Today is the first day of Kindergarten Registration for the 2019-2020 school year and we can't wait for your child to join us here at Prospect! At Prospect, we have a wonderful kindergarten staff and we would like to introduce them to you!
First grade went to the moon using virtual reality goggles from the Union County Public Library!
Dr. Chavis author and chiropractor came to are school Prospect Elementary AIG 4th and 5th grade for Donuts with Doctors.
The week of April 23rd-April 27th Prospect Elementary celebrated career and college readiness spirit week where students got to dress up each day according to the theme.
Prospect's Beta Club collaborated with Union Power Cooperative to plant two crepe myrtles at Prospect.
First Baptist of Monroe's preschool students who will be starting kindergarten in the fall came, with their teachers, and parents to tour Prospect!
In celebration of Dr. Seuss's birthday, Prospect participated in Read Across America. A Parkwood High School student, a Board of Education member, a UCPS Facilities Department employee, parents, grandparents and various community members inspired our students to read more as they read a Dr. Seuss book and another one of their favorite books to each class.
Our third, fourth and fifth graders are gearing up for March Madness with the Union County Public Schools second annual "Books and Brackets." All 30 elementary schools in the district are participating in a reading challenge February 15- March 23.
Three Veterans visit Prospect's fifth graders.
In celebration of National Children's Dental Health Month, Johnnie from Laxer, Long & Savage spoke to our kindergarten students about dental health.
Kindergarten registration begins February 1, 2018.
During Computer Science Education Week our kindergarten, first, and second grades have gone to the Makerspace to participate in various Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math (STEAM) activities. Our third, fourth, and fifth grades spent 30 minutes each day practicing coding using their Chromebooks. Our students have enjoyed getting to spend extra time on STEAM activities this week!!
In celebration of Literacy Month, Prospect hosted Family Literacy Day where parents and community members dressed up as book characters and read the corresponding book to a class.
A Makerspace is a place to explore, expand your imagination, be creative, challenge yourself, and build things.
On Friday, April 21st our fifth grade students at Prospect Elementary got to check out important jobs in our community. There were nine different careers we learned about in our school gym.
At the end of April, Kindergarten and Fifth Grade extended their learning of careers with Community/Career Day.
The Principal's Advisory Committee toured Appalachian State University to get a glimpse into the college experience.
The Principal Advisory Committee learned about India from the Ulhaq family!
Prospect students raised $440 with Heifer International's Reed to Feed program!
The beginning of November was a time of celebration and achievement for the students at Prospect during the first Cub Kids assembly for the year. Prospect has a Cub Kids assembly at the end of every grading period to promote positive school wide expectations and personal growth.
Prospect Elementary collected supplies for flood relief in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew. This article was written by third grade student Walker Coggins.
Throughout the month of October students participated in activities to bring awareness to National Bullying Prevention Month and Red Ribbon Week.
The Principal Advisory Committee studied Mexico in connection with Prospect's Olympic Games themed field day.
Prospect's Curriculum Night was named "Touring the Nations" this year, as the event came the week after Prospect's Olympic Field Day.
Prospect Elementary celebrated our first Olympic Field Day where classes were given a country to represent. Students prepared for Field Day by researching their country in Art, Music, P.E., Computers and Tech Time.
Mrs. Laura Thornton, music teacher, received a generous grant from the Union County Community Arts Council through the Arts in Our Schools Grant! The grant will be used by Prospect's second graders to attend The Fred Ingold Festival.
Prospect teachers have been busy both on and off campus getting ready to begin a new school year.
Teacher Appreciation Week is one of Prospect teachers' favorite weeks because our PTO goes above and beyond to show their appreciation! Throughout the week of May 2-6 the Prospect staff was pampered with a massage, a manicure, duty-free breakfasts, duty-free lunches, many meals, the opportunity to leave at 1:00 one day and their cars were even washed by PTO!
Prospect's Principal Advisory Committee visited the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in March.
Prospect participated in Read Across America and celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday by having volunteers read to each class.
On Wednesday, February 24, Prospect Elementary had the pleasure of full day visit from NC Representative, Mark Brody. Mr. Brody represents District 55, which includes Union and Anson counties. The UCPS Board of Education hosted the "Teacher For A Day Program" which allowed NC legislators and candidates to witness what it is like to be a NC educator in the classroom.
Ramona Barnes Pate helped Prospect celebrate Black History Month and explore African-American history through storytelling, singing, and role-play with students.
Kindergarten has been reading and learning all about the farm and the city.
Prospect students and teachers showed off their school spirit the first week of February as PTO hosted spirit week as a fundraiser.
Our outstanding PTO celebrated students' fundraising success by hosting a magic show on the morning of our annual fall festival. The students at Prospect raised $10,000 to help PTO make our school awesome!
During the month of October, we had two teachers get married! Ms. Reeves is now Mrs. McMillian and Ms. Lewis is now Mrs. Pushchek (pronounced "push-eck").
Students returning to Prospect for the 2015-2016 school year walked into a refreshed and improved school building. Students and staff began getting excited about the updates coming as renovations began in the gym before let out. The gym has been revitalized with walls painted yellow to tie in with the new colorful floor that is yellow, red, and blue. Additionally, red plastic bleachers spell out the word "CUBS" in blue when they are pushed against the wall, which gives the gym an updated look.
This year we have new classroom teachers at Prospect! Ms. Taylor Williams is our new kindergarten teacher; Ms. Shelia Nyman is our new second grade teacher; Ms. Heather Johnson and Ms. Kelsey Kukor are our new third grade teachers; Ms. Kathleen Darnell is our new fourth grade teacher, and Ms. Elizabeth Tilley is our new fifth grade teacher.
The Prospect staff has been doing a book study this year with the book "The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy" by Jon Gordon. Along with every staff member reading the book, teachers facilitated activities in staff meetings and online discussions using Google Classroom.
The second grade classes learned about the butterfly life cycle during the months of April and May.


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Ron answers Hillary Clinton's question: 'What difference, at this point, does it make?'
From the Washington Examiner:
On Jan. 23, 2013, Hillary Clinton asked an infamous question about the attack on the United States Consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
"What difference, at this point, does it make?" Clinton said. And Republicans have been attacking her for that line ever since.
"Why didn't you just pick up the phone and call the survivors?" was the simple question Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., asked Clinton that day. Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention, he finally answered Clinton's question.
"It made a difference to the young Yazidi woman I met who was captured and brutalized by ISIS barbarians, the joy of life hauntingly absent in her eyes," Johnson said. "It made a difference to the businessmen traveling through the airports in Brussels and Istanbul, who just wanted to make it home to their family and their friends.
"It made a difference to the ordinary Americans sharing holiday cheer at a Christmas party in San Bernardino. It made a difference to the young men and women dancing on a summer night at a club in Orlando. And it made a difference to the families watching fireworks at a celebration of freedom in Nice."
Although Johnson spent most of his speech attacking Clinton, he also attacked the Democratic foe running against him in November: former Sen. Russ Feingold.
"Even after 9/11, [Feingold] was the only senator to vote against giving law enforcement the tools they need to help stop international terror. During his 18-year Senate career, he also voted against authorizing our military 11 separate times." He said the world is too dangerous to elect either Clinton or Feingold.
After formally winning the Republican nomination, it was Donald Trump's night. But Johnson mentioned him only once, toward the end of his speech. "Donald Trump and Mike Pence understand that these must be America's top priorities," Johnson said, referring to defeating the Islamic State. "They will be strong leaders, working with Republicans in the House and Senate to achieve a goal that can unite us all: a safe, prosperous and secure America."

