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Iran Nuclear NewsUS seeks tougher action in Iran nuclear standoff
US seeks tougher action in Iran nuclear standoff
The Guardian: Iran should face "punitive" measures after failing to respond to an international package of incentives that sought to defuse the crisis over its nuclear ambitions, the US said yesterday.
Ian Black, Middle East editor
Iran should face "punitive" measures after failing to respond to an international package of incentives that sought to defuse the crisis over its nuclear ambitions, the US said yesterday.
The warning followed Tehran's failure to give a clear answer to demands that it halt all nuclear activities in exchange for a freeze on further UN sanctions. Diplomats said the US was "livid" at the vague nature of a letter delivered to the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana.
The US had signalled its readiness to reopen a diplomatic interests section in Tehran nearly 30 years after relations between the two countries were broken off. It also sent a senior state department official to the July 19 talks in Geneva, where Iran was given a two-week deadline to respond.
But, underlining differences over the issue, Russia insisted yesterday that there was no deadline for Iran to answer or to accept a package of technological and economic incentives in return for halting uranium enrichment, which can be used for power generation and nuclear weapons.
EU officials also suggested the key was continuing dialogue with Iran – though not at any price and not indefinitely.
Senior diplomats from the US, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany held a conference call yesterday and agreed to pursue a fourth round of UN sanctions, probably in the financial sphere.
But Russia and China watered down the three UN resolutions passed since 2006 and little movement is expected before the UN general assembly convenes next month. "Informal contacts" between Solana and Saeed Jalili, Iran's nuclear negotiator, are to be allowed to continue.
"In the absence of a positive response to the generous offer that we provided for in our package, we think that the allies will have no choice but to take further measures that would be punitive," said a White House spokeswoman, Dana Perino.
"Iran has a clear choice: engagement or isolation. We regret that Iran's leaders appear to have chosen isolation," said the Foreign Office minister Kim Howells.
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Q: Private IBOutlets I just noticed that if one makes a private outlet, that works as well and then one can connect xib objects to that. I wanted to know if there is anyone else who has seen this working as well?

A: Yes.  You can make your outlets private.  You can even declare them as instance variables in your @implementation, like this:
@implementation MyViewController {
    __unsafe_unretained IBOutlet UILabel *_myLabel;
}

Interface Builder will let you connect that instance variable to an object in your nib.
I usually put my outlets in my .m file, either as properties or just as instance variables, unless I have a reason to expose them in the class's public interface.

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As part of DARPA's project to create viable full arm prosthesis, researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory have hacked the controller of the Guitar Hero video game to accept residual nerve signals from electrodes attached to amputee limbs. The new system provides a positively more exhilarating twist on testing new electrodes and signal processing algorithms.
Inspired by Wii-hab, Armiger [Robert Armiger, APL engineer] and colleague Jacob Vogelstein borrowed a colleague's copy of Guitar Hero and attacked the controller with a soldering iron. They rewired the standard guitar-shaped controller to take instructions from the VIE.
Next they substituted muscle contractions for button presses. In particular, they had to rejigger the inputs. Two-handed gamers normally play by using one hand to press colored "fret" buttons to correspond to the correct notes while using the other hand to push a "strum" button in time with the note. Onscreen, these same five colored buttons scroll down the display in time with the notes the players are supposed to hit. To correctly play a note, the player must press the right color fret button and the strum button with the opposite hand.


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Q: How to remove spaces from string and slice the string into multiple chunks of fixed length I have a string which needs to be processed:

*

*Remove all spaces

*Group the resulting string in a characters of 5

Currently I have:
new = ''
sym = " !#$%^&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}~"""
gap = []
for char in text:
    if char in sym or char in gap:
        sym += char
result = []

Anyone knows how?

A: You worded your question really confusingly, but if you want to remove all white spaces from a string, you can use replace:
name = "Foo Bar"
name = name.replace(" ","")

print(name)
# Output: "FooBar"

A: I am assuming that your string is sym and

*

*You want to remove all spaces from sym

*Make a block (list) of    words (strings) of length 5.

Python code in steps:
In [1]: sym = " !#$%^&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}~" #This is your input string

In [2]: sym = sym.replace(" ","") #remove all "" (spaces)

In [3]: sym #Lets check the output
Out[3]: "!#$%^&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}~"

In [4]: sym_list = [ sym[i:i+5] for i in range(0, len(sym), 5)] # use range to generate iteration with increment 5 each time

In [5]: sym_list #So, did we get blocks of 5 chars? hope so.
Out[5]:
['!#$%^',
 "&'()*",
 '+,-./',
 '01234',
 '56789',
 ':;<=>',
 '?@ABC',
 'DEFGH',
 'IJKLM',
 'NOPQR',
 'STUVW',
 'XYZ[\\',
 ']^_`a',
 'bcdef',
 'ghijk',
 'lmnop',
 'qrstu',
 'vwxyz',
 '{}~']

Correct me if any of my assumptions are incorrect.


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Potato Boss perfectly demonstrates the pitfalls of video conferencing
Photo: Laura Ciapponi (Getty Images)
There's never been a moment in history more well-suited to the challenge of accommodating millions of people suddenly forced to work from home. We have unthinkable technological resources at our disposal: FaceTime, Skype, Zoom, Google Hangouts, a million other proprietary video conferencing technologies! And on several of them, you can even have some fun with video filters that turn your face into virtually anything you want. Or don't want. Such as a potato. Please read on.
There are several reasons this tweet has almost a million likes. For one, the potato looks very sad. For another, this sad, un-potato-able potato boss perfectly encapsulates the frustrations that can arise when a whole economy unaccustomed to this virtual style of work is suddenly forced to learn it via crash-course when they wish they didn't have to do it at all. The work must carry on, no matter how shitty your wifi connection or irreversible your video chat filters.
BuzzFeed News caught up with the Potato Boss herself, Lizet Ocampo, political director for People for the American Way. Ocampo is actually quite accustomed to video meetings, regularly scheduling virtual happy hours for community leaders as a form of outreach. But that's exactly what precipitated the potato predicament: she had downloaded some fun filters for use at one of these virtual happy hours, and then couldn't figure out how to remove them for her Monday morning business meeting. "I just kind of gave up and stayed as a potato for the rest of the call," Ocampo told BuzzFeed. Bonus points for perseverance.
Once her coworker Rachele's tweet about the incident blew up, Ocampo took to Twitter to confirm that she was just as amused as everyone else:
Potato Boss seems to have a great sense of her priorities. After seeing how much everyone enjoyed the tweet, she shared with BuzzFeed that she wants people to find a bright spot in their days, but that "I hope folks are really taking seriously to be safe and stay planted."
Yes I drive a 240... Sort of
perfectly encapsulates the frustrations that can arise when a whole economy unaccustomed to this virtual style of work is suddenly forced to learn it via crash-course when they wish they didn't have to do it at all.
I only see one frustration, and it's the fact that someone managing other people is this this inept. In this day and age, if you don't have a basic understanding of how to use something like a chat service, that's on you refusing to learn. More than likely this person struggles with basic computer functions too. People have had decades to learn how to use computers, and video chat services like these have been around for a decade, chatrooms even longer.
To reiterate, the average person sucks at using a computer, because they refuse to learn how to use it properly.
-Works for software company doing IT work.

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On this day the local administration usually appeals to parents and teachers for help to children in order children become responsible members of the country. Javāharlāl Nehrū dreamt to see children with a sense of dignity, sure in their strength and power and future possibilities.
Various events for children, games and awards are usually held on this day. Charitable gifts are made, results of national and international competitions are declared.
"Devas Dancing Party" for children in honor of the Day took place in Volosovo Children's Art School, Leningradskaya Oblast (Leningrad Region), RF, on November, 15th . The festival was organized by the International Centre of the Roerichs (the St.Petersburg Branch), Consulate General of India in St.Petersburg and "Russian Children Fund", the Leningrad Branch of All-Russia Public Charity Fund.
Two schools took part in the festival: Volosovo Children's Art School by name of N.Roerich, Zemlyanikina N.Ya., the head teacher, and "Luga Boarding School", Shagov T.M., the head teacher (Luga, Leningradskaya Oblast (Leningrad Region), RF.
Young artists of the Volosovo Art School made an art exhibitions of painting on the theme: "Javāharlāl Nehrū. Devas Dancing Party". Mrs.R.Lokesh, the Consulate General of India, who was the chairman of the jury, examined a lot of beautiful paintings of the young artists. It was too difficult to choose the best work that were awarded gifts and prizes from the Consulate General of India and from the St.Petersburg Branch of the International Centre of the Roerichs. The first award was given to Yugrinova Olga's work "Javāharlāl Nehrū in the Kullu Valley". Olga is a student of the Volosovo Art School by the name of N.Roerich, she got the First Degree, the work was presented as a gift to the Consulate General of India in St.Petersburg, RF.
Participants and guests of the festival listened with great interest to Javāharlāl Nehrū's biography and to the history of the festival, which were given in the video lecture by E.A.Tomsha, Chairman of the St.Petersburg Branch of the ICR. The lecture was called "November, 14th - a birthday of Javāharlāl Nehrū".
There was a quiz for the school children: "Russia and India. Bridge of Friendship". The quiz was prepared by St.Petersburg Branch of the ICR. Both school teams showed good knowledge of the theme. The winners were awarded with diplomas and gifts.
The festival finished with a nice concert prepared by folk ensemble "Lada" (Volosovo Art School), singers and dancers of dance ensemble "Luzhanochka" (Luga Boarding School. The concert participants included laureates of various competitions, including the All-Russian ones, they wore beautiful colored costumes, sang folk Russian songs, and danced beautifully. All concert participants got gifts. The children were glad with the festival and a tea-party.
So the Indian tradition of celebrating of Children's Day was harmoniously realized in Russia.


