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We offer a variety of adult and youth volleyball and sand volleyball programs throughout the year, including an adult co-ed sand volleyball league, an adult co-ed volleyball program, a youth sand volleyball league, and youth volleyball camps. Please check our current Fun Guide to see what volleyball programs are being offered at this time.
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The River Forest Park District has two bocce ball courts in Memorial Parkway, between Jackson and Monroe.
The courts are open daily sunrise to sunset. Use of the courts is first come, first serve, however Park District programs and special events have priority use of the courts. The Park District also offers residents the opportunity to participate in the Park District's House Bocce Ball League.
The bocce ball courts are a Carry In/Carry Out park site, requiring all participants to carry out any trash they generate in the park, and dispose of it at their homes.
For more information on bocce ball, please contact the Athletic Manager at 708-366-6660 x104.
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Bocce is played with eight large bocce balls and one small target ball called the "pallino." The object of the game is to roll the bocce ball closest to the pallino. There are two balls per person and four players making up a team. Two players from each team are permanently stationed at each end of the court for the game. A game consists of twelve (12) points. First team to twelve (12) points is the winner of the match.
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Bocce is an ancient game of skill, accuracy, & strategy. It's fun to play, simple to learn, a good game to socialize with friends and no training or gear are needed. Co-ed teams are made up of 4 players per team. Must sign up as a team. There will be an 8-week schedule.
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Two new pickleball courts have been added as an overlay to the two newly resurfaced tennis courts at Washington Square Park. Pickleball racquets are available for rental and pickleballs are available for purchase at The Depot, 401 Thatcher Avenue.
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Today, prescription drugs containing ketamine are sold under the brand names Ketalar and Ketajet. Veterinary medicines containing ketamine include Ketaset and Vetamine.
The drug is also misused for recreational purposes. Street names for ketamine include Special K, K and cat Valium.
The drug can cause a dissociative high characterized by hallucination, altered reality, drowsiness and sedation. It's considered a club drug because people often take it at nightclubs, bars, parties or music festivals. Other types of hallucinogen abuse are also common in these environments.
The Drug Enforcement Administration classifies ketamine as a Schedule III controlled substance because it has medical use and a moderate potential for abuse. Schedule III drugs also have a risk of causing physical or psychological dependence. However, reports of dependence or addiction to ketamine are rare.
Effects of Ketamine
People use ketamine to feel euphoric, out-of-body experiences and other effects of hallucinogens. They often call these experiences trips. The drug is sometimes used to facilitate sexual assault because it causes sedation and memory loss. It's one of several drugs referred to as "date rape" drugs.
Ketamine can cause serious side effects, such as:
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Ketamine is an anesthetic, meaning it lowers a person's sensitivity to pain. People using ketamine can become disoriented and get hurt without realizing it. They may unknowingly suffer serious injuries and delay seeking treatment.
Several factors determine how the body responds to ketamine, including the person's height, weight, ketamine tolerance and health. The intensity and duration of the drug's effects depend on the dosage and method of use.
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Dosage Range
Injecting 10-60 mg 5–15 minutes 10–30minutes
Snorting 40–75 mg 5–20 minutes 90+ minutes
Swallowing 40–75 mg 5–20 minutes Up to 90 minutes
Smoking 30–250 mg Immediately Varies
Source: National Drug Intelligence Center
Recreational use of ketamine is never safe. In general, injecting, snorting or smoking a drug is more likely to cause serious side effects than swallowing the same dose of the drug.
Ketamine Overdose
High doses of ketamine can make a person lose coordination and consciousness. But documented cases of deadly overdoses caused by ketamine are rare. Most deaths related to ketamine use are caused by accidents, assault or other substance use.
The term overdose is relative. Recreational doses of ketamine are much lower than doses used medically for anesthesia, according to a 2000 review published in the Journal of Psychoactive Drugs. Most people refer to a recreational overdose as a dose that causes excess confusion or stupor.
High doses of ketamine can cause an out-of-body experience called a K-hole. During a K-hole, people have trouble moving. Some people regard it as a spiritually awakening experience. Others feel panic, fear and dysphoria. K-holes can cause a hallucinatory trip similar to that of LSD.
Ketamine Tolerance, Dependence & Withdrawal
Regular use of ketamine is associated with psychological cravings, but few people become physically dependent on ketamine. Symptoms of withdrawal are uncommon, but researchers have documented cases of ketamine withdrawal.
Ketamine withdrawal symptoms reported by case studies include:
Impaired memory
Sources: Jansen, K.L. (1990), Lim, D.K. (2003), Critchlow, D.G. (2006), Garg, A. et al. (2014)
Ketamine dependence is uncommon, but frequent use does commonly lead to tolerance. That means people who use ketamine have to take higher doses or use the drug in risky ways to feel the same effects. People with a high tolerance to ketamine often binge, taking excessive amounts of the drug over a short period.
Treatment for Ketamine Abuse
Little is known about the long-term effects of ketamine use. Flashbacks to visual hallucinations have been reported after recreational ketamine use, but recurring symptoms are rare.
Ketamine addiction is uncommon, but individuals may choose to use the drug regularly. Common types of drug addiction counseling, such as cognitive behavioral therapy or dialectical behavior therapy, can teach people healthy, drug-free ways to cope with stress or other issues. One case report stated that motivational interviewing helped a person decide to stop using ketamine.
In other case reports of people addicted to ketamine, inpatient rehab helped individuals quit using the drug. In one case, the patient relapsed after three months of sobriety and declined further contact with doctors.
Multiple case reports have cited naltrexone as a promising treatment for ketamine withdrawal. The medication is approved to treat alcoholism and opioid addiction. However, more research is needed to determine if it's an effective treatment for ketamine addiction.
Behavioral therapy may help individuals recognize the reasons they abuse ketamine and find safer ways to have fun or relieve stress. Ketamine abuse is linked to serious side effects, but therapeutic use of the drug is considered safe.
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I can't tell you the number of consultants I work with that fall prey to funnel systems and marketing automation to generate thousands and thousands of leads when all they are just 6 or 7 clients. It always perplexes me that people spend so much time trying to build these massive lists when they probably just need to be getting in front of one or two people every week and present what it is that they do.
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Texas District Expanding Use of Online Teaching Platform
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A school district in Texas is broadening its use of a Web-based platform for managing math and English instruction. It tested the platform,Time To Know, last year as part of a 1:1 computing experiment in four elementary school classrooms.
Grand Prairie Independent School District launched its 1:1 initiative in the 2009-2010 school year in two classes at Austin Elementary School and two classes in Whitt Elementary School. Beginning this year, the district is expanding the program to all fourth- and fifth-grade classes at those two schools for use in math and language arts.
Time To Know is a digital teaching platform that provides an interactive core curriculum targeted toward grades 4 and 5, as well as collaborative tools designed to support group activities and discussions; various summative and formative assessment capabilities; interactive lesson planning with content previews; and a range of real-time classroom management utilities.
"Placing curriculum software in the classroom or even a computer in the hands of every student is only one step toward truly changing teaching and learning," said Susan Simpson, Grand Prairie ISD superintendent, in a written statement released earlier this month. "What's unique about the Time To Know digital teaching platform is that it enhances the teachers' role as mentor and coach by allowing them to spend less time presenting basic content and more time guiding and advising students. The teacher controls each lesson with real-time tools to manage all classroom activities and deliver an individualized curriculum to each student. By combining the teacher's expertise with the power of 21st century technology tools, we are addressing each student's unique needs and improve the quality of learning for all, as evidenced by students' remarkable gains."
Grand Prairie ISD serves 26,000 students in a 58-square mile area in Dallas County. The district has 25 elementary schools, seven middle schools, two ninth grade schools, and three high schools, as well as other centers and programs.
