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Nearly 50 years after leaving Tinseltown to become a cloistered Benedictine nun, Mother Dolores Hart, who starred in films alongside the likes of Elvis Presley and Walter Matthau during her acting career, is returning to Hollywood to appear at the Academy Awards next Sunday. And she'll be wearing her religious habit.
Mother Dolores, 73, is the focus of "God Is the Bigger Elvis", an HBO documentary nominated in the best documentary short category.
The film documents Hart's unusual journey from starring in dozens of Hollywood films to becoming Prioress of the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Conn., where she acts as spiritual counselor to 38 cloistered nuns, Sojourners reports.
"It will be so nice to be back at the Oscars. It's such a fun night," Hart told USA Today. "The last time I was there was in 1959, when I was a presenter. This will be different."
Back then, Hart was a 21-year-old rising starlet who had already starred in films alongside Elvis Presley, George Hamilton and Montgomery Clift, USA Today reported.
A few years later, she was at the peak of her acting career on the trail of a seven-figure contract, and was happily engaged to Los Angeles businessman Don Robinson.
But by then Hart's feelings about Hollywood had already started to change, a shift that began some years before when she was performing in a Broadway play , Sojourner reported.
Whenever the play went on hiatus, many actors would go up to friends' vacation homes in upstate New York. But Hart didn't know anyone, so a friend suggested that she stay at the Abbey of Regina Laudis, which offers a number of guest rooms.
It was there that Hart got to know the sisters of Regina Laudis and fell in love with their way of life. In 1963, to the devastation of her fiance, Hart entered the Abbey as a postulant and took her final vows seven years later.
"I adored Hollywood. I didn't leave because it was a place of sin," Hart told USA Today.
After all, Hart was a Los Angeles native who grew up on Mullholland Drive overlooking the lights of Hollywood, she explained in a 20/20 Interview.
Hart had another explanation for leaving, one she says remains just as mysterious today as it did back then.


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Q: SFCC - How show products from Stored Basket? I have the situation:
The Stored Basket (registered customer) is merging with the current Basket (anonymous customer), this is ok, but i need to highlight the products from Stored Basket to the customer knows which product is current and which product is from stored.
The problem is when i call the class :
var BasketMgr = require('dw/order/BasketMgr');
var currentBasket = BasketMgr.getCurrentOrNewBasket();
var storedBasket = BasketMgr.getStoredBasket();

I dont know how i can extract the products from the Stored after the merge.
Someone can give me a tip?

A: If I'm not mistaken you need just take a collection with products from the basket.
var extractedProducts = [chosebBasket].getProductLineItems();

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Party for Socialism and Liberation,U.S. (PSL), described the recent Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) as a dagger aimed at China and the global working class.
Yul Jabour, from the Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of Venezuela (PCV) calls for international support for the upcoming elections on 6th December.
French Communist Party (PCF) and Communist Youth (JC) members were attacked by Zionists when they removed an offensive banner on the scene of the Paris attacks.
The CC of the Communist Party of Russian Federation (CPRF) has made released a statement underlining the relationship between the modern capitalism and religious terrorism.
Referring Hollande's call for "military support" from the EU, the Communist Party of Malta (CPM) appealed that the Maltese government should not get involved in the conflict in Syria.
Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and Communist Youth (KNE), took part in the massive march to the US embassy, appealing upon the government for Greece's disengagement from the imperialist plans.
Lebanese Communist Party condemns the bombings in Beirut and calls for vigilance and people's unity.
Communist Party of Britain discusses the "renegotiation" on Britain's EU membership as a question of "ending permanent austerity"
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    def setUp(self):
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    def test_node(self):
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        child.expect('   Prefixes\r\n\r\nNODES      Name    Interface    Type                                          IPs\r\n\r\n')
        child.close(force=True)

    def tearDown(self):
        os.system("happy-state-delete")