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21 USC 348: Food additives Text contains those laws in effect on January 16, 2021
From Title 21-FOOD AND DRUGSCHAPTER 9-FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACTSUBCHAPTER IV-FOOD
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§348. Food additives
(a) Unsafe food additives; exception for conformity with exemption or regulation
A food additive shall, with respect to any particular use or intended use of such additives, be deemed to be unsafe for the purposes of the application of clause (2)(C) of section 342(a) of this title, unless-
(1) it and its use or intended use conform to the terms of an exemption which is in effect pursuant to subsection (j) of this section;
(2) there is in effect, and it and its use or intended use are in conformity with, a regulation issued under this section prescribing the conditions under which such additive may be safely used; or
(3) in the case of a food additive as defined in this chapter that is a food contact substance, there is-
(A) in effect, and such substance and the use of such substance are in conformity with, a regulation issued under this section prescribing the conditions under which such additive may be safely used; or
(B) a notification submitted under subsection (h) that is effective.
While such a regulation relating to a food additive, or such a notification under subsection (h)(1) relating to a food additive that is a food contact substance, is in effect, and has not been revoked pursuant to subsection (i), a food shall not, by reason of bearing or containing such a food additive in accordance with the regulation or notification, be considered adulterated under section 342(a)(1) of this title.
(b) Petition for regulation prescribing conditions of safe use; contents; description of production methods and controls; samples; notice of regulation
(1) Any person may, with respect to any intended use of a food additive, file with the Secretary a petition proposing the issuance of a regulation prescribing the conditions under which such additive may be safely used.
(2) Such petition shall, in addition to any explanatory or supporting data, contain-
(A) the name and all pertinent information concerning such food additive, including, where available, its chemical identity and composition;
(B) a statement of the conditions of the proposed use of such additive, including all directions, recommendations, and suggestions proposed for the use of such additive, and including specimens of its proposed labeling;
(C) all relevant data bearing on the physical or other technical effect such additive is intended to produce, and the quantity of such additive required to produce such effect;
(D) a description of practicable methods for determining the quantity of such additive in or on food, and any substance formed in or on food, because of its use; and
(E) full reports of investigations made with respect to the safety for use of such additive, including full information as to the methods and controls used in conducting such investigations.
(3) Upon request of the Secretary, the petitioner shall furnish (or, if the petitioner is not the manufacturer of such additive, the petitioner shall have the manufacturer of such additive furnish, without disclosure to the petitioner) a full description of the methods used in, and the facilities and controls used for, the production of such additive.
(4) Upon request of the Secretary, the petitioner shall furnish samples of the food additive involved, or articles used as components thereof, and of the food in or on which the additive is proposed to be used.
(5) Notice of the regulation proposed by the petitioner shall be published in general terms by the Secretary within thirty days after filing.
(c) Approval or denial of petition; time for issuance of order; evaluation of data; factors
(1) The Secretary shall-
(A) by order establish a regulation (whether or not in accord with that proposed by the petitioner) prescribing, with respect to one or more proposed uses of the food additive involved, the conditions under which such additive may be safely used (including, but not limited to, specifications as to the particular food or classes of food in or in which such additive may be used, the maximum quantity which may be used or permitted to remain in or on such food, the manner in which such additive may be added to or used in or on such food, and any directions or other labeling or packaging requirements for such additive deemed necessary by him to assure the safety of such use), and shall notify the petitioner of such order and the reasons for such action; or
(B) by order deny the petition, and shall notify the petitioner of such order and of the reasons for such action.
(2) The order required by paragraph (1)(A) or (B) of this subsection shall be issued within ninety days after the date of filing of the petition, except that the Secretary may (prior to such ninetieth day), by written notice to the petitioner, extend such ninety-day period to such time (not more than one hundred and eighty days after the date of filing of the petition) as the Secretary deems necessary to enable him to study and investigate the petition.
(3) No such regulation shall issue if a fair evaluation of the data before the Secretary-
(A) fails to establish that the proposed use of the food additive, under the conditions of use to be specified in the regulation, will be safe: Provided, That no additive shall be deemed to be safe if it is found to induce cancer when ingested by man or animal, or if it is found, after tests which are appropriate for the evaluation of the safety of food additives, to induce cancer in man or animal, except that this proviso shall not apply with respect to the use of a substance as an ingredient of feed for animals which are raised for food production, if the Secretary finds (i) that, under the conditions of use and feeding specified in proposed labeling and reasonably certain to be followed in practice, such additive will not adversely affect the animals for which such feed is intended, and (ii) that no residue of the additive will be found (by methods of examination prescribed or approved by the Secretary by regulations, which regulations shall not be subject to subsections (f) and (g)) in any edible portion of such animal after slaughter or in any food yielded by or derived from the living animal; or
(B) shows that the proposed use of the additive would promote deception of the consumer in violation of this chapter or would otherwise result in adulteration or in misbranding of food within the meaning of this chapter.
(4) If, in the judgment of the Secretary, based upon a fair evaluation of the data before him, a tolerance limitation is required in order to assure that the proposed use of an additive will be safe, the Secretary-
(A) shall not fix such tolerance limitation at a level higher than he finds to be reasonably required to accomplish the physical or other technical effect for which such additive is intended; and
(B) shall not establish a regulation for such proposed use if he finds upon a fair evaluation of the data before him that such data do not establish that such use would accomplish the intended physical or other technical effect.
(5) In determining, for the purposes of this section, whether a proposed use of a food additive is safe, the Secretary shall consider among other relevant factors-
(A) the probable consumption of the additive and of any substance formed in or on food because of the use of the additive;
(B) the cumulative effect of such additive in the diet of man or animals, taking into account any chemically or pharmacologically related substance or substances in such diet; and
(C) safety factors which in the opinion of experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate the safety of food additives are generally recognized as appropriate for the use of animal experimentation data.
(d) Regulation issued on Secretary's initiative
The Secretary may at any time, upon his own initiative, propose the issuance of a regulation prescribing, with respect to any particular use of a food additive, the conditions under which such additive may be safely used, and the reasons therefor. After the thirtieth day following publication of such a proposal, the Secretary may by order establish a regulation based upon the proposal.
(e) Publication and effective date of orders
Any order, including any regulation established by such order, issued under subsection (c) or (d) of this section, shall be published and shall be effective upon publication, but the Secretary may stay such effectiveness if, after issuance of such order, a hearing is sought with respect to such order pursuant to subsection (f).
(f) Objections and public hearing; basis and contents of order; statement
(1) Within thirty days after publication of an order made pursuant to subsection (c) or (d) of this section, any person adversely affected by such an order may file objections thereto with the Secretary, specifying with particularity the provisions of the order deemed objectionable, stating reasonable grounds therefor, and requesting a public hearing upon such objections. The Secretary shall, after due notice, as promptly as possible hold such public hearing for the purpose of receiving evidence relevant and material to the issues raised by such objections. As soon as practicable after completion of the hearing, the Secretary shall by order act upon such objections and make such order public.
(2) Such order shall be based upon a fair evaluation of the entire record at such hearing, and shall include a statement setting forth in detail the findings and conclusions upon which the order is based.
(3) The Secretary shall specify in the order the date on which it shall take effect, except that it shall not be made to take effect prior to the ninetieth day after its publication, unless the Secretary finds that emergency conditions exist necessitating an earlier effective date, in which event the Secretary shall specify in the order his findings as to such conditions.
(g) Judicial review
(1) In a case of actual controversy as to the validity of any order issued under subsection (f), including any order thereunder with respect to amendment or repeal of a regulation issued under this section, any person who will be adversely affected by such order may obtain judicial review by filing in the United States Court of Appeals for the circuit wherein such person resides or has his principal place of business, or in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, within sixty days after the entry of such order, a petition praying that the order be set aside in whole or in part.
(2) A copy of such petition shall be forthwith transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Secretary, or any officer designated by him for that purpose, and thereupon the Secretary shall file in the court the record of the proceedings on which he based his order, as provided in section 2112 of title 28. Upon the filing of such petition the court shall have jurisdiction, which upon the filing of the record with it shall be exclusive, to affirm or set aside the order complained of in whole or in part. Until the filing of the record the Secretary may modify or set aside his order. The findings of the Secretary with respect to questions of fact shall be sustained if based upon a fair evaluation of the entire record at such hearing.
(3) The court, on such judicial review, shall not sustain the order of the Secretary if he failed to comply with any requirement imposed on him by subsection (f)(2) of this section.
(4) If application is made to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence, the court may order such additional evidence to be taken before the Secretary and to be adduced upon the hearing in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as to the court may seem proper, if such evidence is material and there were reasonable grounds for failure to adduce such evidence in the proceedings below. The Secretary may modify his findings as to the facts and order by reason of the additional evidence so taken, and shall file with the court such modified findings and order.
(5) The judgment of the court affirming or setting aside, in whole or in part, any order under this section shall be final, subject to review by the Supreme Court of the United States upon certiorari or certification as provided in section 1254 of title 28. The commencement of proceedings under this section shall not, unless specifically ordered by the court to the contrary, operate as a stay of an order.
(h) Notification relating to food contact substance
(1) Subject to such regulations as may be promulgated under paragraph (3), a manufacturer or supplier of a food contact substance may, at least 120 days prior to the introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce of the food contact substance, notify the Secretary of the identity and intended use of the food contact substance, and of the determination of the manufacturer or supplier that the intended use of such food contact substance is safe under the standard described in subsection (c)(3)(A). The notification shall contain the information that forms the basis of the determination and all information required to be submitted by regulations promulgated by the Secretary.
(2)(A) A notification submitted under paragraph (1) shall become effective 120 days after the date of receipt by the Secretary and the food contact substance may be introduced or delivered for introduction into interstate commerce, unless the Secretary makes a determination within the 120-day period that, based on the data and information before the Secretary, such use of the food contact substance has not been shown to be safe under the standard described in subsection (c)(3)(A), and informs the manufacturer or supplier of such determination.
(B) A decision by the Secretary to object to a notification shall constitute final agency action subject to judicial review.
(C) In this paragraph, the term "food contact substance" means the substance that is the subject of a notification submitted under paragraph (1), and does not include a similar or identical substance manufactured or prepared by a person other than the manufacturer identified in the notification.
(3)(A) The process in this subsection shall be utilized for authorizing the marketing of a food contact substance except where the Secretary determines that submission and review of a petition under subsection (b) is necessary to provide adequate assurance of safety, or where the Secretary and any manufacturer or supplier agree that such manufacturer or supplier may submit a petition under subsection (b).
(B) The Secretary is authorized to promulgate regulations to identify the circumstances in which a petition shall be filed under subsection (b), and shall consider criteria such as the probable consumption of such food contact substance and potential toxicity of the food contact substance in determining the circumstances in which a petition shall be filed under subsection (b).
(4) The Secretary shall keep confidential any information provided in a notification under paragraph (1) for 120 days after receipt by the Secretary of the notification. After the expiration of such 120 days, the information shall be available to any interested party except for any matter in the notification that is a trade secret or confidential commercial information.
(5)(A)(i) Except as provided in clause (ii), the notification program established under this subsection shall not operate in any fiscal year unless-
(I) an appropriation equal to or exceeding the applicable amount under clause (iv) is made for such fiscal year for carrying out such program in such fiscal year; and
(II) the Secretary certifies that the amount appropriated for such fiscal year for the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the Food and Drug Administration (exclusive of the appropriation referred to in subclause (I)) equals or exceeds the amount appropriated for the Center for fiscal year 1997, excluding any amount appropriated for new programs.
(ii) The Secretary shall, not later than April 1, 1999, begin accepting and reviewing notifications submitted under the notification program established under this subsection if-
(I) an appropriation equal to or exceeding the applicable amount under clause (iii) is made for the last six months of fiscal year 1999 for carrying out such program during such period; and
(II) the Secretary certifies that the amount appropriated for such period for the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the Food and Drug Administration (exclusive of the appropriation referred to in subclause (I)) equals or exceeds an amount equivalent to one-half the amount appropriated for the Center for fiscal year 1997, excluding any amount appropriated for new programs.
(iii) For the last six months of fiscal year 1999, the applicable amount under this clause is $1,500,000, or the amount specified in the budget request of the President for the six-month period involved for carrying out the notification program in fiscal year 1999, whichever is less.
(iv) For fiscal year 2000 and subsequent fiscal years, the applicable amount under this clause is $3,000,000, or the amount specified in the budget request of the President for the fiscal year involved for carrying out the notification program under this subsection, whichever is less.
(B) For purposes of carrying out the notification program under this subsection, there are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1999 through fiscal year 2003, except that such authorization of appropriations is not effective for a fiscal year for any amount that is less than the applicable amount under clause (iii) or (iv) of subparagraph (A), whichever is applicable.
(C) Not later than April 1 of fiscal year 1998 and February 1 of each subsequent fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit a report to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Committee on Commerce of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate that provides an estimate of the Secretary of the costs of carrying out the notification program established under this subsection for the next fiscal year.
(6) In this section, the term "food contact substance" means any substance intended for use as a component of materials used in manufacturing, packing, packaging, transporting, or holding food if such use is not intended to have any technical effect in such food.
(i) Amendment or repeal of regulations
The Secretary shall by regulation prescribe the procedure by which regulations under the foregoing provisions of this section may be amended or repealed, and such procedure shall conform to the procedure provided in this section for the promulgation of such regulations. The Secretary shall by regulation prescribe the procedure by which the Secretary may deem a notification under subsection (h) to no longer be effective.
(j) Exemptions for investigational use
Without regard to subsections (b) to (i), inclusive, of this section, the Secretary shall by regulation provide for exempting from the requirements of this section any food additive, and any food bearing or containing such additive, intended solely for investigational use by qualified experts when in his opinion such exemption is consistent with the public health.
(k) Food additives intended for use in animal food
(1) In taking action on a petition under subsection (c) for, or for recognition of, a food additive intended for use in animal food, the Secretary shall review reports of investigations conducted in foreign countries, provided by the petitioner.
(2) Not later than 12 months after August 14, 2018, the Secretary shall post on the internet website of the Food and Drug Administration-
(A) the number of petitions for food additives intended for use in animal food filed under subsection (b) that are pending;
(B) how long each such petition submitted under subsection (b) has been pending, including such petitions the Secretary has extended under subsection (c)(2); and
(C) the number of study protocols that have been pending review for over 50 days, and the number that have received an extension.
(3) In the case of a food additive petition intended for use in animal food, the Secretary shall provide information to the petitioner on the required contents of such petition. If the Secretary requires additional studies beyond what the petitioner proposed, the Secretary shall provide the scientific rationale for such requirement.
(June 25, 1938, ch. 675, §409, as added Pub. L. 85–929, §4, Sept. 6, 1958, 72 Stat. 1785 ; amended Pub. L. 86–546, §2, June 29, 1960, 74 Stat. 255 ; Pub. L. 87–781, title I, §104(f)(1), Oct. 10, 1962, 76 Stat. 785 ; Pub. L. 98–620, title IV, §402(25)(B), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3359 ; Pub. L. 105–115, title III, §309, Nov. 21, 1997, 111 Stat. 2354 ; Pub. L. 115–234, title III, §306(a), Aug. 14, 2018, 132 Stat. 2440 .)
2018-Subsec. (k). Pub. L. 115–234 added subsec. (k).
1997-Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–115, §309(a)(4), in closing provisions, substituted "While such a regulation relating to a food additive, or such a notification under subsection (h)(1) relating to a food additive that is a food contact substance, is in effect, and has not been revoked pursuant to subsection (i), a food shall not, by reason of bearing or containing such a food additive in accordance with the regulation or notification, be considered adulterated under section 342(a)(1) of this title." for "While such a regulation relating to a food additive is in effect, a food shall not, by reason of bearing or containing such an additive in accordance with the regulation, be considered adulterated within the meaning of clause (1) of section 342(a) of this title."
Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 105–115, §309(a)(1), substituted "subsection (j)" for "subsection (i)".
Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 105–115, §309(a)(1)(B), (2), (3), added par. (3).
Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 105–115, §309(b)(2), added subsec. (h). Former subsec. (h) redesignated (i).
Subsec. (i). Pub. L. 105–115, §309(b)(1), (3), redesignated subsec. (h) as (i) and inserted at end "The Secretary shall by regulation prescribe the procedure by which the Secretary may deem a notification under subsection (h) to no longer be effective."
Subsec. (j). Pub. L. 105–115, §309(b)(1), (4), redesignated subsec. (i) as (j) and substituted "subsections (b) to (i)" for "subsections (b) to (h)".
1984-Subsec. (g)(2). Pub. L. 98–620 struck out provision that required the court to advance on the docket and expedite the disposition of all causes filed therein pursuant to this section.
1962-Subsec. (c)(3)(A). Pub. L. 87–781 excepted proviso from applying to use of a substance as an ingredient of feed for animals raised for food production, if under conditions of use specified in proposed labeling, and which conditions are reasonably certain to be followed in practice, such additive will not adversely affect the animals and no residue will be found in any edible portion of such animal after slaughter, or in any food from the living animal.
1960-Subsec. (g)(2). Pub. L. 86–546 substituted "forthwith transmitted by the clerk of the court to the Secretary, or any officer" for "served upon the Secretary, or upon any officer", "shall file in the court the record of the proceedings on which he based his order, as provided in section 2112 of title 28" for "shall certify and file in the court a transcript of the proceedings and the record on which he based his order", and "Upon the filing of such petition the court shall have jurisdiction, which upon the filing of the record with it shall be exclusive," for "Upon such filing, the court shall have exclusive jurisdiction", and inserted sentence authorizing the Secretary to modify or set aside his order until the filing of the record.
Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives, and jurisdiction over matters relating to securities and exchanges and insurance generally transferred to Committee on Financial Services of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Jan. 3, 2001.
Committee on Labor and Human Resources of Senate changed to Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of Senate by Senate Resolution No. 20, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 19, 1999.
Amendment by Pub. L. 105–115 effective 90 days after Nov. 21, 1997, except as otherwise provided, see section 501 of Pub. L. 105–115, set out as a note under section 321 of this title.
Amendment by Pub. L. 98–620 not applicable to cases pending on Nov. 8, 1984, see section 403 of Pub. L. 98–620, set out as an Effective Date note under section 1657 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure.
Effective Date of 1962 Amendment; Exceptions
Amendment by Pub. L. 87–781 effective Oct. 10, 1962, see section 107 of Pub. L. 87–781, set out as an Effective Date of 1962 Amendment note under section 321 of this title.
Section effective Sept. 6, 1958, see section 6(a) of Pub. L. 85–929, set out as an Effective Date of 1958 Amendment note under section 342 of this title.
Guidance on Pre-Petition Consultation Process for Animal Food Additives
Pub. L. 115–234, title III, §306(c), Aug. 14, 2018, 132 Stat. 2441 , provided that:
"(1) In general.-Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act [Aug. 14, 2018], the Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred to in this subsection as the 'Secretary') shall publish draft guidance relating to the voluntary pre-petition consultation process for food additives intended for use in animal food.
"(2) Contents.-The guidance under paragraph (1) shall include-
"(A) the recommended format to submit to the Food and Drug Administration existing data, including any applicable foreign data, for assessment prior to submission of a food additive petition for animal food under section 409(b) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act [21 U.S.C. 348(b)];
"(B) the manner and the number of days by which the Food and Drug Administration intends to review and respond to such existing data, including with respect to providing a scientific rationale for any additional data request;
"(C) circumstances under which the submission of study protocols is recommended prior to submission of a food additive petition under such section 409(b);
"(D) the manner in which the Secretary intends to inform the person submitting a study protocol for a food additive if the review of such study protocol will take longer than 50 days; and
"(E) best practices for communication between the Food and Drug Administration and industry on the development of pre-petition submissions of study protocols and existing data for food additives.
"(3) Final guidance.-The guidance under paragraph (1) shall be finalized, withdrawn, or reissued not later than 1 year after the close of the comment period on the draft guidance."
Glass and Ceramic Ware
Pub. L. 105–115, title III, §308, Nov. 21, 1997, 111 Stat. 2353 , provided that:
"(a) In General.-The Secretary may not implement any requirement which would ban, as an unapproved food additive, lead and cadmium based enamel in the lip and rim area of glass and ceramic ware before the expiration of one year after the date such requirement is published.
"(b) Lead and Cadmium Based Enamel.-Unless the Secretary determines, based on available data, that lead and cadmium based enamel on glass and ceramic ware-
"(1) which has less than 60 millimeters of decorating area below the external rim, and
"(2) which is not, by design, representation, or custom of usage intended for use by children,
is unsafe, the Secretary shall not take any action before January 1, 2003, to ban lead and cadmium based enamel on such glass and ceramic ware. Any action taken after January 1, 2003, to ban such enamel on such glass and ceramic ware as an unapproved food additive shall be taken by regulation and such regulation shall provide that such products shall not be removed from the market before 1 year after publication of the final regulation."
Moratorium on Authority of Secretary With Respect to Saccharin
Pub. L. 95–203, §3, Nov. 23, 1977, 91 Stat. 1452 , as amended by Pub. L. 96–88, title V, §509(b), Oct. 17, 1979, 93 Stat. 695 ; Pub. L. 96–273, June 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 536 ; Pub. L. 97–42, §2, Aug. 14, 1981, 95 Stat. 946 ; Pub. L. 98–22, §2, Apr. 22, 1983, 97 Stat. 173 ; Pub. L. 99–46, May 24, 1985, 99 Stat. 81 ; Pub. L. 100–71, title I, §101, July 11, 1987, 101 Stat. 431 ; Pub. L. 102–142, title VI, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 910 ; Pub. L. 104–180, title VI, §602, Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1594 , provided that: "During the period ending May 1, 2002, the Secretary-
"(1) may not amend or revoke the interim food additive regulation of the Food and Drug Administration of the Department of Health and Human Services applicable to saccharin and published on March 15, 1977 (section 180.37 of part 180, subchapter B, chapter 1, title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (42 Fed. Reg. 14638)), or
"(2) may, except as provided in section 4 [enacting section 343a of this title, amending sections 321 and 343 of this title, and enacting provisions set out as notes under section 343 of this title] and the amendments made by such section, not take any other action under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act [this chapter] to prohibit or restrict the sale or distribution of saccharin, any food permitted by such interim food additive regulation to contain saccharin, or any drug or cosmetic containing saccharin,
solely on the basis of the carcinogenic or other toxic effect of saccharin as determined by any study made available to the Secretary before the date of the enactment of this Act [Nov. 23, 1977] which involved human studies or animal testing, or both."
[Definition of "saccharin" as used in section 3 of Pub. L. 95–203, set out above, to include calcium saccharin, sodium saccharin, and ammonium saccharin, see Pub. L. 95–203, §2(d), Nov. 23, 1997, 91 Stat. 1452 .]