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The con-man who stole the most valuable domain name in the world, Sex.com, has been arrested by Mexican police and handed over to US agents after nearly six years on the run.
Stephen Michael Cohen was arrested on an immigration violation by Mexican authorities and turned over to the US border patrol yesterday, the LA Times has reported. Cohen is being held without bail at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in San Diego, according to deputy marshal Tania Tyler of the US immigration service.
Cohen is wanted in the US for failure to pay $65m in a court judgement reached in April 2001. The judgement was the result of a five-year court battle by the original owner of the domain, Gary Kremen, which nearly bankrupted the entrepreneur and founder of the net's biggest dating site, Match.com.
Kremen was awarded the sum in compensation after Cohen stole Sex.com in October 1995 through an elaborate scam. Cohen then ran the site at an estimated $100m profit until the domain was finally handed back to Kremen by the court in November 2000.
As soon as he lost the case however, Cohen fled across the US border to Tijuana and refused to return. He then began to illegally siphon his money from US bank accounts to offshore tax havens through a series of ingenious shell companies. In May 2001, Cohen was officially made a fugitive from justice by the US authorities.
It was in Tijuana, sat right on the US border and where Cohen was reportedly living in a mansion, that he was arrested by the Mexican authorities. Tijuana has been used by Cohen and his associates as a base for his diverse business activities for a decade, but he fled it soon after Gary Kremen posted an award for Cohen's detention that attracted the attention of US bounty hunters, back in June 2001.
Cohen claims a shoot-out at his house between bounty hunters and Mexican police had put his life in danger. Kremen claims the event never happened, but Cohen nonetheless bought himself a house in Monte Carlo and has been living there on and off for the past five years.
Kremen has never recouped any money from Cohen but did manage to seize control of two of his houses - a shack perched on the US side of the Mexican border, and a mansion in the exclusive Santa Fe resort in San Diego.
A second court case brought by Kremen against the-then administrator of all dotcoms, Network Solutions, resulted in out-of-court settlement in April 2004 thought to be worth up to $20m.
It is unclear whether that judgement will allow Kremen to chase Cohen for the remainder of the $65m (now increased to $82m with interest). Kremen told the LA Times he hopes to get more of Cohen's assets. "I'm excited, and I'm happy to prepare for the next stage of justice. Hopefully, I'll get to them before the IRS," he said, referring to the US tax office.
During the long court case with Cohen, it was revealed that Cohen had paid almost no tax on his multi-million-dollar annual earnings over 20 years.®
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Hacksaw Ridge, rated R
This powerful film tells the incredible story of Desmond T. Doss, a pacifist World War II medic who would become the first conscientious objector in American history to be awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroics in the Battle of Okinawa. I recently read about Doss's heroics in Bill O'Reilly's and Martin Dugard's excellent but equally brutal book Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan. You can read my review of that book here.
This film is directed by controversial two-time Oscar winner Mel Gibson (Braveheart). This is Gibson's first feature film since 2006's Apocalypto, which received three Oscar nominations, but made only $50 million at the box office, compared to $370 million (in the U.S. alone) for his previous film The Passion of the Christ. This film will be of interest to Christians and is written by Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight. The musical score is by Rupert Gregson-Williams.
The film opens with excerpts from Isaiah 40. We see the young Desmond (played by Darcy Bryce) growing up with his family in Virginia. His father Tom (Hugo Weaving who starred in the Lord of the Rings films) is a bitter and mean alcoholic World War I veteran. His violent behavior pushes Desmond toward his eventual pacifist beliefs. According to his 2006 obituary in the New York Times, Doss was guided all through his years by a framed poster of the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer that his father bought at an auction when he was growing up in Lynchburg, Va. That poster depicted Cain holding a club with the slain Abel beneath him. "And when I looked at that picture, I came to the Sixth Commandment, 'Thou shalt not kill,' " Mr. Doss told Larry Smith in Beyond Glory an oral history of Medal of Honor winners.
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor Desmond (Andrew Garfield, Golden Globe nominee for The Social Network), volunteers to serve his country in the war as a medic. He had promised God that he would never carry a weapon or kill anyone. This immediately causes him problems in basic training. Doss is a Seventh Day Adventist and is portrayed reading the Bible often. Sarge (Vince Vaughn, who normally appears in comedies) does not care for the skinny Desmond, and nicknames him "Cornstalk". His commander, Captain Glover (Sam Worthington, Avatar) is not a fan of his either. Doss is seen as a coward, and they encourage the other soldiers to harass and beat him so that Doss would quit. But Doss will not quit. As a result, this leads to a court martial hearing. Doss receives strong input from his fiancée Dorothy (Teresa Palmer) because she does not want him to be sent to prison, but he stays true to his ideals. And we know from the trailer that the decision is made to allow Doss to remain in the military and that he will not be forced to carry a weapon.
The second half of the film takes us fully into the Battle of Okinawa, which took place toward the end of World War II, on an island about 340 miles from Japan. Germany has already surrendered, but the Japanese vow to fight on with tenacity. Corporal Doss was a member of the Army's 77th Infantry Division.
The film is rated "R" for some of the most brutal, horrific war violence that I can recall, some soldier nudity (not portrayed in a sexual manner), and some adult language (Gibson removed any "F-words" and abuses of God's and Jesus's names).
This film had a 14-year path from idea to production and a budget of approximately $45 million. It shows the incredible, inspiring, and mostly unknown story of Desmond Doss, a hero who stays true to his beliefs. Garfield is superb as Doss, with a performance that I believe is Oscar-worthy. Vaughn and Worthington also turn in strong performances.
Unfortunately, many will not be interested in sitting through the brutal violence that Gibson portrays here (think of the violence portrayed in Gibson's Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ, or the opening scene of Steven Spielberg's film Saving Private Ryan) of the Battle of Okinawa, which had more than 14,000 Allied deaths (mostly American) and incredibly more than 77,000 Japanese deaths. Those who are interested in Doss's story, but not interested in sitting through this brutal film, may be interested in one of the books that tells Doss's story, such as Desmond Doss: Conscientious Objector, published earlier this year by Doss's second wife Frances.
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Reading is a very important skill to improve for any kid. As a mom I always create a reading environment for my kid from his birth. This is why this blog is full of articles which share our reading experiences, challenges and tips on teaching reading for kids with the hope of sharing my experiences with other moms. Today I want to introduce Bookbot for all moms and dads who read this blog and who are keen on improving reading skills of their kids.
If you haven't heard of Bookbot, it is time to check their website by visiting www.bookbotkids.com. Bookbot is a platform that helps improving literacy of kids. They value the importance of reading skills of kids. Therefore the team behind the Bookbot created a virtual reading assistant to help your kid to improve reading skills.
If you are a parent with a kid who struggles in reading, it is time to find ways to improve his reading skills while making him interest on reading. When the kid enjoys reading, you do not have to worry about his reading skills. Your kid will improve the reading skills automatically when he enjoys reading. He or she will read books without your interfering simply because your kid loves reading.
Bookbot is such a good App to introduce to your kid to improve his interest on reading. The virtual reading assistant will help your kid to read the books in Bookbot library. When your kid has a virtual assistant who help him or her to read, it is really exciting and fun! This is how you can improve the kid's interest on reading.
Below are some of the highlighted features of Bookbot.
Bookbot library is packed with age appropriate books that kids love to read. Other than the age, your kid can choose books that are right for their reading level. When the books are appropriate with your kid's reading ability, he or she will enjoy reading without effort.
The virtual reading assistant of Bookbot app responses immediately. When the kid cannot recognize a word or if the kid reads incorrectly, he will get immediate response which keeps him continuing reading.
It is true that we parents try to limit screen time of kids. This is simply due to the probable health issues for eyes. However Bookbot app use soft and eye pleasing colours which are easy on eyes.
Above are some of the highlighted features of Bookbot. If your kid is struggling with reading or if you like to improve the reading skills of your kids, then Bookbot is the platform you should visit today. Do not think twice; find out more about Bookbot by visiting their website. You can even download some free books from Bookbot.I downloaded free books from Bookbot and at home we read together!