if __name__ == "__main__":
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Home Biology News
Got Slime? Regenerative Biology Used to Restore Mucus Production
TOPICS:BiomechanicsBiomedical EngineeringUniversity of Pittsburgh
By University of Pittsburgh January 31, 2020
Green Slime covers the surface of a tadpole (bottom) and a goblet-cell regenerated aggregate (top, not the same scale). The images show the molecule intelectin-1, an important factor in tadpole skin, and one of the slime factors synthesized and secreted by goblet cells (single goblet cells can be seen in the aggregate). In human lung, intelectin-1 binds bacteria and is on the front line of the innate immune system. Credit: Hye Young Kim and Lance Davidson
Lance Davidson of the University of Pittsburgh published an article in Nature Communications detailing that tissue mechanics can drive the regeneration of goblet cells on the outside surface of frog embryonic organoids.
Let's talk about slime.
Mucus is a protective, slimy secretion produced by goblet cells and which lines organs of the respiratory, digestive, and reproductive systems. Slime production is essential to health, and an imbalance can be life-threatening. Patients with diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and ulcerative colitis produce too much mucus, often after growing too many goblet cells. Loss of goblet cells can be equally devastating — for instance during cancer, after infection, or injury. The balance of slime creation, amount, and transport is critical, so doctors and medical researchers have long sought the origins of goblet cells and have been eager to control processes that regenerate them and maintain balanced populations.
Recently, a group of bioengineers at the University of Pittsburgh discovered a case of goblet cell regeneration that is both easily accessible and happens incredibly fast on cells isolated from early developing frog embryos. Their findings were published this week in the journal Nature Communications.
Lance Davidson, William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Bioengineering at Pitt, leads the MechMorpho Lab in the Swanson School of Engineering where his researchers study the role of mechanics in human cells as well as the Xenopus embryo — an aquatic frog native to South Africa.
"The Xenopus tadpole, like many frogs, has a respiratory skin that can exchange oxygen and perform tasks similar to a human lung," explained Davidson. "Like the human lung, the surface of the Xenopus respiratory skin is a mucociliated epithelium, which is a tissue formed from goblet cells and ciliated cells that also protects the larva against pathogens. Because of these evolutionary similarities, our group uses frog embryonic organoids to examine how tissue mechanics impact cell growth and tissue formation."
Studying this species is a rapid and cost-effective way to explore the genetic origins of biomechanics and how mechanical cues are sensed, not just in the frog embryo, but universally. When clinicians study cancer in patients, such changes can take weeks, months, or even years, but in a frog embryo, changes happen within hours.
"In this project, we took a group of mesenchymal cells out of the early embryo and formed them into a spherical aggregate, and within five hours, they began to change," Davidson said. "These cells are known to differentiate into a variety of types, but in this scenario, we discovered that they changed very dramatically into a type of cell that they would not have changed into had they been in the embryo."
The lab surprisingly uncovered a case of regeneration that restores a mucociliated epithelium from mesenchymal cells. They performed the experiment multiple times to confirm the unexpected findings and began to look closely at what microenvironmental cues could drive cells into an entirely new type.
"We have tools to modulate the mechanical microenvironment that houses the cells, and to our surprise, we found that if we made the environment stiffer, the aggregates changed into these epithelial cells," explained Davidson. "If we made it softer, we were able to block them from changing. This finding shows that mechanics alone can cause important changes in the cells, and that is a remarkable thing."
Davidson's group is interested in how cells, influenced by mechanics, may affect disease states. The results detailed in this article may drive new questions in cancer biology, prompting researchers to consider whether certain kinds of invasive cancer cells might revert to a resting cell type based on the stiffness or softness of their surroundings.
"When applying these results to cancer biology, one might ask, 'If tumors are surrounded by soft tissues, would they become dormant and basically non-invasive?' Or, 'If you have them in stiff tissues, would they invade and become deadly?'" said Davidson. "These are major questions in the field that biomechanics may be able to help answer. Many researchers focus solely on the chemical pathways, but we are also finding mechanical influencers of disease."
Hye Young Kim, research fellow at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and former member of the MechMorpho Lab, will continue this work at the Center for Vascular Research at KAIST's Institute for Basic Science. She will study how cell motility changes during regeneration and how epithelial cells assemble a new epithelium. Davidson and his lab will explore how this novel case of mechanical cues are sensed by mesenchymal cells and how these mechanical induction pathways are integrated with known pathways that control cell fate choices.
"Frog embryos and organoids give us unparalleled access to study these processes, far more access than is possible with human organs," he said. "The old ideas that regeneration is controlled exclusively by diffusing growth factors and hormones is giving way to the recognition that the physical mechanics of the environment — such as how rubbery or fluid the environment — play just as critical a role."
Reference: "Tissue mechanics drives regeneration of a mucociliated epidermis on the surface of Xenopus embryonic aggregates" by Hye Young Kim, Timothy R. Jackson, Carsten Stuckenholz and Lance A. Davidson, 31 January 2020, Nature Communications.
This research was supported by a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health.
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'Romeo & Juliet' at Langley High
Langley's modern twist on a classical masterpiece.
Chris Morgan (Tybalt) and Leland Hao (Benvolio). Standing behind are Nicolas Kristensen (Ensemble), Ethan Bhatia (Abraham), and Eli Roberts (Ensemble). Here Tybalt starts a brawl after Benvolio was only trying to keep the peace at the start of the show. Photo by Rachel Lesan, Langley High Senior
By Valerie Karasek
Photo by Rachel Lesan, Langley High Senior
Hannah Toronto (Lady Capulet) and Gus Hamburg (Makeup crew). Gus is getting Hannah ready for her big campaign debut shots.
Hannah Cameron-Cadenazzi (Juliet) and Cole Sitilides (Romeo). Romeo and Juliet's first meeting in the middle of the dance at the Get Out the Youth Vote Party.
Cole Sitilides (Romeo) and Hannah Cameron-Cadenazzi (Juliet). Romeo and Juliet's first "Palmers Kiss" in the middle of the dance floor at the Get Out the Youth Vote Party.
Saxon Stage presents "Romeo & Juliet," William Shakespeare's classic tale of romance and rivalry set in Washington, D.C. in the late summer of 2020 amidst the heated political climate of an upcoming election. Lady Montague, a single mom and Democratic Congresswoman, matches wits against a well-established Republican Senator Capulet as they attempt to become the next President of the United States. As they strategize how to achieve their partisan goals, their campaign supporters stand passionately behind them, ready to fight against any challenger or opposing viewpoint. However, their teenage children, Romeo and Juliet, have grown weary of the polarized campaign frenzy. They long for the love and attention of their parents, as well as a soulmate willing to make them the center of their universe.
Shakespeare's poetic text reveals an uncanny relevance to the tribal nature of today's political environment. Word-for-word, the text rings true and the narrative is as powerful today as it was more than 400 years ago. In Saxon Stage's production, the title roles will be played by Cole Sitilides, 2019 Cappie winner for Best Actor in Biloxi Blues, and Hannah Cadenazzi, Sophie in last spring's Mamma Mia. Samuel Buroker as Mercutio, Leland Hao as Benvolio, Chris Morgan as Tybalt, Peter Fox as Friar Lawrence, Samantha Brunjes as the Nurse, Lily Spiller as Lady Montague, and Gunnar Peacock and Hannah Toronto as the Capulets, along with an active ensemble of 35, round out the stellar cast. The technical design team will further support our artistic vision of the show with the use of projections and music to help set the location and mood.
"Romeo & Juliet" opens on Thursday, Dec. 5 and will run through Sunday, Dec. 8. All performances will begin at 7 p.m. except for the Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. Cappies performance is on Friday, Dec. 6. This is the date when all the theatre critics will be invited. Additional information, including how to purchase tickets, is available on Saxon Stage website: saxon-stage.com.
Valerie Karasek is Theatre Director, Saxon Stage, Langley High School.
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Hemant Mehta with a brief overview of a recent poll conducted in Canada on beliefs in evolution and creationism.
Not that you need it, but here's another reason Canada is so much better than we are: Only 21% of Canadians think we were poofed into existence by God sometime in the past 10,000 years. Compare that to the astonishing 38% of people in the United States who say the same thing.
The poll from Research Co. also found that two thirds of Canadians accepted the reality that we evolved over the course of millions of years.
Still, there are parts of the country where ignorance thrives:
in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 41% of residents believe in creationism — a significantly higher number than in all other provinces. Quebec has the smallest proportion of respondents who identify with creationism (10%). Age appears to play a role in shaping the perceptions of Canadians on the origin of life," says Mario Canseco, President of Research Co. "While half of those aged 18-to-34 (50%) definitely concur with evolution, the proportion drops among those aged 35-to-54 (45%) and those aged 55 and over (26%).
The future looks bright(er).
Incidentally, a different survey on the same topic last year found that only 15% of Canadians were Creationists. I don't think the number's gone up for any reason; it's likely just a difference in methodologies.
Sources: via the National Center for Science Education.
Hemant Mehta blogs @ Friendly Atheist
Follow Hemant Mehta on Twitter @hemantmehta
Poll - 66% of Canadians Accept Evolution While 21% Are Young Earth Creationists
By AM Sunday, December 2, 2018
Canada Creationism and Evolution Friendly Atheist
AM 3:11 PM, December 02, 2018
A mass of evidence for evolution - a mass of myth for Young Earth Creationism.
The only dispute really is whether a divine source kick started evolution or it did not.
Steve R 9:06 PM, December 02, 2018
AM,
Absolutely NOT! Everything that has been observed in the known Universe started off simply then became complex. Implying a 'divine source' as a first cause doesn't solve anything, in fact it just makes less sense.
Such divinity would necessarily be extremely complex, omnipotent and would then beg the question "who created IT?".
This reasoning would continue ad infinitum.
AM 10:09 PM, December 02, 2018
Steve - it does continue ad infinitum. But there are only two choices - the universe was either divinely created or it wasn't. We reject outright the divine but there are evolutionary biologists and scientists who see it differently. Hans Kung, Teillhard de Chardin to name but two.
Steve R 12:56 AM, December 03, 2018
Hans Kung the Swiss priest and theologian, plus Teillhard de Chardin the Jesuit who's work was so heavily influenced by his faith as to render it stained?
I can't tell if you are actually serious Anthony?
AM 6:24 AM, December 03, 2018
Steve - if you don't believe theistic evolutionaries exist I intend doing for nothing for you. Something you will have to chase up for yourself. It is very well documented.
Niall 11:59 AM, December 03, 2018
I sort of expected that figure of 66% to be higher....quite disappointed with that, I really thought it would be much higher..perhaps it's being sandwiched between USA and Sarah Palin in Anchorage that influences it..wait a minute, what does the 13% (66 + 21 = 87) believe then or do they not give a shit!
frankie 12:37 PM, December 03, 2018
Niall,
Maybe the 13% think like me and believe that some where between monkeys climbing down from trees and walking up right across the African Savanah they either popped a few magic mushrooms and when they got to Egypt they figured out how to build a pyramid....or when the monkeys had reached Kenya an advance life form paid this rock a visit, started tweaking monkey DNA until they found a sequence that worked and used humans to quarry for minerals to power their Tesla space ships...(the latter would explain why there are so many early forms of humanoid bones scattered across this rock...)
Niall 6:57 PM, December 03, 2018
Maybe...then again may be not!
I meant no disrespect, I mean that they are tainted with a belief in a 'first cause' specifically one that is 'divine', that's all.
"some where between monkeys climbing down from trees and walking up right across the African Savana"
Humans are Great Apes not monkeys, though we share a common ancestor.
"either popped a few magic mushrooms "
Perhaps, but this is unknown due to uncertainty whether our ancestors brains were developed enough to experience psychedelic happenings through fungi ingestion.
" and when they got to Egypt they figured out how to build a pyramid"
Why not? It's probably the easiest shape to build really tall!
"....or when the monkeys had reached Kenya an advance life form paid this rock a visit, started tweaking monkey DNA"
That would instantly show up in DNA sequencing of past human fossils...and it doesn't.
"until they found a sequence that worked and used humans to quarry for minerals to power their Tesla space ships"
A civilisation that has mastered inter-stellar travel still needs monkeys to do the graft? Unlikely.
"(the latter would explain why there are so many early forms of humanoid bones scattered across this rock...)"
Er, no it really doesn't. Evolution is neither linear or location specific.
Can I have what your smoking please? lol
Steve - of course they are and that is what they are in dispute over with non-theistic evolutionists. It is not a teach the controversy argument, merely an observation.
It is not about respect - there is no obligation on any of us to respect other opinions.
frankie 5:40 PM, December 04, 2018
Naill,
Until someone comes along with a better idea than the monkey and the magic mushroom/visited by an advanced life form who tweaked the gene pool..I am sticking with that school of thought. I can't buy into a bearded hippy walking on water 2,000yrs ago. And as for every scientist out there, they all have as many theories about how we came to be as every religion anyone care to mention have gods. Keep the faith Niall, I am leaving nothing off the table and open to suggestions. I do believe there is a whole chapter or three of civilization that we haven't been told or we simply don't know....
Is this cave painting a fried egg or a UFO?
This might interest some heads. Albert Einstein's God's letter is expected to fetch up to $1.5m (£1.2m) when it goes under the hammer at Christie's in New York on Tuesday.
The one-and-a-half page letter, written in 1954 in German and addressed to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, contains reflections on God, the bible and Judaism.
Einstein says: "The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."
The sentence has been hailed as evidence that Einstein, one of the 20th century's most esteemed thinkers, was an atheist. However Einstein at times said he was not an atheist, and resented being claimed as one.
In the letter, Einstein, a Jew, also articulates his disenchantment with Judaism. "For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people," he wrote.
"As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."
The letter was written in response to a book by Gutkind, called Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt.
Stevie,
Monkey's beyond reasonable doubt did eat mushrooms. And it isn't only monkey's...
Here is a Jaguar in the Amazon rain forset eating a vine and tripping on DMT. Maybe there is some truth about Rudolf flying in the sky.. Reindeers love eating mushrooms. The lemurs in Madagascar love getting mellow on centipede juice. This young grizzly eats mushroom almost as big as itself...Did early man have a good time looking at the stars tripping thinking similar thoughts to you, me and a boy named Sue. No doubt about it...
Can we split the difference and call it a beast?
And somewhere between North Kenya and Egypt they looked at the stars while tripping on mushrooms. And I am almost certain that an advanced life form paid this rock a visit and tweaked the DNA of different kinds of beasts until they settled on the design we call modern man.
Who grafts today? Who cleans the streets, builds the sky scrappers, mines the minerals..the working class (monkeys) or the rich and powerful, who have the connections and money to fly to the moon (not exactly inter stellar but higher than the 32, 000ft we can fly at).
"Here is a Jaguar in the Amazon rain forset eating a vine and tripping on DMT. Maybe there is some truth about Rudolf flying in the sky.. Reindeers love eating mushrooms. The lemurs in Madagascar love getting mellow on centipede juice. This young grizzly eats mushroom almost as big as itself...Did early man have a good time looking at the stars tripping thinking similar thoughts to you, me and a boy named Sue. No doubt about it..."
I get what you are saying but it's impossible to know whether our ancestors,specifically when Homo and Pan split (Chimpanzee/human last common ancestor)their brains were developed enough to experience it.
Put it this way, the amount of psilocybin mushrooms all the cattle in the UK must consume would be enough to 'trip balls' for aeons...but they are not...as their brains aren't developed enough for it.
"Can we split the difference and call it a beast?"
If you like!
"And somewhere between North Kenya and Egypt they looked at the stars while tripping on mushrooms. And I am almost certain that an advanced life form paid this rock a visit and tweaked the DNA of different kinds of beasts until they settled on the design we call modern man. "
See above, and we would have spotted the 'tweaking' of the DNA. It would be glaringly obvious to geneticists. Opinion doesn't come in to it.
"Who grafts today? Who cleans the streets, builds the sky scrappers, mines the minerals..the working class (monkeys) or the rich and powerful, who have the connections and money to fly to the moon (not exactly inter stellar but higher than the 32, 000ft we can fly at)."
Any civilization that can travel interstellar distances would have little reason for earth bound minerals, and besides, there would be evidence left over from mining..
Not that it matters. The human race is doomed unless it becomes a space faring species withing 200 years. Ho hum lol
but they are not...as their brains aren't developed enough for it.
I have shown you animals in the wild eating plants and insects to get stoned. And beyond all reasonable doubt if you gave a cow, mouse, monkey a handfull of magic mushrooms they will trip. Did early man trip on them, you better believe it. I don't care how developed early mans brain was or wasn't. DId he figure out Pi while tripping. I don't know but I do know there is a huge piece of history that doesn't add up no maatter what way you look at things.
Any civilization that can travel interstellar distances would have little reason for earth bound minerals, and besides, there would be evidence left over from mining.
I covered that point on a piece called Never a straight answer for TPQ a while back (last paragraph). Here is the same video evidence All you or anyone has to do is simply watch the first few mins and make your own mind up about was this rock mined for minerals a very long time ago. Watch it and make your call.
and we would have spotted the 'tweaking' of the DNA. It would be glaringly obvious to geneticists. Opinion doesn't come in to it.
Today across this rock there is a massive debate going on about genetics and designer babies and the ethics behind gene editing...
The researcher, He Jiankui, offered no evidence or data to back up his assertions. If true, some fear the feat could open the door to "designer babies."
Have you any idea the mathss behind the pyramids of Giza? The best engineers using modern tools and with all the technology we have, would have problems coming close to replicating any of the monoliths that are spread out across this rock.
"I have shown you animals in the wild eating plants and insects to get stoned. And beyond all reasonable doubt if you gave a cow, mouse, monkey a handfull of magic mushrooms they will trip. Did early man trip on them, you better believe it. I don't care how developed early mans brain was or wasn't. DId he figure out Pi while tripping. I don't know but I do know there is a huge piece of history that doesn't add up no maatter what way you look at things."
How can we possibly know if early homo 'tripped balls' on mushrooms? Do present day cows trip balls? If I eat chocolate I get a pleasant feeling. If I feed it to my dog it will die. Both are mammals but with very different physical make-ups. I'm not saying you are wrong, it's just we have no way of knowing.
I answered all your ponderings on the comments section below your article frankie.
"Today across this rock there is a massive debate going on about genetics and designer babies and the ethics behind gene editing...
The researcher, He Jiankui, offered no evidence or data to back up his assertions. If true, some fear the feat could open the door to "designer babies"
Yes, quite. No different to dog breeds being crossed. What I'm saying is if gene editing was done in the past we would have spotted it.
"Have you any idea the mathss behind the pyramids of Giza? The best engineers using modern tools and with all the technology we have, would have problems coming close to replicating any of the monoliths that are spread out across this rock."
Wrong. https://www.livescience.com/45285-how-egyptians-moved-pyramid-stones.html