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Artist Impression - Dorsett hotel and apartments tower pool | PHOTO: Supplied by The Star Gold Coast
WATCH: The Star Gold Coast breaks ground for new $400 million tower
August 24, 2018 2:09 pm in Gold Coast, The Loop Post by Carla Tooma
A 53-storey mixed use tower set to create 2300 jobs and house one of the Gold Coast's largest luxury hotels has broken ground in a sod-turning ceremony at The Star Gold Coast.
The $400 million development will herald the entry to Australia of the internationally-acclaimed Dorsett hotel brand, with a 4.5 star hotel that will boast 316 rooms.
Dorsett currently owns and operates hotels in Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and the United Kingdom.
The tower will also include apartment accommodation, with 423 one and two-bedroom options, as well as restaurants and bars, a recreation deck with ocean views and a resort pool for hotel guests.
See the sod-turning ceremony + exclusive interviews in the video below:
Economic benefits flowing from the project will include 2300 jobs, with 1800 in construction and a further 500 created once operational.
The Star Entertainment Group Chairman John O'Neill said The Star Gold Coast continues to evolve, with levels of investment that position it as a genuine global tourism destination.
"The introduction of a Dorsett hotel will bring with it increased awareness in the global market, especially in Asia, where Dorsett Hospitality International owns and operates the majority of its 54 hotels," he said.
Artist Impression – Dorsett hotel and apartments tower | PHOTO: Supplied by The Star Gold Coast
"When the Dorsett opens for business around early 2022, it will ensure we have two of the largest hotels on the Gold Coast – plus the most luxurious in The Darling suite hotel."
The 316 hotel rooms will feature across the tower's lower levels, while an additional 423 residential apartments ranging from 54sqm to 109sqm will form the upper levels.
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Carla Tooma
Carla is a full time journalist, presenter and announcer for 102.9 Hot Tomato and myGC.com.au, joining the team towards the end of 2011. When she is isn't busy presenting all of myGC's videos, bringing you the latest news or chatting live on air, Carla will often be found scoping out the hottest local events. Carla holds a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Bond University, where she graduated with number of First in Class and Dean's List of Academic Excellence awards. Carla is also a well-regarded MC, singer and actor. Some of her credits include hosting the Australia's Next Top Model Queensland Auditions for Foxtel, guest starring on Toybox for Channel Seven, and performing as Mrs Banks in The Arts Centre Gold Coast's production of Mary Poppins.
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White, thermally stable, melts and boils without decomposition. It is readily soluble in water (strong hydrolysis on the anion). At storage of the concentrated solution slowly decays. It absorbs CO2 from the humid air. It is decomposes by acids. Attaches oxygen, sulfur. Reducing agent. Participates in reactions of an exchange and complex formation.
NaOH(conc.) + HCN = NaCN + H2O.
Na2CO3 + C(coke) + CaCN2 = 2NaCN + CaCO3 (600-700° C).
HCN + NaOH(conc.) = NaCN + H2O.
NaCN • 2H2O = NaCN + 2H2O (normal temp., vacuum, over P4O10).
NaCN(diluted) + 4H2O(cold) = [Na(H2O)4](+) + CN(-) (pH > 7).
NaCN(conc.) + 2H2O = Na(HCOO) + NH3↑ (boiling).
NaCN(solid) + HCl(conc., cold) = NaCl + HCN↑.
2NaCN + H2SO4(conc. 30%) = 2HCN↑ + Na2SO4 (30-40° C).
2NaCN + H2O + CO2 = Na2CO3 + 2HCN (normal temp.).
2NaCN(diluted, hot) + O2 = 2NaOCN (catalyst Ni).
NaCN(diluted) + S = NaNCS (boiling).
NaCN + Na2S4O6 + H2O = NaNCS + Na2SO3S + H2SO4.
NaCN + H2O2(conc. 30%) = NaOCN + H2O.
NaCN + PbO2 = NaOCN + PbO (250° C).
2NaCN + H2O + 5NaClO = 2NaHCO3 + 2NaCl + N2↑.
NaCN(conc.) + AgCN(solid) = Na[Ag(CN)2](solution).


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Raising Greatness: James Hutton's Deep View of Time, 1795
JF Ptak Science Books Post 1032
I think that I'd like to start a series here on significant works in the history of ideas that were originally highly problematic or not accessible due to writing style or place of publication or misplaced appearance or, well, simply bad timing. The storyline would be one of these great works whose significance suffered as a result of one or more of these issues, and then which was raised above its suffered complications to a place of higher (or more popular) esteem, allowing it to get to a place where the work could generate the new set of ideas that it was intended to help create in the first place. The first of these stories belongs to James Hutton and his revolutionary idea of deep time.
Seeing more deeply into scientific time than anyone else in history, seeing the entirety of Earth's history explained in the sloping red sandstone at Siccar Point (above the vertical greywacke), James Hutton worked through his theory of the earth in two stout volumes (The Theory of the Earth, with Proofs and Illustrations... in 1795), wrapping up geological evidence with a dogged, comma-ridden and usually-unwieldy prose. He had in fact written a much more elegant paper presenting the main thrust of his theory in outline in 17851, though this paper received a much more limited distribution. In the long term it really didn't matter, though, how pretty his writing was–but in the short term, it did. He made the case for the vastness of time in an elegant way, even without the prospect of being able to know the age of the rocks he was looking at. The processes of sedimentation, transportation and weathering of solids, vertical elevation of the Earth's surface in response to natural causes, and so on, were just not known to him; no matter, as Hutton trusted his theoretical inspiration to tell him that the 6,000-year old earth history clock on the wall was telling a tenth of a tenth of a tenth of a tenth (and on) of the larger, truer story of the age of the earth. He knew that there were many orders of magnitude of age involved in the telling of the story–he just didn't know how many.
He ended his great work bowing to the enormity of the sight of time:
"Here are three distinct successive periods of existence, and each of these is, in our measurement of time, a thing of infinite duration. ...
The result, therefore, of this physical inquiry is, that we find no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end."
Hutton's work is inestimably important, Archibald Geike (the great 19th century geologist) commenting that it is impossible to praise the work too highly. But then there was the problem of the density and just flat-out difficulty in reading Hutton's writing, which restricted the book's message to a dedicated academic class. Hutton did find his champion in James Playfair, who would strengthen Hutton's work with new data and who would also help along the troubled Huttonian prose. Playfair's work is in of itself2 an important contribution to the history of geology and also of course evolution. His Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (1802), popularized and made the Huttonian work far more acceptable to a larger audience, and as the DNB says "presenting Hutton's momentous theory in a clear and palatable form (which Hutton himself had failed to do), and in adding materially to the geological knowledge of the time".
It was Playfair's treatment of Hutton that found its way into the mix of genius of Charles Lyell, whose own Principles of Geology3 found its way onto the Beagle and which were voraciously studied by Charles Darwin4 and then put to further use.
1. "Theory of the Earth; or an investigation of the laws observable in the composition, dissolution, and restoration of land upon the Globe", presented in two parts, in Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, vol. 1, Part 2, pp. 209-304. An earlier, related pamphlet was written and privately published for a very restricted and private distribution in 1785: Abstract of a dissertation read in the Royal Society of Edinburgh, upon the seventh of March, and fourth of April, MDCCLXXXV, Concerning the System of the Earth, Its Duration, and Stability. Edinburgh. 30pp.
Eventually the book would wind up in a final form as An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge and of the Progress of Reason, from Sense to Science and Philosophy in 2,138 pages, causing Playfair to remark that "The great size of the book, and the obscurity which may justly be objected to many parts of it, have probably prevented it from being received as it deserves".