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Construction sector declines for 39th month, Carr condemns Coalition foreign aid cuts: Midday Roundup
Yolanda Redrup
The construction sector remains in contraction for its 39th consecutive month, according to figures released this morning.
The Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association Performance of Construction Index dropped 0.4 points to 43.7 in August, with readings below 50 indicating contraction.
The house building sector was 0.3 points weaker in August, but remains close to growth levels at 49 on the index.
Commercial construction was the only sub-sector to improve, up 4.5 points to 39.1.
"Although the construction industry remains in a fragile state, there are early signs of a very gradual improvement in overall conditions," Ai Group director of public policy Peter Burn said in a statement.
Carr condemns Coalition foreign aid cuts
The Coalition's plan to cut foreign aid spending by $4.5 billion over four years has been criticised by Foreign Minister Bob Carr as diminishing Australia's security.
The $4.5 billion will be redirected to three road projects in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, should the Coalition be elected.
Carr said providing overseas aid is in Australia's best interests, as he addressed a leaders' summit in Russia on Wednesday.
"We use foreign aid as a way of making Australia more secure as a nation."
Shares fall on open
Aussie shares have opened lower this morning, as voters prepare to head to the polls on Saturday.
The S&P/ASX 200 benchmark was down 21.4 points to 5121.1 at 11:30am.
All major industries were down, with the material sector dropping 78.9 points to 9583.1.


