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► In today's Seattle Times — King County Metro paying bus drivers another $8.3 million for time spent on safety checks, paperwork — Bus drivers will receive an additional $8.3 million in back pay to cover three years of routine safety checks and paperwork beyond their usual shift time, in an agreement between King County Metro Transit and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 587. A total of 3,728 full-time and part-time operators will get between $500 and $3,708 each, for tasks performed from April 2015 to March 2018. This $8.3 million is in addition to a $6.4 million fund created last fall for 2,403 operators, to resolve a federal order. Local 587 President Michael Shea called the figure an equitable settlement. "ATU appreciates that our employees are being properly compensated for the work that they are doing."
► In today's (Everett) Herald — Mukilteo teachers authorize strike and pack another meeting — Amid testy salary talks, Mukilteo teachers Monday took a vote of no confidence in Superintendent Marci Larsen and gave a bargaining committee authority to call a strike if there is no tentative agreement to consider by Aug. 15. After the votes, teachers brought their contract beef to school district headquarters. For the third time in a month, they jammed into a meeting room to urge the board to renegotiate the salary portion of their contract.
► In today's (Longview) Daily News — Longview school secretaries' union demands pay raise — A standing-room-only audience Monday night demanded that Longview school secretaries get pay raises that their union says are mandated by the state. The Longview Classified Public Employees Association is seeking to reopen the secretaries' labor contract, which runs through 2019.
► In today's Seattle Times — Seattle City Council to consider repeal of head tax less than a month after approving it — "We heard you," says a statement from Mayor Jenny Durkan and seven of the nine City Council members, announcing the plan to reconsider the head tax that has spurred controversy and a repeal effort by businesses.
► In today's Seattle Times — Businesses get a win on head tax, but solution to Seattle homelessness crisis still elusive — With Seattle's head tax apparently dead, businesses that opposed it signaled a desire to re-engage in search of solutions to the worsening homelessness crisis. Advocates for homeless people say more funding is needed to address the issue.
► From KNKX — Janitors have one of the highest on-the-job injury rates of any workers — Janitors and custodians have some of the highest on-the-job injury rates of any occupation, ranking higher than heavy equipment operators and tractor trailer truck drivers. Although not usually deadly, the injuries among people who clean for a living can leave the workers with chronic and lifelong pain. At the University of Washington, there's an effort to reduce the injury rate.
► In today's News Tribune — Investigator: Tacoma lawmaker violated harassment, ethics policy — House Democrats on Monday released a summary of an independent investigation that found state Rep. David Sawyer, D-Tacoma, broke ethics and harassment policy with a wide range of behavior, including inappropriate text messages to staff and romantically pursuing a coworker who made it clear she wasn't interested. In a statement Monday, Sawyer did not dispute the findings of the investigator or House officials, saying it is "clear that I messed up and that it's time for me to acknowledge some personal mistakes."
EDITOR'S NOTE — At the WSLC's political endorsement convention in May, union delegates from across the state voted not only to endorse Sawyer's Democratic challenger Melanie Morgan in the fall election, but also to actively OPPOSE Sawyer. Find out more about Morgan here.
► In today's Spokesman-Review — State must replace hundreds more culverts to save salmon — Washington taxpayers face a bill of some $2.4 billion to repair hundreds of culverts over the next 11 years as a result of a U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday. Divided 4-4 with Justice Anthony Kennedy not participating, the tie lets stand a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the state was violating a series of tribal treaties with culverts that block salmon coming from and going to spawning grounds.
► From KNKX — Evergreen State College is cutting jobs because of projected enrollment drop — Evergreen is making cuts, including 20 staff positions, in an effort to bring costs in line with revenue. "They're positions all over the college – administrative positions ranging from library to media services to budgeters," a spokesman says, adding that Evergreen is also cutting 24 faculty positions. Eleven of those are permanent faculty positions that are open but won't be filled and the rest are adjunct faculty.
► In today's Spokesman-Review — Net neutrality ends nationwide, remains in Washington — Federal net neutrality regulations went away Monday, but internet users across the country may not notice any immediate changes. In Washington, a new state law says they shouldn't, period.
► From In These Times — Boeing workers in S.C. have finally unionized. But Trump's NLRB could kibosh it. — On May 31, technicians at the Boeing factory in North Charleston, S.C. voted to unionize and join the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. However, Boeing has appealed the vote and Donald Trump's GOP-controlled National Labor Relations Board could reverse the decision by ruling that workers had no right to hold the election to begin with.
► In The Stranger — Jayapal introduces bill to help states fund universal health care — Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Seattle) officially introduced The State-Based Universal Health Care Act. In essence, the bill would allow states or even entire regions to redirect federal health care funds to pay for "state-based universal health care systems." Passing the bill is a necessary step for politicians and organizations pursuing legislative efforts to bring a single-payer health care system to Washington state.