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Q: When to use sys.path.append and when modifying %PYTHONPATH% is enough So, it turned out i was missing a semi-colon from my PYTHONPATH definition. But this only got me so far. for some reason, my script did NOT work as a scheduled task (on WinXP) until I explicitly added a directory from PYTHONPATH to the top of my script.
Question is:
When do I need to explicitly append something to my path and when can I simply rely on the environment variables?

A: Perhaps you're not running the scheduled task under the right credentials (log-in name). When you define environment variables in System Properties dialog, they can be either User-level or System-level. If you defined PYTHONPATH as User-level then your scheduled task must run as that user for it to be set properly. I believe making it System-level would mean it would apply to all users unless they have their own value defined.
Below is a screenshot showing where one sets environment variables. It's similar in both Windows XP and Windows 7. The top half of the right-hand dialog box shows the current User-level settings, and the bottom half lists all the System-level ones.

If PYTHONPATH appears in the list of names in the upper User-level group, you can effectively move it to the other lower one by first deleting and then adding one of the same name plus associated value to the lower System-level set. To save a little typing, you can Edit the user-level variable before you Delete it to be given a chance to first copy its current value, then Cancel-out of the operation. That way, when you make the New System-level copy you'll be able to simply paste the copied value into it.

A: If the other modules belongs to the same package you should be responsible to locate them if
they are not stored in the conventional format (i.e. append the path with sys).
If the other modules are user-configurable then the user have to specify the installation
path trough PYTHONPATH

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London, UK, 4th October 2017 – Tikit, part of the BT Group and leading provider of technology solutions for law and professional services firms, today announced the integration of NetDocuments cloud platform into Tikit Partner for Windows (P4W), its flagship practice and case management application.
The forward-thinking cloud-based platform allows users to work securely anytime, anywhere and on any device. Its unique integration with P4W Case Manager means NetDocuments can either be used as a firm-wide solution for document management or a solution to fill specific gaps for teams or fee earners not currently served by case management.
Essentially clients created in P4W will also create matter workspaces in NetDocuments and for those firms that have a requirement it will also sync documents between P4W case workflows and the DMS in the cloud. From a practical perspective, a fee earner will be able to run a case flow during the working day in P4W, but should they need to access a document on an iPad for example they will be able to do so, edit and in turn this will seamlessly link back to the document in that case flow as a result revolutionising remote working for lawyers.
In what has been another record year for P4W new business sales Tikit has already seen a significant rise in firms investing in NetDocuments both to run alongside P4W and as a stand-alone solution. Firms such as Marriott Harrison are running both systems to enhance mobility. While Atticus Legal selected the leading cloud-based DMS as they were impressed with the speed in which the solution could be implemented.
"We are delighted to announce our enhanced integration between P4W and NetDocuments. The integration will provide users with superior mobility and collaboration capability. This is the most sophisticated integration of a DMS into any practice and case management system available on the market. And, with the huge uptake of NetDocuments by over 350 mid-market and global firms in the US & EMEA last year alone it is clear that this solution is the future for legal firms looking to start moving their DMS into the cloud with all the security and DR benefits that brings" stated Simon Hill, COO at Tikit.
The new functionality will also be demonstrated in an exclusive webinar scheduled for Friday 20th October at 12:00 BST. To sign up to attend please click here. Or to find out more please contact enquiries@tikit.com.