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The end of school lunch as we know it? Hello, Project Lunch Tray.
by Leah Lizarondo March 14, 2015 August 31, 2022
Chef Keith Fuller of Root 174 with Kelsey Weisgerber and students from the Environmental Charter School
Ginger beef & veggie stir-fry over whole grain noodles. Spiced apple and cheddar quesadilla. Stacked chicken cordon bleu. Side salad with homemade garlic and shallot balsamic vinaigrette. Fruit salad with granola and homemade whipped cream.
Those are not menu items from the next hot restaurant. Those are school lunches. School lunches as reimagined by chefs and the kids who actually get to eat them everyday.
Last Saturday, Community Kitchen Pittsburgh's (CKP) Project Lunch Tray held its first of two public events, showcasing the work that seven chefs have been doing with staff and students of seven schools to campaign for better school lunches. CKP and the chefs have been working intensively with students for the past month to present alternatives to present day school lunches.
CKP is a nonprofit that provides workforce development services with culinary-based training programs. CKP's philosophy is focused on advocacy for food education and a sustainable regional food system.
Staying within USDA nutrition guidelines and a school's cost criteria, the teams came up with kid-approved meals. Most Pittsburgh Public Schools do not have working kitchens and school menus typically include highly processed frozen meals, delivered from central facilities and microwaved at the schools. These menu items include mozzarella sticks, pizza, corn dogs, chicken nuggets and the best one of all—the walking taco, which is inspired by putting ground meat over Fritos and calling it food.
School lunches in the United States have been a challenge that has been well-documented in the media—from Congress counting "pizza as a vegetable" to memes that compare what our schools serve with school lunches from around the world.
Funded by a grant from BNY Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, CKP launched the initiative to raise awareness for what is possible with school lunches—a meal that many children depend on as their primary source of nutrition for the entire day.
"These middle school kids have come up with some amazing ideas for school lunches—all their entries follow USDA guidelines for school lunches and they are cost-effective and scalable for a cafeteria," says CKP Co-Director Jennifer Flanagan.
CKP's job training initiative includes commercial food services that provide for many community programs including from-scratch meals on wheels and school lunches for the Environmental Charter School and Manchester Academic Charter School.
At the Environmental Charter School, the budget per student is between $2.00-$2.50, says Kelsey Weisgerber, the school's food service director. According to Tod Shoenberger, CKP co-director, the current reimbursement rates for Pittsburgh Public School meals are $2.98 for children qualified for free lunches, $2.58 for children qualified for reduced price lunches and .28 for paid lunches. Almost 65% of students in Pittsburgh Public Schools qualify for free lunches.
The schools participating in Project Lunch Tray are Arsenal Middle School, Langley K-8, Environmental Charter School, Propel Braddock Hills, Propel McKeesport, Manchester Academic Charter School and The Neighborhood Academy.
Chefs participating in the program include Keith Fuller of Root 174, Tod Shoenberger of CKP, Jamie Moore of the Eat n' Park Hospitality Group, Michelle O'Leary of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, John Crooks of CCAC and school food service chefs Dan Fiore of Propel and Thomas Harrison of The Neighborhood Academy.
"This project has been an eye opener on the state specs for school lunches," says Chef Fuller. "Luckily this group of students has it down pat. Honestly these kids know what they want. I am just here to guide them and teach them the cooking techniques to make it happen."
Recipes created during Project Lunch Tray will eventually be offered in schools that CKP serves.
"We will certainly be adding competition entries to our school lunch cycle menus, and hope other schools that have that option will do the same," says Flanagan. "It's great that we will now have these student ambassadors in the lunchroom. When their entrée shows up on the school menu, you can be sure the team members will be encouraging their fellow students to try it."
Project Lunch Tray will hold the final event at the Farm to Table Conference on March 27 and 28 at the David Lawrence Convention Center. Each of the seven schools will present their final entry and a panel of judges, as well as a people's choice vote for the best meal will be held on March 28th.
But the campaign is not going to end there, according to Flanagan. "We are going to make sure each school gets a cooking club "starter kit" with small wares, equipment and products, along with continued engagement from our education and outreach staff," she says. "We are working with the students on nutrition, food exploration and home cooking, including kitchen safety, because a number of the students are responsible for cooking for younger siblings at home."
"We are also teaching kids about food advocacy—how to identify and advocate for incremental and doable changes in their own school lunch programs. We are very aware that many schools' food service programs are limited by capacity, funding, and to some extent, expectation and habits. At last week's event at the Public Market, there were school board members, teachers, administrators and families that showed up to check out the action and cheer on their students, and we bet they will continue to stay involved in the conversation."
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Russian-born violinist Maxim Vengerov – still in his early forties and long recovered from a shoulder injury that stopped him from playing for five years – has been a welcome visitor to Australia since 1999. That year, in Melbourne, he gave a brilliant recital and also performed the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra under Markus Stenz. Sixteen years later he returned; his recital featured a mesmeric reading of the Chaconne from Bach's Partita No. 2.
Two weeks ago he opened the Sydney Symphony Orchestra's 2017 season with a rendition of Brahms's Violin Concerto that was memorable from the first movement, when Vengerov replaced Joseph Joachim's wonted cadenza with his own longer, Bachian cadenza.
Last night, before a capacity audience in Hamer Hall, Vengerov was the soloist in a Russian Gala. After an awkward speech from the new general manager (flanked by uniformed Emirates stewardesses) and a cringe-making promotional video, we went straight into Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto. Here, all of Vengerov's strengths were on show: crisp articulation, controlled but stirring vibrato, daring rubato, incredible harmonics, and those phenomenal trills. His tone seemed even more beautiful in the warmer acoustic of Hamer Hall. Vengerov was at his most dauntless in the outer movements, yet the Canzonetta was hushed and refined before the monumental Finale. His encore, as in Sydney, was the Sarabande from Bach's Partita No. 2. Rarely has a Melbourne audience responded so warmly to a violinist; people knew they had just heard the greatest virtuoso of our day.
Vengerov returned after interval, this time on the podium. He often conducts Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, usually playing the violin solos, but Sophie Rowell was the featured soloist on this occasion, warmly encouraged by her conductor, clearly a musician's musician. Rowell's playing, especially during the Andantino and closing solo for Scheherazade, was just one of the outstanding solos during this vivifying performance. David Berlin's cello was stalwart and expressive as ever. The brass section took one's breath away, and possibly their own.
In Sydney, after Vengerov's heroics in the Brahms, the SSO, conducted by David Robertson, had given an equally fine account of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Clearly, both orchestras start the year in excellent form.
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra's Gala was conducted by Benjamin Northey in Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne. Performance attended: 28 February 2017.
Foxtel Arts will broadcast this performance on 12 May.


