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Get the most out of your garden this summer with this easy-to-follow growing guide on what blooms to plant and when to grow them. From Black-Eyed Susans in the heat of June to Rose of Sharons in the August sunshine, you'll find gardening advice for each month, as well as tips for taking advantage of your Southern greenspace.
Summer Growing Checklist
Plant Black-Eyed Susans
These bright yellow blooms will cheer up any border.
Plant seeds or transplants in sunny spots with well-drained, slightly moist soil.
Grow Caladiums
For dependable color in shade, caladiums can't be beat.
The leaves come in a variety of colors and pair well with impatiens, ferns, and creeping fig.
Mulch New Plantings
Apply shredded bark or pine straw around newly planted trees and shrubs.
This reduces water loss and heat stress on new roots.
Give Birds A Break
Relocate birdbaths to a shady spot to keep water from becoming hot.
Place near a small tree or large shrub to give birds shelter.
Water Plants
Hanging baskets and containers dry out quickly with higher temperatures.
Irrigate plants at dawn and dusk to reduce water loss from evaporation.
Plant A Perennial
Purple coneflower will bloom year after year.
Plant Mandevilla
Use as a focal point around a pool or patio in full to part sun.
Blooms will last until first frost.
Cut Back Annuals
Trim leggy plants so they will be full in the fall.
Water and then fertilize with a slow-release, granular product.
Pinch Herbs
Frequently trim basil, rosemary, and thyme to keep in full production.
Adjust Your Mower Blade
Raise the cutting height of your mower by 1 to 1.5 inches.
Tall turf shades the soil, slows evaporation, and reduces weed growth.
Plant Rose Of Sharon
This deciduous shrub loves hot weather.

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Tide TIPS: Volume 19
You are reading Tide TIPS, a weekly round-up of all things Technology, Innovation, Patent, and Startup related.
Spectacles are a spectacle
In case you haven't heard, Snapchat now makes their own hardware in the form of sunglasses. These glasses are outfitted with a camera that can snap quick pictures or a ten second video and post them wirelessly to your Snapchat account. Their appearance is rather goofy and flamboyant. It's almost like spy gear bred with hippie attire and the offspring was Spectacles. So, not only do you wear them, but they in and of themselves are a sight to behold. You can even buy a pair if you're willing to stand in the cold Manhattan winter. (Wired)
5 Phases of Cash Flow – Do you know them?
Regardless if you are an entrepreneur, scientist, or engineer, you probably understand that any business must generate a cash flow to be successful. What you may not have understood is that there are five various stages to this cash flow. Honestly, I think this is one of the aspects of entrepreneurship that everyone wonders about when first starting. The peeps over at Entrepreneur do a great job defining each phase and telling how to move between them. (Entrepreneur)
Google has a new awesome feature
In the least shocking news of the week, Google now has a feature that will surely become everyone's favorite. The company will now use "anonymized location history data" to tell you how crowded your favorite bar is in real time. This is sort of like their popular times feature that displays in the search results page when searching a restaurant. The major difference for the new feature is the real-time aspect. So, now you can make more educated and focused decisions on where to get drunk, a state when you may not make as many educated decisions. (The Verge)
Best Inventions of 2016
Our first, and likely not our last, best of the year post is about, what else, but inventions. This week Time magazine released their list of the year's best inventions. If you have been paying attention to Tide TIPS, then you are certain to recognize a few of them – self-tying shoes anyone?- and some you won't like a new breed of sweet potatoes. In any case, it's definitely a cool list to check out. You can find them here. (Time)
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Philosophy for Children: How To
It has been said over and over that children are philosophers by nature. Less often said is that they aren't particularly good philosophers. I don't mean that as a criticism; after all, they're just children. So what can we grown-up philosophers do to nurture their philosophical inquisitiveness and develop their reasoning skills–all while making sure they don't use these gifts to become even more awful teenagers? I don't know. But these people might. And they can teach you what they know about it at a seminar this summer.
UPDATE (March 13, 2014): An article in the Seattle Times discusses University of Washington's Jana Mohr Lone and the Center for Philosophy for Children, which she founded. Here is Jana Mohr Lone talking about how to raise a philosophical child. She's a fan of Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad series, and so am I. One of my favorites is "Cookies", from Frog and Toad Together, in which Frog and Toad figure out what willpower is. The text of that volume is reproduced at this site, with "Cookies" starting on page 10. The trick is to read it slow.


