Station Master Joseph Henry Clarke died on 30th March 1911. He was succeeded by Harry I'Anson, the Station Master at Bakewell. As a means of getting to know his staff, I'Anson recorded certain details about them in a large index book. This book was subsequently maintained by his successors until 1966, although it is clear that some events went unrecorded. Nevertheless, the information that was recorded gives an insight into the working of a medium-sized railway station. It covers both wars, with the associated employment, and dismissal, of female workers, and also illustrates that unlike today the main activity was associated with goods and mineral traffic. Some staff were in situ for a long time, while others only worked for a few days. A few of these found the jobs not to their liking, while there are cases of people being taken on, and then found to be unsuitable for medical reasons. Others were dismissed, although this may not have been for disciplinary reasons.There were periods where economies were clearly being made, whilst developments in the country as a whole led to some posts becoming obsolete, none more so than when horse cartage was replaced with motor vehicles, most draymen being unsuitable to train as motor drivers.
Not all information in the book is included here - addresses in particular have been omitted. If you would like further information about specific individuals please contact Glynn Waite via the Study Centre Co-ordinator as detailed below.
Dates of birth (DOB) were rarely checked in Midland Railway days and it did not become common practice to check birth certificates until the 1920s. Consequently, the Company generally accepted what individuals told them. Sometimes they gave a different age if they considered it would help them get employment; in other cases they did not know the actual detail. The book was also written initially in an "age last birthday" format, which was common practice in those days. Calculations on this basis sometimes lead to a one year difference in the age, especially where the month of the DOB and the date entered service (DES) were around the same time of the year. The Station Masters themselves are not included in this document. Their details are recorded separately.


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	void init(void) { mineData = 0; }

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MORE: Should You Tell Your Friends When You're Trying to Lose Weight?
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Kathy Mamat is a professional jewelry designer with 25 years of experience and owner of Kathy Mamet Designs, a new studio located inside Glamour Puss in Franklin, Michigan. Kathy designs, sells and repairs one-of-a-kind Jewelry. Her unique works have been featured in Beadwork Magazine, Bead Style and Beader's Stash: Designs from America's Favorite Beadshops.
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Laurie Winston is a jewelry and accessories artist whose expertise in knitting, crocheting, mosaic and needlepoint enables her to collect and research materials and crafts from around the world. She creates unique beadworks in all mediums that may be worn or displayed. Lauri may be best known for her vintage and antique beaded purse designs and patterns. Her collection of antique frames and vintage beaded designs has been on display in many Florida art shows. She lives in Michigan and Florida, shopping for, collecting and creating wearables for sale for many fundraising shows.
Shifra Zeiler has worked with clay as a ceramic artist for more than 18 years creating decorative, functional, and Judaic hand-built and wheel-thrown pieces. Throughout the year Shifra teaches art to children and young adults with special needs. She runs a pottery workshop at Camp Simcha/Chai Lifeline.
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@MCTravisYT - I put it down to some form of laziness in the case of the developers. I've found multiple examples of this throughout Sonic 3 and Sonic & Knuckles, but as far as those sprites are concerned, it's possible they either didn't want to or couldn't work to improve them ahead of the game's release.
@Beaker McFeather It is used. Just that it only appears in the good endings.
I think the thumbs-up sprite is unused.
Can get the frames to play, what's the height and width for sonic's sprite?
Same here, I thought it was teeth. However upon closer inspection i realized it was his arms.
but it's a common animation trick for fast movement, and is a real optical illusion with, say, hummingbirds.
The 2nd frame of sonic's front falling animation.
Is it bad that the main normal Sonic 3 & Knuckles ending sprite gives me a vibe of Disney Junior's PJ Masks?
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A. Degterev et al. Identification of RIP1 kinase as a specific cellular target of necrostatins. Nature Chem. Biol. 2008, 4, 313-321.
A. Degterev et al. Chemical inhibitor of nonapoptotic cell death with therapeutic potential for ischemic brain injury. Nature Chem. Biol. 2005, 1, 112.
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HomeTechnologyRadian Aerospace raises $27.5 million for new orbital space plane
Radian Aerospace raises $27.5 million for new orbital space plane
There's a new private space plane in the works.
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Artist's illustration of Radian One flying at sunset. (Image credit: Radian Aerospace)
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The new round of seed funding was led by the venture capital fund Fine Structure Ventures. A number of other investors chipped in, including Exor, The Venture Collective, Helios Capital, SpaceFund, Gaingels, The Private Shares Fund, Explorer 1 Fund and Type One Ventures, Radian representatives said.
"On-demand space operations is a growing economy, and I believe Radian's technology can deliver on the right-sized, high-cadence operations that the market opportunity is showing," Dylan Taylor, chairman and CEO of Voyager Space and an early personal investor in Radian, said in the same statement.
"I am confident in the team working at Radian and look forward to cheering them along in this historical endeavor," added Taylor, who recently flew to suborbital space aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle.
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Andrew Jackson opened the White House to his supporters on the day he was inaugurated. The result was an extremely rowdy party which threw the White House into disorder.
President Jackson was known for opening up the White House to visitors of all classes. His inauguration party lasted for hours as throngs of people from packed streets pushed into the White House.
This painting captures the rowdy scene with its broken furniture and stifling crowd. It took a whole week to scrub and clean the White House after the party.
This artistic interpretation of Andrew Jackson's inaugural party is by Louis S. Glanzman who created the illustration in 1970. It is online via the White House Historical Association.
Bos, Carole "President Andrew Jackson's Rowdy Party" AwesomeStories.com. Jan 03, 2017. Apr 24, 2019.