This paper privately printed 1785 paper stated:
"The solid parts of the present land appear in general, to have been composed of the productions of the sea, and of other materials similar to those now found upon the shores. Hence we find reason to conclude:
1st, That the land on which we rest is not simple and original, but that it is a composition, and had been formed by the operation of second causes.
2nd, That before the present land was made, there had subsisted a world composed of sea and land, in which were tides and currents, with such operations at the bottom of the sea as now take place. And,
Lastly, That while the present land was forming at the bottom of the ocean, the former land maintained plants and animals; at least the sea was than inhabited by animals, in a similar manner as it is at present.
Hence we are led to conclude, that the greater part of our land, if not the whole had been produced by operations natural to this globe; but that in order to make this land a permanent body, resisting the operations of the waters, two things had been required;
1st, The consolidation of masses formed by collections of loose or incoherent materials;
2ndly, The elevation of those consolidated masses from the bottom of the sea, the place where they were collected, to the stations in which they now remain above the level of the ocean."
2. Returning again to Geike, who remarked (1905): "How different would geological literature be to-day if men had tried to think and write like Playfair!"
3. The Principles was an enormously influential book, and went through six editions in the first 11 years of its printing (1830-1840), seeing 12 editions during the author's lifetime (the last edition corrected and added to by Lyell appearing just after the author's death in 1875).
4. Darwin had volume 1 when he shipped off, receiving volume 2 en route. A quick look online reveals that there is no mention of Playfair or Hutton in either the Voyages or Origin.; Lyell is noted 14 times in the Voyages and 30 times in the 6th edition of the Origin.
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Tags: Charles Darwin, evolution, Geology, James Hutton, Playfair
History of Lines: Circles, Vortices or Tree Rings?
I thought at first that the detail of the photograph below looked liked Cartesian vortices, as seen in one of these engravings from his (Rene Descarte) Principes de la Philosophie (1644, basically a treatise on planetary motions).
Well, no, of course, these are not vortex representations writ large in the desert of Tunisia by Nazi German plows. They come close, though. We're looking at a photograph of what is supposed to be an airfield which has been beautifully plowed under by German sappers, done so to prevent the airfields being used by British forces subsequent to its abandonment by retreating German forces. Looking more closely at the photos though I'm not sure what this really is--it just doesn't look quite right. On the other hand I don't see offhand what might be gained if this was simply a retouched photo used for propaganda
Source: Illustrated London News, 6 Feb 1943.
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History of Dots Series: Missing the Beginning of the Stars as Dots
[History of Dots series]
I was wondering when it was that stars began to appear as dots in celestial atlases or astronomical works–dots rather than starry stars, decorated spheres with crusty circular fire rings about them.
I felt that at some near point in the history of astronomy that t he conventional antiquarian way of representing a star would fall away with magnification, or clarity, just as has been the opposite case with the magnification of simple dots to reveal complex structures, say with the amplification of the flea eye...even a graphite pencil's period at the end of a sentence on a piece of paper will turn itself from a dot into something as complex as the coastline of England (given enough magnification).
The first star atlas published in 1482 after the work of the first century astronomer and philosopher Hyginius1 contains maps of the constellations composed of such beautiful light-encrusted bits. There wouldn't be another work like this one, strangely, for another 75 years. Alessandro Piccolomini's2 work of 1559 (which would be the first true star atlas), and again we see the familiar representation. I thought that this would change with the invention of the telescope, so I checked out Galileo's3 beautiful account (pictured at left) of his discoveries in the Sidereus–again the same complicated, sawblade stars.
This has not been a very scientific search thus far, only checking handy notes and images that I've made. But the same result has been true for the star images in Bayer4, Cellarius5, Hevelius6(at right), Coronelli7, Flamseed8, Doppelmayr9 and Bode10. Even William Herschel's fabulous map of the galaxy is a collection of these pointed stars. I think that I've just missed what is normally seen by regular folks as a conventional reassignment of star images to something more "modern"–and if that's the case it has simply passed me by. (It seems though that among all of these that Hevelius comes closest--he inverts the familiar star pattern to the interior of a sphere.) And I continue to miss it. I've worked my incomplete survey now pretty close to the end of the 18th century, and I simply do not have a close answer..If anyone out there does have it, please let me know.
1. Hyginius Mythographus (fl. 1st century A.D.). Poeticon astronomicon. Edited by Jacobus Sentinus and Johannes Lucilius Santritter. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 14th October 1482. The first star atlas per se, standing alone in its field for a century.
2. Piccolomini, Alessandro. De la Sfera del Mondo. 1559
3. Galilei, Galilei Sidereus Nuncius (known in English as Starry Messenger), published 1610
4. Bayer, Johann. (1572 – March 7, 1625) Uranometria 1603, which was the first atlas to cover the entire celestial sphere.
5. Cellarius, Andreas (c. 1596 – 1665): Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660, 1661, 1708).
6. Hevelius, Johannes (1611 – 1687): Firmamentum Sobiescianum, sive Uranographia (1690).
7. Coronelli, Vincenzo (1650 – 1718):
8. Flamsteed, John (1646 – 1719): Atlas Coelestis (1729, 1753).
9. Doppelmayr, John Gabriel (1677 – 1750): Atlas Coelestis (1742).
10. Bode, Johann Elert (1747 – 1826): Vorstellung der Gestirne auf XXXIV Tafeln (1782).
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History of Dots: Television, 1947
Television is composed of dots--or at least for the greatest part of its history it was. I wonder if we measured the amount of televised images entering the eye/eyes of everyone around the world this year if that total numbers of hours is multiples of all television watched by everyone everywhere for the 1928-1995 period? My gut wonders if it is orders (?) of magnitude more as there are more people, more television, more programming, more everything, everywhere, at any time. And when you throw in hulu and tvshack and so on, doubt grows that the history of television to 1995 could hold its own against whatever it is people are seeing today.
This comes from seeing this ad (below, from which these details are pulled) for Paul Jones whiskey in a 1947 issue of LIFE magazine. Big, 15" screen for the fights on a Friday night, the built-in radio with its 12" speaker ready to go, a pipe and matches (and no tobacco) at hand, and of course a very over-sized bottle of Paul Jones whiskey: if we kept a constant perspective that bottle I reckon would've been about two feet tall, accompanied by foot-tall glasses.
Television was still in its formative period so far as mass acceptance and affordability goes--there were still only 14,000 sets in the U.S. in 1947. Today there are something like 250,000,000 sets in this country, or about 8 for every 10 people. Worldwide the figures are pretty different: on a list of 209 countries for televisions per capita (where the U.S. is third) only the top 24 have tvs for every other person (the U.K. with 504/1000 is number 24) while countries with tvs for every third person comes in at #53 (Czech republic). Jamaica, listed at #100, has 168/1000 per capita, which means tv distribution for the rest of the 109 countries on this list gets pretty scratchy--no doubt because a television would represent a sizable chunk of a family's gross income for the year. Actually, about 50 countries on that list have a population that survives on One Dollar a day--which doesn't leave much for Sony and whoever might advertise on the set that these people can't buy. (Fox I understand is even now figuring a plan for a programming-over-food venue as a means to domination in a new post-Colonial world--Cuba won over, finally, with reruns of "Dallas", making the population revolutionary over the stuff that J.R. Ewing has that they don't but want..)
The televised world is the thin veneer of the existing world that isn't. Anyway, here's the start of it, all in beautiful black and white dots, selling a bad whiskey.
The "Television Schedule" is there, with an odd eye-on-compass logo that is barely visible before magnification.
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History of Dots Series: Dots of 1947
{Another in the History of Dots series.]
The molecular chemistry of dots of 1947 is a beautiful thing, worthy of a powers-of-ten episode, though I can only do a gigantically scaled down version of it (a powers-of-two maybe) given pixelation and its dot-defeating and necessary tendency to relieve roundness and introduce squares everywhere.