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The Tough Uphill Climb the Stars Face...By the Numbers
By Brandon Bibb Updated Jan 13, 2010, 5:00pm CST
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It seems like we were doing these sobering projections last year. And hoping that when this year rolled around, we wouldn't have to be doing the same sobering projections.
But here we are as the Stars are mired in 11th place in the West...doing these same sobering projections.
As of right now, the Stars have a mark of 19-16-11 giving them 49 points through 46 games. They have a winning percentage of .413. By comparison, last year's team had a winning percentage of .439.
The .413 winning percentage that Dallas has posted this season is the third worst winning percentage in the Western Conference.
Last year's team finished with 83 points and 8 points out of a playoff spot. This year's team is on pace to finish with 87 points...but still 8 points out of a playoff spot (Detroit is on pace to get the 8th seed with 95 points, BTW).
Dallas has a point percentage of .532 (49 points out of a possible 92 points = .532). Or to point it another way, they've picked up 1.064 points out of a possible two points per game.
Based on the point projections of the rest of the teams in the West, the Stars would need to increase their point percentage to .781 per game, or 1.566 just to even make the playoffs.
And BTW, six teams are projected to hit the century mark, at least, for points.
As for the really sobering news? Follow the jump
SportsClubStats is a site that's been around for a few years. As sports stats nerd, it's one of my favorite sites to visit because they compute playoff chances for every team in the NHL, NFL, MLB, NBA and a few other sports as well. Even Motorsports!
In addition, you can also track your team's playoff chances throughout the year.
Here's a link to a full screen interactive graph for the Stars playoff chance projections throughout the year. Keep in mind that early season results tend to skew the numbers quite a bit. The further along you go on the season, the more accurate the results are.
As of today, they've got the Stars chances of making the playoffs pegged at 12.6 percent. A day after they beat the Red Wings 4-3 at home on December 19th, they were just a tad over the 50% mark for the season. And since the calendar year flipped over to 2010, their chances have taken a nose dive.
Just to even get to a 50/50 proposition to make the playoffs according to SportsClubStats, the Stars would need to go 20-12-4 over their final 36 games. And that would only get them to 93 points...and 39 wins on the year. And since 10 teams are projected to win at least 40 games?
You get the picture. And it's not pretty.