People tour the Advanced Structures and Composites Center during a press event at the University of Maine in Orono.
Tom Swanson, manager of Pew Charitable Trusts' clean energy initiative, attends a press event at the University of Maine in Orono.
A panel discussion during a press event at the University of Maine in Orono.
ORONO, Maine — Maine set an example for other states to follow in its renewable energy investments and growth during the past decade, according to a report released Monday by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
"By establishing aggressive goals for clean and efficient energy, Maine is harnessing its renewable resources to create new job opportunities, attract investment and strengthen its manufacturing base," Tom Swanson, manager of Pew's clean energy initiative, said.
Pew, a nonprofit that aims to shape public policy through research in the areas of the environment, economic policy and health, hosted an event and panel discussion at the University of Maine in Orono on Monday morning and unveiled its findings.
Maine was one of eight states Pew chose to highlight in its "Clean Economy Rising" initiative, the others being Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas. States were recognized for different contributions. The report on Georgia, for example, trumpets that state as the fastest-growing solar energy market in the country.
Pew's report lauded Maine for having the highest renewable portfolio standard in the country, calling for 40 percent of the state's total electric supply to come from renewable energy sources by 2017. Most other states call for about 10 percent.
The report drew cautious praise from one state official.
LePage and his administration have stressed that it is important for the state to focus on its immediate energy costs, which has been a hindrance for taxpayers and businesses.
Certain renewable energy sectors, such as offshore wind and tidal power, are in their infancy and aren't yet cost competitive, Woodcock said. Still, in other sectors, prices have come down as technologies develop and infrastructure grows, "which is obviously a very positive development," Woodcock said.
As of 2013, Maine had 13 wind developments contributing 431 megawatts of wind capacity, with another 1.3 gigawatts of capacity in various stages of planning, according to the report, though several of those future projects have met strong local resistance. Large developments in 2011 and 2012 in Woodstock and Lincoln, respectively, made Maine the largest generator of wind power in New England.
Pew also took great interest in UMaine's efforts to expand the state's wind energy to the Gulf of Maine. In 2013, Maine's 1:8-scale VolturnUS prototype became the first offshore floating wind turbine to be connected to an electric grid in the United States. That prototype spent about a year floating off the coast of Castine.
Swanson toured the Advanced Structures and Composites Center, where the university tests wind turbine blades and composite materials for strength and performance. He also visited the Forest Bioproducts Research Institute on campus.
Swanson said Pew saw frequent references to the University of Maine when researching energy initiatives and developments in other states. The university helped companies across the nation with product testing and development in many forms, he said.
"We were really impressed with the breadth of what the university is undertaking," Swanson said.
Biomass energy will continue to be vital to Maine's renewable energy efforts, Pew stated. The most heavily forested state in the nation, Maine generates about 2.1 million kilowatt hours of electrical power from biomass. That's a quarter of all electricity generation in the state and the most per capita of any state, according to Pew.
Maine also was home to the nation's first commercial, grid-connected tidal energy project, located in Cobscook Bay, a project that "grew from innovative research and development by corporate, academic, and government partners," the Pew report states.
Pew predicts sustainable energy industries will continue to grow in Maine, estimating $1.9 billion in private investments by 2023.
For that to happen, companies investing in clean technologies and infrastructure need stability, Swanson said. Drastic changes in Maine's sustainable energy policies or reductions to development incentive programs could stifle investment. Companies that invest in energy need "long-term certainty," Swanson said.
Maine renewable energy officials praised the Pew study as evidence that investments are working and should continue to grow.