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The History of Lines: Nijinsky's Secret Shoes (The Most Magnificent Shoe Illustration in the History of Shoe Illustration.)
There are two possible origins of this beautiful and quixotic image.
1) It is simply an unusual and perhaps hypnotic (?) sales illustration for a maker (improbably named Manfield & Sons) of sports shoes--in this case, for golf. There is no explanation for its exalted and mysterious overuse of lines or its art brut approach.
2) It is the sympathetic artwork of shoe adoration by the great dancer, Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), used by his wife and sold to manufacturers to help pay for his decades-long "hospitalization" for schizophrenia. Nijinsky was perhaps the greatest dancer of the first half of the 20th century, a shocking talent who danced for only a dozen years or so before the rest of his not-so-dormant mind caught up to him around 1919. At that point he was in and out of facilities to care for his metal disease until his death in 1946.
(Sigmund Freud was presented with the opportunity to help the mega-star; he declined, because he didn't "do" schizophrenics. Freud I think only "did " people whose illness, treatment and eventual curing could fit snugly within the confines of his own stretchy/made-up vocabulary and diagnostic language.)
Nijinsky would dance only one time after the beginning of his series of internments that began in 1919--he wound up living in Hungary during WWII, and when the country was "liberated"* by the Soviet Army in 1945, he and the troops did folk dances in the street for celebration.
And that was it, so far as any knows.
Truth be told: the answer of course in #1, though it is difficult to imagine a guy preening his way through this 1920 edition of the Illustrated London New, coming upon this ad, and being overcome by the staggering beauty of the image, deciding in his head (and perhaps even out loud), "I need those shoes".
The stuff I wrote about Nijinsky is all true, unfortunately--all except the shoe illustration part.
Mark Twain once said that golf "was a good walk spoiled"--and that was without the benefit of having seen these shoes.
*"Liberated" is the word I see used in regard to the Soviets removing the Nazis from Hungary. The German dictatorship was simply replaced by a Soviet dictatorship. The Soviets stayed longer.
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Fat as (1) Medicine or (2) Jump Rope? [Adventures in Fat Series #4]
{See also the post Art Made of Fat]
Well, given the choice of having to use fat, or rather rendered fat--suet--as either (1) a medicine or (2) solidified enough to use as a jump rope, I think I'd have to select option #2. At least I wouldn't have to eat it.
But the fact of the matter is that in "real life", in the history of human life and the care of humans, suet was in fact used as an invigorating energy producer to be added to the daily diet. Or was it by the spoonful? I'm not sure, though I do see that it was available "Shredded" or as a "block".
I do admit to adding the jump rope text to this 1920 ad--but the rest of it is real.
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Selling & Curing Sexual Ennui & Fixing the Fainting Woman, 1920
There's seems little more appealing to the false-chaste medical interests of 1920 England than helping fainting women, all to the betterment of social relations, clean houses and vibrant sexual partners. The heritage of patriarchal piety's rejection of sensual pleasure that was so common in England and Europe for many hundreds of years filed its way deeply into the 20th century. Suspension of sexual discussion and understanding aside, it was well understood that women's sexual nature was completely repressed unless in response to the pleasure of men. It was a story of submission and subjugation, with all responsibilities for failed masculine sexuality falling to the shoulders of women (as clearly stated in the still-popular Stall's marriage manual, a 19th century piece of rusty thinking still serving as the standard bearer in the early 20th century). The manual is a codex of denial, submission, ignorance, boredom, tiredness, exasperation and triviality so far as sexuality is concerned for women--there is no hint of pride, or of enjoyment.
Urodonol was a product in long use in Europe and England, a quack medicinal of little harm that plagued the hopes of people with aliments elusive to medical detection, especially that of the greatly secret ennui and fatigue in response to sexual relations. It claims to have cured rheumatism, migraine, acidity, gravel, gout, sciatica, arthritis, biliary colic and of course obesity, all taken care of with teaspoons and thimbles. The most that it did perhaps was to not cause any of these aliments. But it did paint a picture of the failing, fainting woman being restored to stature so common to the pages of advertisement in The Illustrated London News (this issue for 5 June 1920). Pre-Urodonol the lady is being assisted by the nurse to the well-pillowed fainting coach--"ahh" she says, her arms outstretched looking for balance, faking a tottering in her high heeled shoes. The coach was a step away.
Urodonal was the cure, as we see Her refreshed and elegant in new hair and hat, rushing to get home to the man who now needn't worry about not being cared for.
Curiously the ad next to this one--same size, same typeface--is for another quack medicine for men whose seed is evidently growing moldy in the bottom of their sowing sack. Globeol addresses the keyword problems for sexual malaise: "debility, overstrain, anaemia, nervous exhaustion" by "conversion into pure, strong, health-giving blood". Lest the use of STRONG BLOOD PURE BLOOD-FORMING HEALTH-GIVING GOOD SOWER be lost there is always the Johnny Appleseed person above, casting about his seed, growing children instantly.
If sexual malaise be, then Urodonol and Globeol is there for some sweet, secret sippings; a little shot here and there will bring the sexes together. Or not.
I might be completely wrong on this but, really, I like the possibility of this weird approach's explanatory power--it doesn't take a philo-shrinkologist to see the conjoined symbolisms in this set of ads and the approach to unmentionable complaints, and that's what I think is exactly going on here.
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Tags: feminism, history of women, SUbjugation of women, women
Overstated Understatement: on the Future of Television
[I've written a number of posts on understatement here on this blog; two dozen or so will pop up when you put "understatement" in the google site search at left.]*
Philo T. Farnsworth (1906-1971) may have had the best name among the earliest inventors of electronic1 television, but he didn't necessarily have the best invention, this in spite of the fact that it is he who is remembered and counted as the technical inventor of the medium. But that's the way it goes, sometimes; sometimes it goes that way. Farnsworth2 also had the better back-story: he was a teenager, brilliant of course, working out in the comparative middle-of-nowhere with little bits of money here and there from local investors. On the other side of the coin was Vladimir Zworykin3 (1888-1982) who invented a cathode ray tube system for transmitting and receiving televised images, and who had the enormous financial support of Westinghouse (and then, later, RCA). Farnsworth was first off the boat, but Zworykin is the one whose work became the industry standard.
But the understatement is what attracts me here, and it occurs in the December 1929 issue of Radio magazine in which he reports on his successful first demonstration of his device to the general public. I can't tell if he was being very deliberate in his understatement or if was simply a staccato expression by a very young engineer with not-great writing abilities–I think that it was the later, really, as the statement is sandwiched in an odd, non-congruent section of its paragraph.
In the article, Farnsworth also publishes the first (?) photograph of the first televised image, and states:
"This image of a lady with her eyes closed was transmitted by the Farnsworth system of electrical scanning and is perhaps the first published American photograph of an actual television image. The original image was approximately 3 ½ in. square. It can well be considered as having entertainment value. The reticence of those working with a 2500 element limit was fixed more because of the limitations of the apparatus than because of true entertainment value."
I do think that Farnsworth was in a hurry to get to the end of the article. Later on he did try to capitalize in a major way on his invention and its distribution, but things didn't work out so well.
* Some other great understatements in the history of science and technology include:
-the Wright brothers' telegram to their father on the successful flight at Kitty Hawk, telling him to "inform Press" [sic], and misspelling Orville ("Orvelle")
--the announcement of the invention of the telephone, giving Mr. Bell a scant 200-word mention in the London-based journal Nature.
--the alpha and omega element of the severe understatement of George Gamow on discovering the background radiation of the Big Bang.
