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Weekly Sunday Bulletin-December 27-Sunday after the Nativity
December 23, 2015 /in Publications /by Fr. John Codis
December 27- Stephen the Archdeacon & First Martyr
Saint Stephen was a Jew, and, as some say, a disciple of Gamaliel, the teacher of the Law mentioned in Acts 5:34 and 22:3. He was the first of the seven deacons whom the Apostles established in Jerusalem to care for the poor, and to distribute alms to them. Being a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, he performed great signs and wonders. While disputing with the Jews concerning Jesus, and refuting their every contradiction, he was slandered as a blasphemer and was dragged off to the Sanhedrin of the elders. There with boldness he proved from the divine Scriptures the coming of the Just One (Jesus), of Whom they had become the betrayers and murderers, and he reproved their faithless and hardheartedness. And finally, gazing into Heaven and beholding the divine glory, he said: "Lo, I see the Heavens opened and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God." But when they heard this, they stopped up their ears, and with anger cast him out of the city and stoned him, while he was calling out and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Then, imitating the long-suffering of the Master, he bent his knees and prayed in a loud voice for them that were stoning him, and he said, "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge," And saying this, he fell asleep (Acts 6, 7), thus becoming the first among the Martyrs of the Church of Christ.
Parish Council on duty:
John Argiropoulos, John Ioannou, Jr., Tony Maiorana, Anna Merkel, Demetri Rapanos, Mark Zaden, Kathy Ziegler
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Weekly Sunday Bulletin 11th Sunday of Luke
December 13 ~ Herman the Wonderworker of Alaska & First Saint of America
Saint Herman (his name is a variant of Germanus) was born near Moscow in 1756. In his youth he became a monk, first at the Saint Sergius Hermitage near Saint Petersburg on the Gulf of Finland; while he dwelt there, the most holy Mother of God appeared to him, healing him of a grave malady. Afterwards he entered Valaam Monastery on Valiant Island in Lake Ladoga; he often withdrew into the wilderness to pray for days at a time. In 1794, answering a call for missionaries to preach the Gospel to the Aleuts, he came to the New World with the first Orthodox mission to Alaska. He settled on Spruce Island, which he called New Valaam, and here he persevered, even in the face of many grievous afflictions mostly at the hands of his own countrymen in the loving service of God and of his neighbour. Besides his many toils for the sake of the Aleuts, he subdued his flesh with great asceticism, wearing chains, sleeping little, fasting and praying much. He brought many people to Christ by the example of his life, his teaching, and his kindness and sanctity, and was granted the grace of working miracles and of prophetic insight. Since he was not a priest, Angels descended at Theophany to bless the waters in the bay; Saint Herman used this holy water to heal the sick. Because of his unwearying missionary labours, which were crowned by God with the salvation of countless souls, he is called the Enlightener of the Aleuts, and has likewise been renowned as a wonderworker since his repose in 1837.
We welcome Rev. Dr. Jim Katinas, our new parish priest, who for the first time celebrates, with us, the Divine Liturgy
John Argiropoulos, John Ioannou, Jr.,Tony Maiorana, Anna Merkel, Demetri Rapanos, Mark Zaden, Kathy Ziegler
Resurrectional Apolytikion in the Third Mode
Εὐφραινέσθω τὰ οὐράνια…
Let the Heavens rejoice; let earthly things be glad; for the Lord hath wrought might with His arm, He hath trampled upon death by death. The first-born of the dead hath He become. From the belly of Hades hath He delivered us, and hath granted great mercy to the world.
Apolytikion for 11th Sun. of Luke in the Second Mode
Ἐν πίστει τοὺς Προπάτορας ἐδικαίωσας …
By faith didst Thou justify the Forefathers, when through them Thou didst betroth Thyself aforetime to the Church from among the nations. The Saints boast in glory that from their seed there is a glorious fruit, even she that bare Thee seedlessly. By their prayers, O Christ God, save our souls.
Apolytikion of St. Demetrios in the Third Mode
Μέγαν εύρατο εv τοίς κιvδύvοις…
The world has found in you a great champion in time of peril, as you emerged the victor in routing the barbarians. For as you brought to naught the boasts of Lyaios, imparting courage to Nestor in the stadium, in like manner, holy one, great Martyr Demetrios, invoke Christ God for us, that He may grant us His great mercy.
Seasonal Kontakion in the Third Mode
Ἡ Παρθένος σήμερον…
On this day the Virgin cometh to the cave to give birth to * God the Word ineffably, * Who was before all the ages. * Dance for joy, O earth, on hearing * the gladsome tidings; * with the Angels and the shepherds now glorify Him * Who is willing to be gazed on * as a young Child Who * before the ages is God.
Epistle Reading
The reading is from St. Paul's Letter to the Colossians 3:4-11.
BRETHREN, when Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience. In these you once walked, when you lived in them. But now put them all away; anger, wrath, malice, slander, and foul talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old nature with its practices and have put on the new nature, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all, and in all.
Gospel Reading
11th Sunday of Luke
The Reading is from Luke 14:16-24
The Lord said this parable: "A man once gave a great banquet, and invited many; and at the time of the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, 'Come; for all is now ready.' But they all alike began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a field, and I go out and see it; I pray you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I must go to examine them; I pray you, have me excused.' And another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' So the servant came and reported this to his master. Then the householder in anger said to his servant, 'Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and maimed and blind and lame.' And the servant said, 'Sir, what you commanded has been done, and there is still room.' And the master said to the servant, 'Go out to the highways and hedges, and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled. For I tell you, none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet. For many are called, but few are chosen.'"
Malama Clidas (40 days) survived by children Michael, John and Mary and 6 grandchildren.
Trisagia
Savas Kalaitzidis (2 years) survived by sister Alexandra Papadimitriou, 2 sons and 3 grandchildren.
Vasiliki (5 years) and Constandinos (5 years) Marchelos survived by children Adrianne, Spiro and Louis, grandchildren Irene, Vasiliki Victoria, Marionna and Stephanie and 4 great-grandchildren.
Today's flowers on the altar have been donated in loving memory of Malama Clidas
Welcome Fr. Jim and Presvytera Cori!
Biographical Sketch of the Rev. Dr. James "Jim" Katinas
Fr. Jim Katinas comes to us from Hellenic College Holy Cross in Brookline Massachusetts where he served as the Director of Institutional Advancement for four and a half years.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas A&M University, a Master of Divinity from Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology, a Master of Arts in Psychology and Religion from Andover Newton Theological School and a Doctor of Ministry degree from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Fr. Jim also has five years of experience in the financial services industry where he worked as an Investment Advisor for AG Edwards and Fidelity Investments.
Fr. Jim was ordained in 1992 and has served Greek Orthodox parishes in Houston, Texas, Knoxville, Tennessee, Newport, New Hampshire and Kansas City, Missouri. Fr. Jim received the offikion of Protopresbyter from His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America in October 2010.
Fr. Jim and his wife Presvytera Corinna ("Cori") have three children (who are all in college) Catherine, Nicholas and Maria.
Sunday School Christmas Pageant
Today after the Divine Liturgy
Parish Council Elections
Today, the members of St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church are invited to participate in the election of five "5" Parish Council members who will serve for the 3-year term 2016, 2017, 2018. Voting will begin immediately following Church services and will end at 1:30pm. According to the Uniform Parish Regulations and by-laws, in order to participate in voting a member must be in good standing. Members in good standing are those who have paid their Stewardship Pledge, through December, for 2015. A member who is in arrears in his Stewardship Pledge may take part in the election by paying such arrears. New members may exercise the right to vote if they have been members for at least 3 months. Your participation in this election will be appreciated.
The St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church Stewardship Program is based on the ideal that Stewardship Pledges are able to cover the Budgeted Operating Costs of our Church. In that regard the Parish Council proposed a plan which accomplished that objective. The General Assembly of St. Demetrios Church on November 22, 2015 unanimously voted to approve this new Stewardship Program effective January 1st 2016. Thank you to all who unanimously voted to approve these measures. By now, all of our generous year 2015 stewards should have received a very important letter regarding the new program. We ask that you carefully review the information and promptly respond. If you have any questions, please call (954) 467-1515.
The Cancer Chapter invites you to join us in the war against cancer by participating in today's fundraising event "Cancer Fighting Sunday".
The event includes a bake sale with delicious homemade items, a Christmas Boutiques where you can purchase lovely holiday items and delicious pita & salad lunch. Please join us for any or all of these events. You can also purchase raffle tickets for a beautiful Holiday Gift basket. Your contributions will go toward funding important research in the fight against cancer at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Christmas Poinsettias
Help celebrate the Christmas season! Make a donation to adorn the sanctuary with Poinsettias. In the memo line of your check note : "poinsettias" . Thank you for your generosity!
FESTIVAL Volunteers 2016…BEST FESTIVAL EVER!!!
Thursday, February 11th through Sunday, February 14th Pick your spots now. Join any of the many talented teams that make our festival ONE OF THE BEST FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES & FUNDRAISERS OFFERED.
We have a spot for everyone: Ad Book Sales, Admissions, Appetizers/Mezedes, Pre-Festival Baking, Bakery, Baklava Ice Cream, Bar Tenders, Cashiers, Church Narthex & Candles, Decorating, Food Line Servers, Greek Coffee, Gyro, Pre-Festival Food Prep, Loukoumades, Festival Set Up & Take down, Saganaki, Taverna, Volunteer Processing and more!
Come see us in the narthex today!
Celebrate New Year's Eve at St. Demetrios
New Year's eve Parisian Style ~Thursday, December 31, 2015~ Cocktails at 8:00pm; Dinner at 8:30pm
Catered by Culinary Republic
Music by Sasha
Adults: $65.00; 12 & Under $25.00; Cash Bar
For Reservations: Contact Chris Kapakos@ 954-709-9651 or via email @ CKapakos@comcast.net or Purchase your tickets in the Community Center every Sunday after Liturgy through Dec. 27, 2015
Sponsored & Hosted by AHEPA #394~ Proceeds to benefit St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church
Save the Date ~Feast of the Epiphany ~ Pan Orthodox Celebration ~Saturday, January 9, 2016
At Saint Catherine Greek Orthodox Church, 110 Southern Blvd., West Palm Beach
Orthros 9:00am, Archieratical Divine Liturgy 10:00am, Procession, Blessing of the Waters and Diving for the Cross 12:00 Noon
Followed by a Luncheon: Lamb Shank over Rice, Salad, Rolls, Dessert, Coffee
Adults $25, Children $10 (12 years and under)
Save the date ~Daughters of Penelope Wine Tasting & food pairingSaturday, January 23, 2016 at 7:00pm. More details to follow.
A Devoted Heart
Precious friends of "A Devoted Heart" , for the month of December we will be meeting to study on Dec.20th We will be continuing our biblically based, scripturally solid study of the dual nature of Jesus Christ.
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Weekly Sunday Bulletin – Sunday before Nativity
December 18, 2014 /in Publications /by Pauline Loupasakis
Best wishes for a Very Merry Christmas and
A Happy, Healthy and Blessed New Year!!!
Καλά Χριστούγεννα κάι Έυτυχισμένο tό Νέο Έτός 2015!
George Georgakakis, Manny Daskos, Eleni Varvoutis, Michael Haralambis, Michael Fossler, Juanita Antley
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Weekly Sunday Bulletin – 10th Sunday of Luke
December 4, 2014 /in Publications /by Pauline Loupasakis
O Father, God-bearer, Spyridon, you were proven a champion and Wonder Worker of the First Ecumenical Council. You spoke to the girl in the grave and turned the serpent to gold. And, when chanting your prayers, most sacred One, angels ministered with you. Glory to Him who glorified you; glory to Him who crowned you; glory to Him who, through you, works healing for all.
December 12 – Apolytikion of Spyridon the Wonderworker in the First Tone
Parish Council on Duty
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Weekly Sunday Bulletin – Apostle Andrew
November 29, 2014 /in Publications /by Pauline Loupasakis
Let us praise the namesake of bravery, the divinely eloquent and first to be called of the Disciples of Christ, the kinsman of Peter. As he called out to him in days of old, so now he calls to us, "Come, we have found Him for whom we yearned."
Kontakion of Apostle Andrew the 1st Called in the Second Tone
John Ioannou, Jr., John Argiropoulos, Andreas Ioannou, Marion Koliniatis, Anna Merkel, Demetri Rapanos, Kathy Ziegler
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Weekly Sunday Bulletin – 9th Sunday of Luke
O friends of martyrs, now divinely raise up a renewed chorus, praising the all-wise Katherine. For, she proclaimed Christ in the arena, trampled on the serpent, and spat upon the knowledge of the orators.
Kontakion in the Second Tone
St. Katherine– November 25
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God, who gave you invincible power and with care kept your city invulnerable, royally clothed the Church in purple with the streams of your blood, for you are her strength, O Demetrios.
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O wondrous Iakovos, God the Logos, only-begotten of the Father, who dwelt among us in latter days, declared you, the first shepherd and teacher of Jerusalem, and faithful steward of the spiritual mysteries. Wherefore, we all honor you, O Apostle.
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Kia has come a long way with installations and operations running in 160 countries from the time of building cycles in 1944. Kia has been one of South Korea's prides when it comes to showing off some indigenous automobile strength. Kia's success and expansion began mainly with its emergence in various countries and the popularity of its owner friendly cars for American and European buyers. Kia's strength has remained its popularity amongst buyers of all segments in most countries. Quite a few people in Switzerland have also been one of Kia's high end vehicle buyers in a major way. So have been Australia, New Zealand and North America. Kia's vehicle manufacturing strategies have usually targeted buyers looking to save on fuel, at the same time providing excellent body service and maneuvering convenience.
South American countries have also been a major marketing target for Kia Motors. Kia's expansion in the US began in 1992 under the name of Kia Motors America (KMA) which serves as a firm under the ownership of Kia Motors Corporation (KMC). The plants began to be installed as part of the American automobile manufacturing industry, when the partnership enterprises with the American automobile company Ford had gained popularity and international fame through cars like the Mazda and other cars in the category. These cars had a major impact on the sale of cars in the South Eastern regions of Asia, Australia and Africa.
The other major impact that Kia made in the international market was the one in the US, when mustang cars were being obligatorily modified owing to economic and oil crises. The modifications had to come by in a fashion that suited buyers who would be frugal about fuel expenditure. Some of the major gas station companies in America had to close down since they had no way to sell gas without it's availability in the oil crisis days.
While mustangs had the influence of keeping the hood long on most car manufacturers I the world, Kia made sure that their fuel efficient models made selling tough for makers like Chevrolet, Ford and Chrysler. Kia had a great run with their fuel efficiency strategy in the UK, where even sports car buyers would rather prefer to own cars like Pride, Concord and Potentia. Amongst these, Kia Pride has been the more popular name after Ford brought it to the US in the late 1980's.
Dealer shops under KMA and KME come from various cities, located in all states in the US and most major cities in Europe. The Kia cars are also known to be good deals as second hand buy. The belief is that the lighter bodies cars which are built to handle long term wear and tear proves to be better deals for someone looking at a minimal expenditure on a vehicle that will last him a considerable length of time. You could easily get the high end Kia cars within $5,000 in most second-hand markets.


