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- Accommodation for professionals
- Spacious communal areas
- Large rear garden
- All bills included
- Parking
- Furnished
Available in April
Harrison Thorn are delighted to offer this furnished double bedroom To Let, part of a 3-bedroom home in Braunstone, Leicester. Located off Narborough Road, with Fosse Park shopping Centre and J21 of the M1 Motorway less than 2 miles away, the property is ideally positioned for professionals working in Leicester or further afield.
The Room: This double bedroom is fitted with a built in double wardrobe and uPVC window to the front elevation. The room is the largest of 3 bedrooms at the property.
Communal areas: The house comprises of a modern well equipped kitchen/diner, downstairs toilet, and large furnished lounge. Stairs from the hall way lead to the first floor where there is a family bathroom, and the 3 bedrooms.
External: There is a large garden with patio area to the rear of the property. There is parking for 2 vehicles at the front and additional on street parking if required.
All bills are included - Wireless broadband provided - Locks fitted to all bedrooms - Fully double glazed throughout – Gas Central heating - No pets - Minimum 6-month tenancy - Gardener assists with upkeep to outside space - No live-in landlord.
Fees:
References and check-in fee £75
Deposit of £380 (one off payment and paid in advance. This will be registered in a government approved deposit protection scheme)
Rent of £380 per calendar month, paid each month in advance installations.
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I recently received a request from an individual about their physical condition. They refered me to research done about their condition. I made this observation about what they were doing unknowingly. If you always do what you have always done you will always get the same results. Many chrisitans who accept the fact that God heals as part of His covenant fail to ever receive healing for themselves . This is in part because of their focus. Whatever we focus on becomes greater and more real to us than what we don’t focus upon. The truth is focus upon what you want and not upon what you don’t want. When you focus upon the disease or sickness you are focusing upon what you don’t want. When you focus upon God’s word about the situation you are focusing upon what you do want. Jesus said that whatever thing we desire(want) believe that we receive them and then we will have them. Desire or want is focus. When you look at His Word you open the door to receive your healing.
An old Jewish saying is “open the door to God as small as the eye of a needle and He will open a door large enough for a camel to pass through. ”
Your mustard seed size faith to look at what He says opens the door for the mighty power of Holy Spirit to remove sickness out of your midst.
Exodus 23.
The word serve means to worship. Worship involves focusing upon Him letting all other gods or situations go from your sight. He promises us as we look at Him. He will take care of the sickness looking to overwhelm your life.
Suggestion . The more you know about the natural the more fear increases and faith decreases. If we spend equal time meditating in the word on healing you will find fear decreasing and faith increasing. I have seen from AP that when symptoms appear she retreats into the word on healing. Bible and books on healing with testimonies that increase faith and hope. A picture in your mind of God doing the impossible and faith in your heart to receive.
I have yet to meet a person who knew more about their disease than they did about God’s healing covenant that ever got healed.
Trust in your heart not your head. The Holy Spirit will lead you into all reality. Reality is truth and the truth is you can receive your healing /restoration/ miracle.
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Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. The deal would allow Amazon to grow beyond e-commerce and sell groceries in hundreds of stores while collecting significant shopper data. Meanwhile, Whole Foods could lower its prices (organic avocados for just $1.69!) and scale up after its recent declines in sales and market share. In the words of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, the partnership was “love at first sight.”
A year later, such optimism seems hard to find at Whole Foods. Stories of employees literally crying on the job over Amazon’s changes have begun circulating. Scorecards measuring compliance with a new inventory system are used to punish and sometimes terminate workers. A group of Whole Foods employees have recently taken steps to explore unionizing. Even customers — the stakeholders that Amazon values the most — have been angry over poorly stocked stores.
So where did the love go?
Amazon and Whole Foods’ relationship problems were completely predictable. The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. They now stand on a fault line where tensions often erupt in mergers. This fault line is what we call tightness versus looseness. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash.
Tight company cultures value consistency and routine. They have little tolerance for rebellious behavior, and use strict rules and processes to uphold cultural traditions. Loose cultures are much more fluid. They generally eschew rules, encourage new ideas, and value discretion. Tight cultures have an efficient orderliness and reassuring predictability, but are less adaptable. Loose cultures tend to be open and creative, but are more disorganized. People in loose cultures prefer visionary, collaborative leaders: those who advocate for change and empower their workers, like Whole Foods’ Mackey. People in tight cultures desire leaders who embody independence, extreme confidence, and top-down decision making. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style.
Amazon’s culture is a tight one, characterized by structure and precision. Rooted firmly in the manufacturing industry, Amazon has defined processes to maximize its efficiency. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. According to Amazon’s leadership principles, leaders are instructed to “hire and develop the best” and “insist on the highest standards.” Performance is subject to constant measurement and review — employees can anonymously report each other to higher-ups through an internal phone system. Behavior is even more tightly regulated at Amazon’s warehouses, where target goals and surveillance keep production on schedule. This rule-bound culture ensures that all employees understand the company’s objectives and are consistently working to achieve them.
Whole Foods, on the other hand, has a much looser culture. The unique blend of idealism, high profit margins, and rapid growth that came with operating the first certified organic national supermarket in the U.S. provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. Prior to the Amazon merger, the company had an egalitarian structure organized around self-managed teams. This structure granted individual employees significant decision-making power. Face-to-face interactions between workers, vendors, and customers were the norm. Managers could operate their stores with autonomy and tailor products to customer preferences. “Empowerment must be much, much more than a mere slogan,” Mackey wrote in a 2010 blog post. “It should be within the very DNA of the organization.” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices.
To understand more about how mergers between tight and loose cultures work, we collected data on over 4,500 international mergers from 32 different countries between 1989 and 2013. The study took into consideration factors such as deal size, monetary stakes, industry, geographic distance, and cultural compatibility. We found that mergers with more-pronounced tight-loose divides performed worse overall. On average, the acquiring companies in mergers with tight-loose differences saw their return on assets decrease by 0.6 percentage points three years after the merger, or $200 million in net income per year. Those with especially large cultural mismatches saw their yearly net income drop by over $600 million.
Fortunately, when diagnosed early, the tight-loose clashes that crop up in mergers can be handled productively. To increase their chances of achieving cultural harmony, companies should do a few things.
Prepare to negotiate culture. In addition to negotiating price and other financial terms, organizations discussing a merger need to negotiate culture. Leaders should start by conducting a cultural assessment to understand how people, practices, and management reflect tightness or looseness in both companies. They should determine the pros and cons of their current levels of tight-loose, as well as the opportunities and threats posed by merging cultures. How might sacrificing some discretion for structure, or vice versa, enhance or harm each organization? Above all, they should identify areas for compromise: Tighter organizations need to identify domains where they can embrace greater looseness, and looser organizations need to think about how they can welcome some tight features. We call these flexible tightness and structured looseness, respectively.
Construct a prenup. Once merging organizations better understand the strengths and weaknesses of their company cultures, they should develop a cultural integration plan that articulates which domains will be loose and which will be tight. Mutual input about how each company will change — and a formal contract documenting those changes — can help ensure long-term success. When Disney bought Pixar in 2006, Disney CEO Robert Iger agreed to a set of ground rules for safeguarding Pixar’s looser culture. For example, Pixar employees weren’t required to sign employment contracts with Disney, were free to choose the titles on their business cards, could decorate their cubicles and offices as they wished, and could continue their annual paper airplane contest.
Get buy-in. Everyone across both organizations needs to be informed about the integration plan. Simply explaining what the changes will be is not enough; people need to know why they will be implemented. Communicating openly and gaining broad acceptance for changes will help minimize the threat people feel from new ways of doing business. People in tight organizations might feel their control is being threatened. People in loose organizations might feel their autonomy is being threatened. Leaders need to be culturally ambidextrous — or demonstrate the value of being both tight and loose, and work to address employees’ underlying fear of change.
Embrace trial and error. Finally, organizations need to be prepared to reevaluate their original integration strategy. No matter how foolproof the plan may seem, issues are bound to arise. Amazon’s increased standardization and employee surveillance at Whole Foods had positive business outcomes — prices dropped as much as 40% on certain items — but it was also hard on the company culture. Amazon now has an opportunity to learn from these results, and possibly incorporate some of the looser cultural elements that Whole Foods employees value. For example, Amazon could create a better balance between the time people spend on logging inventory and organizing store shelves and the time they spend interacting with customers. Likewise, there may be more domains where Whole Foods can relinquish some of its unstructured business practices. For example, using Amazon’s expertise in data science and logistics, Whole Foods has an opportunity to gain better customer insights and provide its clientele with services that are not only personal but also customized and consistent.
Negotiating tight and loose in organizations takes work, but patience and a willingness to make sacrifices can help merging organizations overcome some of the most difficult challenges. How will the Amazon–Whole Foods partnership pan out? It’s too soon to say, but spending more time on integrating their cultures could help.
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There are a few things that God put on my heart for this year that I would like to share with you. Though the text may be quite long, please bookmark this post and reference it when time allows.
First, let’s start off with Psalm 85, which I feel captures the heart of what God wants to do in 2016. Psalm 85 speaks about restoration. The Psalm is a testament, by the sons of Korah, to God’s faithfulness and restoration of Jacob’s heritage. In the Old Testament in the book of Numbers, the Bible speaks about Korah who was a malcontent and along with a group of rebels, challenged the voice of God speaking through Moses. Korah arrogantly suggested that God chose him and his misguided group to lead the people in the wilderness in Israel. Moses then spoke a decree from God to the children of Israel that if Korah and his men aren’t truly sent by God the earth will open up and swallow them and everything that belongs to them. The earth opened its mouth and swallowed the men, along with their households and all their followers who were standing with them, and everything they owned. Numbers 16:28-32
Even though the Lord destroyed Korah and his posse, God spared Korah’s children. Numbers 26:9–11. God restored Korah’s linage despite his wickedness. He even blessed Korah’s linage by raising up the prophet Samuel through this blood line. Ancestors of Korah: Heman, Asaph, Ethan and Jeuthdan became talented leaders in choral and orchestra music in the tabernacle under king David, hence the writing of an estimated 25 Psalms. These Psalms express humility and thankfulness towards God. A stark contrast from distant relative Korah who had a spirit of pride and arrogance.
Psalm 85:1 says, Lord you were favorable to your land; you restored the fortunes of Jacob.
Beloved, even though your land may have been perceivably damaged by your lineage: parents, grand parents, ancestors, God is saying if you, in this season, will cry out to Him he will RESTORE in this season.
Psalm 85:4
Restore us again, O God of our salvation, and put away your indignation toward us!
▪️God is saying that there are some who are secretly desiring Christ but because of social status, job status, image are not proclaiming Him publicly for fear of loss or backlash. God is saying those who are luke warm He will spit out of His mouth. He’s saying choose this day whom you will serve.
▪️There are some like Korah, who are prideful, arrogant, and judgmental. Those who believe Christ followers are weak and too religious. God is calling for repentance. God is going to open up your spiritual eyes this season.
▪️There are some Christians that have been struggling for years in your spiritual walk, this year God is saying cry out to Him! Believe for your deliverance, get serious with God! Although you’ve been struggling for many years, He’s going to give you the strength to overcome this year.
▪️God is going to bring some of you into different careers this year; careers that glorify Him and fulfill His call of the Great Commission.
▪️God is calling many of you to get serious in your prayer life and study time because you are going to face difficult situations this year. You will face some things that you could of never have imagined happening to you.
▪️Lastly, God has put a burden on my heart for singles. The rest of this post is dedicated to what I feel God wants to speak to singles or those who are single within relationships. God has heard your cries. This year God is tearing down, rebuilding, restoring, and performing miracles in this area. Singles that never thought that they would be married will marry this year. Barren wombs are going to conceive this year. Husbands are returning to wives this year. Restoration!
I will conclude this post here for the sake of length, and will continue on this subject in the next post.
Stay tuned…
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What Causes Liver Disease? 5 Myths Dispelled
Find out what’s truth and what’s fiction when it comes to the causes of liver disease.
It’s a common liver disease myth: Only alcoholics suffer from cirrhosis, when liver damage leads to scarring.
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But in reality, the causes of liver disease and liver damage are far more varied than hitting a bottle of Jack Daniel’s too frequently. And for some people, no action they can take would fend off liver disease.
Beyond the well-known “alcoholic” myth, here are some other misunderstandings Hellan Kwon, M.D., has encountered in her work as a physician and as clinical assistant professor of hepatology at the University of Michigan.
Myth: All causes of liver disease are self-inflicted.
Although it’s true that sharing needles with a drug user, eating too many Twinkies or hitting happy hour daily,” Kwon says.
Myth: Water is the only beverage good for the liver.
Water is the magic elixir, according to seemingly every health and beauty magazine, particularly for its ability to wash toxins out of the body. But it isn’t the only one to help keep a healthy liver.
“Recently, studies have shown that coffee is good for the liver, and a study from Rotterdam, Netherlands, once again confirms this information,” Kwon says. The study in the Journal of Hepatology showed that coffee or herbal tea intake of three or more cups a day lowers the amount of liver scarring. Coffee appears to have a protective effect on the organ.
SEE ALSO: What Does the Liver Do?
But leave the sugar out of the coffee, and concentrate on proper nutrition. Excessive sugar and processed carbohydrates can lead to weight gain, which can contribute to nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), in which fat accumulates in the liver despite limited alcohol ingestion.
Myth: A liver cleanse and supplements keep liver diseases at bay.
“Patients will not benefit from either,” Kwon reports. “What is more important is a healthy, well-balanced diet and exercise. These lifestyle changes are especially helpful for NAFLD, where one of the main treatments focuses on nutrition and healthy behaviors. It can reverse some liver damage.”.
“Hepatitis B and C are contagious in more intimate relationships where people might share blood, perhaps using illicit drugs or getting a tattoo with an infected needle, or through sex,” Kwon says.
They also can be passed from a mother to a child in utero or at birth.
Myth: Liver disease patients must avoid acetaminophen (Tylenol).
Acetaminophen, when used as directed, is safe for patients who have liver disease, Kwon says. But too much acetaminophen in a short period can cause toxicity and liver failure. “One area that patients need to especially be cautious is when using pain pills that have acetaminophen mixed with a narcotic medication, as you may lose track of how much acetaminophen you are consuming,” she says.
To make an appointment with Michigan Medicine’s liver clinic, dial 844-233-0433.
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Founded by Los Angeles born, Digoil En-riquez, Digoil Renowned clothing often features dark depictions of beautiful scenes. Digoil Renowned offers clothing print designs made using digital art, photography and traditional oil & acrylic painting. Some of Digoil Renowned's women's tanks and t-shirts feature recognizable celebrities like Marilyn Monroe as well as iconic symbolism like Sugar Skulls. These women's shirts are as beautiful as they are potent in their iconography. It's a dark and twisted message each piece of Digoil Renowned's art sends and a stunning one at that.
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Troubleshooting VPN issues
Contents
VPN test failures
The Skytap Cloud VPN Test tool uses a multi-phase test process. If you have multiple test failures, troubleshoot them in the order listed below.
If this stage fails…
It means…
Try this…
Phase 1
The IP addresses are incorrect, or one or more of the Phase 1 parameters listed on the Skytap Cloud VPN details page do not match the VPN device you are connecting to.
Verify the IP addresses and the parameters for the VPN device.
Phase 2
The VPN was unable to establish a VPN tunnel to the test subnet. Phase 2 parameters do not match the VPN device you are connecting to.
Verify the parameters for the VPN device.
Ping Remote Address
The VPN was able to negotiate the tunnel, but was unable to receive a response to the ping test. The remote target is unable to respond due to a firewall within the guest operating system or there is a routing failure on the remote side.
Verify that the remote target has no routing failures or blocking firewall rules. Check if the VPN is configured to block ICMP ping connections.
Connect To Remote Port
The VPN tunnel was successfully created and pinged, but the specific port did not respond.
Verify that the port is open and that no firewall rules block this connection.
Tips
- You can also review the logs from your VPN device for more details. Your device should provide meaningful logging for why the connection from the Skytap Cloud VPN endpoint was refused (or if the request to initiate a connection was received at all).
- For a copy of the corresponding logs from the Skytap Cloud VPN endpoint, contact Skytap Support ([email protected]).
For more information, see Creating a VPN connection to your Skytap Cloud account.
Connectivity issues
If your VPN connection occasionally drops, try the following troubleshooting steps:
- Review your SA key lifetimes to make sure they match.
Confirm Phase 1 DPD is enabled on both endpoints or disabled on both endpoints; the endpoints must match. We recommend enabling Phase 1 DPD on both endpoints.
Skytap Cloud does not support third-party Phase 2 DPD; if your corporate endpoint uses Phase 2 DPD, we recommend that you disable it.
- Confirm that the Skytap Cloud SA policy level matches your VPN endpoint.
- Review the logs on your VPN device for additional information. You can also contact Skytap Support ([email protected]) for a copy of the corresponding VPN logs from Skytap Cloud.
Poor performance
If you experience poor performance over an active VPN tunnel, try the following troubleshooting steps:
- Test your bandwidth to make sure you have a good connection to the region your VM resides in. See Testing bandwidth and latency with Speedtest.
- If you suspect you are observing file fragmentation, set a maximum segment size (MSS) between 1300-1400 on both VPN endpoints.
- Perform basic network tests over the VPN to identify issues over the public Internet or with your ISP. For more information, see Troubleshooting network performance issues. You can also review your packet captures.
Inconsistent performance over different subnets
If you can pass traffic over one subnet but not all subnets, this may be caused by an unmatched SA policy level.
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Relationship or Flirtationship ….. It is your call, ladies.
Flirtationship is a new word, means two people make out when they see each other, flirt a bit here and there, but not a relationship. It has more emotion to it than just being a FB (Fuck Buddy) because at least you two can be seen in public. People know there’s something going on between […]
“SUNDAY” IS YOUR BLING DAY.
Thanks God I make it to Sunday without any damages. As far as I remember. I am pretty sure we all had a good Saturday (except Jessica Black, since she prefer Friday) I had my Saturday done as I expected it to be. It was smooth and sours (mojito) Whatever tomorrow brings I’ll be […]
When a bitch calls another bitch ‘BITCH’
Have you watched ‘mean girls’ yet? I suggest you to watch it before reading this. My favorite lines from this movie; calling other people stupid doesn’t make you any smarter. Calling other people fat doesn’t make you any skinnier. It is ok though; some people deserve to be called like that just joking. ( kinda) […]
I’m better off without (a ……….) like you.
Hell to the O, I’m better off without (a …….fill in as you want) Have you ever had a friend whose gf/bf is totally a freak? Or do you have friends who are freaks? Controlling freaks, Jealousy freaks, No personality freaks, ….. Are you one of them ? I was. What is the point of […]
SINGLE- DO NOT DISTURB (2)
DO NOT DISTURB. ALREADY DISTURBED…. What could be worse than being a single? Married? I don’t know. I can’t speak for everyone. The worst part of being single for me is not enjoying being a single. It is already hard to just enjoy your daily life. The fact that, we all live in a big […]
SINGLE – DO NOT DISTURB.
WANTED BY MANY,TAKEN BY NONE, LOOKING AT SOME,WAITING FOR ONE. Believe it or not? I have been single and ride solo for 2 years now. It is a very sad truth,in the other hand I’m pretty comfortable this way and when someone actually came up, I ran as fast as my high heels can(got to tell […]
women (we +men) …
“WOMEN” (WE (and) MEN) Hi, I think I skipped the social manner to even introduce myself to you. I apologize. And that is one thing about me you have already learned. I say “sorry” if I make mistakes. If you think this is another blog of an angry woman, then I have to disappoint you […]
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Effective immediately, Plantronics will no longer require retail accounts to apply with the ARP to become authorised Plantronics retailers. However, going forward Hitfar will be authorizing dealers for access to the Plantronics lineup of products available on Hitfar.com
All Hitfar customers who are interested in carrying Plantronics, please contact your regional Hitfar sales representative.
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Hobrecht Sports Art offers a fine art giclée edition print, printed on high quality archival canvas with archival ink, based on Dave Hobrechts original charcoal painting of NFL great wide receiver, Randy Moss.
In his illustrious 14-year NFL career, Randy Moss caught 982 passes for 15,292 yards and 156 TDs. In 2007, his first season with the New England Patriots, Moss caught 98 passes for 1,493 yards and a jaw dropping 23 TDs. This Hobrecht painting of Moss was originally created for Topps Cards and featured in their 2009 National Chicle Stars of the Gridiron All Art Football"
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Featured Junior Hockey New England Wolves JBT Hockey Game Raises Over 22k For Cure Starts Now Foundation March 4, 2018March 4, 2018 HockeyClan 445 Views 0 Comments Abby Fopiano, Andrew Trimble, Chris Mattone, Eastern Hockey League, EHL, EHLP, John Bradley Thompson, Laconia, Merrill Fay Arena, New England Wolves, New Hampshire, Total Athletics Seahawks LACONIA — The 2018 JBT Benefit Game, held on March 3rd at Merrill Fay Arena, turned out to be Read more
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SVP Exhibition
Kim Lockhart is a strategic digital media leader with 10+ years experience developing products for global, industry-leading brands and building high-performance teams. She brings a deep knowledge of online, social and mobile product development to Hollywood Software, including website production and editorial/content development. Kim currently oversees the development and production of all Hollywood Software exhibitor software platforms.
Before joining the team in 2013, Kim was Director, Kids/Family Editorial & Programming for Disney Interactive Entertainment. While there, she orchestrated the launch of Disney’s YouTube network as part of multi-year partnership that involved the licensing and publishing of family-friendly content on the web. The channel hit more than 1 billion network views in 4 months. As Executive Producer of Disney.com, she also oversaw two full-site platform re-launches in two years. Kim has won numerous awards for her work in digital entertainment including a 2008 Emmy® for Outstanding Interactive Media Program/Non-Fiction for Disney Channel Games, 2004 Technology & Engineering Emmy® for Jetix Cards Live! Enhanced TV, two Webbys, an Interactive Media Award, and a Best of Show WebAward. She is also an accomplished entertainment writer and editor.
Kim is a Los Angeles Kings fanatic who’s been a season ticket holder since 1995. She is proud to have been there to see the team win both the 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cups. Kim lives in Los Angeles.
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Grocery stores use a system called FIFO (first in, first out) to rotate products with a limited shelf life so that they'll sell before they spoil. We should take a cue from businesses and save ourselves both frustration and money, and yet, many of us don't. There are probably expired products lurking in your pantry and medicine cabinet right now.
When you're spring cleaning your pantry, don't just pull everything out and put it back in. Actually check out those jars, cans and boxes. Pretty much everything has an expiration date. Whether something like pasta is still good past its date is up to you, but awareness is a good thing. You may be periodically cleaning out the fridge anyway, but sometimes we forget about the condiments. They have a longer shelf life most of the time due to ingredients like vinegar and those fantastic preservatives, but that life must come to an end at some point. When in doubt, throw it out. While you're at it, consider a new organizational system so you don't keep buying cinnamon because you can't find it and assume you're out.
The medicine cabinet and your other bathroom storage areas also need to be purged of old stuff. Expired medicine can be dangerous at worst and ineffective at best. Cosmetics don't have expiration dates, but liquid-based ones especially can harbor bacteria and should go in three to six months. If it looks or smells bad, let it go.
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Kashman, Y., Gustafson, K.R., Fuller, R.W., Cardellina, J.H., II, McMahon, J.B., Currens, M.J., Buckheit, R.W., Hughes, S.H., Cragg, G.M., Boyd, M.R.J. Med. Chem. 35: 2735-2743, 1992.
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Eight new coumarin compounds (1-8) were isolated by anti-HIV bioassay-guided fractionation of an extract of Calophyllum lanigerum. The structures of calanolide A (1), 12-acetoxycalanolide A (2), 12-methoxycalanolide A (3), calanolide B (4), 12-methoxycalanolide B (5), calanolide C (6) and related derivatives 7 and 8 were solved by extensive spectroscopic analyses, particularly HMQC, HMBC, and difference NOE NMR experiments. The absolute stereochemistry of calanolide A (1) and calanolide B (4) was established by a modified Mosher's method. Calanolides A (1) and B (4) were completely protective against HIV-1 replication and cytopathicity (EC50 values of 0.1 µM and 0.4 µM, respectively), but were inactive against HIV-2. Some of the related compounds also showed evidence of anti-HIV activity. Studies with purified bacterial recombinant reverse transcriptases (RT) revealed that the calanolides are HIV-1 specific RT inhibitors. Moreover, calanolide A was active not only against the AZT-resistant G-9106 strain of HIV-1 but also against the pyridinone-resistant A17 strain. This was of particular interest since the A17 virus is highly resistant to previously known HIV-1 specific, non-nucleoside RT inhibitors (e.g., TIBO; BI-RG-587; L693,593) which comprise a structurally diverse but apparently common pharmacologic class. The calanolides represent a substantial departure from the known class and therefore provide a novel new anti-HIV chemotype for drug development.
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‘Twas a month before Christmas and all through the house, there was scrubbing and dusting and vacuuming the couch.
(Not a perfect rhyme, I know).
Despite my earlier anxieties about hosting a big Christmas dinner before we were finished with renovations, everything came together–new carpet included–and the house was pretty presentable by the time Matt’s family arrived for the party last Saturday.
My main focus was on just having everything clean, so decor was mostly limited to the tables (and with 17 people for dinner, we needed two tables and lots of extra chairs).
I kept things simple with my go-to cream table cloths, a burlap runner down the middle, khaki napkins, a single candle centrepiece, some greenery, pine cones and our wedding china and crystal
The inspiration for the theme came from Mrs. Limestone’s woodsy place cards. Stefanie’s engravings are beautiful, and the animals were perfect for our rural setting.
I adjusted them slightly for our party, eliminating the tag portion and adding people’s names in George Gibson, a cool handwriting font I found via The Art of Doing Stuff. Then I tucked them into pine cones I picked up from behind the house and slipped them between the cutlery on everyone’s napkins.
The other adjustment I made was on the back of the cards, where I printed little bits of trivia about each person’s animal.
It might be a little cheesy, but people did enjoy reading about their animals. Little known fact: the porcupine with the largest quills (nearly a foot long) lives in Africa.
Of course, the decor is only one small part of a successful dinner party. The most important part–the food!–was a hit as well. While I was running around in the freshly fallen snow, gathering tree boughs and searching for similarly-sized pine cones, Matt took charge of our 20 pound turkey.
The best part of this shot is he’s not mugging for the camera. This was his actual facial expression as he was getting intimate with the turkey.
The fruits of Matt’s labour: a perfectly cooked turkey, a pile of dirty dishes, a bowl of stuffing and a sink full of vegetable peelings. (And yes, he did the clean-up as well as the cooking).
According to the camera’s memory card, I spent the party doing things other than taking pictures, so I don’t have much documentation from the rest of the day. By all reports a good time was had by all. To return to where we started:
“We heard them exclaim ‘ere they drove out of sight, happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”
I hope everyone has a great weekend. Do you have a Christmas party to attend or host? A major meal to cook? A big cleaning blitz to complete? What’s your go-to decor for a dinner party? Anyone have any interesting porcupine facts or experiences to share?
And a Merry Early Christmas to one and all. Sounds like hard work and a lot of fun for all. Good chef duties, Matt.
Auntie A.
It was a good time. We’re looking forward to having my side of the family over next. Stay tuned!
I love the turkey-stuffing pic! And the place cards are wonderful. Sounds like an excellent party!
It’s become a tradition. We’re planning for the second annual now!
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Front Steps and Backyard Patio
We first hired Beyond Concrete in 2014 after seeing this company at the Ottawa Home Show and having gotten discouraged at the quotes put forward by traditional (and staid) landscaping companies.
Our first project in 2014 was new front steps in a stunning stamped concrete design. They turned out so well that we hired the team to do a large back patio, also in stamped concrete. Both look amazing.