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Bonlux Smart Lamp With Speaker
► 5 IN 1: Super Multifunctional ---- Touch Sensor Night Light +Bluetooth Speaker + Digital Alarm Clock + MP3 Player + Hands Free Call . Connecting with Bluetooth super easily and fastly , compatible with all Bluetooth devices. Support flash drive/micro SD Card input, AUX input. Wonderful for playing music while cooking, doing exercise, camping ,and outdoor activities.
► TOUCH CONTROL & DIMMABLE NIGHT LIGHT: Just touch the chrome circle if you want to change colors or adjust the brightness level, long press to switch lighting mode. It is very convenient and interesting. Dimmable night light can create a warm and romantic atmosphere, help your children fall asleep easily.
► BLUETOOTH SPEAKER: Connect easily with any bluetooth devices and it supports TF Card and Aux Line. When you are in travel or the network is not very good, you can play music with TF Card and you can use it as a home theater speaker with the help of AUX LINE.
► RECHARGEABLE LITHIUM BATTERY: Large capacity internal battery, it can be fully charged with USB and working for 10 hours. Super long playing, super long lighting. Environmental friendly, and never worry about out of power.
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1. How to connect my devices?
Open your bluetooth setting and search, when you find "BT-LH2" please click it to pair.
2. How to use Micro SD card to play the music?
Very easy, the speaker will play music automatically when you insert the Micro SD card.
3. How to use the night light function?
When power on, the light is preparing, it's include warmwhite and RGB light. Short touch the chrome circle to switch brightness and color, long press to switch lighting mode.
It can be used both indoors and outdoors, such as bedroom night light, party decoration and outdoors camping. The soft dimmable brightness can help you have a good sleep.
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The most horrible experience ever. I bought washer, dryer and refrigerator, but I received only the washer and dryer on the delivery day.
I spent whole day trying to reach best buy representatives, but they were playing with me, transferring the line to the other colleagues, and they were promising that the refrigerator will come, ensuring me it will come by the end of the day, but IT NEVER DID. In total I spent over 7 hours on the phone trying to reach the correct
Next day, they said according to their records, the refrigerator was delivered, but also they knew it wasn't?!? And it was not possible to get it to me that day, even though it was in transit the previous day!!!
They rescheduled it for Thursday, but I had 0 expectations that it will actually get here on time.
I was still without the fridge with the 1year old baby and it's been 3 days...
Also, I asked for temporary fridge but that was not an option that best buy can offer.
I can't believe how many lies I heard from the on call "support " people.
Finally, after 3 days without refrigerator, they delivered but after 5 min of the complete delivery the delivery guys walked into my house again on their own and asked me to wait for a call from BestBuy. I received a call from BestBuy that they want to take my refrigerator because in their system they can see that the refrigerator was delivered on Monday. I spent 20 min to explain the situation - even the delivery note said "There will be no return as this was completed in error", but the lady on the phone was ignoring anything that I said and kept repeating that she has strict instructions from her manager to take the fridge back. I had to hang up the phone and to kindly ask the delivery guys to leave my house.
I didn't receive any apology or anything that would address this terrible experience, even though they promised after the first failed delivery that they will call me to make a claim because they didn't let me make it until the final delivery was completed.
I chose BestBuy over Costco because of shortest delivery time, but it was my biggest mistake.
I will never buy anything from BestBuy again.
Hi there,
Thank you for reaching out to us in regards to the issues that you had with your delivery. I can certainly understand your frustrations with this delivery as I know how important it is to have a working refrigerator in your home. I would be happy to assist you in anyway that I can, and just need some information from you in order to further assist.
Would you mind sending us a private message with the name, phone number, and email address that is associated with your order?
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In the days before we left, I had been busy in my little workshop in the basement. I fully admit that I'm a serial "Do it Your Self"-er and I had been cranking at full steam to get this particular project done in time for our trip.
Last Christmas, I had picked him up a little wooden Space Shuttle with magnetic boosters that clicked satisfyingly onto its bottom. From an aesthetic point of view, it's quite nice and even came with a little truck you could use to pick up the boosters once they fell away after launch. From an accuracy point of view, it was totally wrong.
Guess what side Short Stack saw it from?
The first thing I was requested to correct was the obviously missing, orange, external fuel tank. I could see how that would bug him. It is, after all the largest part of the entire Shuttle Launch Vehicle. With the use of a very fat dowel, a belt sander, some screws for the magnets to stick to and some orange paint, he was in business. Then he started to notice other things.
"These boosters are very short, Daddy. Do you see how long they are in the picture? Mine are too short. Can you make me some that are longer and have a point on the top? Mine just are round, and that's not the way they are supposed to be, see?" He held them about three inches from my face to make sure that I couldn't possibly miss this undeniable fact. Instinctively, I pulled my head back so as to avoid any unintentional eye injuries. That, and my focal length isn't what it used to be.
"Ah, Oh yes. I see what you mean." Here, most normal folks might try and beg off and get the child to enjoy what they have, but I have an Achilles' heal that gets me every time. I LOVE to build stuff… and Short Stack knows it. "Well, is that how you ask?"
"Puh.LEEEZE!?" The giant grin and toothy, "EEEEEEZE" part was all I needed. Back to the basement!
A little while later, things were looking better. The boosters were the right shape and size, the orange tank looked solid and correct and… "Daddy, look. This Shuttle is kind of flat on its nose. It should be rounded. And why doesn't it have a vertical stabilizer?" As the son of an airplane nut, Short Stack has some vocabulary that falls outside of the normal four year old demographic, Vertical Stabilizer being a good example. What can I say? He makes me proud. He was also, again, correct. This was going to take some heavy thinking on my part.
Altering the little wooden Shuttle that he had was out of the question. It would have simply been too much to change. Nope. It was time to do my favorite thing and make it from scratch. In the end, it wasn't as hard to make as I though and I was happily vindicated in my obsessive hoarding of every scrap of wood that I make as I work on our house. The wings are a piece of cedar shingle. The body is made from a bit of pine. The engine bump-outs and the much needed vertical stabilizer were fashioned from bits of ash and the rocket nozzles, from some old Chinese takeout chopsticks. Some grey, while and black paint, and it was ready for the finishing touches. These, I am most proud of.
As a trained artist, I have done a lot of detailed, fine work. I've painted carefully and skillfully at times and know what my limitations are. Replicating the miniature flags, NASA shield, escape hatch and cockpit windows… was beyond them. It was time to cheat a little.
For those of you who made plastic models as a kid, remember water slide decals? They came on a tiny sheet of paper and needed to be carefully cut out one by one. To shaky kid fingers, they were always a trial and knowing that they were also irreplaceable made it worse. After cutting them out, you needed to soak them in water for thirty seconds. What's happening in that time is you are loosening the printed decal part from the paper backing. Once its time is up, you take them out and slide them onto the model. As a child, I remember stressing over the process and wondering why they couldn't just make them peel and stick. The reason is, because the water slide ones look so much better! The awesome news is, you can now buy the blank paper and print your own, which is exactly what I did. With a little Google-fu, I managed to find some images of Space Shuttle decal sheets, pick the parts I needed, get it to scale for the model I made, print them out and attach them. A topcoat of spray poly over the whole thing seals them in for good and voila!
Naturally, I decided to make it Discovery.
I had finished it the day before with not a little stress. As I've said before, I seem to, regrettably, be at my most creative and focused when under the gun, time wise. I had presented it to Short Stack while the fumes were still detectible and he was instantly launching it into orbit from the living room couch. The Christmas Shuttle, with all its wrong glory was relegated to standby status and waits for less picky imaginations to take it on adventures. Oh well. There's always Lulu Belle.
Now, as we arrived at our departure gate and claimed our spot, I reached into Short Stack's backpack and pulled it out. Happily and with out a though, he established a launch site next to the huge picture windows in the departure lounge and, to the enjoyment of several onlooking adults, picked up where he left off back at home.
"10, 9, 8,… Ignition sequence start. 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. LIFTOFF of the Space Shuttle Discovery! Flying into space and missions beyond!" All of this is said with gusto, focus and most of all, sincerity. With his nose almost pressed to the external tank, the Portland Airport had its first Shuttle launch, Short Stack in command.
I had another surprise for him. Something I had managed to keep to my self until now. The something special I had snuck out of his room the night before.
"Hey, Short Stack. Look what I brought." I dug into the bag again and he dutifully scooted away from his discarded solid rocket boosters to peer over my arm in an effort to see.
"Is it a rocket?" This is his de facto question for any surprise you have.
"Nope, but you can't have a rocket with out one." That got his interest! With a little flourish, I pulled out a single, old school LEGO astronaut and flag and handed them to my son. These particular pieces had actually been mine when I was a kid. Now, they were his.
Short Stack smiled.
I smiled.
Then he looked again. "Where are the rest of them?"
Ugh. Kids.
What he was referring to were the red, blue, yellow and black colored astronauts which I had not collected that evening and who now remained back home on his dresser. I figured that keeping track of all of them on the trip would be a nightmare and had opted for only the white suited one since he looked the most like a real astronaut.
"I just brought him. I though that would be enough." I have to confess, I was a little taken aback by his reaction. Here, I had brought something special, something unexpected and personally important to me and my son was simply asking for more. I tried not to overtly show my disapproval and started to formulate a mini lecture in my head about being thankful and not always wanting. Just then, I was hit with that pure, laser like kid logic that can make you completely regret whatever you're thinking.
"But he has no friends. He'll get lonely."
Short Stack: +1
Dad: 0
After taking a couple of seconds to think the worst of my self, I did my best to come up with an answer to satisfy my kind, sensitive kid whom I obviously didn't give enough credit. Thank God they can't hear you think.
"No he won't, Buddy! He'll be with us… We'll be his friends."
In a moment of guilt fueled inspiration, I decided to make the little LEGO man fully a part of our mission. To do that though, he needed to be more than just "LEGO guy." He needed a name.
"Let's call him… Neil."
Short Stack's nose crinkled up, squashing many of his abundant freckles in the process as a bemused smile spread across his face. "Neil? That's a funny name!"
"Not really." I assured, "Lots of people are named Neil. And one Neil is a very famous Neil. Do you know why?" A shake of my son's head gave me the chance to play up the drama of the moment. "He… was the first astronaut to walk on the moon!"
That was all it took. Short Stack immediately picked him up and started telling me the adventures that Neil was off to. In no time at all, he had Neil walking on the moon again, riding on rockets and floating in space. Neil and he were inseparable and the little LEGO man was once again finding himself the central figure in the playful imaginings of a child.
For Neil, unnamed until now, it had been a long wait.
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Dear Abby: My 12-year-old daughter, "Mandy," was invited to a friend's birthday party along with 12 other girls. They were told to meet at the mall where they'd "go shopping" together, then go for a sleepover afterward.
The birthday girl told her friends to bring money as gifts. Well, she raked in more than $300, then proceeded to spend it all on herself while her friends stood and watched. Mandy returned home the next day and told me that although the girl spent the money on herself, her mom did buy them each a beverage.
Abby, I gave my daughter $20 to go to the party, thinking the money would be for all of their fun — not the birthday girl's financial gain. I thought your readers might want to learn from my mistake. These days, a birthday party may not be a party at all! — Horrified in Wichita
Dear Horrified: While this may have been shocking to you, the kind of party you have described may be acceptable to your daughter and her circle of friends. The birthday girl's intentions could have been made more clear — she requested money as gifts and instructed everyone to meet at the mall. However, they accepted the invitation on her terms. The
sleepover may have been the party. I hope they were fed after the mall crawl because they must have been starving.
Dear Abby: My dad died unexpectedly last year, three months before my 18th birthday. He had been kicked out of the house a few months prior to that because he was a horrible alcoholic who destroyed everything he ever cared about. He froze to death, alone.
My boyfriend is my soul mate. He has been my only source of support since Dad died. Mom ignores everything and has left me alone to go through all of this, spending my Social Security on vacations we could never have afforded before. My best friend is away at school in a different state and I'm more alone than ever. How am I supposed to survive all this alone?
— Always Alone
Dear Alone: Please accept my sympathy for the tragic loss of your father, who paid the ultimate price for his addiction. You write well and are obviously intelligent. If you're still in school, counseling may be available for you if there is a counselor on staff. Because your mother is emotionally unavailable and your best friend is out of state, your friend's mother might be willing to listen and advise you during this difficult period.
Dear Abby: My mother-in-law is a widow. She says she no longer wants to be addressed as Missus because she is not married. I thought that once married you were always a Missus unless you choose to be a Miss. Isn't it proper for a widow to be addressed as Missus? — Daughter-In-Law in Washington
Dear Daughter-In-Law: As a widow your mother-in-law can continue to use her married name — or adopt any name she chooses. If she prefers not to be called Missus her wishes should be respected. Some widows prefer to be called "Mrs. John Jones" for the rest of their lives, while others do not. If your mother-in-law prefers "Ms. Betty Jones," that's fine, too. It's a personal choice.
Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www.dearabby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.