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Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo
Buy Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com
Category: Confident Readers
Reviewer: Jill Murphy
Summary: A lovely Black Beauty-style story about a racing greyhound's travels through life. Lots of kind and gentle messages about how to treat animals and each other. Perfect for junior animal lovers of eight and up.
Pages: 240 Date: September 2007
Publisher: Harper Collins Children's Books
When Patrick sees a wriggling bag in the canal on his way to school, something compels him to jump in and retrieve it. Inside is a litter of greyhound puppies, cruelly left to drown. He falls in love with the littlest one, a beautiful fawn puppy he calls Best Mate, and after a protracted battle with his parents, he is allowed to take Best Mate home. Patrick and Best Mate become inseparable until one day the dog is stolen by a greyhound trainer, where he begins a new life as a racing champion. This life though, is not so good. The trainer is cruel and once his dogs are past their best, once they stop winning, they disappear, never to be seen again. Suzie, the trainer's step-daughter, doesn't believe for a moment that they are being sent to a happy retirement. And when she sees their true fate with her own eyes, she resolves to save Best Mate from an inevitable and gruesome fate.
Born to Run is an updated version of Black Beauty, replacing horses with dogs. It's just as heart-rending in places, but it's just as uplifting too. Morpurgo examines the different kinds of relationship man has with beast and in doing so also examines the responsibilities that we have as human beings, both towards animals and also towards each other. The book also talks about loyalty, courage and commitment. Yet it never seems worthy or preachy.
Every year, about ten thousand greyhounds retire. On average, they're just three or four years old and rarely past five. Many don't find homes and what happens to them is shrouded in mystery. Animal rights campaigners insist they are often shot - as we see in the book, rather horribly. It's typical Morpurgo that he can write about something that's so plainly wrong - greyhound racing is an industry, and the care of its dogs should be a legally required expense - without sounding hysterical or full of rage. He has a great talent for providing a morally certain authorial tone without ever sinking to the levels of those he attacks. Children can learn a lot about truth and justice from him.
It's pitched at mid to late primary and early secondary age children and is simply, but beautifully written with an economy of style still approachable for the less confident readers yet elegant enough to appeal to the more sophisticated reader. And, as Morpurgo's books always do, it tugs at the heart strings of every reader, whatever their age.
Beorn to Run follows in the honourable tradition of great children's books about animals - from Black Beauty to Charlotte's Web to Call of the Wild. Children have always loved them and they always will.
My thanks to the kind people at Harper Collins for sending the book.
If they enjoyed this, they'll fall in live with Jack London's Call of the Wild.
You can read more book reviews or buy Born To Run by Michael Morpurgo at Amazon.co.uk
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Hi Have just read the summary and have got tempted to read the book now . Thanks .
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NEW YORK, NY—The Luxembourg American Chamber of Commerce in the United States has bestowed its 2006 Luxembourg American Business Award upon Pasadena, CA-based Avery Dennison Corp. and its president and CEO Dean Scarborough. The biannual award signifies a longstanding relationship between an American corporation and Luxembourg. The award was presented to Scarborough at a black tie dinner presided over by H.R.H. the Crown Prince Guillaume of Luxembourg and Luxembourg's Minister of Economy and Foreign Trade, Jeannot Krecké.
The Luxembourg American Business Award also acknowledges the leadership of Scarborough, who has contributed to making Avery Dennison a global leader in pressure-sensitive technology, self-adhesive base materials, and self-adhesive consumer and office products. Luxembourg has been an important contributor to that success, most recently by supporting the establishment of a Avery Dennison's newest production line in Rodange, Luxembourg.


