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How Your Home's Ductwork Affects HVAC Efficiency
Efficient, high-quality heating and cooling systems are undeniably important, but that's only part of the equation. You may not realize it, but your air ducts could be sabotaging the performance of your entire system. Understanding how your ductwork affects your HVAC system is essential to achieving and maintaining outstanding efficiency in Denver, NC.
Leaky Ductwork Losses
When it comes to keeping your home comfortable, generating warmer or cooler air is only the first step. That conditioned air still has to travel through your air ducts before it's distributed throughout your home. Unfortunately, the ductwork in many homes is riddled with holes, leaks, and gaps caused by loose connections. All those leaks add up, resulting in losses of around 20 to 30 percent in the typical home. Fortunately, air duct sealing can eliminate these leaks and ensure more conditioned air reaches its destination.
Size Does Matter
You probably know that furnaces and air conditioners often perform very poorly if they aren't sized correctly. What you may not know is that the same is true of your ductwork. Air ducts that are too small may restrict airflow and cause your system to work unnecessarily hard. Oversized ducts can also be problematic, creating pressure imbalances that disrupt airflow and impact heating and cooling efficiency.
The Dirt on Dirty Ducts
As air travels through your ductwork, it often carries with it dust, dander, and a variety of other particulates. These particulates readily accumulate inside air ducts, particularly near bends and on filters, vents, and other components. Without regular cleaning, this can wreak havoc on your system's efficiency by blocking airflow and causing excessive wear and tear. This problem is especially common with leaky ducts, which tend to pull in excessive dust and dirt from outside.
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In many nations of the world, there is an all-out war on baby girls. In 1990, economist Amartya Sen estimated that 100 million baby girls were missing -- sacrificed by parents who desired a son. Two decades later, multiple millions of missing baby girls must be added to that total, victims of abortion, infanticide, or fatal neglect.
The murder of girls is especially common in China and northern India, where a preference for sons produces a situation that is nothing less than critical for baby girls. In these regions, there are 120 baby boys born for every 100 baby girls. As The Economist explains, "Nature dictates that slightly more males are born than females to offset boys' greater susceptibility to infant disease. But nothing on this scale."
In its lead editorial, the magazine gets right to the essential point: "It is no exaggeration to call this gendercide. Women are missing in their millions--aborted, killed, neglected to death."
In its detailed and extensive investigative report, the magazine opens its article with chilling force. A baby girl is born in China's Shandong province. Chinese writer Xinran Xue, present for the birth, then hears a man's voice respond to the sight of the newborn baby girl. "Useless thing," he cried in disappointment. The witness then heard a plop in the slops pail. "To my absolute horror, I saw a tiny foot poking out of the pail. The midwife must have dropped that tiny baby alive into the slops pail!" When she tried to intervene she was restrained by police. An older woman simply explained to her, "Doing a baby girl is not a big thing around here."
The number of dead and missing baby girls is astounding. In some Chinese provinces, there are more than 130 baby boys for every 100 baby girls. The culture places a premium value on sons, and girls are considered an economic drain. A Hindu saying conveys this prejudice: "Raising a daughter is like watering your neighbor's garden."
Midwives even charge more for the birth of a baby boy. But the preference for a boy rises with both economic power and the number of children born to a couple. The imbalance of boys to girls is no accident -- it reflects a prejudice that runs throughout the societies where the abortion and killing of baby girls is considered both understandable and routine.
Add to this the widespread availability of ultrasound imaging services. Even though the governments of China and India have officially declared sex-selection abortions to be illegal, they persist by the millions. (And, interestingly, the magazine notes that Sweden actually legalized sex-selection abortions in 2009.)
This sentence from the investigative report is particularly horrifying: "In one hospital in Punjab, in northern India, the only girls born after a round of ultrasound scans had been mistakenly identified as boys, or else had a male twin."
In other words, even as the spread of ultrasound technology has greatly aided the pro-life movement by making the humanity of the unborn baby visible and undeniable, among those determined to give birth only to baby boys, in millions of cases the same technology has meant a death warrant for a baby girl in the womb.
There are multiple factors that lead to the preference for boys over girls. In China, the government's draconian "one child only" policy has led to both forced abortions and an effective death sentence for baby girls when a couple is determined that, if their children are to be so drastically limited, they will insist on having a son. As the magazine explains, "For millions of couples, the answer is: abort the daughter, try for a son."
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In fact the destruction of baby girls is a product of three forces: the ancient preference for sons; a modern desire for smaller families; and ultrasound scanning and other technologies that identify the sex of a fetus. In societies where four or six children were common, a boy would almost certainly come along eventually; son preference did not need to exist at the expense of daughters. But now couples want two children—or, as in China, are allowed only one—they will sacrifice unborn daughters to their pursuit of a son. That is why sex ratios are most distorted in the modern, open parts of China and India. It is also why ratios are more skewed after the first child: parents may accept a daughter first time round but will do anything to ensure their next—and probably last—child is a boy. The boy-girl ratio is above 200 for a third child in some places.
The social consequences of this imbalance are vast and uncorrectable. China and India now face the reality of millions of young men and boys who have absolutely no hope of a wife and family. In China, these young men are called guanggun or "broken branches." Just consider this -- the 30 to 40 million "broken branches" in China are about equal in number to the total number of all boys and young men in the United States.
These young men represent a looming disaster on the societal level. Young males commit the greatest number of criminal acts and acts of violence. Marriage has been the great taming institution for the social development of young males. Without prospect for marriage and a normal sex and family life, these multiple millions of unmarried young men are becoming a significant social challenge in China and India. Some observers even argue that this may lead to an increased militarism in the region.
Of course, the greatest disaster is personal for the young men and boys who face the future as "broken branches." The parents who insist on having boys are dooming their own sons to lives of brokenness, frustration, and grief.
And the future looks even more ominous for baby girls. Nick Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute points to "the fatal collision between overweening son preference, the use of rapidly spreading prenatal sex-determination technology and declining fertility." As the magazine adds, "Over the next generation, many of the problems associated with sex selection will get worse. The social consequences will become more evident because the boys born in large numbers over the past decade will reach maturity then. Meanwhile, the practice of sex selection itself may spread because fertility rates are continuing to fall and ultrasound scanners reach throughout the developing world."
While imbalances such as now found in China and India are unknown in the West, the practice of sex-selection abortion is found here as well. Indeed, there is no current law against the practice in the United States, where abortion is legal for any reason, at least in earlier stages of pregnancy. In reality, sex selection abortions happen here, too. After all, proponents of abortion in the United States infamously insist on a woman's unrestricted right to an abortion "for any reason, or for no reason."
The Economist is right to call this tragedy gendercide -- the targeting of baby girls for death and destruction simply because of their gender. The magazine deserves appreciation for its no-holds-barred report on this tragedy, and for forcing the issue to be faced. Furthermore, The Economist ends its editorial with the right message, "The world needs to do more to prevent a gendercide that will have the sky crashing down."
Will reports like this awaken the conscience of the world to the unspeakable crime and global tragedy of gendercide? If not, what will it take? The blood of millions of murdered and missing baby girls cries out to the world's conscience. Will we hear?
I am always glad to hear from readers. Write me at [email protected]. Follow regular updates on Twitter at www.twitter.com/AlbertMohler.
"Gendercide -- The Worldwide War on Baby Girls," The Economist, March 6, 2010. The extensive investigative report is available in the magazine's print editions but is available online only to subscribers.

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Daily Archives: 31 August 2020
Book Stealing at Carnegie Library
The link below is to an article reporting on the long history of book stealing at the Carnegie Library.
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The Sifter
The links below are to an article concerning The Sifter and a link to The Sifter database itself. The Sifter is an online database of historical cookbooks.
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– https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-to-find-historic-cookbooks
– https://thesifter.org
Ruining Books By Accessing Them?
The link below is to an article that looks at how accessing a book may in fact be a way of ruining it.
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Listening to Audio Books While Sleeping
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Medieval fashion, as seen in the manuscripts and early printed books from the Later Middle Ages, is the subject of a new exhibition at The Morgan Library and Museum entitled Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands. The exhibition, which opened yesterday, includes more than 50 works of Northern European origin from the Morgan's renowned collections, and also features four full-scale replicas of clothing seen in exhibited manuscripts. It will run through September 4.