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Bristol Music Trust reasserts commitment to Colston Hall name change
The name change was originally announced in 2017 as part of plans for the redevelopment of the building
Advocacy, surveys & petitions, England, News
Colston Hall exterior
Bristol Music Trust, the organisation which runs the arts venue Colston Hall in the South West of England, has re-confirmed plans for a change of name for the Hall, originally announced in 2017 as part of the redevelopment of the building.
The latest statement follows the Black Lives Matter protests and the removal of the statue of Edward Colston by protestors in Bristol.
Bristol Music Trust states:
'We announced three years ago that we would be changing the name as part of the transformation of the Hall, which is currently closed whilst the redevelopment work is taking place. The Hall was built 150 years after Colston died and was not founded with any of his money. The current name does not reflect our values as a progressive, forward-thinking and open arts organisation – we want it to be representative of the city, a beacon of its values of hope, diversity and inclusion.
'A new name was originally planned to be announced in Spring 2020, following a thorough and in-depth consultation process carried out with over 4,000 people from communities all across the city.
'However, COVID-19 has had an impact on the timing of our plans, preventing us from being able to carry out our final round of community engagement. The majority of our staff are now furloughed and our focus has temporarily switched to protecting the future of our organisation, as well as supporting our partners, Bristol's music community, artists, music teachers and others.
'We understand that the pace of change is important and we are working hard to adapt our plans through the pandemic. We aim to announce a new name that is right for both the Hall and the city in Autumn 2020. There are a number of steps we need to take between now and then, but as a demonstration of our commitment, one of these will be removing the external signage from the building.
'We will provide further updates on this as soon as we are able to. In the meantime, we will continue to listen and learn and reflect on what more we can do as an organisation to make positive change in our city.'
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LOS ANGELES As a grandmother, Kathy Magallanes is learning the ropes of motherhood for a second time.
"It's been a long time since I've been responsible for a little bitty baby, and I know things have changed," said Magallanes.
Kathy Magallanes is raising her granddaughter. Whenever Macie cries she's fed.
"Oh, that baby's hungry. I don't want her to be hungry, and I'll give her a bottle," said Magallanes.
"If you constantly feed babies when they're young, they actually lose their ability to sense fullness. They may become more likely to be an overeater as they get older," said Dr. Russell Rothman, MPP Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
More than half a million 4-year-olds are obese. Weight in the first two years can be predictive of how much weight they'll gain later.
"The most common vegetable for the toddler is currently the French fry," said Dr. Rothman.
Babies don't need juice. If you give it to them, dilute it.
For solids: fewer crackers and cookies. Know when the baby is full. She may keep her mouth closed, push the bottle away or start falling asleep.
"Try to recognize what is their hungry cry versus when they're really crying because they're wet or for some other reason," said Dr. Rothman.
Babies can exercise. It's called tummy time.
"Learning to push themselves up. Learning to crawl and really get more mobile even at a young age," said Dr. Rothman.
For her granddaughter's sake, Kathy wants to change her habits.
"In my family we have a lot of diabetes. He said we have to watch for that, and we don't want to feed her too much," said Magallanes.
Doctors say most babies eat every two to three hours during the day and some babies will eat every four to six hours at night. Experts say you don't have to wake your baby up to feed him. Protect your baby's new teeth by not letting your baby go to sleep with a bottle in his mouth. If your baby wakes up at night, you may be able to get him back to sleep with a pacifier instead of a bottle.
Pediatricians say most babies under 1 year old only need breast milk or formula and don't need juice. Juice does not help a baby's health. If you choose to give juice to your baby, doctors advise to mix it with water, and don't give the baby more than one juice bottle per day.
Doctors say even infants and toddlers can exercise. They call it "tummy time." Pediatricians say lay on your back on the floor and place the baby on your stomach. When he can do this and not fuss, move him to the floor or carpet. Make sure he gets tummy time for two to five minutes at a time, several times a day. However, be sure to place the baby on his back to nap or sleep.


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What CANDO Can Do For The Warfighter
by Catherine Keaty, Ph.D. - Defense Threat Reduction Agency CBTD
Protecting our warfighters? Yes, there is an app for that.
To provide our troops with enhanced countermeasure protections, it is imperative that defense agencies develop cost-effective products that allow for faster lab-to-battlefield application. One effort underway, funded by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Chemical and Biological Technologies Department, is developing an app that enables researchers to expedite countermeasure studies.
CANDO has a convenient web browser/Jupyter notebook interface that allows computational chemists to write programs to construct molecules. It also supports graphical tools for visualizing and drawing molecules. CANDO incorporates a software distribution framework that will allow chemists to develop and distribute applications for designing molecules. (Image courtesy of Christian Schafmeister, Ph.D., Temple University - December 12, 2017)
Natural proteins used for research are expensive, fragile and inefficient. As such, researchers are increasingly turning to biomimetics — human made substances that imitate natural ones. However, until now, there has not been a quick or easy way to design biomimetics for a specific function.
An effort by Temple University's Christian Schafmeister, Ph.D., has resulted in a modeling app that changes that. Computer-Aided Nanostructure Design and Optimization (CANDO) provides scientists the capability to rationally design biomimetics, similar to how microcircuits, software and machines are designed. The app performs conformational analysis on molecules constructed from non-natural building blocks, searches molecules for substructures, automatically assigns atom types, identifies rings, carries out conformational searching and automatically determines stereochemistry.
CANDO continually builds conformational databases of these building blocks to further enable the creation of improved biomimetics. Using the web browser-based Jupyter notebook interface, CANDO allows chemists to write software that assembles chemical structures into new molecules. In addition, the app allows researchers to construct 3-D coordinates of the resulting molecules, sketches molecules, build 3-D structures, visualize them within the browser and prepare them for sophisticated simulations. CANDO implements a programming environment where chemistry apps can be written and deployed through an internet-based package manager for open use.
Schafmeister used CANDO to create a stable metallo-enzyme that mimics proteins to accelerate organophosphonate rearrangements. These biomimetics are composed of a central scaffold that can be modified with various functional groups in order to create the perfect pocket where catalytic activity can happen. Called "spiroligomers," these biomimetics have extraordinary utility because they form well-defined, predictable molecular shapes that can be readily modified and customized. These can be assembled to build controllable, tunable enzymes.
Adversaries continue to use and synthesize new threats. Mother Nature has had little time to evolve proteins to thwart known threat agents and no time to defeat synthesized ones. Advances in computational biomimetic design present a unique opportunity to pursue rational design and synthesis of small molecules that can effectively respond to current threats and be rapidly engineered to address emerging ones for the next generation of countermeasures to safeguard our warfighters.


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Louis Homet, né à Paris en 1691, où il meurt le 27 (ou 28) août 1767, est un chantre, maître de musique (maître de chapelle) et compositeur français.

Biographie

Paris, Chartres et Évreux
Il fut tout d'abord formé à l'art musical, à partir de 1699, comme enfant de chœur (enfant chantant dans le chœur) de la Sainte-Chapelle, à Paris. Il y fut l'élève de Marc-Antoine Charpentier, mort en 1704, puis se perfectionna sous les ordres du nouveau maître de musique, Nicolas Bernier, compositeur également réputé. En 1710 Louis Homet fut accepté comme chantre (c'est-à-dire choriste) dans le chœur de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Chartres (dont Bernier avait été maître de 1694 à 1698). Dès l'année suivante (1711) le jeune homme devint maître de musique (c'est-à-dire maître du chœur et maître des enfants) de l'église Saint-Jacques-la-Boucherie à Paris. De 1711 à 1714, dûment recruté lors d'un concours présidé par le célèbre théoricien et compositeur Sébastien de Brossard (août-), il remplit (en principe) cette même fonction de maître de musique à la cathédrale d'Évreux. Toutefois, l'historien de la maîtrise de Chartres, Jules-Alexandre Clerval, note qu'Homet était alors chantre à Amiens. Peut-être n'occupa-t-il jamais le poste pour lequel il avait été admis à Évreux ? Son Répons de saint Taurin, évêque d'Évreux, avait été composé lors du concours de 1711.

