exorcise his love—he dissects his passion.
Bringing together the conflicting sides of his nature, the deeply emotional and the coolly analytical, Stendhal constructed a work that is both acutely personal and universally applicable.
Published in 1975.
This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world – and did. Was he a destroyer or the greatest of liberators? Why did he have to fight his battle, not against his enemies, but against those who needed him most, and his hardest battle against the woman he loved? What is the world's motor – and the motive power of every man?
You will know the answer to these questions when you discover the reason behind the baffling events that play havoc with the lives of the characters in this story.
This is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder – and rebirth – of man's spirit. It is a philosophical revolution, told in the form of an action thriller of violent events.
Published on 21 April 2005.