Covering nearly 200 years prior to the beginning of the full Renaissance in France about 1515, Illuminating Fashion examines a period in which clothing styles changed more rapidly than had previously been the case, often from one decade to the next. Social custom, cultural influences, and politics—such as the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453) and the occupation of Paris by the English (in the 1420s)—had a notable impact on fashion, and medieval illuminators deftly recorded these shifts in taste.
The exhibition also touches upon how artists used clothing (garments actually worn) and costume (fantastic garments not actually worn) to help contemporaneous viewers interpret a work of art. The garments depicted were often encoded clues to the wearer's identity and character.
"The Morgan is delighted to present this captivating exploration of an important aspect of late medieval culture," said William M. Griswold, director of The Morgan Library & Museum. "As is the case today, artists of the medieval era understood how people used clothing to communicate their status and role in society. As fashions evolved, illuminators followed suit in manuscripts, providing not only an illustrated record of changes in dress and social customs, but also a symbolic visual commentary on the values and morals of the people they depicted."
The exhibition is organized in eight sections, the first of which is entitled, "Fashion Revolution, 1330–50." During the second quarter of the fourteenth century, fashion moved in an important new direction as the largely unstructured garments of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries gave way to tighter, more form-fitting clothing for both men and women. This was primarily due to advances in tailoring and in the use of multiple buttons.
A new man's garment—the cote hardy— revealed the shape of the torso and arms while tighter bodices and sleeves for women became popular, as did exposed necks and shoulders. The sides of women's outer garment, the surcot, were given seductively large, peek-aboo openings. Men as well as some women turned the chaperon (a hood with an attached cape and tail) into a fashion accessory that lasted over one hundred years (it appears in the exhibition repeatedly).
For example, the manuscript of the Vows of the Peacock on view (ca. 1345–49) shows the image of Fesonas and Cassiel the Baudrain Playing Chess. The four young men in the miniature are all dressed at the height of the new fashion. They wear the new short garment, the cote hardy, which is buttoned down the front; it is tight at the skirt, bodice, and sleeves. All sport chaperons, two of which are dagged (cut into decorative strips). Some wear delicate shoes, while the youth in blue wears chaussembles: hose with leather soles. The two women at the left wear the open surcot. The woman in blue wears the closed surcot, furnished with a lined slit for access to the kirtle (the garment worn beneath). She also wears tippets: thin decorative bands of clothing falling from the elbow.
The next section, "Wasp Waists and Stuffed Shirts, 1350–90," reveals how the catastrophes of the bubonic plague, which first struck in 1348, and the defeats of the Hundred Years' War had a stagnating effect on the development of fashion for much of the second half of the fourteenth century. While the look for women changed little from the previous period, men's fashions did develop under the influence of military dress. With a short flaring skirt and a cinched waist, the pourpoint (snug-fitting buttoned-down jacket also known as doublet) was padded at the chest and shoulders, giving its wearer a distinctive 'hour-glass' silhouette. Long pointed shoes (pouleines) and belts worn low on the hips complimented the look.
In a German Missal (a liturgical service book used by the priest at Mass) created before 1381, three fashionably dressed young people are hawking at the bottom left. The youth wears a red pourpoint with a dagged hem, a particularly tight chaperon, narrow belt, and open shoes. For medieval audiences of the late fourteenth century, the especially fancy clothing of the hawking trio carries connotations of the vanity of secular pursuits, as fashion in the art of this late medieval period was often a metaphor for the wasting of money and energy on the material world.
"Luxury in a Time of Madness, 1390–1420" is a dramatic contrast to the previous section. This thirty-year period is one of the most sumptuous, elegant, and luxurious of all the Middle Ages. Fashion flowered, ironically against the continued backdrop of political instability represented by the madness of the French king, Charles VI, and the incessant Hundred Years' War. Men's and women's fashions were dominated by a new garment, the houpeland. Men's houpelands featured enormous sleeves and a skirt ranging from full-length to upper thigh. The pourpoint remained popular, but now often finely embroidered and equipped with large sleeves. Women's houpelands were always full-length, with bombard or straight sleeves. The simpler cote hardy, with its voluminous skirt and tighter upper body, continued to be worn. Women also began to wear their hair in temples, a double-horned coif surmounted by veils or a tubular burlet as seen on Delilah in the French Bible historiale (ca.1415–20). Fitting with the time, Delilah's houpeland is trailing and high-waisted with bulbous sleeves and an open V-shaped collar. Also on view in this section is an important fifteenth-century treatise on hunting by Gaston Phoebus, the Livre de la chasse. The well-dressed trainer of huntsmen wears a luxurious, blue fur-lined houpeland with gold embroidery and dagged bombard sleeves.
Military occupations are seldom kind to fashion. The occupation of Paris by the English had a depressing influence on fashion for the decade that Duke John of Bedford was regent in France. In the "Terrible Twenties, 1420s" French nobles fled the capital and art commissions dried up. Fashion, likewise, declined, as a simpler approach to dress prevailed. In the Hours of William Porter (ca.1420–25), the leaf depicting the Decapitation of St. Winifred shows the tyrant Caradoc wearing a new garment that evolved from the houpeland: a robe (gown). Short, unwaisted, but belted at the hips, the gown presents an unflatteringly bulbous silhouette. In sharp contrast to the huntsman in Gaston's treatise, the garment is unembellished with any gold embroidery.
The fifth section of the exhibition, "Peacocks of the Mid- Century, 1430–60," sees the end of the Hundred Years' War in 1453. Political stability fostered fashion, and the thirty years of the middle of the fifteenth century were an exuberant period. These decades saw the last of the houpeland. Men more often wore the gown: full- or knee-length, belted at the waist. Women's gowns featured wide V-necks with contrasting collars and parlets (plackards worn at the midriff). Their headgear atop the temples continued to evolve, growing ever more extravagant. In the Hours of Catherine of Cleves (ca. 1440), the duchess of Guelders is depicted as a personification of piety distributing coins to the poor while dressed in a magnificent orange ermine-lined houpeland. Her long, voluminous sleeves are open, revealing the gold of the kirtle worn beneath. She wears her hair encased in horns to which a veil is attached. From her high-waisted (but unseen) belt hangs a slender knife case and a purse from which she selects coins.
"Late Gothic Vertigo, 1460s and '70s" represents the fashion of the Middle Ages for most people today. This is mainly due to the women's towering conical headgear, the turret, from the top of which flowed long transparent veils. The Romance of Tristan (1468) beautifully illustrates Geneviève wearing a vertiginous coneshaped turret anchored to her head with a frontlet, a band of black velvet. Her gold gown offers the silhouette characteristic for this period: a voluminous skirt; a high, narrow waist; and a wide flaring collar.
"Twilight of the Middle Ages, 1480–1515" examines the period of transition in Northern Europe—the Middle Ages were not yet over and the Renaissance had not yet begun. Both King Charles VIII (died 1498) and Louis XII (died 1515) invaded Italy, and these military campaigns exposed France to Italian art, culture, and fashion. The look for men changed abruptly. Long loose open gowns came into style, and by the 1490s, these gowns became especially voluminous and bulky as illustrated in the Morgan's copy of the very rare Dance of Death printed in 1486. The knight on the page is wearing an open gown with side lapels. The garment is long and loose and, lacking the pleats of the previous decades, hides rather than highlights the male form. His hat, with its low crown and brim, is also new, as are his shoes. These are the demy pantouffles, rounded-toed slippers with an open back.
The exhibition closes with "Dawn of the Renaissance, 1515 and Beyond." King François I was famous for his interest in Italian art and culture; he induced Leonardo da Vinci to join the French court. While Italian fashion had begun to influence northern clothing in the early sixteenth century, by the accession of François to the throne in 1515, the true Renaissance began in France, in art as well as in fashion. This is elegantly illustrated in the frontispiece to the king's own copy of the Romance of the Rose (ca. 1525) in which François, surrounded by courtiers, is depicted accepting the volume from its scribe. He and his court are all dressed in new Italianate style. Doublets, in rich fabrics, are slashed on the chest and arms. The calf-length gowns have wide collars but short puffy sleeves. Shoes are square-toed. Indicative of his lower status, the scribe's gown, with its hanging slit sleeves, is a tad out of date.