ALSO TODAY at The Stand — Jayapal unveils universal health care bill
— WSLC's Dodson: 'This is the time for bold action' on health care
► In today's Washington Post — Pass a health-care law, GOP. I dare you. (by Catherine Rampell) — Unable to fully kill the ACA legislatively, Republicans turned to other, quieter ways to sabotage it… And now the craziest sabotage scheme of all: Trump's Justice Department urged a federal court to throw out Obamacare's protections for people with preexisting health issues. Republican lawmakers, once hysterical over Obama's supposed "tyranny," should be apoplectic that our current president is effectively trying to undermine Congress's lawmaking authority. Instead, most Republican lawmakers are keeping their heads down. Presumably because they know this is their best shot at destroying as much of Obamacare as possible while simultaneously dodging voters' furor for that same destruction. Cowards, all.
► In today's NY Times — The health care stalkers (editorial) — Add this latest move to a growing list of similar efforts and it becomes clear where the Trump administration's priorities lie: not in helping more Americans get good health care, not even in supporting the will of the people, but in dismantling what some political opponents built, just for the sake of doing so.
► In today's NY Times — Domestic abuse is not grounds for asylum, Sessions says — Attorney General Jeff Sessions reversed a decision by a court that had given asylum to a woman from El Salvador who had been raped and abused by her husband.
► In today's Seattle Times — Seattle mayor, others condemn Trump administration crackdown on asylum seekers entering U.S. without permission — The practice of separating children from their parents, which has been criticized by the United Nations, is "an insult to American family values," Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said in a letter signed by more than 20 other mayors to the U.S. attorney general and the head of Homeland Security.
EDITOR'S NOTE — Just to be clear, if your husband rapes and beats you — and threatens to kill you and your children — and you show up at America's border seeking asylum, it is the policy of the U.S. government to take away your children and imprison you before eventually sending you back home. In Trump's America, we arrest your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free — and take away their kids.
► From Politico — GOP leaders try to cut deals to stop DACA vote — House Republican leaders, eager to stop an immigration showdown in their chamber, have begun cutting deals with lawmakers who might help moderate Republicans trigger bipartisan votes to protect Dreamers. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy phoned Rep. Dennis Ross on Monday and offered the Florida Republican what he wanted in hopes of keeping him from joining the moderates' discharge petition: the promise of a vote on a guest worker program before August recess.
► In today's NY Times — As ties with allies fray over trade, Congressional Republicans back Trump — As President Trump and his advisers take aim at some of America's closest allies amid tense disputes over trade, congressional Republicans largely stood by the president on Monday, insisting they were not worried about a possible deterioration of relations with the West.
► From The Hill — Advocates fear court decision on Ohio could pave the way for more voter purges — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld an Ohio practice of purging voters from the state's rolls, leaving voting rights advocates afraid that other states could end registration for hundreds of thousands of voters who sit out as little as one federal election.
► In today's N Times — Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner made millions in 2017 — Nearly 80 transactions totaled $147 million in 2017, financial disclosures showed. Ethics experts have said the activity could raise questions of possible conflicts of interest.
► From Workday Minnesota — 6.8 million government workers represented by a union could be affected by Janus decision — As union workers await a Supreme Court decisions in Janus v. AFSCME, the Economic Policy Institute published a paper that examines the demographics of the 6.8 million state and local government workers who are represented by a union. Key findings include: A majority (58 percent) of workers covered by a collective bargaining contract in state and local government are women. African Americans, Latinos, and Asian American and Pacific Islanders make up one-third of unionized state and local government workers.
ALSO at The Stand — Building Strong Unions: Get ready for the Janus decision!
► From HuffPost — The Las Vegas union that learned to beat the House — For 65 years Nevada has been a "right-to-work" state, one where union-represented workers can opt out of paying dues, even though the union is still legally obligated to bargain on their behalf. Yet the Culinary Workers Union Local 226 has found a way to thrive in Nevada. The union now represents 57,000 workers at the majority of casinos and hotels on the strip and all but one casino downtown. Even though the right-to-work law means none of those workers can be required to support the union through their paychecks, more than 95 percent of those workers choose to pay full union dues anyway, keeping the union on strong financial footing. That is an astounding rate by any measure. The union just recently flexed its muscle in contract talks involving 50,000 workers at 34 properties.
► From Business Insider — A Tesla worker testifies that the electric-car maker stopped him from organizing a union — A Tesla Inc employee organizing a union was asked by a supervisor and company security guards to leave the factory after handing out pro-union flyers, the worker said at an NLRB hearing on Monday over whether Tesla had violated federal safeguards for employee activity.
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► From TruthOut — Unions forge partnerships with communities for the common good — This strategy — inviting everyone, whether a union member, community resident, activist, religious leader, parent, school child or elder — to strategize, prioritize, set an agenda and support one another's efforts is now known as "bargaining for the common good." In the case of teachers' unions, and the spate of recent strikes taking place around the country, teachers have not only recognized that they should be paid more but have also zeroed in on what students need to flourish — a focus that has included alleviating hunger, poverty, racism, sexism, discrimination against LGBTQ and disabled students, gun violence and excessive policing, and punitive school discipline.