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Football season has not ended
Did you check out the Alliance of American Football this past weekend?
Photo: Phelan M. Ebenhack - Associated Press
The first weekend after the Super Bowl can be a rough one for some football fans. It's the first weekend without a game of any kind since early August.
For those of you who normally go through football withdrawal, you don't have to worry about that for another two and a half months.
The new Alliance of American Football made its debut over the weekend, and I'll bet many of you checked out the new league. I did, at the very least out of curiosity, but I was also interested in the handful of rules and changes that made it different from the National Football League.
I watched the first half of Saturday's game between the San Diego Fleet and San Antonio Commanders, and then caught some second half action of Sunday's matchup between the Memphis Express and Birmingham Iron. The football itself wasn't great, but it wasn't awful. It was just okay. There wasn't much scoring, which could be a product of the teams having just one month of practices and one preseason game under their belt. It might also be the result of the level of quarterbacks in the league. Former Penn State star and NFL flame out Christian Hackenburg was a Week 1 starter, and promptly lost the job during his first game.
The Alliance is a mix of guys who used to play in the NFL, were in NFL camps or on practice squads but couldn't stick, and guys who played in college but weren't good enough for an NFL look. There will be names you will recognize like former first round pick Trent Richardson, who plays for Birmingham. While watching the San Diego-San Antonio game, I saw three former Buffalo Bills on the field in Ron Brooks, A.J. Tarpley and Cyril Richardson.
The biggest reason I took a look was to see if the NFL should follow their lead on anything and the answer is yes. First off, there are no kickoffs. The ball is placed on the 25-yard line of the offensive team to start each half and after any touchdowns or field goals. You might think this as sacrilegious, but I'm completely okay with the NFL getting rid of the kickoff. As it is the impact of the return has been diminished with rules changes over the years and it seems too often like a waste of time. I didn't miss kickoffs and the possible 15-to-20-yard return at all. It actually felt like the game had a quicker pace and better flow to it by eliminating that play and since the kick return is still the play that causes the most concussions during the game, it would make the game safer.
Out of everything I saw, I'll tell you what excited me the most. It was part of the league's decision to give fans watching on television more access to what happens during the game. There were plenty of on field microphones to pick up audio from players and coaches, but the league gave us access to the conversation during a coach's challenge. I absolutely love the idea of transparency with that process and the NFL should follow suit. The Alliance challenge process involves a video official up in the press box reviewing the play and telling the referee what to do. That video review person is mic'd for sound so we can listen in to the conversation he is having with the referee down on the field. How many times have you watched an NFL game, heard the call after a challenge and wondered what the heck the folks reviewing the play could have possibly seen? Now we can know why they overturned a call or let it stand.
There could be one possible problem for the Alliance as they go forward. There was a challenge of a completed catch during the Memphis-Birmingham game. On replay, it sure looked like the ball came out, which would have negated a 1st-and-goal for Birmingham. However, there was only one angle worth looking at and it was a camera from the opposite endzone, so it was tough to tell. I'm guessing the average telecast of a game in this league will have fewer cameras than an NFL telecast, which could limit the number of replay angles and lead to incorrect calls standing because a lack of clear visual evidence. In fact, in listening to the video official, it sure sounded like he knew it should have been an incomplete pass and the referee told him everybody down on the field thought it was incomplete, but the call stood because of the lack of clear replay evidence.
There is a two-challenge limit for coaches no matter what, and it didn't appear that scoring plays and turnovers were automatically reviewed. That will mean less stoppages of play. There were also less commercial breaks, and when they did have a timeout during game action, the breaks were only 30 seconds so action resumed fairly quickly. I don't expect either of those ideas to be used by the NFL, who will be talking about expanding their challenge system and need all the commercial time possible as part of their network TV deal that brings in billions of dollars.
The rating for the initial game on CBS Saturday night was a 2.1. An average of 2.9 million people were watching between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. EST. It was a shade better than the 2.0 rating ABC had for its NBA game between the Houston Rockets and Oklahoma City Thunder. I'll be more interested to see what kind of ratings the Alliance gets next weekend and beyond. A number of people who tuned in for curiosity sake might not be back.
For me, I don't need any more football at this time of the year. Once the Super Bowl is played, my sporting thoughts turn to the stretch run of the NHL season, the upcoming NCAA Tournament and the beginning of baseball season.
Alliance of American Football
San Diego Fleet
San Antonio Commanders


Aussie metalcore act The Brave release their new album Aura on 5th April via UNFD. Formed in Brisbane in 2013, The Brave quickly started turning heads with 2014 EP Endless captured their particular brand of lightning in a bottle with the critically acclaimed breakout debut album Epoch in 2016, which won plaudits worldwide from the likes of BBC Radio 1, Kerrang, Triple J and more.
It's a lot of words to not say anything of value.
We'll take our own advice and this will be a short review.
There's not much to say about the album in all truth. It's nothing more than generic metalcore, even that is giving it more credit than its worth. It's light metalcore with lashings of nu-metal. Remember when Bring Me The Horizon decided to copy latter day Linkin Park? It's kind of like that but with heavier guitars.
'Lost To The Night' is a decent track with the album's only moment of grit and attitude, while lead single 'Technicolor' may rip of Linkin Park it still ends up being a catchy track. The rest of the album is pretty turgid. 'Burn' is especially awful and adequately sums up the album.


I've been using MyFitnessPal since - I'm honestly not sure. I remember using it when I had a BlackBerry. Conservative estimates say at least 5-6 years. I'm currently sitting at a log-in streak of 275 days, which consists of a mix of full food diaries and some not-so-full diaries. For the last month they've been full diaries for a semi-accurate weekly calorie count.
I was recently tuned onto CRON-O-Meter - by accident. The desktop / web version is free to use, but in the Play Store it's about $3 Canadian. I had some Google Play credit - so I figured I'd give it a try.
I'm currently on Day 0 with CRON-O-Meter. I'm giving it a rather large handicap - it's hard to overcome a 275-day streak, let alone 5-6 years of use for MFP. Mentally I steeled myself for a different user interface than what I'm accustomed to. I didn't want the app to lose points because of some aesthetic issue.
Luckily, I think they're about equal in terms of UI. If I had to dock points it would be for the splash screen that loads for COM, but that's minor. The trade-off is loading the app and waiting while it syncs with the server, etc. I could always press the 'home' button and leave it open.
There are a few other areas I could cover, but to finish the preliminary review, the most important aspect is the food database. On the surface, it looks like MFP is still king here. Looks like COM has a lot in its database, but is nowhere near as complete. However, it's quite simple to add food, and you have complete control over food data when entering. The interface looks quite a bit like the familiar nutrition labels (at least on the web version). I haven't tried scanning any barcodes yet, but that's next.
I'm giving Cronometer a two-week trial, a week to train the app, and then another week to put it to full use. I'll be using both apps so I should have a good base for comparison. Stay tuned!


Lemuel Martin Streetman was born on December 9, 1844 in Taylor County, Georgia and died on November 4, 1925 in Taylor County, Georgia. He lived to be 80 years old.
Click on any of the News, Events, or Discoveries buttons above to see historical things that happened during Lemuel Streetman's life. These are only some of the major events that affected the life and times of Lemuel, his family, and friends. For example, Lemuel is 11 years old when Third Seminole Indian War begins. It ends three years later when Chief Billy Bowlegs and his band are forced to move from Florida.
Born in Taylor County, Georgia on November 25, 1885 and died in Christmas, Orange County, Florida about 1962. He was 76 years old.


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Q: How to keep hyperlinks with Abiword when creating PDF? When I write a document in Abiword and then print it to a file my hyperlinks get lost.
It seems that LibreOffice can export PDF with hyperlinks. When I opened my document that I created with Abiword the hyperlinks where included in the text, but kind of not activated. When I clicked on the text to add a hyperlink that I thought was missing it was already there, but was not beeing exported to the PDF and also not shown with underscore in LibreOffice.
Maybe the problem is how Abiword saves the hyperlinks in its text.