We are so pleased with the look and service we got (on time, on budget) that we will definitely used them for other hardscaping in our backyard.
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<h2>Patti Lattanzi, Billy Carlucci and The Gang Show</h2>
The Patti Lattanzi, Billy Carlucci and The Gang Show originally started more than a decade ago in 2001. Airing out of New Jersey on WVLT Cruisin’ 92.1, it continues to enjoy a good fan base and big audiences with a mixed – although certainly not regrettable – variety of entertainment.
The Patti Lattanzi Billy Carlucci and the Gang radio program is taped live each Tuesday evening from 8:30-9:30 at Filomena Cucina Rustica Bar & Lounge. The atmosphere at Filomena is incredibly relaxed, making it a wonderful setting for the show. Patti, Billy and the rest of the crew sound like longtime friends connecting over good food and drinks – because that’s exactly what the program is based around. This impression of authenticity fits the “oldies” theme of WVLT, reminding listeners of a simpler, less hurried time when auto-tune wasn’t automatically applied to artists’ tracks. This authenticity reverberates into the audience, as fans slowly let the stress of their lives melt away for an hour by responding to the show with carefree enthusiasm. As Patti does a great job of keeping things stress-free by rolling with the punches while maintaining experienced professionalism, she seems well aware of her role as “Intensity Control Manager”. She thoughtfully arranges the appearances of guests so that the energy level stays consistent.
Each week the Patti Lattanzi Billy Carlucci & The Gang Show hosts a variety of guest entertainers. Most are of considerable talent, although as in the case of any variety show, some are admittedly better than others. With local performers likes of Lou Pacheco, Greg Martiello, Comedian Mike Marino, Vic Rubino, Lou “The Shoe” Porecca, Sonny Barry, Mike Volpe, Greg Armstrong, Tommy Delcorio, Jr., Michael Jones, Bobby Valli and many more gracing the stage, entertainment levels are always energetic and inspiring. Each booking stays true to the “variety” style of the program. While the entertainment typically has a classic vibe, audiences are treated to everything from Sinatra-esque croonings to bluegrass to R&B.
Dropping in to Filomena’s to watch and enjoy a taping of The Patti Lattanzi Billy Carlucci & the Gang Show is well worth the time. You’ll hear wonderful musicians who have sincere love for their individual artistic styles as well as the music they perform. Having a penchant for the oldies style, guests must be willing and open to the individual style of each artist – after all, that’s the unique and dynamic nature of the variety show genre.
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[…] Having grown up listening to Frank Sinatra, Pete is a lifelong fan of ‘Ol’ Blue Eyes.’ As a tribute to his favorite singer, Pete competed in Hoboken New Jersey’s Sinatra Idol Contest in June of 2015. Pete’s calendar of performances also includes shows at local wineries including Hammonton’s Sharrott Winery, cabarets, music halls, casinos, and theaters. He has also been featured on the Patti Lattanzi Billy Carlucci & The Gang Show. […]
Filomena Rustica in West Berlin, New Jersey. He has performed with Frankie “Diamond” DeRosa, Patti Lattanzi & the Billy Carlucci Gang Show, and numerous others. Vic also entertains almost nightly at fantastic restaurant/lounge venues […]
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High quality entertainment is hard to find these days. But these two seem to have the product what looks like a variety show. Live and in NJ — wow.
A great way to enjoy your dinner alongside these guys. Great. Just great.
I couldn’t agree with you more, David. I am there almost every week enjoying the food, fun and favor of this great show. Tuesday night from 8:30-9:30 — Hope you can make it.
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PAWS in the Garden 2014
Dogs are welcome at the annual PAWS in the Garden at Aldridge Gardens on Saturday, March 22.
PAWS in the Gardens
March 22 • 9 a.m-5 p.m.
Aldridge Gardens
On Saturday, March 22, Hoover residents are invited to treat their furry friends to a special event at Aldridge Gardens. At PAWS in the Gardens, guests can enjoy food, dog-friendly demonstrations and vendors and receive general pet advice.
The price is $10 per dog and all proceeds will go to Shelby County Humane Society and Aldridge Gardens. For those looking to bring a new animal into their home, pets will be available for on-site adoptions.
Vendors and groomer demonstrations include a pet-food both, an “Ask-A Vet” booth, hunting dog demonstrations, pet photographers and a local sketch artist who will be creating artwork of pets. Additionally, family fun activities will be offered. CahaBones will be selling locally made homemade dog treats.
For more information, visit aldridgegardens.com.
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Hotel Monterey Kyoto35.008237, 135.759622
According to guest reviews, the hotel has been rated as Best Spa Hotels in JapanUse Badge
Hotel Monterey Kyoto is located in the heart of Nakagyo Ward district in 3.2 km distance from To-ji Temple. Featuring imperial architecture, the hotel occupies a 13-story building opened in 2007.
Hotel Monterey Kyoto is also 1300 meters away from Nijo Castle. The venue is set 10 minutes' walk from Kyoto center.
The hotel is situated near a palace, a castle and a cathedral.
Itami airport lies 40 km away from Hotel Monterey Kyoto and it takes about 45 minutes by car to get there.
Rooms
Non-smoking guestrooms are outfitted in sophisticated décor. They also include bathrooms with a shower, a bidet and complimentary toiletries.
Eat & Drink
The property offers a 24-hour restaurant serving local cuisine. Guests can try cocktails and coffee served in the café bar. The venue is set next to a subway station and 100 meters from Zanetti and Zuientei with a broad selection of dishes.
A buffet breakfast is served at the price of JPY 2500 per person per night.
Services
Hotel Monterey Kyoto provides a business center, a conference room and a copier along with dry cleaning, newspaper service and porter service.
Relax
The on-site spa facilities include a spa lounge, a Jacuzzi and a sauna.
Internet
Wireless internet is available in the hotel rooms for free.
Guest Parking
Public parking is possible on site at JPY 1500 per day.
Number of floors: 13. Number of rooms: 327.
Free Wi-Fi in rooms
JPY 1500 per day
Late check-in/ -out
24-hour reception
Bar/ Lounge area
Restaurant buffet
Cafe
Jacuzzi
Massage
Spa & wellness centre
Flat-screen TV
Services
- Laundry
- Dry cleaning
- Wedding services
- Wake up service
- Newspaper service
- Bell staff/Porter
Dining
- Restaurant buffet
- Cafe
- Bar/ Lounge area
- Buffet breakfast
Business
- Business centre
- Meeting/ Banquet facilities
- Business services
Children
- Cots
- Paid babysitting/ Child services
Spa & Leisure
- Spa & wellness centre
- Sauna
- Jacuzzi
- Massage
- Library
- Hot spring bath
- Open-air bath
- Public Bath
Room view
- Garden view
Room features
- Free Wi-Fi in rooms
- Air conditioning
- Heating
- Mini-bar
- Soundproofed rooms
- Tea and coffee facilities
- In-room desk
- Ironing facilities
- Rollaway beds
Bathroom
- Bathroom
- Bathtub
- Shower
- Hair dryer
- Slippers
- Free toiletries
Self-catering
- Mini-fridge
Media
- Flat-screen TV
- Paid films
- International calls
- Direct dial telephone
- Radio
- AM/FM alarm clock
Rooms and availability
- 220 sq. feet
- 2 Single beds or 1 Double bed2 Single beds or 1 Double bed, 2 Single beds, 1 Single bed
- 7 persons
In the Room
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- Non-smoking
- Bathtub
- Air conditioning
- 1 King-size bed1 King-size bed, 2 Single beds
- 2 persons
In the Room
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- Non-smoking
- Bathtub
- Air conditioning
- 280 sq. feet
- Sleeping arrangements for 3 persons
- 3 persons
In the Room
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- Non-smoking
- Bathtub
- Air conditioning
- 4 persons
In the Room
- Shower
- Bathtub
- Air conditioning
- 1 Double bed
- 2 persons
- 1 Single bed1 Single bed, 2 Single beds or 1 Double bed, 1 Double bed and 1 Single bed
- 3 persons
- 1 person
- 1 Double bed1 Double bed, 1 Single bed
- 2 persons
In the Room
- Non-smoking
- Bathtub
- 1 Double bed1 Double bed, 2 Single beds, 1 Single bed
- 3 persons
In the Room
- Non-smoking
- 1 Single bed
- 1 person
In the Room
- Non-smoking
- Sleeping arrangements for 3 persons
- 3 persons
In the Room
- Non-smoking
- 1 Double bed1 Double bed, 1 Semi-double bed
- 7 persons
In the Room
- Non-smoking
- 1 Semi-double bed
- 1 person
In the Room
- Non-smoking
- Nearby
- Restaurants
- City landmarks
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Excellent hotel. room was very comfortable even in very hot and humid weather.ac worked perfectly. Staff could not have been more helpful in organising anything we needed. Would recommend hotel.
- Good
Location is pretty good.
Internet connection is very slow, rooms are too small.
- Superb
Friendly staff, clean room, good location, easy to access.
- Fabulous
Great location (on the edge of main shopping/restaurant area and good transport links) and friendly, helpful staff.
Not a great view.
- Superb
Very nice hotel. Good location and generally good value for money.
I had requested a non-smoking room and was given a smoking room. There was a very strong odour in the room throughout our stay. It was a busy weekend and I understand there was a big tour group that had arrived that weekend and so they were full. I however booked early. As I'm a non-smoker and asthmatic, this is an important factor for me. I would stay at the hotel again but would contact them directly to check if a non-smoking room would be made available to me.
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Todo cuidado al detalle! La habitación era pequeñita, pero super acogedora, super límpio y cuidado! Servicio excelente! Sin duda repetiré!
- Exclusive
Habitaciones bastante confortables y espaciosas.
Apenas saben el inglés
- Fabulous
Le rapport qualité prix; La chambre familiale (rare au Japon); L'emplacement.
Le manque de placards pour une chambre familiale; Le café et le thé dans la chambre sont payants.
- Fabulous
バスルームが広くアメニティーが充実，パジャマ上下が備えてあったこと．リラックスできた．
テレビがアナログであったこと．地デジに慣れているもので．
- Exclusive
車で行ったのですが、駐車場を通り越してしまいました。フロントの女性スタッフがすぐに出てきてくれて、誘導してくれました。行動が迅速で、とてもスマートでした。加えて、室内の使い勝手がよく細部に渡り細やかな心配りが感じられました。しかも御洒落！ また、利用しようと思います。
- Good
装饰在日本酒店里算考究了，日式的华丽欧风。设施也很新，房间算是宽敞。 卫生、隔音神马的居住体验都是很好的。适合商务办公。
酒店距离乌丸御池地铁口5分钟，按道理是很好的位置了。但是由于几乎所有的交通转乘都在京都站，所以导致每- 天出行就凭空多了三站往返的地铁费用和时间。而且地处文化办公区，出门只有便利店和星巴克还有书店，人气不- 够旺，么啥好逛的，距离河源町也是看看一站路走走走死人的节奏。所以建议游客还是住在京都站最好啦。
- Exclusive
Excelente ubicación. Desayuno bufett delicioso. Instalaciones nuevas y habitación y baño amplios. El personal extremadamente atento y dispuesto para hacer de Kioto una experiencia grandiosa.
El aire acondicionado es difícil de entender.
- Guest rating
沒有
1.櫃台男性員工態度差 2.室內昏暗,四人房格局差 3.地毯老舊 4.溫泉要另支付錢 5.交通沒想像中方便,距離地鐵走路要10分鐘 6.完全不值得此房間費用
- Guest rating
お洒落で可愛い部屋でした。
若干部屋の清掃が悪かったです。
- Exclusive
posizione pulizia prezzo
camera secondo standard giapponesi, comunque più che accettabile dato che ci si sta solo per dormire
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After having its name besmirched following the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft hit it out of the park with its follow-up: Windows 7. Microsoft then developed Windows 8 to appease two distinct markets — PCs and tablets — with one operating system, resulting in significant backlash from critics and consumers.
Microsoft hopes to distance itself from Windows 8.x not just in name (notice how they skipped Windows 9), but by also ensuring that PC users are not left in the cold to accommodate tablet users (and vice versa). Windows 10 will bring with it a wealth of new functionality to users, including the lightweight ‘Spartan’ Internet browser that we first told you about in late December. Spartan is tipped to take cues from Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, and will make heavy use of an extensions system.
We’re now learning some additional information about Spartan courtesy of The Verge. Spartan will reportedly feature OneDrive-based inking functionality, which will allow users to annotate web pages using a stylus, and share them with friends and colleagues. In addition, Spartan is said to integrate directly with Microsoft Cortana, which will make an appearance in Windows 10 after first debuting on the Windows Phone platform.
“Microsoft is planning to use Cortana to surface information on flights, hotel bookings, package tracking, and other data within the traditional address bar,” The Verge reports. “If you use Cortana to track a particular flight and start to search for ‘American Airlines’ in the browser address bar, it will automatically display tracked flights and allow Spartan users to view the status of the flight directly.”
As we previously reported, the introduction of Spartan doesn’t mean that the venerable Internet Explorer is getting the boot. Internet Explorer will still stick around as the default Internet browser, but Spartan will be available as a download from the Windows Store for anyone that’s willing to try it out. Spartan will also be made available for tablets and smartphones, with The Verge pointing out that the “look and feel of Spartan [will be] very similar across phones, tablets, and PCs.”
In addition, cnBeta has managed to grab a picture of Spartan in action (seen above). Although we can’t really gather much from a single image, we can see the rather minimalistic interface for Spartan, which is definitely giving me some Chrome vibes (in a good way).
Windows 10 is currently available as a Technical Preview for anyone to try, and Microsoft is expected to give us more details on Windows 10 — and likely Spartan for PCs, tablets, and smartphones — at an event scheduled for January 21.
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In our last newsletter, we highlighted that we are in a period of a rental slump. With many tenants are breaking leases in order to purchase their own home.
The current rental climate means that when a property comes up for lease there will be less people in the market and a greater number of properties to choose from this is where you as an investor need to be armed with strategies to keep a good tenant.
If you look on realestate.com.au now, don’t be surprised to see extra incentives to attract prospective tenants. These include offers such as 2 week rent free period, iPads and numerous gift vouchers. It is very competitive. Although these incentives for the most part are being offered to tenants in the Unit and Apartment market some Estblished homes are feeling the ripple effect of this.
If you have good tenants it makes sense to try and ensure they renew their lease. So how do you keep good tenants?
Keeping a good tenant starts long before you send them the lease renewal. Retention of quality tenants must form part of your investment strategy, because good tenants will pay their rent on time, and look after your property. This in the long term is beneficial for your investment.
Below are Madi’s top 5 tips for keeping your tenant happy:
Have mutual respect –be fair and respect your tenants. This shows with the way you manage maintenance, repairs, inspections and rent reviews.
- Respond to any maintenance issues or requests – keep on top of any necessary repairs, you will be surprised how many tenants terminate a lease because an owner has failed to react to basic maintenance and the tenant gets fed-up with it.
- Have regular routine inspections – inspections mean that maintenance issues are kept on top of. This lessens the chance of any costly emergency call outs and in turn unhappy tenants. This also means your property is kept in a tip top condition.
- Maintain Market Rent – there is a balance between increasing your rent to increase your returns, but possibly compelling the tenant to consider other more affordable rental opportunities. This can cause potential vacancy which isn’t ideal. Setting the rent too low could attract tenants who may not look after your property. There will also come a time where you need to increase the rent. If it is a big rental increase, then you will likely lose your tenants. It is best to have small and manageable increases over time.
- Have a great Property Manager – this is such an important part of the equation. A good property manager will ensure the right tenant is found for your property and will establish a good working relationship with your tenant. They should allow plenty of notice for regular inspections, maintenance, repairs and lease renewals. In turn, you should also provide your property manager with authority to make important decisions on the spot.
When it comes time to lease renewal time, listen to your property manager. A good property manager should be honest with you and provide you insight to the current market trends and guide you if a rental adjustment is potentially achievable.
At Hot Property Management, we are currently renewing many leases to prevent vacancy, before any renegotiation takes place, we communicate with clients to explain the market trends and the current market rental for there specific property to then form a tenant retention strategy. At the moment we are seeing many clients holding steadfast at the current weekly rent, with the view to lock in the tenant for a new lease period. This allows the rental market time to recover. A solid weekly rent is better than no rent at all.
We also like to ensure that every tenancy agreement ends in a peak period (Jan/Feb or June/July). If your tenant is not renewing their lease, then this means we have a greater chance of finding a quality tenant and securing optimal rent.
Hopefully you are currently having these types of conversations with your property manager. They should certainly be keeping you up to date with the Brisbane rental market and developing a strategy with you.
If you are not having these conversations with your property manager it may be worthwhile changing.
If you would start developing a solid property management strategy around your investment Please call 07 3170 3760 or Email [email protected]
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Type of Property: Apartment
Reason of Purchase: Investment2
As Brisbane’s development sector has become more and more competitive as developers and investors continue to look for a competitive edge in the market to lower risk, increase returns, and leverage their own time effectively.
In 2014, Zoran Solano our senior buyers agent was approached by a client looking to undertaken their first ever development, with limited market knowledge the client was eager to learn and eager to build the right team of professionals around them for long term success in property development.
After an initial consultation with the Hot Property Team the client was keen to proceed, and the journey began. Starting with building the team, Zoran knew that he needed to introduce this client to the right team of third party consultants that held the same core business values as himself. This is where he met with various Town Planners, Project Managers, and other consultants, short listing to what he calls the “Dream team”. A group of development consultants that he personally uses for projects and also introduces to clients.
As the search progressed we found site after site that had the potential, but also had various hurdles aswell, after a few months of searching, inspecting, and evaluating hundreds of sites the perfect one was secured off market.
It was a MR Zoned property in Sherwood, walking distance to local shops, train station and amenities, suitable for 24 units over 5 Levels.
From purchase, to negotiations, due diligence, and contract formation our team assisted throughout the whole way, teaming up with Bespoke Development Management who took our client under their wing to assist with the project management.
Every step of the way from development approval, through to design and construction, guidance was given to our client by our preferred team of development consultants.
Our team even offered guidance to the right method of sale and assisted in appointing and managing the sales and marketing of the project.
Another successful project. For more information call or email our team today.
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Recently, Cardi B was caught on video showing off some Fashion Nova gear and one guitarist, MonoNeon, couldn’t help but notice how melodic her voice was. Thus, he decided to play along to all her signature catchphrases. Check out the funky video for yourself below, courtesy of rap producer Pete Rock.
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What are the facts?
About half of all Australians have a chronic disease, and around 20 per cent (%) have at least two, according to new data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
AIHW has said that this can purely be by chance, but there are often associations between diseases, such as shared risk factors.
What is a chronic disease?
Chronic diseases, also known as non-communicable diseases, are long-term health conditions which usually develop slowly and are potentially preventable.
To simplify, The World Health Organisation (WHO) focuses primarily on four major disease groups:
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Cancers
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
WHO recognises that many different illnesses and health conditions can be classified under the broad heading of chronic disease.
They often coexist, share common risk factors and are increasingly seen as acting together in the way they determine the health status of individuals.
Risk factors
Occurrence of chronic diseases increases with age, however many chronic diseases also share common risk factors which are largely preventable.
Risk factors include:
- Smoking
- Physical inactivity
- Poor nutrition
- Harmful use of alcohol
- Illicit drug use.
Lifestyle choices have a huge impact on the risk of developing chronic disease; an estimated 31% of the burden of disease in Australia could have been prevented by reducing the above listed risk factors.
Common chronic diseases in Australia
Chronic diseases such as cancer, coronary heart disease and diabetes are becoming increasingly common in Australia due to our ageing population, as well as social and lifestyle changes.
Based on self-reported data, cardiovascular disease (18%) and mental health conditions (18%) were the most commonly reported of the selected chronic diseases in Australia, followed by back pain and back problems (16%).
Who suffers from chronic disease?
In 2014–15, more than 11 million Australians (50%) reported having at least one of the eight selected chronic diseases. This rate was higher for:
Mortality
Changes to our lifestyles and reduction in other diseases over the last 100 years have meant chronic diseases are becoming increasingly common.
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of illness, disability and death in Australia, accounting for 90% of all deaths in 2011.
They can have large impacts on quality of life as well as social and economic effects.
Disease burden in Australia
In addition to personal and community costs, chronic diseases result in a significant economic burden because of the combined effects of healthcare costs and lost productivity from illness and death.
Estimates based on allocated health care expenditure indicate the four most expensive disease groups are:
- Chronic cardiovascular diseases
- Oral health
- Mental disorders
These four groups incurred direct health-care costs of $27 billion in 2008–09. This equates to 36% of all allocated health expenditure.
Can chronic disease be prevented?
Many chronic diseases share common conditions or risk factors that relate to your everyday choices and personal health habits. Modifying these can reduce the risk of developing a chronic condition, leading to large health gains in the population through the reduction of illness and rates of death.
The big four chronic diseases are among the most preventable. By making healthier choices you can lower your risk of developing the disease. You can choose to:
- Be a non-smoker and avoid second hand smoke
If you smoke, get help to quit. Smoking is the major cause of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and lung cancer. It is also a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke. It’s never too late to quit and reduce your risk.
- Maintain physical activity daily
Physical activity can help you control your weight and boost your energy levels. A minimum of 30 minutes a day can have immediate and long-term health benefits. Doing any physical activity is better than doing none. If you currently do no physical activity, start by doing some, and gradually build up to the recommended amount.
- Drop the junk food and eat healthily
Following a healthy, balanced diet can help you to maintain a healthy weight, lower your cholesterol and reduce your risk of disease. Avoid foods loaded with sodium, sugar and fat and instead opt for high fibre, lower fat foods. Aim to get 5-10 servings of fruit and vegetables every day.
Being overweight increases your risk of diabetes, heart disease and even some cancers. The risk of a heart attack is three times higher in women who are overweight than in those who have a healthy weight. Talk to your healthcare provider to determine your personal healthy weight and work out a plan for achieving or maintaining it.
- Control your blood pressure
Keeping your blood pressure in check can help prevent damage to the walls of your arteries like tears and bulges and possibly slow the hardening of your arteries. Have your blood pressure checked regularly by your healthcare provider and follow your management directions.
- Limit your intake of alcohol
Drinking too much alcohol can put you at risk of developing many kinds of cancer. Aim to stick to a moderate level of drinking, if at all. Moderate drinking means an average of one drink for women or two drinks for men per day.
- Reduce your stress
Take time to relax. Stress can raise your cholesterol level and blood pressure and lead to heart attack and stroke. Stress is also a trigger for mental health problems like depression. See your healthcare provider for help in managing stress.
- Ensure you are screened and tested regularly.
Know your body and report any new signs and symptoms to your healthcare provider. Ensure your blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels are checked regularly by your GP. In many cases, the earlier a problem is detected, the easier it is to treat.
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Meet the Press December 25, 2011
Meet the Press December 25, 2011
Since it is Christmas I wanted to limit my criticism of the news media but there are several issues which I wish to address.
First it is incredibly hard for everyone outside of DC and the media to take anything the media says very seriously since they are exceptionally well paid entertainers who which not to pay their fair share of taxes and have enjoyed two decades of tax holidays at the expense of the American people. By the media’s lack of paying taxes they have muted their own biased opinions.
Second as per Obama’s national security and Foreign Policy wins;
A) Killing Osama Bin Laden
B) Ending the war in Iraq
C) Afghanistan
I think both parties are guilty of failures in these areas. Both parties have been involved in these wars to prolong powers they should have long ago lost to poor management. The media who has been an accomplish through this entire war really is in not position to tell anyone in this country how to feel about anything especially since they haven’t been making the sacrifices the rest of America has endured.
So let’s being with point A) President Obama’s killing of Osama Bin Laden. There is no doubt that Bin Laden was a rogue CIA asset but wasn’t that a mission for the CIA to hunt him down and kill him? There is a compelling argument that this war would have been over years ago with smaller foot prints in the desert. It should also be noted that terrorism in any form is mass murder and is the most easily detected and stopped in criminal justice.
Most certainly it has been a horrific waste of resources for our country to go and get one sick elderly fellow in Pakistan which by the way we funded Pakistan to the tune of 500 billion dollars. If anything Osama Bin Laden had been living quite large at the expense of the American Taxpayer while our troops were being killed and crippled by IED(s). What the media is not reporting is that most of those IED(s) came out of China and not Iran.
But I would argue no matter which party is in the White House Osama Bin Laden’s death would be very anti-climatic given the blood and treasure that went into one man’s death which the CIA could have easily and readily resolved.
To Point B) The end of the War in Iraq. Given Iraq has better relations with Iran now then the USA this too is a huge disappointment. Sadly, there will be decades of instability in Iraq as it partners with Iran. And that will increasing place pressure on Israel.
And finally to Point C) Afghanistan is a mess. It is not only a mess for the obvious reasons but also for the reason they are partnering with Pakistan which continues to training terrorists in their country.
In Summary
Not matter which party had accomplished these feats they would have been viewed as foreign policy flops. So it is not a direct insult to Barack Obama but simply an evaluation of the cost benefit ratio in the war in the Middle East.
Saddam Hussein was executed and there was absolutely no proof he had weapons of mass destruction. There was no proof Saddam was involved in 9/11 nor was there concrete proof Osama Bin Laden was involved and even if there was we trained him. Bin Laden was our recruit who went rogue.
Now also what the media is not reporting is the money from Saddam Hussein which our military has supposedly confiscated. Saddam was too paranoid to actually spend the money which he received in the Food for Oil deals. All of that cash is just sitting in a bank somewhere, perhaps South Korea, which could be returned to the very souls who were stuck with the check for this war; the tax payers. And that would be the actually people who have paid taxes for the last two decades and not the ones who dodged them in the name of their own personal wealth.
And please don’t write to me about the weapons used against the Kurds. Donald Rumesfeld delivered those to Saddam in the 1980(s). Leadership in this country suffers from selective memory. They remember themselves far grander then the rest of us.
For me a foreign policy success would be to repatronize al that money from Iraq back into the USA economy and not to corporate America but to those who actually got stuck with the check.
And to be clear this is not a partisan hub at all but a simple stated of the facts. There can be no political win when the taxpayers have funded the missions. It is the taxpayers win and these wars came at a far too high price of treasure and blood with an exceptionally small reward of one dead terrorist who had lived off if foreign aid from Americans for years. This is not a political success but a political disaster especially when Americans are suffering everday just to find food, shelter and if they are lucky employment for beneath a living wage.
And maybe it is time the USA owns it makes it own monsters and then are surprised when those monsters come back to bite them. Saddam wouldn't have been who he was had he not been involved with British Intelligence and lived in Iraq. It is insanity for the USA to expect to ever have a different raltionship with Ira. The same tactics yield the same results. USA foreign policy is very much like watching everyone reinvent the whell and then watching them be shocked it rolls. There needs to be an entirely new bag of tricks for foreign policy preferrably tricks that don't involve funding terrorist states to the tune of 1/2 a billion dollars. But that looks unlikely untilt here is a complete change in leadership in Washington DC. They have completely failed this country.
Related Links
- Miss Mary Sunshine's Positve Political Point of View
An article about writing a positive article in very negative times in the United States
- Meet the Press: November 13, 2011
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JT, if you ask me, it was all a fools errand. We spent far too many resources, lives and treasure hunting down some hermit in the desert. Someone had to answer for the 9-11 attack, but the egg is in our face when we expend so much to get at the culprit. Why Iraq, that was multi-billion dollar diversion? Was the war there and in the surrounding areas really about terrorism or is it something else?
Nice Article, Cred2
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Human Wrongs Watch
By Jeffrey Levett*
16 October 2017 (Wall Street International) – Greece has never been a stranger to disruptive population movements or to manmade and natural disasters. At the end of the Bronze Age, Great Migrations of immense proportion took place.