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Posteriorment, el gènere Farfantepenaeus va ser descartat i les seves espècies pertanyen de nou al gènere Penaeus.

Taxonomia
 Farfantepenaeus aztecus
 Farfantepenaeus brasiliensis
 Farfantepenaeus brevirostris
 Farfantepenaeus californiensis
 Farfantepenaeus duorarum
 Farfantepenaeus notialis
 Farfantepenaeus paulensis – Gamba de São Paulo
 Farfantepenaeus subtilis

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Meaning and definitions of greenhouse, translation in Arabic language for greenhouse with similar and opposite words. Also find spoken pronunciation of greenhouse in Arabic and in English language.
What greenhouse means in Arabic, greenhouse meaning in Arabic, greenhouse definition, examples and pronunciation of greenhouse in Arabic language.


Originally from the States, Shannon Rosenstein is a married mother of two adorable children and is an attorney working in hi-tech. She and her family live in Tel Aviv where they enjoy the sunshine, casual lifestyle. and wearing flip flops 8 months out of the year. In her free time, Shannon loves getting together with friends, knitting, genealogy, Pilates, and yoga.


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CHARLOTTE – Developing more sustainable patterns of growth in the Charlotte region will require rethinking everything from the kinds of homes we build and where we build them to how we get around and where we locate groceries and other businesses. Those were among the messages Monday when a new organization called Sustain Charlotte unveiled its manifesto Charlotte 2030: A Sustainable Vision for Our Region.
In a gathering of supporters and local officials at the Square, at Trade and Tryon streets in Charlotte, the group outlined its 10-section plan for making the Charlotte area a greener place to live.
Listen to a 4-minute interview with Sustain Charlotte's Shannon Binns, CLICK HERE>
The driving force behind Sustain Charlotte is Shannon Binns, the organization's founder and executive director. Mr. Binns established Sustain Charlotte about a year ago when he saw a need for more environmental leadership in the area. Charlotte ranks 35th out of 50 cities when it comes to sustainability, according to one index, and Mr. Binns wanted to change this.
After initial conversations with leaders and activists around Charlotte, Mr. Binns convened a working group of more than 100 people from business, government, academia, and the nonprofit sector. Over several months, Sustain Charlotte compiled their input and created the document published Monday.
At the launch event, organizers handed out copies of "Charlotte 2030." A program of speakers followed, including Mr. Binns, Charlotte Mayor Anthony Foxx, Mecklenburg County Commissioners Jennifer Roberts and George Dunlap, Director of CPCC Center for Sustainability Education Ernie McLaney, as well as others representing Mecklenburg County Parks & Rec, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, the business community, and environmental organizations.
GLOBAL IMPERATIVE, LOCAL ACTION
As the first speaker, Mr. Binns said, "Sustainability is a global imperative, and is the key to the continued livability of our city, our nation, and the world. And we are here to declare that together, we can create a future that serves us all, as well as those who come after us."
He added that Sustain Charlotte's vision is "for the type of homes we build and where we build them, the amount of land we set aside for recreation, how we move about, where we located our grocery stores and the kind of food they have to offer, how we make energy, what businesses we attract, how much water we use, and how we treat one another — to name just a few examples."
"Taken together, the choices we make about these issues will determine not only the sustainability of our region, but also the quality of our lives, and the lives of our children. Because the decisions we make today determine our quality of life tomorrow," he said.
Sustain Charlotte's manifesto is meant to provide a vision of what the Charlotte region can become, and to invite community members to contribute to that vision and work with Sustain Charlotte to help achieve it. The next step for Sustain Charlotte is reach out to supporters who can help translate the vision document into action.
Said Mayor Foxx: "What's most important about this is citizens coming together to say, 'We want a sustainable community, and we're going to do what it takes to get there.'"
Mayor Foxx noted that city government is already working hard to make the city greener, but said that citizen involvement is key to making Charlotte more sustainable. Mayor Foxx emphasized that his administration's plans for a new streetcar between Presbyterian Hospital and Time Warner Cable Arena is a significant step forward for sustainability, especially when limited budgets make it difficult to invest in infrastructure to accommodate future growth.
He added that there might be disagreements someday between city government and the policies that organizations like Sustain Charlotte promote. But that kind of debate is essential to a thriving city, he said, and he welcomed the launch of Sustain Charlotte.
For more information about Sustain Charlotte, including a downloadable version of Charlotte 2030, visit the website.

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Northwell Health deploys Microsoft Teams as secure messaging tool for clinical staff
The hospital network has also reduced time interacting with EMR systems thanks to a chatbot built on the collaboration platform.
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Northwell Health is connecting tens of thousands of hospital workers with Microsoft Teams, improving collaboration between clinical staff and reducing the time needed to access patient information.