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package edu.ucsb.apss

import org.apache.log4j.{Level, Logger}
import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}

/**
  * Created by dimberman on 12/7/15.
  */
object Context {
  val conf = new SparkConf().setMaster("local").setAppName("my app")
  conf.set("spark.io.compression.codec", "org.apache.spark.io.SnappyCompressionCodec")
  Logger.getLogger("org").setLevel(Level.WARN)
  Logger.getLogger("akka").setLevel(Level.WARN)
   val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
    val sp = sc.accumulator(0)
}

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Church of St James
Church of St James, Church Lane, Barkham
Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
Barkham
SU 76 NE 9/38
BARKHAM CHURCH LANE (east side) Church of St. James
Parish church. 1862 by John B. Clacy and son, in the Early English style, on an old site; chancel and transepts 1887. Flint with Bath stone dressings, tiled, coped, gabled roof. Chancel, north and south transepts, north vestry, and nave with a south tower. The tower is in three stages; the lower stage has set-back buttresses and serves as a porch. The top stage is of wood and has a small octagonal shingled spire. The windows are pointed and trefoiled.
Interior: the nave has five bays of arch braced collar trusses with nailhead ornament, and several C18 memorial slabs in the floor. The font is stone and late C18. In a recess on the east wall of the porch is a late C13 oak effigy of a lady in a long loose dress and linen head-dress. Both the hands are missing and the face is damaged.
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 240
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 75
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
Rights: Copyright IoE Brian Steptoe. Source Historic England Archive


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Disney beats view with earnings gain
Published: May 10, 2006 at 5:52 p.m. ET
Russ Britt
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Walt Disney Co. said second-quarter net income rose 12% as gains at its ESPN unit overcame lackluster performance at its consumer products and studio divisions.
Shares of Disney, a Dow component, ended the day up 53 cents, or 1.8%, to $30.11.
The Burbank, Calif.-based entertainment giant late Tuesday said net income rose to $733 million, or 37 cents a share, from $657 million, or 31 cents a share, a year ago. Sales were $8.03 billion vs. last year's $7.83 billion.
Analysts polled by Thomson First Call, on average, expected earnings of 31 cents a share on revenue of $8.18 billion.
Some analysts said prior to the earnings release they expected Disney's earnings to possibly dip during the second quarter. The company was expected to struggle with rough comparables in its home-video business as well as a possible growth slowdown for the company's cable networks and consumer products units.
Disney's DIS, -1.42% studio entertainment division, which includes home video, faced difficult comparisons with last year's release of "The Incredibles." But while sales in the division were down 22% and operating income fell 39%, its cable networks were none the worse for wear.
Operating income was up $41 million to $809 million during the quarter, thanks to growth at ESPN. Disney did say that higher revenue deferrals offset some of ESPN's growth, but didn't keep the division from growing earnings.
At consumer products, meanwhile, sales were down 3% and income slipped 8%. The company is investing in video games development, which is putting a drag on earnings in that segment, Disney officials said.
Should meet goals
Other analysts said Disney should be on track to meet its goals of double-digit earnings growth for the fiscal year, which ends in September.
The company just finished its merger with Pixar, and will begin to realize gains from that buyout during the current quarter and into the fourth quarter.
"Disney is less dependent on ad recovery, especially [with the] expected completion of the Pixar deal in May, which we believe could drive growth not only at the studio, but across all businesses," Goldman Sachs' Anthony Noto said in his note. "We expect the June 9 release of 'Cars' to be an important data point to monitor."
Disney Chief Executive Robert Iger and Chief Financial Officer Thomas Staggs mentioned Pixar in a conference call with analysts. Staggs said the animation studio should bring 10 cents of earnings dilution to the company's 2006 results, but he concurred that there should be another year of double-digit earnings growth.
First Call estimates for fiscal 2006 are for earnings of $1.46 a share on sales of $34.2 billion. If earnings projections hold, that would represent growth of 10.6%.
Iger went on to say expectations were high for the Pixar-produced upcoming release "Cars," due in theaters June 9.
"We believe this film has the potential to be a classic franchise for our studio for years to come," he said.
Merrill Lynch analyst Jessica Reif Cohen raised her price target on Disney to $34 a share and reiterated her buy rating.
"We continue to expect a significant pickup in the second half of fiscal 2006," Cohen wrote in a note to clients. "Key drivers should include revenue deferrals at ESPN, continued monetization of the ratings gains at ABC, a strong theatrical release schedule and robust theme park growth."
Upcoming films that she expects to help Disney's results include "Cars" and the latest "Pirates of the Caribbean."
Segment results
Disney's networks posted the strongest performance of all the company's divisions. Sales grew 18% to $3.6 billion, while operating income jumped 20% to $969 million.
Massive increases in income at the once-troubled ABC Television Network made it the division that now helps keeps the company going. Income skyrocketed from $38 million to $160 million, a 421% increase.
Stronger upfront sales and ratings growth, along with Super Bowl revenue and college football bowl games, helped fuel this surge.
Iger said the upfront season, in which advertisers buy advance network time, looks promising again. He added that new program development for the fall season is "the richest I've seen in a long time."
At the company's theme parks, revenue rose 7% while operating income was up 17%.
Operating income was helped by Disneyland 50th anniversary celebrations in California as well as results at Walt Disney World in Florida. Its Hong Kong resort is struggling, but Iger said it's a matter of getting a handle on a new market.
Staggs said that rising oil prices shouldn't inhibit revenue and earnings growth. Each $1 increase in the price of gasoline results in an average of $40 added on to a trip to a Disney park, he said.
The 10 most unethical people in business
Ethisphere magazine has released its list of the 100 most ethical people in business. While I was intrigued by those deemed the most ethical, I was most interested in its list of the most unethical.
Which gold indicators are best?
Viacom's MTV and Nickelodeon facing challenges
Derivatives the new 'ticking bomb'
The 15-minute tip: Deep-in-the-money call options