After population dispersal (circa 1200 BC), renewal came several centuries later (900-600 BC); written works of Homer, Hesiod (Works and Days with instructions for farmers on agricultural arts at a time of crisis), and Thales of Miletus (philosopher, scientist and entrepreneur). Descriptions of chaos passed down by folk singers and storytellers helped piece together the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Modern Greece unfolded to a background of horrendous infectious disease that took more lives than the Greek Revolutionary War occurring during this period (1821-1830). The Ottoman Empire was in collapse and refugee trails were long, suffering incredible; millions of people were homeless, undernourished, diseased, wounded and cold.
The next Nobel Peace Prize should go to the Grandmothers of the Aegean, having plucked migrant babies from Mediterranean waters and nurtured them. (JL)
At the end of WWI, one and a half million refugees entered Greece from Turkey (circa 1922). This was a period in which there was the emergence of activities by the League of Nations and the Rockefeller Foundation.
These organizations were convinced that good health is dependent on democracy, and were highly focused on disseminating the principles of public health organization. In Yugoslavia, they supported the establishment of the Zagreb or Stampar School of Public Health and the Belgrade Medical School; in Greece, they helped develop the Athens School of Public Health (1929), now called the National School of Public Health (NSPH) (1994) in both countries landmarks in social policy.
In 1928 Greece was at a standstill, knocked out by a bizarre pandemic of dengue fever introduced from the Middle East while in the grip of underdevelopment as a result of malarial disease and tuberculosis.
It slowly recovered and developed as a Greek revolution in public health took hold in Europe that enabled health status improvement and dramatic gains in health.
Circa 1930, Greece saw health as a means to an end central to the nation’s development and in 1931 the Athens School was described as a post war-imposed necessity based on the conviction that first among all things, Greeks must live and develop under healthy conditions.
During the dictatorship (1967-1974), public health was manacled. In 1975, it again achieved a positive place on the political agenda, but in 2017 continues to be hampered by bureaucratic and legalistic obstacles.
The first international declaration by WHO underlining the importance of primary health care (PHC) came in 1978 (Declaration of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan 1978). In Greece, the first attempt to PHC occurred with the commencement of the National Health System (NHS, 1983). In today’s Greek health sector, the government is attempting once again to implement PHC.
However, psychosocial support and care are not at the same level of priority, and many hospital services are being stretched beyond the limit as in the case of cancer therapy and emergency medical services.
The WHO Declaration of Alma-Ata should be seen as basic to the global health sector and equivalent to the Paris Climate Change Agreement and its relation to global health (2016). Alma-Ata reaffirmed health as a fundamental right of all and defined health as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. It pointed to the gross inequality in health between developed and developing countries.
Earlier (1966), Martin Luther King pointed to disparities in the USA when he proclaimed that of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and the most inhumane.
Background: Halfdan Mahler (1923 – 2016), three times Director-General of WHO, shaped the primary health care agenda as an addition to the goal of Health for All. Of note, Mahler saw a great need for regional schools of public health as Centres of Excellence and Relevance within a new framework of public health policy and health for all in Europe.
His successor, Jo Asvall, pressed on with this agenda. My own breaking news: plans are now underway in Belgrade for a regional structure in public health education in collaboration with American institutions. [1]
Last year, and in spite of his inspirational hymn to democracy and great symbolic support for Greece, the visit of President Obama (2016) lacked a requested nudge for Greek public health. Greece was in the grip of a creeping health disaster resulting from imposed austerity that has precipitated serious losses in life expectancy and a growth in infant mortality and facing problematic migration, which places great strain on health and social services.
Migrants on the railway | Photo Re-posted from Wall Street International
Greece is now a land of growing mental depression and suicide (where suicide was rock bottom in the world tables), growing numbers of hungry children and impoverished families pressured into a system of monthly instalments for the basics of life, food, water, shelter.
Unemployment in Greece runs close to 20%, while that of youth nears 60%. Many have lost homes, unable to meet loan payments as salaries and pensions have been slashed by more than 50%. Many families are subsidised by the pensions of grandparents.
Prior to the current mass migrations, the percentage of the foreign born population living permanently in Greece was around 11-12%, mainly those with Greek roots emigrating from Albania. Consequently, Greek migration experience departs from other southern European countries having been subject to an impact resulting from the collapse of communist regimes in Eastern Europe, some of which share borders.
The current flux of migrants have faced different types of conditions than migrants at other periods. Uncontrolled smuggling and criminal networks operate between the Horn of Africa, Yemen, North Africa, Italy and Greece. Concurrently, vulnerable migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea face a terrible and deathly dangerous ordeal.
In the first six months of this year, of the 100,000 refugees and migrants that arrived in Europe crossing the Mediterranean, 2,247 lost their lives or are missing. Over the past two decades, 20,000 have drowned. Over the past months some Greek islands have had their populations swollen by new migrants.
At present, there are 60,000 refugees and migrants (Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis) stranded in Greece as a result of border closures in the Balkans, while the number of unaccompanied migrant children is rising. Since 2015, nearly one million people have passed from Turkey to the Greek Islands, trying to reach Northern Europe.
So far this year, 11,000 refugees and migrants have crossed into Greece from Turkey, a number considerably lower than in 2016. This past winter, a naval asset was deployed by the Greek authorities to temporarily shelter migrants on the island of Lesbos, opposite Turkey. As of January 2017, only 11% of stranded children have been relocated to other European countries.
While facing an uncertain future in Greece, migrants are trapped within an unwieldy bureaucracy and an inflexible Europe even though they face a much friendlier situation than experienced prior to their flight. To deliver water, food and clothing to migrants in a dignified manner under difficult circumstances is necessary, but insufficient.
Greece must become a more open system. It must stop defying systematic governance and act within a scientific culture, rein in its dogma based negation of institutional autonomy and encourage a reluctant intellectual elite to live up to its enormous capacity.
If this happens the debt crisis may lessen, the exodus of highly skilled graduates slow down and austerity and migration better dealt with. Preparedness, mitigation, and response to disaster with better rehabilitation must improve [2].
It can be achieved by reinforcing public health and international relations instruments that strengthen security and counter misrepresentations. Moreover, greater attention must be given to the psychological and social needs of both Greeks and migrants with the first goal to stop abuse, a difficult and complex requirement.
Nonetheless, Greece, in spite of its limited infrastructure and poor governance, is still a relatively hospitable host country to migrants!
Neverthless, chaos comes too close.
Notes:
[1] Halfdan Mahler was a recipient of the prestigious medal for excellence named after Andrija Stampar, a founding father of the World Health Organization (Geneva, 1948) established by the Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region (ASPHER) during the writers Presidency. The European Center for Peace and Development (ECPD), Belgrade in collaboration with American structures is in the process of establishing a regional school of public health.
[2] Momentarily unfolding (September 2017) a catastrophic oil spill in the Saronnic Gulf with an impact on much of the coast of Attica , fires in Ileia, a repeat of 2007 and an epidemic of measles, which is not confined to Greece.
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Giannuli, D. (1988). Repeated Disappointment: The Rockefeller Foundation and the Reform of the Greek Public Health System, 1929-1940. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 72 (1): 1, 47-72.
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Display Title: I Will Trust My Redeemer First Line: I will live for my Redeemer— Tune Title: TELANGANA Author: Henry B. Hartzler Meter: 87.87 D Source: Spiritual Songs for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday School, (Cleveland, Ohio: Barker & Smellie, 1878)
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Takashi Murakami has opened up about the immense pressure he feels as an artist following his show at the Gagosian Hong Kong, which opened devoid of a massive sculpture he had intended to finish for the September 20th opening.
The entryway of one of his biggest shows yet, Change the Rule! at the Gagosian Hong Kong, hosts a small, painted sign in the absent sculpture’s place that reads: “Right at this moment, as I write this text on this painting … I feel like crying for help.”
The Japanese contemporary artist’s star has been rising even higher in recent years. Though a renowned artist for over a decade, his work is becoming increasingly well known in the mainstream, having over a half-dozen shows in the past 18 months. Earlier this year, his show The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago reigned in record-breaking numbers at the museum, becoming the most visited show in its history.
Probing his success, Murakami told the South China Morning Post, “When I first started making merchandise, one of the things I was imagining was this kind of audience — very materialistic. That was 20 years ago. So I was creating the works and that kind of audience didn’t exist yet. And now they are the real audience!”
Regardless of his seemingly astronomical accomplishments, he admitted, “I can get the big project, big money, but every month I’m … kind of choking.”
Murakami adds, “I want to go to my past. When I was young, when I was 20. I’m still living a dream then. That is a great thing.” But now, the artist confessed sadly, “No dream. Reality.”
Takashi Murakami: Change the Rule! is on view at the Gagosian Hong Kong through November 10, 2018.
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The Rapala Rippin’ Raps and Slab Raps catch fish year round whether on hard or soft water. If you don’t have a good assortment of sizes and colors in your tackle box check out these deals and catch more fish all year long!
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Okay, so it’s a busy day for me. Run up to the university, turn in a paper, then the conference in an hour or so, then after my presentation I hope to run down to Sinclair for a writer’s conference. And then to the doctor’s, just so I can triple-check that the little twinging in my left upper chest is muscular like I think it is. Finally, I’ll record my 100 word story for next week’s contest.
Like I said, busy day.
In the meantime, why haven’t you voted for Steven the Nuclear Man yet?
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To avoid making a judgment or decision about someone or something without full knowledge about them or it. I know you think that Morton is a dullard, but try to keep an open mind—once you get to know him better, you'll find that he's really quite funny. I don't usually like musicals, but I'm keeping an open mind.
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This paper product is a roach catcher when it is plug into cola bottle. It is eco-friendly and convenience. You should put some discarded food in the bottle before you plug it.Roach will smell the food and drilling into bottle. With the special structure,the roach could not get out of the bottle anymore.When you catch enough roaches，you could leave the roaches and bottle to Garbage Disposal System, they would be properly handled
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It’s time to stop cosmetic genital surgery on intersex infants
In 2013, cosmetic genital surgeries still take place on intersex infants in Australia to make them “appear normal”.
The surgeries are carried out primarily for social reasons: fears of family and social stigma.
Clinicians themselves acknowledge that there is no firm evidence of good outcomes, especially for sexual function and sensation. They also acknowledge inadequate follow-up*.
We believe that the genital appearance of intersex infants should be as irrelevant as genital appearance is for other children.
It’s time to end these surgeries. Please tell your Senators and MPs.
*bit.ly/1bCzGBR
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- Open Access
Norovirus in benign convulsions with mild gastroenteritis
© The Author(s). 2016
- Received: 19 August 2016
- Accepted: 15 October 2016
- Published: 3 November 2016
Abstract
Background
Benign convulsions with gastroenteritis (CwG) are defined as afebrile convulsions accompanying symptoms of gastroenteritis without evidence of laboratory derangement. Although the main pathogen has been known as rotavirus, since the introduction of rotavirus vaccine, associated viruses with CwG may have changed. Thus, we evaluated the viral association of CwG for patients admitting for recent 2.5 years.
Methods
All patients hospitalized for CwG between November 2012 and May 2015 were included in our study. Stool specimens were tested with reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction for detecting norovirus and astrovirus and with enzyme immunoassay for rotavirus and enteric adenovirus. Clinical data was gathered via chart review.
Results
Fifty patients were included. Except four patients who failed to collect stool samples, 46 patients were tested. Causative diarrheal viruses were detected in 38 patients and they were 29 norovirus, four rotavirus, four adenovirus, and one astrovirus. Norovirus was commonly identified during the months of November and December. No difference of the clinical characteristics and laboratory value was noted according to the number of seizure episodes.
Conclusions
Norovirus is a common pathogen in CwG. Understanding the viral associations can facilitate recognition of CwG.
Keywords
- Seizures
- Gastroenteritis
- Norovirus
- Pediatric
Background
Benign convulsions with gastroenteritis (CwG) are defined as afebrile convulsions accompanying symptoms of gastroenteritis without evidence of laboratory derangement and have an excellent prognosis [1, 2]. The main causative pathogen of CwG has been known as rotavirus. Since rotavirus vaccine has been introduced in Korea since 2007 (RotaTeq in 2007 and Rotarix in 2008) and viral association of CwG could have changed. Similar to US [1], a recent nation-wide survey in Korea reported that norovirus was the most prevalent pathogen in acute gastroenteritis, followed by rotavirus [2]. A small case series in Korea also reported that norovirus was more prevalent than rotavirus in CwG [3]. Thus, we evaluated the viral association of CwG for patients admitting for recent 2.5 years.
Methods
Study population
All hospitalized patients diagnosed with CwG at the Korea University Guro Hospital during 2.5 years between November 2012 and May 2015 were included.
Referring the published papers [3, 4], CwG was defined as follows: a) seizures accompanying symptoms of gastroenteritis; b) no hypoglycemia or electrolyte imbalance; c) no focal neurologic signs; d) no specific abnormalities on EEG or magnetic resonance imaging; and d) no history of unprovoked seizure. To rule out febrile seizures or epilepsy, patients with (a) fever (>37.5 °C) during the 12 h before and after seizures or (b) recurrent seizures during the following 6 months were excluded. Clinical and laboratory data were gathered via a chart review.
Virus detection
Stool specimens were routinely screened for the presence of norovirus and astrovirus using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, and for the presence of rotavirus and enteric adenovirus using enzyme immunoassays, at the National Institute of Health, Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The specimens were also sent to the microbiology laboratory for bacterial culture of Salmonella, Shigella, and Campylobacter species, to exclude bacterial gastroenteritis.
Statistical analysis
We used Mann − Whitney U test for comparison of continuous variables. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Analyses were performed with SPSS (ver. 19.0; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA).
Results
Microorganisms identified in CwG
Identification of pathogens in patients with benign convulsions associated with mild gastroenteritis
Seasonal distribution of viral association with CwG
Seasonal distribution of viral association with benign convulsion with gastroenteritis. Norovirus was commonly identified during November and December
Clinical characteristics of norovirus-associated CwG
Clinical data of patients with Norovirus-positive CwG (n = 29)
Ictal EEG recording in a patient with benign convulsion with mild gastroenteritis. Bilateral posterior onset, rhythmic, fast activities are rapidly spreading to entire hemispheres
Comparison of clinical and laboratory parameters according to the number of seizures in norovirus-associated CwG
Comparison of clinical and laboratory parameters according to the number of seizures
Discussion
In our study, norovirus was the most prevalent virus during the study period, followed by rotavirus, enteric adenovirus and astrovirus. Although detection rate of norovirus was lower in our study than that of reported case series (15 of 18 patients) [5], it was notable that the norovirus was predominantly associated with CwG. Park et al. reported that rotavirus was detected in 8 of 50 CwG patients during 2010 to 2014 [6]. Of 42 rotavirus-negative patients, further viral studies were performed among 21 patients and norovirus was identified in 15 of 21 patients. Although they did not perform routine viral screening for norovirus, a significant number of patients were positive for norovirus.
Increasing rate of rotavirus immunization and norovirus infection could explain our results. The immunization rate of rotavirus in Korea was reported about 30 % in 2009, and reached 50.2 % in 2012 [7, 8]. In addition, a recent nation-wide survey reported that norovirus was the most prevalent pathogen in acute gastroenteritis (9.7 %), followed by rotavirus (5.0 %), and other viruses (< 2 %) [2].
Seasonally, norovirus was more commonly identified during November and December in our study, while not evident with other viruses. According to the previous report [9], incidence of norovirus peaks in November and December, whereas rotavirus is more prevalent from January to May. Latency from the symptom onset of gastroenteritis to seizure, the average elapsed time between the first and the last seizure and the number of seizures in norovirus-associated CwG were similar with those previously reported for rotavirus-associated CwG [9, 10]. Although we could not analyze the difference of the clinical characteristics according to the associated pathogens, other authors reported that the younger age of onset and longer duration of seizures was observed among the CwG patients with norovirus than in the patients with rotavirus. With regard to the frequency of seizure, no difference was noted between norovirus and rotavirus. Carbamazepine treatment shortened the time span of the seizures especially for norovirus associated CwG [9].
Ictal onset has been demonstrated as focal even if convulsions are described mostly as generalized as our study [11, 12]. We also captured a focal-onset seizure rapidly evolving to both entire hemispheres on ictal recording (Fig. 2) while seizure semiology was generalized. Seizures can be variable during episodes even for the same patient [12–14].
Of interest, two extreme cases were noted among the norovirus-associated CwGs in our study; one patient suffered 11 seizures over a period of 5 h and another had 13 seizures over a period of 4.5 h. To compare the difference of clinical pictures according to number of seizures, we divided the norovirus-associated CwG patients into two groups with higher and lower number of seizures but no significant difference was found. We assume that the explosive seizures might be related to a larger viral load or to different viral strains of norovirus. Or it could be a peculiar presentation of norovirus associated CwG. The stool of a patient with an active norovirus infection contained 100 billion virus particles/g of feces [15], which is 10 times greater than that seen in rotavirus infection [16]. To elucidate this assumption, viral load should be measured according to the number of seizures and multicenter studies to compare clinical features between norovirus and rotavirus-associated CwGs are needed.
Intravenous lorazepam appeared to be ineffective in our study. Several clinical trials have also mentioned the lack of efficacy of benzodiazepine in CwG [17, 18]. Other than benzodiazepines, several authors reported beneficial effect of lidocaine and carbamazepine [9, 17, 19]. Still, there is no consensus regarding drug of choice and the need for treatment. Prospective, controlled clinical trials are needed to demonstrate the necessity and efficacy of anticonvulsants.
Although we could not follow up the patients for years, clinical and neuropsychological outcome of CwG is known as excellent. Recent study reported that none of 81 CwG patients developed epilepsy and only mild attention deficit was detected in less than 5 % of patients with mean follow-up duration of 9.8 years [20].
Our study has some limitations. Clinical difference between norovirus- and rotavirus-associated CwG was not studied due to small number of rotavirus cases. In addition, we only performed norovirus genogrouping, not genotyping. Future studies could compare clinical differences according to genotyping in norovirus-associated CwGs.
Conclusions
Norovirus is a common pathogen in CwG. Understanding the viral associations can facilitate recognition of CwG.
Declarations
Acknowledgements
Not applicable.
Funding
The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship or publication of this article.
Availability of data and materials
The datasets analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Authors’ contributions
GK, DL and HJJ collected the data. GK and JHB prepared the manuscript. BL conceptualized and edited the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Competing interest
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Consent for publication
Not applicable.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
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“Ambition is priceless it´s something that´s in your veins.”
These words hold so much meaning in my life right now, that I´m dedicating one of my first blog posts in 2018 to that famous quote.
Looking back, who would have thought how things would progress. 2017 has without a doubt been the most successful year of my life so far. A lot happened. Winning the blogger of the year award, opening up our very first TrueYou store, winning 2 advertising awards with our agency, upholding our long night of fitness in Austria and coming back to my old university as a professor – it most definitely was one hell of a year.
Those of you, who have been following my approach when it comes to collaborations, know that I rarely change a winning team. When Huawei Austria approached me and asked if I would want to take part in their most recent campaign in testing out the new Huawei Media Pad P3 lite I jumped at the opportunity. All the more so considering the fact that the campaign was going to be supported by our agency FOLLOW.
I guess you could call it a perfect match. So, looking at the Huawei MediaPad M3 lite, let´s talk some facts now, shall we? Why is it that the M3 elevates my professional business game?
The new Huawei MediaPad M3 lite, being the next gen product it is, basically combines it all.
A portable cinema with a 10” screen, amazing sound quality & a social sharing tool – it most definitely lives up to the hype. Considering the fact that I am constantly on the move, a versatile range of features is something that I value highly. The Huawei MediaPad M3 lite offers just that – keeping track of my schedule, heading from meeting to meeting, all while enjoying features such as the immersive sound quality which is highlighted by four build in Harman Kadon speakers can be quite refreshing indeed. Definitely qualities that keep me at the top of my game, ready to tackle new endeavors.
In collaboration with Huawei Austria
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Ilwaco Landing Fishermen
Partners Mike Shirley and Scott Kastengren met as neighbors in the mid 90’s after relocating to Oregon from other parts of the Country, Mike from Southern California and Scott by way of Ohio. As their friendship developed they realized they shared a common passion for sport fishing and at that moment in time the seed was planted for what is today, Ilwaco Landing Fishermen.
Our Story
Eventually Mike and Scott partnered up and started a successful Construction Company in Portland Oregon. As the Company grew so did the flexibility of their schedules allowing them to get back to their real passion of fishing. The before work, early morning Spring Chinook trips on the Columbia quickly became weekend trips to Newport and that is where the addiction to Salt Water Fishing set in. Like any addiction it gained momentum until meeting resistance, for Mike and Scott that came in the form of their lovely wives. They will all tell you it was not the time away from home that was the issue; it was the escalating financial cost.
Since minimizing their fishing efforts was never an option the only thing that could be done is to start selling the fish they caught. Starting with a 26′ sport boat they obtained commercial Salmon and Albacore permits and began selling their catch at the dock. Limited by boat size it was obvious they could not compete on the large volume markets so they needed to capitalize on what they were already doing for their family and friends, providing the highest quality, local, fresh and sustainable seafood possible.
The Challenge
Mike and Scott’s commercial fishing adventure continued to grow with the purchase of a larger boat, more gear and additional permits. Everything was working out as planned, the wives were happy and the fishing was good. That is until a hired Skipper missed the bar entrance coming into Newport and destroyed the boat. In true Mike and Scott fashion this did nothing but help catapult their commercial fishing interests to the next level. Scott purchased a 60′ steel boat, F/V Sunset Charge and got right back to what he does best, catching fish. Mike on the other hand opened a small neighborhood fish market in Portland that specializes in fresh, local, wild seafood that he sources straight from the boat by utilizing his existing fleet relationships.
Although following slightly different paths Mike and Scott shared common frustrations that seemed to always lead back to the offloading facilities. Scott struggled to make sense of how an industry that revolves around the Fishermen could treat the Fishermen themselves so poorly, offering only low prices for their catch and little to no support. Mike’s frustrations came from the lack of quality in the products offered to him, especially when he knew a superior product was sitting in a boat in the bay waiting to offload, only to be co-mingled with fish of inferior quality before being offered for purchase.
The Solution
Something had to be done… The Fishermen were not being compensated properly for their efforts and the consumers were losing access to top shelf seafood. Recognizing that the Ocean is full of the fresh fish and there are still brave men and women willing to go fish for them, Mike and Scott knew they must find a way to control the offloading in order to truly connect the pole and the plate. When Mike and Scott got word that the Ilwaco Landing was for sale they diligently worked every angle to make purchasing it a reality.
In May of 2015 Mike and Scott took ownership of the Ilwaco Landing and operate it under the basic principal that quality starts with the Fishermen so must everything else. They solidified their commitment by adding “Fishermen” to the name and now are doing business proudly as Ilwaco Landing Fishermen.
Meet the Team
Mike Shirley
ILF Partner / Operating General Manager
Direct (360) 244-2175
Office (360) 642-3608
[email protected]
Scott Kastengren
ILF Partner / Owner-Captain F/V Sunset Charge
Direct (503) 330-3846
Office (360) 642-3608
[email protected]
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An music performance event developed around the book, ebook and website Companion to Irish Traditional Music. A work in progress, this had an inaugural performance to enthusiastic response at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, and at The Leuven Institute for Ireland, Leuven, Belgium in December, 2013. The event takes the form of a live music and song concert performance which is integrated with visual imagery. It offers a regional and historical view of Irish Traditional music through live performance, played against background imagery which uses the fabulous photography of Nutan Jacques Piraprez; a structured musical and graphic interpretation in an historical framework. Fintan Vallely (flute and narrative) with Gerry O’Connor (fiddle), Tiarnán Ó Duinncín (uilleann pipes); and Máire Ní Choilm (song in Irish and English).
The concert opens this year’s Ranelagh Arts Centre’s Festival, at Scoil Bhríde, Oakley Road, 8pm on Thursday, September 18th, 2014.
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A one and a half hour presentation of Irish Traditional music incoroporating music, song and dance with explicatory commentary. Fintan Vallely (flute and speaking) with Kevin Rowsome (uilleann pipes), Edel McWeeney (fiddle), Lorraine Mitchell (fiddle), Daoirí Farrell (song, bouzouki) and Mick Mulkerrins (sean-nós step dance).
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Lecture-performance for USIT Summer School, TCD Dublin
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Next up in our series of practitioners embracing the world of JDM research is Tom Ewing, Chief Culture Officer at market research agency BrainJuicer, where he works in the Labs team, helping translate the findings of decision science and psychology into methods that create business advantage for clients. His background is as an Internet analyst, social media researcher and journalist. His 2012 paper for BrainJuicer, “Research In A World Without Questions”, looked at the possibilities of observational and behavioural research in a commercial context, and it recently won the ESOMAR Excellence Award for the best market research paper of the year.
Tell me about your work: how does decision making psychology fit in it? BrainJuicer is a commercial market research and behaviour change company whose mission is to take advances in human understanding and to turn them into commercial advantage. And “human understanding” means behavioural economics, psychology, and decision science.
We want to create behavioural change for our clients. For commercial clients, this means applying the behavioural sciences to a brand owner’s problems and creating opportunities for them and their retail customers. For public service clients, this often means changing behaviour for healthier outcomes. For shoppers, customers, users of services, this means making decision-making faster and easier, and often making it more enjoyable too.
So our Behaviour Change Consultancy will take a client’s brief, understand the behaviour they wish to change and create behavioural activations that we test experimentally to demonstrate their effect.
Our research approaches support our goal to change behaviour for our clients, and are designed to “reflect and predict what people will actually do”, rather than what they think they do and say they will do – the standbys of traditional research. For instance, we put people under time pressure to recreate fast, System 1 decision-making in packaging and promotions research; we harness people’s social sense to understand the likely success of new product launches; we establish how people feel about advertising to predict its efficiency. And much as we like to test iteratively in our behavioural work, we like to re-test our recommendations to clients to demonstrate the value that we can bring.
How did you first become interested in decision making psychology? On a personal level it’s a natural fit with the curiosity that inspires most market researchers. First of all, you’re curious about what other people do, then you’re curious about why they do it. And then you realise that the stated reasons aren’t actually getting you very far and you want to dig further into how things really work.
As a company BrainJuicer has had an interest in consumer psychology long before I joined – we’ve been doing emotional ad testing since 2007, and tapping crowds for concept testing since 2004. Putting behavioural economics at the heart of our offer has been exhilarating for us as a company and fits with our conviction that market research has been getting consumers wrong for years – putting too much trust in claims and norms and not being curious enough about what people actually do.
What type of research do you find most interesting, useful or exciting? There’s often a gap between the interesting and the useful! Behavioural economics is made up of such a horde of studies, biases, heuristics, and findings that it feels initially like a game of Pokemon: you gotta catch ‘em all, and it seems almost impossible. In order to make it useful you have to make it accessible and tangible to non-specialists – which means you have to streamline it. We use a “Behavioural Model” which uses broad categories of environmental, personal and social influences on decisions that make sense to clients.
The idea is always to get from theory to action as quickly and easily as possible. So the work that leaps out at us tends to be the field experiments that help us to illuminate and bring the thinking to life – real-world test sites, ideally measuring real money changing hands at some point. That’s the arena we’re looking to play in, and frankly those are the findings which get us and clients most excited.
We are fans as well as practitioners. I still love a beautifully constructed experiment or unexpected finding. But it doesn’t really match the satisfaction of being able to change behaviour for our clients; to show how we might reduce hospital infections resulting from poor hand hygiene or to demonstrate how we might reduce binge-drinking.