Northwell, the largest hospital network in the New York City area with 23 hospitals and 800 outpatient facilities, began its deployment of Teams as a secure messaging platform at the start of last year.
The reason for choosing Teams was to provide staff with a secure and compliant method of text communication, enabling hospital workers to share protected health information (PHI) on mobile devices, said Northwell Health's chief medical information officer, Michael Oppenheim.
"At the most basic level, we need to provide a solution to enable providers to be able to communicate in a HIPAA-compliant way," said Oppenheim. "Standard SMS texting on a phone is not sufficiently secure, so we wanted to be able to provide folks with something they could use from a desk, from a handheld [device], and have ad hoc communications with each other."
[ Related: Slack vs. Teams: Which is best for your business? ]
Video is another key use case for connecting clinical staff. "Right from within Teams you can communicate, you can launch a meeting, you can have a multi-way collaboration with video. It enables us to take what we wanted from a clinical collaboration perspective beyond just an ad hoc texting tool."


Mel as a girls' name (also used as boys' name Mel) has its roots in English, Greek and Old French, and Mel means "smooth brow; black, dark; bee; honey; brave strength". Mel is an alternate spelling of Malvina (English). Mel is also a variant of Melanie (Greek). Mel is also used as a form of Melissa (Greek), and a form of Millicent (Old French).
Mel is alike in pronunciation to Maelle, Mille and Moll. Other suggested similar-sounding names are Bel, Del, Mea, Meg, Mei, Merl and Nel. These names tend to be more commonly used than Mel.


Lari Don has worked in politics and broadcasting, but is now a full-time writer and storyteller. She grew up in the north-east of Scotland, and lives in Edinburgh. She is the author of more than 20 children's books for all ages from picture books and early readers to middle-grade adventures and teen thrillers. The first book in her much-loved Fabled Beast Chronicles series, First Aid for Fairies and Other Fabled Beasts, was awarded a Scottish Children's Book Award. Much of Lari's work is inspired by myth, legend and folklore from her native Scotland and around the world.
Would you like to arrange a visit with Lari Don to your school, library, bookshop or festival? Email marketing@florisbooks.co.uk and we can help you get that set up. If you need help with funding, check to see if Lari Don is on Scottish Book Trust's Live Literature register.


This Sunday morning we honor "Transgender Day of Visibility" and welcome Zr. Alex Kapitan, a trainer, speaker, consultant, editor, anti-oppression activist, and trans/queer lifelong Unitarian Universalist, presenting "Transgender Faith: Moving Beyond 'Welcome' to Transformation." Phil Sosinsky, Worship Associate, and David Horst, Minister, assist. Sunday School classes meet at 10:45 following the opening of the worship service. Coffee and conversation follow the morning programs.
Alex also leads a workshop, "Beyond the Binary," at noon. Lunch for all workshop participants is served at 1. Childcare is provided. Click here to learn more about the service and workshop.
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What does "Unbiased Estimator" mean?
Definition of Unbiased Estimator in the context of A/B testing (online controlled experiments).
Finite-sample unbiasedness is one of the desirable properties of good estimators. An estimator is finite-sample unbiased when it does not show systemic bias away from the true value (θ*), on average, for any sample size n. If we perform infinitely many estimation procedures with a given sample size n, the arithmetic mean of the estimate from those will equal the true value θ*. In other words, the estimator's sampling distribution has a mean equal to the parameter it estimates.
It is easy to see why this is a desirable property: we do not want an estimator that systematically under or over-estimates the value. All estimators are subject to the bias-variance trade-off: the more unbiased an estimator is, the larger its variance, and vice-versa: the less variance it has, the more biased it becomes. A simple extreme example can be illustrate the issue. Say you are using the estimator E that produces the fixed value "5%" no matter what θ* is. Its variance is zero, however it is also maximally biased since it will show 5% no matter if the true value θ* is 3% or 99%.
Frequentist estimators used in A/B testing are normally unbiased. If not fully unbiased, then they aim to be close to achieving it. For example, in performing sequential testing one produces an estimator which is unconditionally-unbiased but which shows high bias in very early or very late monitoring stages. A part of an AGILE A/B test is the deployment of procedures that produce near-unbiased estimators conditional on the stopping stage.


The author here uncovers and presents extraordinary primary texts unique to eighteenth-century Britain, previously ignored by scientists because of their dialogic, poetic or epistolary format and overlooked by literary scholars because of their scientific content. This pioneering study traces the development of a new genre of women's writing - the botanical poem with scientific notes - and introduces newly discovered writers (Cordelia Skeeles, Frances Arabella Rowden, Lady Charlotte Murray and Maria Jacson) to the field of eighteenth-century studies. It sees these remarkable texts in dialogue with the writings of such key figures as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Erasmus Darwin and Mary Wollstonecraft and engages with popular and provoking debates on sexuality, as women's study of the modern sexual system of botany was perceived to threaten female modesty. The book thus charts the appearance of a new literary stereotype: the sexually precocious female botanist!