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Islamic State group hostage's parents plead for his release
The parents of a U.S. man threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group are pleading with his captors to free him.
By Rick Callahan, The Associated Press
Sat., Oct. 4, 2014timer2 min. read
INDIANAPOLIS - The parents of a U.S. man threatened with beheading by the Islamic State group are pleading with his captors to free him, saying in a video statement Saturday that their son has devoted his life to humanitarian work and aiding Syria's war refugees.
Ed and Paula Kassig's video was released a day after the Islamic State group's online video threatened to behead 26-year-old Peter Kassig next — following the beheading of British aid worker Alan Henning.
That video was a heartbreaking development for Kassig's family and friends, who had stayed silent since his capture while working to secure his release.
In the family's video, Ed Kassig says his son, who now goes by the first name Abdul-Rahman after converting to Islam during his captivity, was captured on Oct. 1, 2013, in Syria, where he was providing aid for Syrians fleeing that country's civil war.
He says his son has grown "to love and admire" the Syrian people, after growing up in an Indianapolis family with a long history of humanitarian work and teaching.
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Our son was living his life according to that same humanitarian call when he was taken captive," says Ed Kassig, a teacher.
The family says Kassig, a former Army Ranger, formed the aid organization Special Emergency Response and Assistance, or SERA, in Turkey to provide aid and assistance to Syrian refugees. He began delivering food and medical supplies to Syrian refugee camps in 2012 and is also a trained medical assistant who provided trauma care to injured Syrian civilians and helped train 150 civilians in providing medical aid.
His work in Lebanon led to his capture when he crossed the border into Syria. After than, SERA suspended its aid efforts.
Paula Kassig, a nurse, sits next to her husband on a couch in the couple's three-minute video, wearing a head scarf and holding a photo of her son as she speaks directly to him.
"Most of all, know that we love you, and our hearts ache for you to be granted your freedom so we can hug you again and then set you free to continue the life you have chosen, the life of service to those in greatest need," she says. "We implore those who are holding you to show mercy and use their power to let you go."
The family says Kassig served in the Army from 2006 to 2007. He was a member of the 75th Ranger Regiment and served four months in Iraq in 2007 before being medically discharged at the rank of private first class in September of that year, his military record shows.
Kassig focused on humanitarian work after leaving the military. While attending Indianapolis' Butler University, he worked to help refugees from Myanmar who had resettled in central Indiana, said family spokeswoman Jodi Perras.


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International team visits Tennessee for water development initiative
Photo By Leon Roberts | A member of the Lower Mekong Contingent checks out a hydropower rotor during a visit...... read more read more
Photo By Leon Roberts | A member of the Lower Mekong Contingent checks out a hydropower rotor during a visit to the Old Hickory Power Plant in Hendersonville, Tenn., June 13, 2019. The unit is being rehabilitated as part of a $1.2 billion project for non-routine maintenance and modernization of the district's power units and hydroelectric generation equipment across the Cumberland River Basin. (USACE photo by Leon Roberts) see less | View Image Page
NASHVILLE, TN, UNITED STATES
Story by Leon Roberts
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 17, 2019) – An international team from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam visited the Tennessee and Cumberland River Systems last week at the invitation of the United States in support of water development in the Lower Mekong River Basin.
The U.S. State Department sponsored the sharing of information with members of the Lower Mekong Initiative June 10-14. They met with officials from the U.S. Department of Energy and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge; Tennessee Valley Authority officials in Knoxville and Chattanooga; and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District officials in Chattanooga and Nashville.
These federal agencies partnered together throughout the week to highlight how the U.S. manages its waterways as environmental stewards in support of flood risk reduction, generation of hydroelectricity, navigation, water quality, water storage, and other purposes such as recreation.
Officials gave a Waterpower Program overviewof the DOE Water Power Technologies Program, discussed the environmental reporting mandates for federal hydropower, and toured the Aquatic Ecology Lab and Manufacturing Demonstration Facility June 10. They received a briefing at TVA June 11 on the River and Reservoir Compliance Monitoring Program and learned about water quality monitoring tools used to evaluate and forecast water quality. TVA also highlighted its water management operations with a tour of the River Forecast Center.
The group then visited Chickamauga Lock and the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project June 12 where Project Manager Adam Walker gave an update of ongoing construction of the new navigation lock, and Lockmaster Cory Richardson talked about operations of the old lock and the issues with maintaining it.
A concrete aggregate problem causes structural concerns at the existing 60-foot by 360-foot lock. It is being replaced by a new 110-foot by 600-foot lock that will improve efficiency, and solve the structural issues caused by the concrete aggregate.
Many of the LMI participants commented how much they enjoyed seeing the existing lock and the riverbed in the coffer dam where preparations are underway to begin placing concrete in the near future.
"They seemed very interested in the technical aspects of the project as well as the mechanisms in place to provide funding from year to year to keep the project moving forward," Walker said.
Lt. Col. Cullen Jones, Nashville District commander, welcomed the contingent to Nashville June 13. He explained how the district operates and maintains 14 navigation locks on the Tennessee River in partnership with TVA, and also owns and operates 10 multipurpose dams within the Cumberland River Basin, including nine hydropower plants with 28 units.
"All that occurs through communication," Jones stressed. "Communication is key. As we go through and manage this river system and these 10 multipurpose projects, it is in coordination at multiple levels both internally and externally."
Jones noted that the region just experienced the wettest winter in recorded history. The coordination up the chain of command and with partners such as TVA, National Weather Service and state and local emergency management agencies increased as the Nashville District operated its projects to manage holding and releasing water throughout the high-water event, he said.
"We're also coordinating directly with local and state officials ranging from the city mayors to county judge executives so that everyone has a common operating picture of what we're doing and how we're balancing all those authorized purposes. As we balance authorized purposes and as situations change, sometimes hard decisions have to be made," Jones explained. "And those hard decisions are made easier when we have that good communication across our team of teams."
After the colonel's presentation and emphasis on the role of communication in managing dam projects, several Nashville District members provided the LMI group with more in-depth insight into water management.
Randy Kerr, hydraulic engineer, provided a detailed overview of the Cumberland River System, and Brantley Thames, civil engineer, demonstrated how water managers use the Corps Water Management System and Real Time Simulation in daily operations of the projects.
The group culminated its visit to the Nashville District with a tour of the Old Hickory Dam Power Plant, where Corps employees operate and maintain four hydropower units, and where one unit is currently being rehabilitated as part of a $1.2 billion project for non-routine maintenance and modernization of the district's power units and hydroelectric generation equipment across the Cumberland River Basin.
Will Garner, senior hydropower plant operator, showed the group a recently-removed hydropower rotor sitting in the gallery as part of the ongoing rehabilitation work. He also guided them through the powerhouse to see the other hydropower units and explained how they are operated and maintained.
Palakorn Chanbanyong, hydropower specialist from Thailand with the Mekong River Commission Secretariat in Laos, said he works with the member countries on developing the river system. He said the visit to Old Hickory and other projects is helpful because the team gets to learn from experienced people across many specialties.
"It's a very good chance for me to learn more about this in order to adapt (it) to our Mekong regions," Chanbanyong said. "If we just stick with the technology that we have right now it might not be advanced enough."
He noted that it's good to see how the U.S. manages these waterways and projects, including the operations and maintenance phases.
Dr. Boualem Hadjerioua, workshop lead and water resources engineer for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Environmental Sciences Division, said the visits to the projects in Tennessee demonstrated how U.S. government agencies, such as TVA and USACE, work together with communication and monitoring to manage big river systems such as the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and their tributary reservoirs, respectively.
He said the countries and delegates represented on this visit all share parts of the Lower Mekong River and its tributaries, and they are closely partnering through this initiative to operate the basin as a system.
For more information about LMI, go to https://www.lowermekong.org/ and https://www.facebook.com/lowermekong/.
(For more news, updates and information please follow the Nashville District on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/nashvillecorps and Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/nashvillecorps.)
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Структурата на гнездото е сравнително проста и представлява неправилна топка от трева, мъх и пръчици, като често се изгражда в скривалище, което може да бъде например изоставена дупка на гризачи. Броят на индивидите в едно гнездо е различен и варира при различните видове, но обикновено не надвишава 500.