Do you see any challenges to the wider adoption of decision making psychology in your field? Yes. The long term challenge is pretty similar to the one that faces economists trying to turn around textbook economics thinking. You end up with lots of acclaim and a few prizes but people still make the same mistakes based on the same bad theories. Changing behaviour is hard, and it doesn’t stop being hard just because you know about behaviour change. Industrialised market research has twenty years of norms which exert a powerful and reassuring pull on decision makers, even though they’re based on completely faulty models of how decisions work. We can’t talk about fast and easy decisions without facing up to the fact that choosing the existing option is the very definition of one!
The short term issue, I think, is that there’s an awful lot of excitement at the moment around technology – the power we now have to collect behavioural data. New technology is sexy, easy to adopt and an easy incremental step to take; changing your whole worldview is difficult, breaking habits is hard and systems are in place that make change difficult. So it’s understandable that technology often seems of greater interest to the industry than decision-making science. Who needs psychology when you have big data? Well we do, and more than ever. You absolutely need a thorough grounding in psychology to explain behaviour and tell you how to change it.
How do you see the relationship between academic researchers and practitioners? For BrainJuicer, it’s been mutually beneficial. Our Behavioural Model and the thinking that underpins our products has been developed in conjunction with academics. But you can’t change behaviour through pure argument and persuasion. If we are to change the behaviour of marketers, advertisers and other people in the research industry, we need to make the case for behavioural economics as engaging and as seductive as possible. I am firmly on the side of the popularisers over the purists.
Our behaviour change projects often involve extensive literature reviews by academics. We read a lot ourselves and have a database of studies with proven real-world effects. If it wasn’t for the academic research there would be no practitioners – we stand on their shoulders and we have to do right by them. And as practitioners it’s our job to apply the theory and make it matter.
What advice would you give to young researchers who might be interested in a career in your field? I think at the moment a background in decision science would be an incredible asset for a commercial research company – particularly if you’ve got experience in setting up experiments and how to properly control them. Market research has always been a melting pot of a profession – it’s drawn in psychologists, anthropologists, statisticians, technologists, arts graduates – and while it’s slightly more professionalised these days there’s still a thirst for relevant experience among the smarter companies. But we also need creatives, illustrators, designers, statisticians, writers and speakers to apply the theory, check it works and make it famous. So jump in, it’s an exciting time!
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Planning that dream wedding
The Big Day at last! The wedding is round the corner but alongwith the happiness also come tension and worry for the families involved. Would everything be perfect? Where to start? Not to worry, the wedding planner is here. Sonali Jha Chatterjee takes a look at this niche business
You are a week away from your wedding. Preparations are underway. But things are not going as they should be. The groom’s side has just increased the number of guests by a hundred. The flowers you wanted for the mandap are in short supply. The hotel where you have booked rooms for guests is still not confirming. You cannot be blamed for being at your wit’s end. This is supposed to be your best day but looks like it is going to be the worst. What you need now is a magic wand to shoo away all the problems and ensure the perfect wedding day. Make way for the ‘Wedding Planner’!
Gone are the days when the relatives of the bride would take it on their shoulders to plan and execute a wedding ceremony from beginning till the end. Today, as the nuptials get more and more elaborate, it needs many more hands to make it a success. No wonder people are investing their faith in wedding planners to take care of everything to the T.
Vandana Mohan who runs the Wedding Design Company has been in this business for 15 years. Her message to clients is to dream big but it is also her job to tell them what can be done and what cannot. But as a wedding planner she tries her best to come as close as possible to that dream.
From the time a wedding planner is called in, it is a beginning of a six to eight -month relationship. Thus, it is imperative that both parties understand each other and develop good communication lines between themselves. Unless that trust is created it could be a recipe for disaster. Today’s planner wants to know the family of the client well. They want to visit your home, what kind of music you listen to, the books you read, styling you like and even holidays that you have taken. This gives them an idea about the kind of wedding you would want. The creative process works best while the vibes are set well in advance.
There is nothing like communicating too much or too little when you are getting to know strangers. Meeting over a frequent cup of coffee and conveying your needs might be a requirement in the initial days. The first brief that is given to the planner is the most authentic one and this is the one that the planner takes seriously because, says Mohan, “They speak from the heart. It’s about dreaming big and living the dream.”
A word of caution there - if by the third or fourth meeting you are unable to trust the planner, then better accept that the relationship might not work. After all, planners become a part of your family. In fact, Mohan says her job also includes that of being an agony aunt, simply hearing grouses of each member. There would be days when each member has had a spat over the wedding arrangements and it would be up to her to cool tempers and discuss the weather, fashion and the movies rather than the wedding.
Surprisingly, it is not the wedding planner who sets the budget, but the client. Families generally, do not know how much to spend. So, if you have a budget and have a wish list, the wedding planner will advise you on how to adjust your budget and how to divide the money. Often, families generally have already decided on the menu, jewellery and the lehenga before approaching the planner. Whatever is left is for the décor, so it is not as if there is a huge part of the budget at the disposal of the planner.
Today, destination weddings are in vogue and all the more reason to get others to take over the headache of logistics in a new place. Again, there could be a requirement of your own kind of cuisine. The wedding planner could arrange that through their vendors, something that would take a lot of logistical support in place if the family was to do it on their own.
There are certain things that even planners are wary of , e.g., the word ‘Just’. “Just add some more seating” could mean 500 or more guests, “just add some more flowers” could mean importing more exotic flowers, thus raising the costs. This is where people need to be realistic and this is where parents and elders come in to add that reality check.
A would-be bride or groom might have the entire décor planned in their heads with lots of pictures to refer to. They want the planner to do it exactly like that without any dent on the budget. Will that be possible? Well, the wedding planner will work out the cost and will sit with their list of priorities. By the time the top priorities are worked out, the bride and groom would generally find that the rest don’t matter that much.
For another person, it is the venue and the mandap that are important because it is a fun wedding. So why do you want flowers at the sangeet ceremony when no one will notice them? At the wedding mandap, there will never be 800 or 1000 guests. So, all the floral décor will be noticed by the small number of people there and beautiful flowers will make a mark. That is how a planner contributes – by making the right decisions on expenditure.
“It is our job to make sure that you are comfortable, that you are absolutely happy. Nobody wants an unhappy bride, bridegroom, mother or mother-in-law,” says Mohan, a thought shared by all those involved in planning a wedding for you.
Finally, how do you decide which wedding planner to approach?
The social media is a good place to start. Friends who have availed of the services of a planning company are quite reliable. The experience of the wedding planners makes a world of difference. They are able to procure stuff for the occasion that would be almost impossible for the families involved. Once you have decided on one, get to know them well. Setting up the budget and discussing your needs down to the last detail is of primary importance. It is the planner’s job to get the best possible bargain.
So, stay hassle free, stress free and enjoy the days that are going to be an important part of your life’s journey with memories that count.
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The Castle Doctrine – What We Think
Two years in the making, The Castle Doctrine is the latest interactive conversation-starter from Passage developer Jason Rohrer. It shares its name with a legal ideology that encourages men to front implied violence with real violence in the case of home invasion.
That’s pretty much what the game is about – decorate a house with walls, traps, and pit bulls to protect your wife and two toddlers and then you gear up to raid other men’s possessions while murdering their wives and children. Given the charged subject matter, The Castle Doctrine has generated a backlash that ranges from supportive to outright antagonistic.
Get Them Before They Get You
Thankfully, the game is worthy of the controversy, in the sense that nothing about the design is accidental. The Castle Doctrine draws on a loaded philosophy rooted in paranoia, entitlement, and fear, so the fact that so many people have had such powerful reactions indicates that the game is operating more or less as intended.
That’s also why I’m going to offer an unequivocal recommendation. You shouldn’t let me tell you what to think. Play the game and form your own opinion. The Castle Doctrine deliberately invites analysis and is rich enough to reward whatever thought you’re willing put into it.
Just know that it won’t necessarily be a pleasurable experience.
The War at Home
The Castle Doctrine is punishingly complex, particularly in the early going. There’s no official tutorial (yet). You’re playing against everybody on the server, they’ll all have a considerable head start in terms of resources and information, and every mistake results in instant and permanent death that sets you back to zero.
It makes The Castle Doctrine extremely unwelcoming, emphasizing the ‘error’ in trial and error. It’s not immediately evident what a voltage-activated switch does or why you would want one, and since you are your own guinea pig – you have to be able to raid your own house without using any tools – the only way to find out is to subject yourself to your own traps. I lost count of the number of times I died in my house before ever setting foot in another.
The game just isn’t well-balanced, though it is broken in a relatively novel way. No individual has an inherent advantage. Every house can be cracked with the proper tools. If you’ve got enough money, you’re essentially Batman with a home invasion utility belt and an endless supply of blowtorches and crowbars.
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The trouble is that there’s not all that much noteworthy interaction with other players: The most effective houses typically employ some variation of the ‘magic dance,’ in which unseen pets trigger unseen traps, which is infuriating because there’s no way to solve the dance based on the information presented. Burglary seldom requires any skill, only the ability to spend money to get out of sticky situations.
The imbalance is deliberate, but it’s still the game’s most significant nuts-and-bolts mechanical flaw. The design frequently errs on the side of inaccessible. Many players simply won’t have the patience to stick with it for more than a few rounds, and while the game is still in open alpha/beta, Rohrer has indicated that the difficulty curve is likely to remain unchanged.
Take a Break, Then Re-Enter
Yet as frustrating as it is, I don’t think conventionally understood ‘best’ design practices would communicate the game’s themes as effectively; if most action games are about male power fantasies, then The Castle Doctrine is about impotence. It’s the anti-Viagra, a game that wants you to be aware of your own shortcomings within a domestic environment.
To that end, the home construction system is superlative, making it the hook that draws players deeper into the game. Safeguarding your house is like building an elaborate Rube Goldberg device out of barbed wire and Lego, offering a degree of modularity that resembles the sadistic offspring of Home Alone and Minecraft.
The Castle Doctrine is consequently a game for tinkerers. In the same way that someone might peruse the web looking for fondue recipes before entering the kitchen, The Castle Doctrine more or less demands that you engage with instructions outside of the game, whether it’s through the wiki, the forums, or YouTube.
Did I Lock The Back Door?
That’s Rohrer’s greatest trick – since construction is so engaging, you could easily get lost in the nuances of interior design and spend hours crafting intricate mazes and puzzles. The game wants you to think that your effort and ingenuity will allow you to outsmart the other players despite knowing full well that it’s impossible.
The game lulls you into a false sense of security where you forget that everything can disappear at a moment’s notice. In contrast to traditional MMOs, where longer hours translate directly to more status and loot, in The Castle Doctrine more playtime does not make you more secure, it only makes you more anxious, because you’re risking more of yourself every time you leave the house.
The game therefore asks you to trade a real-world resource – time – for virtual currency, and then seeks to make you painfully aware of how fleeting success can be. You might feel safe – perhaps even entitled – due to the time you’ve spent on renovations, but the reality is that you remain vulnerable at all times.
Provide versus Protect
The Castle Doctrine utilizes your ephemeral virility to inflict acts of crushing violation. When you lose a family member, you’re not mourning the loss of dear Belinda. You’re feeling the sting of countless ultimately futile hours. Death is the game’s way of telling you that you weren’t good enough, that despite all the time you spent building walls you will always be inadequate as a protector.
And while The Castle Doctrine is a game about men robbing other men, I think that message is relevant regardless of your preferred identity. Time is one of the few gender-neutral resources, insofar as no one likes having his or her time wasted. The anxieties at the game’s core could apply to any cohabiting relationship.
That’s not to dismiss the valid concerns that other writers have expressed. Rohrer’s insistence on traditional gender roles might needlessly alienate people from an already unwelcoming game, especially one that wouldn’t have lost its potency had it allowed a player to choose a family that best reflects his or her own reality.
Having said that, The Castle Doctrine is as interested in broader cultural dynamics as it is in the personal psychologies of familial responsibility, and gender is one of the many axes along which status gets distributed. Incidents like the Trayvon Martin shooting demonstrate that the threat of harm to property and person persists as a justification for violence in North America, and I’d argue that that at least makes masculinity relevant in an politicized game like The Castle Doctrine.
Stupid Flanders
The Castle Doctrine examines the fallout from that me-against-the-Joneses ambition that incentivizes people to regard property as the tangible metric of earthly merit. In the process, it demonstrates how self-destructive such attitudes can be in practice.
The players with the most money – and hence the best tools – are able to victimize poorer players with impunity, creating a vicious class hierarchy within the online community. Newcomers are relegated to the bad part of town, while the established elite bunker down to fend off the upstarts looking to break into the ivory tower.
Using The Glass Ceiling as a Magnifying Glass
The stratification offers an intriguing parallel to the real world; the powerful prey on the weak because they can and the weak prey on each other because it requires less startup capital than riskier, more lucrative challenges. What’s sick, is that if you want to play, you have to opt into a system that places you at a disadvantage in direct opposition to other people. If you’re not willing to hustle, you constantly feel the full weight of that pyramid structure.
Should you endeavor to climb, you’re only giving more of yourself to an arbitrary system, and that’s what makes the game so compelling and so depressing. Inequality as a multiplayer design aesthetic isn’t fun for the people at the bottom, so it calls our own motivations and desires into question when we choose to play the game.
So no, The Castle Doctrine is not a normative endorsement of its namesake. It’s closer to a satire that implies that any form of entitlement – financial, gendered, or otherwise – is an impermanent and inherently meaningless measure of self worth. I didn’t enjoy playing it (it’s also subject to change because it’s not yet finished), but in this, his latest title, Rohrer utilizes interactivity to offer a bold critique of social norms and for that, I can appreciate it.
Should you disagree, you’re more than welcome to offer your own interpretation.
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We went to the zoo today. I haven’t been to the zoo in two damn years, and I love our zoo. I am probably going to have a sunburn on the top of my bald-ass head tomorrow and I feel good about it.
They have two peacocks; they just let them wander around.
A brief note about the dog, if you’ll indulge me again a bit: you may recall that while I was finishing up that piece yesterday the doorbell rang and I didn’t answer the door. That wasn’t an invention for the piece; it actually happened. My wife and son were out of the house for a little while and they got home just a few minutes later.
There was a vase of fresh flowers on our doorstep, delivered to us on behalf of our vet’s office. The dog had been gone for maybe three hours. Guys, if you live anywhere near me, and you have pets, you could do a lot worse than letting Clayview Animal Clinic take care of them.
Tomorrow should be an exciting day: I actually get to find out what my job is! I’m not teaching this year, as you’re probably aware if you’ve been paying attention, and while I know the broad outlines of the new position it’s not necessarily immediately clear what I’ll be doing on a day-to-day basis. For example: the first day of school? I have absolutely no idea what I’ll be doing right now on the first day of school, or really even the first couple of weeks. I mean, I’m on the administrative team in a school; there’s gonna be stuff to do if I decide I wanna do things (and I do,) but none of those things will be my job. The next couple of days I’m in training for my specific position and I’ll be much clearer on what my day-to-day job is going to look like by the time it’s over.
So yeah. I’m excited.
What’s your week looking like?
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I’m so sorry about your dog. It’s rough to lose part of the family like that. Hope the new job goes well for you!
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“One mum who comes is just a couple of years older than me and didn’t know many of the other mums. A highlight for me was when she described how she feels accepted, comfortable and not judged – the reason why she stopped attending another mums and tots programme.”
Joanne (left in picture below) is a youth and community worker in Ballysally (a large council estate with a close knit community of residents) who has just finished an Innovista Tempo group in Coleraine. Tempo helps churches and young leaders reach their local community.
Joanne noticed that a lot of the mums with young children on the estate were a similar age to her, and a group the church was not engaging with. The mums spent most of their day at home looking after their children, with most of their interaction with other adults taking place on social media (apart from nights out at the weekends). Joanne wanted to create a space where children could make friends and be stimulated, and also where mums could come together, share experiences and build relationships with each other and with people from the church – creating a wider family.
After some more research into what other provision there was for young mums, Joanne laid out her vision for serving not just young mums but also their families and helping change the culture in the estate. The church leadership recognised the need and were quick to support her plans. Soon after, ‘Tots and Tea’ started on Wednesday mornings. She has enlisted a fantastic team of volunteers, mostly older women who love the opportunity to ‘mother’ and be grannies. Joanne is working hard at ensuring ‘Tots and Tea’ is organised sustainably.
“Through Tots & Tea we’ve to know lots of people from the estate we had no contact with before.
Over the next few years I’d like to see more families engaging and us providing more support, especially for first time mums – such as practical advice and sessions on post-natal depression and healthy eating (on a budget).
We need to continue to show the love of God in our relationships with the mothers and their children. We need continued prayer support for the volunteers that we might be an influence on this generation of mums and children for good and ultimately for God.”
From helping her identify a need in her community, Tempo equipped Joanne with the practical skills she needed and together we walked with her through the process of setting vision, goals, strategy and building team, giving feedback and providing encouragement.
Innovista runs Tempo groups in a number of locations and in partnership with local churches. to find out more click here.
We want to equip more young leaders like Joanne so that communities across Ireland experience hope and life. Giving regularly or a single gift can enable that to happen.
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It never ceases to amaze us some of the weather myths that just won’t go away. We’re talking the lightning can’t strike the same place twice and hiding under an underpass during a tornado types of myths. They aren’t things to take lightly, and not knowing the difference between fact and fiction could be the difference between life and death.
So, let’s talk about some of the most common misconceptions.
Lightning
Lightning Myth #1: Lightning won’t strike the same place twice
Let’s start with the obvious: lightning can, in fact, hit the same place twice. Actually, the Empire State Building in New York City is struck by lightning about 23 times a year. It’s not even that unheard of that the same building or structure gets struck multiple times in one storm.
Lightning Myth #2: Heat lightning
Ever been outside on a clear evening with no rain or clouds in sight? Then, all of a sudden, you catch a huge flash out of the corner of your eye. How can this be possible?
It’s commonly misstated as heat lightning. There is actually no such thing as heat lightning, and what you’re seeing is the lightning from a far off storm. But that still doesn’t mean you’re safe. Being struck is certainly less likely the further you get from a storm, but you could still be at risk if you are within 20-40 miles of a storm per the National Fire Protection Agency.
Lightning Myth #3: One mile per second
You can tell your distance from a storm by counting the seconds between when you see lightning and hear thunder, but it’s not the way you’ve always been told. Knowing what we know now, sounds like anything less than a minute is within the danger zone. NOAA and the National Weather Service recommend seeking immediate shelter if your count is less than 30 seconds!
The following table is the correct Flash-to-Bang estimations calculated based on the speed of sound at sea level:
Wind
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Mpuuga attacks Buganda caucus leaders over non-performance
Masaka municipality MP, Mathias Mpuuga has urged the leaders of Buganda Parliamentary Caucus to stop sleeping on the job and instead work upon unifying members of the caucus as agreed upon when they assumed leadership almost two years ago.
Mpuuga said this in his letter to the chairperson of Buganda Parliamentary Caucus, Johnson Muyanja Ssenyonga [NRM Mukono South] highlighting his dissatisfaction in the way the caucus is run.
He says ever since they were elected, no meeting has ever been held to agree on common objectives of the caucus, a thing he said defeats the purpose of the caucus.
He said this neglect has disadvantaged the communities they represent because of lack of a common voice to champion social justice for Buganda. Mpuuga adds that some Buaganda MPs have been reduced to beggars in the corridors of power and in the process; they have surrendered their honor and power to the detriment of their suffering electorates.
According to Mpuuga, Buganda communities that used to be strong have now been weakened because they have not received the protection they need from their leaders especially members of parliament. Many have surrendered their sovereign right on their land and natural resources to the powerful power brokers.
“This is the greatest and dereliction of duty on our part as leaders, the defenders and protectors of our people, their heritage and culture.”
He said regional caucuses should help their regions instead of sacrificing them to political entrepreneurs in the name of wealth creation to manipulate them at will, owing to the poverty and desperation.
“We need to rediscover our rallying values as Buganda communities, demand for sustainable initiatives that will create capacity for our communities to support themselves, but not dolling out donations that enslave and patronise our people.”
Below is the letter.
THE CHAIRPERSON
BUGANDA PARLIAMENTARY CAUCUS
PARLIAMENTARY BUILDING
KAMPALA
Dear Sir,
SUBJ: WORRYING STATE OF AFFAIRS FOR THE CAUCUS
At the time of writing to you, we are a few weeks away from making two years into the service of our people in the 10th Parliament. I congratulate you upon the various accomplishments in the service of Ssabasajja Kabaka’s people and especially remaining a respectable face of the caucus and your constituents in especially in the most challenging of situations in the discharge of your duties. One of our key duties as members of the caucus is to be the indefatigable voice of our communities, since only members of the caucus are lucky to have an official platform through which we can bargain on behalf of our peoples and our Kingdom.
I am sure majority members of the caucus; as part of their campaign platform promised to ensure that the people of Buganda get their fair share of the “national cake”, and thatSsabasajja Kabaka and his Government is accorded the due respect they deserve . In making this promise, members had at the back of their minds the fact that, as a community of leaders from Buganda, we shall not get what we deserve, but rather what we bargain for; it’s the natural law.
The above rhymes well with our core vision of creating and preserving a sustainable collective voice to address the socio- economic and political challenges in the region and the entire country to achieve sustainable economic development. And from and through that rallying vision we set-out to;
(a) To create and preserve unity amongst the different representatives in parliament from Buganda region irrespective of the political affiliations and ethnic background for the development of the region;
(b) To create a collective voice on socio- economic and political policies and issues affecting the population and the electorates in the region;
(c) To lobby for policies and influence legislations in parliament for both national and in particular for the development of Buganda region;
(d) To promote education, health, economic livelihood and cultural development in Buganda;
(e) To mobilize resources and/or establish a fund to help members of parliament from the region in time of need;
(f) To network with other organizations, government department, policy makers and implementers to achieve the objectives of the cacaus; and
(g) To do all any such other things as are incidental or related to attainment of the above objectives.
This implied that, if we were to become potent bargainers on behalf of our people, we ought to have been a well organized and well oriented team, with clear team goals and aspirations; devoid of contradictions and conspiracies. This is not to become oblivious of the political contradictions we find ourselves in as a group of leaders coming from different political homes and ideological persuasions.
Two years since you assumed leadership of the caucus; at the backdrop of great promise and hope for a departure from the usual rituals, upon making a new Constitution which unlike the past offered the kind of strategic canvass which past teams lacked, we are coming off flat and more ritualistic.
One of the most depressing realities is that, we have never had a general meeting since your team ascended at the helm of the caucus. Meeting is a basic ritual through which members can evolve a fair understanding of their common objects, overcome suspicion and mistrust engendered by routine politicking and generally lack of knowledge on the state of affairs.
We also strategically classified meetings in our union pact, at particular times of the legislative cycle to rhyme with the budget cycle to facilitate membership in following up community demands. Unfortunately, no such meetings have been held since the colorful inauguration of your team. This is a missed opportunity for members to share in each others’ knowledge, on matters of legislation, budgeting and oversight.
The Buganda Parliamentary Caucus is second to none in terms of numerical strength; yet comes off as most disjointed, lacking in commonality of purpose, unable to raise a common voice on any matter affecting our peoples. The caucus for the record has never attempted to make a common bargain on any matter germane to needs of our peoples.
Because of lacking a common voice, to champion social justice for the region of Buganda, individual members have been reduced to beggars in the corridors of power brokers and political fixers; surrendering their honour and power in the process, yet come off with nothing worth sharing with their communities to change the course of their bedeviled lives.
Hirtheto, and until the machinations of the NRM regime took root in our communities, our people were a progressive lot, able to fend and protect their economic and social tough; there was no hunger, they could afford to grow and retain quality seeds for subsequent seasons, they could buy seedlings through their local cooperatives, and used known mechanisms to sort out contradictions and disagreements on land.
We cannot close our eyes on the cosmopolitan nature of Buganda; with a long tradition of assimilation, passed on across generations. Buganda greatly benefited from the assimilation policy, and the different cultures and ways of organization cross-fertilized the indigenous ways of organization to greater positive effect.
What used to be assimilation is now “surround and concur”. Our communities are under attack; the population in the Buganda country-side is under siege; impoverished and weakened. They have surrendered their sovereignty on land and natural resources therein to the powerful power brokers. They have not received the protection of their leaders, and especially their members of parliament. This is the greatest abdication and dereliction of duty on our part as leaders; the defenders and protectors of our people, their heritage and culture.
The powerful have overrun our communities; abused the sanctity of these communities, helpless and defenseless in face of powerful and connected, untouchable wealthy brokers; while we waste away in political expediency, and fear of visiting misfortune on our personal political and economic interests. Who is the defender of the Mubende mining communities, who is the protector of the displaced fishing communities across various landing sites in Buganda, whose livelihood has since been scattered without regard to their welbeing!
What will be the fate in finality, of communities and families inBulemeezi, Buluri & Singo whose land has been grabbed by cunning power brokers on which they have gazette square-miles for a song! What about the ecosystem in Buganda under attack from fortune seekers from within and without Uganda, but protected by the connected. For how long are we going to live in fear of the connected, as if their connection is on some powerful deity; we cannot challenge in face of the unprecedented abuse of our heritage!
The government of Uganda undertook a country-wide scientific agricultural-zoning study more than 20 years ago. These studied situated various crops, both annual and perennial to different parts of the country; with a view of guiding planners and leaders on the best forms farming suited for their communities. While these beautiful studies gather dust, are we not in good position to compel stakeholders in agriculture; who are hell-bent on overcoming their own poverty while sowing agricultural confusion in our communities to style up. Is it not a big let-down, for us to allow officials ofOWC to continue sowing confusion in Buganda communities, in the name of wealth creation! Where is our common voice in poverty eradication, engendered through the budget process!
Buganda region is part of what is called “Luwero_ Rwenzori” region, a creation of the Government to channel affirmative action funds and special programs to restore the war-ravaged communities in the Luwero_Rwenzori region comprising28 Districts; through infrastructure improvement, income generation and farm inputs. This special region under the OPM has for some time had a Minister, with an annual budget of barely UGX 3BN! The flimsy budgeting for this region is partly the result our passive approach to duty; turning our communities into beggar communities and without a voice.
How do we compare Luwero-Rwenzori say to other special regions established for the same purpose! Do we for example compare with NUSAF, which has had a consistent annual budgets in hundreds of billions, the recently launched Development Initiative for Northern Uganda with UGX.665BN! How do we compare with Karamoja; not oblivious of its special status and grave need, but in terms of the potential at the disposal of our communities untapped, but sacrificed at the altar of political expediency. I suppose their leaders have had occasion to deliberate on their common good through the regional caucuses, in part yielding such dividends to the communities.
We have instead surrendered our communities to political entrepreneurs to manipulate them at will, owing to poverty and desperation. We need to rediscover our rallying values as Buganda communities, demand for sustainable initiatives that will create capacity for our communities to support themselves; but not dolling out donations that enslave and patronize our people.
The above and many other reasons justify our commonality; the reasons for the purposeful investiture of the caucus before most of us joined parliament. We owe our communities strategic leadership. The “laissez faire” approach to service provision by the government is well documented, but we are here to act in the best interest of our communities. The poverty, disease and state of hopelessness in our communities is“all embracing” like the original NRM. Therefore our diverse political views should not stand in the way of demanding for justice and fairness for our communities.
The leadership of the caucus need to change their undeclared attitude towards the objects of the caucus and move to live up to the billing of the caucus. We took good time filtering and documenting our founding objects, which we validated with a Constitution.
We shall commemorate 2 solid yearssince this team was elected into office. The gift the team can afford the members in their honour is a 360 degrees change in execution of this honourable mandate, to wit;
1. Let the caucus honour the compulsory meetings as set out in the Constitution that will enable us fight for equity and parity in the distribution of resources.