Orléans et Chambord
De 1714 (réception du ) à 1731, il se fixa à Orléans. Il y exerça la fonction de maître de musique de la cathédrale Sainte-Croix, avant d'en être renvoyé le  (les renvois étaient fréquents, tout comme les démissions). Il intenta un procès au chapitre pour tenter de conserver sa semi-prébende canoniale (source de revenus). Il resta au service du chapitre (en tant que marguillier clerc à partir du , signe qu'à cette date il avait perdu son procès) puis fut réintégré en tant que choriste à partir du . Auparavant, il avait peut-être aussi enseigné l'écriture ou le latin à la maîtrise. Le , il postula (sans succès) pour le poste de maître des enfants de la cathédrale de Chartres. Le , après la maladie (sans doute) et la mort (survenue le 14) de Nicolas Grogniard (né à Meaux ?, vers 1680-85), compositeur lui aussi, il redevint maître de la psallette (maître du chœur et des enfants) de la cathédrale Sainte-Croix, jusqu'à son retour à Notre-Dame de Chartres en 1731. Homet se retira du chapitre d'Orléans le . Dès le , le compositeur angevin Louis Bachelier (1703-1782) fut élu à sa place maître de musique de la cathédrale d'Orléans. En 1729 et 1730 (et peut-être aussi de 1725 à 1733), Homet fut également au service de Stanislas Leszczynski, roi de Pologne en exil au château de Chambord.

À Orléans, Homet avait su recréer une Académie de musique (dont la première et timide apparition remontait à 1670). Elle fonctionna de 1721-1722 jusqu'en 1730 et tomba faute de moyens financiers. C'était une organisation de concerts, souhaitée, à l'origine, par des interprètes amateurs. On y donnait aussi des cours et chacun pouvait y produire des œuvres de sa composition. On considère ces Académies provinciales comme des ancêtres des conservatoires.

Paris
De 1734 à 1748, il occupa la fonction très en vue de maître du chœur à Notre-Dame de Paris. Il contribua ainsi à la formation du futur compositeur François Giroust, né à Paris en 1738. Lorsque Louis Homet mourut, en 1767, on ne le désigna plus que comme « Prêtre, ancien maître de musique de l'Eglise de Paris ».

Intercession en faveur du créancier d'un négociant

De Paris, en 1743, sur la recommandation de l'abbé de Brancas, il rédige deux lettres autographes ( et ) pour solliciter la protection du comte André-Louis de Brancas-Rochefort en faveur du créancier d'un négociant d'Avignon et de Marseille (négociant également présent à la foire de Beaucaire). Louis Homet donne les détails de cette affaire et demande au destinataire de faire opposition à la levée des scellés.

Œuvres

Œuvres existantes
 Postquam magnificus  Domini Taurinus amicus (Motet, 5 voix), . Répons de saint Taurin, évêque d'Evreux (une église de la ville porte son nom). Original à Paris BnF : Vm1 1178.
 Exurge Deus (Grand motet, 5 voix et basse continue), . Même localisation
Édition moderne par le Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (Cahiers de musique, n° 101, 2003, 39 p.).
 Taisez-vous, rossignols (Air, 1 voix et basse continue). [Orléans], 1716. Cf. Recueil d'airs sérieux et à boire. Paris : Jean-Baptiste Christophe Ballard, , p. 74–75.
 Prose des Morts (Faux-bourdon, 4 voix), Orléans, 1722.
L'œuvre a connu une grande fortune. Elle fait alterner le motif musical, à une voix, du Dies iræ liturgique, sur les strophes impaires, avec un faux-bourdon à 4 voix (strophes paires), dû cette fois à l'auteur. Lors des funérailles solennelles de Jean-Philippe Rameau (Paris, Église Saint-Eustache, ), on l'entendit, doublée de parties instrumentales (pour l'adapter au goût du jour). Le matériel copié pour cette circonstance existe encore, conservé à Paris BnF : Rés. H 494 C (a-j). Elle a encore été citée et reprise (chantée et jouée) aux XIXe et XXe siècles.
Edition moderne : Paris : Schola Cantorum et Procure générale de musique, s. d., 4 p.
 Messe de Requiem pour Soprano, Alto, Ténor et Basse / Chant au Ténor (messe en faux bourdon, Orléans, 1722 ?).
Copie datée de 1894, de la main du chanoine Marcel Laurent (Répertoire des chœurs de la cathédrale d'Orléans). Archives municipales d'Orléans : C 3364-3.
Cette Messe (non datée) inclut la Prose ci-dessus. Elles peuvent donc avoir été composées pour la même occasion. Cf. Brosset 1924 p. 26.
 Missa pro defunctis (Messe, 4 voix : dessus, haute-contre, taille, basse). Paris BnF : L 18363 A et B (parties séparées, . Deux parties de violons, une partie d'alto, et la basse continue - basse, basson, trombone - doublent les voix).
La partition oppose des passages à 4 ou à 3 voix. Contrepoint figuré alternant avec une écriture verticale, syllabique. Ce matériel manuscrit (44 cahiers pour les parties chantées, 17 pour les instruments) atteste que l'œuvre a été donnée à la chapelle des Tuileries, sous  ou pendant la Restauration (1802-1830). Jean-François Le Sueur, maître depuis 1804, avait dirigé la musique de Notre-Dame avant la Révolution. C'est sans doute là qu'il avait eu connaissance de cette messe. Cf. Mongrédien 1986 p. 160 et 164.
 Missa in anniversariis defunctis per Dominum Omet Magister Musice [orthographe admise pour la diphtongue : Musicæ] Ec[c]lesiæ Parisiensis, Livre de chœur manuscrit, in-fol., 69 p., 1803. (Messe, 4 voix). Localisation : Paris, Bibliothèque de la maîtrise de la cathédrale Notre-Dame.
François-Joseph Fétis affirmait posséder le manuscrit de cette pièce, mais il ne figure pas dans le catalogue de sa bibliothèque établi en 1995.

Œuvres perdues
 Idylle à la louange du Roy, qui sera chanté dans la sale de l'Academie de musique d'Orleans, le XIII. de décembre M. DCCXXII. S. l., s. n., [1722], 4 p. in-4°.
Livret seul. La musique est perdue. D'après la p. 4 : « Les paroles sont d'un Académicien. La Musique est de M. HOMET, Maître de Musique de l'Académie ».
L'Académicien est peut-être l'Orléanais Daniel Polluche. Incipit : « Bergers de cet heureux séjour, Redoublez pour LOUIS vos Concerts en ce jour ». Autre titre possible : Idylle sur la Paix, chantée à l'Académie de Musique. Livret conservé à Paris (Bibliothèque Mazarine : 4° 10918-111/20). Citée dans Le Mercure de France, , p. 136–137 (p. 403 du reprint). Mentionné dans Beauvais de Préau 1778 p. V.
 Divertissement pour la Reine de Pologne. Représenté au Château Royal de Chambort (Chambord, ). Livret imprimé à Orléans : Rouzeau, 1730, 4°, 8 p.
« Mis en Musique par Mr. HOMET, Maître de Musique du Roi de Pologne, & de l'Eglise d'Orleans. » [sic].
La musique est perdue. Livret à Blois (Bibliothèque de l'Abbé Grégoire : LO 526). Personnages : « Une Nimphe, Apollon, Flore, Zephire, Mars. Chœur ». Incipit du Prologue : « Quels doux concerts font retentir ces lieux ». Incipit du Divertissement : « Venés tous dans mon Temple, & que chacun s'aprête » [sic]. Cité, sans localisation, dans Cuissard 1900 à l'article « Homet ».
 Te Deum pour la naissance du dauphin (Grand motet, perdu), 1729. Cf. Le Mercure de France,  (II), p. 3151–3152 (p. 440-441 du reprint).

Attribution incertaine
 La Pucelle d'Orléans. Cantate pour être chantée dans une Assemblée publique de l'Académie de Musique d'Orleans le 8. May, jour de la Delivrance de cette Ville [par Jeanne d'Arc], 1724, 3 p. Livret de Michel-Gabriel Perdoulx de la Perrière (Orléans BM : Rés. E 18181 [n° 1065 alias 25]). La musique est perdue.