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Can We Stave Off Radio-Frequency Super-Saturation?
October 1967 Popular Electronics
Spectrum crowding issues began almost as soon as wireless communications was started. Early spark transmitters spewed RF radiation all over the place, and (nearly) filterless receivers picked it up to convert the simple CW (continuous wave) signals into dits and dahs from Morse code messages. As more people climbed onto the radio bandwagon with ever increasing transmitter power levels and receiver sensitivity levels, differentiating between desirable and undesirable signals became a frustrating task - like trying to hold a conversation in a room full of yakking people. Filters on transmitters and receivers provided much relief. User numbers continued to grow and phone (voice) communications, which occupies a few kilohertz of bandwidth instead of only a hundred or so Hz, started straining spectrum availability again. Newer modulation techniques like single sideband freed up some space, but then the digital age came along and started sucking up spectrum yet again. During the entire time, advances in electronic components and circuit design (particularly filtering) continually expanded usable frequencies higher and higher into the GHz realm, but like gas expanding to fill the available volume, uses for and the resulting occupations of the RF spectrum never gets a break. Unquestionably the largest single contributor to easing spectrum crowding are spread spectrum digital techniques. WiFi, Bluetooth, wireless security, and cellphones would never work acceptably without it.
My lifelong hobby of flying model aircraft has benefitted immeasurably from spread spectrum techniques by having virtually eliminated frequency contention issues that all too often caused airborne planes to crash when some moron nearby switched on his transmitter without making sure nobody else was using the assigned frequency (previous radio control systems used AM and FM pulse coded modulation on discrete 72 MHz channels).
North America is Rapidly Running Out of Usable Radio Frequencies - How Did it Happen?
By Richard Humphrey
Users of two-way radio communications facilities have looked with horror upon the congestion and glut on the 23 Citizens Band channels. Many users take the viewpoint that this congestion may be a warning of things to come on all two-way radio channels. It is becoming increasingly apparent that there are a lot of people using two-way radio and just as many wanting to get on the air as soon as they can.
Radio users in North America are not the only ones concerned. Two-way radio usage in Europe and South America is increasing at an astonishing rate. All users are being made to face up to the fact that the radio frequency spectrum is fast approaching the super-saturation point.
In New York City, a realty concern was forced to give up its two-way radio communications system because, "We could never get through to each other due to the congestion." The U.S. Coast Guard says that the marine calling and distress frequency (2182 kHz) is almost useless at certain times of the year because of the congestion and interference.
Much of the two-way land mobile radio communications is now - out of sheer desperation - migrating to the more expensive (from an equipment viewpoint) UHF channels. CB'ers are making desultory moves toward a plan wherein they could acquire operating privileges in a portion of the 10-meter amateur radio band. Actually, rumors abound that the FCC may eventually give CB'ers some portion of the 6-meter band.
Law enforcement agencies, emergency services, fire departments, etc., are all pleading for more two-way radio frequencies. The major metropolitan areas (New York City, Los Angeles, etc.) must have more radio space or be strangled within the next few years by lack of radio communications. The aeronautical service is caught in a fantastic air traffic explosion, with more planes, more airline flights, more airports, etc., all demanding radio frequencies.
The Federal Communications Commission is toying with the idea of channel splitting in the VHF/FM business band, which would effectively double the number of available frequencies, but is encountering opposition. Some halving of channel space is already afoot in England, however.
"Land mobile radio in Britain," said J. R. Brinkley of Pye Telecommunications, Ltd., "is now embarking on the changeover to 12.5-kHz channel spacing."
A few years ago the FCC attempted to break the communications log jam in the 2-3 MHz marine band through the creation of several channels in the VHF/FM band. As this is being written, channel-splitting in this new VHF band is expected to take place in a few months.
Too Many Services. Many people aren't aware of the number and variety of FCC regulated radio communications services that are fighting for channel space. Each service has its own particular set of woes. How many of the following radio services did you suspect even existed?
Most of the services just listed are crowded into the VHF spectrum where they share (proportionately) a miniscule amount of frequency space in relation to the spectrum allocated for FM and TV broadcasting.
The largest property owner in the radio frequency spectrum is the broadcast industry. It has the right to 82% of all non-government radio frequency allocations below 1000 MHz. In a span of only seven years (1958-1965), the number of licenses to broadcasting stations increased 60 %.
Television broadcasting is a real frequency user. Each TV channel extends over a bandwidth of 6 MHz. Since the AM broadcasting band extends from, roughly, 550 to 1600 kHz, this means that each TV channel could contain almost six commercial AM broadcast bands!
The Frequency Grabber. Although broadcasting appears to hold a disproportionate share of radio frequencies, the greatest frequency grabber is the U.S. Government! Roughly speaking, just about 47% of the radio frequency spectrum below 40,000 MHz is allocated to the U.S. Government! And only about 34% is placed under the control of the FCC for non-government use.
Although the Government can find valid and sometimes justifiable reasons for some of its exceptional frequency allocation, the fact remains that somewhere along the line there must have been terrible mismanagement. When you tune from 2 to 50 MHz on any general-coverage communications receiver, you will find a lot of wasteland - vacant channels, misused channels and even redundant channels.
To put it bluntly, the U.S. Government is nothing but a gigantic frequency hog! Although, privately, many Government officials admit that the situation is bad, few if any Government services want to give up - even temporarily - their radio channels.
What Went Wrong? Most two-way radio communications users are unaware that more than 80% of our present facilities came into being after the close of World War II. From the 722 AM broadcast band stations on the air in 1939, and the 919 in 1945, the total now has reached an astonishing level of 4153! Commercial FM broadcasting stations grew from only 46 transmitters in 1945 to a grand total of 1744 in 1966.
Radio station authorizations in the other radio services saw the same enormous growth:
It is no small wonder, considering the number of transmitters in operation, that in 1964 the Joint Technical Advisory Committee of the IEEE told all those who would listen that all of our radio frequency space is in use and any major change would be difficult to make because of the great amount of money that has been invested.
What Is Going to Happen? A few years ago, Irving Brownstein of the FCC staff said that communications is a world "where frequency cannibalism may be a major means of survival." In other words, if a radio service doesn't make sufficient and efficient use of their radio frequency allocations, they may wake up some morning and find that their channel is gone. Or, in a nutshell - "use it or lose it! "
Right now might be a good time for all radio amateurs to take a look at their total frequency allocations. How many hams are using those 220-MHz-and-up bands? It is doubtful that the ham is in a very secure position as far as the use or lose philosophy is concerned.
Powerful commercial interests are positive that they will secure frequency relief within the foreseeable future. The influential AT&T has asked for 78 channels for a public correspondence service; so far they have received only a piddling 18. The Ford Foundation has proposed a TV satellite relay system which might help pay for educational TV; although everyone admits that the idea is worthy, it's being opposed on the grounds that there's no frequency space available. And what might happen if the CB'ers ever did get organized and presented a united front to the FCC for more frequency space?
Somewhere there is a solution to this problem of frequency strangulation. Whether it will be in the extension of the radio frequency spectrum or getting more out of what we already have is an interesting problem. A possibility - being very seriously discussed - is taking some radio services off the air. More than one "objectively-minded" engineer is aware that radio and TV broadcasting could be carried throughout this country by land coaxial cable or wire lines as well as by radio waves.
One solution, with an eye towards unifying the fight against frequency poverty, is contained in a recent Department of Commerce report by a panel of non-government experts.* This panel recommended the creation of what might be called a "Super FCC."
First, said the panel, this super-agency would find out who uses two-way radio communications and what they are used for. Then, all users would be ranked as to their importance to the national economy and how much their growth depended upon communications. This agency would judge who was doing the best job all the way down to who was doing the worst job. The Department of Commerce panel says coyly that it is "aware of the magnitude of the difficulties and complexities" facing such a group, but then adds that the agency would need a free hand.
Interestingly enough, the panel also criticized the "radio smog" generated by wireless remote controls, wireless microphones, gadgets and toys, electronic appliances, electronic industrial heaters, and various types of medical equipment.
In the early 1920's, well before these days of radio frequency congestion, glut, and smog, numerous radio experimenters claimed that they had received signals from outer space. There is always a chance that someone out there just might be listening to this mess. What will we do when "they" decide to speak to us by radio? Answer? Or, give them a citation for illegal transmissions? Somehow, this just doesn't seem to be a serious problem. With all the radio frequency congestion, it's doubtful that we'll hear them.
* ''Electromagnetic Spectrum Utilization - The Silent Crisis", Telecommunications Science Panel of the Department of Commerce Technical Board.