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Debbie has been writing seriously for nearly twenty years. In 2013 her short story, No Longer Home, was published in charitable anthology Stories for Homes in aid of homelessness charity Shelter, and she was Highly Commended for her blog entry in Emma Darwin's Postiversary Itch of Writing competition. Debbie is currently trying to strengthen the plot of her first novel before sending it out to agents. She also has plans for a book on cats, and three specialist cookbooks.
Rosy Edwards began creative writing in 2012 when she joined an adult learning course. With no idea what to expect, she discovered she was hooked from the first lesson. Since then attending a variety of classes and workshops has expanded her horizons. She enjoys the challenge of short story and flash fiction competitions, having been shortlisted for flash fiction at BeaconLit and recently come second in a competition in the same genre run by The Writers Bureau. She also won the Chiltern Writers' own travel writing competition in 2016.
Jan considers herself to be a dabbler in writing, and lives under the illusion that she will sit down and get on with it when she finally retires. She has had articles published in Nursing Standard, The Lady and Best of British, and her short stories have appeared in The Weekly News and The People's Friend. She is also a competition 'groupie'. In 2011, she won Writing Magazine's 'First Date' competition with her story, 'Lonely Like Me', and in 2012 was runner up in their 750 word competition with 'Ciao Amanda'. Other writing activities include flicking tearfully through her rejections file while comfort eating.
Tony Halker is an Indie author who has published two novels and collaborated in creating a book about deep space photography. His novels are literary fiction, concerned with modern themes, set in a landscape of our pre-history. He wants the emotion of landscape to form and influence the characters in his novels. Having worked as a geologist and in business management, he travelled extensively before making time to write. His second novel, "Displaced" was published in 2019.
A member of the Romance Novelists Association, Lyn Evans writes under her first two names, Hywela Lyn, but is usually known just by her second name, Lyn. Originally from rural Wales she moved to England when she married. She writes mainly romantic futuristic and science fantasy, although occasionally she dabbles in western historical short stories, one of which was published in The Lady magazine. She has been shortlisted in Writers News and was featured in the Members' News section when her first novel Starquest. a Science Fiction romance, was published by the American Publisher The Wild Rose Press. It was followed byChildren Of The Mist and became a trilogy with the release of Beloved Enemy, forming the Destiny Trilogy.
She has also published an 'indie' version of her fantasy romance novella Dancing With Fate which was originally released by TWRP as part of a commissioned anthology. All her books are available either in paperback or as e-books from the publisher, Amazon and other online stores, or from her own website https://www.hywelalyn.co.uk or Blog: https://www.hywelalyn.blogspot.com and the the Destiny Trilogy is also available in audio.
Patrick spends his working hours writing rather dull technical memos, but got the fiction bug after taking a couple of short courses with the Open University and the Arvon Foundation in 2006 and 2007. Since then he has written rather terrible first drafts of half a dozen novels during National Novel Writing Month, which he takes part in every couple of years, and spends the rest of his spare time writing short stories, book and film reviews, non-fiction articles on space travel, or else procrastinating. Mostly procrastinating, if he's honest. Patrick has had four short stories published, and was delighted to receive third prize in the 2018 Chiltern Writers short story competition. His current aspiration is to write a science fiction novella during 2019.
Dave is a successful Indie author who has published seven books to date, including four in the popular Archer and Baines crime series set in the Chilterns. The latest in the series is The Blood That Binds. He has also published two hybrid 'crime fantasy' mysteries, featuring the inquisitor Lowmar Dashiel, and the collection Dark and Deep: Ten Coffee Break Crime Stories. Dave has written articles for a wide range of publications, and has also co-written two comedy plays, Recipe for Disaster and Dancing on the Forecourt, as well as the script and lyrics for Mary! A Nativity Musical. He is a founder of the BeaconLit literary festival in Ivinghoe, which has taken place annually since 2013. You can visit Dave's website at www.davesivers.co.uk.
Sandra Smith's articles and interviews have been published in Country Life, Country Living and Landscape. She is an exhibition reviewer for The Lady, writes artist profiles for Hampshire Life, a Creative Vale column for Vale Life and is a regular contributor to Buckinghamshire Life and Hertfordshire Life. Other magazines featuring her work include: Writing Magazine, Writers' Forum, Professional Security, The Chap, Sorted, Dance Review, The Four Shires, The Oldie, Worcestershire Life, Warwickshire Life, Prayer for Today and Tring and Berkhamsted Gazette. Sandra is also a Neighbourhood News columnist for The Bucks Herald. Her Wordplay column is featured in Thame Out.
Sandra runs a Regular Writing group and has held workshops at Thame Arts & Literature Festival, Chipping Norton Festival and Chalfont St Giles Literary Festival. She has been interviewed on BBC Radio Oxford and BBC Three Counties Radio, was one of the organisers and judges of the Berkhamsted Writing Competition and is one of the organiser's for 2016's BeaconLit. She tweets via @TheCurrentMrsS and @BucksLifeMags and is a past Programme Coordinator and Chair of Chiltern Writers. www.TheCurrentMrsSmith.co.uk.


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Deep in the Groove of History: The Art of Conduction: A Conduction Workbook
Butch Morris was resolutely on the outside, though from a distance, and with the advantage of time, it seems clear that he wanted to be on the inside, like all artistic innovators who see their work as the most natural, understandable thing in the world.
Savannah Music Festival
By Martin Longley
We could flit down from NYC to historically rich Savannah, Georgia, exchanging frostbite for mosquito-bite.
Journey to the South:
Makan Ashgvari's To Trucks
Behind all the news headlines, life in Iran is becoming increasingly difficult to grasp.
Butch Morris was a friend and a hard task master. When he started A Chorus of Poets, I and the late poet John Farris were asked to join. Being the rebellious, attention-deficit-type of kids we were, we quit during (not after) the first rehearsal. Learning the signals and following orders were just not in the mix for us. Here's some pieces for Butch.
Blood Memories: Matana Roberts at the Park Avenue Armory
Maybe music is the best means to tell stories.
Highly Selective Listings
May Selections
By Brad Cohan
Journey to the South: Makan Ashgvari's To Trucks