--and the atomic bomb/nuclear Armageddon bit from the National Emergency Planning Council: ( "Because of recent changes in the technology and potential tempo of war and because of the base power of force is in being (including equipment and supplies), there is general recognition that any future war in which the United States is engaged, especially if it is an unlimited nuclear war, may be decided without significant additional military demands upon the nation's industrial economy." Hmm. He continues: "That is not to say, however, that the post-attack economy would not face enormous logistical support problems." There is no human element of this equation. "The logistic requirements of survival and recovery would present very heavy demands.")
1. Early on there were mechanical approaches to the invention of television.
2. He was the inventor of the first functional all-electronic image pickup device (the so-called "image dissector") and also provided the first television system. He was also the first to display his functioning systerm to the general public. He also started to work on replacing the mechanical-option television with electronics in 1921 at the age of 14.
3. Zworykin's first patent for his idea,"Television Systems", was filed on December 29, 1923.
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The End of World War II in Europe, May 8, 1945
May 8, 1945 is the day that Germany surrendered to the Allied Powers, ending World War II in Europe. The war had been fought for 69 months--or perhaps it had been longer, perhaps the war started in 1918 with the treatment of the defeated Germany sealing European fate for decades to come. That would instead make the date 1914, since that war never really did come to an end. Or perhaps it started in 1929, or 1933, or 1935, or 1938, following economic collapse, the election of Hitler, the installation of anti-Jewish laws, the failure of Chamberlain, the annexation of Austria, or the taking of Czechoslovakia. It seems not quite right to set the start of the war in September 1939 with the invasion of Poland--that seems to minimize the maximum pre-history of the conflict.
The war in the Pacific ended later, Emperor Hirohito announcing his country's intentions of quitting the war on 15 August, 1945. That came 9 days after the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. And 6 days after the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. A third was on its way.
In any event, the war in Europe was ended today, 65 years ago.
"Here is Germany" by Frank Capra, intended to be released after the surrender on 8 May 1945.
A good chart on WWI casualties:
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The 200'-Tall Woman and the History of Skirt Lengths--Interesting Images
[Part of this site's History of Women series.]
This graph illustrating the history of skirt lengths in the United States is oddly interesting and appealing, a job well done. I like that the graph lines fairly well reveal the amount of leg shown by the rising and lowering hemlines, measuring the height above the ankle from bottom to top.
Now: I offer what I think must be the female record for the most distance between the ankle and the hemline--I reckon it to be about 60 feet.
There are certainly a wide universe of captions for this picture, but for some reason I'm most comfotable with the exposed-leg connection.
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Tags: design, fashion, Graphical display of data, skirt length
Windsor McKay's Animated Sinking of the Lusitania (May 7, 1915)
Windsor McKay--who for all intents and purposes invented the animated cartoon with his "Gertie the Dinosaur" in 1914 --produced this piece of homeland propaganda on the sinking of the Lusitania, which occurred on this day in 1915.
The film was released in 1918 with McKay producing the 25,000 drawings necessary for production. It caused great emotions and bitterness, considering of course that there was no footage or photographs of the sinking--McKay provided the moving impetus and the viewers' minds filled in the rest. The RMS Lusitania, which was a Cunard Line ocean liner, was sunk by torpedoes from the German U-Boat SM U-20 eight miles off the coast of Ireland, killing 1,1989 of the 1959 people on board.
McKay (1867-1934) is also remembered for his remarkable cartoon strips Little Nemo and The Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend.
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Tags: animated film, Lusitania, WIndsor McKay
The Call for the Elimination and Destruction of the Beggar and Tramp Classes, 1926
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The once-esteemed journal, The Eugenics Review (1909-1968, published in London by Macmillan & Co., with Darwin's son Leonard as it president and guided by a very well placed "consultative council") is an issue-to-issue marvel of dead and repugnant ideas. It seems more now an encyclopedia of The Great Ill Wind than anything else, and this of course ironically in spite of its own sterling pedigree.1
I occasionally pick up an issue an graze, and usually something strikes the sensibilities immediately. Today it was the issue for April 1926, and the article "The Merxplas Beggar Colony". I had never heard of a "beggar colony" before this, today, and was surprised to learn that there were six of them in Belgium , one of which was Merx plas, with many of them established beginning in the 18th century. Merx plas was a physical entity, a containment camp (or perhaps better a "concentration camp?") where tramps/beggars/the habitually unemployed/thieves/pimps were sentenced to between two and seven years' stay. People went in, and they could not come out--so although not a prison, it seems more a communistic prison setting with an post-dated exit sign.
The Eugenics Review took a quick view (in this four page article) of places like Merx plas Belgium) as social engineering tools, with heavy medical/biological/pathological metaphors. The author, J.G. Pringle, quotes a "M. Le Jeune" who found the sound idea in his statement: "this (habitually unemployed) class could be eliminated by a process of segregation" leaving the real unemployed a chance to find work once removed from this "contagion". Mr. Pringle agrees: "While segregated they would not reproduce either their species, their diseases, or their vices".
Indeed. Merx plas was also opened not only for these above-mentioned people, but was expanded to include "convicted epileptics, tuberculous persons and mentally deficient persons". He continues: "it would appear that this further classification of inmates will make possible the selection of individuals for whom any liberation whatsoever could be shown to be inadvisable".
There were generally about 5,000 people at Merx plas--a quick look at the stats reveals that at any given time 75% of the population had made at least one previous tour there; 25% had been there at least three times. I'm not so sure what that means in terms of anything save that the state prevented these guys from reproducing.
In general Mr. Pringle likes what he sees and wants the communal work farms to be instituted in Great Britain. He closes: "The measure of success achieved at Merx plas in dealing with a type of parasite which is also a source of social contamination would form a happy precedent for a similar experiment in this country".
Such imaging of a class of people in terms of disease, contagion, social contamination and the "correcting" of their behavior in terms of "segregation", virtual sterilization and "elimination" takes me immediately to the question: what's left? Once they began to creep in TB persons and the "feeble-minded" and not let them out, how else best to deal with beggars and tramsp who continue to abuse the system, especially once you've already introduced the idea of these folks being disease/contagion and that their incarceration is a form of segregation and elimination? I guess they could talk about not letting anyone out again, but, well, it sounds like Merx plas was already an economic drain and stain; how much could it support? The math starts to look big and bad and bloody at this point.
In general though the road to a conclusion to these unhappy thoughts was sterilization (which I wrote about a little here and elsewhere on this blog)--but this is a story for another day.
1. The eugenics people identified their intellectual foundations in the work of master multi-tasker and genius Sir Francis Galton, and had much help along the way with the likes of the superior R.A. Fisher, Charles Davenport, Henry F. Osborn, Bernhard Mallet, R.W. MacBride, Julian Huxley, W.P. Pycraft, Francis and Leonard Darwin, and many others.
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Tags: Eugenics, racism, sterilization
Propaganda Maps of a Different Sort--Health Advertisements & Carto-Weirdia
"When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales." --Mark Twain (Life on the Mississippi, 1883)
In this blog's continuing series on maps and propaganda come these two interesting and appealing examples, both appearing in England in the late 'teens though their histories are older than that. They do come from a much longer tradition of finding physical landmarks of the body by which to navigate biological and mental needs--bumps and blemishes of the head, "reading" blood and urine, general mechanical measurements of all sorts, and on and on, even so far as to include mapping the significance of the appearance and proximity of body moles and warts. (I addressed this earlier in a post on Mapping the Human Cosmos via Mole s, here.)
The first image belongs to Beecham's Pills, long a staple of chemist/pharmacy and general goods sellers, which were basically patent medicine cure-alls composed of aloe, ginger and soap, and which found a happy market for more than 150 years (1842-1998). Evidently Beecham's did do something right in there somewhere, as they had some sort of positive effect on digestion. Other than that I don't know, though the little pills seem to not have caused any direct harm.