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1.29.2011 – Saturday
How to clean snow from solar panel:
The tool being used for this task is nothing more than a roof rake (aluminum) repurposed to gently brush snow from solar panels. To prepare the rake for this task, hot water pipe insulation was added to all four sides of the rake, the supports, and the pole (pretty much anything that was metal and could touch the face of a panel) and was secured using zip ties. Since the end of the roof rake is a large flat panel of aluminum, holes were drilled near the edges of the panel to facilitate foam attachment via zip ties. The intent of this modified roof rake is to get the bulk of the snow off the panels. On a clear day the remaining dusting on the panels will then be melted relatively quickly by the sun.


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A review of latest news and blog posts in the field of open data.
The new era of open data that this government has heralded with its open data white paper, published on 28 June, can be summed up as: more data, more easily accessible and in a readily usable form, to increase government accountability, drive improved public services, increase choice, and feed innovation and growth.
Comment The government has just published its ideas for allowing general access to data, which includes the intention to grant individuals online access to their own personal data. In general, I support this measure but sadly, the Open Data White Paper (PDF) has not even considered that it has widened the privacy problems associated with "enforced subject access"*.
The government's open data initiative, outlined in its white paper on 27 June, is a move towards making government data publicly available, to encourage its reuse.
Today's first meeting of the Open Data User Group (ODUG) has been hailed by Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office, as another important step in the Government's open data revolution.
Managers — not technology or budget — now may be the biggest obstacles to government data transparency. Information technology bosses and government administrators are reluctant to invest time and staff in projects in which they feel they hold little stake, according to participants at the 2012 International Open Data conference.
2006 as we rolled out the first public draft of the Talis Community Licence, the world of data licensing seemed a simple place. Today, the Open Knowledge Foundation's Data Hub contains 3,888 data sets, many of which are explicitly licensed with respect to the Open Definition. But many are still not explicitly licensed.
Call for research proposals: exploring the emerging impacts of open data in developing countries. Open data has become a hot topic around the world. Open data initiatives, from governments and grassroots groups are emerging in a wide range of settings. But what impacts do they have? And how can they lead to greater transparency and accountability, efficiency and innovation, and greater social inclusion?
Open education can only happen with free knowledge. Free knowledge does not exist without open data (and information). Open education should focus on wisdom, truth, beauty, love and music (art).
The Open data user group (Odug) is up and running, and held its first meeting in Hackney House, off Shoreditch High Street, on 10 July.
The coalition government has made transparency and open data a defining theme of its agenda and has set out its ambition for the UK to become a world leader in informatics and healthcare data management.
MUMBAI: The UK's Department for International Development ( DFID), a key donor to development projects in India recently offered a welcome shot of transparency. In a bid to make its data more accessible to the public in developing countries, it has introduced a policy that would make it binding on researchers receiving its funding to share their reports and analysis online, at no cost.
Being a Semantic Web, Open Linked Data, Open Source enthusiast, and at some point the contributor to the AP for the FOAF and other metadata standards, recently I had an opportunity to talk with Kingsley Idehen on his current projects, views on the use of the Web technologies, Open Linked Data, WebID, serendipity, and certain aspects of the Internet that influence our everyday lives.
It's been a big year for the UK government's open data agenda. Chris Yiu reviews what's been achieved and asks what needs to happen next.
Open Data are the basis for government innovation. This isn't because open data make government more transparent or accountable. Like Tom Slee, I have serious doubts about whether it does either of those things. In any event, shining a light on the misdeeds of ineffective institutions isn't as imperative as redesigning how they work.
Hundreds of open data experts and enthusiasts from more than 50 countries are expected at the second International Open Government Data Conference (IOGDC) —a look at the impact and promise of open data in cities, countries and institutions around the world.
A few weeks ago, Tom Slee published "Seeing Like a Geek," a thoughtful article on the dark side of open data. He starts with the story of a Dalit community in India, whose land was transferred to a group of higher cast Mudaliars through bureaucratic manipulation under the guise of standardizing and digitizing property records.
Our democratic system is based on the idea that citizens play an important role in how government decisions get made. Without citizen participation, democracy doesn't work.
This morning I was reading a recent blog post by Laurenellen McCann, Open Data Policy Guidelines, from the Sunlight Foundation. I found the blog post fascinating, and believed this would be a great resource for the GovLoop community to check out, especially if you are involved in Gov 2.0 or open data initiatives within your agency.