IN 1460, ONE OF MANY book-hunting monks in the employ of the great Cosimo de Medici returned to Florence from a monastery in Macedonia with a nearly complete manuscript of the Hermes Trismegistus's Corpus Hermeticum. Cosimo (who was already 70 years old, and knew he was close to death) eagerly gave it to his translator, Marsilio Ficino, hoping to be able to read it before he died. At the time, the Corpus Hermeticum appeared, Ficino had been preparing a translation of Plato, but Cosimo ordered Ficino to set the Greek aside and turn to the Corpus Hermeticum instead. Ficino's translation would in turn develop a life beyond his patron; in the next 150 years, it would go through 16 editions and spread like wildfire through the early modern world.
So far, this story may sound a bit like the opening of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, in which Stephen Greenblatt tells of another book-hunter, Poggio Bracciolini, whose lucky find of a manuscript of Lucretius' mystical epic On the Nature of Things revolutionized the Renaissance and "made the world modern." But Hermes Trismegistus, then as now, lacked the credibility of Lucretius. He was and remains a mythical figure: no historical record of an actual person named "Hermes Trismegistus" exists, nor is it clear who actually authored the various books attributed to him. Additionally, those books — consisting of several dozen texts on astronomy, magic, and philosophy from the fourth century A.D. — hold little interest for 21st century scientists or philosophers. But Hermes Trismegistus was important for another reason: he was credited by many as being the founder of alchemy.
Beyond this, not much of alchemy remains in our modern culture, and what we do know is often wrong. The comic scene in Sterne's Tristam Shandy, where the protagonist's father tries to name his son "Trismegistus" only to have the name miscommunicated and reduced to "Tristam" by a forgetful maid and an arrogant priest, offers as good a metaphor as any for the inconsistent transmission of the history of alchemy and its secrets through the ages.
The goal of Lawrence M. Principe's The Secrets of Alchemy is to begin to retrace that history. Principe, a professor at Johns Hopkins, has been writing on alchemy for years; his latest is a distillation, as it were, of years of academic scholarship into a more generally accessible book. Accordingly, it aims to offer a "reliable guide to the various secrets of alchemy" rather than a comprehensive history, which would not only "run to unreadable length but would also be premature, since scholars still have much to learn about it." And while we may know more about alchemy now than we did only a few decades ago, much of this information has been published in obscure specialist journals in various languages, with the result that the scholarship threatens to become as hermetic as its subject. In translating this work into a more accessible idiom, Principe has produced a work that is eminently readable and that sacrifices none of its critical edge or erudition (and one that features a heavy index and bibliography for those looking for more than its 200 pages has to offer).
Among the more fascinating aspects of Principe's book is his recreation of various ancient alchemical recipes. In the Leiden Papyrus, which dates from the third century A.D. and is one of the earliest known collection of writings on alchemy, there is a recipe for "the water of sulphur," which reads: "Lime, one dram: sulfur, previously ground, an equal quantity. Put them together into a vessel. Add sharp vinegar or the urine of a youth; heat from underneath until the liquid looks like blood. Filter it from the sediments, and use it pure." Dipping a piece of polished silver into this concoction will result in a patination of the sulfides on the silver's surface, resulting in a deep, reddish-golden color. Keep the silver in the mixture for long enough and it will seem, to an untrained eye, that you have turned silver into gold — though Principe notes that he found, after some trial and error, urine works far better than vinegar. (You have to admire an author who cooks with his own urine for the sake of research.) Less easy to replicate is a recipe for the Philosopher's Stone from a 12th century monk named Theophilus, which calls for "Spanish gold […] compounded from red copper, basilisk powder, human blood, and vinegar." In order to synthesize basilisk powder, which may not be readily available in some markets, Theophilus offers the following instructions: lock up two old roosters and overfeed them until they copulate and lay eggs. Give the eggs to toads, who will hatch them into chicks with serpent tails and will eventually mature into basilisks. The basilisks are kept in kettles buried underground and then incinerated, their ashes constituting the necessary powder. These two recipes — one relatively practical, one fantastic and absurd — represent the variety and difficulty of coming to grips with alchemy. Just when one might be convinced there's serious science lurking somewhere behind it all, the alchemists put forward some fanciful assertion that is either metaphor, hearsay, lunacy, or some combination of all three.
It's precisely the fact that alchemy is such an elusive target, and such a mélange of the practical and the ridiculous, the physical and the metaphysical, that makes Principe's book so engaging. The Secrets of Alchemy is one of those rare books that, in the best possible sense, asks many more questions than it can answer, with each answered question suggesting a host of other lines of thought. Just as alchemists favored the Latin slogan, Liber librum aperit ("one book opens another"), so too does Principe's book open up onto a labyrinth of other books, from the bizarrely titled alchemical treatises he discusses — On Apparatuses and Furnaces, On the Congelation and Gluing-Together of Stones, On the Consideration of the Fifth Essence of All Things, and The Book of the Secret of Secrets, to name just a few — to literary and scientific works like Dante's Divine Comedy, Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, Kepler's Harmonices Mundi, Anthanasius Kircher's The Magnet, and on and on.
The Secrets of Alchemy moves swiftly through the history of the practice, from its earliest Egyptian, Greek, and Roman origins, through to its adoption and development in the early medieval Arab world, and on to its rediscovery by Christian Europe in the High Middle Ages. Indeed, as Principe shows, this mystical science remained remarkably malleable in its ability to respond to issues of the day, and reveals its comprehensive impact on more respectable strands of philosophy and religion. This wide-ranging narrative complicates a traditional picture of history that we've become accustomed to from books like The Swerve, with its direct line between the Classical world and the Renaissance. In Greenblatt's narrative of history, the period between the fall of Ancient Rome and the rise of early modern Florence was mostly a dead zone, a time of ignorant Christians, or, worse, Muslims, about whom little was known and even less said. (Greenblatt includes only one reference to Arabic culture in The Swerve, a footnote in which he discusses how they destroyed books.) The very etymology of the word "alchemy," combining as it does the Arabic definite article "al-" to the Greek cheo, "to melt or to fuse" rejects this prejudice, and any recognition of the stubborn influence of alchemy on the past two thousand years should dispel once and for all these over-determined and overly reductive narratives.
But the long tradition of willful obfuscation, of fraud, and of constant reinterpretations and misunderstandings surrounding alchemy explains why Principe, having moved chronologically towards the Early Modern Period, suddenly breaks this sequence, leapfrogging to the 19th century. He does this in order to debunk, in advance, many of the misconceptions surrounding alchemy that emerged in the past 200 years, which disrupt our ability to see clearly how the Early Moderns actually saw their own world. For starters, alchemy's long association with con artists led to fundamental distortions about its true nature and made it the target of repeated attacks from intellectuals and theologians. In 1783 Christoph Martin Wieland, writing in the German Mercury, labeled gold-making "The ancient enemy of true wisdom"; another writer from the same journal, Johann Christian Wiegleb, denounced it as witchcraft. Meanwhile, the useful aspects of alchemy were spun off to form the basis of chemistry; any hint that they had emerged from the ancient art of chrysopoeia was gradually forgotten. Principe concludes: "This strategy proved remarkably successful at the time, and remarkably invisible by hindsight," and it suggests that the history of respectable science is itself something of an alchemical process: impurities are extracted over centuries via cynicism and ridicule, resulting in only the pure, hard, real stuff.
All of this may well be far off the mark, but if so, it's because alchemy was a victim of its own success: its long history of evasion and dissemblance worked so well that later commentators couldn't hope to understand its true intentions. These rhetorical distortions keep us from cutting through the muck of history to get at how the early moderns truly saw alchemy. Principe's own home experiments confirm that not all of alchemy was fraudulent, and his historical research proves that it was never meant to be understood as an abstract spiritual journey. In his painstaking recreation of alchemical experiments (at least those that don't involve basilisk powder), he confirms that the scientific knowledge was usually rigorous (at least on its own terms), and that the cryptic allegorical symbols employed by alchemists can, with some study, be decoded and made sense of. While he's never able to turn lead into gold himself, he concludes that "at least some cryptic texts and emblems dealing with making the Philosopher's Stone do encode real chemical processes that their authors carried out." As for the "bizarre allegories and emblems […] [they] can be rationally and methodically deciphered, meaning that their authors constructed them carefully, not only to conceal their knowledge but also to reveal it in a measured way to the most talented and thus the most worthy readers." In this way, then, alchemists may have anticipated the modernist aesthetics of writers like Pound, Eliot and Joyce, with their hermeneutic games of obfuscation and decipherment.
Principe's book ends with two divergent, though not contradictory, conclusions. First: if alchemy fell into disrepute and misunderstanding, it was likely because it was too specialized to find a foothold in the modern world. Despite its long history, the study of alchemy never found a proper place in the university; further, few first-rate writers or philosophers ever fully embraced it. Sir Thomas Browne may have claimed that the search for the Philosopher's Stone, "hath taught me a great deal of divinity, and instructed my beliefe, how that immortall spirit and incorruptible substance of my soule may lye obscure, and sleepe a while within this house of flesh," but such an admission was an exception, not the rule. For the most part the writers who did approach alchemy approached it with scorn (such as Dante, who put alchemists in the eighth circle of Hell, along with other fraudsters) or ridicule (such as Ben Jonson, whose 1610 play The Alchemist savaged the practice and those foolish enough to fall for its claims).
The lasting value of a book like this one is its reminder that we misunderstand the past because we constantly look for ourselves in it. We misunderstand alchemy because we expect it to conform to our current ideas of science, magic, and philosophy. "The significant links between alchemy and religion," Principe warns, "might sometimes seem to mark it out as something alien from 'science,' but only if the comparison is made with reference to the science of our own day." Alchemy remains a perpetual challenge to how we view the world, how we understand the divine and the natural world around us. And this is precisely why it remains important, and why any serious intellectual history — of science, of Europe or the Middle East, of the Renaissance — must take account of it. For, despite attempts by both mainstream scholars and alchemists to hermetically seal it off from the greater world, this fascinating chemical history continues to boil over, out of the shadows and into the light.