The company has a long and huge advertising history, though one of the favorites that I've seen from this early part of the 20th century had folks marching through the globe, and happy to be doing so so long as they had their care trusted to Beecham's.
Secondly is this odd bit that locates the center of one part of human health in the veins of head, showing that if you can indeed follow them like a map, then you're in trouble and need to ingest the product sponsoring the scare measure, Urodonal ("dissolves uric acid"). Urodonal is of French origins and dates back to at least 1874; it was a quack medicine composed of "pleasant herbs" which would cure all sorts of aliments relating to kidney distress, plus fatigue, tired feet, aching back and of course obesity.
The man in top hat was pointing to the Vesuvian vein with his cane, just in case you missed the thing. But I guess in the modern age when everyone must "take" something, the nonsense concoction of Urodonal was better than most because it--like Beecham's--didn't actually do anything nasty to your body. Unless of course you self-administered your medical care and relied solely on these agents for your necessary treatment for a real illness, which would mean trouble--and which is an entirely different story.
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Uncommon Heroes--a Bus and a Pigeon
As if to underscore what must have been brilliant and courageous actions everywhere, the "motor-omnibus" B-43 was brought to the quadrangle of Buckingham Palace to be received and cheered by the King (in 1920). In fact, the King was saluting the drivers of the bus (even though the caption understates the moment so: "a famous war bus inspected by the King at Buckingham Palace, war drivers cheering His Magesty on leaving"). B-43 saw motor transport service with the British Army from 1914 to 1919, and was at Antwerp, Ypres, Ancre, the Somme and Amiens. It was returned home, upgraded, and pressed back into street service (operating from Willesden and Old Ford).
That's a lot of service.
If you look closely at the detail, you'll see that each one of the men on the bus has got a chest-full of medals.
The second hero is a pigeon whose name is not given, being ingloriously exhibited in a small cage at the Grand Palais Exhibition in 1920. This pigeon was evidently the last of the famous "Verdun Pigeons" who delivered important messages between commands, flying back and forth with important data, dodging bullets and bombs and gas.
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Boho-style baby blanket made from Hmong hilltribe batik fabric from Northern Thailand. The base of this fabric is blue/grey and has bright orange/red and pink applique, along with a neon yellow stripe down the middle.
The backing is a light grey, soft and cozy fleece material.
Approximate size: 36" x 28.5"


This week is Holy Week. Along with Christians around the world I've been reflecting on Jesus' journey to the cross, beginning with the celebrations and expectation of Palm Sunday, through quiet reflection as we remember the Last Supper on Maundy Thursday, leading to sombre recollection and marking of the crucifixion today on Good Friday.
Awesome day with this lovely lot..... lots of sunshine, laughs and adrenaline!


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Narmada issue: Supreme Court to set up panel of ex-judges
A bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar said that the committee will have Justices (retd) V S Sirpurkar, K S Radhakrishnan and C Nagappan as its members and asked Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi to ask for their consent.
Updated: February 8, 2017 1:34 PM IST
नीट 2018 मामले को लेकर सुप्रीम कोर्ट पहुंच सकता है सीबीएसई
New Delhi, Feb 8: The Supreme Court today proposed to set up a committee of three of its former judges to look into the aspects of compensation and rehabilitation for the oustees of Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) on river Narmada in three states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat. Also Read - Farmers' Tractor Rally on Republic Day: Centre Withdraws Plea After SC Says 'It's a Police Matter'
A bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar said that the committee will have Justices (retd) V S Sirpurkar, K S Radhakrishnan and C Nagappan as its members and asked Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi to ask for their consent. Also Read - 'Name Change Virus?' Internet Explodes With Memes After Gujarat Govt Renames Dragon Fruit As 'Kamalam'
The bench, also comprising justices N V Ramana and D Y Chandrachud, said the decision of the committee will not be disputed as the proposed names of these judges have been given and consented to by the parties. Also Read - Dragon Fruit to be Renamed as 'Kamalam' by Gujarat Government. But Why?
At the outset of the hearing, Rohatgi told the bench that committee should comprise of former judges of the apex court and there should not be any bureaucrats or NGOs in it.
The apex court had earlier said that to ensure "better deal" for the project-affected families, it is willing to "twist" the arms of the executive and had asked the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) and states — Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra — to suggest names of experts who could be appointed in the committee which would deal with the issue of resettlement and rehabilitation of the oustees.
The court had made it clear to the parties, including activist Medha Patekar-led NBA, that it would not allow stalling of the project. The issue of compensation will cover 193 villages in Madhya Pradesh, 33 in Maharashtra and 19 in Gujarat. The apex court is hearing the petitions pertaining to rehabilitation of oustees of the project.
GujaratMedha Patekar-ledNBANew DelhiSupreme Court
Published Date: February 8, 2017 1:23 PM IST
Updated Date: February 8, 2017 1:34 PM IST


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eight Most Costly Canine Breeds In The World
A golden-haired Tibetan mastiff pet has reportedly been bought for a whopping $2 million in China, probably making it the world's most expensive dog. These costly dog breeds are based on our analysis of the market and could also be subject to vary. Now although one in every of these canines made historical past by being sold for $2 million in China, it still doesn't make it as generally the most costly dog breeds.
The average worth of a properly-bred Saluki can run you wherever between $1,800 to $2,000 – making it one of the costly canine breeds in the world. Affectionately often called the 'Rottie', these solidly constructed dogs originated from a breed taken to Germany by the Romans the place they had been used to protect inventory and pull meat carts attributable to their intimidating look and loud bark.
The pure Japanese breed is dearer and might attain a price of $four,500. Nevertheless, in case you're on the lookout for a puppy from a renowned breeder with papers, breeding rights and show high quality, you may expect to pay upwards of $5,000. There are various components that may contribute to how expensive a selected breed is and to be able to ensure that you're choosing the proper dog it is advisable to take value into consideration.
In 2014, a Chinese businessman bought two Tibetan Mastiffs on the Luxury Pet Truthful, one among which was believed to have Lion's blood. Again in 2011, the most costly canine was additionally a red Tibetan Mastiff, sold for $1.5 million. The Tibetan Mastiff has a long, thick, coat that may be costly to maintain.
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Neighbors?!? fireworks woke us up at midnight. We thought the kids fell out of bed. All clear.
My 3 year old is learning the alphabet. We started with A.
We cut up an apple, talked about seeds, how seeds turn into plants, and ate the apple. We also stamped painted apple onto one of the worksheets.
Reading Treats, No Tricks! for Halloween!
WW: What the baby's thinking about those back to school chalkboards….
We've been going to our local place since K was about 1.5 — so about 4 years now! Time flies!!
Last time (2 weeks ago) she read a few of the stories!


Both say they want to keep streets safe in Springfield.
More than six months ahead of the April election, two individuals — both expressing concerns about crime in the city of Springfield — have announced plans to run for City Council.
One — a retired Springfield police officer — said he hasn't started fundraising. The second — an attorney and business owner — said she's already raised more than $30,000. Candidates can't officially file to run until December.
Retired officer Andrew McPherson, 33, said in a Tuesday evening email to media that he is running because he is "passionate about ensuring fiscal responsibility and public safety" and believes "that police officers and firefighters should be a priority."
"It is imperative that the citizens know that the police force is large enough to keep the streets safe for all and that our firefighters are able to keep our homes and businesses safe," McPherson said in the release.
Reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, McPherson said he plans to run for general council seat C, which represents all of Springfield. A native of Grain Valley, he said he graduated from the University of Central Missouri in 2004 and moved to Springfield to begin working as an officer that same year.
While on the job in 2009, he was hit by a vehicle while stopped at a red light on a motorcycle and had surgery on his ankle. He later re-injured it when he slipped on ice, and during two chases in downtown Springfield. He was allowed to retire for medical reasons in July 2013 and said he is now is paid 66 2/3 percent of his average salary.
"It was a humbling experience to put pen to paper to admit I was a little weaker than I thought," he told the News-Leader.
McPherson, who is not married and has no children, said he was encouraged to run for council. He described himself as a fiscal conservative and said he voted for Mitt Romney in the last presidential election. McPherson also said he is the owner of Broken Heroes, LLC, which is primarily a cleaning service at present.
McPherson's candidacy comes as council has been discussing whether — and how — to find additional funding to hire more police officers and as the Springfield Police Officers Association protests council meetings in the midst of contract negotiations with the city. He said he believes the city needs additional officers and expressed general concerns about compensation levels.
A second candidate, attorney and business owner Kristi Fulnecky, held a campaign launch party Saturday. In remarks uploaded to YouTube by the campaign, Fulnecky said her main platform issue "is making things more efficient."
"I'm a very strong advocate for business and less regulation," Fulnecky said in the remarks. "But as I've been talking to business owners, they've been telling me, interestingly enough, we want to recruit businesses to Springfield, but we're worried about crime and some other issues that just came about when we were talking one on one in meetings."
A website for Fulnecky Law says Fulnecky specializes in government contracting and Native American law. Another website for Fulnecky Enterprises says the firm was founded in 2008 and "specializes in construction management, management consulting, technical writing, and government compliance."
According to her launch party remarks and website bios, Fulnecky grew up in Springfield and received an undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri and a law degree from Indiana University-Bloomington Maurer School of Law. She and her husband have six children. Fulnecky is an enrolled member of the Comanche Indian Tribe of Oklahoma and has been involved with a number of community organizations.
In the launch party remarks, Fulnecky said she is running for a general council seat — she didn't specify which one — and that speaking with Springfield Area Chamber of Commerce officials prompted her to set a fundraising goal of $50,000. While the July 15 filing of "Citizens for Kristi Fulnecky" with the Missouri Ethics Commission indicates that only $1,000 had been raised at that time, Fulnecky said she has raised over $30,000 in the last eight weeks.
"I don't know who I'm running against yet, but I'm hoping I raise enough money where someone will not run against me, just to be honest with you," she said, to laughter from the audience.
Fulnecky concluded her speech by emphasizing the power of social media and taking a "selfie" with supporters to post on Facebook and Twitter. She didn't respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
Five council seats will be included on the April ballot. Mayor Bob Stephens has indicated he will be running for re-election, as has Zone 3 Councilman Jerry Compton. Zone 2 Councilwoman Cindy Rushefsky has said she will not run, along with council members Doug Burlison and Mike Carroll, who hold general seats C and D, respectively.


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Q: How to highlight new items on the site since last visit with jquery? I have a couple of divs on the site. I'd like to have the new items highlighted since the last visit.
I don't want to use php and mySQL for this, because:
- i don't want to store every users last visit info in the database
- i want this to work with non registered/non logged in users too
- the main content is cached, so i can't output different content to different users.
I think this leaves me one solution: cookies + javascript:
- check if cookie exists
- if yes highlight new items (example add a class to the div)
- update cookie
So, how can I do this?
The divs are currently using the same class, and they have no id, so if needed I can put there the date of the div, or the primary ID of the item.

A: You can add a data-timestamp="[current_timestamp]" attribute to your divs. Then store the Timestamp of the last visit in a cookie and add a class like this
$('.divClass').filter(function() {
  return $(this).attr("data-timestamp") > "[last_visit_timestamp]";
}).addClass('highlight');

(see jQuery: Selecting all elements where attribute is greater than a value)
You can easily read/write cookies with:
https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie/

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More than 70 Pacific Ridge School artists performed or presented their work to the community on March 11 at Showcase of the Arts. After enjoying a community dinner and perusing a collection of impressive work by visual artists in graphic design, photography, studio art and film, attendees were treated to performances by musicians, vocalists and dancers. Students presented an array of genres and styles, ranging from contemporary dance to hip-hop and from instrumental jazz to opera. Thank you to Mr. Dziekonski, to all the performers, and to the Pacific Ridge community for supporting the school's arts programs. More pictures from the event can be found on our Facebook page here.


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Q&A: ECG Diagnosis of Medical Conditions
Last edited August 02, 2010
The overall goal of performing an ECG is to obtain information about the electrical function of the heart. Medical uses for this information, however, are varied and often need to be combined with knowledge of the structure of the heart and physical examination signs to be interpreted.
This is a Question & Answer revision article designed for medical students and professionals preparing for the PLAB, MRCP or USMLE examinations. They are based on actual questions from these examinations. You may find the ECG article more useful, or one of our many articles on Diseases & Conditions, Medical Syndromes, Health & Wellness or Home Remedies.
ECG diagnosis
MCQ exam: clinical scenario
MCQ exam: answer
MCQ exam: explanation
Numerous diagnoses and findings can be made based upon electrocardiography. Overall, the diagnoses are made based on the patterns. For example, an "irregularly irregular" QRS complex without P waves is the hallmark of atrial fibrillation; however, other findings can be present as well, such as a bundle branch block that alters the shape of the QRS complexes. ECGs can be interpreted in isolation but should be applied – like all diagnostic tests – in the context of the patient. For example, an observation of peaked T waves is not sufficient to diagnose hyperkalemia; such a diagnosis should be verified by measuring the blood potassium level. Conversely, a discovery of hyperkalemia should be followed by an ECG for manifestations such as peaked T waves, widened QRS complexes, and loss of P waves.
Most likely diagnosis:
a) Pulmonary embolism
b) Early repolarization
c) Acute pericarditis
d) Acute myocardial infarction
e) Myocarditis
This is early repolarization.
One must be able to distinguish acute pericarditis from normal early repolarization. This pattern is most common in teenage boys and men in their 20s. These individuals differ from pericarditis patients in that the clinical syndrome of pain and dyspnea is absent, PR-segment depression is present in some patients but uncommon, and, most important, the ECG does not, over time, evolve a pattern of return of the ST segment to baseline followed by T-wave inversion.
Image above shows single electrocardiographic complexes comparing (left) acute pericarditis, (center) early repolarization and (right) injury pattern of acute myocardial infarction. Note the degree of ST-segment elevation is greater in the pericarditis complex than in the early repolarization complex. Important findings of acute infarction include the presence of Q waves and a more convex upward ST segment, both of which are present in the right complex.
Also see this separate Q&A article, ECG diagnosis of cardiac conditions.
1). Mark A. Marinella. Electrocardiographic Manifestations and Differential Diagnosis of Acute Pericarditis. Am Fam Physician. 1998 Feb 15;57(4):699-704


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Duroflex appoints Rajat Rastogi as CFO
Rastogi comes with 20 years of corporate finance experience across a variety of industries, from FMCG to e-commerce. Previously, he held the role of Finance Head at Udaan.com and has also worked at Livspace, Flipkart, Coca Cola and Fosroc Chemicals.
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Rajat Rastogi, CFO, Duroflex
Duroflex, a leading sleep solutions brand, has appointed Rajat Rastogi as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Rajesh Kumar Dash as Product and Category Head.
In his new role, Rastogi will be responsible for ensuring the strong financial health of the organisation. He will oversee FP&A and Controllership functions, lead funding discussions, work with department heads to analyse financial data and develop the company's financial strategy. He will also consult with the Board of Directors and business heads of Duroflex, according to a statement.