2. Lets follow the emerging issues in our communities; especially land grabbing, displacement, insecurity, environment degradation, key government programs, creation of districts, constituencies and other administrative units
3. Implement the key deliverables envisaged at the assumption of office 2 years ago
4. Interest ourselves in key Constitutional developments
5. Build synergies across regions beyond ceremony & merry making with a view of establishing common ground for future cooperation
The status quo puts into serious perspective the relevance of the caucus, in view of the expectations of the Buganda communities. This otherwise vibrant community cannot be kept in permanent abeyance in the time of our service as members of parliament.
It is your legacy as caucus leaders at stake, and our reputation as the led if we so seek an appellation of sorts befitting our efforts in face of great need for care, deprivation and helplessness apparent in our shared communities.
Looking forward to a practicable response from our leaders.
Respectfully,
Mathias Mpuuga Nsamba
MP-Masaka Municipality
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LIMA, Peru--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Graña y Montero S.A.A. (NYSE:GRAM) (BVL:GRAMONC1) (“the Company” or “Graña y Montero”), a leading Engineering and Construction company, announced that its subsidiary Morelco in Colombia was awarded two new contracts today with Ecopetrol, a Colombian national oil company.
The first contract amounts to US $ 11.902 million for an air-cooling system at the Suria and Ocoa thermoelectric plants; while the second contract is for US $ 4.087 million granted for the refurbishment works of Reficar (Refinery of Cartagena).
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Hello readers! I'm back with many photos and not so much news. Clearly the boom-bust cycle of the Deborah Krieger News is a weekly one.
The main event of the past week was the USTA going-away party, which was held at a pub-restaurant in the 16th district called a Heuriger (hoy-ree-gurr). As a Fulbrighter, I have a little over a month left in the country, but the people who are only teaching assistants leave at the end of May. Still, though, many of the Fulbright combined grantees went if only to spend a little time with the American teaching assistants before they left and to get our very official certificates of completion from the Austrian Educational Ministry. I had not gotten the memo that people would be wearing dirndls (deern-dull), or those traditional Austrian dresses that people wear when singing about lonely goatherds and the like, so I came in a normal dress. I also haven't bought a dirndl and I'm not sure if I will--they seem a little expensive, and I'm fairly certain my Austrian ancestors wouldn't have been permitted to wear them back in the day, so buying one feels a little weird to me. Still, some of them have very pretty patterns, and I figure I can always wear my dirndl back in States...to go grocery shopping, or something? Where does one wear a dirndl in Los Angeles, California?
Last week, my teaching was pretty unremarkable aside from the baseball lesson I prepared and taught several times. Yep, you read that right: I prepared a primer on American baseball for my first-year students (14-15 years old), where I provided them with a basic written and verbal summary of the rules, talked about such classic baseball movies as Moneyball and A League of Their Own, told them about Jackie Robinson, and then showed them a clip of funny baseball bloopers. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not really the sportiest of people, but I realized at Swarthmore that I probably have fairly decent average knowledge through osmosis, since my family loves sports with enthusiasm bordering on mania. I cannot count the number of times my mother screaming at her football team has given me mini heart palpitations, because I thought she was screaming because something was actually wrong, like she'd dropped glass or something. Baseball I am actually pretty familiar with, since I have seen a bunch of games and baseball movies, so I was able to explain the basic rules without having to do a lot of preparation. Below, a photo of the diagrams I drew on the chalkboard for my students, where I explain basic "moneyball," the layout of a baseball diamond, the significance of Jackie's number 42, and why it's called the "pitcher's mound."On Saturday, I ducked into an arts and crafts fair on Neubaugasse (noy-bow-gah-suh), then headed over to the Burgtheater (bourg-tay-ah-tur) for a lecture by the artist William Kentridge. I was actually really excited for the lecture, because my favorite piece at the new Broad Museum in Los Angeles was actually an animation video by Kentridge, which I've embedded below. I just really liked how he used the sketchy quality of drawing in the transitions, and so more than the Hirst or Koons, this work at the Broad really has stuck with me since I saw it in March 2016. The lecture was pretty entertaining, and was about his process of creating and coming up with concepts, featuring several recent videos he's done.
Lastly, this past weekend I went back to the Brotfabrik to review a photography show for the Humble Arts Foundation's blog, so that should be published fairly soon. I always love going to the Brotfabrik, and having a mission in mind made walking the several miles there all the easier, though I did cheat and take the train back home.
On the writing front, I've had a lot of pieces in the pipeline for a few days now, so keep an eye on the published section of my main site: I wrote about Sense8's second season premiere and Riverdale's finale for PopMatters and the movie Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging for BitchFlicks (which have been published already), and I have an artist profile, a writeup on gaucho pants (not kidding), and several book reviews also waiting to be published for various outlets. Exciting times!
Miscellany of the week:
- I always love it when the Vienna public housing buildings have mosaics and murals on them--I wish I could document each one!
- This one very modern clothes shop near Treu Bleiben, my weekend brunch spot, had this on the floor. I'm not quite sure what it means, but it's probably art.
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With a nod to the success of Atlas online, the Atlas Service Center opened on March 13, on the first level of Building E17. The center provides a single location where community members can receive in-person assistance with an array of services.
The center provides services previously offered in the basement of the Stratton Student Center (Building W20), along with services from elsewhere on campus.
Offerings at the new center include:
- ID cards and passport photos
- Commuting benefits (T-pass, parking, and other options)
- I-9 employment eligibility verification
- Tax treaty guidance
- IT walk-in center and computer repair services
- TechCASH
- Background checks and finger printing
- New employee orientation (coming later this spring)
Center staff will also be able to provide information about other Institute services, such as benefits (HR), community wellness (MIT Medical), MIT recreation (DAPER), and activities (MITAC).
Executive Vice President and Treasurer Israel Ruiz is the center’s sponsor. “Many people came together to help realize the vision of providing services attuned to community member needs without regard to departmental lines. I especially want to thank the center manager Kathleen Flynn and the entire team led by Robin Elices for their extraordinary efforts,” says Ruiz. “The center really captures a sense of MITness, of playfulness, of building things, of discovery, and of community. It will be a great introductory experience for new employees and students who come to MIT.”
Federico Casalegno, associate professor of the practice and director of the MIT Design Lab (previously the Mobile Experience Lab) became involved in the design of Atlas Service Center project a couple of years ago. The lab works on projects that connect people, information, and places in meaningful ways, and helped the Atlas team create the integrated service experience offered through the center.
“Developing the Atlas Service Center for MIT required the team to entirely rethink the way institutions provide high-quality services in the 21st century,” notes Casalegno. “The center combines innovative digital technologies and architectural design to deliver the highest standard of service to the MIT community. It provides an easy way to access information about MIT, connect our community, and understand the vibrant activities happening on campus and beyond. Our goal, ultimately, was to design a space to better serve the MIT community.”
Celebrate the opening
The Atlas Service Center is hosting an open house for the MIT community on Tuesday, April 4 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Community members are invited to visit the new center for refreshments and check out two of the center’s features: a 3-D campus map, which reflects MIT’s maker culture, and an interactive community wall, which represents the spirit of one MIT.
The first theme for the wall is “Our global community, make your mark.” The wall displays an abstract map of the world to which visitors to the center can affix comments.
The 3-D campus map, created by the MIT Design Lab, combines physical touch with digital media to help users navigate MIT. They can tap a building to check out events or get directions, which they can take with them through a mobile handoff. They can locate interesting art pieces on campus or the shortest route to a shuttle stop. There’s also easy access to information about research, classes, and people on campus.
According to Casalegno, “We were interested in opening up access and visualizing campus data by means of our tangible map project, which allows students and visitors to intuitively access all sorts of information and event data through a digital sculptural interface.”
In touch with Atlas
Users will notice a new Atlas logo, both at the center and online. The unfolding “A” represents the sense of discovery that permeates MIT’s culture of curiosity, and of pushing boundaries to uncover new ideas.
The center will showcase the work of Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Erik Demaine and his father Martin Demaine. Professor Demaine tackles computational problems related to folding and bending, and his father is an artist in residence and technical instructor in MIT’s Glass Lab. Together they explore connections between mathematics and art.
The Atlas Service Center is open on weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Atlas Service Center manager Kathleen Flynn is available to answer questions. Center staff can also be contacted at [email protected] or (617) 253-3000.
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This study assessed the risks posed by noroviruses (NoVs) in surface water used for drinking, domestic, and recreational purposes in South Africa (SA), using a quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) methodology that took a probabilistic approach coupling an exposure assessment with four dose-response models to account for uncertainty. Water samples from three rivers were found to be contaminated with NoV GI (80–1,900 gc/L) and GII (420–9,760 gc/L) leading to risk estimates that were lower for GI than GII. The volume of water consumed and the probabilities of infection were lower for domestic (2.91 × 10−8 to 5.19 × 10−1) than drinking water exposures (1.04 × 10−5 to 7.24 × 10−1). The annual probabilities of illness varied depending on the type of recreational water exposure with boating (3.91 × 10−6 to 5.43 × 10−1) and swimming (6.20 × 10−6 to 6.42 × 10−1) being slightly greater than playing next to/in the river (5.30 × 10−7 to 5.48 × 10−1). The QMRA was sensitive to the choice of dose-response model. The risk of NoV infection or illness from contaminated surface water is extremely high in SA, especially for lower socioeconomic individuals, but is similar to reported risks from limited international studies.
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Who Really Fired “The Shot Heard Round The World”?..
I grew up mostly in Lexington, Mass., where the famed “shot heard round the world” was fired. On my way home from high school each day, I would pass Lexington Green, where colonial militia had assembled on the morning of April 19, 1775, and encountered a force of British redcoats who were on their way to neighboring Concord to confiscate armaments. Shots rang out; eight militiamen died; nine were wounded; the Revolutionary War had begun. The redcoats suffered only one minor wound and continued to Concord, where they found fewer munitions than expected. They spent the rest of the day being routed by superior numbers of militia, on a long and bloody retreat back to their garrison in the city of Boston.
As I walked home, I would pass still-standing Buckman’s Tavern, where the militia had assembled before the battle; and continuing my trek up Hancock Street, would pass the Hancock-Clarke House, another historic site. It was here that Samuel Adams and John Hancock – leaders of the revolution in Massachusetts – had been staying the night before the battle. Paul Revere stopped there to see them on his famous “Midnight Ride.”
These historic matters were hardly on my mind at the time. However many years later, having written widely on political affairs, I took my son on a tour of historic Lexington at his request, and questions began troubling me.
Who fired the first shot has been controversial for over two centuries. Was it the British or Americans? Each side accused the other.
A patriotic friend of mine, who publicly lectures on the battle in a tricorn hat, told me, “Jim, the Americans would never have fired first. You’ve got 80 militia facing 700 British regulars. It would have been suicidal.”
“I see your point,” I said, “but it also seems to me that British troops, under tight discipline, would not have fired without provocation. It’s not like they were on a mission to start battles that day.”
So who did fire the “shot heard round the world”? The answer is important, because that shot ignited the American Revolution, which in turned engendered the world’s most powerful nation. I believe the answer was a dark secret, buried with the dead that April morning.
The Amazing Changing Lexington Portrayals
I direct the reader to the battle’s first artistic depiction, the engraving rendered by Amos Doolittle in the fall of 1775, just a few months after the event.
Note that all the militiamen are retreating or casualties. Not one colonist is firing his gun or even loading.
Next we have the lithograph produced by William S. Pendleton in about 1830:
While a number of militiamen are retreating, some are now shooting.
Next comes Hammatt Billings’s rendering of 1868:
Here very few men retreat; most are engaged.
And finally we have “The Dawn of Liberty,” painted by Henry Sandham in 1886:
Every man is now standing his ground.
Note the transition from Picture 1 to Picture 4 – from 100 percent retreat to 100 percent defiance. The credit for discovering this revealing sequence goes not to me, but to historian Harold Murdock, who expounded on it nearly a century ago. While the casual observer might dismiss these changes as artistic license or patriotic pride, the truth about Lexington’s “Picture of Dorian Gray” runs much deeper.
Doolittle’s 1775 picture very accurately represented how Massachusetts rebels wanted the event portrayed at that time. Here is how the newspaper Massachusetts Spy reported it in an article widely reprinted throughout the colonies:
Americans! forever bear in mind the BATTLE of LEXINGTON! where British Troops, unmolested and unprovoked wantonly, and in a most inhuman manner fired upon and killed a number of our countrymen . . . It is noticed they fired upon our people as they were dispersing, agreeable to their command, and that we did not even return the fire. Eight of our men were killed and nine wounded; The troops then laughed, and damned the Yankees.
As you can see, the article denied that the militia fired any shots. This accords with the official report authorized by the Massachusetts Provincial Congress, A Narrative, of the Excursion and Ravages of the King’s Troops. It contained the depositions of many Lexington militiamen. All stated the king’s troops began firing on them. Not one deponent expressly admitted to firing a shot, even in retaliation, though they did not deny firing retaliatory shots.
It also agrees with the account by William Heath, the brigadier general who took overall command of the militias as they pursued the redcoats back to Boston. In his postwar memoirs, Heath described the British shooting at the Lexington militia, but made no mention of return fire.1
So, what changed perception of the event? In 1824, as the revolution’s 50th anniversary was approaching, politician Samuel Hoar was giving a public address in Concord. The aging Marquis de Lafayette (who had been a general in the Revolution) was there; Hoar told him he was standing where “the first forcible resistance” to the British occurred. Concord residents affirmed that their town should be credited with firing, as Ralph Waldo Emerson would later phrase it, “the shot heard round the world.” After all, nothing on the official record indicated the Lexington militia had discharged even one round.
This prompted outrage in Lexington, whose denizens insisted the honor belonged to them. And to prove their case, they obtained depositions from 10 aged veterans and witnesses of the battle on Lexington Green. In a stunning variance from the original sworn statements, all deponents now vigorously insisted that the militia fired upon the British, though still claiming the redcoats began hostilities.
This inter-town debate raged for years, and was said to be symbolized in our annual Thanksgiving Day football game, played between Lexington and Concord high schools. Virtually all historians today concede that the Lexington militia fired; the controversy now is over who fired first. The Americans said it was the British; the British said the Americans.
Americans or British?
Though it may offend some U.S. patriots, I agree with Derek W. Beck, American author of the forthcoming book 1775, who concedes that the British reports were more credible. Why?
• The British freely admitted shooting first at the subsequent battle of Concord. Why would they tell the truth about Concord, but lie about Lexington?
• British soldiers said the Americans fired first in their personal diaries, which were not intended for publication. Why would the British lie to themselves in their diaries?
• As we have seen, in 1825 the Lexington militiamen amended the story given in their original 1775 depositions. This shows they were guided by political exigencies of the day, weakening their credibility.
But why would a militia force commence hostilities when outnumbered ten to one? The solution to this mystery requires understanding the historical context.
Freemasonry
Freemasonry deserves mention. In the late 18th century, two bloody anti-royalist revolutions erupted. One, of course, was the French Revolution. Few would deny Freemasonry played a major role in it. This was not only documented by contemporary writers such as Augustin Barruel in Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinsm (1797) and John Robison in Proofs of a Conspiracy (1798), but by Bonnet, orator of the Convent of the Grand Orient Lodge of France, who later declared:
During the 18th century the glorious line of the Encyclopedistes found in our temples a fervent audience, which, alone at that period, invoked the radiant motto, still unknown to the people, of “Liberty, honor to present to humanity the charter which it had friendly elaborated. . . . On August 25, 1789, the Constituent Assembly, of which more than 300 members were masons, finally adopted, almost word for word, such as it had been for long elaborated in the lodges, the text of the immortal declaration of the Rights of Man. At that decisive hour for civilization, French masonry was the universal conscience . . . .2
Of course, many have noted a distinction between Grand Orient Masonry, practiced on the European continent, and Scottish Rite Masonry, practiced in Great Britain and North America, which they consider more benign. Nonetheless, it is difficult to deny Freemasonic components to the American Revolution.
Paul Revere was dispatched on his famous ride from Boston by Joseph Warren. Warren also sent a second rider, William Dawes, whom history has never glamorized like Revere. Revere and Dawes took different routes and both arrived at the Lexington house where John Hancock was staying. What history books usually omit is that Joseph Warren was Grand Master of St. Andrew’s Lodge in Boston; and that Revere, Dawes and Hancock were all members of that same Lodge. Thus the entire circuit of Revere’s ride, from beginning to end, consisted of Freemasons bound to oaths of secrecy. So we could reasonably ask if there was something to the ride beyond what history reports.
After the war, Revere became Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts, which probably did not impair his subsequent rise to historic glory.
Boston’s Green Dragon Tavern, headquarters of both the Sons of Liberty and St. Andrew’s Lodge
Many other Freemasons were involved in the Revolution. Benjamin Franklin served not only as Grand Master of Pennsylvania, but Grand Master of the Nine Sisters Lodge in Paris, as well belonging to Britain’s satanic Hellfire Club.
Nearly half the generals in the Continental Army were Freemasons – most famously, of course, George Washington, who was later sworn in as President by Robert Livingston, Grand Master of New York’s Grand Lodge.
If you visit Lexington today, at the National Heritage Museum you will see a statue of George Washington donning his Masonic apron. Not surprising, since the museum is run by the Freemasons (its legal name is Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library, Inc.). In fact, the entire Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the United States has its headquarters in Lexington. I do not believe this location was selected by chance.
None of this imputes anything sinister to the vast majority of Freemasons in America today. But it is difficult to dismiss, as coincidental, the influence of Freemasonry on these two revolutions that exploded just a few years apart on separate continents.
Brewers of Revolution
But by far the most important insights into Lexington’s secrets derive from examining the two men who Paul Revere rode to meet there – Samuel Adams and John Hancock.
When most Americans hear “Founding Fathers,” they typically think of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison and Hamilton. John Hancock is usually remembered only for his extra-large signature on the Declaration of Independence. If an Adams is recalled, it is John Adams, second President of the United States, rather than his second cousin Sam, whom most Americans today identify only as a figure on beer labels.
But Americans of the colonial era would be surprised to learn that Sam Adams has faded into semi-oblivion. Thomas Jefferson said “he was truly the Man of the Revolution.” When he died, the Boston press called him “Father of the American Revolution.” Indeed, the revolution was in many respects a “Massachusetts event” – here was the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the battle that started the war. Sam Adams was entangled in them all.
During the French and Indian War (1754-1763), colonists and British troops had fought on the same side. Samuel Adams, who biographer John Miller called “pioneer in propaganda,” was instrumental in abruptly changing Americans’ perception of British soldiers from “good guys” to “bad guys.”
Britain’s national debt had nearly doubled by the long war’s end, and Parliament felt the burden of paying it off should not be borne by British taxpayers alone, but by the colonists as well, especially since they were the main beneficiaries of the war’s victorious outcome. The result was the Sugar Act of 1764, which placed a tax on molasses of three pennies per gallon.
Sam Adams, a member of the Massachusetts state legislature, was the most outspoken opponent of the Act. Widely quoted in newspapers and pamphlets, he declared:
For if our Trade may be taxed, why not our Lands? Why not the Produce of our Lands & everything we possess or make use of?. . . If Taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal Representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the Character of free Subjects to the miserable State of tributary Slaves?3
This established two patterns to Adams’s rhetoric: (1) amplify a perceived wrong far beyond its actual boundaries – i.e., if you gave the king a penny today, tomorrow he would demand a pound; (2) equate British taxation policies with images of slavery.
The Sugar Act was repealed, but it was Britain’s next revenue measures – the Stamp Act of 1765 (repealed in 1766) and the Townshend Acts of 1767 – that catapulted Adams to power. (The Stamp Act would have placed tax on many documents, such as contracts, licenses, diplomas and newspapers, each to require a revenue stamp; the Townshend Acts placed duties on various imports from Britain.) These measures were protested throughout the colonies, but nowhere more violently than Boston. As historian William H. Hallahan notes:
Samuel Adams was gathering and organizing a collection of waterfront mobs who were controlled by his lieutenant, Will Molineaux, a draper; and on occasion even by Paul Revere. Henceforth, Boston was controlled by a “trained mob” glorified by its title: the Sons of Liberty. Sam Adams was its keeper. Adams fashioned another powerful revolutionary tool when he helped spread Sons of Liberty organizations elsewhere in the colonies, where they could be orchestrated into mobs for demonstrations, intimidation, and street violence coordinated with events in Boston.4.
During this rise, Adams recruited the most important ally of his political life: John Hancock.
Both men came from prosperous families. But while Sam Adams turned all his father’s businesses – including a malt house for brewers – into ruins, Hancock became the wealthiest man in Massachusetts, primarily through smuggling operations. A peerless fop, Hancock rode about in a gilded carriage he had specially built in England. Before the revolution began, he even had tailors make him a collection of ornate military costumes he imagined he would wear as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army. When this distinction instead went to George Washington, he bore a grudge that festered for years. Although his extra-large signature on the Declaration of Independence has been popularly ascribed to courageous defiance, it might also be seen as characteristic of his overbearing vanity.
Adams recruited Hancock to be financial angel of the revolution in Massachusetts. Playing to his ego, he allowed Hancock to take the most publicly prominent positions, but there was no doubt that Adams, the back-room intriguer, was the revolutionary mastermind. He soon brought political enemies to heel.
Andrew Oliver, who had been designated distributor of stamps in Boston, was hung in effigy by a mob, had his office vandalized and his home stoned. Adams then forced him to publicly resign before a mob on Boston Common.
Adams learned that terror tactics could be employed to intimidate elected officials as well – by filling the legislature’s gallery with hundreds of his “Mohawks” (Sons of Liberty) and posting the names of legislators considered Tories (British loyalists) on Boston Common’s “Liberty Tree.”
John Mein, who began Boston’s first circulating library, ran an opposition newspaper called the Boston Chronicle. While Adams was forcing Boston merchants to boycott British goods – at great loss to themselves – Mein published ships’ manifests proving that certain traders, including John Hancock, were secretly continuing profitable trade with Britain. A mob then ransacked Mein’s office, and he was attacked on the street by twenty thugs armed with clubs and spades. Orders were handed down for Mein’s arrest, and Sam Adams personally assisted in searching for him. Mein successfully escaped the city, but freedom of the press departed with him.
Home after home of “Tories” were set upon by Adams’s mobs at night. Before undertaking their tasks, they would first get “liquored up“ in Boston’s taverns (making it not inappropriate that Sam Adams is now immortalized on beer bottles). Summoned by bells, whistles, and a horn, the mobs would pour out of the taverns, and descend on the houses of their designated victims, first giving Mohawk “war whoops,” then terrorizing the families and ransacking their homes.
Looting became a “patriotic” act. Destroying the ledger books of creditors was not overlooked. Many loyalists were stripped naked and made victims of the gruesome act of tarring and feathering.
But Adams went too far when he singled out Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson. Adams roused passions by falsely proclaiming the Stamp Act had been Hutchinson’s brainchild. This was a glaring slander – the Massachusetts-born Hutchinson had opposed the Stamp Act. This mattered little to the drunken mob of some 500 that descended on the lieutenant governor’s house on the night of August 26, 1765. Hutchinson and his family barely escaped with their lives. The mob set upon the house for the entire night, breaking the windows, destroying the walls and furniture with axes, stealing all clothing, silverware and money, obliterating Hutchinson’s library (which contained priceless books and manuscripts) and even pulling down the house’s cupola.
The specter of Hutchinson’s destroyed home sparked an outcry in Massachusetts – Deacon Timothy Pickering, Sr. of Salem later compared the mob to the one that surrounded Lot’s house in the Bible. Throughout the colonies, shame fell on Boston. As a result, Adams was forced to publicly criticize the incident, but he blamed it on “vagabond strangers.”
Eight of the perpetrators were arrested in Boston, but another mob simply broke into the jail and freed them. They were never brought to trial.
Hutchinson minced no words about Sam Adams: “I doubt whether there is a greater Incendiary in the King’s dominions or a man of greater malignity of heart, or who less scruples any measure ever so criminal to accomplish his purposes; and I think I do him no injustice when I suppose he wishes the destruction of every Friend to Government in America.”5
In the manner of Orwellian Newspeak, Sam Adams espoused “liberty” while destroying it; he denounced “tyranny” while establishing it. Liberty is meaningless when granted only to people agreeing with those in power. Edward Bacon, the state legislator from Barnstable, Mass. – where an elderly widow named Abigail Freeman was tarred and feathered by a gang of young thugs for expressing “Tory” opinions – said he preferred the master 3,000 miles away to the one in Boston.6
By 1768, under Adams’s tutelage, Boston had become a bedlam of mob rule and violence. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and justice were perishing. At this juncture, British troops were sent to Boston to restore order. One Captain Evelyn would later write to his father, a clergyman in England: “Our arrival has in a great degree restored that liberty they [loyalists] have been so long deprived of, even liberty of speech and security to their persons and property, which has for years past been at the mercy of a most villainous mob.”7
Adams immediately sought to expel these troops. He began circulating to other colonies a “Journal of Events” which alleged that British soldiers were regularly beating small boys and raping the city’s virtuous maidens. Adams did not publish the “Journal” in Massachusetts, where its contents were known to be untrue; but other parts of the continent were easy prey for his atrocity tales. Francis Bernard, governor of Massachusetts, said of Adams’s journal that, even “if the Devil himself” had taken a hand, “there would not have been got together a greater collection of impudent virulent & Seditious Lies, Perversions of Truth & Misrepresentations than are to be found in this Publication.”8 In their own defense, the British soldiers said it would hardly be necessary to resort to rape in a city already so teeming with women of easy virtue.
Adams’s Sons of Liberty began picking fights with redcoats in Boston taverns. One of the trademark quotes of Sam Adams’s career was: “Put your enemy in the wrong, and keep him so, is a wise maxim in politics, as well as in war.” With this principle in mind, Adams sought to generate a catalytic incident – one that would be prelude to Lexington Green.
The Boston “Massacre”
On March 5, 1770, citizens of Boston found handbills posted around the city which read:
this is to inform ye Rebellious People in Boston, that ye Soldiers in ye 14th and 29th Regiments are determend to Joine together and Defend themselves against all who Shall opose them
Signed ye soldiers of ye 14th and 29th Regiments
If, in fact, the redcoats had planned violence against Boston’s citizens, it seems odd that they would broadcast their intentions in advance. Nonetheless, the handbill was used to stir passions among Bostonians.
That evening, summoned by bells, a huge mob, many armed with clubs and staves, descended on King Street. They surrounded the lone sentry on duty near the customs house, taunting him and pelting him with chunks of ice. The sentry called for help. Captain Thomas Preston, officer of the watch at the nearby barracks, came to the sentry’s rescue with seven soldiers. As the bells continued tolling, the crowd grew to some three or four hundred. They closed in on the nine soldiers, hurling rocks, ice and snowballs, and daring them with chants of “Fire!” for they knew the redcoats had orders not to shoot at citizens. As the crowd surrounded the soldiers, they began striking them, and hitting the muzzles of their guns, with cudgels. One soldier, knocked to the ground by a blow from a club, and hearing the word “Fire!” amid the chaos, jumped to his feet and shot at his assailants. Other soldiers fired as well. When it was over, three of the mob lay dead; two were mortally wounded.
The next morning, Sam Adams delivered a fiery speech, and appointed himself and John Hancock heads of a committee that demanded immediate removal of all British troops from Boston. Propaganda went full tilt. Adams’s lieutenant Paul Revere swiftly produced a widely reproduced print of the “massacre” (five deaths being a somewhat hyperbolic use of that term).
It has been noted that Revere’s print included numerous misrepresentations, the most distinct its depiction of the shooting as an orderly volley, given on an officer’s command, suggesting it was a premeditated expression of official British policy. Adams’s committee, which also included Joseph Warren – Grand Master of Boston’s Freemasons – and mob leader William Molineux, ordered publication of A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston. It contained dozens of collected depositions, depicting the incident as unprovoked wanton murder. Reading them, one is impressed that there was hardly a citizen of Boston who was not molested by Captain Preston and his men that night. The depositions read as though written by a seedy playwright of maudlin melodramas. Perhaps Adams had discovered that depositions, like votes and rioters, could be bought with a few tavern drinks (and possibly with Masonic countersigns, for anyone who considered an oath to the brotherhood to outweigh an oath to tell the truth).