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package com.gersion.smartrecycleviewlibrary;

import android.content.Context;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;

import com.gersion.smartrecycleviewlibrary.ptr2.IRVAdapter;
import com.gersion.smartrecycleviewlibrary.ptr2.PullToRefreshLayout;

/**
 * Created by a3266 on 2017/7/9.
 */

public class SmartRecycler {
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    private int mSpanCount;
    private PullToRefreshLayout.OnRefreshListener mRefreshListener;
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ABC'The Rookie' Season 5: Release Date, Time & TV Channel
'The Rookie' Season 5: Release Date, Time & TV Channel
By Olivia Martinez
The Rookie is a comedy TV show produced by G4 Media and NBCUniversal. The television show stars Nathan Fillion, Alyssa Diaz, Richard T. Jones and Titus Makin Jr.. The Rookie first aired on ABC on October 16, 2018. So far there have been four seasons. The series currently has a 8 out of 10 IMDb rating, based on 24,651 user votes.
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Starting over isn't easy, especially for John Nolan who, after a life-altering incident, is pursuing his dream of joining the LAPD. As their oldest rookie, he's met with skepticism from those who see him as just a walking midlife crisis.
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impairment may affect a mother's ability to initiate or continue breastfeeding. Since more than 20-25% of women have been sexually abused, 25% have experienced intimate partner violence, more than 50% of adolescent mothers have experienced childhood sexual abuse, with an untold number of mothers and babies who have experienced birth trauma, it is likely that all health providers who work with moms and babies have clients that have experienced some form of abuse.
In Emotional and Physical Trauma and Its Impact on Breastfeeding Mothers, author Dianne Cassidy, IBCLC-RLC, ALC, describes the different kinds of trauma and discusses ways to work with these moms. Sometimes this means helping them breastfeed, other times this means supporting whatever feeding decision works best for them and their situation. At all times it includes listening to the mom, watching for red flags, asking questions, and building her trust.
breastfeeding. She ends the book with a chapter on "Universal Principles of Biomedical Ethics" and how these ethics apply to health providers working with abuse and traumatized mothers and babies.