UNESCO has joined forces with Macmillan Science and Education to provide free online access to the content of Nature Education, providing ways for it to be used creatively by educators worldwide.
World Library of Science content primarily relates to life sciences, particularly genetics and cell biology. Of particular interest to me was the site's facility for registered users to create either their own ebook or 'classroom'. An ebook is constructed using articles and video clips, to which the creator can add comments. A classroom is similar, but a little more virtual learning environment (VLE)-like, with hyperlinks, announcements and a discussion forum. Classrooms and ebooks can be tagged as either private or public and the site will create a unique URL to share with your students. I wonder if the Royal Society of Chemistry would consider doing something similar? There is so much amazing content on Learn Chemistry, letting teachers construct their own bespoke online classroom of resources might be a tool teachers would appreciate.
The student page on this site features two ebooks. One is a comprehensive tutorial on communication skills for scientists, dealing with both written and oral communication. This contains several instructive examples, with a self-assessment activity at the end of each chapter. The advice is presented clearly; if your students are writing reports or preparing presentations at any level, then I would recommend using this ebook as part of a flipped learning approach.
The other ebook looks at scientific careers. It does more than simply list possible career options with a 'have you ever thought of ... ?' approach. Instead it encourages students to start by evaluating their own motivations, skills and interests. It then looks at what the next steps might be. As a tool for young people in education who may struggle to form an accurate view of a sector with so many career options, this has a lot to recommend it.