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Gone are the days where you would walk into your doctor's office, and they would have to physically pull out your charts and files from a giant rickety cabinet. Everything was paper-based up until the 1990's. That's when technology really began to lift off. Since then, most of us have transitioned to adding terms like smart phone, PACS, and RIS to our vernacular. But seriously, what the heck is a RIS?
A cloud-based picture archiving and communication system (PACS) should integrate with a radiology information system (RIS). When the two systems are integrated, radiologists can work more efficiently because they will always have the patient information they need at their fingertips.
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SALT LAKE CITY (MarketWatch) — I'm an idiot.
After watching the "60 Minutes" expose of insider-dealing by members of Congress, I'm left wondering (not for the first time, I might add): Why on Earth did I choose journalism as a career? Watch the "60 Minutes" report.
Apparently we might be the only people in public life who aren't on the take.
Yes, I know, it's easy to be cynical. People assume we are all "up to it," and scandals like the one now breaking on Capitol Hill just add to that assumption.
But it's not true. If any reporter were caught doing the things alleged against some members of Congress, they'd be out. Canned. That afternoon. And they'd be barred from the industry for life. They'd be serving soy lattes for the rest of their days.
Spencer Bachus was shorting stocks during the financial crisis? As a reporter for Dow Jones, I'm not allowed to short stocks or own derivatives at all.
I'm not allowed to own any stock or bond I cover. Indeed, it is very difficult for me to own even an open-ended mutual fund I might write about. I would have loved to invest in Charles de Vaulx's IVA Worldwide IVWAX, -0.23% fund, or in the Appleseed Fund APPLX, +0.08% run by the Strauss brothers. But these money managers are excellent sources for my articles, so the wisest thing has been, alas, for me to steer clear.
The rules make it very difficult for me to invest at all. When I became a full-time investment writer five years ago, I had to sell all my stocks. That meant selling my Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, -0.22% BRK.B, -0.18% and my Amazon.com AMZN, -0.17% Inc. I hate to think how much it's cost me in lost profits. I have a horrible feeling that if I ever worked it out, I'd discover I have effectively been working for free.
Meanwhile, it turns out many of the people on Capitol Hill are just "oiling the wheel" without any compunction at all.
Sweetheart deals. Insider trading. Loading up in IPOs. It defies belief that Nancy Pelosi and her husband can own a ton of Visa V, -0.17% stock while she is legislating on credit cards. I can't own Visa stock while I am writing about credit cards. What is wrong with our country?
They used to joke that politics was "showbusiness for ugly people." Turns out it's also the hedge-fund business for stupid people. Corrupt, greedy and immoral to a degree it's hard to imagine.
And here we are, you and I, just working for a living. What are we? A nation of suckers, that's what.