To enhance appreciation for the fashions of the era, four full-scale replicas of late medieval ensembles are presented, using period hand-sewing techniques and authentic materials—including silk velvet, gold brocade, linen, straw, and ermine. One is of the youth in the blue cote hardy from the Vows of the Peacock, indicative of the "Fashion Revolution." Another is the luxuriously embroidered houpeland of the aristocratic huntsman from the Livre de la chass. The voluminous gown and towering turret worn by Geneviève in the Romance of Tristan is brought to life in three-dimensional reality. Also featured is the houpeland of Catherine of Cleves, a replica on loan from Museum Het Valkhof in the city of Nijmegen, the Netherlands; the garment recreates the elaborate ensemble she wears while giving alms.
Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the Netherlands is accompanied by a publication of the same title. The 464-page volume includes 300 color illustrations and contains in-depth discussion of dress in late medieval art, encompassing examples not only from illuminated manuscripts from collections around the world, but also from panel paintings, woodcuts, sculpture, and tapestries. The book is the culmination of a thirty-year study by Dr. Anne H. van Buren (1927–2008), a specialist of Northern European art of the period, assisted by Roger S. Wieck.
The Morgan Library and Museum began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan, one of the preeminent collectors and cultural benefactors in the United States. Today, more than a century after its founding in 1906, the Morgan serves as a museum, independent research library, musical venue, architectural landmark, and historic site. In October 2010, the Morgan completed the first-ever restoration of its original McKim building, Pierpont Morgan's private library, and the core of the institution. In tandem with the 2006 expansion project by architect Renzo Piano, the Morgan now provides visitors unprecedented access to its world-renowned collections of drawings, literary and historical manuscripts, musical scores, medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, printed books, and ancient Near Eastern seals and tablets.
For more details about this exhibition, please visit The Morgan Library and Museum website
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See also this video about a similar exhibition currently taking place in Paris, France
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Cardiac disease is a parachute word, which refers to several circumstances affecting the health of the heart of the person. It refers to circumstances affecting a person's cardiac muscle, cardiac valves, cardiac rhythms, or coronary arteries. Each of these components plays a major role in the general heart health of an individual.
Heart disease and stroke can be deadly, but it can also lead to severe illness, disability, and a poor quality of life. A stroke can lead to significant disability, such as paralysis, speech difficulties, and emotional problems.
Chest pain, tightness of the chest, and chest discomfort (angina), along with shortness of breath, is the most prevalent symptoms of heart disease. Apart from the above-described symptoms, there are several symptoms that you may feel is pain, numbness, weakness, or coldness in your legs, or arms. You may not be diagnosed with the cardiovascular disease until you have a heart attack, angina, stroke, or heart failure. Sometimes the cardiovascular disease can be diagnosed at an early stage through regular evaluations.
Early detection of heart disease is simpler to treat, so speak to the doctor about your cardiac health issues. If you are worried about developing heart disease, speak to your doctor about the steps you can take to decrease your risk of heart disease, especially when you have a family history of cardiac illness.
Cardiovascular disease can refer to distinct issues in your heart, or blood vessels, the word is often used to imply harm to your heart or blood vessels by atherosclerosis, a buildup of fatty plaques in your arteries. Plaque buildup thickens and stiffens the artery walls, which may prevent the flow of blood through your arteries to your organs and tissues. Your heart does not have the oxygen it needs with less blood circulation that can cause pectoral pain called angina, especially if you exercise or work hard.
Prevention of cardiac disease
Certain types of heart disease, such as heart defects, cannot be prevented. However, you can assist avoid many other kinds of heart disease by making the same lifestyle adjustments that can enhance your heart disease. Such as:
- Quitting Tobacco
- Management of other health conditions, such as high blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes.
- Eat a low-salt, saturated fat diet.
- Exercise at least 30 minutes a day on most days of the week.
- Maintain healthy body weight.
- Reducing and managing stress.
- Maintain good hygiene practices.
The treatment choice that is best for you depends on your particular form of cardiovascular disease. Some types of medications can also be used to relieve the symptoms, such as to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, improve blood flow, or regulate heart rhythm. However, surgery also can be an option for conditions like coronary artery bypass grafting, or valve repair, or replacement surgery.
If we speak about the medications for cardiac disease, there are many drugs prescribed for cardiac disease. The ones most people with heart disease are given by their physicians include ACE inhibitors, aldosterone inhibitors, beta-blockers, calcium channel blockers, vasodilators, and other cholesterol-lowering drugs. Your physician may prescribe the drugs according to your diagnose and symptoms.
Nowadays, people are too convenient for getting medicines online that they don't want to go outside and be a part of those long queues at the local drug store. Getting medicines online is on fingertips without wandering here and there, because of online pharmacies. Canada drugs is one of those online pharmacies that offer a vast range of online medicines right at your doorstep.


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This episode is less history and more geography
Parts of South Africa feature some of the oldest rocks you will find anywhere on the planet. In what is now the Mpumalanga province near Barberton for example where igneous or volcanic rock peeps out from the bottom of the famous escarpment and if you strike it a lusty blow with your trusty geological hammer, you'll chip bits of 3.5 billion year old sedimentary rock known as the Barberton Greenstone Belt formed in the Archaen age.
History by definition is about humans. But humans live by eating animals and vegetation directly associated with the soil and climate so we must take a quick geological tour around Southern Africa then understand what changes in climate occurred.
How will that work?
Every week I will present an episode which follows the history of South Africa chronologically. Everything that happens follows a time line which makes more sense because that is how time works. So the series will track South African events starting with a broad overview of the geological origin which obviously predates humans by billions of years.
This series won't necessarily stop at the modern borders of what is South Africa as that's just a couple of lines on a map. The sub-continent extends the reach of humans both across the land and the sea so we will have to track the past with an eye on what I suppose is more like a satellite image than an old fashioned map.
Blinded by bias
In this series I'll view events from the perspective of variable shades of black and white. The real truth about history, particularly early South African history, is that its more about brown and pink than black and white.
Those those who think our history is only black and white are simplifying everything blinded by their modern bias which developed inexorably as settlers in the sub-continent tried to differentiate themselves from others.
"Huge swathes of South Africa are now dominated by people who's skin tone is a delightful caramel…"
Unfortunately this still happens which is rather peculiar since a quick whip around local white DNA shows an awful lot of black mixed into the chromosomes. Don't tell the ethnic fundamentalists that, it will drive them to extremes of denial. A quick whip around of black DNA does the same. Huge swathes of Southern Africa are now dominated by people who's skin tone is a delightful caramel. Most try not ask too many questions, particularly if you're a modern race fundamentalist blindly believing in "purity".
Too bad for you my friend. If you think you're "pure" African, think again.
And "pure" white? Sorry for you too. These blind myopics will discover that survivors of Portuguese ship wrecks setup entire clans amongst the Xhosa people before 1600. Their blood is mingled with those of the Pan Africanists of Cofimvaba.
Love and marriage
The marriages between early Boers and Khoekhoe were convenient for both. Later the odour of racism permeated settler logic as they became terrified of being tarred with the Khoesan brush. This was not the initial perception of Portuguese and Dutch who took up carnal relations with Africans of various hues.
A delicate swab at the back of the mouth and all your ancestors will be revealed.
The University of the Witwatersrand Origins Centre is probably the most distinguished in Africa. Take a chance and head off there if you can to discover your past.
My DNA emanates from Eastern Turkey and western Iraq, its Mesopotanian. But its also French, English and Algerian. We humans are a conglomerate of genes, a concoction of loves, a chronology of intermingling.
At times Africans controlled settlers, at other times, British, Dutch and even French administrations rejected white colonials and their politics. It turned into what we see today where judging the past through the politics of the present mutates the truth.
Melanin fades or darkens based on geography and the amount of sun a few generations experience and our world is based on millennia and not a single generation's limited cognitive awareness of the recent past.
The original people
So our history is tens of thousands of years old, and our human DNA the most diverse on earth. The caves on the South East coast of the continent have middens going back tens of thousands of years before modern humans departure from Africa. Our ancestors walked out of Africa into the Middle East and Europe, South East Asia, Australasia and ultimately the Pacific islands.
And what's more, genetically its now known that there was someone like Eve. A female progenitor who can be called the Mother of all the Nations.
We must be proud of this. Here in South Africa we are the warehouse of the world's genetic diversity. The further from Southern Africa you travel, the less diversity is found.
The transhumant journey is now believed to have started around 70 000 years ago and the Pacific Islands were finally colonized by humans only around 1300 AD.