ISLAMABAD: As the attacks from Afghanistan to Pakistan have increased manifold since last few days and weeks the patience within the Pakistan Army senior Generals seems to be reaching at its end.
Pakistan's military has warned Donald Trump's new generals that they face a 'total mess' in Afghanistan unless the US and UK can halt the advance of IS and the Taliban.
In an interview with the Telegraph, a senior Pakistani army source said the collapse in security since the draw-down of Western troops from Afghanistan meant the West now faced 'losing control'.
If IS and the Taliban continued to gain strength, he added, it could tempt Russia to stage a Syrian-style intervention, this time on the pretext of protecting its 'backyard' in Central Asia.
The source within the Pakistani army said that in recent weeks, high-level discussions had taken place with both Resolute Support Mission commander Gen John Nicholson and James Mattis, the retired US general appointed by Mr Trump as Secretary of Defence.
Gen Nicholson himself admitted last month that Afghan forces were now in a stalemate against a resurgent Taliban. The Pakistani source said even that was an optimistic assessment.
Pakistan has criticised the Kabul government for not doing enough to seal its side of the Afghan border, from where Islamabad says militants are now launching attacks on both Pakistani and Afghan soil.
However, Islamabad admits that Kabul is limited by the capabilities of the Afghan National Army.


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Festool is a brand of high-end power tools from Germany. Festool Group GmbH & Co. KG is based in Wendlingen and is a subsidiary of the TTS Tooltechnic Systems holding company. It is known for its system-based approach to power tools and its focus on dust extraction.

The company was founded by Gottlieb Stoll and Albert Fezer in 1925 under the name Fezer & Stoll. The company manufactured the world's first portable chainsaw in 1927. The company's name was shortened to Festo in 1933. Festo founded Festo Tooltechnic in 1992, and the power tool division was spun off into an independent company, Festool, in 2000. The company remains privately owned by the family of co-founder Gottlieb Stoll.

As of October 2017, Festool operates subsidiaries in 26 countries including the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, France, the Netherlands, and Russia. In late 2017, it set up its first Asian subsidiary in South Korea. Festool products are primarily manufactured in Neidlingen (Germany), Illertissen (Germany), and Česká Lípa (Czech Republic). In July 2017, Festool opened its first North American production line at its Lebanon, Indiana, facility, where it produces mainly guide rails for its track-saw system.

Festool's system-based power tool design includes the use of modular plastic containers, called "systainers", that are produced by its sister company TANOS, and multi-function parts such as guide rails for stationary work and power tools.

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Dear friends, Happy April.
Called " one of the year's early standout albums"(—Jerome Wilson, All About Jazz), the album was listed in Dave Sumner's The Best Jazz on Bandcamp March 2021 has been receiving a steady stream of very strong press from more than a dozen publications, including The Wire (UK), Culture Jazz (France), All About Jazz (USA), JAZZIZ (USA), Textura, Pan M 360, The Wholenote (Canada) and much more. Please visit my press page for updates.
I have also thus far also enjoyed a couple of really engaging interviews, with Hilary Robertson of UK based Harmonious World podcast (recorded April 2) and Kansas based Joe Dimino of Neon Jazz (recorded February 10).
The album's available in digital format and CD format, with a 16 page booklet featuring all the poetry and liner notes by Toronto's Poet Laureate (2019-2022) A.F. Moritz.
You can purchase The One and the Other through a variety of means, including:
Or (hard copies only), by emailing larasolnicki@gmail.com
A Dolby Atmos (3D music) version is also available for audiophiles, and can be purchased through Tidal and Amazon
The release of The One and the Other marks an important milestone. This is a recording project has taken several years to manifest, and was made possible with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent On Recording (FACTOR), the Ontario Arts Council and the Toronto Arts Council.
Here's to new the spring and new beginnings!
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Dolores Hart was a rising starlet in Hollywood in the 50's and 60's with ten successful movies to her credit by the time she was 26 years old. She starred opposite the likes of Elvis Presley, Montgomery Clift, Anthony Quinn and Robert Wagner. She had everything she ever dreamed of. Then she made a surprising decision: She left all the glitz and glamour of hollywood and entered a Benedictine monastery. Her story is now a book, The Ear of the Heart, published by Ignatius Press.
This week on the final program of this year's season of the SLHour: A feature interview with Mother Dolores Hart. Also, Mark Matthews tells us what's good in Hollywood and Sarah Hart returns as featured artist of the week.
To listen to Mother Dolores' and Sarah Hart's interviews and the rest of this edition of the SLHOUR, as well as all previous programs, visit the SLRADIO webpage .
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Nigerian Breweries Plc (NB) and Cross Boundary Energy have announced the signing of Heineken's first solar project in Africa.
Cross Boundary Energy will be installing and operating a 650 kW solar plant located at NB's Ibadan Brewery, the solar energy plant will become operational in 2019.
In a statement sent to newsmen by NB Director of Corporate Affairs, Sade Morgan, she stated that Cross Boundary Energy will operate the rooftop facility on behalf of Nigerian Breweries as part of a 15-year solar services agreement.
The plant will support the local employment of at least a dozen engineering, construction and maintenance professionals during installation and the 25+ year lifetime of the system, while supporting the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission's (NERC) target of having 2,000 MW of power capacity from renewables by 2020.


Judith Rodriguez has had ten books of poetry published – the chapbook Manatee (Picaro Press) is the most recent – and has won several national prizes.
Judith wrote the libretto for the opera Lindy (2002). She has taught in university English departments on four continents, most recently at Deakin and the University of Madras. Currently she teaches at the Council of Adult Education, works for International PEN and is president of the Melbourne Shakespeare Society, which last year celebrated its 125th birthday.


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New England Oak (Manna Gum)
Hardwood Species: New England Oak
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Description of Species New England Oak
Growing straight and tall, the New England oak can reach heights of around 40 meters with recorded trunks of over 3 meters in diameter. Native to southeastern Australia, this hardy tree can survive at temperatures of up to -15 degrees Celsius, making it suitable for planting in Europe.
With a rough bark that peels away in in long, thin ribbons from its highest branches, New England oak is an important source of nutrition for koala, sugar gliders, and other local arboreal marsupials. Most often also called manna gum because of the high sugar content of its sap, this tree might not be the most durable when it comes to woodworking – only being used rarely, most often when it comes to unseasoned or seasoned house framing – but it's an exceedingly handsome timber that has been referred to as "classic" in its subtlety.
New England oak does tend to be rather soft, with just a 6 rating on the Janka hardness scale and an average dry density of 750 kg/m³. However, it's an ideal timber for both solid timber flooring and parquetry thanks to the prominent growth rings in its variable grain and its even, medium texture. Tones are decidedly blond, with hues ranging from a rosy-pink brown to a soft yellow, and it's common to have handsome streaks of light grey thanks to the natural variation present in any organic flooring product such as this easily workable oak.
Be aware though – this malleability does come at a bit of a price. New England oak isn't exactly durable, and it's also relatively susceptible to damage from insects like termites or lyctus borers. This makes this timber obviously not suitable for outside decking, even if treated, as wear-and-tear will take its toll on New England oak quicker than most other materials. Keep this timber inside and far away from the elements to best preserve its natural beauty.
Dry Density: range 750 kg/m³
Janka Hardness: 6 kN
These properties are only a guide, as timber is a natural product there will be variations within any species. The Janka Dry Hardness rating measures the hardness of the wood. The higher the number the harder the wood.
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Timber Species: New England Oak (Manna Gum). Physical Properties of Species. Dry Density: 750kg/m³ Janka Hardness: 6 kN. Growing straight and tall, the New England Oak, or Manna Gum can reach heights of around 40 meters with recorded trunks of over 3 meters in diameter. Native to southeastern Australia.
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Looking back at the past few months, I am blown away by what #TeamMSUIT has accomplished and what we have learned from our efforts.
When we first began improving digital security here at MSU, we crafted a careful path to protect our systems without causing disruptions to the MSU community. As you all know, we dramatically accelerated our plans to rapidly protect the institution at the end of last year. Unfortunately, these actions caused disruptions across our community.
MSU persevered through those growing pains, allowing MSU IT to significantly reduce many of the critical security risks facing our systems. While it wasn't easy, we understood that the longer we waited the more painful and disruptive the changes would have been for the university.
Looking back, we recognize that in several areas we could have done a better job rolling out changes. We cannot improve the past, but we can, and have, learned from our missteps to improve the future.
MSU IT continues to be thankful for the partnership of the MSU community and appreciative of the patience everyone demonstrated while we remediated threats. It may be cliché, but it's amazing what Spartans can accomplish when we all raise our shield together.
The discomfort and added workload the MSU community endured while we rolled out rapid changes has allowed us to grow as individuals and as a team. We gained valuable experience as well as the knowledge that we can count on each other and our improved systems to prevent digital threats.
We recently saw our success in action when the WannaCrypt virus spread globally. The standards and protocols we put in place protected thousands of Spartans from this ransomware attack. Our improved ability to provide accelerated patching and vulnerability detection kept, and continues to keep, many other viruses, malware, and attacks from reaching MSU systems.
Weeks before WannaCrypt was in the news, MSU IT stopped a massive distributed denial of service attack before it could impact the MSU community. It's these invisible protections, often unnoticed, that best demonstrate our successes.
We continue to build MSU's digital security strength through collaborative initiatives such as IT Governance, which has significantly helped to unify and streamline our approach to IT projects and new technology initiatives at MSU. We also are improving our communication to help ensure the MSU community stays informed. Should we be in a position to make a disruptive change again, we are better positioned now more than ever to engage our community and better limit the impact.