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Several Special Prizes were awarded for diverse merits. The reasons for the choice of each winner are mostly one of a kind.
The Pechvogel Award – (The Bad Luck Award)
Harm Bakker, Amsterdam
His cello bow (nr. 15) was the only bow from all 78 bows in the competition which experienced following fate; it was chosen by the Judge Bernd Etzler as the winning Cello Bow, but Etzler asked after a sleepless night to change nr. 15 to nr. 26. which means that Tibor Kovacs won a 2nd Grand Prix for his cello bow. We congratulate both Harm and Tibor for their deserved nominations and of course Tibor for the victory, and wish Harm for the next time more luck!
here the original Judging Sheet from Bernd Etzler:
The 5 Marie-Pierre Delaruelle Awards
Cody Kowalski – The Youngest Participant of the Competition
Mitsuaki Sasano – The Oldest Participant of the Competition
Paul Goh – The Best Competition Participant from Singapore
photograph by Ben Bonouvrier
Vladimir Mukhin – The Best Competition Participant from Russia
Dominic Wilson – The Best Competition Participant from England
The Shirakawa Award for the best Ivory bow of the 18 ivory mounted bows of the 2015 Darling Ivory Project
Ulf Johansson, Sweden
The Shirakawa Rice Cooker Award for the most helpful Bowmaker from the participants of the Competition (this was the most desired Award!)
Harm Bakker, The Netherlands
The 3 Kaaskop Awards, chosen by Harm Bakker in name from almost all Dutch Bowmakers
The typical Dutch ball shaped cheese.
Murat Ufuk Güler – The Best Competition Participant from Turkey
Kaspar Pankow – The thinnest Participant from the Competition who might be in need for supplementary food.
and last but least:
Andy Lim – The Best Potential Bowmaker in the Room
Eric Fournier, Andy Lim, Marie-Pierre Delaruelle, Cody Kowalski & Emmanuel Bégin


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Adjustable Dog Bowls Allow Me to Put Bowls at Just the Right Height
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When I recently began to spend just a little time looking for some different kinds of bowls that my dogs could eat out of, I was mostly concerned with finding elevated bowls that would get the food and water to a height that was more comfortable for them. I had heard from my vet that different types of bowls that weren't high enough can be bad for dogs.
It is wonderful to be able to get some different types of dog bowls that are ones that are the right height for my pet. There are many that come at standard heights, but just in case my dogs are a bit different than what is standard, I have decided on some adjustable dog bowls. These bowls will be ones that I can always put at just the right height for my dog.
There are some wonderful kinds of dog bowls that I can use with my dogs on a regular basis. I really enjoy being able to pick out just the right kinds of bowls that I can use all the time. My dogs will be a lot happier to be able to eat out of bowls that are finally at just the right height.


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History of Crawford and Clark Counties, Illinois, Vol. II.
William Henry Perrin, ed.
(Chicago: O.L. Basking & Co. Historical Publishers)
W. L. Draper, hardware merchant, Hutsonville, is a native of Crawford County, Ill.,
born September 22, 1827. His father, Exum Draper, was a native of North Carolina,
born in 1804. He was brought to Illinois by his parents, who located in Crawford
County in 1816, being among the earliest settlers; here he was raised on a farm and
educated from the common schools. During his life engaged in agricultural pursuits and
also worked at the trade of a carpenter. In 1846, he removed to New Orleans, and
there died in 1847. The mother of our subject, Mary Wells, was born in North
Carolina in about 1806, died on the Mississippi River, while en route to New Orleans, in
1846. They were the parents of four children, of whom William, our subject, was the
oldest child. He was raised on a farm and educated from the subscription schools
common in his day. He has however, acquired more than an ordinary education from
observation. In 1846, he removed to New Orleans
with his parents and entered the employ of his brother-in-law. In 1849, he returned to Hutsonvile, where he embarked on his career in life, a merchant, doing a general merchandising business on a small capital, and continued the same until 1863, when he sold his stock of goods and removed to Terre Haute and engaged in a cotton speculation, which proved very unsuccessful; he lost over $40, 000 by the transaction, and went into bankruptcy. In 1870, he returned to Hutsonville and again embarked in the mercantile business, carrying on a general store for two years. In 1872, he started a new hardware store, at which he is still actively engaged, carrying a large and complete stock, and doing the only business of the kind in town. It might be said to Mr. Draper's credit that he struggled through bankruptcy, paid his individual debts, and is now one of the wealthiest men in this part of the county. In York, January 22, 1850, he married Miss Elizabeth Foster, who has borne him five children, of whom three are now living, viz.: Beatrice, widow of Frank Boyd, residing in Iowa; Mattie, wife of Samuel Bennett, and Henry L., at home. He has been an active member of the I. O. O. F. of thirty-two years, and has represented his lodge at the Grand Lodge
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Great news for the Olive Garden fans on your list this year. Now you can them what they really want this holiday season: a box full of breadsticks.
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"In the forest, the silence at night is absolute," says Sara, a settler who owns a plot of land in the middle of Peru's central jungle. "But suddenly, at 9 p.m. you start hearing chainsaws in the distance. I get up immediately and go quietly with my gun and my dogs to see where they are cutting down my trees. But I don't find the loggers. They hide. In the morning I find felled trees and cut planks that they were unable to take away."
Sara, 54 years old and originally from Lima, received 187 Ha (462 acres) in the 1980s in the community of Puerto Bermúdez, in the central department of Pasco, to develop agroforestry and protect several tree species. In July she learned that, without warning and without being present, officials from the Ministry of Agriculture had changed the boundaries of her land using falsified maps that do not match the area's physical reality. She has the property titles registered and can reclaim them, but that isn't the case for the more than 500 indigenous Amazonian communities that for decades have been demanding ownership of their lands — the only way they can protect their forests from illegal logging.
But the Peruvian government is not interested in speeding up the delivery of those deeds. According to Julia Urrunaga, director of the Peru Program at the US-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), to the Peruvian authorities in Lima, "the jungle is a huge, tree-filled space where there are no people."
Laundering machine
In 2012, the EIA published "The Laundering Machine: How fraud and corruption in Peru's concession system are destroying the future of its forests." The report reveals the bureaucratic jumble that legalizes, through documents that the authorities never verify, the marketing of timber from unauthorized areas in the Peruvian Amazon.
Despite the seriousness of the allegations, the government has done little if anything to curb illegal logging. "The only thing that has progressed in two years is that now all the documents are computerized. So, they passed from laundering in the trough, to laundering in the washing machine," Urrunaga told Latinamerica Press.
The killings of four indigenous Ashaninka men in the community of Alto Tamaya Saweto, in the department of Ucayali on the border with Brazil, brought to the forefront not only the danger in which the Amazonian native peoples are living, but also the existence of a very profitable business that involves companies, officials and illegal loggers.
Edwin Chota, head of the community, and leaders Jorge Ríos, Leoncio Quinticima and Francisco Pinedo had denounced for years what was happening on their lands.
"Chota was a well-known leader and was active against illegal logging," said Urrunaga. "He filed several complaints in Pucallpa [capital of Ucayali] and Lima, but they were always filed away. He had documentation, videos, GPS [location]. He accused people, identified them with names, with photos. With these deaths, the illegal logging mafia's message to those who oppose this activity is 'let us operate, not even the authorities are bothering me.' The message is 'shut up'."
One of the first people to expose what was happening in Alto Tamaya Saweto was David Salisbury, a geographer at the University of Richmond in the US state of Virginia. For more than 10 years he counseled Chota and his community in their struggle for property titles.
According to Salisbury, Chota had written more than 100 letters to Peruvian and Brazilian institutions demanding protection and attention for their claims, and he wanted to take his case to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).
Enslaved loggers
The international impact of the case, rather than its local effects, forced the authorities to act. Indigenous and human rights groups, international organizations including the IACHR, and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, demanded that the government protect indigenous communities and arrest, prosecute and punish those responsible.
The government announced that it had identified the alleged murderers of the indigenous men. Would be illegal loggers, but Urrunaga believes capturing the logggers doesn't solve the problem. "They are usually people who work almost as slaves, who cut down trees to survive," she said.
"Behind it is a much more complex organization and the goal is to meet the demand of the international markets for exotic wood," she added.
However, Urrunaga also believes that "illegal logging is not the activity that devastates forests, but it is the spearhead that opens the way to other illegal activities."
Fabiola Muñoz, director of the National Forest Service (SERFOR) under the Ministry of Agriculture, confirmed that in areas where there are reports of illegal logging, there are also drug corridors and areas of coca crops. In fact, the community of Alto Tamaya Saweto claimed that drug traffickers use illegally harvested timber to conceal drugs.
Between March and May, Peru's customs and tax agency, the Superintendencia de Aduanas y Administración Tributaria (SUNAT), seized more than 6 million boardfeet of protected wood species that did not have documentation to ensure its legal origin. The wood was valued at more than US$20 million. But these operations are not permanent.
The World Bank estimates that 80-90 percent of the wood exported from Peru, primarily bound for China and other Asian markets, is illegal. According to figures from the Loreto Regional Government, Peru loses $250 million annually because of illegal logging.
In addition to committing to deliver the land titles to the Alto Tamaya-Saweto community, on Sept. 15, Interior Minister Daniel Urresti named a high commissioner to combat illegal logging throughout the country and will answer to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. A questionable retired general from the National Police, César Fourment Paredes, will fill the role despite having no knowledge of logging and the timber trade. He also worked closely with senior police chiefs linked to Vladimiro Montesinos, the embattled security adviser to imprisoned former President Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000). —Latinamerica Press.