"Themes in one epoch become the laughing stock of the next"
That is a long time to be shuffling about the earth, poking a stick into pools and eating mussels and clams. Then sharpening the stick further and spearing a fish. Then daubing poison on a small stick and shooting a passing Springbok. It is all chronological with the emphasis on LOGICAL. So this is the reason why the podcast series History of South Africa is following time and not themes. Revisionists love to fixate on themes like colonialism, political change, gender. The real world is not sliced and diced like a cheap pizza.
It is full of dead-ends, corners, grey bits. Themes in one epoch become the laughing stock of the next.


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Samsung's Galaxy Tab android tablet is officially available today at T-Mobile. The first serious Android-based contender to the Apple iPad has had mixed reviews from those who've had a chance to play with it, while we're still waiting in the wings. As Android users ourselves, we're eager to get started. What's special about the Samsung Galaxy Tab?
The Samsung Galaxy Tab is a 7-inch tablet PC running Android version 2.2 on a 1GB processor. It features a 3.0MP digital camera with an LED flash, capable of recording video at the full 1080P HD resolution. Like the Apple iPad, the Samsung Galaxy Tab is controlled by a multi-touch display where users can navigate through apps and files in the unit's storage (16GB – 32GB on SD) and freely browse the web. Beyond these standards, the Galaxy also includes GPS connectivity, a gyro sensor and e-reader capability.
It's available today from T-Mobile for $400 on contract, and will also be available to Verizon customers tomorrow. [Official Web Page: Samsung; More Info: TestFreaks]
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The Sheriff's Office has been described as a "semi military organization." Veterans are given five preferential points on exams to enter and promote through the ranks. Many veterans serve in the department, only now they are Viet Nam or Iraqi vets. Since we haven't had a war on American soil since the Civil War, I was surprised at the title of this book until I opened the pages and realized it was an apt title. Not the killing, bombing and bullets we see visited upon civilian populations that all war brings in the occupation, but a war even so, in stark contrast to today's conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Civilians volunteered to man watch towers to spot airplanes all over the Bay Area. Signage like those above were made, paid for, and erected by civilians.
My husband lamented the taking of the Japanese as he watched half his friends from his high school basketball team be deported to concentration camps. It was personal ugliness. The evacuations were handled by the Sheriff's Department in Alameda County. I interviewed one Deputy, now deceased, who was part of that. The record is in our archive.
The Japanese family above were required to report to the Sheriff's Department and every car carrying a Japanese person was stopped and searched when traveling over the Bay Area Bridges.
People bought bonds to support the war; canteens were organized for soldiers returning or leaving. Dances were held for them. Women went to city hall and wrapped bandages for the war effort. They had victory gardens and rationing of sugar, gas, and other needed war materials. There were blackouts and curfews and radio silence to be obeyed and enforced by Sheriff's deputies. They covered the patrol cars headlamps with a black cloth that barely allowed them to see the road they were driving on. Production jobs, making bullets, ship building and so on were taken over by women. Many were married women who did it for the cause, and then returned to family duties after the war. (An interesting black note here, only white women were provided with child care while working the war industry. Women of color had to arrange their own child care.)
An escape route was built across the mountain tops of California in the event of bombings and there were various skirmishes in American territory, (subs, air breeches, one firing on a West Coast fort, and an altercation in Alaska)
For all of its support, let us never forget, war is about killing people.


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Revali's Flap
Revali's Flap is one of the Recovered Memories found in Breath of the Wild. Link recalls it as part of the Divine Beast Vah Medoh main quest.
As part of the Free the Divine Beasts main quest, Link will travel to Rito Village and speak with the village elder, Kaneli. He then instructs Link to speak with Saki, Teba's wife who lives right next door to him. When speaking with Saki, she encourages Link to take off from Revali's Landing to reach the Flight Range. This will trigger Link to recall the memory.
- Find the location on the Breath of the Wild Interactive Map
In-Game Description
"Revali, Champion of the Rito, openly expresses his opposition to supporting Link. He confronts Link in Rito Village, but to what end?"
The memory begins with Divine Beast Vah Medoh soaring across the sky, with Link watching the Divine Beast from a landing in Rito Village. Revali uses his Gale ability updraft to make a grand entrance onto the platform where Link stands and begins listing his many achievements in a smugly condescending tone, saying that with his skills being properly utilized, he sees no reason they shouldn't be able to easily turn back Calamity Ganon.
He then complains that despite his singular mastery of flight and archery, he is "merely" an assistant to Link, all because Link "happens" to have the Sword that Seals the Darkness, the Master Sword. He expresses disdain for Link and this circumstance, and offers Link a chance to prove him wrong: a one on one fight atop Vah Medoh. Revali then "apologizes" for "forgetting" that Link has no way to reach the flying Divine Beast on his own, and flies off, sardonically wishing Link good luck in sealing the Darkness. The memory ends.


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Who are you as a researcher?
Write your own biographical statement "about the researcher' in regard to climate change and interests. How would you write your research biography?
This Google Doc assignment asks you to promote the ideas and interests you care about, asking you to get your reader to recognize that your experiences and interests line up with your research questions. This writing is about crafting a persona that helps people see the person behind the research. You might find that this is difficult. Ask for help–try out the strategies in the IARC posters. Often, this kind of research writing appears in websites or even in cover letters. I will be reading this for how well you represent yourself as approachable and committed–craft yourself so that after reading I want to collaborate or ask a question.


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(Pictured above holding the "check": Beth and Clinton Ross)
Johnson City's summer Co-Starters course, a 9-week business accelerator program, concluded this past Monday. Hosted by JRH Brewing, there was a great turnout on hand to watch 5 of the Co-Starters participants give great pitches where you could clearly see the passion in each one of them. In fact, one of the companies being pitched, an event planning and catering company called Mad B Productions, also catered for the event.
While every entrepreneur heard that night impressed everyone in attendance, someone had to win. The winner for this Co-Starters course was The Cellar. I did some Q & A with Beth and Clinton Ross, the founders of The Cellar, to give you a better idea of what their company is and what got them to this point!
Question: So tell me what your company, The Cellar, is:
Answer: "A boutique fine wine and craft beer retail store featuring a concise, curated selection and ongoing tasting experiences. The Cellar will feature free daily tastings, guided tasting events (by reservation), a case club subscription service, a wine tap system for growler fills, regional exclusives, and much more! Focusing on quality and value over quantity, our hand-picked selections will feature regional wines from Virginia and North Carolina, domestic producers, and international selections from trusted, like-minded importers. Coming this Fall to Downtown Johnson City!"
Question: What led you all to starting this company?
Answer: I think like many entrepreneurs, we are just setting out to solve a problem we discovered as consumers. As wine enthusiasts, we noticed that the Johnson City market doesn't offer the importers and producers that we enjoy. While the beer market in Johnson City has seen, and tasted, the difference in popular brands of beer and local craft breweries, there isn't someone offering the same emphasis in wine. We think that focusing on small, often family-run, producers with great value and individuality will be well received in the Johnson City market.
Question: How was Co-Starters helped with the development for the future of your business?
Answer: The co.starters program has been incredibly helpful. It has really helped hone our business plan and provided insight on vital areas of starting a business like finances and legal structures. Ashley (Cox) was a great facilitator and our fellow entrepreneurs had valuable input. It was exciting to see everybody's ideas change and grow from week to week. Additionally, having the great weekly speakers, most often former Co.Starters participants, was equal parts sobering and encouraging. I'd highly recommend Co.Starters to anyone interested in starting a business.


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Replacing Meyer Plow Power Angle Ram Packing Set
THE most important thing is to get the Packing Nut loose. IF you cannot get it loose, there is no point in buying a new Packing Set. If the chrome on the rod is rusted, chipped, or pitted, there is no point in replacing the packing set. Getting the nut loose is either very easy, or impossible, in my experience. The nuts are usually cast steel, and shatter easily.
THIS is what I have found to be the best way to hold the PA Ram securely to work on getting the nut loose.
Loosen the Packing Nut all the way, and then yank out the Packing Set and Rod. I got this one loose and took the PA Ram apart a few months ago, so it is dusty. (Click on any picture on this page for a larger view).
I separated the Packing Set to show the pieces. Take a picture of yours before you take the old ones off so you have a record of how many, and what order they are in. The new Packing Set will be installed the same as the old Packing Set.
The new Packing Set comes with a new Wiper for the Packing Nut (sometimes called a Gland Nut) as well.
Getting the old Wiper out and installing the new one can be a task. There is a special tool for installing them, and no, I do not have one.