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More than a thousand We the People students took part in the We the People national competitions this April and May, impressing panels of judges with their knowledge of the Constitution and applying constitutional principles in their lives. Denver East High School captured the championship at the National Finals, and Miami Lakes Middle School placed first at the National Invitational. Guest speaker John Tinker said at the awards ceremony, "Meeting so many of you, it's given me a great deal of confidence that we can be optimistic that there might be solutions out there, and that you all are going to help to find them."
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The We the People program, of which Ms. Weingarten was a teacher, was the only example she cited in a recent speech in which teachers are allowed creativity and agency. As a result, she saw "powerful learning" within students. "We'd spend hours after $char_endash in teams, deciding their best arguments, practicing and polishing. We developed deep relationships with each other and a meaningful understanding of the Constitution."
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BMW G30 — седьмое поколение легковых автомобилей немецкой марки BMW 5 серии в кузове G30. Представлено публике в октябре 2016 года и является преемником поколения F10. Автомобиль построен на одной платформе с BMW 7 серии поколения G11, поэтому новая модель прибавила в габаритах. Также она похожа внешне на флагман компании BMW. В феврале 2017 года была представлена версия в кузове универсал (внутренний индекс G31). Существует также версия с удлинённой колёсной базой специально для китайского рынка под индексом G38. В 2020 году произошёл рестайлинг модели.

Продажи BMW G30 начались в феврале 2017 года.

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Retards (1930) - James Whale's early experimental film about a ruthless headmaster who makes money parading his mentally-challenged students through secondary school math class.
Who's Minding The Chimp? (1930) - Screwball comedy about two socialites who drink, trade wits and travel. But who's minding the chimp?
Curse Of The Darkened Hallway (1931) - Creepy Soviet emigre Van Puchlovsky made his horror film debut in this tale of a mystical light fixture in an otherwise cheery Pennsylvania home.
Rachel, The Demon's Cousin (1932) - The World's First Animated Feature With Sound! [This fact is disputed by several other studios in several different countries.] Tells the story of milk maid Rachel Brmowitz who has always had a horrifying secret that she has kept from her Bulgarian village - that she has a cousin who is a demon and he is coming to visit over the Easter holidays!
Ham Sandwich (1932) - A comedy of errors about a family of Bulgarian ventriloquists on the run from starvation in their native Bulgaria.
Scalpel, Please (1932) - Real-life conjoined triplets - The Lombardo Sisters - mortified the world with this tale of three nurses assigned to three different wards in the three different hospitals.
Sweet Tooth Clifford On The S.S. Ho Ho Ho (1933) - Starring Little Jimmy as Clifford, the little adorable boy with an incredible sweet tooth.
The Little Match Girl (1933) - Little Jimmy stars as the poor little girl from the famous folktale.
Tractor (1934) - The first and only American film by acclaimed Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein.
The Amazing Mr. Torso (1934) - Johnny Eck (Johnny The Half from Tod Browning's "Freaks") portrays the Amazing Mr. Torso - a magician from Bulgaria that can bring back the dead.
The Missouri Compromise (1934) - Dramatic retelling of the controversy surrounding the admittance of Missouri as a state.
The Self-Flagellants (1934) - True story. At the height of the Depression, modern day priests break from the Catholic Church to march across America, beating themselves to rid the world of evil.
Boris Godounov (1935) - Famous opera by Modest Moussorgsky - filmed before a live audience (but stopping every five minutes to reload the camera - which in those days took 45 minutes).
Sink The Titanic (1935) - Film that revealed the details behind America's plot to torpedo the Titanic.
The Adventures Of Jackboot Jimmy And Keester McCoy: Home On The Mange (1935) - First appearance of the cowboy funnymen in a western tale of evil land barons, saloon lovelies and parasitic mites.
Idaho! (1936) - Helluva state! Helluva movie!
The Adventures Of Jackboot Jimmy And Keester McCoy: Spine And Dandy (1936) - The boys come back East for the reading of the will of a rich uncle.
The Adventures Of Jackboot Jimmy And Shinny McFarland: Coeds Are Better Than One (1937) - After the untimely demise of Frank "Keester" McCoy, Jimmy teams with former child star McFarland in this kooky campus romp, featuring the new element of Jimmy booting McFarland in the shins.
The Three Hares (1937) - Manka's second fully animated feature. Things get confusing when three hares named "Harry" all live in the same forest.
Too Many Eskimos (1938) - True story about Teddy Roosevelt's disastrous National Parks plan for Alaska.
Spur Of The Moment (1938) - Johnny Rider and Shinny McFarland are city boys who buy a couple of horses and sing and joke their way through the wild west.
The Adventures Of Jackboot Jimmy: Life's A Kick! (1938) - Jimmy bravely goes solo in this disastrous story of a Texas ranch hand that joins the Radio City Rockettes.
Classic Story (1938) - The classic story of a Nobel Prize-winning novelist and his search for non-fictional love.