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Milestones:Manufacture of Transistors, 1951
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Manufacture of Transistors, 1951
Allentown, PA Dedicated April 1989 - IEEE Lehigh Valley Section
The commercial manufacture of transistors began here in October 1951. Smaller, more efficient, and more reliable than the vacuum tubes they replaced, transistors revolutionized the electronics industry.
The plaque can be viewed at AT&T, 555 Union Blvd., Allentown, PA, U.S.A.
At the end of World War II, a decision was made by Bell Labs' management to undertake an organized investigation to develop a smaller, more powerful, faster and more reliable device to replace the vacuum tube. This set the stage for the discovery of the transistor; an invention which revolutionized our electronic age. Three Bell System scientists, Walter H. Brattain, John Bardeen, and William Shockley, are credited with this invention which had a far-reaching impact on science, technology and society. Pooling their creativity, this notable trio evolved and tested their theories and hypotheses. They recognized the need for an interdisciplinary approach and recruited chemists and metallurgists as well as theoretical and experimental physicists to work on the project. The effort concentrated on producing what came to be the essential prerequisite for success: single-crystal semiconductor specimens of high purity to which very small amounts of specific impurities could be added in controlled quantities.
Invented at AT&T Bell Laboratories 23 December 1947, the transistor replaced the vacuum tube amplifier and provided a tiny, reliable, and relatively inexpensive substitute for the relays in electromechanical telephone exchanges. The transistor ushered in the "solid-state revolution," spawned today's worldwide semiconductor electronics industry and made possible dramatic changes in communications, computing, entertainment, medicine, space exploration and a host of other fields.
On 1 October 1951 the first line for the mass production of transistors was started at the Allentown Works. Throughout the 1950s, Allentown engineers and employees in development shops invented, designed and constructed the equipment needed to manufacture transistors. Since 1951, when 6,000 transistors were made, technology has continually evolved.
In 1947, the transistor had to be assembled manually by Bell Laboratories. Manual assembly was performed in volume quantities due to the minuteness of the components, rigid spacing requirements and changes made in specifications. Allentown Western Electric Company mechanized the process when they started transistor mass production in 1951. At that time, the transistor was only a few years old and mechanization was particularly difficult due to ongoing developmental efforts. The final product was a transistor made of crystalline perfection and remarkable purity. It was characterized by a long service life and inexpensive reproducibility. Changing from manual assembly to mechanized assembly was accomplished through the inventiveness, ingenuity and teamwork of engineers from Bell Labs and Western Electric.
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The U.S. is Canada's biggest trading partner (74% of our total exports and 65% of total imports StatsCan March 2017 data); so we pay attention to our southern neighbour; bigly.
The chart above is my look at Canadian household debt and the observation that Federal Direct Investment into Canada has now been net negative for 20 years with the just published 2016 data update. That's a trend and notice it's now at an historic wide for the last two years.
Foreigners have not been willing to invest in Canada in a net positive way for the last 20 years and Canadian investors prefer to seek their fortune offshore where labour costs are cheaper and regulations less onerous. "Canada's fall to the third most attractive region in the world for investment is reflective of Alberta's continued deterioration, as investors continue to view the province as less attractive for investment." Fraser Institute March 2, 2017
Canadians have made a massive long term leveraged bet on domestic housing which is a negative yielding asset that needs cash flow to sustain it. If you have recently signed up for a 25 year mortgage, you should consider asking your employer for a 25 year employment contract; you may need it if most of our business is with the U.S. All bets are off on the future.
I covered what I think to be President Donald Trump's characteristics on November 14, 2016, namely that his tendency is psychopathic and fascist: "Trumped" November 14, 2016, but Let me add some more descriptors.
Kleptocratic from the Greek, literally means "rule by thieves" (Wikipedia).
ITEM: Trump Kleptocracy Watch: An Update. The New Yorker April 4, 2017
ITEM: Kleptocrats manage to nationalize risk while privatizing profits. Washington Post January 5. 2017
ITEM: Trump will turn America into an 'all-out kleptocracy' like Russia and Ukraine. Paul Krugman November 15, 2016
Sociopathic Narcissist: Donald Trump, Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Sociopathy, by John C. Espy Karnacology, March 01, 2017
Here is the introduction:
With all of the discussions going on about Donald Trump's 'narcissism', I thought I might offer a broader clinical perspective regarding sociopathic narcissism. Clearly there is great ongoing discussion about Donald Trump's 'narcissism', however, I believe what has been errant in the discussion is that Trump is by definition not just 'narcissistic.' Trump's narcissistic manifestations also appear to be well entrenched in sociopathy.
From a pragmatic standpoint an 'amount' of narcissism is necessary for being successful as it is for living. What is imperative to understand, is that our now president appears to have a definable mental illness that appears to manifest as a narcissistic personality disorder with sociopathy.
This primitive form of narcissism is by definition an intractable and realistically untreatable mental illness that even under the most ideal of clinical circumstances is only manageable at best. In Mr. Trump's case it is manifest in apparently shady business dealings and in politically oppressive ways. However, the etiology is not business per se or political by nature but rather psychological. What we see manifest in individuals who are primitively bound within this commingled pathological structure takes on the following dynamics:
Sociopathic narcissism is not a diagnosis that is mysterious or one that looks like magical realism. Rather, like most clinical processes it has a relatively well defined structure (within having almost a complete lack of intrapsychic structure) and is also relatively predictable, once the individual has revealed enough of how their sociopathic narcissistic dynamics manifest. First, as we have seen demonstrated repeatedly, and using Mr. Trump as an example, narcissists seek out others who will behave in an obsequious manner, not just while in their physical presence but also who will parrot their projections while out of their physical presence.
In clinical circles that possess a familiarity of sociopathic narcissistic personalities, there is a slang that refers to those who encircle a sociopathic narcissist, particularly one with power, as 'pandering whores.' The term is clearly derogatory, particularly for those who seek to achieve secondary gain from riding the coattails of a sociopathic narcissistic individual or those who also manifest the same psychological structure, but have not been able to, if you will, get the traction to achieve the 'greatness' or notoriety of the one that they cling too. In essence, they become 'great' only in the shadow of the one they bark for.
A primary source of anxiety that lives within the sociopathic narcissist is a terror of ruinous disillusionment which would ultimately terminate in a catastrophic exposure of what is in essence a fraudulent existence. As the risk of exposure intensifies, be it in a dyad or more macro group structures, their intrapsychic constellation becomes increasing more fragile and their manifest behaviour becomes more erratic.
If you want to get under the hood of the Trumpster's brain, keep reading John Espy's diagnosis, it's worth the effort.
As Timothy L. O'Brien, the executive editor of Bloomberg Gadfly and Bloomberg View succinctly put it: Two things have always driven the president: self-aggrandizement and self-preservation. Bloomberg, May 10, 2017.
Trump's need for self-aggrandizement and self-preservation is the easiest filter to use to put all Trump news through when assessing whether Canada and your income is going to be better off as a result of the news. If it is good for Trump, check your wallet.
There are other adjectives to describe President Trump.
This following interview of Trump by editors of The Economist magazine where Trump asks "Have you heard that expression ("prime the pump") used before? Because I haven't heard it. I mean, I just…I came up with it a couple of days ago and I thought it was good. It's what you have to do."... will probably elicit more additions to your own list of descriptors.
DONALD TRUMP, the President of the United States, along with Steve Mnuchin, the treasury secretary, and Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, sat down for a conversation with editors from The Economist on May 4th, 2017.
The Religious Right
Part of Putin's Playbook
If you want a glimpse of where we're headed as a country, look to Russia. For years, conservatives — especially fundamentalist Christian conservatives — have held Russia as an ideal to which they could aspire. As Vladimir Putin cracked down on the free press and the rights of his Muslim and LGBT citizens, many conservatives came to see him not as a brutal autocrat but as a paternalistic defender of traditional values. Many white supremacists likewise fawn over Putin's Russia. Neo-Nazi Richard Spencer, now famous for being punched in the face, called it the sole white power remaining in the world, and Klansman David Duke has said he believes Russia holds the "key to white survival." J. Ryne Danielson, February 2, 2017
Why Vladimir Putin does the bidding of the Orthodox Church against the evangelical Christian religions. Copying from the playbook of Joseph Stalin, Putin revived the Russian Orthodox Church to intensify patriotic support and presents himself as a defender of Christian civilization, because he saw the church had an ability to arouse the people in a way that the party could not.
Investment decisions are made because one believes there will be a reward. Globally, both corporations and households are drawing down their savings and making investments. But In Canada reward seekers are heavily conditioned.
The "Sectoral Savings as a Percentage of Global GDP" chart suggests that households since the mid 1980's have been using up their savings to maintain lifestyle and since the start of ZIRP and NIRP in March of 2009, households with renewed zeal, have been moving cash out of their dwindling low interest savings accounts paired with record low borrowing costs to chase yields at risk.
Corporations since the mid-80's have amassed savings into record levels and after the smoke cleared in 2010, they resumed investment as well.
But in Canada as my Household Debt chart with overlays of GDP, Net Trade and Federal Direct Investment plots show, Canada has not been a net positive target for offshore investment money for the last 20 years. As we know the Alberta tar sands' appeal is troubled:
Carlos Murillo (Conference Board of Canada economist), predicts Canadian (oil sector) industry costs will jump by an average of 13 per cent per year between 2017 and 2021... the peak investment level was $62 billion in 2014... " The Canadian Press March 13, 2017
And the recency bias among households is working itself into heat exhaustion according to Bloomberg (May 8, 2017):
Expectations for Canada's housing market are heating up, with more than half of respondents in a weekly telephone survey predicting home prices will rise, the first time the measure has topped 50 percent in records dating back to 2008... "Consumer sentiment on real estate has gone from hot to hotter," said Nanos Research Group Chairman Nik Nanos... The latest burst of housing momentum has led policy makers to question whether it's being led by supply and demand or by speculation.
If one is willing to leverage up and buy a negative yielding asset while the attendant stakeholders from government to loan creators are lining up to take a piece of the action, sellers will simply show up and sell it to you. That's a sure thing, just like the Canadian real estate market is speculative 101.
ITEM: "Toronto Homeowners List Detached Homes For Sale At A Record Pace - Toronto homeowners are listing detached homes for sale at a rapid pace, with new listings soaring over 61% last month." BetterDwelling.com May 10, 2017
ITEM: China Commodity Crash Accelerates As Traders "Forced To Destock" ZeroHedge May 9, 2017
As Citi warned over the weekend, "We suspect that a good number of physical traders that are financially leveraged up to five times have been forced to destock due to rising short-term borrowing costs and the recent sharp price corrections... "Citigroup isn't alone in saying that some traders may be compelled to sell holdings into a falling market as China tightens. Shanghai Cifco Futures Co. said this week signs are emerging that traders are dumping their holdings.
Imagine having to sell real estate in a falling Canadian market.
St. Germain - Sure Thing