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Tribute: Helmut Newton
Helmut Newton, was a German-Australian photographer. He was a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-and-white photos were a mainstay of Vogue and other publications."'Helmut is certainly the photographer of women. The picture that he makes of them is, however, not necessarily the same that men expect. In his own way he has changed the erotic fantasy of our age or at least has strongly influenced it. His influence here goes much further than he originally intended. He is a kind of sorcerer's apprentice for the picture of women in our time. The secret consists of a hard-to-define mixture of distance and willingness of his women.' Karl Lagerfeld.


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Leonardo Revisited: New Perspectives on the Man and his Works
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick Theatre
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On the 500th anniversary of his death, this event will bring together the perspectives of engineering and history to re-examine the work, legacy and myth of Leonardo da Vinci through discussion from different scholarly perspectives.
Professor Joy Damousi, Professor of History
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University of Melbourne
Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne and currently the President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. Her research areas include the aftermaths of war, and migration and refugee history.
Professor Susan Broomhall, Professor of History
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University of Western Australia
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Professor Ivan Marusic, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
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The Golden Era Gospel Blog got a report from Ron Barrett that Delois Barrett Campbell, former member of the famed Roberta Martin Singers and the Barrett Sisters, was admitted to the hospital on Monday, March 28 in Chicago. According to Ron, as of Monday evening, Delois was still in the hospital, resting comfortably.
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The Wedding Gallery, London
Located in the heart of London, The Wedding Gallery is the new destination for brides and grooms, permanently bringing together the best in the wedding industry under one roof.
Open throughout the year, seven days a week, The Wedding Gallery is a unique end-to-end experience for the engaged couple. Featuring over 200 leading wedding brands and services, it's a hub for fashion, trends, wedding ideas and creativity. Founded by George Hammer noted for a developing of unusual, high-end spaces for both the commercial and residential sectors, The Wedding Gallery is situated beneath One Marylebone, formally Holy Trinity Church, a Grade 1 listed building, originally designed by Sir John Soane and built in 1826.
Housed across two spectacular vaulted floors, The Wedding Gallery has been beautifully designed by New York Architect, Christian Lahoude who already has conceived retail designs and branding initiatives for Tiffany & Co, Gucci, Michael Kors and Alexander Wang.
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Conyers Dill & Pearman boosts London team
Richard Fear has left Charles Adams, Ritchie & Duckworth in the Cayman Islands, where he had been a partner for over six years, and joined the London office of Conyers Dill & Pearman.
Fear has joined Conyers Dill & Pearman's corporate and commercial practice where he will focus on investment funds, capital markets, banking and structured finance.
With the addition of Fear, the London office of Conyers Dill & Pearman continues to add strength, particularly within its Cayman Islands Practice.
Fear's addition comes quickly on the heels of the appointments of Naresh Sakhrani and Sheba Raza who both joined the London office of the firm in early 2007. Fear brings the complement of lawyers in the London office, which advises on the laws of Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands and Bermuda, to eight.
Fear joined Conyers Dill & Pearman in London from Charles Adams, Ritchie & Duckworth in the Cayman Islands where he had been a partner for over 6 years. Educated at the University of Exeter (BSc, Physics); University of Liverpool (LLB) and Cambridge University (LLM), Fear is a Barrister of Middle Temple; a Cayman Islands Attorney-at-Law; a Notary Public; and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
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By Allison Brecher, General Counsel, Vestwell
As speculation mounts over President Trump's planned appearance in Charlotte tomorrow, the expectation is that the Retirement Enhancement and Savings Act of 2018 (RESA) will soon be signed into law. While Vestwell believes strongly in the spirit of the bill and what it's trying to accomplish – making good retirement plans affordable and accessible to companies of all sizes – the bill fails to solve many retirement plan challenges.
Small businesses haven't historically embraced 401(k)'s out of concerns for fiduciary liability exposure, litigation, fees, and administrative burdens, amongst others. RESA turns to Multiple Employer Plans (MEPs) as a solution because MEPs allow small employers to pool together to share expenses. The belief is that small businesses will be more likely to offer retirement plans once they can offload some fiduciary responsibility and enjoy traditionally "large plan" costs.
Unfortunately, there are still some shortcomings in the bill that lead to missed opportunities and confusion. The main ones we've identified are around:
Fiduciary responsibility. While the bill states that fiduciary responsibility can be offloaded, some would argue that is already the case today with a 3(38) offering. It is unclear whether the new bill would offload liability of all responsibilities – such as the responsibility of the plan sponsor to select an un-conflicted provider – but doing so would require a re-write of ERISA laws rather than just a notation in a new provision. In addition, it is not clear who – if not the plan sponsor – is responsible for protecting the plan against conflicts of interest, prohibited transactions, and other such obligations.
Lead participant employer role. What exactly is the role of the lead participant employer? How do they get selected and evaluated? Are they compensated and, if so, how much and who decides? And how does insurance account for this unique role? Without a clear outline of the lead participant role, it is hard to envision the way companies decide to – and continue to – work together.
General retirement plan shortcomings. Unfortunately, a more "fair" cost doesn't give plan sponsors a better understanding of what they're getting with a retirement plan. In many cases, fees are buried, service offerings unclear, and administrative burdens cumbersome. The bill does not address any of these challenges.
The good news is, options exist to better support small plan sponsors even without RESA. The advent of tech-forward retirement platforms (like Vestwell) bring solutions to the issues of cost, fiduciary responsibility, administrative burden, and transparency. They also address many of the challenges of RESA. Because a modern-day retirement platform doesn't require the pooling of resources, a plan sponsor can enjoy custom plan designs and pricing, tailored to its workforce, rather than having to compromise based off the collective needs of the MEP. And since technology automates many expensive processes, plan sponsors are afforded economies of scale comparable to (if not better than) what an MEP would bring. As a result, a company can benefit from the personalization, strong customer service, competitive pricing, fiduciary oversight, and transparency that all plan sponsors and participants deserve.
So, while it is our mission to support the healthy retirement of all Americans, we want to ensure they don't just have access to a plan… but that they have access to the right one.