You can see in the picture that I do not have the Wiper fully seated on the one side. It has to be fully seated.
New Packing Set installed on the Rod, you can see that I have two leftover pieces, which is fine. Packing Sets are for more than one PA Ram, you just use what you need from the set.
The Packing Nut must be installed from the end of the Rod, so it is important to remove all the rust and paint. You will have a VERY hard time trying to put it on from the other end.
Some Rods have a numerical code, and others just have a date stamped on the end (useless info). You can also see the end of the rod has a taper to make getting the Packing Nut on easier.
If you ever want to get the Packing Nut off again, use anti-seize on the threads.
Coat the Rod and the Packing Set with hydraulic oil to make assembly easier. I am holding the split washer in place for the pic. To hold the split washer (two retainer Halves) in place for assembly, use a dab of grease on each half to hold it in place while you carefully get it back into the tube. Be gentle, wiggle it a little and it will go in. It can be frustrating, don't try to force it, you will just knock the Retainers off. GENTLE.
Work the Packing Set into the threaded part (that you coated in Hydraulic Oil as well) and then use a blunt drift to gently work the packing into the tube. Work your way around with gentle taps. You need to get it in far enough to use the Packing Nut to push it into place as you snug the Packing Nut.
A little blurry, but you can see I got the Packing Set in about 3/8" which is enough to use the Packing Nut to seat the Packing Set.
As you tighten the Packing Nut. make sure you can spin the chrome Rod, and move it in and out, not necessarily easily, but that you can move it. If you over tighten the Packing Nut, you will lock the Rod in place. You generally snug the nut, then test the Ram. IF the packing leaks, snug the nut a little, and repeat until the leak stops.
It so happens that the nut was tightened down completely. Often the Chrome Rod gets tight before the nut if fully tightened. That is fine. The nut does not have to be fully seated. Take note of where the nut is with your old Packing Set, and you will see what I mean. That's it!
A customer came in with this blown out PA Ram and bought a new one. So I got to play with this one. Why did it blow? Well it blew out on the bottom side, and while it may be hard to believe, the deep scratches make it easier to blow out. Much like cutting glass, or cracking stone, once scored (scratched) it is easier to break along the score. So when the pressure spiked (for whatever reason) it blew.
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As I mentioned above, some of the Packing (Gland) Nuts are cast steel and they shatter when you try to remove them. This one did with almost no effort. When this happens, game over, buy a new PA Ram.
I cut this open for a look inside. You can see the two retainer halves, sometimes they are a split washer looking part (Western used to have the split washer that looks like a huge lock washer). This is a very old PA Ram, all current Meyer PA Rams have nylon retianers instead of steel. This is because some of the recent designs put a tremendous side load on the Rod, and the steel was scraping on the inside, wearing away the cylinder wall. IF your PA Ram has SAE threads, it has nylon. We will get back to this later on this page.
Another angle, looking inside the Meyer PA Ram. You can see the port in the end.
I cut a piece out of the Packing Nut, to show you the Packing seated once assembled.
Getting back to the Nylon retainer. IF for whatever reason, the PA Ram tries to hyperextend, unlike the older design, the Nylon will get hammered against the steel Packing Nut. When this happens, the Nylon will disintegrate and put little pieces of what looks like white rice into the system. It can plug hoses solid, and stop the plow from angling. On the E-72 you may find pieces in the Dual Pilot Operated Check Cartridge on the front of the unit. The plow may not hold angle. IF you find even ONE piece of "rice" you need to remove BOTH PA Rams, disassemble, and get all the pieces out. You can replace the Nylon with steel retainers without any problems, BUT you have to idenitfy WHY the PA Ram was hyperextending, or at least prevent it from happening. You don't want the PA Ram stroke to be the limiting factor in angling the plow. There are angle stops for a reason. After you remove the PA Rams, and get all the pieces out, and replace the Nylon with steel, when you go to install the PA Ram, put the bolt through the back hole first, and fully angle the plow by hand the opposite way. IF the bolt hole will not line up for the front PA Ram bolt to go in, you need to weld an additional stop to the angle stop, thick enough for the PA Ram to not go full stroke, leave a 1/2" or so for play in the bolt holes that will develop over time if not already. One other note, there is no Packing Set on the PA Rams with SAE threaded ports. There are O rings in the Packing Nut only. You still want to use anti-seize on the threads, but the difference is that the Packing Nut DOES get tightened down ALL the way.
You can see with all the chewed up pieces of Nylon, there is also a piece of O Ring. When this PA Ram hyperextended, the Rod was able to move to one side, which damaged the Packing Nut and took a chunk out of one of the O Rings. The Seal Kit (15964) for the SAE PA Rams is only available from Meyer, and it has a List Price of $58.36. There are two things to keep in mind. First, the cost of the Seal Kit, and the cost of labor to have it installed, can easily pay for a new aftermarket PA Ram that does NOT have Nylon in it. Like above with the old style PA Rams, IF you can't get the Packing Nut loose, you are buying a new PA Ram anyway. In my experience, the aftermarket PA ram is just a little longer than OEM Meyer, so you may not have to weld on additional stops to limit the stroke of the PA Ram.
THIS is why they hyperextend. Meyer made the A Frame longer to compensate for the short lived GTT (Ground Tracking Technology) articulating A Frames.
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An explosion on a trolley bus during today's morning commute in the industrial city of Volgograd killed at least 15 people and injuring 23, Pravda reported. The blast comes less than 24 hours after a suicide bomber detonated a bomb in Volograd's train station, killing 18 people and injuring nearly 70, and has raised new questions about the security of the 2014 Winter Olympics, which start on February 7.
Citing unnamed officials, Pravda said the trolley bus "was literally blown to pieces," with just the front part remaining whole. "The roof became like a dome from the blast wave," an official said. The trolley was traveling along a busy street past a market and department story when it exploded, the news agency said.
On Sunday afternoon, a suicide bomber that Russian officials identified as Oksana Aslanova, a woman from Dagestan, Russia, exploded a bomb near the metal detectors at the Volgograd train station, killing 18. Aslanova is a friend of Naida Asiyalova, a female suicide bomber responsible for an October explosion in Volgograd that killed 6, officials told Pravda.
No group has taken responsibility for the attacks, but they are widely-believed to be linked to the Chechen separatist movement. In a recently-circulated, unverified video, a man believed to be Chechen Islamist militant leader Doku Umarov, calls the Winter Olympics "satanic dances" that are being held "on the bones of our ancestors" calls on Mujahideen to prevent them from happening "by any means possible."
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Timely Actions: A Guide to a better Life and Retirement is currently available as a hardcover, paperback or e-book at the Friesen Press Bookstore. Either click on the link provided or go to friesenpress.com/bookstore and use the "search" function in their toolbar to type in Timely Actions or Kenneth W. Glover to see prices and to place an order. The book will be available at all outlets in a few weeks but is available NOW at a discounted price at the printer's bookstore.
This book is intended as a checklist of things to do for seniors approaching or entering retirement. It is also perfect to make available to younger members of their family to instill in them the need to give an eye to their future and make timely actions now to avoid potential problems later. These apply to health, exercise, financial planning and decisions about their future; all items that do not naturally occur to the young. This book gives older people an opportunity to subtly pass down advice they would like their kin to receive.
What have critics said about it?
A cardiologist from the renowned Debakey Cardiologists Associates in Houston said, "This book is medically accurate, witty, informational and subtly humorous." A retired Ph. D. Chemical Engineer said, "All the advice I meant to give to my kids but never got around to it. Now I can." A Merrill Lynch executive said, "The chapter on investing is good, sound advice for people of all ages." A neighbor said, "The witty drawings help make this book a quick, easy read."
I was responsible for the cover of the book and the ideas for the illustrations, but I must mention that the cover painting and the clever illustrations are the work of David Figgins, a 32 year old talented art teacher and illustrator. I am sure his drawings will enhance the readability of this, my first book. Click on David's name to see his website.
Where can it be found?
Amazon Hardback
Amazon Paperback
Amazon Kindle
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While payday lending is legal in Florida, state law provides strict limitations. If you have a problem with a Florida payday lender, you can turn to the state for assistance. But if you obtained the loan from an out-of-state lender, over the Internet, or via phone, the help that Florida can provide might be limited.