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Sarah N. Lynch and Jan Wolfe Thursday, 04 November 2021 06:16 PM
The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Texas on Thursday over a state law that places strict curbs on voting by mail, in the latest effort by the Biden administration to combat new voting restrictions being enacted in Republican-controlled states across the nation.
The department's lawsuit takes aim at Texas Senate Bill 1, which was signed into law by Gov. Greg Abbott in September, saying it violates voters' rights.
The Texas law makes it tougher to cast ballots through the mail by preventing officials from sending unsolicited mail-in ballot applications.
It also adds new identification requirements for mail-in voting, prohibits drive-thru and 24-hour voting locations, limits early voting, and restricts who can help voters requiring assistance because of disabilities or language barriers.
The Justice Department complaint alleges that the Texas law improperly restricts disabled voters or voters who cannot read or write from being able to receive adequate assistance at voting locations.
"The challenged provisions will disenfranchise eligible Texas citizens who seek to exercise their right to vote, including voters with limited English proficiency, voters with disabilities, elderly voters, members of the military deployed away from home, and American citizens residing outside of the country," the complaint says.
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Students successfully completing eight taught modules and the dissertation for their individual project will be awarded 180 credits and a Master's level qualification. Alternatively, students who do not complete the dissertation but have successfully completed eight taught modules will be awarded 120 credits and a postgraduate diploma. Successful completion of four taught modules (60 credits) will lead to the award of a postgraduate certificate.
Students will usually need to attend three or four days a week. Full time students may take an internship route, in which they are given an extra three months for an internship-based Project.
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You will develop skills in analysing requirements and designing appropriate software solutions; designing and creating complex software systems to solve real-world problems, evaluating and using advanced software engineering environments, design methods and programming languages and evaluating and responding to recent trends in interoperability and software development.
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Q: join with @ prints the wrong result I would like to know how can I use the sign @ together with join operator; this yields a wrong result:
my $string1  = '00aabb';
my $string2  = '02babe';
print join ("A",@ $string1, $string2);