Докато търсят храна, земните пчели могат да достигнат скорост при полет до 15 m/s (54 km/h).

Цариците и работничките могат да жилят. За разлика от жилото на медоносните пчели, жилото на земните пчели няма контри, така че те могат да жилят многократно. Обикновено тези видове не са агресивни, но ще жилят и защитават гнездото си, ако се почувстват застрашени.

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Родът земни пчели включва над 250 вида, групирани в 15 подрода.

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Подрод Orientalibombus

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George Washington Inaugural Buttons
About Me, Sales & Service
Isabela's Copy Right Infingement
Library's Goals & Mission Statement
J. Harold Cobb 1963
Sally Lewis House 1957
The Continental Army of the United States 1775 to 1784
The First Published Map of The United States 1783
Revolutionary War Button Quiz
Don's Conspiracy
Flag of the United States Quiz
United States of America Constitution Quiz
Enlightened Revolutionaries
The White Cockade
The Council of Enlightened Visionaries use Masonry as a Multi-Purpose Vehicle
Freemasonry & Ancient Symbolism
The Sons of Liberty 9 then 13 Stripe Flag
The 18th Century Scottish Re-Birth of The Liberty Cap
Benjamin Franklin's Propaganda War
Scottish-American Artisans
The Knights Templar Through Scottish Lodges
Robert Scot Master Engraver
Robert Scot & His Philadelphia Artisans
Sir Robert Strange's Scrolling Art Work
The 1745 Jacobite Fan
The Flat Hat Club
The Star Pyramid
Amos Doolittle A Display of the United States
Amos Doolittle's Federal Eagle Copper-Plate Engraving
Collecting GWIB
GWI & NNT Collecting Refined
Our Nations Celebratory Button's Clean-Slate Birthmark
From GWI to New Nation tribute Classification
Deciphering the Origins of the Estoile
Deciphering the Morning Glory on New Nation Tribute Buttons
The Heraldic Eagle W/ The Six Point Estoile
Pine Tree Symbol
Behind The Federal Eagle, Olive Branch & Three Arrow Symbols
What Symbols Make it A GW Inaugural Button
The Star of David
The Legend's Judaeo-Christian Cross
Metallurgy Mixes & Preservation of Relics
Learning the Colors of Metals in Buttons
Master Artisan Engravings
Lathe Turned Buttons
General George Washington
GW Timeline
George Washington's Continental World
Campaign Leading Up To Yorktown
George Washington's First & Second Inaugural Address
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* GWI 26 *
The 1789 Sons of Liberty
Inaugural Patriot Button
This button was probably fashioned for Patriot members of the Sons of Liberty who celebrated both George Washingtons inauguration as first President and the ratification of the United States Constitution and the establishment of a new Federal government. The Liberty Cap and Pole was used by American Patriots who were members of the Sons of Liberty organization as a symbol of independence from the British Parliament and Crown's introduced taxes and laws. Since, the British colonies in America were made up of a mix of European citizens the Sons of Liberty organizations usually had ethnicity close knit memberships of distinct nationalities based on geographical locations. The introduction of the Liberty Cap and Pole appears to be introduced by Scottish Patriots who were members of the Sons of Liberty in New York and Virginia.
House of Stuart's Resistance & Restitution
The Phrygian Cap and Liberty Pole was re-introduced propaganda by Prince Edward Stuart in 1745 as a political and social statement agaisnt the House of Hanover. The Jacobite movement was revitalized the Bonnies use again in the 1760's and reintroduced by an Englishmen-publisher John Wilkes. His printing war and personal association with Benjamin Franklin through England's social clubs was carried across the Atlantic into the British Colonies in America by the 1770's.
They Jacobite movement did not completely die out after the Battle of Culloden in 1746, there would be a new generation of sympathizers in Scotland's Universities, and later social clubs in England. As with any movement they re-purposed earlier propaganda tools to fit their cause along the way. The symbol of the Liberty Cap and Pole took a new face and became a social identity for ones political and social views that were Pro-Bonnie and the Restoration of the House of Stuart. Even though the Hanover's re-introduced it originally after the 1707 Act, in a persuasive Aristocratic propaganda war against King James II of Scotland, it was turned back (40 years later) upon the Hanover's by Prince Edward Stuart in 1744-1746. The contextual meaning of this symbol really had the core of the publics Resistance and Restitution from the beheading of Charles I to the return of Charles II.
So, this was re-purposed once again using a Scot context of "Resistance and Restitution" of the House of Stuart. This Scot propaganda War then became transatlantic through Scottish Rite Freemasonry Lodges and would transform the use once again and re-purpose it for the Patriot Cause in the City of New York by Morin Scot. He also happen to be an indirect bloodline to Prince Edward Stuart, and also a founder of the Sons of Liberty in 1760's. The Liberty Cap & Pole symbolic face became transfigured and re-purposed once again in the British Colonies in America shifting away from Prince Edward Stuart's personal use against his distant cousins into the British Colonists need of liberty and independence.
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Even though the context remained the same of Resistance toward the Hanoverians, it metamorphosed and transfigured into a re-purposed propaganda tool and was used in media warfare and taken into the political realm of state political authoritative objects. In a state official government capacity, the design was used on the paper notes for the state of Georgia, and then was later adopted by the Pennsylvania Council of Safety in 1776. This symbol was used on their official wax seal for various board declarations and ratifications when members would meet. One old theory as to this particular button is that it was probably worn by one of the members on the Committee of Safety in Philadelphia. I would like to add he was part of the Freemason culture movement.
GWI 26 THE 1789 LIBERTY CAP ON A POLE : This button was Hand Engraved by Frances Shallus on a plain thin colonial copper planchet. His engraver's Mark is in the "1"The Size for GWI 26 is 34mm, and has a R-6 Rating. This is a flat one-piece button with a loop shank. The button's pattern depicts a two-dimensional design of a Liberty Cap on a Pole, with the inaugural year, "1789" below. The year is etched in wide Arabic Style Numbers. For added artistry, the engraver etched small squiggly lines around the outside of the Pole, around the perimeter of the Liberty Cap, and inside of the 1789 Year Date.
Jacobite Sons of Liberty
Royal Tribute Button
Pre-Revolution 1760's-1770's
This is not the only button dug in America to have the Liberty Cap and Pole. As noted in the button pictured above, this is an earlier variation of the Sons of Liberty button depicting the Liberty Cap & Pole. This button distinctly depicts Ancient Scottish Royal Culture motif's of the Honey Bee and Dog Star. This was most likely worn by a Jacobite within America's Freemason lodges. This would also show a duel message of hopefulness and a willful orchestration for the Restoration of the House of Stuart and return of Prince Edward Stuart. By the button depicting the Honey Comb and Dog Star it provides a Devine Right of Kings message with a Scottish King Merovingian Bloodline to Jesus Christ.