Aluminum Zirconium (aka Dry Times) (1938) - True story about the inventor of modern day deodorant and the competitors that had him killed.
Sour Kraut (1939) - Chester Billington's last film (and only talkie) takes on the Third Reich. Here he plays an angry German that wants to take over the world.
Barrel Of Gangsters (1939) - Directed by David Sedan. Anti-violence crime story starring a very underused Spaulding Mawkish and Wilma Harry.
Love In Flames (1939) - Producer Joseph Rothchild's epic 225-minute three-way love story set amid New York City's Shirtwaist Factory fire of 1911.


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How Far Back in Time Could a Modern English Speaker Go and Still Communicate Effectively?
July 19, 2019 Daven Hiskey	6 comments
Neikoptic asks: If I was transported back in time to Medieval times like in a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court could I still talk to people or would we not understand each other?
Contrary to what many a Grammar Nazi the world over would have you believe, language is constantly evolving, occasionally extremely rapidly, and there is nothing wrong with that, despite such individuals lamenting that fact pretty much as long as we have documented reference of people discussing language. For example, when the earliest use of some form of punctuation started to be introduced, many, like the famous Roman orator Cicero, scorned such, noting things like when and how long to pause "ought to be determined not… by a stroke interposed by a copyist, but by the constraint of the rhythm."
It's noteworthy here that at that point even spaces between words wasn't a thing. Those weren't around until approximately the 7th and 8th centuries (and are said to have been invented, or at least popularized, by Irish and Scottish monks of this era who were tired of wrestling with separating unfamiliar Latin words). It was also around the end of the 8th century when Charlemagne helped to introduce lowercase letters to the masses after requesting that the monk, Alcuin, develop a unified alphabet, which ultimately included these.
Summing up this seemingly never ending evolution and just as never ending groaning by those who strictly adhere to more of a prescriptive mindset, Betty Birner of the Linguistic Society of America notes,
The speech patterns of young people tend to grate on the ears of adults because they're unfamiliar. Also, new words and phrases are used in spoken or informal language sooner than in formal, written language, so it's true that the phrases you may hear a teenager use may not yet be appropriate for business letters. But that doesn't mean they're worse – just newer.
And that's not to mention accents and how those change over time. Pertinent to the topic at hand today, if you were to travel back to Shakespearean times and listen to the bard speak, he would have actually sounded much more like one of the pirates on the Pirates of the Caribbean than the refined Received Pronunciation accent that is so often associated with his work in modern times. (More on this in a bit.)
So with all that in mind, let's look at the scenario in which you, as an English only speaker, have invented a time machine and wish to take a little jaunt through history to observe first hand all the moronic things we humans have gotten up to over the centuries.
First, I hope you remembered to make your time machine a space ship as well. Remember, along with orbiting around the Sun at 66,600 miles per hour., the Earth is also rotating on its axis at about 1,070 mph. On top of that, don't forget our whole solar system is rocketing through space around the center of the Milky Way at around 560,000 mph. On top of that, our galaxy is hurtling through space at around 670,000 mph with respect to our local group of galaxies.
So, bottom line, even if you went back in time just a few seconds, you're going to be in a VERY different place than when you first achieved 88 mph with your DeLorean. Go back several hundred years, and you are going to need an extremely fast space ship and some good star chart data to find your way back to Earth.
But let's say you've figured all that out. After a quick stop to murder baby Hitler and a few of his top cronies (or at the least bring a wizened Mister Rogers back to give their parents some life lessons to instill in their children), how far back could you go and still be able to communicate effectively in the English speaking world?
To begin with, it would depend on who you were talking to. There are a shocking number of dialects of English in England alone despite being a relatively small area. Some of these dialects are even difficult for a general modern English speaker to understand fully if the people that are speaking them aren't interested in modifying their speech so you can understand them. Go back further in time and it would only get more difficult, with much less standardization as you woosh back through the centuries.
That said, if we restrict ourselves to more of what the upper class of England spoke, it turns out a modern English speaker could go back quite a ways before things become too difficult, and you'd do mildly better if you also spoke German and/or Dutch.
On that note, English as we know it today more or less developed from a series of invasions to the mother island, most notably the invasion of Germanic tribes known as the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons around the 5th and 6th centuries. Along with a smattering of Latin, this mix ultimately gave us a large percentage of what is Old English.
Pertinent to the exact original question, note here that the 6th century or so is when A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is set and around when, legend has it, King Arthur lived.
As an example of what you'd be facing trying to talk to someone in the ballpark of this period, consider the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (late 9th century) and the following (and note here that the "sc" makes the "sh" sound, which helps in understanding slightly):
Brytene igland is ehta hund mila lang and twa hund mila brad, and her synd on þam iglande fif geþeodu, Ænglisc, Brytwylsc, Scottysc, Pihttisc and Boclæden.
In modern English, this translates to:
The island Britain is 800 miles long, and 200 miles broad. And there are in the island five nations; English, Welsh, Scottish, Pictish, and Latin.