Typically, you can get a payday loan in a store by giving the lender a postdated check, in-person by providing the lender access to your bank account, or online. The lender gives you money, and the repayment due date generally corresponds with the date of your next paycheck.
You'll have to pay interest, usually at a very high rate, and any allowed costs. The interest amount is often called a fee. Most consumer advocates warn against using payday lenders because the interest and fees are exorbitant.
If you find yourself in a bad spot and have no other choice than to take out a payday loan in Florida, it's a good idea to make sure that you're dealing with a licensed lender. Payday lenders licensed in Florida must comply with the state laws and respond to inquiries by the Office of Financial Regulation to maintain their license.
If you have a problem with a payday lender, you can file a complaint with the state and request assistance. But if the lender isn't licensed in Florida and is operating from another state or country through the Internet or phone, there might be little the state can do.
Under Florida law, payday lenders are called "deferred presentment providers." (Fla. Stat. Ann. § 560.402 and following). Payday lending is limited in several ways. The law places limits on
In Florida, payday advances can't exceed $500—no exceptions. (Fla. Stat. Ann. § 560.404).
You can only have one outstanding payday loan at a time. Loans are tracked through a central database. When you pay the loan back, you have to wait out a 24-hour cooling-off period before you can take out another payday loan. (Fla. Stat. Ann. § 560.404).
Payday loans can't be for less than seven days or more than 31 days. Rollovers are also prohibited. ("Rolling the loan over" means you pay a fee to delay paying back the debt.) For example, if you take out a 14-day payday loan, the lender isn't permitted to roll the loan over, charging the fees again, for an additional 14 days—even though the entire length of time would be less than 31 days. The term is set when you take out the loan. But if you're unable to pay, you can extend the loan term without additional charges or interest. (Fla. Stat. Ann. § 560.404).
If you can't pay the loan in full at the end of the loan term, the lender has to provide a 60-day grace period without additional charge. The grace period is dependent upon you making an appointment with a Consumer Credit Counseling Service within seven days and completing the counseling within the 60-day grace period. (Fla. Stat. Ann. § 560.404).
Florida law limits the fees that the lender can charge on a payday loan to 10% of the loan amount, plus a $5 verification fee. (Fla. Stat. Ann. § 560.404, § 560.309(8)).
If a check you provided to the payday loan lender doesn't clear the bank, and you're not able to pay, the lender is limited in what it can do. The payday lender may not pursue criminal action against you for a bad check. They can demand payment, but costs are limited to the 10% fee, the $5, and any bad-check fees that the lender's bank imposed (if you didn't inform the lender in advance that the check couldn't be honored). The lender can't charge additional costs unless it files a lawsuit, and a court imposes additional costs. The lender may seek to recover interest on its judgment, but is limited to the state's judgment rate generally and not a rate based on the payday loan fee. (Fla. Stat. Ann. § 560.404, § 560.406).
Florida law requires that the payday loan agreement be in writing and signed by both parties on the date the loan is given. The loan agreement must contain:
The agreement can't legally contain terms whereby the borrower agrees to hold the lender harmless for any damages or actions, waives any rights under the law, agrees in advance to the entry of a judgment or wage garnishment, or waives any defenses to repayment. The fees allowed under the law may not be collected in advance, and the lender can't require any additional security or guarantors. Lastly, the lender has to provide a copy of the signed agreement to the borrower at the time of the transaction. (Fla. Stat. Ann. § 560.404).
Again, the Florida Office of Financial Regulation's Division of Consumer Finance regulates payday lenders in the state. You can verify a license or file a complaint on their website or call 850-487-9687 if you have additional questions.
To get an explanation about applicable payday loan laws in Florida relevant to your situation, consider contacting a debt relief lawyer or a consumer protection lawyer.
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text: Rain interrupted plans for one of the nights that gets highlighted on the schedule every year for Chateau Raceway, the Mike Guttormson Memorial. Friday night was to be the scheduled 19th annual event with everyone waiting to see who would add there name to the list of past winners or add another win to there resume. However rain has also been a tradition with the Memorial event as over the 19 years the race has run on schedule just 12 times. And of the now seven times that rain has postponed the race, twice it has been postponed two times and another time it took three nights to get the show in. In 2013 the heats were run the scheduled night before it rained, than the make up night for the features was stopped after just half of the features were made up, the rest had to be run on a third night. The yearly event recognizes the memory of the former multi track champion and WISSOTA 100 Champion driver Mike Guttormson of Austin who passed away shortly after winning his final feature race May 30th 1997 at the track. Also scheduled for the nights action were three of the tracks regular classes, the USRA B Mods, the WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds and the Pure Stocks. An announcement has not been made yet on any rescheduling of the race either as a USMTS show or as a stand alone track special. Over the years the USMTS Modified touring series has been a part of the memorial 6 times and were scheduled to be so again this year. They were scheduled to be part of the show 1 other time but rescheduling after a rainout did not allow them to be part of the show that year. They also ran specials the week before the memorial on 3 occasions.


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As Hannah Brown's season of The Bachelorette comes to a close (and what a season it was!), it's time to look on to ABC's next sacrifice — uh, we mean next lucky pick. At this week's "Men Tell All"episode, the audience was on the lookout for who the next Bachelor 2020 might be, and a few contestants definitely stood out. Of course, we still need to get through Bachelor in Paradise, as one of the contestants there might distinguish themselves in a way that earns them the Bachelor title. But short of that, we have a pretty good idea of the frontrunners for the role.
Given how well Mike Johnson and Tyler Cameron have come off this season of The Bachelorette, fans have been clamoring for them to take the lead next Bachelor season — even though Tyler has yet to be eliminated from Hannah's season. Other potential picks from Hannah's season include Peter "Pilot Pete" Weber (also still in the running for Hannah's heart) and Garrett Powell, the golf pro from Alabama. Finally, there's the possibility of a wild card pick, AKA someone not from Hannah's season. The frontrunner there would be Blake Horstmann, the runner-up from Becca Kufrin's Bachelorette season (who also seems to be involved in some dramatic storylines on Bachelor in Paradise.) Why? Read on to find out more about each of these potential Bachelor picks.
Mike Johnson
BIG MIKE FOR NEXT BACHELOR!!!!#TheBachelorette pic.twitter.com/mP2aKN327q
— Ricky "El Heat" Smith (@RickyElHeat) July 23, 2019
Mike Johnson is the clear frontrunner for the 2020 Bachelor pick — according to both Twitter and Mike's castmates, many of whom are promoting him for the role. Mike and Hannah had an emotional goodbye in Amsterdam, by which we mean Hannah sobbed uncontrollably while Mike sweetly thanked her for the experience he'd had so far. His gentlemanly ways (and dashing good looks) were equally on display in the Men Tell All episode, where he and Hannah expressed that they wished nothing but the best for each other.
When asked about potentially becoming the Bachelor, Mike told The Hollywood Reporter that it's "100 percent time to have a black Bachelor," adding that "they've never had a Bachelor that's a veteran either, so I think that it's time to have a veteran that served the country as well." The most important thing to Mike, though? "I would want to have a conversation about the contestants being there for the right reasons," he tells THR. "In this process, love is 100 percent possible." Handsome, charismatic and a romantic? Sign him, ABC!!!
Tyler Cameron
and here we have the only people i will accept as the next bachelor #TheBachelorette pic.twitter.com/9KvB49j24N
— liv (@Iivsmithh) July 23, 2019
Tyler is the other clear frontrunner to be the Bachelor: but unlike Mike, he still has a chance of ending this season engaged to Hannah. Tyler has impressed viewers this season with his ability to dismantle toxic patriarchal BS (mostly coming out of Luke's mouth), and how sweet and respectful he's been of Hannah's needs. Every week, Tyler has revealed a new facet of his maturity (and his jawline!), and it doesn't hurt that he's been watching and tweeting about this season as it airs, defending Hannah from the haters.
Peter Weber
Peter for the next Bachelor if you know what's GOOD for the show!!! #TheBachelorette pic.twitter.com/pFgI5nahc0
— Court Page 🐯 (@cpage5721) July 23, 2019
Peter is also still in the running for Hannah's heart and has won over fans with his sweet, goofy demeanor (and yes! the fact that he's a pilot is unequivocally hot). Hannah has described Peter as the kind of relationship she dreamed of as a girl, and it's clear from the way he looks at her that he's head over heels. If Hannah does end up breaking his heart, we'd love to see a group of contestants line up to heal it — recent rumors that he misled an ex before coming on The Bachelorette aside.