Namely:
$ perl b.pl
02babe

So how can I use @ within join that would concatenate the two strings and joins them with a separator A?
I come out of the assumption that join requires an array as its second argument, and it thus should begin with @. The mere
print join("A", $string1, $string2);

works fine, but I want to make it work with @ preceded.

A: join does not require an array as its second argument; it requires a list (which is different from an array):

join EXPR,LIST

Your 2nd code example works fine because the 2nd and 3rd arguments make up a list of 2 items.  Here is a way to use join if you already have an array variable (@strings):
use warnings;
use strict;

my $string1  = '00aabb';
my $string2  = '02babe';

print join ("A", $string1, $string2);
print "\n";

my @strings = ($string1, $string2);

print join ("A", @strings);
print "\n";

Prints:
00aabbA02babe
00aabbA02babe

The @ sign is what is used to denote an array variable.
See also perldoc perldata.

Note that if you had used strict, you would have gotten an error message.


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using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using Xamarin.Forms;
using Xamarin.Forms.Platform.EtoForms;

// General Information about an assembly is controlled through the following
// set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
// associated with an assembly.
[assembly: AssemblyTitle("Xamarin.Forms.Platform.EtoForms.Desktop")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("")]
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("Xamarin.Forms.Platform.EtoForms.Desktop")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright ©  2014")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]

// Setting ComVisible to false makes the types in this assembly not visible
// to COM components.  If you need to access a type in this assembly from
// COM, set the ComVisible attribute to true on that type.
[assembly: ComVisible(false)]

// The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib if this project is exposed to COM
[assembly: Guid("03ef9395-5170-49d8-9664-9e72914d23e5")]

// Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
//
//      Major Version
//      Minor Version
//      Build Number
//      Revision
//
// You can specify all the values or you can default the Build and Revision Numbers
// by using the '*' as shown below:
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[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")]
[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.0.0")]

//Sizes...
[assembly: NamedSize(TargetIdiom.Desktop, typeof(Label), NamedSize.Large, 18)]
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Q: small sprite touch There are some games which have some small pictures as sprites and can move by touch.If the sprite is a larger picture,the touch is quite normal.And we can use the function CGRectContainsPoint check for the sprite.But when the sprite is quite small,this function looks not good.Is there other method can sovle the problem?

A: I wrote about an approach that you may be able to use to mitigate the "fat finger" issue which @FrustratedWithFormsDesigner described:
http://codecube.net/2010/03/approximating-touch-points/

... what if you compare the user's
  touch point against the entity
  positions and simply select the
  closest one (regardless of whether
  it's 35 or 36 pixels away)?

The post is written in C# for the windows phone, but the concept should apply. Basically, do a distance comparison between the user's touch and the entities on screen. Make the touch manipulate the closest one by distance and you get away from issues of having rigidly defined squares with which to detect touches.

A: You can allow touches in a margin around the sprite. e.g. If the touch is within 10 pixels of the sprite, treat it as if it is touching the sprite.
One way of doing this is to expand the sprite's rect before calling CGRectContainsPoint. The following code will expand the rect by 10 for both x and y:
CGRect expanded = CGRectInset(spriteRect, -10.0, -10.0);

Another way of doing it is to create a rect around the touch and use CGRectIntersectsRect to check if the touch rect overlaps with the sprite.


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USS Winona was a  built for service with the Union Navy during the American Civil War. Winona was heavily armed, with large guns for duels at sea, and 24-pounder howitzers for shore bombardment. Winona saw significant action in the Gulf of Mexico and in the waterways of the Mississippi River and was fortunate to return home safely after the war for decommissioning.

Construction and launch
Winona was the first ship to be so named by the U.S. Navy.  She was a propeller-driven gunboat constructed in 1861 at the Brooklyn, New York shipyard of C. & R. Poillon.  She was launched into the East River on 14 September 1861. The US Government allowed for 75 days of construction, but the shipyard finished its work 46 days after the contract was signed.  Winona was delivered to the Navy at the New York Navy Yard on 26 November 1861 and commissioned on 11 December 1861, Lt. Comdr. Edward T. Nichols in command.

Her sea trial under Commander Nichols was satisfactory in terms of the ship, but less so as to the navigation of the ship.  On her return from sea, she rammed and sank a launch leaving the Navy yard.  She was loaded with bomb shells worth $30,000.  Winona also hit a coal barge without apparent damage to either vessel.

Winona's hull was wooden, built from white and live oak, yellow pine, and locust.  She was rigged as a two-masted schooner and could sail, but her primary propulsion was provided by a single propeller  in diameter.  This was powered by two coal-fired steam engines, each with a  bore and an  stroke.  Steam was provided by two boilers which consumed 9 tons of fuel per day.  Winona's machinery was built by the Allaire Iron Works.

Winona's original cost, exclusive of armament, was $101,000.