As you can see, it wouldn't be a wholly foreign language. In fact, it's estimated approximately 50% of the core of the modern English language derives from words in Old English. However, meaningful communication would be mostly an effort in futility, especially when accounting for accents and something else we'll get into shortly.
After this, the Vikings would also invade for a few hundred years starting in the 8th century, lending some words to Old English from Old Norse.
Much more significantly was the Norman Conquest around 1066. They firmly established a version of French (Old Norman) as the language of choice for the elite of the country.
The language of the Normans trickled down to the masses and vice-versa, adding a whole host of words to English, which starts to give us more of the vocabulary we are used to today. This and some other changes to the language that occurred at this time all combined bring us to Middle English, which spanned around the 12th through the 15th centuries, the latter of which is also generally considered to be when the so-called "medieval times" ended.
Noteworthy here is that during the 14th century, while the upper class still spoke Anglo-Norman, as this century progressed, it was almost completely displaced by English.
This brings us to the latter half of the 14th century when Chaucer was writing Canterbury Tales. As an example of what English looked like at this point, or at least a poetic form of it, consider these lines from that work:
A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man,
That fro the tyme that he first bigan
To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre,
And therto hadde he riden, no man ferre,
As wel in cristendom as in hethenesse,
And evere honoured for his worthynesse.
which translates to:
A KNIGHT there was, and what a gentleman,
Who, from the moment that he first began
To ride about the world, loved chivalry,
Truth, honour, freedom and all courtesy.
Full worthy was he in his sovereign's war,
And therein had he ridden, no man more,
As well in Christendom as heathenesse,
And honoured everywhere for worthiness.
While you might think from this example you'd be able to be mildly conversational if you and a native of the time talked slowly enough, it wouldn't be quite that easy owing to the way the words would have been spoken.
One of the principal problems is that while a lot of the words might at this point be somewhat familiar, this pre-dated the bulk of what is known as the "Great Vowel Shift" which occurred primarily from around the mid-14th century through the 16th century or so. In a nutshell, this is where the pronunciation of various vowels in English changed considerably. For example, in Middle English the word "bite" would have been pronounced "beet" and something like the word "meet" would be pronounced like "mate". This could get really awkward, for example, if a native of the time were to ask you if you'd like to "Meet later."
As an interesting brief aside, because some of the spellings for English words were beginning to be standardized before the Great Vowel Shift had completed, we still have many English words whose spellings don't really match the way we pronounce them because of this.
In any event, from all this, you can start to see why it would be extremely difficult to understand anyone before this Great Vowel Shift occurred. Given a little time, you could probably start to figure out those vowel sound differences, but in the meantime you aren't likely to recognize a lot of words that you otherwise know.
You might at this point be thinking you could get around the problem by reading and writing as a way to converse. But even if you were to find such a well educated person to write back and forth with, a quick perusal of surviving text from this era in its original form would quickly dissuade you from the notion that this would be an effective way to communicate. The way they wrote their words and letters wasn't exactly Times New Roman.
Over the following century, however, you would start to make some rapid progress in communication. For example, consider this text from the play Gorboduc, written in 1561:
A pestilent plage, a poysonous ill
Hath sowen sores in certaigne now of late:
A wood sprited hart : with a wayward wyll :
A stubborne stomache, to nourishe debate :
Blered, yea blynded eyes; a brasen brest:
A leden brayne: I recken not the rest.
This brings us to around the turn of the 16th/17th centuries. As you might have guessed from the fact that you probably have little trouble reading Shakespeare's plays and the King James Bible, which were written during this period, at this point you would very solidly be able to grasp a reasonably large percentage of the vocabulary of English.
Just as importantly, the Great Vowel Shift was more or less wrapped up around this time, meaning as long as someone wasn't speaking a particularly peculiar dialect, you'd finally be able to communicate conversationally with a reasonably large percentage of the English speaking world.
Speaking of dialects, you also wouldn't have quite as much trouble with that at this point either, as the language was starting to become somewhat standardized, with London more or less functioning as the epicenter of that standardization.
As for the exact accent you'd encounter, this could vary in the melting pot that was London at the time, but, as alluded to previously, if you were dealing with the more affluent and educated in the area, you could expect something akin to Original Pronunciation or OP, which is usually described as a mix of an Irish and American accent, or otherwise, as noted previously, somewhat similar to the stereotypical way pirates speak in movies.
This, perhaps, isn't that surprising as another accent OP is often thought to sound like is the West Country English accent, which in turn directly inspired the way Hollywood has pirates talk. More on why this is the case in the Bonus Facts in a bit.
(And if you want to hear OP for yourself, check out this great video by David and Ben Crystal where they demonstrated the accent and briefly discuss how linguists know reasonably well how Shakespeare and those performing his plays talked.)