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Welcome to our first Wedding Wednesday!
Let's call on the experts to see what trends they're hoping to say goodbye to in 2017. Disclaimer: while we don't completely agree with all of them, it's fun to see what other professionals love and what they look forward to saying goodbye to!
(Remember the blue bird?! Let's hope that doesn't come back...)
Wedding Trends to ditch in 2017 (according to the experts)
"Naming your drinks. Please, no one serve another 'Dantini' or a 'Jennyrita.' Do serve delicious, artisanal, fresh drinks that are seasonal and inspired, but please stop the witty banter via bar menus, I 'thankyoutini' in advance.
"Another big one for me is family-style dinners. I love family-style, and I might get a lot of slack for this, but I think it's time to bring some plated elegance back. There, I said it. Sometimes great chefs can really do more with a plated dinner, and I don't always feel like working for my dinner, passing all the platters around, et cetera, Instead, offer a choice of entrées, not on the menu, but rather that night, when your guests are seated."—Yifat Oren, Los Angeles and New York City–based event producer yifatoren.com
"Rustic and boho-theme weddings. Rustic has become an almost taboo word. Moving forward, we want to see people moving more toward a mountain-elegant vibe, in which the design elements will remain timeless. Rustic elements like burlap-tied napkins or cocktail tables, wood slices, and twine-tied favors are often not representative of a client, and are merely seen as kitschy. Likewise, teepees, dream catchers, feathers, and arrows are lovely, but we're really ready to see these elements go away unless they are truly representative of who the client is as a person."—Virginia Edelson, founder of Bluebird Productions bluebirdproductions.com
"Second, the clown car of bridal parties. I know everyone has a million 'best friends,' but they don't all need to be in your wedding. Third, giant bridal bouquets—the bride should always look like she is carrying the bouquet, not vice versa. And finally, the archaic tradition of the bride's family footing the whole bill for the wedding. The idea goes back to the time when dowries were all that women brought to the table. In this day and age where a wedding can be two men, two women, and everything in between, this idea no longer even makes sense. Go Dutch or go home!"—David Stark, wedding and event planner davidstarkdesign.com
"The all-white wedding has reigned supreme for a few years now. I'll admit, the look is classic and beautiful, but in 2017, I'd love to see couples add a signature color to liven things up. And when it comes to food, I've had enough of the long, multicourse formal meals with the usual fare. Guests love having familiar, filling foods—to fuel them for all that mingling, drinking, and dancing they'll be doing! A spin on mac and cheese, fried chicken, and a delicious hearty salad with fruits, nuts, and cheese are all fun options guests will actually enjoy.
"Lastly, Converse sneakers and cowboy boots paired with formal tuxedos and gorgeous wedding dresses have seen their day. I know it's charming! But there are so many other unique ways to show your personality and surprise guests with an unexpected twist."—Mindy Weiss, celebrity wedding planner mindyweiss.com
"The other big one is flower crowns. They were adorable while they lasted when they appeared in the right setting, but after five years, I'm afraid it is definitely time to move on. People should be really careful with fashion trends."—Alison Laesser-Keck and Bryan Keck, founders of VLD Events vldevents.com
"Pinterest can be an excellent tool for brides-to-be to find inspiration and get their visions in motion, but the home page–of–Pinterest wedding look is well overdone. I'm talking about chalkboard signs, bohemian naked cakes, and geode everything. We thought that boho chic was on its way out last year, but somehow it stuck around for 2016. Let's hope 2017 can finally ditch the trend."—Colin Cowie, wedding and event planner colincowie.com
"Food trucks. They're not over yet, but they've got about 15 minutes left."—Bronson van Wyck, wedding and event planner vanwyck.net
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March Books is a new small publisher in Northeastern Connecticut. Established in October of 2008, our goal is to bring readers good stories with a social conscience. We are currently working with three authors: Lizzie March – Children's stories, M.J. Claire – YA novels, Janus Kane – adult, commercial fiction and political essays. All of our authors share a love of animals and nature. Readers will see this love reflected in many of our publications. Look for posts from all of our authors in the coming months: comments about current events, insights into their lives and a peek into their writing process, their stories and their characters.
Good books are about good stories, but they can be about much more. They should be a reflection of our world, but even more so, they can be a vision of the world we would like to see.
If we are very lucky, we can watch our characters make their mistakes and learn from them. If not, maybe we will be able to relate to the character on the page, so that we don't have to feel so alone. At the very least, we can share a good read about fragile and flawed people who still manage to get out of bed in the morning and survive yet another day.


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Banner Saga 2 has been nominated for a D.I.C.E. award this year in the category of "Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year". We couldn't be more thrilled!!
"The awards will be handed out on February 23rd, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada and will also be available via live-stream."
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Svenska Uniti-ägare kommer att få 5 års gratis solenergi för laddning
4 December, 2017
The Swedish automotive manufacturer Uniti partners with E.ON with a unique benefit for their Swedish customers: With the purchase of a Uniti car in Sweden, E.ON customers receive five years worth of energy for charging their car at home, and the electricity is guaranteed to be sourced from solar cells.
At Uniti, the issue of sustainability is an important one. It is not just about developing a vehicle that is electric and the types of materials used in the production process – the source of the energy used for charging is just as important, the entire product life cycle must be sustainable. "This is also a new approach. We know that most of the charging, especially for these types of cars, will take place at home. These kinds of solution are therefore particularly sustainable", says Tobias Ekman, Innovation Manager at Uniti.
Uniti launches the new product line in their Swedish production facility on the 7th of December. The event includes more than two thousand guests and exhibitions from partner companies, and is their first annual product launch event.
The Swedish company has already received close to 1000 pre-orders through a convenient online pre-order process, with a refundable deposit of €149 on their website. First deliveries are expected in 2020, but this is the chance for people to join the queue to be the first to test-drive and own Sweden's new electric car.
Using a human-centric approach, Uniti's design focuses on the driver's needs and may come to change the view of what a car is. "Today, there are many new possibilities. The car and the driving experience has been digitalized in order to increase safety, comfort and driving pleasure while minimizing environmental impact," explains Ekman.
"This partnership is entirely in line with our profile: New thinking and renewable energy," says Karin Waldén, Business Development Manager E.ON eMobility Nordic.


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Thousands of students and teachers are planning to walk out of their classrooms on Wednesday, March 14 as part of the the #Enough! National School Walkout to raise awareness about issues of school safety and the impact of gun violence. The nationwide march, organized by Women's March Youth Empower, will happen at 10 a.m. and last 17 minutes.
I fully support this effort to bring awareness to this situation. This is non-violent protest in the spirit of the freedoms these students are exercising as citizens of the USA.
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In this study dengue virus (DV) was found to infect primary endothelial cells derived from human umbilical cord veins (HUVEC) and alter their cytokine production. Dengue virus infection of HUVEC was confirmed by an increase in plaque-forming units in the culture supernatant and by immunofluorescence assay. HUVEC produced large amounts of interleukin (IL)-6 and IL-8 but not IL-1beta after DV infection. Both the replication of DV and the production of IL-6 and IL-8 by HUVEC after DV infection were inhibited by ribavirin, an antiviral synthetic guanosine analogue. Additionally, increased serum levels of IL-6 and IL-8 were observed in patients with dengue hemorrhagic fever but not dengue fever. Therefore, our results suggest that endothelial cells can be a target for DV infection, and that DV-induced IL-6 and IL-8 production by endothelial cells may contribute to the pathogenesis of dengue hemorrhagic fever.