Two samples:
Deposition number 31:
I, Nathaniel Appleton, of lawful age, testify, that on Monday evening the 5th instant . . . I went to my front door and saw several persons passing up and down the street, I asked what was the matter? was informed that the soldiers at Murray’s barrack were quarrelling with the inhabitants. Standing there a few minutes, I saw a number of soldiers, about 12 or 15, as near as I could judge, come down from the southward, running towards the said barrack with drawn cutlasses, and appeared to be passing by, but on seeing me in company with Deacon Marsh at my door, they turned out of their course and rushed upon us with uplifted weapons, without our speaking or doing the least thing to provoke them, with the utmost difficulty we escaped a stroke by retreating and closing the door upon them. I further declare, that at that time my son, a lad about 12 years old, was abroad on an errand, and soon came home and told me that he was met by a number of soldiers with cutlasses in their hands, one of which attempting to strike him, the child begg’d for his life, saying, pray soldier save my life, on which the soldier reply’d, No damn you, I will kill you all, and smote him with his cutlass, which glanced down along his arm and knocked him to the ground where they left him, after the soldiers had all passed, the child arose and came home, having happily received no other damage than a bruise on the arm.
Deposition No. 66:
I, John Wilson of lawful age testify, that on monday evening the 5th current, I . . . heard the bells ring and . . . I asked what was the matter? The people said the soldiers had insulted the inhabitants . . . . Then I came down King street opposite the custom-house, and saw a man with a light color’d surtout coming from the main guard go up to the centry, and lay his hand on his shoulder and speak some words to the centry, and then enter the custom-house door. On this the centry grounded the breech of his gun, took out a cartridge, primed and loaded, and shoulder’d his firelock. After this I drew back opposite Mr. Stone’s, & in a few minutes saw a party of soldiers headed by an officer coming down from the main guard, crying to the inhabitants, Damn you, make way you boogers! I not moving from my place was struck by one of them on the hip with the butt of his musquet, which bruised me so much that it was next day very sore, and much discoloured. The officer seeing the soldier strike me said to the soldier in an angry manner why don’t you prick the boogers? The party drew up before the custom-house door, and ranged to the west corner in a half circle, and charged their pieces breast high. Some small boys coming up made a noise to the soldiers, on which the officer said to them why don’t you fire? Damn you, fire! They hereupon fired, and two men fell dead in my sight.9
These depositions portrayed the soldiers “Adams style” – cowards who beat children, who shot without provocation, their conduct motivated by officers. (Note the claims of having received bruises, which fade away and, unlike wounds, leave no scar that could corroborate injury.)
The soldiers were tried for murder, and Sam Adams expected that, with a jury stacked with his “Mohawks,” he would soon see redcoats swinging from gallows on Boston Common. But the defense was led by Sam’s second cousin John – the future President – who, despite threats against himself, did a creditable job. He saw to it that the jurors came from outside Boston, and 38 witnesses testified that there had been a plot that night to attack the redcoats. The prosecution did not even enter into evidence the threatening handbill alleged to have been written by the soldiers.
The most crushing blow for Sam Adams came with the deathbed confession of one of the two mortally wounded men – Patrick Carr. Carr said the soldiers had been provoked into shooting; that they had shown far greater restraint than the British soldiers Carr had seen facing mobs in his native Ireland; and he forgave the soldier who shot him, as he had pulled the trigger in self-defense.
Outraged, Sam Adams publicly denounced Carr’s confession. Playing to the prejudices of the day, he said it should be disregarded because Carr was a “Papist.”10
The jury acquitted all but two of the soldiers, who were convicted of manslaughter. No redcoats swung from the gallows. Sam’s cousin John – tactfully without naming names – remarked of the incident: “I suspected that this was the explosion which had been intentionally wrought up by designing men who knew what they were aiming at, better than the instruments employed.”11
The verdict stung Sam Adams, but taught him lessons that would prove useful. And he continued to play the massacre for all it was worth. As the master of melodramatic propaganda, it is believed he had a great hand in writing John Hancock’s torrid Boston Massacre fourth-anniversary oration, of which here is a small sampling. Bear in mind these words were being spoken more than three years after a Massachusetts jury rejected the murder charges brought against the troops:
But I forbear, and come reluctantly to the transactions of that dismal night . . . when Satan, with his chosen band, opened the sluices of New England’s blood, and sacrilegiously polluted our land with the dead bodies of her guiltless sons! Let this sad tale of death never be told without a tear . . . let every parent tell the shameful story to his listening children until tears of pity glisten in their eyes, and boiling passions shake their tender frames . . . let all America join in one common prayer to heaven that the inhuman, unprovoked murders of the fifth of March, 1770 . . . executed by the cruel hand of Preston and his sanguinary coadjutors, may ever stand in history without a parallel. . . . And though the murderers may escape the just resentment of an enraged people; though drowsy justice . . . still nods upon her rotten seat . . . . Ye dark designing knaves, ye murderers, parricides! how dare you tread upon the earth which has drunk in the blood of slaughtered innocents, shed by your wicked hands?
The Boston Tea Party
As it did with the Sugar Act, England had repealed the Stamp Act (from which it never collected one penny) in response to colonial protests.
In 1766, a frustrated Parliament, still seeking a practical means of raising revenues from the colonies, summoned Benjamin Franklin, the leading representative of American interests in Britain. The following exchange is of interest:
Q. What was the temper of America toward Great Britain before the year 1763?
A. The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the government of the Crown, and paid, in their courts, obedience to acts of Parliament. . . .
Q. Did you ever hear the authority of Parliament to make laws for America questioned till lately?
A. The authority of Parliament was allowed to be valid in all laws, except such as should lay internal taxes. It was never disputed in laying duties to regulate commerce. . . .
Q. Was it an opinion in America before 1763 that the Parliament had no right to lay taxes and duties there?
A. I never heard an.12
Based on assurances, such as these from Franklin, that the colonies would respect Britain’s right to place duties on her own commerce, Parliament passed the Townshend Acts, assigning duties on various British goods sold in America. Sam Adams then coerced Boston merchants to sign his “nonimportation agreement” on pain of being otherwise named a public enemy and subject to mob violence (this had been prior to the arrival of the British troops). As we have seen, while Boston merchants were going broke from the boycott, Adams looked the other way as his friend John Hancock continued profitable trade with Britain – to borrow Orwell’s phrase, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others..
While Hancock had an ulterior motive of profit in the Boston Tea Party, Adams’s motive was to push the nation toward revolution. The dependable Paul Revere was dispatched to New York and Philadelphia with the news. Moreover, the incident was bound to push England into reacting, as had been the strategy of the Boston Massacre – to, as Adams liked to phrase it, “Put your enemy in the wrong.”
The “Tea Party” sparked outrage in Britain. Parliament, feeling that they had tolerated enough from Boston, ordered the port closed until the damage was paid for. General Thomas Gage was sent as military governor.
This played right into Sam Adams’s hands. Many in Massachusetts wanted the East India Company compensated, but Adams blocked every move to pay for the tea.13 The prolonged port closure brought Boston commerce to a standstill, inciting sympathy for the city in the other colonies.
A reading of British newspapers and speeches in Parliament reveals that Britain considered Boston the source of more trouble than all the other colonies combined. But characteristically, Adams projected the measures, aimed solely at Boston, as aimed at all colonies. In a letter to the Philadelphia Committee of Correspondence, he wrote:
This attack, though made immediately upon us, is doubtless designed for every other colony, who will not surrender their sacred Rights & Liberties into the Hands of an infamous Ministry. Now therefore is the Time, when ALL should be united in opposition to this Violation of the Liberties of ALL.14
First Continental Congress
As Miller notes, “No American patriot had demanded more vigorously than Sam Adams a Continental Congress to unite colonial opposition to Great Britain.”15 The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia in 1774, and into this city Sam Adams brought his Boston brand of politics. Quoting Hallahan:
Sam Adams’s first step on arriving at Philadelphia was to visit the docks and piers of the riverfront with a local politician, Charles Thomson, who liked to describe himself as the Sam Adams of Philadelphia. Adams spent some time on the docks and in the taverns talking with the workingmen there, pressing the flesh and preaching his incendiary politics. He quickly won many converts – and lined up some muscle.16
Although Joseph Galloway, moderate delegate from Pennsylvania, had proposed the Pennsylvania State House as the venue for the convention, Sam Adams pressed for meeting in the smaller, somewhat cramped quarters of the more populist, recently built Carpenter’s Hall because the workingmen of the city identified with it. . . . Galloway noted that it was no coincidence that workingmen from the docks were loitering on the grounds around Carpenter’s Hall in an intimidating manner.17
Sam Adams ran Carpenter’s Hall much like he did Faneuil Hall, doing back-room politicking before actual votes. Through such machinations, he had himself made temporary secretary of the convention, then Thomson permanent secretary.
Meanwhile back in Boston, by prearrangement, Adams’s lieutenant Joseph Warren hosted a meeting of radicals at Faneuil Hall; they passed a resolution called the “Suffolk Resolves” (Suffolk is Boston’s county). The resolves called for a boycott of all British goods, for all towns to raise militias, and for “the inhabitants of those towns and districts, who are qualified, to use their utmost diligence to acquaint themselves with the art of war as soon as possible, and . . . appear under arms at least once every week.” This was a radical step toward war. Warren then dispatched Paul Revere – as he would on the “Midnight Ride”– to Philadelphia with a copy of the resolves, which the Continental Congress officially endorsed.
Joseph Galloway, leader of the moderates, proposed a plan of reconciliation with Great Britain. Later, a gallows noose was delivered to his door, and the next night a message that read: “Hang yourself or we will do it for you.” Galloway said he lived “in the utmost danger from the mobs raised by Mr. Adams of being hung at my own door.”
Every night I expected would be my last. Men were excited by persons northward [Boston], by falsehoods fabricated for the purpose, to put me to death. Several attempts were made.18
Sam Adams’s climactic maneuver at the Continental Congress was procuring a pledge from the delegates that, should armed conflict erupt between Massachusetts and British troops, the other colonies would come to the aid of Massachusetts. However, the delegates, distrustful of Adams, attached an important condition to this pledge. They would only help Massachusetts if the British fired first. When Sam Adams returned home, he had one paramount goal: to produce just such an incident.
Lexington Coming
However, all during the winter of 1774-75, General Thomas Gage, commander of British forces in Boston, gave Adams no opportunity. As political flames raged, loyalists sought refuge in Boston, while many rebels evacuated the city. Boston became a loyalist stronghold, surrounded by a sea of hostile patriots, and Gage had no desire to venture his troops against the increasingly prepared – and mandatory – minutemen militias.
In April 1775, the Second Continental Congress – at which Hancock would preside as president – was due to begin the following month. Sam Adams desperately needed a “British fired first” incident to bring before the Congress. Otherwise, the passion for revolution might wane, the moderates would prevail, and there would be no war.
At this juncture, what Hallahan calls “bait” was offered to lure Gage out. Adams and Hancock had been attending the Massachusetts Provincial Congress (the colony’s provisional independent government) in Concord. General Gage began receiving intelligence reports that large amounts of munitions, including cannons, were stored in Concord for an army the Provincial Congress planned to raise. Some of the reports exaggerated the quantity of munitions. A number of Gage’s reports came from Benjamin Church, the notorious double agent whose true loyalties have long been controversial.
Gage now made the fateful decision to send troops to neutralize the Concord munitions before they could be deployed against his own forces. En route, they would have a “date with destiny” in Lexington.
Can it only be coincidence that, on the night before the battle, Adams, Hancock and Revere – the apparent mastermind and leading propagandists of the “Boston Massacre” – were congregating in a house a few hundred feet behind Lexington Green? (The house, still standing, is called the Hancock-Clarke House.) It was owned by Reverend Jonas Clarke, Lexington’s firebrand patriot-preacher whose wife was Hancock’s cousin.
It has been traditionally reported that Revere rode to the house to warn Adams and Hancock that the British forces might be on a mission to arrest them. However, although England had authorized Gage to apprehend revolutionary leaders, including the famous pair, evidence repudiates that this was Gage’s intention that day:
(1) Gage’s orders to Lieutenant Colonel Smith, who commanded the expedition, only discuss securing the Concord munitions, and make no mention of arrests;
(2) A force of 700 foot soldiers would be an extremely inefficient instrument for performing an arrest;
(3) In Lexington, the British made no movements toward the Hancock-Clarke House;
(4) After his initial meeting with Adams and Hancock, Revere rode on toward Concord, but was captured by an advance British patrol at 1 AM. The British knew they had Adams’s famed lieutenant Paul Revere in their hands – but eventually turned him loose. Had they truly been after Adams and Hancock, they should have held on to Revere, for no one would better know their whereabouts. (After being released, Revere rejoined Adams and Hancock in Lexington.)
If, in fact, Adams and Hancock were worried about arrest by the British, they displayed little alarm, tarrying at the house long after Revere’s warning. Furthermore, examination of a letter written by Hancock reveals they had already received intelligence about the British movements at 9PM on the 18th – three hours before Revere’s arrival. See the New York Times article “Letter Deepens Doubt on Paul Revere’s Ride.”
Revere’s 1775 deposition, describing his midnight ride, makes little mention of alarming the countryside, or shouting that the regulars were coming, as is famously ascribed to him. He very probably did so, and he certainly discussed it in his postwar account many years later, but in the original deposition he emphasizes going straight from Joseph Warren to see Adams and Hancock – this, apparently, was his foremost objective.
In the wee hours of the morning of the 19th, Adams, Hancock and Clarke walked down to Lexington Green and had a discussion with the militia that had gathered at Buckman’s Tavern in response to the town’s alarm bells. Half a century ago, historian Arthur B. Tourtellot wrote:
Adams and Clarke unquestionably made up a policy between themselves. Adams knew the broad strategy of the resistance, because he was at this point its sole architect. Clarke knew the men of Lexington and, what is more, could control them as no outsider could. The policy determined upon between the time of Revere’s first alarm and of the minutemen’s first muster and the time of the actual arrival of the British troops, was for the minutemen, however outnumbered, to make a conspicuous stand but not to fire.19
The conversation between Adams, Hancock, Clarke and the militia at Buckman’s Tavern has never been revealed, but we know that:
• Adams urgently needed a “British fired first” incident to bring to the upcoming Continental Congress.
• Adams had famously said, “Put your enemy in the wrong, and keep him so, is a wise maxim in politics, as well as in war.”
• Adams had evidently orchestrated the “Boston Massacre.”
Boston Massacre/Lexington Massacre
Indeed, the Lexington affair was sometimes styled the “Lexington Massacre,” and uncanny parallels exist between the two events:
• Prints of each were made. Compare Revere’s notorious misrepresentation of the Boston Massacre to Doolittle’s depiction of Lexington:
In each picture, the colonists, who offer no provocation, are being slaughtered by a synchronous, orderly volley from redcoats upon an officer’s command. This in spite of British reports that shooting at both incidents was sporadic and not in response to orders. You might recall the words of John Wilson, a deponent, regarding the Boston Massacre:
“Some small boys coming up made a noise to the soldiers, on which the officer said to them why don’t you fire? Damn you, fire! They hereupon fired.”
Now look at the words of William Draper, a deponent regarding the battle of Lexington:
“The commanding officer of said troops (as I took him) gave the command to the troops, fire, damn you fire, and immediately they fired.”
Two separate incidents five years apart, two different officers. Was it standard practice for British officers to instruct their men to shoot with the words, “Fire, damn you, fire”? One gets the impression that these depositions were scripted by the same writer.
• Indeed, depositions were another common denominator to both events – collected, widely published, and claiming the colonists offered no provocation whatsoever. But as we have also seen, for the Boston Massacre, these claims did not stand up in court. In the case of the “Lexington Massacre,” Adams knew the depositions would not be tested by cross-examination, since war had commenced and there would be no trial. However, the Lexington depositions received their own taint 50 years later, when town pride demanded new depositions amending the first ones. (At that point, Sam Adams was long dead and no one feared his vengeance.)
• Both incidents were followed by intense communications with neighboring communities via dispatch riders. For the latter event, the History of the Town of Lexington notes:
The report of the bloody transaction at Lexington spread as on the wings of wind, and the fact that the regulars had fired upon and killed several citizens was known not only in the neighboring towns, but to the distance of forty or fifty miles in the course of the forenoon. The people immediately flew to arms. . . .20
Other colonies were also rallied to arms by reports of the Lexington “massacre” from dispatch riders traversing the coast.
• Both incidents were the subject of vitriolic, dishonest depictions of the British troops’ behavior. Do you recall Hancock’s florid language in his Boston Massacre oration, and Adams’s claim that soldiers were regularly raping Boston ladies? Now let’s examine more closely the widely distributed report of Lexington, in the newspaper the Massachusetts Spy. Bear in mind that the newspaper’s publisher, Isaiah Thomas, met with Adams and Hancock in Worcester, Massachusetts, before printing this:! . . . It is noticed they fired upon our people as they were dispersing, agreeable to their command, and that we did not even return the fire. Eight of our men were killed and nine wounded; The troops then laughed, and damned the Yankees.
The report speaks of “defenseless women, some of whom were in the pains of childbirth.” It is true that, during the bloody retreat back to Boston, the British burned a number of houses, especially those from which they were fired on. However, no historian has ever found a case where a woman in childbirth was in any way molested. The closest instance was Hannah Adams, who had an 18-day-old baby, and was forced to evacuate her home. Hannah was not injured, nor the child, who grew up and was herself married.21
As for those in “old age,” again, there is no known case except 79-year-old Samuel Whittemore. When the British were retreating through the town of Menotomy, Whittemore, a feisty old war veteran, fired at them from behind a stone wall with a musket and pistols – killing two redcoats and mortally wounding another. The British troops furiously shot and bayoneted him. Obviously one cannot plead “old age” when bearing arms, and clearly he was not, as the Spy put it, “confined to a bed of sickness.” Whittemore survived and died at 97 of natural causes.22
The Hannah Adams/Whittemore incidents were inflated by the Massachusetts Spy into countless assaults upon the gentler sex and elderly. People reading the broadsides in other colonies had no way of knowing these tales were false. This helped establish a pattern – for the last two centuries, Americans have been provoked to war by fabricated atrocity stories spun in the press. In the Spanish-American War, it was Spaniards throwing Cubans to sharks and roasting Cuban priests; in World War I it was German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies; in the 1991 Gulf War it was Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators. Small wonder that Thomas Jefferson, himself later victimized by newspaper smears,.23
Oddities at Lexington Green
What really did happen in Lexington on April 19, 1775? My patriot lecturer friend had told me the militia would not have fired first, because they were outnumbered ten-to-one. But this begs another question: if hopelessly outnumbered, why stand on the green in the first place?
The Lexington militia behaved very distinctly from other militias that day. When the British reached Concord, the militia there wisely withdrew to the safety of a hill, then waited until strong reinforcements arrived from other towns. And all through the day, as the British retreated to Boston, the militias attacked, but from behind trees, walls, and house windows.
How different was the Lexington militia! They stood on an open green, holding their rifles in formation. Did this not invite confrontation? The redcoats could obviously not march past a hostile armed force on their flank, or leave it threatening their rear.
Adams and Hancock, who conferred with the militia before the incident, were the two most powerful figures in Massachusetts (after the war, Hancock became the state’s governor, with Adams his lieutenant governor). The Lexington militia was under the immediate command of Captain John Parker, an old French and Indian War scout. However, all Massachusetts militias fell under the authority of the Provincial Congress, of which Hancock was president, and the Massachusetts Committee of Safety, of which Hancock was chairman. And since Hancock had already had several uniforms tailored for his self-envisioned role as commander of the entire Continental Army, he would hardly demur at giving orders to a local militia captain.
Although Adams and Hancock fled to neighboring Woburn before the shooting began, Paul Revere himself arrived at the green about a half-hour prior to the redcoats marching in at dawn. This bears comment.
Supposedly, Revere went to the green with Hancock’s clerk John Lowell (yet another Freemason from Boston’s St. Andrew’s Lodge), because Hancock had forgotten that he had stored, at Buckman’s Tavern, a heavy trunk containing important documents he feared the British would discover. This means Revere was mingling with the Lexington militia, who were also at Buckman’s Tavern, until the moment the British arrived – when, he said, he and Lowell then hurried along with the trunk on foot.
While this story may be entirely true, it presents peculiarities:
• Hancock himself had already been to Buckman’s Tavern that morning. If the trunk was so vital, one would think he would have remembered it then.
• It seems an unlikely concern that the British would have diverted from their expedition to search Buckman’s Tavern, which of course they didn’t.
• It seems strange that Hancock did not send his coach for the trunk, which could have spirited it away expeditiously. Surely having Revere and Lowell haul it on foot posed greater danger of its apprehension by the British.
• In case anyone thinks Hancock couldn’t risk sending his gilded coach back to Lexington – he did send it back, famously, to the Hancock-Clarke house, to fetch a salmon he wished for his breakfast. While Hancock was enough of a fop for such a vain stunt on the morning that a war was beginning, it begs the question of why he sent the carriage for the salmon, but not the all-important trunk.
The Shot(s) Heard Round the World
Early in this article, we listed reasons why British accounts of Lexington are more credible than American ones. So let’s reconstruct the event based on their reports. Bear in mind that the British were already under strict orders not to fire unless fired upon.
Lieutenant William Sutherland and Lieutenant Jesse Adair were riding ahead of the marching column. As they approached Lexington village, they heard shots to their left and right, but hearing no balls whistling, assumed it was a local alarm signal. Then they then saw a colonist aim his musket at them and pull the trigger – but it “flashed in the pan”; that is, the primer powder failed to ignite the charge in the musket.
Sutherland and Adair rode back and reported this incident to Major John Pitcairn, commander of the lead column. Pitcairn, who had already heard warnings along the road that a hostile force was waiting at Lexington, now told his troops to load their guns and fix bayonets. He then ordered them to advance, but not to fire under any circumstances without orders.
Here is a map of the disposition of the Lexington battle:
When the British troops spotted the militia on the green, they split left and right to flank them. At this point, the first shots at the green itself were fired. Quoting Lieutenant Sutherland:
We still went on further when 3 shot more were fired at us, which we did not return, & this is sacred truth as I hope for mercy These 3 shots were fired from the corner of a large house to the right of the Church.24
The house Sutherland referred to is Buckman’s Tavern. (The “church” and the “meeting house” on the map are one and the same.) Since there were, of course, no repeating rifles then, this means three shooters. The first of these shots might technically be the “shot heard round the world.” But though the militias were noted for their marksmanship, all three shooters missed their targets.
Ignoring the shots, the British kept focused on the militia on the green. Major Pitcairn rode up toward them, and ordered them to throw down their guns and disperse. At this point, both British and American accounts concur that the militia began dispersing. However, according to the British, four or five of the militia suddenly dove behind a wall and fired:
Major Pictairn: “some of the rebels who had jumped over the wall, fired four or five shots at the soldiers.” Lieutenant Sutherland: “instantly some of the villains who got over a hedge [wall] fired at us which our men for the first time returned.” Ensign Jeremy Lister, writing an account several years later, reversed the sequence and said: “they gave a fire then run off to get behind a wall.” Since Pitcairn’s and Sutherland’s accounts were written shortly after the event, they can be assumed more chronologically accurate. Pitcairn’s report also noted that his horse was hit by shots fired from “some quarter or other” and “at the same time several shots were fired from a Meeting House on our left.”25
(I would like to interject here that Major Pitcairn, who later died at Bunker Hill, was not a man to whitewash a report; he was widely known for his integrity and courage, such that even the Sons of Liberty paid him respect, a high compliment indeed.)
So, not counting the “flash in the pan,” we have three shots from Buckman’s Tavern, four or five shots by the men who jumped behind the wall, perhaps more from “some quarter or other,” and “several” from the meeting house. Based on the British reports, it appears that possibly upwards of ten shots were fired on the redcoats before they returned fire. According to all British accounts, their return fire was not based on orders given, but was a spontaneous, disorderly reaction to the multiple shots the Americans fired. The green now billowed with musket smoke, and the British officers had to restrain their men with considerable difficulty.
The three men who fired from the corner of Buckman’s Tavern surely knew they were jeopardizing the militia on the green. So must have the men who jumped the wall. It is noteworthy that Paul Revere – whose alarm brought the militia out in the first place – had been at Buckman’s Tavern only moments before the “shot heard round the world” was fired from that very place. The map details Revere’s path, which took him from Buckman’s right through the militia. Was he really there just to haul a trunk, or was he choreographing the incident, passing instructions as he moved along?
Buckman’s Tavern still stands across from the green.
Of course, I don’t believe for a moment that the Lexington militiamen were planning to sacrifice themselves as cannon fodder, any more than the mob at the “Boston Massacre.” I suggest that only a few were “in the know” – the individuals who fired the opening rounds from protected places, leaving the men on the green to absorb the fury of British retaliation.
But is there any evidence that there was a group separate from the Lexington militia? There is. Later in the day, as the redcoats were retreating from Concord, General Gage sent a relief column from Boston under Brigadier Hugh Percy. Riding as a scout for Percy’s column was an American loyalist, George Leonard. His statement is among General Gage’s papers:
George Leonard of Boston deposes that he went from Boston on the nineteenth of April with the Brigade commanded by Lord Percy upon their march to Lexington. That being on horseback and having no connexion with the army, he several times went forward of the Brigade, in one of which excursions he met with a countryman [fellow American] who was wounded supported by two others who were armed. This was about a mile on this side of Lexington Meeting House. The deponent asked the wounded person what was the matter with him. He answered that the Regulars had shot him. The Deponent then asked what provoked them to do it – he said that some of our people fired upon the Regulars, and they fell on us like bull dogs and killed eight and wounded nineteen. He further said that it was not the Company he belonged to that fired but some of our Country people that were on the other side of the road. The Deponent enquired of the other men if they were present. They answered, yes, and related the affair much as the wounded man had done. All three blamed the rashness of their own people for firing first and said they supposed now the Regulars would kill everybody they met with.
Boston, May 4, 1775
George Leonard 26
Note Leonard’s report that the wounded man said “it was not the Company he belonged to that fired but some of our Country people that were on the other side of the road.” This indicated the Buckman Tavern area, across the street from the green. It shows that Lexington’s armed men were not one cohesive unit.
The phrase “not the Company he belonged to” adds interest to the wording of the Lexington militia’s depositions. 34 deponents signed a statement declaring that “not a gun was fired by any person in our company on the regulars to our knowledge before they fired on us.” Another 14 signed a statement that “the regulars fired on the company before a gun was fired by any of our company on them.” (Emphasis added.) These statements don’t exclude the first shots being fired by Americans – rather, they deny any such shots came from “our company.” This nuance may have been important in persuading some militiamen to sign the collective depositions. If anyone’s conscience gave him pause, men like Reverend Clarke could always assure him that the statement was, technically, true; and that one’s patriotic duty to avenge the dead outweighed considerations over exactness.
Who were these gunmen who fired the opening shots from protected places? It seems highly doubtful that they were members of the Lexington militia, who would not have willfully endangered their friends and kinsmen. Of course, some shots came from the four or five men who, having been on the green, jumped a wall and fired; but not every man that had assembled on the green was from Lexington; some told Parker they had come from neighboring districts, having heard the town’s bells tolling. William Draper (who signed the deposition saying the British officer cried “Fire, damn you, fire!”) gave his residence as the faraway town of Colrain. Is it possible that John Lowell was not the only Freemason from St. Andrew’s Lodge whom Revere brought to the green shortly before the British arrived? A number of Sam Adams’s “Mohawks” had fled Boston after its loyalist consolidation and would have been at large that April. Was the “Boston Massacre” strategy being replayed?