GWI 26-A THE SONS OF LIBERTY INAUGURAL PATRIOT BUTTON
Color: A Nicely Aged Coppery Brown Color with a Mustard Tone.
Metal: Flat, 1-Piece, Hand Fashioned Design, Copper.
Size: 34mm.
Rarity: R-6
Variety Type: 1789, Wide Numbers.
Present Condition: A Non Dug Specimen, Strong Planchet Condition, An Excellent Impression Remains.
Obverse Button Analysis: This is as close as you can get to mint or museum quality a button can get to. There was only three known owners of this rare button. The copper planchet is solid and flat, and shows no signs of metal fatigue or deterioration. The button has an even copper color throughout the surface, and free of any scratches or harsh abrasions. The Liberty Cap, the Pole, and the Inaugural Year Date all have nice cuts with good detail. The little circular etchings around the the designs are very clear and easily seen. Overall this is a wonderful example that has been preserved nicely.
Reverse Button Analysis: This is a flat one-piece button with a loop shank. The shank is original, straight, and intact. There is no recorded flaws to the surface.
Library Records Has Limited Information GWI 26 A-1:
History: Yes Recorded Sales Price: Yes
Current Button Owner and Location: (Possible Location is the Smithsonian)
Stacks Auctions January 2003.~
Harold Cobb/Descendants 1960 to 2003.~
Cobb Purchased this from F. Cross (Ball) in 1960.~
*This is one of the two known variants of this button. The first is currently held in the United States Mint Collection, which resides in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. ~ This was found by Helen Richmond in Florida. The second was obtained by Harold Cobb in 1960.
GWI 26-A THE SONS OF LIBERTY SCOTTISH INAUGURAL PATRIOT BUTTON
Metal: Flat, 1-Piece, Hand Fashioned With Neddles, Copper.
Variety Type: 1789. The Celestial Planets.
Obverse Button Analysis: There was only three known owners of this rare button. The copper planchet is solid and flat, and shows no signs of metal fatigue or deterioration. The button has an even copper color throughout the surface, and free of any scratches or harsh abrasions. The Liberty Cap, the Pole, and the Inaugural Year Date all have nice cuts with good detail. The little circular etchings around the the designs are very clear and easily seen. Overall this is a wonderful example that has been preserved nicely.
Reverse Button Analysis: This is a flat one-piece button with a loop shank. The shank is original, straight, and intact.
The Brook Moore Collection.
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Researchers examined health data from 10,500 American adults and found that those with low birth weight and those who had little or no breast-feeding had higher levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), an indicator of inflammation.
Chronic inflammation is associated with health risks such as diabetes and heart attack, the study authors noted.
The study did not find a cause-and-effect relationship, however.
The researchers explained that it can be difficult to determine how birth weight and breast-feeding affect long-term health because these problems are more common among children whose parents have lower levels of education and income. This means it's unclear if other factors play a role.
But this study included a large number of siblings and the researchers found that even within the same family, birth weight and breast-feeding influenced the risk of inflammation in adulthood.
The findings will be published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"There were good reasons to hypothesize that breast-feeding was important to influencing levels of inflammation in adulthood," study author Thomas McDade, a Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Fellow in the child and brain development program at Northwestern University, said in an institute news release.
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LEBANON: ISRAEL'S LATEST ROCKET ATTACK INJURES 12 SYRIAN SOLDIERS
Arabic/Nat Israel has claimed its latest rocket offensive against the Hezbollah in Beirut, wounding 12 Syrian soldiers, was accidental. Syria has been dragged into the escalating violence between Israel and the Hezbollah after an Israeli gunship opened fire on a Syrian military outpost. The attack comes at the end of a day of offensives and counterattacks from both sides, it is not yet clear how Syria will respond to this act of violence. Israel's latest offensive, a rocket attack on the slums of Beirut has unleashed fury in Damascus. The helicopter missile launch on the slums of Beirut, left 12 Syrian soldiers injured after a gunship fired on a Syrian military outpost. Israel has claimed the attack was inadvertent and that it did not intend to bring Syria into the fighting. Witnesses claim the army outpost was hit six times by Israeli helicopter missiles during a raid on the slums of Beirut aimed at wrecking the nerve centre of the Hezbollah. The air raid is the second on the Lebanese capital in two days. It has provoked outrage amongst supporters of Hezbollah. SOUNDBITE: (In Arabic) "The Israeli Government with a green light form the American Government is executing the statement of the recent Summit of Sharm-el-Sheik, this is a complete military and political co-ordination. There was a co-ordination between Turkey and Israel, and they are main enemy for the Arab. We are completely with the attacks that took place in the Palestinian settlement and we know very well that Israel opened the whole war front." SUPER CAPTION: Sayed Hussein Fadllallah, Spiritual Leader of Hezbollah The streets were crowded as evacuees responding to the bombing raids and earlier threats to leave their homes fled to Beirut. The Israelis had issued an ultimatum to inhabitants of up to 40 villages and towns in South Lebanon to leave their homes before 2.30pm (1130 GMT) Friday. Roads became packed as frightened families stowed all they had into the nearest vehicle and left their homes for the safety of the Lebanese capital. One of the villages to come under attack was Nabatiyeh, in the hills of South Lebanon. It was shelled early Friday, many of the buildings were still smoking this afternoon and there were few structures left undamaged. These villagers joined the mass exodus finding some safety in distancing themselves from the border with Israel. The roads of Beirut were crowded by the middle of the day, full with evacuees looking for refuge in the country's capital. One of the victims of the Israelis' Thursday air attack on the city was buried today amidst anguish and grief from family and friends. Members of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah also attended the burial of the 16 year old girl who was killed during the first attack on Beirut. Despite the deaths and injuries there appears to be little chance of breaking the deadlock between Israel and the Hezbollah. For those who live either side of the border waiting and hoping for peace is all they can do. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/7b90cdca798698765f70c1508f019d5a Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
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