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Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 François Turellier, « Louis Homet (1691-1767), maître de musique à Orléans et à Chambord (1714-1731) », Bulletin de la Société archéologique et historique de l'Orléanais, Nouvelle série, n° 140,  2004, p. 5–13.
 François Turellier, « Christophe Moyreau (1700-1774) : organiste, claveciniste et compositeur orléanais », Bulletin de la Société Archéologique et Historique de l'Orléanais, Nouvelle série, n° 161, , p. 5–39 (Errata dans Idem, n° 163,  2010, p. 134).
 Jean-François Détrée, « Louis Homet. Maître de musique de la cathédrale d'Evreux au début du XVIIIe siècle », in : Musiciens et musique en Normandie. Bulletin du Centre Normand d'Histoire musicale, 4e trimestre 1977, p. 19-26. Cet article nous entretient surtout du concours de 1711, qui avait été rapporté, à l'origine, par Sébastien de Brossard.
 Jean-Paul Montagnier, "Homet, Louis", dans Ludwig Finscher (éd.), Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart [MGG], Kassel, Bärenreiter, 2003, vol. 9, col. 289-290.
 François-Joseph Fétis, "Homet (l'abbé)", dans Biographie universelle des musiciens, deuxième édition, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1860-1865, vol. 2, p. 850.
 Jean-Jacques-François Pataud, Recherches historiques sur l'éducation nationale et les écoles publiques de l'orléanais. Orléans : Huet-Perdoux, 1808, 23 p. (Orléans BM : H 5377.6).
 Jules-Alexandre Clerval, L'Ancienne Maîtrise de N.-D. de Chartres. Chartres : Selleret, 1898. Reprint : Genève, Minkoff, 1972.
 Jules Brosset, Marcel-Étienne Laurent, chanoine de l'Eglise d'Orléans, Maître de Chapelle de la Cathédrale, Officier d'Académie (1860-1921). Orléans : Imprimerie moderne, 1924, 26 p.
 Marie-Reine Renon (éd.). Musique d'église autour de N.[icolas] Pacotat maître de psallette (Bourges, vers 1696 - Poitiers, 1731) : actes du colloque de Poitiers, . Paris : Éditions Publibook Université, 2010, 235 p. (voir p. 63, note 9).
 Jean Mongrédien, La musique en France des Lumières au Romantisme 1789-1830. Paris : Flammarion, 1986.
Charles Nicolas Beauvais de Préau, Essais historiques sur Orléans. Orléans : Couret de Villeneuve, 1778. XII-210 p.
 Charles Cuissard, Biobibliographie du Loiret. Manuscrit, 1900.

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Compositeur français de la période classique
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The final frontier is comprehending the role illusion plays in making reality appear as it does, why it must be in the form of illusion, and its ultimate source.
Illusion is defined as something that deceives the eye or mind, a mistaken perception or belief.
A mistaken perception means that each of the physical senses can experience illusion. A mistaken belief means that our subjective conceptions also can experience illusion. Reology claims that on both the objective and subjective levels of reality, not only do we experience illusion, but based on the above definition, we have to experience it for reality to appear to us as it does.
The challenge of Reology then is to comprehend the most basic elements of Human Perception/Conception, Matter and Energy, and Space and Time, and from these determine the true nature of reality. Each of these Grand Illusions originates from a single source. Identifying this source gives us the gateway to understanding all we need to know about reality. It enables us to find the answers to the questions we have, not the least of which is who we are, how we are, and why we are.
The obviousness of this source is available to each of us; it is something we each have the ability to recognize, yet overlook. While it may at first seem difficult to comprehend, it is only because we over complicate our attempts to discover that blinds us to the truth.
We don't even question things that we perceive as real. If we bump into the wall, we acknowledge our error and make sure to avoid it in the future. Walls are stronger then we are obviously. How then do we account for the fact that walls, and all physical objects are made, ultimately, of structures that are predominantly empty space? We don't. We just marvel at the contradiction.
It's a mystery, but one thing is for sure; that wall is not going to move nor allow us to pass through it. Any ideas to the contrary are science fiction. Fact can be stranger than fiction, and reologically, the reality we perceive is the greatest science fiction of all because everything we perceive as real, is in fact illusion instead. The evidence lies in how we perceive and what we know about that which makes reality seem so real.
It is often the most obvious and simple things that are most difficult to recognize. Pistis; Reology, The Three Grand Illusions, and The Power to Choose – A Book About Reality, is the continuation of this website, and will guide you through the process of recognizing this ultimate source of reality, and enable you to have a new perspective of existence, founded in the source of everything that is, the source from which all that is known and unknown arises. It is a mind blowing journey. This is the final frontier of human endeavor.
Who are you? Why are you here? What is you life all about?
When we ask the above questions we do so with the conviction that it is the physical universe and our physical identity we each perceive ourselves to be that we seek these answers for. This is however a limited concept.
When you ask any question or seek any knowledge, is it not for the benefit of you, the physical identity you see yourself as?
No matter what we do, whether considered real or imagined, it is always directly related to whom and what we each "see" ourselves to be. We in fact are each the perceived center of our individual perspective on reality.
This however is an illusion. Reology explores this illusion.
1-We are convinced we each are physical creatures with an ability to explore, discover, and define our experience.
2-We have no doubt that what surrounds us is a physical universe composed of matter and energy.
3-We know for a fact both the above have function because of the mediums of space and time.
If these three fundamental "truths" are facts, why are each riddled with contradictions?
Physiologically, the way we perceive reality occurs through our cognitive ability, a completely subjective experience, and what we call our objective experience that results from our five physical senses. While we know very little about the source and function of our subjective experience, we know quite a lot about our objective experience. We know how the senses function, and the electro-chemical processes that give each sense its ability to detect and recognize experience. We know where in our brain specific types of experiences are processed. We just have no idea how it's processed; how physiological processes become cognitive ones. We are completely clueless what consciousness is and where it comes from despite how masterfully we seem to be able to use it.
Herein is the dilemma; in order to physically sense things, that is to see, touch, hear, taste, and smell things, our nerves must first translate these stimuli into an electro-chemical code that must be relayed to the brain, where this code is then translated into the experience we just recognized. This code is so specific and so precise, it distinguishes subtle differences between similar experiences as easily as it distinguishes between the obvious differences.
If we "touch" a sharp object, whether we can also "see" it or not, it is our sense of touch that must convert this encounter to an electro-chemical code that must travel through the nervous system to the brain, where this code is translated into the recognition of this particular sharp object. Not until the brain assigns an identity to this code, can we know we are on the verge of a cutting experience. Just from this sense of touch, we can glean a wealth of information about this object; its sharpness, shape, temperature, texture, even an image despite not "seeing" it. The same process applies to all our sensory experience. In the most literal sense then, our objective perceptions of reality are actually purely subjective.
This of course appears totally nonsensical. If we look around, there is a multitude of objects and events which we can see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. All these reside outside ourselves and are obviously objective experience. Who can even question this? We all should, because this is not absolute reality and we have the direct evidence of its true nature. Why then are we "blind" to this "true nature"?
Because of the almost perfect design of this Grand Illusion, for quite literally, there cannot be objective experience. The only experience we are capable of having is exclusively subjective. If we focus on the nature of our physical senses, and visualize the process they must perform in order for us to have recognition of experience, we have the proof of the above statement. This Proof lies in our own experience of this process. Nothing can be detected as objective until it first is experienced subjectively. You have no way of knowing about the sharp object above until your mind lets you know it is there. Your fingers do not recognize or define what they touch. You eyes do not recognize or define what they see. Only the mind can do this, and only when it deciphers an electro chemical code delivered to it via the nervous system in a process that takes time to complete. This is of course no revelation because science has established this is how our senses and recognitions work. We do not however go about our lives with this process of recognizing experience subjectively at the forefront of our thoughts. Instead, we assume physical experience is objective and label it as such. This is an illusion however.
OK, you might be willing to consider there is an illusionary nature to our perceptive ability. What about the "stuff" we and the universe are structured of? What about matter and energy. Certainly these are no illusion regardless of how our senses detect them.
Then why, as we break matter down from its form as compounds to its form as molecules, then its form as atomic structure, and then its form as subatomic particles, does it become less and less physical to the point that the only time it can only appear physical is when, and only when, we observe or measure it? When we stop observing, it loses all physical characteristics completely, so we cannot be sure it is even there any more.
This is Quantum Mechanics, and has scientists baffled. Why is this so baffling? Because we assume the physical reality is absolute, just as we assume our perception of physical reality is absolute. When we dismantle the structure of physical things, we expect to find how the components that make up these things work together to create the structure we dissected. We expect these components to obey the same laws of nature that the things they combine to create obey.
They don't however at the most fundamental level of physical reality, the Quantum level. Instead they function based upon what we think are probabilities that are oblivious to the laws of physics and time as we know them on our level of reality. They only appear as real physical objects and experiences when they are observed, otherwise we are incapable of knowing and proving anything exists outside our observations of them, and that includes us.
What then of space and time? Surely these have to be absolute, for whether we are experiencing objective experience or subjective experience, it still has to occur somewhere and has to take time to experience. What really is space and time? Nothing more than a place for physical objects to appear to reside with a means to give them dimension and relationship to one another, or the "time" it takes to travel and measure these dimensions.
If physical reality is an illusion, and we each are the physical illusions of ourselves, how could space and time even exist? What meaning would they have apart from supporting the physical illusion? None. We even have the direct evidence of this.
Think of any experience you choose. Reading this article for example. Where is the space in which you reside having this experience? Where is the time it is taking? Well, it's all around me you think, and the clock assures me this is taking time. Grand Illusion. The only "time" that physical reality appears physical is in this present instant of observation that allows us to perceive things as physical. Our entire history, all we know, happens right now because this is the only time it can. The same is true for the "future". The images that tell you there's a whole world of space, time, and events that surround you are in reality just that, images in your mind in this instant.
Now think of some event from memory; something that happened to you in the past. When did this experience occur? Despite what you think, it is occurring right now, in this present instant, in your subjective perceptive reality. Why? Because right now is the only time that exists; it is the only time there is; it is the only point in which you can experience anything, whether you believe it is real or imagined, or remembered. History and the future, both personal and collective, can only exist right now.
Let's go to the dawn of time as we understand it, the Big Bang. When did that happen? Yes, as difficult as it is to comprehend, it didn't happen, but is instead happening right now in this instant of awareness and recognition, again, because right now is the only time we can have awareness and recognition. There simply is no other time.
You cannot objectively or subjectively experience a millisecond ago any more than you can experience a millisecond from this instant, except right now. Everything that happens can only happen right now, in this present instant. This instant is not a function of time, for it has neither a beginning nor end. It's quite incomprehensible actually, but again, it is the only "time" that both our subjective recognitions and our seeming objective experience can occur; it is the only point in which anything can exist, whether considered real or imagined. The very process by which we recognize experience "physiologically" confirms Quantum Mechanic's instant of observation for things to appear real. They are one and the same phenomena. Observing matter as real in the instant of observation Quantumly is observing experience as real in the instant of recognition cognitively. Both occur in our mind, in this instant.
This article began with the premise that we each are the center of the reality we each perceive. This is instead a Grand Illusion. Why? Because we cannot be physical identity if nothing physical is real, and only real appearing in this incomprehensible present instant. This concept of reality, called Reology, clearly shows we are in fact the illusion of ourselves experiencing the illusion of a physical reality. Illusion experiencing illusion.
Who are you then? Why are you here? What is your reality all about? These are still valid questions.
What appears certain is we are not the physical identity we are so convinced we are, nor is this universe the physical reality it appears to be, despite how incomprehensible this seems. As for why we are here, that is the real ultimate question.
This question has an answer.
Certainly one of Reality's greatest mysteries is death. Aside from the obvious, where what was alive and functioning in physical reality no longer does, what is the reality of death? What, if any, part of our identity survives? If something of us does survive, what do we experience? How can we be sure there is experience after physical life ends?
We have seen how reality is really an illusion; there is no matter or energy, or space or time, except in the instant of observation which makes all these things including our physical identity appear real. All the experience we know is in fact completely subjective.
What could be more subjective then death? It is complete disassociation with the illusion of anything physical. Actually the state we refer to as death is more probably like our natural state. In death we just go back to the focus we have that excludes the physical one as being absolute.
How can we be sure of this? Because we have direct evidence of it. We sometimes even refer to it as waking up from the dead. It occurs in sleep. When we sleep, we do not participate in physical experience. It is total subjective awareness, and our subjective experience in sleep has no physical limitations. You can dream about an entire lifetime in an instant in sleep. While dreams may often be about physical experience, this experience rarely, if ever, conforms to the physical laws we think we are governed by when awake.
Dreams are simply too bazaar by our day time standards, sometimes giving us experience with which, when awake, we have no ability to relate. If in dreams we have experience that we cannot relate to as physical identity, where is that experience coming from? It just might be from another focus of awareness we have as non physical beings. Further, dreams do in fact appear more consistent with Reology and The Three Grand Illusions; they often depict matter and energy, and space and time, as well as our own individual identity, as surreal, unreal, and illusionary. Despite the difficulty we have relating to dreams, which also is only natural from a physical perspective, the most glaring and consistent experience we recall is the "timelessness" involved. Dreams of complete and complex experiences, whether we understand them or not, leaves us with the impression of their "timeless" nature. They seem to begin, progress, and end in an instant. As we have previously seen, quantum theory suggests an instant is the only time that is real.
While not yet scientifically accepted as valid, near death experiences (NDE's) and their associated life review experiences (LR's) are further confirmation to our subjective non physical identity. Approximately 13 million people have reported NDE's in the US alone. Through study and analysis of thousands of these experiences, a distinct pattern of evidence has emerged that is both consistent and trans cultural. While certain aspects of near death experience conform to individual cultural and religious beliefs, the greater pattern is that these beliefs are a uniform and consistent part of NDE's and LR's. While science currently attributes these patterns to hallucination or imagination, the uniformity of these experiences has established that they are too statistically consistent to be mere random experience.
These patterns follow a specific sequence; an unpleasant sound, followed by a realization of being dead. Next comes feelings of calmness and peace often followed by out of body experience. This leads to the experience of entering a tunnel of light, where meeting and even recognizing others takes place. This often culminates with the experience of being in the presence of the God the individual believes in. Next comes the life review followed by experiencing a boundary past which they are not permitted, and then, with great reluctance, are returned to their physical body with a sensation of warmth.
These are the events reported by the majority of people who have had near death experience that were surveyed, and in this exact order. During the life review, another consistent pattern has emerged which includes seeing one's entire life in extreme detail, including little, unremembered events, and all this occurs very quickly, even instantaneously. While feeling they are not being judged, they become their own judge in this review, seeing the experiences in which they hurt or harmed others, and feeling remorse and regret for such actions. This extends to the creatures of the natural world and even the environment itself. Additionally, there is an awareness of such clarity that it is greater then any experience of conscious awareness in the physical state. This is followed by a transformation of personality and beliefs with the intent to be accepting of others, a repentance of previous wrong doing, and a desire to learn and spiritually grow in the physical form, with less emphasis on material gain or possessions. It is being reborn to the same physical identity from which the person died.
What happens to those who die but do not experience the NDE? There is no way of knowing, but it is a safe assumption they go through this same experience and are able to move past the boundary people having NDE's cannot.
The point of all this is that we each have experience of one kind or another that provides us direct evidence of reality's illusions. Our true identity is not the physical one we observe in the mirror, but instead is a non physical one of subjective experience that transcends physical reality. The evidence for this is in all we experience, as it must be if it is our true nature. We only need to seek it out.