Though I will doubtlessly be accused of gross speculation, I would like to know a better reason why, with the militia hopelessly outnumbered, a few men fired on the redcoats from concealed locations, leaving the militia on the green to bear the consequences. And I would also like to hear why the town of Lexington kept its firing – of shots of any kind – essentially a secret for fifty years.
I now offer further speculation. You will recall that when lieutenants Sutherland and Adair, riding in advance, approached the green, they saw a colonist aim his musket and pull the trigger, but the powder “flashed in the pan.” The officers thought they had been spared by a lucky “misfire.”
Then we have three shots from Buckman’s Tavern that all missed. And with the shots from the wall and the meeting house, and any in the subsequent exchange, the British suffered only one wound; none were killed. This is quite a contrast to the rest of the day, when the redcoats suffered some 250 casualties. Remember, even 79-year old Samuel Whittemore killed three redcoats firing from behind a wall. Yet the Lexington men, with a multitude of shots from various locations, couldn’t inflict one significant hit on the troops amassed before them.
Perhaps there were no British dead at Lexington Green because Adams and Hancock wanted none. If redcoats had to be buried in the village, it might have cast doubt on the tale of an “unprovoked massacre.” I suggest that some shooters may have missed on purpose, perhaps even firing “without ball.” Perhaps the “flash in the pan” was not a misfire but an attempt to provoke without drawing blood.
What the British marched into was a trap. No matter the precise details, the outcome was virtually guaranteed:
• The militia standing in battle formation guaranteed the redcoats would confront it.
• Firing shot after shot at the British guaranteed that at some point a threshold would be reached, and the redcoats would fire reciprocally – very parallel to the “Boston Massacre,” where soldiers were pelted and clubbed to the point of shooting in self-defense.
• Firing but deliberately missing guaranteed the British would experience few if any casualties; there would be high colonist casualties by comparison. Thus statistics would corroborate the “Lexington massacre” story.
Perhaps John Adams’s comment on the Boston Massacre bears repeating here: “I suspected that this was the explosion which had been intentionally wrought up by designing men who knew what they were aiming at, better than the instruments employed.”
For John Hancock, the battle of Lexington, like the Boston Tea Party, was profitable; with the outbreak of war, some 500 smuggling indictments, pending against him in the courts, vanished.27 But for Sam Adams, the picture was much broader. Upon hearing the distant Lexington gunfire, he turned to Hancock and famously said, “What a glorious morning is this!” As historian William Hallahan put it, “For the price of a few dead farmers, Adams could buy his war.”28
Afterword
Obviously, Samuel Adams is “the villain of my piece.” Am I obsessed with hating him? Have I nothing good to say of the man?
To Adams’s credit, he was not, like Hancock, a materialist. He lived a simple, frugal lifestyle, and did not seek riches from his revolutionary agitations.
In fact, it has been said that he sought to emulate his Puritan forefathers. He prayed, read the Bible, and, after the war, even publicly opposed amusements such as clubs for card-playing. However, to oppose card-playing, while suborning mob violence and property destruction, and habitually engaging in “ends justify the means” lying and slander, is to mis-prioritize virtues, a practice that Jesus Christ condemned the Pharisees for.
To his credit, Adams opposed centralization of government under the Constitution unless amendments (i.e., the Bill of Rights) were appended. Yet many found Adams’s postwar views on liberty self-contradictory. For example, when rural Massachusetts farmers and veterans, finding their property confiscated for inability to pay state taxes and debts, began what was known as “Shay’s Rebellion,” Sam Adams (then president of the Massachusetts senate) called the rebels “traitors,” declared that their leaders should be executed (two were hung), and helped push through a senate bill suspending the right of habeas corpus during the crisis.
But my article raises a far more significant matter. It has concluded that the Massachusetts events, used to spark the Revolutionary War, were predominantly specious. What, then, does that say about the war itself, the American nation it spawned, and the Founding Fathers in general? I will address these issues in Part II. However, since that will take time to write (I am still researching Part II and will probably post other articles before its completion), I am going to cast water at some fires I have already lit.
Some may accuse me of being an “anglophile” for writing the preceding article. But – other than enjoying old comedies with Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness – I plead innocent. I have never visited the UK, and no British blood flows in my veins. I have no motive other than seeking truth.
I am not, repeat not, seeking to bring America back under British dominion. In point of fact, a destructive Anglo-American political alliance, nurtured by banks and multinationals, has been in effect for over a century, and anyone familiar with my other writings knows how bitterly critical I have been of those interests.
As an American, I may also be accused by a few of being unpatriotic, perhaps even treasonably so. I would like to answer that potential charge.
I have lived nearly all my life in and around Boston. As is well known, Bostonians have long had a near-fanatical love of their baseball team, the Red Sox, a passion matched only by their hatred for the team’s nemesis, the New York Yankees.
At a sporting event, it is OK, if one wants, to imagine that the home team consists only of angelic heroes, while all of the opposing club’s players personify evil.
But history is not a game, nor is war. Patriotism is a virtue, that is very true. But truth is also a virtue. Of these two virtues, which ranks higher? Which is numbered in the Ten Commandments?
Where does my patriotism end? Only where it asks me to forsake the truth.
NOTES
1. William Heath, Memoirs of Major-General Heath, (1798; reprint, New York: William Abbatt, 1901), 5-6.
2. Vicomte Léon De Poncins, Freemasonry and Judaism: Secret Powers behind Revolution (1929, reprint; Brooklyn, N.Y.: A & B Publishers Group, 1994), 33-34.
3. Les Standiford, Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals who Led the Colonies to War (New York: HarperCollins, 2012), 35.
4. William H. Hallahan, The Day the American Revolution Began: 19 April 1775 (New York: HarperCollins, 2001), 234.
5. John C. Miller, Sam Adams: Pioneer in Propaganda (1936, reprint; Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1966), 239.
6. Ibid., 267.
7. Harold Murdock, The Nineteenth of April 1775 (1923, reprint; Cranbury, N. J.: The Scholar’s Bookshelf, 2005), 18-19.
8. Miller, 175.
9. A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston (Boston: Edes & Gill, 1770).
10. Miller, 189.
11. Paul M. Zall, ed., Adams on Adams (Lexington, Kent.: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 38.
12. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 1 (London: British and Foreign Public Library, 1818), xxxv-xxxvi.
13. Hallahan, 54.
14. Standiford, 220-21.
15. Miller, 306-7.
16. Hallahan, 132-33.
17. Ibid., 133.
18. Ibid., 143.
19. Arthur B. Tourtellot, Lexington and Concord: The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1963), 112.
20. Charles Hudson, History of the Town of Lexington, Massachusetts, vol. 1, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), 155-56.
21. Murdock, 121-24.
22. Ibid., 125-27.
23. Letter to John Norvell, June 14, 1807, The Letters of Thomas Jefferson 1743-1826.
24. Allen French, General Gage’s Informers (1932, reprint; New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), 58.
25. Ibid., 53, 55, 59.
26. Ibid., 57-58.
27. Hallahan, 25.
28. Hallahan, 33.
This article was originally published, with slight modifications, in 2013 on Paul Noble’s website. Paul is a true gentleman, a British patriot active in the movement to keep his country independent of the EU. I am most grateful to Paul for hosting the article and for acquainting me with British perspectives on the Revolutionary War.
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I have two questions concerning the Imam Mahdi and The coming of Prophet Isa (AS)
Are all the minor signs done and are we just wait for Imam Mahdi to emerge?
Will the Prophet Isa (AS) marry during his second coming?
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
As-salāmu ‘alaykum wa-rahmatullāhi wa-barakātuh.
The signs of Qiyamah can be divided into three categories;
- Signs that have elapsed.
- Minor signs.
- Major signs.
The following are minor signs of Qiyamah.
- Lost of trust (from the hearts of people). (Bukhari)
- Lost of ilm and rampant ignorance. (Bukhari)
- Widespread adultery (Zina). (Bukhari)
- Interest (Riba) being widespread. (Tabrani)
- Appearance of musical instruments. (Ibn Majah)
- Extensive use of alcohol. (Muslim)
- Competing with each other in decorating Masjids. (Ahmad)
- Competing with each other in building (houses, building etc.) (Bukhari)
- Abundance of killing. (Muslim)
- Contrition in/of time. (Bukhari)
- Extensive immorality, break of family relations and evil character among neighbors. (Ahmad)
- The use of black dye by men. (Ahmad)
- Widespread miserliness. (Tabrani)
- Abundance of earthquakes. (Bukhari)
- Extensive trade/business until a woman would accompany/join her husband in trade and business (Ahmad).
- Removal of the pious (by Allah Ta’ala). (Ahmad)
- Salam (to say Assalamu Alaykum) will be made by a person only to those whom he knows. (Ahmad)
- Ilm (Knowledge) will be sought from young (Asagir). (Jami As-Sagir)
- Women would be clothed yet naked (due to their style of clothing). (Ahmad)
- Presence of lairs. (Muslim)
- False oaths will be taken. (Ahmad)
- The presence of more women than men. (Bukhari)
- Unexpected and sudden deaths. (Tabrani)
It is clear that all the minor signs of Qiyamah have taken place. However, Allah alone knows when the major signs will occur. Our responsibility is to prepare for our death in the state of Imaan and save ourselves from all forms of sins.
2) It has been recorded in some narrations that Isa Alayhis Salaam will marry and have a child. Thereafter, he will pass away and will be buried alongside Rasulullah Sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, Abu Bakr & Umar Radhiallahu anhuma.
And Allah Ta’āla Knows Best
Bilal Issak
Student Darul Iftaa
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Gender can be a powerful tool in exploring how technical knowledge systems have historically intersected with identity and social order. Gender as an analytical framework offers one way to understand why certain kinds of people have been understood to be unreliable knowers, pathologically embodied, untrustworthy, or dangerously linked to emotion, incompetence or confusion, while other kinds of people have been socially marked as embodying reliability, trustworthiness, or epistemological neutrality.
In the spring of 2016, Professor Susan M. Lindee (History and Sociology of Science Department, University of Pennsylvania) offered a graduate seminar on “Gender and Science.” As a part of this course, I produced a short bibliography of Saruhashi Katsuko, a geochemist at the Japanese Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) who conducted research on the effects of atmospheric nuclear testing in the 1950s by measuring the amount of radioactivity in seawater. In this paper, I applied feminist theories to analyze illuminate some of the ways that gender has mattered in her career as a scientist.
(Access PDF version from here: 2016spring_hssc528_biography_sumiko-hatakeyama_final)
(Sumiko Hatakeyama)
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A LIFE STORY OF SARUHASHI Katsuko (1920-2007)
When Saruhashi Katsuko was a young child, people would mock her about the ironic contrast between the name given to her and her personality. Her given name, Katsuko, literally translates as strong-minded or victorious. However, she was quite the opposite. Born in Tokyo in 1920, she was the long awaited baby girl of Saruhashi Kuniharu and Saruhashi Kuno. Spoiled by her parents and older brother Eiichi, Saruhashi was a shy, weeping, introverted little girl.
When she passed away in 2007 at the age of 87, however, the obituaries (The Mainichi Newspapers 2007; Yomiuri Shimbun 2007) made clear that Saruhashi would be remembered as a woman who lived up to her name. She was a successful geochemist, who worked at the Japanese Transport Ministry’s Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) for 35 years. She was the first woman to be awarded a doctoral degree in Chemistry from the University of Tokyo in 1957. She was the first woman to be elected as the member of the Science Council of Japan, the country’s “parliament of science” (1981-1985). She was the first woman to receive the Miyake Prize for geochemistry in 1985.[1]
Saruhashi was also a great promoter of women in science. In 1958, she established the Society of Japanese Women Scientists, but not just as a “system of compensatory recognition” (Rossiter 1982, 297-312). It was a platform to gather, discuss, and find practical solutions to the issues woman scientists faced and struggled with (Saruhashi 1999, 47–48). When she retired from the Meteorological Research Institute (MRI) in 1980, she founded the Association for the Bright Future of Women Scientists and the Saruhashi Prize. The latter, an annual prize for Japanese women scientists who make important contributions to the natural sciences, continues to be one of the most prestigious academic prizes.
Two research projects made Saruhashi particularly well-known as a geochemist. Both were pioneering in nature, and their significance was recognized both within Japan and beyond. The first was her study on carbonic acid substances in natural waters. In 1955, she published a paper, which included a table—later called the “Saruhashi’s Table”—that allowed researchers to determine the composition of three carbonic acid substances based on water temperature, pH level, and chlorinity (Saruhashi 1955, 1296-1307). This table served oceanographers worldwide for over three decades, until it was substituted by computers.[2]
The second research project also started in the 1950s, following the nuclear testing in the Pacific, was her work on the measurement of artificial radioisotopes in seawater.[3] The series of research Saruhashi conducted with Miyake Yasuo, her mentor, demonstrated the usefulness of radionuclides to trace ocean currents. This opened up a new method in oceanography. As a result of this work, in 1962, Saruhashi was invited to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) at UC San Diego, to compare the two competing analytical techniques used by Japan and the United States in determining the fallout Cesium in seawater.
Given how often women scientists remained unacknowledged for their work,[4] the wide-scale recognition Saruhashi gained is remarkable. What made her female gender not shape Saruhashi’s experience as a woman scientist? The choice of subjects she studied may have played a role. “[F]ragmentation in the field, and its shifting boundaries with other fields,” often opens up new possibilities for women (Pringle 1998, 77–78). Indeed, both carbon acid substances and radioisotope were topics that not many geochemists were studying. What was more pivotal for Saruhashi’s life, however, was Miyake Yasuo, her mentor at the MRI. When Saruhashi was at the Imperial Women’s College of Science in 1942, it was Miyake, who arranged for Saruhashi to use MRI’s laboratory facilities during off hours. This gave Saruhashi access to science equipment she needed for her graduation thesis. Later, when Saruhashi insisted she did not want to work for the military industry it was again Miyake who offered her a position at the MRI. This had significant longer-term impact for Saruhashi. Most of the jobs on governmental and industrial war projects turned out to be temporary, and many women scientists who had taken up these positions were displaced in the “postwar ‘adjustment’” (Rossiter 1995, 24-27). Finally, at the MRI, Miyake did not tolerate any sort of gender discrimination: he gave male and female scientists equal responsibility, obligations, voice and visibility. Thus, while she was an exceptionally hardworking “iron scientist,” this should not be seen as a mere performance of masculine acts, or “masquerade” (Pringle 1998, 81). She was learning stoic professional ethos by body and “inscribing it through routinization”, but not to learn how to be a scientist but to learn how to do science (Cassell 2000, 103).[5]
I worked hard…I concentrated entirely on learning how to do science. But that was not an effort I made as a woman to compete against men. I knew that by working hard, I could slowly unwrap the secrets of nature…this was such a joy…the sheer joy I enjoyed as a researcher.
(Saruhashi cited in Yonezawa 2009, 65. Translation by the author)
Yet, once outside the laboratory, gender did shape Saruhashi’s experience as a scientist. Discrimination was an everyday affair. Minami Eiichi was a professor at the University of Tokyo, who was initially asked by the Japanese government to analyze what constituted the so-called death ash or Bikini snow—contaminated calcium oxide particles originating from pulverized and calcined corals. Yet neither he nor his team members were able to resolve the scientific enigma. As a result, he decided to ask Saruhashi to do the microanalyses. However, he first asked her to conduct the analysis using the other calcium carbonate sample he had prepared, to “check the accuracy of Saruhashi’s analysis,” even though she was already widely known as ‘the’ expert of microanalyses (Yonezawa 2009, 17). It may simply have been that the death ash was only available in small quantities and Minami therefore wanted to make sure he did not waste the particles. However, it is equally feasible that Minami was skeptical of Saruhashi’s ability as a woman scientist; he was unwilling to accept that she was more capable than him; or he might have felt the need to publicly demonstrate that he had good reasons to rely on a woman scientist. In any case, it is hard to imagine a similar ‘test’ conducted with a male scientist.
A more obvious and perhaps disturbing example of discrimination is Saruhashi’s experience at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in San Diego. She was invited to SIO to engage in the comparison of the two disagreeing techniques of measuring radioactive materials in seawater, one developed by Japan, and the other by the United States. When Saruhashi arrived, Theodore Folsom, the leading researcher of the radioactive fallout study at the SIO, insisted that Saruhashi did not need to commute to the institute every day. Saruhashi was instead asked to work in a wooden hut (Yonezawa 2009, 32), something strikingly reminiscent of how Emil Fischer put Lise Meitner in a small woodworker’s shop, “outside of the ‘off-limits to women’ labs” (Rife 1999, 29). Furthermore, a detailed examination of the article jointly published by Folsom and Saruhashi reveals that the comparison of the techniques was set up in a manner disadvantageous to Saruhashi. The sample passed to Saruhashi to analyze had concentration of Cs-134 that was 20% lower than that was given to Folsom (Folsom and Saruhashi 1963). In general, the lower the concentration, the more difficult the analysis becomes. Like the case of Minami, it is likely that gender—and in this case race too—played roles: whoever was involved in this misconduct may well have thought that Folsom, as a Western male figure representing the victorious nation, could not be shown to be inferior to a small Asiatic woman from a defeated nation. Despite the disadvantage, Saruhashi provided a more accurate measurement of the sample, and Japanese technique was proved to be superior to the American one (Yonezawa 2009, 37).
How gender influences one’s life is unpredictable: cultural values and politics intertwine and affect one’s gender perception differently at different times. Saruhashi’s parents always held strongly that girls should be educated. However, education never meant higher education for them, who had spent most of their life in rural Japan before moving to Tokyo. Consequently, they encouraged Saruhashi to take up the position at an insurance firm, as soon as she completed her secondary education. The upbringing of Saruhashi’s parents thus influenced their gender perception. As for Saruhashi, although she had an aspiration to pursue further education, she initially conformed to their parents and “performed” gender (Butler 1988). She knew that going against one’s parents was seen as a “shame” in Japan. Yet, four years later in 1941, Saruhashi persuaded her parents, quit the job, and knocked the door of the Imperial Women’s College of Science. Intriguingly, part of what made Saruhashi sure of her passion to pursue further education, and what made Saruhashi’s mother eventually supportive of Saruhashi’s pursuit, was their shared experience of the WWII. The WWII left too many women without husband or father. Both Saruhashi and her mother witnessed the miserable life these women had to live, with no means to make living. Through this experience, Saruhashi came to believe that women must have technical knowledge to gain financial independence. Saruhashi’s mother likewise came to think that her daughter should be given an opportunity to learn marketable skills that would lead to a profession. Given how wars and political oppressions also shaped other women scientists’ perception of freedom and independence—e.g., Marie Curie and Lise Meitner—, how political disasters shape women’s perception on career may be worth investigating further. [6]
By way of conclusion, it is important to consider how Saruhashi’s vision and practice of science may help us consider “how the institutions, goals, and research priorities of science might be restructured” by taking into account the experience of women like Saruhashi (Schiebinger 1989, 276). For Saruhashi, the goal of science was, “to discover scientific truths, and to develop and utilize them for the betterment of human welfare” (Saruhashi 1983, 72). She firmly believed that scientists bore social responsibility, and that social values had to inform research goals and priorities. Saruhashi’s science embraced “attention to and care for the living, suffering, and dying of human beings” —what the gendered scientific discourses would preemptively deter (Cohn 1993, 235). Thus, when she was researching the radioactive contamination of the Pacific, she found it imperative that scientists understand the contamination, because it directly affected the health of the Japanese population. She also understood cooperation to be an important aspect of science, and not “duels” (Nye 1997, 69; Shapin 1994, 113), and in this cooperative practice of science, lay people also played roles. She often attended meetings organized by civil society organizations, where she informed the participants, but participants also informed Saruhashi what they perceived to be important scientific agenda. Looking further into Saruhashi’s practice of science—what informed her scientific agenda, what data she used and how, and who she cooperated with—may open up ways to suggest an alternative to the professionalization process that has characterized modern science.
The remarkable life of Saruhashi leaves us with one fundamental question: Was Saruhashi’s life as a whole a performative act of a “successful woman scientist”? She was indeed aware of the fortunate and unusual life she was living as a woman scientist, and that was precisely what motivated her to work hard, both for the advancement of science and for the advancement of women in science. Then, while gender did not shape Saruhashi’s life in the same way as it did other women scientists’, gender was perhaps affecting Saruhashi’s life as a scientist in the most fundamental way.
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[1] Even to date, no other woman has received this prestigious prize awarded by the Geochemistry Research Association.
[2] In 1960, at the 11th General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics in Helsinki, a Finish professor introduced Saruhashi’s research to the members. Moreover, in Chemical Oceanography (1965), John P Riley spends over 20 pages explaining Saruhashi’s research and its contribution to the field. (Yonezawa 2009, 73)
[3] In particular, the Bikini test in March 1954 propelled world governments to determine how radioactive materials travelled through the atmosphere and the ocean. Responding to the request by the Japanese government, Saruhashi and Miyake Yasuo, her mentor, measured the concentration of Cs-137 and Sr-90 in the western North Pacific (Miyake et al. 1961).
[4] For early examples, works that traced the life of woman scientists in early modern Europe demonstrate how making of modern science excluded women and how consequently women remained unacknowledged. See, (L. Schiebinger 1987; L. L. Schiebinger 1989) For more recent trends especially in the United States, and in relation to professionalization of scientists, see (Rossiter 1982; Murray 2000) The most illuminating example on credit and recognition is the case of Lise Meitner. See (Rife 1999; Sime 1996) Japan could not have been an exception. This point is well highlighted in the edited volume by Saruhashi and Shiota, which traces the history of Japanese woman scientists in the 20th century (Saruhashi and Syōbē 1985).
[5] Murray also talks about some similar cases among post-war American mathematicians. See, (Murray 2000)
[6] Marie Curie, who had the experience of suffering from Russian tyranny, is known to have cherished freedom and independence as a person, and to have insisted on not depending on others. Likewise, Lise Meitner, after her experience in Nazi Germany, firmly believed in freedom and independence, and never went back to Germany despite repeated requests from her former colleagues.
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Great Investment Property or Private Professional Offices, Great location, high traffic on the White Horse Pike heading into Atlantic City, building fitted out for professional offices, Physicians offices prior or professional space. Five rooms, reception area, lunch area, two half baths, plenty of storage and full basement, ample parking with exterior lighting, 2 zone central air.
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Sunday we headed to the peak of Mount Washington in New Hampshire with our children to celebrate our 13th anniversary. Elevation 6,288 ft. We took the Auto Road up to the top with a few stops along the way to take some photos and let our engine cool. It was a gorgeous sunny day with temperatures in the 70’s and the Auto Road was bustling with other cars just as anxious to get to the top to see the amazing view as we were. It was 8 miles to the top of the mountain and took us about 45 minutes because of all the wonderful pull-offs along the way just begging for a girl with camera in tow. ;-D I couldn’t pass up the opportunity. The ride up the Auto Road offered much to be seen itself with man made rock piles, twisty S curves and had incredible panoramic views. Once we reached the top we realized what all the hype was about. Breathtaking views! This trip was filled with memories to last a lifetime.
13th Anniversary. Mount Washington.
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The pictures are beautiful hon and I am glad you had a wonderful day. I, myself, have never been there before. Love you guys. Mom
Yes They Are Very Beautiful,Looks Like You Guys Had Fun 😀
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A. I. MODEL No. 2
The Definition of Abstraction
1.
An abstraction is a state of mind
which reveals orders of distinction
that constitute the whole or part
of the structures and substructures
of the universe.
Any language or information-based system
which uses images, words, or symbols
to represent other states, systems, or events
is an abstraction.
For example, mathematics and art
are abstract systems. The languages, methods and tools
associated with these media were created and evolved
as a means of representing, simulating, and modeling
a variety of complex relationships and events
occurring within and around the human sphere
of activity and observation.
The human senses, including the primary senses
of sight, hearing, taste, touch, and smell
are finely tuned to detect a variety
of physical events in the surrounding media,
including light, sound, and temperature.
These physical events
are expressed in informational units or ‘quanta’
such as frequency, amplitude, and velocity.
The primary sensory detectors,
as well as other ‘senses’,
receive the information and transmit it to the brain,
where it is represented, abstractly,
in a variety of forms.
As the information is collected by the senses
and transmitted to the brain,
it is modified and reshaped,
both by the sensory input device,
such as the eye, ear, or skin,
and by various functions of the brain.
Together, the sense organs and the brain
limit, select, and abstract sensory information,
which ultimately forms the basis of perception.
It is not the sense organs, or the functions
of the brain which are abstract,
It is the data itself, the information patterns
which represent the light, sound, and temperature,
that is abstract.
2.
An abstraction is anything conceptual.
Concepts, thoughts, and ideas are abstractions.
Concepts are the result of high-level functions of the brain
such as categorization, representation, transference,
and modeling of various information states or systems.
Thoughts are patterns of information
which are consciously processed in the brain
as images, words, or symbols.
Ideas are thoughts
which are associated with a specific course of action
or with solving a particular problem.
Concepts, thoughts, and ideas
are derived from external information
which is filtered through the senses, and from
genetic information which has been transmitted
from one generation to the next.
The significant influence
of sensory and genetic information operating within the brain
is consciously and unconsciously demonstrated
through normal patterns of human behavior.
Conversely, the impact of concepts, thoughts, and ideas
on the external world of physical events
is observed through the consequent changes
which are imposed on the surrounding environment.
The brain is a product of the physical environment
in which it has evolved. And the environment,
perhaps to a lesser extent, is influenced
by collective human behavior.
Although abstractions are the result
of physical processes which occur within the brain,
physical events in general, and the perception of these events,
function independently of one another.
Physical events continue to persist
irrespective of any observation or perception of them.
3.
The act of storing and processing
information in the brain
is a complex process which,
by means of feedback and reflection,
describes the behavior of both itself
and the universe of which it is a part.
LANGUAGE PROBLEM
The following list contains 5 pairs of words which are:
clearly ambiguous,
constantly varied,
uniformly uneven,
continuously interrupted,
and
singularly analogous.
A. I. MODEL No. 3
The Listener
(Except for the subtitle, do not read words or letter-characters in italics.)
1) turn on the CD player and amplifier
2) open the disk-tray on the CD player
3) remove the disk from its holder
4) place the disk in the disk-tray
5) close the tray
6) locate the remote-control for the CD
7) find a comfortable position in the listening environment
8) press PLAY on the remote-control
(3 or 4-second pause)
a) Was it a clean beginning?
b) How is the fidelity of the recording?
c) Does the starting tempo feel exactly right?
d) What is the range of pitch variation in the music? How many octaves or registers are being used?
e) Is the music living up to its initial promise expressed in the first few seconds?
f) How is the dynamic balance? Are there sounds which are too loud, too soft.
g) Overall, is the music satisfying? Do I feel good listening to this music?
Does it hold my interest?
h) Now that the general pace has been established, does the tempo or pulse of the music feel comfortable? Is it too fast, or slow?
i) How is the timing. Does the music speed up or slow down in just the right way?
j) Is attention being given to every sound or phrase, or are some sounds being slighted in favor of others?
k) Is the overall structure coherent? What about content? What is the music about?
l) What are the ideas or concepts underlying the music? Is the music simulating or modeling familiar themes or events?
m) Is the timing of the music appropriate? What about pacing and synchronization? Is the music rhythmically stable?
n) Is the music too dense, or too sparse?
o) What about tone color? Is the combination of intensity and dynamics carefully balanced throughout the music?
p) Are the beginnings and endings of sounds and phrases varied in relation to their position in the music?
q) Is the sound projecting outward? Does it have a clear ‘presence’? Is the sound focused?
r) Does the music sound stiff, or does it seem spontaneous and animated?
s) Does the sound seem free and relaxed?
t) Is there a specific character or identity to the music? to each phrase or pattern? What about the different sections of the music?
u) Are smaller relationships evident? Are the larger structural relationships identifiable?
v) What about the overall continuity of the music? In what form or shape is the music evolving?
w) Am I interested in this music? Am I moved by it? Is it powerful or stimulating?
x) Will the music change me or my perceptions?
y) How will this piece end? Will it resolve itself in exactly the right way?