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By Dan Moren, Macworld | PT
Qtrax shows how to make free, legal music downloads unappealing
Far be it from me to suggest that companies should just give up competing with the iTunes Store. Competition, when done right, means more and better choices for the consumer. But honestly: if you're going to launch a product into a dominated market, you've got to have some sort of edge, right? I mean, you're not going to go open a coffee shop next to Starbucks where you sell only coffee made with Folgers crystals served in those little pointy cups they give you at water coolers and which is only open between the hours of three and five on alternate Thursdays.
Ah, but then you wouldn't be Qtrax, a company whose odd, awkward history is surpassed in bizarreness only by Joaquim Phoenix's recent "interview" with David Letterman. The company announced in January 2008 that it had struck deals to provide free downloads from all the major record labels, a move that prompted the labels to reply: "I'm sorry, who are you again?"
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Those deals apparently finally went through, as the AP reports that Qtrax is finally on the verge of rolling out its service—for real, this time! Of course, calling it a "service" is probably generous. The idea behind Qtrax is that the company will let you download free music via the Gnutella peer-to-peer network (you know, as opposed to all that other free music you find on P2P networks). Meanwhile, Qtrax will be raking in the money from all the ads that you have to view on the service's Web site.
Oh, and did we mention that all those songs are in Windows Media format? And encoded with DRM? So, yeah, don't hold your breath on Mac compatibility or iPod integration. Come on: you have to throw users some sort of bone, right? Yes, it doesn't cost you anything except your time, and there are some idiots that'll take a poke in the eye with a sharp stick if it's free, but probably not enough to keep your poke-in-the-eye-with-a-sharp-stick business afloat.
Has the recording industry just forgotten that it's already got plenty of customers who are happy to pay for music? I'm not sure what demographic is being targeted here, unless it's the coveted "just woke up from 20 years in a coma and ohmigod you can get music on a computer?" segment.
[via Ars Technica]


Who's The Best and Worst (Fictional) President Ever? – Consume. Review. Repeat.
Who's The Best and Worst (Fictional) President Ever?
We don't like to get too political here. In fact, we don't like to get political at all, but in a few days it will be time to elect the next President of the United States. So we thought it would be cool to talk about the best and worst (fictional) Presidents to grace the big and small screens.
As you'll come to read, I believe the movies and TV shows are like the magic eight-ball when it comes to predicting Presidents. Long before African Americans or women were being considered as presidential candidates in real life, they were depicted as Presidents in movies and TV shows. Long before even the slightest belief that life may be on Mars, fictional Presidents were battling alien invaders. Not only that, movie stars have crossed over from fantasy to reality to serve as elected officials. It's a crazy, crazy world we live in. Continue reading.


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Letiště Franjo Tuđmana (IATA: ZAG, ICAO: LDZA, chorvatsky Zračna luka "Franjo Tuđman") je hlavní a největší letiště v Chorvatsku. Nachází na severu města Velika Gorica, asi 10 km jihovýchodně od hlavního města Záhřebu a často bývá označováno jako Zračna luka Pleso (letiště Pleso). Je to domácí letiště chorvatských aerolinek Croatia Airlines.

Historie
První vzletová a přistávací dráha byla na letišti vybudována v roce 1909. V roce 1927 přistál nedaleko Záhřebu Charles Lindbergh. O rok později, 15. února 1928, začala na letišti fungovat civilní doprava.
Po druhé světové válce se všechen komerční provoz přestěhoval do bývalé vojenské základny v blízkosti města Lučko, jihozápadně od Záhřebu.

20. dubna 1962 se začalo letiště opět používat. Ranvej byla upravena a prodloužena na 2500 metrů, byl postaven terminál s kapacitou 1000 m².

Nový terminál s kapacitou 5000 m² byl postaven v roce 1966 a v roce 1974 byl dále rozšířen na dnešních 12000 m². Kromě toho byla také prodloužena dráha na současných 3 252 m.

Vybavení a vzhled

Letiště je nejmodernější v zemi, ovšem ve srovnání s jinými letišti na Balkáně (např. Letiště Podgorica, Letiště Tivat, Letiště Skopje atd.) má techniku poněkud zastaralou. Lety jsou situovány do jednoho terminálu. Provoz je řízen na jedné vzletové a přistávací dráze, která bývá v noci osvětlena.

Aerolinie a destinace
Irská nízkonákladová společnost Ryanair oznámila otevření nové základny a zahájení letů od června 2021. Postupně bude otevřeno celkem 17 nových tras.

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Externí odkazy

Záhřeb
Doprava v Záhřebské župě
Stavby v Záhřebské župě
Velika Gorica


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Q: Add-Computer to domain and rename even it object already exists Happy Holidays folks,
I'm working on part of a script, this part renames the server and then joins it to the domain. The problem I'm running into is, we pre-stage some objects into AD into the proper OU. When I try to rename the server and rename it to that pre-staged object and add it to the domain I get an error
Add-Computer : Computer '10.10.204.105' was successfully joined to the new domain '$Domain', but renaming
it to '$Pre-stagedName' failed with the following error message: The account already exists.

I can get it to work if I rename the server, restart it, and then add it to the domain after, I'm trying to streamline the process a bit so it happens in one section. Below is what I'm currently trying
Rename-Computer -ComputerName $IP -NewName $HostName -LocalCredential $DefaultCred
Add-Computer -ComputerName $IP -NewName $HostName -Options JoinWithNewName -DomainCredential $AdminCred -DomainName $Domain -LocalCredential $DefaultCred -Force

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Today I figured out how to calculate distances between tech reps on the NMDS plot to numerically validate my removal of poor-quality reps.  I ended up removing a few more reps (as compared to visually inspecting reps), but as a whole not much has changed. I also generated a couple plots using Plotly, which is fantastic. Plotly creates interactive plots so you can hover over points, zoom into a plot, etc.