Distilled water is a water which is free from bacteria, bacteria as well as essential minerals. Distilled water is lacking in essential minerals and therefore does not follow the required performance of drinking water. Water flushes out the impurities from inside and so does distilled water. However, distilled water simply leaves no minerals behind for the development of the body. Distilled water will work for detoxing but usually it offers absolutely no beneficial outcomes on your body.
Water is usually heated to boiling point to ensure that impurities become segregated and normal water becomes steam. Later on the same steam condenses into water. Distilled water is tasteless and contains absolutely no minerals and vitamins as normal water does. Our body needs about SEVENTY FIVE percent of water for it to work effectively. Hence, you shall constantly notice doctors saying that you must consume at least Six to eight glasses of water every day. Insufficient water can result in dehydration as well as dryness of your skin.
As distilled water is completely free of any solids as well as mineral deposits, it could easily rob your system of essential minerals. Drinking water should be able to provide you with excellent level of minerals and calcium supplements rather than take these away from your whole body. Although its great to enjoy pure drinking water, one can not eliminate the essential minerals. Unless you might want to clean your body for detoxing, it is advisable to steer clear of drinking distilled water.
Distilled drinking water is frequently provided to dogs as well as domestic pets, nevertheless they as well require the fundamental vitamins and minerals and one can allow them normal or even filtered drinking water. Being dependent on distilled drinking water additionally places one on greater danger of several diseases. People are amazed to know that distilled water can easily increase health related hazards substantially. Distilled water additionally leaches sodium, potassium, and chloride, and absence of the same in the body can result in heart related illnesses as well as high blood pressure.
Additionally it is said that distilled water whenever exposed to air, can immediately soak up carbon dioxide from the air. This can make the water acidic resulting in acidity issues. Because of excess loss in calcium one can also suffer from weak bones. Some other effects of consuming distilled drinking water tend to be early ageing, artery ailments as well as digestive system complications. This particular kind of drinking water does not have any nutritional value and it is thus not required by the body.
For several years specialists and physicians are actually explaining that build up of acids and waste materials in body leads to premature aging as well as illnesses. Incorrect eating habits and also health routines are certain to be blamed for illnesses as well as health problems, however distilled drinking water is known to give rise to these troubles. One must try and avoid this water unless advised by way of the doctors.
Consuming distilled water for very long periods leads to an acidic state of the body. It also will cause upset stomach as well as disturbs your whole body. Except for detoxifying, distilled water should not be employed. Human body does require correct amount of minerals and nutrition coming from food as well as water. Keep away from distilled water as much as possible. Consume it only when there is a genuine need. There are more harmful effects than advantages of drinking distilled water, therefore it is not advised on a daily basis.