(3-second pause)
z) How was the overall duration? Too long, too short?
ANALOGY PROBLEMS
(Read the number once, then read each problem twice.
The repetition should be read slightly slower than the initial question.)
1. Time is to History as Space is to what?
2. Molecules are to Atoms as Quarks are to what?
3. Zero is to Minus-One as Infinity is to what?
4. Brain is to Mind as Body is to what?
5. Love is to Passion as Transcendence is to what?
CAP ‘Gone ‘I’, if you are self-conscious in most social situations.
If you have to cough, try and suppress it.
If you are a chronic liar, look up at the ceiling..
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"2016 was terrible blah blah blah blah blah." You'll have heard this line wheeled out a lot over the last few weeks, predominantly because someones fave celebrity died or a couple of votes in a democratic world didn't go in their favour. Me being the insane individual that I am, view a year based on... Continue Reading →
Kerching in Koh Chang
After the hustle and bustle of the metropolis that is Bangkok, the plan was always a beach. Now the plan was actually to head down saaaf to Koh Tao or one of its friends - or at least that was the plan until we saw the forecast of thunderstorms. I hadn't travelled across Eurasia for even... Continue Reading →
Back in Bangkok
It's going down, i'm back in Asiaaaaaa! (Briefly whilst stocks last) Spoiler - find a comfy spot, this may end up as a very big ramble* Yes I am back in Bangkok (my 33rd? rated place last time round) for technically the 5th time but I'm only going to call it the 2nd because you... Continue Reading →
Ramblings Destinations #1 – Laos
I'm starting a blog series! Huzzaaaaaaah! It's travel related (shock) and will overview destinations in this blogs own witty (shock) style. There'll be suggestions that you'd have never thought of, the best insider tips and 87ish reasons why the destination should definitely be on your list of buckets. Today's featured country is well, brilliant. Brilliant countries... Continue Reading →
Travel Beer Rankings Index 15/16
Overdue? Very! Worth it? Possibly... It's the 2015/16 travel beer ranking index! Ranking beer, as the Greek God "Pintus" once said "is a honour no man can truly comprehend." It is a given that Pintus was generally slurring at a bar somewhere and isn't the greatest quote-master, but you catch his drift. Anyway let's get... Continue Reading →
Ramblings of a Madman travel “tips”
The first trip is always the boldest (James Bartter, 2016) The first thing I'm going to ask you is please don't take all this advice on board (You'd have a very heavy backpack for one!). Having been there I know the amount of information people are bombarded with before they embark on their adventures. "You must... Continue Reading →
Volunteering in Vientiane – 1 Year On
Truth be told this blog has been in the pipeline for a year. Each month I'd tell myself to write that Volunteering Experience review. As it turns out a year to the day since it begun seems to make a lot of sense for a write-up. Plus that thing they say about time and fondness - yeah... Continue Reading →
The Definitive Rankings of SE Asia, Oz & NZ (5th-1st)
Some decisions are easy. For example the decision to use that disgusting condiment ketchup or to throw ketchup in the bin. Simple. The decision to order the remaining 5 places on this list, not so much simple as completely impossible. Nostalgia kicks in and every place that was already amazing just seems to get better and... Continue Reading →
My Euro 2k16 Predictions
You knew this was coming. Given my success over the last 3 major competitions at predicting the finalists (yet sadly not the final result) I'm back again to analyse the groups, and fill you with the knowledge of who's going to do what in this expanded Euros. Hype is in the air, or that may just... Continue Reading →
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October 10, 2018
Job For Dispatched Rider at Peen Nigeria Limited
Peen Nigeria Limited, is licensed to provide Stevedoring services in Nigeria, and we are presently recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:
Job Title: Dispatched Rider
Location: Lagos
Employment type: Permanent contract
Job Responsibilities
- Protects organization reputation by keeping pricing, promotion, purchase order, and credit-limit information confidential.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.
- Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
- Delivers items to customers by verifying orders; inventorying stock; arranging transportation.
- Dispatcher optimal response of replacement or credit.
Skills and Qualifications
- Documentation Skills, Data Entry Skills, Telephone Skills, Informing Others, Listening, Verbal Communication, Energy Level, Multi-tasking, Dependability, Emotional Control, Reporting Skills
- Minimum of SSCE
- 3 years Experience
- Candidates should reside around Yaba, Ebute Meta, Bariga, surulere, mushin, and Shomolu area.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should forward their Applications and CV’s to: [email protected]
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About the opportunity:
CEC on behalf of their client Avant-Garde Wealth Management SEZC are looking to recruit the following role:
Cayman Islands Fund Management Team looking for an FX (Foreign exchange) Trader with minimum 3-5 years presentable track record.
Trader should have a strong technical background and a solid understanding of the G7 currency pairs.
Results Driven environment, highly competitive compensation that awards trading performance generously.
Candidates will be tested on both technical techniques and fundamental/macro-economic analysis prior to being interviewed.
Please get in touch if you would like to know more about this amazing opportunity!
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- Analyse
Skills:
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- are LEAN manufacturing and 6 Sigma certified/trained
- have prior exposure to SAP and MES applications.
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Commercial Property Solicitor
- Recruiter
- RBUK Legal
- Location
- England, Lincolnshire, Scunthorpe
- Salary
- £35000 - £45000 per annum
- Posted
- 06 Mar 2018
- Closes
- 03 Apr 2018
- Ref
- 15629
- Somerset Smith
- Practice area
- Commercial property, Conveyancing - commercial, Conveyancing - residential
- Position
- Legal executive, Solicitor
- Sector
- Private practice
Commercial Property Solicitor - North Lincolnshire
A well-established and large multi-practise firm in Scunthorpe is seeking to add a Commercial Property Solicitor to it's busy conveyancing team.
Are you a Solicitor with experience of handling your own Commercial Property caseload?
Would you like to work as part of a team but use your own initiative, in a busy and rapidly growing environment?
Are you looking for a role that is diverse and offers the opportunity for progression and career development?
Experience of handling residential conveyancing files is also desirable but not essential.
For the right candidate, a competitive salary dependant on experience and corporate benefits package is available.
Find out more today...
RBUK LEGAL - CAREERS IN BLACK AND WHITE
RBUK Legal Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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Flight Planning Systems Supervisor
- Location
- Leeds
- Salary
- Excellent
- Posted
- 15 Jun 2018
- Closing date
- 15 Jul 2018
- Ref
- 6048BR
- Jet2.com
- Industry
- Technology, Travel & transport, Airline, General, Tourism
- Job function
- Customer service
- Job level
- Experienced (non manager)
- Listing type
- Job vacancy
Reporting to the Operations Systems Manager the Flight Planning System Supervisor is responsible for the proactive supervision, administration, and evolution of all Flight Planning systems and tools used within the Operations Control Centre (OCC). These systems are used on a daily basis to plan the most time and fuel-efficient routes for the Jet2.com flying programme, tactically managing Air Traffic Control restrictions and airspace challenges to protect our industry-leading 'on-time performance'.
The Flight Planning System Supervisor will be responsible for sustaining the Jet2.com Flight Planning system, ensuring that it is maintained to be reliable, relevant, and perfectly adequate to provide an efficient service to our ever growing operational demands. You will understand the objectives of the Operations Control Centre in order to ensure the precise setup, configuration, and maintenance of the overall systems solution to provide consistent support for the evolution of the business processes. The Flight Planning System Supervisor will be the point of contact for all Internal/External customers providing solutions for all day-to-day system related queries.
The successful candidate must have an excellent understanding of airline operations and previous experience in Flight Planning processes is also essential. You must be able to demonstrate experience working within a fast paced and dynamic environment.<<
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, Metallurgical Lab
Position Type: Full-Time
About the Position: Using standard procedures, the laboratory analyst performs all flotation tests, gravity concentration tests, magnetic separation tests, cyanidation tests and all other testing as required by the client.
Specific Responsibilities:
Supervise training on rougher flotation and/or gravity separation, and/or cyanide leaching;
Competent knowledge of grind calibrations and laser sizings;
Operate and perform maintenance on grinding rolls, stirred mills, Malvern laser sizer, scales, compressors, filtration system, pH meters;
Prepare test work reagents;
Ensure all prepared and available samples are accounted for in the lab;
Training in maintaining and organizing inventory of calibration standards, production logs and equipment records;
Maintain a clean and safe work environment by following all safety requirements within the Safety Manual and communicate all safety concerns to the Supervisor or Manager;
Use correct methods in accordance with the established procedures and schedules while ensuring analytical quality;
Observe established safety regulations and comply with all ALS health and safety policies and procedures;
Other duties as assigned.
Physical Demands:
About You:
The ideal candidate would have:
Recognized degree or technical diploma in Chemistry or Sciences required;
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Saturday, November 19, 2016
Trump demands an apology from the cast of 'Hamilton' for calling out Pence, Dixen responds
Celebrities react to #BoycottHamilton
Adam Yauch Park defaced by swastikas and pro- Trump graffiti
Joel McHale spills the beans, and unsurprisingly Chevy Chase was an asshole
Pop Music Emergency: Lindsay Lohan to release album, working in the studio
Lindsay Lohan on Ariana Grande: "Too much makeup"
John Mayer debuts new single, "Love on the Weekend", on Facebook Live
More nudes of Ricky Martin's fiancé - Jwan Josef - leak online 👀🍆
'SKAM' just did one of the best, most realistic and nuanced Coming Out scenes / Discussion Post
Trailer for 'Brimstone' featuring Guy Pearce, Jon Snow and Dakota Fanning
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Donald Trump prepares cold open - SNL
Ad-roc, celebs attend anti-hate protest in Adam Yauch's Park
U.K. Schools accuse 'Beauty and the Beast' of promoting Domestic Abuse
American Music Awards Red Carpet
More on the making of #SlumberParty: Tinashe says Britney directed her, came up with iconic shoe toss
'The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me' is 10 today! Where's the little girl on the album cover now?
Drake x Taylor Swift collaboration revealed at the AMAs
Selena Gomez's speech at AMA 2016: 'If you are broken, you don't have to stay broken.'
Zayn wins New Artist of the Year at the 2016 AMAs
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Weekend Box Office: 'Fantastic Beasts' coasts to #1 as other new releases bomb
Live Action Winnie the Pooh to be 'family friendly' version of 'Ted'
'Pet (2016)' Official trailer
Monday, November 21, 2016
Cristiano Ronaldo: "Yes I am a faggot, but a really rich one!"
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Drumpf supporters continue to flop spectacularly, Brandon Dixon won't (and shouldn't) apologize
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Trump supporters vilely harass Gigi Hadid after Melania impression + call for Maybelline to fire her
Kanye West hospitalized
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Celebrities react to Media's Normalization of Nazis in DC (aka "alt-right")
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Ellen's Touching Moment with Obama @ The Medal of Freedom Ceremony
Kanye allegedly tried to assault staff according to doctor
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JUNAID RATHER
Srinagar: At a time when official records suggest a whopping increase of over 160 percent in the number of vehicles in Kashmir over the past decade, Delhi-registered vehicles are selling like hot cakes in the state, giving departments curbing traffic increase a tough time besides increasing pollution levels.
Dealers here while talking to Kashmir Reader claimed that on an average, a dealer sells nearly 150 vehicles in a year in Kashmir.
“Earlier, there was a huge demand for Delhi registered vehicles in Kashmir, and on an average a dealer would make a profit of Rs 30,000 to Rs 50,000 on each vehicle,” said Omar Rafiq, a car dealer at Srinagar’s commercial hub Batamaloo.
He added that the margin is lowered with more and more people entering the trade with each passing day. “People go to Delhi on their own and purchase pre-owned vehicles from there.”
Dealers say that many of the vehicles do come cheap from Delhi as they are pushed out for not conforming to the city’s pollution norms.
However, many locals say that this trend must be stopped as it would add to pollution in the Valley.
Muhammad Shabiudin, a local, said “people’s urge to lay hands on a vehicle should not be at the cost of their and other’s health”. He wished the government to initiate action and see to it that “only those vehicles are allowed for sale in Kashmir that adhere to set emission norms”.
The second-hand car market is not without its attendant risks. Dealers say that people who buy cars from Delhi often feel cheated for they, many a times, “find that their new purchase has had its odometer altered”.
“The common man doesn’t have a proper understanding of the automobile mechanism, and tampering with the odometer is common to give an impression that the vehicle has not run for long,” said Shabiudin.
Major dealers in Srinagar claim that on an average a dealer sells 10 cars a month, which, according to experts, is throwing a major challenge to the traffic department in curbing vehicular movement as well as to the roads and buildings (R&B) department, forced by the traffic volume to expand the roads in a hasty manner.
“The paper work is also facilitated by the brokers, who do offer ownership rights for the buyer,” says Gulzar Ahmad, a car dealer at Baba Demb.
“In Kashmir, having a car is still a luxury for most of the population”, Gulzar said adding that the most preferred choice here is the Maruti Suzuki Swift VDI, Maruti Suzuki Wagon R, Maruti Suzuki Alto K10 and Ford Figo.
He noted that preferences and tastes were changing with growing incomes and “customers’ aspirations too are changing”. “There is good demand now for SUVs in Kashmir, however, the Kashmir car market does not as yet favour diesel-run cars,” Ahmad said.
“60 percent of cars sold in Kashmir run on petrol, and there is very less demand for diesel vehicles here because of their jittery starting in winters.”
Delhi is India’s largest car market. As per data from Delhi’s transport office, there were a total of 31,72,842 registered cars in the city in 2017 and a total of 66,48,730 two-wheelers. After Delhi, Kashmiris’ second preference for car purchase is Haryana and Punjab.
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For Women Only
On Monday January forth my friend Maki turned 18. In honor of this event, her mother Carolyn held a “Ceremony” for her on the night before her birthday. The purpose was to welcome her into the world of women. It was a rite of passage, and influential women in Maki’s life were invited to share their wisdom, and give advice on what it means to be a woman today. Isn’t that a great idea?
The living room has a vaulted ceiling, and the tall walls were covered with Japanese art, and Christmas decorations. The decorations displayed photos of the children as they have grow up over the years. As we sat in our circle however, the room seemed to transform. I became conscious only of the faces of the women around me, and the words they were speaking with such intensity and honesty.
We were quite a diverse group. One ” influential woman” was a 20 year old college student (don’t think for a minute that diminished her wisdom in any way.) Others were grandmothers. Some of us were married, others divorced, and some contentedly single. All in all we were a unique collection.
I’m anxious to tell you about the inspiring things I heard, but first I want to address the issue of men. I gave some thought to the idea that men may also have something of value to share with a bright young girl on the verge of womanhood. And certainly my husband’s curiosity about the event was unprecedented. He wanted to know what we did, what we said and what kind of clothing we wore. In the course of explaining it to him I asked him what he would do if he were going to give Thomas (our son) an initiation into the world of men. He didn’t know for sure, but he was certain that beer and nudity would be involved. In light of that, I think it is okay to save the “wisdom of men” for another occasion.
While in our circle, the women shared the joys and pains of being a woman today. They told their stories in poem and anecdote; with tears and laughter. They advised courage, love, trust and keeping an open mind. It would be impossible to share all of the ideas or emotions in this space, but I’d like to relay a few.
Value Yourself.
One of the women said she was a grandmother, though you’d never know it to look at her. She spoke of growing up in the Japanese culture in a time when women had little, if any, value; and how she had to struggle against her environment to consider her contributions worthwhile.
Make Friends.
Another wise woman suggested that Maki look for friends and not lovers. Friends respect each other, they look out for each other, and they don’t take advantage of each other. This is a great piece of advise for women of all ages. How might our lives be improved if the important men in our lives were also our true friends.
Soar.
As a gift, one woman brought a toilet cleaning brush, and a kite. She suggested that as women, we can choose where we put the emphasis in our lives. I could use more soaring in my life. How about you?
Sew.
Carolyn shared a fabulous poem describing womanhood at various stages in life, from childhood to old age. She suggested that we continue to tailor our womanhood to reflect our inner radiant selves. In essence, how well we relate to womanhood at the various stages has a lot to do with how good a seamstress we are of our individual essence.
Stay Curious.
Another woman gave a piece of advise that could be helpful to all of us. She wrote “I hope you get what your spirit needs. I’m not sure how it will be wrapped though, so keep your eyes and ears open.”
I’d like to close with a proverb that was shared by a particularly delightful young woman who had a great deal of insight and humor.
Hang on to your youth, but not while you’re driving.
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Okay, so I JUST created this WordPress account and I am both new to WordPress and technologically inept, so here goes nothing! I’m a creative writing student at Warren County Community College. The good news is that I’m graduating this semester. The bad news is that I have no idea where to begin finding an audience for my work. Submitting work is fairly easy despite my technological inadequacies, but it is tedious and tiresome work. Right now, I am attempting to write a larger fiction piece and gather a collection of poems to make (and hopefully publish) a chapbook.
If any seasoned vets of WordPress have tips for submitting longer pieces of writing to publishers, they are definitely welcomed! In the meantime, I’m going to continue building some type of portfolio on here and submitting work. Also, if anyone has suggestions as to which literary magazines an undergrad writer with little published should submit to, they would be much appreciated.
Until next time,
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Members receive discounts to events and invitations to special members-only functions. Annual dues are $25 per person, or $50 for a family (unlimited household). Membership expires on join date anniversary. All payments are tax-deductible donations, as we are now an official 501(c)(3) charitable organization! Tax ID #46-0884722
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Thanks for organizing K.E.E.P. Yalecrest.
If you are interested in doing a focus on fireplaces, we have one that is amazing. Our house, 1779 E. Yale, was built in 1927 and it has an original Ernest A. Batchelder fireplace.
As a matter of fact, we have that on our to-do list. Many Yalecrest homes have cool Batchelder tile so we can’t wait to see yours.
Do you cover Canyon Rim? What about The Rim?!
Yalecrest is a small geographical area with a big vision. Of course we support you and your property rights—your right not to have a monster home replace an original and invade your privacy, and block your light and views!
Just sent in my membership renewal. THANK YOU for your service, and KEEP up the good work in 2016.
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Childhood Yalecrest Resident Now Living in 9th and 9th (also threatened by hideous development)
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When you have a hormonal imbalance, your health is out of balance as well. We have 5 Natural Ways To Balance Your Hormones by Valencia Porter, M.D., M.P.H., FACNWhile.
Addressing lifestyle including diet, physical activity and stress management as well as gaining support from practitioners and loved ones is an excellent start. In addition to helping with hormonal balance, these mind-body techniques to bring about balance create a greater sense of wellbeing and ultimately optimum health.
Some very useful tips there. The 4th one (consider the use of herbal remedies) is something that we here at eat the sunlight have made it easier to do. Herbs are the original medicine, and to help you benefit from this original medicine, we have had a professional herbalist put together the endocrine helper tea. You can find out more about how the endocrine helper tea can help you by clicking here.
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EPISODE #13: In this episode, Kevin talks to Paulette, 64, who would wake up choking in the middle of the night from a horrible combo of sleep apnea and acid reflux. We also dive into her annual bronchitis, hypertension and how everything is now vanished in 120 days.
EPISODE #12: In this episode, Kevin talks to Tara about her horrible stomach cramps that altered her lifestyle and her Triglycerides going down over 100 points!
EPISODE #11: In this episode, Kevin talks to Kelvin who's addiction to drugs and alcohol landed him in prison. After an awakening, he transformed his life and is now a holistic healer helping others.
EPISODE #10: In this episode, Kevin talks to Eilyn who's life of lupus, diabetes, psoriasis, IBS and horrible RA pain kept her from going out and being productive. In this interview she details her struggles, victories and experiences with her skeptic doctors.
EPISODE #9: In this episode, Kevin talks to Lori who's harsh allergy flare ups used to send her to the emergency room as her throat would close up and she couldn't breathe. She also details her painful kidneys stone attacks and the procedures that were done to her.
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EPISODE #6: In this episode, Kevin talks to Joann about Colitis ruining her life and how she finally found freedom from it... all while shocking her physician.
EPISODE #5: In this episode, Kevin talks to Danielle who is no longer on asthma inhalers after 30 years! She also has no more eczema outbreaks, IBS pain or allergy flare ups.
EPISODE #4: In this episode, Kevin talks to Keysha who suffered from migraines, psoriasis, and fibroids, even as a 20 year veteran in the medical field.
EPISODE #3: In this episode, Kevin W. Reese interviews Kelsey about her severe stomach cramping that sent her to the ER almost every time she had her monthly period. She also goes into detail on her 8 years of migraines, acne and nearly 40 LB weight loss.
EPISODE #2: In this episode, Kevin W. Reese interviews Amber, who's shocked doctor took her off her meds after suffering from high blood pressure for 7 years! She also beat migraines, tender lumps, stomach pains & more.
EPISODE #1: In this episode, Kevin W. Reese interviews Tina, who suffered from IBS, ulcers, pancreatititis and had a pre cancerous tumor that led to an awful exeperience with the medical field.
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Island House is an award-winning gay resort in Old Town Key West, set in a completely secure private compound where the choice to wear something, or nothing at all, is yours.
Their large heated pool and Jacuzzis are open 24 hours a day and the Health Club which includes a gym and Spa area with sauna, steam room and Jacuzzi is the most complete in Key West.
The Cafe, which has been rated one of the best in Key West, serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner pool side with menus featuring American favorites with Caribbean touches. The bar offers beer, wine, champagne, mixed drinks, and tropical specialties all day and all night.
The resort is gay-owned and managed and their friendly, capable all-male staff enjoy working together to ensure that your stay is both fun and memorable. Island House has been named ‘The best gay men’s resort in the world’ by BOYZ and OUT Traveler Magazines, and as the ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Out & About. Join them soon and experience the excitement
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Kenyan Orphanage, Government Reach Agreement Over Admittance of HIV-Positive Orphans to Primary Schools
A Kenyan orphanage for HIV-positive children on Thursday announced that it had reached a deal with the government and local authorities to ensure that the orphans could attend local primary schools, Reuters AlertNet reports (Reuters AlertNet, 1/8). Rev. Angelo D'Agostino, founder of the Nyumbani Home -- the oldest and largest AIDS orphanage in the country -- said that five Nairobi-area primary schools previously had refused to admit children from the orphanage despite a law providing for free primary education for all Kenyan children. D'Agostino said that the schools have made excuses for not admitting the children, often claiming that they are too full and do not have room for them. Nyumbani on Wednesday sought a court order against the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the attorney general's office to force state schools to admit HIV-positive children, Nyumbani attorney Ababu Namwamba said. A Kenyan judge on Wednesday ordered the Kenyan government and Nyumbani to develop an agreement within one day that would enable the children to be admitted to local schools (Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, 1/8). "It is a consensus agreed on between the government, the directorate of [Nairobi] education and ourselves as the applicants," Namwamba said. He added that details of the agreement would be released on Friday, according to Reuters AlertNet. Ministry of Education officials were not available for comment (Reuters AlertNet, 1/8).This is part of the KHN Morning Briefing, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.
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Global Effort Needed To Protect People From Species-Crossing Diseases, Report Finds
A team of health experts on Tuesday called for the U.S. "to lead a global effort to protect people from new outbreaks of deadly infectious diseases that originate in animals, such as swine flu, AIDS and SARS," Reuters writes (Morgan, 9/22).
The appeal comes as a U.S. Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council report concluded that "significant weaknesses undermine the global community's abilities to prevent, detect early, and respond efficiently to potentially deadly species-crossing microbes, such as the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus sweeping the globe," according to a National Academies press release. The report also notes, "species-jumping pathogens have caused more than 65 percent of infectious disease outbreaks in the past six decades."
"Zoonotic diseases are like wildfires, which flare up unexpectedly and can take a significant toll on human and animal health and damage household livelihoods as well as national economies. All too often, our reaction to these outbreaks has been to try containing a wildfire after it has gotten out of control," Marguerite Pappaioanou, executive director of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, said in the release. "We need a system that enables us to prevent the conditions for these disease flare-ups to occur in the first place and to spot them earlier when we can take more effective and measured actions to limit the damage" (9/22).
," HealthDay News/MSN reports (Preidt, 9/22).
Though "[a] fully integrated global system could cost about $800 million a year to maintain," the authors note that the cost "is a relatively small sum compared with the $200 billion in economic losses caused by species-jumping viruses and other pathogens over the past decade," Reuters writes (9/22).
HealthDay News/MSN adds: "'Developing an effective global system for detecting and responding to emerging zoonotic diseases is a tall order,' report committee co-chair Gerald T. Keusch, who focuses on global health at Boston University's School of Public Health said in the news release. ,' Keusch said" (9/22).This is part of the KHN Morning Briefing, a summary of health policy coverage from major news organizations. Sign up for an email subscription.
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A pair of white magnetic birds perching on The New Old Vase makes a delightful scene. It’s also poetic and relaxing to see this exquisite pair ambling on branches of the vase.
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Cameron Diaz stars in the latest 3D superhero action-adventure “The Green Hornet” with Seth Rogen. Cameron was in Madrid, Spain last week for a photocall. The movie comes out in January. For more on Cameron visit
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Eva Longoria shows support at Los Angeles Lakers home game. Eva has been also showing her support for Haiti rallying celebrities on Twitter to raise money for her charity A Home in Haiti. Follow Eva Longoria on Twitter
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Instructions
Shake ingredients with ice. Strain into a Collins glass filled with ice, and garnish with three watermelon balls.
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Kinetic Electrical Contracting Corp.
Kinetic Electrical Contracting Corp. is Staten Island’s trusted source for residential electrical repair, installation, inspections and more. We have been serving clients in this community for 28 years and are proud to have provided 100% satisfaction to over 5,900 customers!
Residential Electrician in Staten Island, NY
Whether you own your own home, are a first-time renter or are in charge of caring for a large residential property, you understand the importance of reliable, functional and safe electricity for a whole host of daily activities. When you have a problem with your electricity, you need a team that you can turn to for help, one that you can trust to put things right. Since 1988, customers in need of a residential electrician in Staten Island, NY have trusted Kinetic Electrical Contracting Corp. to provide the electrical repair and maintenance services they need, 24/7.
Kinetic Electrical Contracting Corp. offers a wide variety of electrical contracting services to residential customers, including general repairs, inspections, correcting code violations and lighting installation in Staten Island, NY. We work exclusively with residential customers, ranging from single-family homes to apartment complexes and large residential buildings, and will gladly collaborate with homeowners’ associations and property management companies to serve their residents’ needs. We also handle electrical work for new construction as well as remodels and additions. As master electricians with certification from OSHA and licensure through the city of New York, we possess the qualifications as well as the experience and knowledge to take on any project. Here are some of the reasons to hire our team:
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Mindful of Ireland
As St. Patrick’s Day approaches I am mindful of Ireland. Yet, the celebration of all that is Irish here in the US is a big stretch from my thoughts of Emerald Isle.
Have you been? If not, put it on the must-do list. It’s lovely with the perfect blend of a few cosmopolitan, yet small scale cities, charming villages, stunning, rural landscapes, views to the sea, fantastic food, cultural richness and engaging people. Oh, an of course, there’s great beer too without the goofy, green plastic hats.
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Pauline of My Altered State is a girl after my own heart when it comes to hoarding every little wood scrap. She just can’t throw any of them away, and I sure don’t blame her! By themselves, the pieces may not look like much, but together… they can become a beautiful piece of artwork that rivals that of Pottery Barn. Pauline offers a video tutorial … [Read more...]
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