Garrett Powell
No need to stay in your lane anymore! 🚗 Garrett's back for #TheBachelorette #MenTellAll! pic.twitter.com/W5RAJPcYVy
— The Bachelorette (@BacheloretteABC) July 22, 2019
Garrett's mistake was ultimately how tied up he got in the Luke P. drama — but before all that, he'd seemed like a promising pick for Miss Alabama Hannah. Both hailing from the same home state, Garrett had the Southern gentleman thing down, and many viewers think he deserved a better chance than he got. Honestly, it's hard to know too much more about who Garrett is and what his season of the Bachelor might look like, but that's because he really didn't get much airtime devoted to his and Hannah's relationship. If ABC does pick him, let's assume they see something we didn't.
Blake Horstmann
alright twitter do your thing. who should be the next bachelor?
RT for Jason
Like for Blake#thebachelorette pic.twitter.com/D6jktn2uyQ
— The Bachelor Tea (@thebachelortea) August 7, 2018
Blake is confirmed as part of the Bachelor in Paradise cast, so of course we'll have to wait and see if he finds love there first. But Blake has been a fan favorite for the Bachelor role since Becca K. broke his heart. Back in 2018, Blake told Entertainment Tonight the story of how he found out he hadn't been chosen: "We got the call the day before and that was it. [Colton's] name had leaked, if you will, so it wasn't a blindside. It really wasn't," Blake said at the time. "No bags were packed or anything like that, but yeah, it was weird getting the call and I could hear it in their voice right away […] I thought I kind of was going to be the Bachelor, so I was a little bit more reserved if you will."
Well, this year it could be Blake's chance — let's just hope he doesn't ruin his sterling reputation in Paradise!


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Dr.Julia Jones Panel: 'Music For The Mind'
Thursday 4th of June
Get your tickets for 'Music For The Mind', hosted by Dr. Julia Jones at: www.canadawatertheatre.org.uk //www.ticketweb.uk
Julia has spent the past 20 years studying the effects of music on human behaviour and prescribing music to drive emotional engagement and wellbeing. Her book, The Music Diet gives individuals and businesses clear guidance on how to harness the power of music and reap rewards.
She is now on a mission to transform workplace wellbeing and combat stress at work through functional use of music. As part of this work Julia created 'Music At Work Week' (25 Nov - 1 Dec 2019) to help promote the scientifically proven benefits of music and encourage employers to embed it in their workplaces.
This event, at Canada Water theatre encompasses a conversational panel on 'Music for the Mind', chaired by Julia, the guests will discuss music, loneliness and mental health.
Check out her website: www.musicdiet.co.uk
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Julia will be joined on the panel to discuss neuroscience and the effects of music on the brain and consequently how this plays out in social spaces for the individual: in the workplace, homes and social environments. Julia will be joined by Sam Reese (below left) and Howard Charles (below right)
Hailing from Aotearoa, Sam Reese is currently a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University. An award-winning writer, researcher, and teacher, his most recent book, Blue Notes: Jazz, Literature, and Loneliness was published by Louisiana State University Press in 2019.
His other work includes the short story collection Come the Tide, and a critical study of American short fiction and Cold War politics.
Sam believes it is through stories that we understand both ourselves and the world around us—that it is through stories that we make connections between the two. Over the last ten years he has worked as a writer, researcher, and consultant for arts groups and law firms, private colleges and travel companies, pharmaceutical firms and the New Zealand government.
Having studied Opera at The RNCM, Howard Charles has worked extensively internationally and throughout the U.K. singing leading Operatic roles in America, Switzerland, Germany and France. He has performed on the concert platform, in Oratorio, Recitals & Gala's, with many Television, Film & Radio appearances.
Creating the innovative City Music Services in 2001, CMS provides a wide range of music-focused activities to a large number of City-based firms, including Allen & Overy, J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Freshfields BD, Barclays Bank, KPMG, Nat West Bank, Thomson Reuters, Simmons & Simmons, Lexis Nexis, Sidley Austin & Hogan Lovells.
Howard spends a considerable amount of his time conducting choirs and has been leading the music programme at A&O for almost 20 years, he also conducts choirs at J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs and Hogan Lovells. He regularly hosts and comperes events and has a long history as a performing arts consultant.
Howard is also co-director with David Smith in the renowned company Legal Harmony, which organises fundraising choir competitions and concerts for Law firms in London; this has further developed, to now include Fiscal Harmony, which works exclusively with financial sector firms' choirs.
With a passion for working with performers of all ages, including children and young people, he is also one of the founding partners in the Lottery Award-Winning Genesis Stage Schools & Agency, who for nearly 25 years has been providing performing arts tuition for young performers around the country.


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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant could restart fan that may have been contaminated by radiation
Officials at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant could be planning to restart a ventilation fan in the underground nuclear waste repository that could have been contaminated during a 2014 accidental radiological release.
Monthly reports from the federal Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) dating back to at least November 2019 show the U.S. Department of Energy and Nuclear Waste Partnership — the DOE's main contractor at WIPP — considered the use of the fan to improve airflow in the underground. The use of the fan reportedly could risk exposing workers at WIPP to radiation, and WIPP officials are planning to take steps to reduce such risks should the fan be used.
Per the DNFSB's November 2019 report, the DOE's Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) directed Nuclear Waste Partnership to begin preparing the fan for a restart on Oct. 31, 2019.
MORE:WIPP gets millions in COVID-19 relief funding, operations contract extended for one year
The schedule for testing was not met by NWP, the report read, and the contractor and DOE were in continued discussions about alterations to WIPP Documented Safety Analysis (DSA) to allow the fan to be used, along with other necessary processes and use of air monitors.
"This schedule has not been met and testing of the 700C fan is still pending," the report read. "DOE continues discussions with NWP related to the proposed changes to the DSA to support operation of the 700C fan; implementation of Specific Administrative Control (SAC); and adequacy of limiting condition of operations (LCO) for the continuous air monitors (CAMS)."
In its March report, the DNFSB said NWP continued to prepare for testing of the fan and commissioned an independent study to identify any contamination in the fan's ductwork and take steps to prevent its release should the fan be used.
"WIPP is awaiting an independent assessment to determine the need to apply a fixative to the radiological contamination found in the ductwork associated with 700C fan, prior to conducting the restart test," the report read.
MORE:WIPP resumes nuclear waste shipments California national laboratory
The Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation (CRESP), an organization that serves as a technical advisor to the DOE's Office of Environmental Management conducted an assessment on restarting the fan's use, per a May DNFSB report, noting that a test would be the next step in the process but that use of the fan for unfiltered ventilation could risk a release of radioactive materials.
"(CRESP) identified that although the underground air quality would benefit from increased airflow, there is a potential for a release of radioactive contamination during operation of this unfiltered mode of ventilation," the report read.
CRESP also recommended the DOE release a public report on the potential radiological release during the restart, while specifying limits in the test plan that could stop the test and assessing the structural integrity of the exhaust ducts ahead of the restart.
MORE:45 workers infected with COVID-19 at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Continually monitoring of radiological conditions in the exhaust drift were also recommended for the "long-term if the fan is restarted, the report read, along with the availability of personal protective equipment during testing.
In the latest DNFSB report for August, the Board reported the project was delayed until October 2020 with a completion date expected in January 2021 and the Field Office planned release a public report two weeks ahead of the test.
"The 700C unfiltered underground ventilation exhaust fan test has been delayed to October 2020. The target to complete the project is now end of January 2021," the report read. "CBFO is preparing to release an external communication two weeks prior to the test."
MORE:WIPP utility shaft faces delay while legal challenge seeks to halt construction
NWP spokesman Donavan Mager said the DOE was still "considering" restarting the fan, but that no final decision was made.
"DOE and EM are considering the restart of the 700-C ventilation fan as an available option to improve airflow in the WIPP underground," Mager said. "We are currently evaluating the potential benefit to our workers, but no final decision has been made at this time."
Nuclear Waste Program Director Don Hancock at the Southwest Research and Information Center, a government watchdog group in Albuquerque said the use of the fan could expose workers to radiation on the surface.
MORE:Department of Energy: Waste Isolation Pilot Plant to receive down blended weapons-grade plutonium
He said reusing the fan was suggested in the past since the 2014 incident, but the idea never came to fruition.