Here is a plot of my technical replicate NMDS:

![tech rep](https://github.com/RobertsLab/Paper-DNR-Geoduck-Proteomics/blob/master/analyses/SRM/NMDS-tech-rep.png?raw=true)

If you download this file and drag into your browser you can view it in Plotly:
[tech rep plotly](https://github.com/RobertsLab/Paper-DNR-Geoduck-Proteomics/blob/master/analyses/SRM/NMDS-technical-replicate.html)
(couldn't quickly figure out how to render Plotly in my notebook; if you know how please let me know in comments!)

R script written to calculate euclidian distances between technical replicates on NMDS & plot via Plotly:

    #### Calculate distances between tech rep points on NMDS plot and plot to ID technical rep outliers
    library(reshape2)
    srm.nmds.tech.distances <- NULL
    for(i in 1:length(SRMsamples)) {
      G <- SRMsamples[i]
      D <- dist(SRM.nmds.samples.sorted[grepl(G, rownames(SRM.nmds.samples.sorted)),], method="euclidian")
      M <- melt(as.matrix(D), varnames = c("row", "col"))
      srm.nmds.tech.distances <- rbind(srm.nmds.tech.distances, M)
    }
    srm.nmds.tech.distances <- srm.nmds.tech.distances[!srm.nmds.tech.distances$value == 0,] #remove rows with value=0 (distance between same points)
    srm.nmds.tech.distances[,1:2] <- apply(srm.nmds.tech.distances[,1:2], 2, function(y) gsub('G|G0|G00', '', y)) #remove extraneous "G00" from point names
    library(ggplot2)
    library(plotly)
    p1 <- plot_ly(data=srm.nmds.tech.distances, y=~value, type="scatter", mode="text", text=~row)
    htmlwidgets::saveWidget(as_widget(p1), "NMDS-technical-replicate-distances.html")
    summary(srm.nmds.tech.distances$value)
    bad.tech.reps <- srm.nmds.tech.distances[srm.nmds.tech.distances$value>.2,] #which tech rep distances are >0.2
    View(bad.tech.reps)

Resulting "bad.tech.reps" were determined as distances >0.2 on NMDS plot/scale.  This standard is still not good enough for publication; need to investigate NMDS stats to see if there is a sd, variance, or something that I can use to validate my 0.2 selection.
[bad tech reps combinations >0.2](https://github.com/RobertsLab/Paper-DNR-Geoduck-Proteomics/blob/master/analyses/SRM/bad-tech-reps.csv)

Plot of technical rep distances using Plotly: [tech rep distances plotly](https://github.com/RobertsLab/Paper-DNR-Geoduck-Proteomics/blob/master/analyses/SRM/NMDS-technical-replicate-distances.html)


In December 1790, a proposal advocating the creation of a weekly club for merchant clerks was published in the Quebec Herald, leading to a controversy over the propriety of sociability, public debate and the proper conduct of youth. The author explores the concerns expressed by contributors to the newspaper on both sides of the issue. He concludes that the debate provides a window into the diffusion of the spirit of Enlightenment among the colony's English-speaking society on the eve of the Constitution Act.


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The 1933 Movie Night Scandal
Three ladies going to a movie with some friends wasn't something that would typically generate headlines in 1933, but an outing in November of that year caused quite a sensation. Mrs. Southard, Mrs. Boggan and Mrs. Hopper went to see Flying Devils at the Fox Theater, better known today as The Egyptian. Their friends Mr. and Mrs. George Rudd went with them.
To understand the consternation of the citizenry, we need to add some detail to the story. George Rudd was the warden of the Idaho State Penitentiary. Lyda Southard, Marguerite Boggan, and Angela Hopper were women inmates.
Southard, the most notorious of the three, had been convicted of poisoning her husband in 1922. Evidence was building that she had dispatched a string of husbands in a similar fashion. Southard had escaped from prison in 1931 and was recaptured in Denver in 1932.
Boggan had an argument with her husband in Salmon that resulted in a struggle over a gun, which the husband lost, resulting in his demise. She was later pardoned.
Hopper had some notoriety of her own in Boise, though not for murder. Angela Hopper had served as city clerk in Boise for 13 years. Just a few days before movie night she had pled guilty to embezzling more than $50,000 from local improvement districts.
If treating inmates to a night at the movies was shocking, imagine how citizens reacted when they found out Warden Rudd had taken Hopper for a joy ride to Payette the day she was incarcerated. Rudd took Southard, who had already escaped once, to visit her mother in Twin Falls, leaving her unsupervised for hours.
Letting inmates enjoy some free time was apparently common at the prison. They were sometimes allowed to hike along the Boise River, play tennis on the courts at Julia Davis, and have an occasional picnic well outside the walls.
Warden Rudd chalked these special privileges up to simple acts of kindness to the prisoners in hopes of encouraging their rehabilitation. In his defense, none of the instances of beyond-the-walls excursions resulted in an escape during his tenure as a warden.
That tenure was, however, about to end. Rudd had been a state legislator representing Fremont County before being named warden in the spring of 1933. By January of 1934 he was out of a job because of the movie night scandal.
Rudd always felt justified in his actions and many years later in an oral history blamed his loss of the job on coverage by the Idaho Statesman, pointing out that he got terrific support from the Boise Capital News. Most newspapers at that time were blatantly political. The Statesman was a Republican newspaper and the Boise Capital News was Democratic. Rudd was a Democrat.
One might think that a kerfuffle such as the inmate movie night would have killed Rudd's political career. Nope. The very next year he was putting out feelers about running for secretary of state. He decided not to but did run for lieutenant governor. Rudd lost that one and was defeated in a run for his old house seat in 1934. He was elected Chief Clerk of the Idaho House in 1935 and again in 1937. He ran for an Idaho senate seat in the 40s and won. His last political post came in 1960 when he became a probate judge. George Rudd passed away in 1970.
Lyda Southard, Marguerite Boggan, and Angela Hopper went to a movie and the warden got fired. Photos courtesy of the Idaho State Historical Society.
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American performance and drag artist Taylor Mac has been described as a 'genre-obliterator', which makes him sound rather like one of the Marvel Comic superheroes. You know – Thwack! Take that, straight drama, Kapow! There goes the traditional American musical and Biff! That's for the classical drag act.
In truth, it is a good label as Mac's work meshes not a few artistic forms. In his celebrated, and long, 24-Decade History of Popular Music, part of which is coming to the Belfast International Arts Festival this month, Taylor Mac investigates 246 songs which were hits between 1776 and 2016.
This is not show time as we know it, partly because the overall concert lasts 24 hours. The Belfast show is an extract that runs for a more modest three hours and will be expanded to contain music concerning the Easter Rising and songs of rebellion. Just don't expect the expected from Taylor Mac.
Another reason this performance bends notions of entertainment is because of the audience participation. In the New York premiere, spectactors huddled in an imaginary shanty town during the Depression, then imitated the way white families fled to the suburbs in the 1950s by squeezing to the side of the stalls. A political animal, although not into 'issue politics', Mac has said if anybody is discomfited by having to method act their way through his shows, they should 'embrace that discomfort'.
Down the line from New York, where he lives in an old Manhattan apartment block with his architect partner, the 42-year-old sounds alternately amused and serious as he discusses his first visit to Northern Ireland.
Don't believe the line about chaos onstage, though. A Taylor Mac show is a superbly choreographed and musically well rehearsed event under musical director Matt Ray, albeit one with room for quite a few ad libs. And for the Belfast show, Mac will be soaking up the city's soundtrack. 'I am looking forward to hanging out and getting some new material,' he alludes.
Mac's show remains a drag act, however, albeit a very highbrow drag act. In other words, there will be OTT frocks – 'My costume designer Machine Dazzle is bringing over a bag-load' – as well as one-liners referencing the patriarchy and heteronormative attitudes.
In the Los Angeles introduction to his Popular Music show performed earlier this year, critics highlighted the section in which Nazism was mocked by getting two blond male audience members to wear Nazi armbands while other members of the audience played horses behind carriages, and Rodgers and Hammerstein's 'The Surrey With the Fringe On Top' was transported to the German countryside. Not straightforward satire, then, but a means of unsettling our views of history.
Mac is not constrained in his work. In The Lily's Revenge (2009), a five hour play with a cast of 36, he created a kind of new legend, in which the Lily has to defeat narrow definitions and traditional views and wed the bride.
An outsider with a tough childhood, Mac's first professional theatre job involved dressing up as a poodle singing 'Runaround Sue' eight times a week in Beach Blanket Babylon in San Francisco. He admits that although this might have appealed to his zest for performance – he announced at the start of one of his own shows 'I normally come out of a cannon' – it didn't satisfy, as he always wanted to do more than theatrics.
Taylor Mac performs the Northern Ireland premiere of his 24-Decade History of Popular Music as part of the Belfast International Arts Festival on October 25 and 26 at the MAC, before a finale concert on October 29. For tickets and more information visit www.belfastinternationalartsfestival.com.