Civil War service

Assigned to the Gulf coast
Ordered to the Gulf Blockading Squadron and allocated to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron when Union naval responsibility in the area was divided early the next year, she served at the mouth of and in the Mississippi River for the next seven months.

On 24 April 1862, she attempted to pass Forts Jackson and St. Philip but snagged herself on obstructions while the rest of her unit fought its way past the Confederate forts on the river banks and the South's naval forces. Eventually freeing herself, Winona remained below the forts with Comdr. David D. Porter's mortar flotilla while Flag Officer David Farragut moved on upriver to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.

Four days later, her commanding officer took part in accepting the Confederate capitulation of Fort St. Philip. In May, she moved upstream with the mortar boats to join the investment of the Southern stronghold at Vicksburg, Mississippi.

The siege of Vicksburg
That siege began in earnest late on the afternoon of 26 June when Farragut's mortar boats began their bombardment. At dawn on the 28th, Winona joined the other ships of Farragut's fleet in steaming past the Vicksburg batteries under a hail of fire to unite with the fleet under Flag Officer Davis which had been fighting its way down the river from its base at Cairo, Illinois.

Blocking CSS Arkansas
Once above Vicksburg, Winona and her colleagues settled into a more or less routine schedule supporting the first Vicksburg campaign and attempting to blockade the Confederate ironclad, Arkansas, in the Yazoo River. On 15 July, however, the Southern warship bested a three-gunboat expedition sent up the Yazoo River after her, disabling  in the river and chasing  and  back down the river.

Arkansas continued out of the Yazoo and into the Mississippi River to begin a bold dash through the 33-ship Union fleet of which Winona remained a unit. Firing as she went, the Confederate warship hurtled through the startled Northern squadron, briefly engaging Winona as she raced past her. Winona responded briefly, but the Confederate ship passed through the gauntlet safely and moored under the protection of the Vicksburg batteries. Soon thereafter, Winona, undertow of , re-passed Vicksburg with the rest of Farragut's force and went back to New Orleans.

Blockading Mobile, Alabama
By late August, the gunboat had joined the blockade off Mobile, Alabama. On 4 September, she was one of three ships on station off that important Confederate port. During the day, she and the gunboat  scampered back and forth investigating ships sighted.

At about 1705 that afternoon, the lookout on board Oneida spied the third strange vessel of the day. Winona received orders to investigate and steamed off toward the stranger. Disregarding the gunboat's hail, the stranger—a barkentine-rigged steamer bearing the unmistakable lines of a British gunboat and flying the red British ensign—bore on toward Oneida. Winona came about and gave chase.

Encountering CSS Florida
As the intruder approached, Oneida loosed a warning shot across her bow at about 1800. The unidentified warship did not even slacken speed. Oneida put two more shots across her bow in quick succession and then began firing into the ship itself. At 1805, the stranger hauled down the British colors and raised the Confederate ensign. At that point Winona commenced firing at what later proved to be the Confederate commerce raider Florida.

The chase continued until about 1827 when Florida crossed the bar into Mobile Bay and Winona, , and  gave up pursuit because of a combination of growing darkness, shallow water, and the guns of Fort Morgan. Florida had been severely riddled but Lt. John Newland Maffit had succeeded in his audacious dash through the Union blockade in spite of a skeleton crew laid low for the most part by yellow fever and the fact that he was unable to return fire because his guns lacked sponges, rammers, and other necessary equipment. Later, he would repeat the feat on an outward voyage to become a successful commerce raider excelled only by Semmes and Waddell.

Return to Mississippi River duty
Winona, meanwhile, resumed her blockade duty off Mobile. That duty lasted until December when she received orders to return to the Mississippi River. On 14 December, while anchored near Profit Island, she was fired upon by a well-concealed Confederate shore battery. Though she returned fire, Winona's proved ineffective because she had insufficient steam to bring her broadside to bear on the target. After suffering under the deadly accurate Southern fire, she was forced to retire from the engagement.

In April 1863, the gunboat provided support for the campaign against Port Hudson, Mississippi, one of the two last Confederate strongholds on the river. On 18 June, when a Confederate Army force occupied Plaquemine in Iberville Parish, Louisiana, Winona drove them out with gunfire and then moved on to the fort at nearby Donaldsonville to warn the Union garrison assigned there about the proximity of a large Southern force. The Confederates did not attack the fort immediately; and, in the meantime, Winona steamed up and down the river just in case.

On two occasions during the following 10 days, she sighted and bombarded relatively large Southern concentrations ashore. When the Confederates finally attacked the fort at Donaldsonville on 28 June, Winona's guns helped to repulse them. At the conclusion of that action, she returned north to participate in the final stages of the siege of Vicksburg, which finally surrendered on 4 July 1863.

End-of-war operations
On 25 August, the gunboat arrived in Baltimore, Maryland, for extensive repairs. She concluded the yard work in February 1864 and departed Baltimore to join the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia.

For the remainder of the Civil War, that coastal region constituted her area of operations. Though stationed principally on the Charleston, South Carolina, blockade station, she also operated on the Suwannee River where she captured and destroyed a steamer on 25 March 1864. She also participated in attacks on Forts Rosedon and Beaulieu near Savannah, Georgia.

After the Confederate evacuation and Union occupation of Charleston in February 1865, Winona operated on the Combahee River in Georgia until the end of hostilities in April.

Post-war decommissioning
She was placed out of commission on 9 June 1865 at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Navy Yard.  Winona was moved to the New York Navy Yard on 22 November 1865. She was one of eleven Navy ships auctioned off at New York City on 30 November 1865.  Winona sold for $20,500 to Charles W. Copeland, who promptly put her up for sale again. Copeland had a broad range of steam engineering-oriented business including buying and selling steamships and removing and selling their machinery.  It is unclear what he did with Winona.

See also

Union blockade

References

Ships built in New York City
Unadilla-class gunboats
Ships of the Union Navy
Steamships of the United States Navy
1861 ships

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