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Recalls Cause Canned Corned Beef Shortage
The mystery meat inside typically originates from Brazil, where a major processor has been banned from exporting to the U.S. and whose meat was the subject of the recalls. The result has been empty store shelves and a waiting list on Amazon.com, for example, to order the shelf-stable cooked meat.
Retailers and manufacturers weren't particularly keen on discussing the shortage, but Walmart -- the nation's largest grocer - confirmed the problem to Consumer Ally."Due to the recent recall of canned corned beef, there has been an industry-wide shortage," Walmart said in a statement to Consumer Ally. "We are working closely with suppliers to replenish shelves as soon as possible."
Kathy Becker went to five stores in Virginia in her futile search for the canned corn beef to make a hearty winter stew. She also makes a casserole that has become a family favorite. When she couldn't find any, she turned to Consumer Ally for answers.
Dollar General Senior Director of Corporate Communications Tawn Earnest said the company continues to monitor supplies of the canned, fully cooked meat.
More than 200 tons of cooked beef products were recalled in three connected recalls last year by Sampco Inc. The Chicago meat company imported the beef from a Brazilian processor barred from shipping to the United States after high levels of the animal drug Ivermectin was found in its products. Ivermectin is used to treat parasites in animals, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Sampco provided beef for such products as Libby Corned Beef, Brushy Creek Shredded Beef and Kroger Corned Beef.
A trade group, food producers and retailers contacted for this story kept their lips as tightly sealed as the cans themselves over the corned beef shortage. Hormel and Con Agra -- the parent company of Libby's -- didn't respond to requests for comment. Neither did Kroger or Wegmans.
Food Lion denied there was an issue and suggested contacting other grocers.
"We do not have any type of problems as you described with corned beef," said Food Lion spokesman Benny Smith.
Industry trade group Corned Beef Processors Association referred all questions to the USDA's information on the processed beef recalls and said it doesn't represent the companies involved in the recalls.
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Our Visit To Andromeda Is Just A Couple Months Away!
I've been meaning to write more about this particular title since November 7th, but I've been so preoccupied that finding the time to write something constructive was almost impossible. Yes, I could have hashed out some half baked editorial; however, I could do that in good continence to a series that I adore as much as Mass Effect.
Anywho I have the time now, so lets see what we missed
Beginning with the last bit of details we got from Bioware about the game. We got a few re-imagined artwork of both the Ryder siblings (the protagonists), a couple human characters……………………. Yeah I know you're just as underwhelmed as me. I mean who plays a ME game for the humans? SHOW ME ALIENS!
Just kidding, sorta
Anywho, that's what we got so I'll share it here:
So who are the Ryder Siblings?
Scott and Sara Ryder are the default names for the protagonist options in Mass Effect: Andromeda. These two characters are the children of Alec Ryder, an N7 special forces soldier. Who ever you choose will be designated as a Pathfinder, an operative tasked with discovering new planets for the Human species to colonize. After choosing one of the two siblings you'll have the option to alter their look and name if you wish to do so.
The siblings will be tasked with explore an open world galaxy aboard a starship called Tempest, exploring plants, discovering new technology, and meeting new species. Andromeda takes place 600 years after the events of the first three Mass Effect games, in the Andromeda Galaxy.
Among numerous other update, we'll be getting a new Galaxy Map. The new Galaxy Map will allow you to be able to navigate from one system to another in the Tempest and scan planets for resources. You'll encounter locations like the bustling outlaw home world of Kadara Port, a planet where battles between different factions are commonplace. The included video highlights one of these such confrontations, in which a group of outlaws are entrenched in battle and the Pathfinder is presented with an opportunity to engage or ignore the skirmish entirely.
As the Pathfinder, you'll be able to call down Forward Stations to change up your weapon loadouts, alter squad composition, fast-travel to other locations, and discover nearby resources and details about surrounding regions. You'll chart courses to hazardous environments and fight hostile wildlife. You'll traverse across dangerous worlds, using your scanner to discover clues about your mission locations.
The game also has a number of features with which you'll want to become familiar as Mass Effect: Andromeda's Pathfinder. You'll encounter entirely new alien races such as the Kett, and will grow to rely on companions like Vetra and Drack, seen in the video. Leading your squad through beautiful-yet-deadly worlds, you'll progress your Pathfinder with a deeply customizable character system, crafting, and a host of new weapons, powers, and gear. And of course, you'll develop lasting relationships with your companions forged from a long and perilous journey through space.
So far we know quite a lot of details about the game, but as any ME fan should know. This is just scratching the surface. Mass Effect Andromeda promises to be the biggest, most epic entry in the franchise. Lets all hope that it is able to meet that goal and then some.
Mass Effect: Andromeda is set to launch in Spring 2017. We'll update you as soon as we have more details about this and any other Mass Effect related news.


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The Web of Life and Wisdom Body with Dr. Fred Provenza In this video presentation done at the 2011 Grassfed Exchange conference, Dr. Fred Provenza presents the first of threeRead More
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In 2004, Kathy Voth invented a method for training cows to eat weeds. She started by taking a close look at the last century of animal behavior research. Then sheRead More
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Although I have now been back at almost sea level in La Serena for a week, in my dreams I see the summit, the telescope. It is sort of like being in a James Bond movie when you first get a look at the inner workings of a telescope and then when you witness the teams who use this instrumentation to push our knowledge of the furthest reaches of the universe, well, it is amazing and inspiring.
Today I continue with creative break workshops for astronomers, outreach workers and engineers. I hope to get my portrait series completed today and use my final day in the studio, tomorrow, as a completion day for as many projects as possible.