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Q: What's an alternative to using public folders (in Outlook)? My colleagues abuse our mail servers public folders to store (old) emails so that everyone can read them using IMAP. I'm looking into good alternatives after reading this Tech Republic article: "10 reasons why you should begin phasing out Exchange public folders"
The most important thing they need is access to emails from multiple computers without overloading our network.
So do you have any suggestions for alternatives?
If there's a nice combination with some CRM system it would be interesting too.
Note: this doesn't have to be freeware, usability and efficiency are more important. The solution has to be Windows 32 bit only

A: Microsoft's answer to, and replacement for Public Folders, is Sharepoint. WSS 3 is free and will run happily on W2K3 32bit.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=D51730B5-48FC-4CA2-B454-8DC2CAF93951&displaylang=en

A: Public folders are a great resource, when used properly. Rather than look for an alternative you should look into locking down the public folders to restrict their use. There's a lot you can do to ensure the public folders are used appropriately. e.g. My users can't create messages in the public folders. They can only use calendars that I have created for them.

A: I know this doesn't allow you to read emails, but we've been using a Wiki (MediaWIki, to be exact) to store loads of information that would have normally gone around the company via email.  Training some users to use it effectively is a little difficult or even impossible, but installing a rich text editor like FCKeditor made it MUCH easier.
I used Turnkey Linux to install our latest Wiki on a VMWare host and it was wonderfully easy to setup and configure.


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Bluffton catcher Yeager signs with USCB
Jack Cavanaugh @JackCavanaughBT
Bluffton High baseball player Griffin Yeager signed a letter of intent to continue his playing career with the University of South Carolina Beaufort on Wednesday.
A catcher, Griffin played in 26 games for the Bobcats in 2018 with 70 at bats and 34 hits. His 31 RBIs led the team as he averaged .486 at the plate and scored nine runs, had three home runs, three triples and four doubles.
"At the end of last season, he and I sat down and discussed what he needed to do if he wanted to play at the next level," Yeager's high school coach Bryant Kitty said. "He worked his tail off in the weight room, improved both defensively and offensively.
"Lastly, we said you need to be one of the top players in the state. Although he was not chosen for the all-state or all-star (teams), his numbers showed that he should have been. He did everything he needed to do for an opportunity at the next level. I'm very proud of his accomplishments."
Yeager was a four-year varsity player and replaced Tim Ortega behind the plate after he signed with Ferrum College in April 2016.
"He was only our starting catcher for the last years," Kitty said. "Ortega was our starting catcher before Griffin. We had to find ways to get Griffin in the lineup because he had a good bat.
"Therefore, we tried playing him at different defensive positions and making him a designated hitter at times."
Defensively, Yeager had a fielding percentage of .994 with 149 putouts and just one error.


Early May in Atlanta, GA is such a beautiful time of year with the budding in the trees and the spring flowers. For those of us who live in California a thunderstorm is a rare treat indeed! Here at the Onlyoga Studio in midtown Atlanta I presented a workshop entitled, "Jumping into the Core". Studio director, John Merideth, has brought together a group of dedicated and talented students under the wing of his tutelage, with an emphasis in the Ashtanga Vinyasa system. We spent an afternoon developing techniques to facilitate the jumping moves in Ashtanga Vinyasa and how these moves relate to core strength and the bandhas. Thanks to John for pulling all the strings necessary to bring us together, to Michaelyn for her help in demonstrations, and to all the lovely participants at the workshop. I would be honored to return to Onlyoga to work and play together with this group. When in Atlanta stop by Onlyoga for a great practice!