Martin Smith is an Australian photographer who combines words and images to explore family, memory, loss and identity. He is currently a doctoral candidate at Griffith University and teaches in the photographic department at the Queensland College of Art/Griffith University. His works have been exhibited internationally at the Hong Kong Art Fair, Photo Paris, Hous Projects in New York and Photo LA.
In Australia he has exhibited at the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney and the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane. His work is held in the collections of the Queensland Art Gallery, Monash City Gallery, the Museum of Old and New Art, University of Queensland Art Museum, Artbank and private collections in Australia, Hong Kong, France and the United States.
He has been awarded the Veolia Prize, the Clayton Utz Travelling Scholarship and the Prometheus Award.
In 2008 he released a monograph titled, Martin Smith, photographs, In response to.
Martin Smith's artwork focuses on those small moments that glance into a life. Tending to gather photographs, as opposed to taking them, his works as a consequence offer wry observations rather than grand statements. The loss or absence inherent in photographic images, which are suggestive of another time and place, is echoed in the physical loss of the words cut into the surface of the works. One story is inscribed on another, just like one memory is laid upon another or one version of a story embellishes another. The resulting works are replete with the same ambiguity, melancholy and richness as memory.


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Moonrise Kingdom and the Success of the Platform Release
The most frequent question that we've seen on tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook has been, "When is Moonrise Kingdom opening in my hometown?" If you yourself have asked this question, you are part of the success story of Moonrise's platform release strategy.
First, let's turn to wikipedia for a definition of a platform release:
A platform release is a limited release strategy, whereby the film opens in only a few theaters, then gradually expands to more theaters as word of mouth spreads and the marketing campaign gains momentum. Depending on the film's success, there is even the possibility to expand into a wide release. The advantage of this strategy is that marketing costs are conserved until a film's performance has been established. This way, if a film turns out to be very popular or critically acclaimed, the distributor may opt to spend more money than originally planned and push for a wider release; if the movie flops, the distributor can withdraw from the campaign without having spent much money promoting and advertising the film.
As you may have heard, MR opened in only four theaters (two in New York and two in Los Angeles), but the film earned $167,250 per screen, which is highest per-theater box office average for a non-animated film of all time.
Join us after the jump for more thoughts regarding MR's success.
There are many reasons for this early success: a famous, well-proven cast, an accessible and relatable plot (young love), and the trailer, which guaranteed that the film was sure to have a rightful place in the Wes Anderson canon.
Focus Features has employed very clever and strategic promotion of this film, via exclusive videos, posters, social media (website, blog, Facebook), and giveaways all in hopes to build up solid word-of-mouth for the film. Excellent early reviews from Cannes (and continuing excellent reviews) have only increased the buzz. As Wes is such an venerated persona and his movies are so well loved (see: this website), the promotion spoke to his target audience: people who are young, socially connected, and already love his films.
Focus had great success with this marketing strategy with Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which also opened on just a few screens and then expanded once positive word-of-mouth had spread.
"One of the things a platform allows you to do is really get a firm sense of who's going to your movie," said David Linde, former Chairman of Universal Pictures. You have the chance to see who the movie is working to, and that helps you determine how best to expand into new theaters."
To think of this another way, aside from the trailer, how many promotional videos did you see for Fantastic Mr. Fox? Not one-tenth the volume we've seen for MR. Consider again that FMF was a children's film which generally would have significant promotional tie-ins (and had significant merchandising opportunities), the effort put into MR is even more dramatic. (Yes, there was a very clever tail-tie promotion and a few British McDonald's toys, but it's still significantly minimal compared to, say, the latest Disney venture.)
Experian, an analytics organization, notes that:
This platform release strategy is proving to be highly effective for Focus Features' Moonrise Kingdom. Indeed, the volume of clicks for the search terms "Moonrise Kingdom" and "Wes Anderson" in the Los Angeles designated marketing area (DMA) are more than 5 times larger than for the online population as a whole. Whereas relevant searches began to climb in LA in March, "Moonrise Kingdom" searches for the online population kicked off just before Memorial Day weekend and are beginning to rise.
So what have we learned? If you're reading this post, following this blog, or if you've "Liked" us on Facebook, tweeted about Moonrise , reblogged the latest stills from the film on Tumblr, you are part of the success of the campaign. Well done. If you're still waiting for the movie to be released where you live, keep your chin up and keep checking this list for theaters near you (and also know that that list is incomplete, so you may need to do a bit of sleuthing on your own.)
(To give credit where credit is due, this post was inspired by Dorothy Pomerantz's post in Forbes.)
Photo of Wes Anderson via ANTWRANGLER
CategoriesMoonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson Tagslimited release, Moonrise Kingdom, platform release
8 Replies to "Moonrise Kingdom and the Success of the Platform Release"
I don't know if you have seen this yet?
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tt/tt120613wes_anderson_moonris
gjdsalinger says:
@dave Thanks for the link! We actually included a link to that in our latest Friday News Round-Up. KCRW has a great trove of WA media. 🙂
Can I make a personal request that MRK please come to NC soon? I love Wes' films and don't think I can make it much longer. I might hyperventilate or do something rash like start wearing sweatpants in public. This is serious.
@Carol, "Why are you wearing pajamas? Do you live here?" (obligatory link) Wes would be horrified. Keep in mind that the list of theaters on the official website isn't wholly accurate– try calling around to the arty theaters (maybe in college towns?) It's worth the effort!
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Gabie says:
Really, really love Wes Anderson's work. Sad to say that I've called almost every cinema in the 6 hour proximity of my area, and at this point, all I want is someone to answer the phone and tell me they actually know what Moonrise Kingdom is. It's such a shame that it's probably not going to be released in my country. 🙁
The Kentucky Theatre in Lexington KY said they will have MRK in early July (6-20-12). Road trip?
Not to brag but…
I'm heading to see it in the historic Belcourt theatre in Nashville this week.
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Autumn Equinox was yesterday as the seasonal wheel turns towards winter — the perfect time to read books!
To learn more about tarot, study the classics. Seek tarot archetypes hidden in the pages. Could an aspect of THE MAGICIAN lurk in Oscar Wilde's A Picture of Dorian Gray? Or is it THE DEVIL?
THE TOWER seems like the card for Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. But if you read it, you will see how it's a classic of Romanticism more suited to THE LOVERS than THE TOWER.
THE HANGED MAN is one tarot card that most people have trouble understanding. The novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe explains the many levels of THE HANGED MAN.
To understand the subtle nuances of the minor arcana Water suit of CUPS, read The Diaries Of Anais Nin.
Not one for novels or diaries? Then enjoy short stories! Spend some time with collections of short stories, such as Best Short Stories by Guy de Maupassant. Each of de Maupassant's stories can relate to a tarot card. Try to match each story with a card.
The modern Italian author Italo Calvino did just that in The Castle of Crossed Destinies. He illustrated the book with two Medieval European tarot decks that create short stories.
It's obvious which tarot archetype lives in Tolstoy's short story The Three Hermits.
Stick with the classics. Find the hidden archetypes as your read. You learn about life, and learn how to better read your tarot cards.


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County freezes hiring, fears more cuts ahead
Cindy Swirko Staff writer
Alachua County has frozen hiring and commissioners are being warned about dipping into the reserve account as officials try to deal with a $5 million budget shortfall.
Up to 50 positions will remain unfilled and more work will be spread out among current employees, County Manager Randall Reid has told commissioners. He added that more cuts may be needed.
"We are $5 million down four months into the [fiscal] year. I am not trying to scare employees, but there is a potential reduction in force," Reid said. "I know your desire is not to put people out on the streets, so I need to guard positions and how we fill them."
County Management and Budget Director Suzanne Gable recently said the county has $5 million less than anticipated when it developed the 2008-09 budget that took effect in October.
The primary reasons are a drop in sales tax revenue, a drop in interest earnings and higher than expected medical costs for Alachua County jail inmates.
Officials said the situation may worsen depending on what occurs in the Florida Legislature's regular session, which begins March 3.
In a memo last week to supervisors, Reid wrote that significant justification will be needed to fill a position.
"I understand that not filling positions will impact operations, and where this occurs, it should be so stated and documented," Reid wrote. "However, as in the past, if we are forced to make deeper cuts as we prepare and finalize the 2009/2010 budget, I believe it will be less painful to eliminate vacant positions than to lay off long-term or recently hired employees."
Clerk of the Court Buddy Irby said interest earnings are down from about 5 percent to less than 1 percent. He said the county invests conservatively.
Irby added his office has had a hiring freeze for about a year and is down about 10 positions. That means all employees — himself included — have had to take on more work.
"We only invest in very secure federal Treasury notes and so forth. Our goal in the clerk's office has always been to make sure we get everything returned instead of what the return is," Irby said. "I tell our employees that the average citizen really doesn't care what your budget problems are, so we just have to make sure we do the work and whatever it takes. I'm the new evidence file clerk. I filed all of the evidence that came in in the last week or two just to make sure that it is nice and safe."
Reid said the commission needs to be careful in spending the county's reserve fund. It is not uncommon for the commission to spend money from the reserves to grant unbudgeted funding requests.
It is also not uncommon for commissioners to ask for speedy reports from county staff on various issues. Reid has asked the commission for patience, saying work in some cases will take longer as staffing levels drop.
Contact Cindy Swirko at 374-5024 or at swirkoc@gvillesun.com.