"The idea of running this was brought up multiple times in the last six years, but was dropped," Hancock said. "Even if the bulkheads work fine, you're going to pick up contamination in the exhaust shaft.
"Even if they want to run the fans in uncontaminated parts of the mine, there is contamination in that shaft. Currently, all that air is going through filtration."
Adrian Hedden can be reached at 575-628-5516, email@example.com or @AdrianHedden on Twitter.


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Bocas del Toro and San Blas
All across the Pacific Coast you will find many beachfront projects
Bocas Del Toro, San Blas, Islas Secas & Pearl Islands - my favorite.
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The gap between the haves and the have-nots is widening sharply
Dear Friends,
The social disaster of inequality is not only a social disaster, it is the roadblock to economic recovery. One cannot have 50% of the US population unable to support its needs for food, housing, medical care, child care, and education. We are a consumer society. Growth with 50% of our population unable to consume more than the basic less than minimal requirements for life will not sustain a growing economic environment.
Asher Edelman
by Peter Atwater
Financial Times
As economists debate the letter-form trajectory of the recovery ahead, it is not too soon to identify the letter shape of what has occurred so far. At best, it might be called a K-shaped recovery. While we panicked together in March, since then there have been two vastly divergent experiences.
For many large, global businesses, the Covid-19 pandemic seems like nothing more than a bump in the road towards greater dominance. Thanks to unprecedented central bank liquidity measures and investor enthusiasm, their stock prices haven't just bounced; in some cases — especially in tech — they have gone on to new all-time highs. In addition, their access to the credit markets has never been better. Last week, for example, Amazon broke the record for the lowest interest rate for any bond in US corporate history.
For overleveraged, bricks-and-mortar retailers, though, the pandemic has brought the end. Neiman Marcus, JC Penney, Pier 1 and J Crew have all filed for bankruptcy this year. But they are hardly alone. With each new day more and more high street shops and restaurants are closing. Reeling from the lockdowns, they now recognise that, even with government support, customers will not return in time to save them.
More troubling, though, has been the K-shaped consumer experience. For the wealthy and those able to work from home, the pandemic has represented an inconvenience. Life has gone on, albeit challenged by new technologies and new routines. Their lives have not been upended by the outbreak.
That has not been the case for those outside the work-from-home bubble. Service workers have been laid off en masse, while many essential workers have had little choice but to work even as their employers have awkwardly and inconsistently adapted workplaces to a pandemic environment. That the outbreak has hit working-class communities hardest is hardly a surprise.
Put simply, the haves are largely back to where they were before the outbreak, while, despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary policy action, the have-nots have even less. For most of the world's largest companies, the wealthy and the work-from-home crowd, there has been a bungee jump-like rebound in confidence. Meanwhile, for small businesses, the clearly overleveraged, the working class and many in essential roles, conditions have deteriorated further.
Many will suggest that the experience is nothing new. The past decade has been a slow-motion K-shaped recovery from the 2008 financial crisis. But that understates the gap in confidence that has evolved. Today, there are small schools of the overconfident floating naively atop a vast swirling sea of underconfidence. What Covid-19 has done is create a tipping point where, for many, chronic underconfidence has turned to hopelessness. They don't see a recovery ahead.
For businesses, there is an orderly process for handling this. Companies close and file for bankruptcy. Losses are tallied and neatly allocated. While emotion filled, the end — when it comes — is procedural. For individuals, though, there is no perception of order. The hopeless feel powerless and unheard.
The massive, global social protests in the wake of George Floyd's killing speak to the powerlessness and voicelessness intensely felt not only by the US African-American community, but also by many others. The two paths of the K-shaped recovery have diverged too far.
Unless confidence is restored, the unrest will continue. We act as we feel. As Martin Luther King Jr said: "A riot is the language of the unheard."
With many public support programmes nearing an end, and financial markets pricing in a V-shaped recovery, policymakers would be wise to consider the divide that now exists. We must address the adverse consequences of the K-shaped recovery or they could easily lead to an L-shaped recovery for all.


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Jesus rescues and redeems all people, and draws them into the presence of love. (Listen.)
Last week, the Baptist Union of NSW/ACT voted to effectively disaffiliate LGBTIQA+ affirming churches and disaccredit such pastors. It will also disaffiliate churches and disaccredit pastors who are committed to traditional Baptist values of freedom of conscience and congregational governance, and who on these grounds refuse to affirm a statement of marriage as the basis for affiliation. Continue reading "Luke | Promises, paradise, and the vastness of love"


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What kinds of testing exist?
There are many kinds of testing available to us - the three main ones are unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing. The level of each that you employ can depend on the language you are using or the project you are writing, but generally you should expect more unit tests than integration tests, and more integration tests than end-to-end tests. It can be very useful to have all three.
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can be quite slow, so it is not recommended that you write a lot of them
you need at least a couple to have confidence that your system, when it is all put together, works as you expect


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Lake Sakakawea is quickly becoming one of the country's premier fishing destinations for both professional and recreational anglers alike.
Best known for producing record amounts of Walleye, the lake also offers Northern Pike, Salmon, Sauger and Smallmouth Bass. Lake Sakakawea doesn't have an off-season and neither do we – Tobacco Gardens accommodates ice fishermen all winter.
The marina has two concrete boat ramps and multiple docks along the resort for Tobacco Garden visitors.
Spend the day out on the largest manmade lake in North America.
Its entire shoreline is open to the public allowing visitors to enjoy boating, sailing, wind surfing, paddle boarding, canoeing, kayaking, water skiing, jet skiing, snorkeling and scuba diving. With 382,000 acres of open water, there is room for everyone to play!
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The rugged buttes of the Little Missouri National Grasslands are perfect for the mountain bike enthusiast.
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, traveled from May 1804 to September 1806, was the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the United States.
Near "Birnt Hills Trail" [sic] just three miles north of Tobacco Gardens Resort & Marina, Captain Meriwether Lewis was shot while hunting for elk along the Missouri River. The following is an excerpt from the journal entry of Sergeant John Ordway:
about 12 oClock Capt. Lewis halted at a bottom on S. Side to kill Some Elk Peter Cruzatte a frenchman went out with Capt. Lewis they Soon found a gangue of Elk in a thicket. Capt. Lewis killed one and cruzatte killed two, and as he Still kept firing one of his balls hit Capt. Lewis in his back side and the ball passed through one Side of his buttock and the ball went out of the other Side of the other buttock and lodged at his overalls which wounded him bad.
August 11, 1806
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Everyone knows how great meat is on the grill, but it is also true that many types of vegetables taste better grilled than they do cooked in any other way. Grilling kabobs is an excellent way to make the most of this and make sure you get some tasty and healthy veggies into your diet as well.
Getting the Best Vegetables
The best vegetables for grilling must be heartier than salad vegetables (radishes, cucumbers, etc.) but lighter than most roots and tubers (potatoes, parsnips, etc.), although these heavier veggies can still be grilled as long as you boil them a bit at first to soften them up.
Here's a list of what I think the best vegetables for kabobs are:
- Bell peppers
- Onions
- Summer squash
- Mushrooms
- Thick asparagus
Getting the Grill Ready
Kabobs need medium direct heat since you are grilling small pieces of food. So if you are grilling steaks or any other food that needs high heat, it's best to cook them beforehand and let the grill cool down a bit before you put on the kabobs.
Prepping the Vegetables
You need to cut the veggies into small enough pieces that they can easily be skewered and fit on the grill, but not to small that they risk tearing and falling off. Here's what I do for the vegetables:
- Cut the top off the peppers, clean out the inside of seeds, and then cut them into small chunks.
- Chop the onions into 8 – 16 pieces.
- Slice the squash into thick chunks.
- Slice the mushrooms into thick pieces, then cut them smaller if you need to.
- Slice the thick asparagus into pieces that will be able to hold up on the skewer.
I must add right here that you can also add small chunks of whatever kind of meat you want into kabobs as well.
Skewer all the food and cover with olive oil, salt, and pepper. If the grill is ready, throw them on. Turn the kabobs every 3-5 minutes. Depending on the heat, it will take somewhere between 15 and 25 minutes for the kabobs to cook. You want a little char, but don't burn them. Make sure everything has softened.
Grilling Kabobs… and More!
The method I gave you will leave you with some tasty kabobs. If you skewered some meat as well, you'll have a full meal right there. Otherwise, you might as well throw on some steak or chicken as long as you have the grill going!
Source by Darrin Carlson