Dash is a product and marketing expert with 20 years of experience in P&L, Product & Category Management, Portfolio Management and Life Cycle Management. He has previously worked with Youkraft, Zee TV, Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting, Pentair India and T-Net Japan.
Mohanraj J, CEO, Duroflex, said, "We are pleased to welcome Rastogi to the Duroflex family. His extensive experience across multiple industries will contribute to our growth and help us develop a strategic roadmap for our IPO. We look forward to working with him to become a prominent sleep solutions organisation with our aggressive expansion plans."
Rajat Rastogi, CFO, Duroflex, said, "I'm very excited to join Duroflex. Over the past few years, they have grown remarkably thanks to the agile leadership team and focused efforts towards becoming India's Sleep Expert. I look forward to working with the team and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to accelerate the company's strategic growth and path to profitability."
Rajesh Dash, Product and Category Head, Duroflex, said, "I am excited to join Duroflex. The organisation's culture is based on a strongly held and widely shared set of beliefs that are supported by strategy and structure. They have some of the smartest minds with strong technical expertise, a data-driven mindset, passion for products and strategic thinking. I am excited about being part of the growth journey of Duroflex to become the most admired brand in the sleep and comfort industry."
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L. Fredrick (Fred) Nolta (Nolta Consulting)
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How Tall is Joe Keery? Biography, Height, Wiki, Net Worth
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Joseph David "Joe" Keery is an American actor who gained recognition for taking part in Steve Harrington in Netflix's science-fiction horror TV collection 'Stranger Things'. The present's important and business success has additionally made him a teen sensation.
Let us know concerning the well-known Stranger Things man!
Who is Joe Keery?
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Joe Keery is an actor who is most famously identified for his function as the college bully turned redemption, Steve Harrington, in Netflix's 2016 science fiction horror "Stranger Things."
Keery is additionally identified for his involvement within the psychedelic rock band, Post Animal, and his music, which he launched below the identify 'Djo.
Early Life of Joe Keery
Joe Keery was born on 24 April 1992. Joe Keery is 30 years outdated as of 2022. His zodiac signal is Gemini.
He was born and introduced up in Newburyport, Massachusetts, United States. Thus he holds an American nationality and belongs to the white ethnic group.
He was born and introduced up in a Christian family and is a follower of Christianity himself. Joe Keery's mother and father are David Keery and Nina Keery. David Keery, his father is an architect and his mom, Nina Keery, is a professor of English.
Joe has 4 siblings. He has 4 sisters out of which 1 is older and three are youthful than him. The names of his sisters are Caroline, Lizzy, Kate, and Emma. Amongst these, Emma and Kate are twins.
Joe accomplished his preliminary education at River Valley Charter School which is a neighborhood Montessori elementary and center college and later studied at Newburyport High School.
Joe accomplished his greater training at DePaul University, which is a Theater college, and later graduated from it with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting within the yr 2014.
When he was younger he additionally carried out in an open theater on the Maudslay State Park, at a performing arts camp. He began performing in highschool when his sister insisted.
Joe Keery Career
Joe Keery began his profession as an actor within the American Hollywood business. In the yr 2015, he did a small function of Gabe within the movie ''Henry Gamble's Birthday Party''.
The similar yr he additionally starred in an episode of 'Sirens' as Scenester, 2 episodes of 'Chicago Fire' as Emmett, and an episode of 'Empire' as Tony Trichter III.
Joe was one of many guitarists of Post Animal, the Chicago-based storage and psych-rock band. Their 1st album was launched in October 2015.
In his early 20's he additionally launched music below the identify 'Cool Cool Cool'.
In 2016, he starred within the film 'The Charnel House' as Scott. From 2016 so far he starred as Steve Harrington within the well-known collection 'Stranger Things' in season 1 as a recurring function and in season 2 as the principle function.
In the yr 2017, he labored within the film ''Molly's Game' as Trust Fund Cole.
In 2018, he labored in 2 films titled 'After Everything' as Chris and 'Slice' as Jackson. In April 2018, he was the guitarist of Post Animal, he was a part of the album 'When I Think of You in a Castle'. However, he quickly left the group after that.
In 2019, he labored within the quick movie titled 'How to be Alone' as Jack. The similar yr he additionally starred in an episode of the collection 'No Activity'.
On 19 July 2019, he launched his 1st single titled 'Roddy' as a solo artist below Moniker Djo. On 9 August 2019, he launched his 2nd single titled 'Chateau (Feel Alright)' below the moniker Djo once more. On 13 September 2019, he launched his debut album 'Twenty Twenty'.
In 2020, he starred within the film 'Spree' as Kurt Kunkle. The similar yr he additionally starred within the TV particular 'Death to 2020' as Duke Goolies.
On 9 September 2020, he launched a brand new single titled 'Keep Your Head Up'. In the yr 2021, shot for the film 'Free Guy' as Keys.
For the yr 2022, he has been engaged on some initiatives however he has desired a little bit of a break from the business as effectively.
Joe Keery Personal Life
Joe Keery is in a relationship as of the yr 2022. He is not single and has been courting a lady for a very long time.
Joe Keery has been romantically linked with actress Maika Monroe since 2017, after first assembly on the set of their film After Everything. Despite having saved their romantic life personal on social media, they've made a number of public appearances collectively at award exhibits and occasions all through the years.
Also, they submit one another generally on their Instagram handles and their images might be discovered on the @joekeeryactor account of Joe.
They do appear to be a pair though nobody has formally commented something about it.
Also Read: How Tall is Mary Elizabeth Winstead?
Joe Keery Net Worth
As of 2022, Joe Keery's web price is $4 Million. In the earlier yr, his web price was estimated to be round $3.7 Million.
Joe has been within the business since 2015. Joe works in films, music movies, and plenty of extra. He is identified for taking part in the function of Steve Harrington within the well-known 'Stranger Things', the Science Fiction Horror net tv drama collection.
His performing ventures turns into his important supply of revenue and his annual revenue from performing might be estimated to be round $0.2 million roughly.
Joe primarily earns by means of his performing in varied movies, TV collection, music, and theater exhibits.
Also Read: How Tall is Joseph Gordon-Levitt?
Joe Keery is a handsome-looking actor within the American business. Joe has an exquisite smile and dashing coiffure which is extremely admired by his followers.
Joe Keery owns a well-maintained physique as effectively together with his biceps measuring 14 inches. Joe is 5 ft and 11 inches in peak or 180 centimeters or 1.80 meters and his physique weight is round 74 kg or 163 lbs.
Joe has mushy and silky mild brown coloured hair and delightful hazel eyes. He additionally has a terrific feminine fan following.
So this is all you could know concerning the Stranger Things star. Thank you for studying this text about Joe Keery.
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Beats was criticized for artificially increasing the weight of their headphones by placing metal inserts in the earcups. The practice might seem somewhat dishonest, but it's nonetheless effective. Heavier headphones really make you feel like you are getting more value for your money and give you a certain confidence in their ability to withstand daily use.
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The SRH145 feature 36mm dynamic drivers with a frequency response of 25Hz to 18kHz and a top SPL of 100dB. The sound signature is characterized by a punchy, full bass that, when paired with the right song, is guaranteed to make your feet tap in synch with each beat.
High-end products from Shure are often praised for their crystal-clear top end. Unfortunately, the company apparently couldn't achieve the same level of audio fidelity on such a tight budget. However, when compared to similarly priced headphones, the SRH145 do great.
Folded in a simple orange box with a plastic insert are the SRH145 headphones with no extra accessories. No surprise, given their price, but a soft pouch would be a welcomed addition.