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Process Industries like Oil and Gas, Petrochemicals, Power Generation and Distribution, Pulp and Paper, etc. are facing the opportunity to move their in-plant technologies to the next generation of Process Control Architecture. Led by ExxonMobil, The Open Group formed the Open Process Automation™ Forum a little over a year ago to take advantage of these burgeoning opportunities. It addresses both technical and business issues for process automation.
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The new comedy THIS IS THE END is actually based on a short film titled JAY AND SETH VESUS THE APOCALYPSE made in 2007, which features Seth Rogen and Jay Baruchel carrying out some end of the world antics. Where that film was pretty insular and small, THIS IS THE END goes way bigger. The cast includes Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Craig Robinson, Danny McBride, Jason Segel, Kevin Hart, Rihanna, Michael Cera, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Emma Watson, David Krumholtz, Aziz Anzari, and others… all playing selfish and exaggerated versions of themselves.
The film opens with Rogen picking up Baruchel from the airport, and it's explained that this is Baruchel's first time back in L.A. after a year. The duo hang together and bond over video games and weed (and Carl's Jr.), but eventually Seth suggests they go to a party at James Franco's house. Jay doesn't want to go, but agrees to anyway, and upon arriving we see the gathering is a veritable who's who oF Hollywood talent. At one point Jay and Seth leave to get cigarettes, and very unexpectedly blue light shoots down from the sky and starts carrying people up, while chaos begins to unfold in quick fashion around them. They make it back to Franco's house, but things get worse outside. Eventually the crew of Rogen, Franco, Baruchel, Robinson, Hill and McBride find themselves the only ones left in the home, and start questioning how long they can survive together while the world collapses around them. As days pass, friendships and loyalty are tested, truths come out, and as one might expect in a story like this, lives are lost.
In some regards THIS IS THE END could be considered a self-aware parody of the disaster films of the 1970's, featuring a big cast of recognizable faces, and increasingly worse moments of peril leading up to a big finish. On the other hand it could easily be likened to satire like AIRPLANE or THE NAKED GUN films. At its core the production is a buddy comedy, or perhaps the deconstruction of the buddy comedy. It's also a collection of several in-jokes and self-referential humor. To make a statement that those who aren't familiar with these actors and their films won't appreciate this flick is very fair to say. In many ways it reminded me of Kevin Smith's JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK (another film with stoner humor and jokes only fans of the stars would get), right down to the musical ending. Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen co-directed and co-wrote the movie, marking the first time for both of them behind the camera, and the end result looks pretty top notch and high in production value. I found myself noticing how strong the visuals and scene set ups were, competently put together and tightly edited to keep things interesting. Even the few moments of CGI creatures are impressive, and look every bit as good as anything you'd see in a much more serious and bigger budget production.
The laughs are plentiful and well-timed, as one would expect with accomplished comedic actors like this. Even the self-depreciating jokes never seem excessive or terribly fabricated, giving us the sense these guys really opened themselves to the humorous aspects in an honest and unflinching way. There's some rather raunchy humor in the production as well, but it also feeds into the honesty of the presentation. Rogen and Baruchel are, not surprisingly, the standout performances in the piece, not only getting the most screentime but also the strongest dialogue. Their portrayals of their stressed-out selves, while certainly exaggerated, do have layer of sincerity to them which adds to the final product. Some of the other actors are just having fun with their on-screen personalities. Jonah Hill comes off as a pandering kiss-ass that tries too hard, Craig Robinson plays a self-aware coward who reacts the most strongly to whatever scares are around, James Franco comes off as a delusional and spoiled Hollywood darling, and Danny McBride just goes for the insensitive glutton type. Some of these characterizations are familiar, while others are rather unexpected.
THIS IS THE END isn't anything to be taken more than light-hearted adult entertainment for fans of these actors. If you like them and their movies, chances are you'll like this. If you don't like them or don't know their work, it's likely this will not appeal to you. But if you are in the right mindset and just want to have fun with these fellas for a few hours, this might just be one of the most entertaining experiences this summer… or at the very least a really amusing diversion.


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A singular value and corresponding singular vectors of a rectangular matrix A are, respectively, a scalar σ and a pair of vectors u and v that satisfy
where is the Hermitian transpose of A. The singular vectors u and v are typically scaled to have a norm of 1. Also, if u and v are singular vectors of A, then -u and -v are singular vectors of
A as well.
The singular values σ are always real and nonnegative, even if A is complex. With the singular values on the diagonal of a diagonal matrix Σ and the corresponding singular vectors forming the columns of two orthogonal matrices U and V, you obtain the equations
Since U and V are unitary matrices, multiplying the first equation by on the right yields the singular value decomposition equation
The full singular value decomposition of an m-by-n matrix involves an m-by-m U, an m-by-n Σ, and an n-by-n V. In other words, U and V are both square, and Σ is the same size as A. If A has many more rows than columns (
m > n), then the resulting
m matrix U is large. However, most of the columns in U are multiplied by zeros in Σ. In this situation, the economy-sized decomposition saves both time and storage by producing an m-by-n U, an n-by-n Σ and the same V:
The eigenvalue decomposition is the appropriate tool for analyzing a matrix when it represents a mapping from a vector space into itself, as it does for an ordinary differential equation. However, the singular value decomposition is the appropriate tool for analyzing a mapping from one vector space into another vector space, possibly with a different dimension. Most systems of simultaneous linear equations fall into this second category.
If A is square, symmetric, and positive definite, then its eigenvalue and singular value decompositions are the same. But, as A departs from symmetry and positive definiteness, the difference between the two decompositions increases. In particular, the singular value decomposition of a real matrix is always real, but the eigenvalue decomposition of a real, nonsymmetric matrix might be complex.
For the example matrix
the full singular value decomposition is
[U,S,V] = svd(A) U = 0.6105 -0.7174 0.3355 0.6646 0.2336 -0.7098 0.4308 0.6563 0.6194 S = 14.9359 0 0 5.1883 0 0 V = 0.6925 -0.7214 0.7214 0.6925
You can verify that
U*S*V' is equal to
A to within round-off error. For this small problem, the economy size decomposition is only slightly smaller.
[U,S,V] = svd(A,0) U = 0.6105 -0.7174 0.6646 0.2336 0.4308 0.6563 S = 14.9359 0 0 5.1883 V = 0.6925 -0.7214 0.7214 0.6925
U*S*V' is equal to
A to within round-off error.
If the matrix
A is large and sparse, then using
svd to calculate all of the singular values and vectors is not always practical. For example, if you need to know just a few of the largest singular values, then calculating all of the singular values of a 5000-by-5000 sparse matrix is a lot of extra work. In cases where only a subset of the singular values and vectors are required, the
svds function is preferred over
For a 1000-by-1000 random sparse matrix with a density of about 30%,
n = 1000; A = sprand(n,n,0.3);
the six largest singular values are
S = svds(A) S = 130.2184 16.4358 16.4119 16.3688 16.3242 16.2838
Also, the six smallest singular values are
S = svds(A,6,'smallest') S = 0.0740 0.0574 0.0388 0.0282 0.0131 0.0066
For smaller matrices that can fit in memory as a full matrix,
full(A), using
svd(full(A)) might still be quicker than
svds. However, for truly large and sparse matrices, using
svds becomes necessary.


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Dr. D. (Doaa) Elnakhala
Doaa Elnakala is a contributing analyst with Wikistrat. In 2015-2016, she was a Syria Analyst for an NGO in Brussels. From 2009 to 2015, Doaa was a research assistant at George Washington University and Harvard University, studying the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. From 2003 until 2006, she was the activities coordinator of Birzeti Univcersity's Institute of International Studies in Palestine. Doaa has a PhD an two MA's in political science from the UT-Austin, USA, and a BA in English Linguistics and Literature.
Currently, Doaa is a senior analyst at TU Delft, studying counter-terrorism tactics of liberal democracies. Among other things, Doaa is building a bibliography of important works and researching the Israeli counter-terror tactics. Her PhD dissertation and her MA report discussed the efficiency of border barriers in fending off attacks from the other side. She argues that walls and fences in certain contexts are doomed to fail in stopping cross-border attacks if actors are acting unilaterally.
- (2015) "Fencing is Protecting?!" In Borders, Thresholds and Migration. UK: Ashgate
- (September 2012) "Shackled at home: The Palestinian minority in Israel." Policy Unit's series of Policy Briefings. Brussels: the European Parliament
- (May 2012) "Israel's Policy of Administrative Detention." Policy Unit's series of Policy Briefings. Brussels: the European Parliament
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Just to bring a splash of colour a blackbird on a branch.
An entry to Viridian Postcard's Sunday Stamps theme of black stamps or black objects on stamps
We been complaining that the small birds have vanished from our garden but the blackbird was back today. Great black swan stamp too.
I was hoping someone would bring in the penny black stamp! thank you! And the others are great too. Thank you for participating.
Love that black swan stamp! :)
Love the Black Swan.
The eagle and lion really tells a sad story doesn't it?
I love the blackbird from Ireland. A touch of favouritism creeps in there because it's the land of my birth.