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I came to Boeing in 1974 with a master's in mechanical engineering. Over the next 27 years I obtained several graduate degrees, certifications and licenses. I enrolled in 1998 in the Executive Doctor of Management program at Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, Ohio.
It was no easy task to fly to Cleveland every third week for two days of class for almost three years. Finally, I completed my research and thesis last month and graduated with an executive doctor of management degree. For this doctorate I researched how the airlines are benefiting by using e-commerce.
Boeing's Learning Together Program supported the tuition for this educational pursuit.
I want to share my story so that others may take advantage of Boeing's $80-million-a-year Learning Together Program. All of us need to keep updating our knowledge and skills in the fast-changing technological and economic world to survive and succeed. Education is one thing nobody can take away from you once you get it.
— Sowmyan Raman, Everett, Wash.
Flag protocol
I am deeply disappointed with the cover design you have chosen for your latest issue. Is there blatant disrespect for our great country, or sheer ignorance afoot here? I'm referring to the position of the American flag in relation to other nations' flags. Are we so consumed with globalization in this company that we are openly disavowing the honor and respect we all owe our country's flag to always place it first before all others?
— Ronald Harper, Wichita, Kansas
Import of export laws lacking
I read the June 2002 cover story, "Going Global," with great interest as I am currently supporting an international production offload contract.
I am concerned, however, that Boeing Frontiers did not address the responsibility of Boeing workers to understand and comply with applicable laws regarding transfer of U.S. military technology and services to non-U.S. persons. Many of us are involved with systems and services that are restricted from export without proper authority from the U.S. Department of State and other government agencies.
Boeing can go global, but many of our products and services must take a longer and more difficult path to do so than Boeing's commercial products.
— Thomas L. Andrews, Huntington Beach, Calif.
Talent scarcity?
After having read the June 2002 issue of Boeing Frontiers' cover story, "Going Global," I was quite astonished to learn that one of the reasons that Boeing is employing nearly 400 Russian engineers in Moscow is that, "it provides access to scarce aeronautical engineering talent."
I had no idea there was a scarcity of aeronautical engineering talent. In fact, based on the number of my engineering co-workers who have been laid off by Boeing, I assumed the opposite to be true.
If this scarcity does truly exist, I look forward to my currently unemployed coworkers, who already have a great deal of both scarce "aeronautical engineering talent" and direct, valuable Boeing experience, to be returning shortly.
That is, of course, assuming that they haven't taken this scarce talent and Boeing-provided training to one of our "global" competitors.
— Kevin Corson, Everett, Wash.
I always find it a bit disturbing to see pictures like the one on page 24 of the June issue of Frontiers. Its caption read, "Torsten Ulbrich prepares the first installation of Connexion by Boeing antennas ... at the Lufthansa Technik hangar in Hamburg."
While it shows Ulbrich has his hearing protection and appears to be wearing a safety harness while working on the crown of the aircraft, he is obviously missing one of the most important safety items that Boeing requires in its factories — safety glasses.
—Tim Brogan, Renton, WA
Staying on track?
Clearly Boeing has presence in nearly every state in the U.S. and in many foreign countries. As we strive for globalization and work toward synergy, it's sometimes difficult to see how we can maintain our focus as a company.
I remember several years ago when we owned several ancillary businesses, which were a part of our aerospace focus. At that time it was deemed necessary to realign toward our core businesses and divest these holdings to become more competitive. Now we hear about exciting new technical areas such as Boeing Digital Cinema and Connexion by Boeing. These are great, forward-thinking businesses, but how do they fit in with our primary aerospace business?
— Scott Thompson, Houston, Texas
Keep tech articles coming …
I just want to tell you how much I am enjoying the new Boeing Frontiers magazine.
I've been reading [its predecessor] Boeing News from cover to cover since I retired in 1982. I enjoy the technical information most. Being retired, I have limited access to this type of information.
— Clayton I. Dissinger, Williford, AR
Milestones miscue?
Have "Milestones" for March and April 2002 been overlooked? The final issue of Boeing News, dated March 22, carried these listings [of Boeing employee service awards and retirements] from October 2001 through February.
When Boeing Frontiers debuted May 3, only May's Milestones were listed. Now, June's issue only has June's Milestones.
Other than that, Boeing Frontiers is a superb, world-class publication: great articles, good balance, and excellent pictures. Both the magazine and web site are great to look at. Keep up the good work!
— James S. Jones Jr., St. Louis, MO
Editor's note: Because of a computer glitch, some names were inadvertently omitted in the May issue's "Milestones" section. We are reconstituting this list now and hope to get caught up in future issues.
Smithsonian kudos
From all the editors at AIR&SPACE/Smithsonian magazine, a hearty congratulations on the launch of Boeing Frontiers! You and your team should be extremely proud of a first edition that offers a great variety of stories presented with crisp graphic design.
It will provide a strong connection to the Boeing family members, both active and retired, while conveying a new point of view to friends of Boeing outside the company.
— George Larson, AIR&SPACE magazine Washington, D.C.
More CII recognition
I have been involved with a Chairman's Innovation Initiative venture for quite some time. It has been a very involved process and the outcome is uncertain. Since many CII ventures exist in various developmental phases and since Boeing believes the program will be a great contributor to future growth, I'd like to suggest a column on at least one such CII venture every month.
Boeing Frontiers is an excellent venue to advertise and recognize successes and to try and generate more enthusiasm for such new ventures.
— Tim Scoville, Everett, Wash.
Editor's note: Please see the article on the Chairman's Innovation Initiative.
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