But to conclude, while certainly there are many words you and a person from this era would trip each other up on, at this point in history you'd have little trouble communicating at a mostly conversational level. Thus, so long as you didn't set your time circuits for too far before the 16th century, you'd be reasonably fluent in the English of the age, leaving the culture shock to be the bigger problem, such as the extreme racism, sexism, religious extremism, rampant disease, poor hygiene, etc. etc. And don't even get us started on the god-awful smell in places like London in particular. (See our article The Great Stink.)
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As noted, the West Country accent directly inspired the way pirates stereotypically speak in Hollywood productions. This is all thanks to one man- Robert Newton, and the 1950s version of Treasure Island, which pretty much set the standard for the modern conception of how to speak like a pirate.
In the film, Newton, who played Long John Silver, just so happened to be from the same area of England that the fictional Long John Silver was from – England's West Country. Thus, he went ahead and used that dialect for the character. Noteworthy here is that fishing and shipyards were a part of everyday life in the West Country, and thus maritime slang was often used as well, much of which was adopted by Newton for the character in the film.
Perhaps the most popular "pirate speak" expression that comes from this is "arrrr", despite that there is no documented evidence that this was a thing pirates said historically.
However, where this was spoken in regular conversation was in the West Country when Newton was growing up in the early 20th century. Here, "arrr" more or less functioned as an expression that acted as a confirmation, like "okay".
However, while it is always possible that this expression was around in the West Country during the so-called "Golden Age of Piracy" from about the mid-17th to mid-18th centuries, it is unlikely it would have been remotely the norm among the general pirate populace. As noted by historian Colin Woodard, "[Pirate ships] included large numbers of Scots, Irish, Africans, and French, as well as a smattering of Dutchmen, Swedes, and Danes. Of those of English origin, the largest number were probably from London, then by far the empire's largest port and city."
Whatever the case, after Robert Newton's popular portrayal of the character of Long John Silver in the film and TV sequels, his accent and various things he said became more or less the gold standard of how a pirate should look and talk.
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July 19, 2019	11:19 pm
Of course, if a Yankee did go back to King Arthur's court, he would find that they weren't speaking English at all, but Brythonic, the precursor to Welsh. Arthur was the great enemy of the English invaders.
July 27, 2019	2:08 pm
What bugs me is when celebrities make up some word (or mis-pronunciation of a word), and then it spreads to the point of people thinking it is a real word. Case in point: homage. There are two ways to pronounce the word (look it up in a real dictionary), but the celebs started pronouncing it oh-mah-g, as in, "I did it as an oh-mah-g to ________", rather than the proper "It was done in homage to _____".
But all words are made up words. 🙂 The ones that people consider "official" just stick for various reasons, including occasionally that some celebrity or other uses them. Shakespeare is a classic example of this. 😉
Minor side point, if I were going to stop and murder a baby on the way back, probably would choose Karl Marx. Chances are, without Marx, we get no Hitler. But sadly, there would probably be some other guy whose name we associate with evil. After all, without Marx, we get no philosophical underpinnings for Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao and a host of petty brutal dictators, but we still would have the Armenian genocide. That is assuming of course, that by murdering baby Karl, we don't set off some chain of events resulting in the utter destruction of the world, which, for some reason, seems more likely that setting of a chain of events that ushers in a greater utopia than we have today.
Oh, and Bill Bryson has a good book on English, and he said that the upper crust of the Revolutionary War period would sound a lot like Yosemite Sam or a caricature of a hillbilly from Appalachia.
December 1, 2019	1:21 pm
Once you radically change history like that, it will end up with a lot of people living who would otherwise have died early, a lot of people moving who would otherwise have stayed put ,and a lot of people staying put who would otherwise have moved. This would have completely altered the marriage and birth time lines. You would almost certainly never have been born.
David Dodds
Loved "rant" on time travel logistics. That was awesome! Simon, Daven, well-done gents!


Committee of 100 Survey Reveals Rare Glimpse into China's Hopes and Fears.
PASADENA, Calif. -- A new survey conducted by The Committee of 100 (C-100), a national non-partisan, non-profit Chinese-American cultural-exchange advocacy organization, reveals that, despite growing mistrust, citizens from both nations acknowledge the need for improved political and business cooperation and diplomacy. The C-100 study provides insight into a broad swath of U.S. and Chinese perceptions of U.S.-China relations and compares them to its similar 2007 "mirror" survey.
"We will use this study to advocate for constructive relationship-building between the peoples of the U.S. and China and to further promote education, diplomacy, and leadership development," said Dominic Ng, C-100 Chairman and Chairman and CEO of Los-Angeles-based East West Bank. "It is a unique survey due to its large sample size of everyday Chinese citizens, comprehensive questions, and the apparent willingness of the Chinese public and key Chinese business and opinion leaders to express their views on controversial topics and areas of unease."
The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive in the United States and Horizon Research Consultancy Group in China, and titled "U.S.-China Public Perceptions Opinion Survey 2012,"1 compares the views of American and Chinese public and elites (business and opinion leaders). This study measures significant shifts in U.S. and Chinese attitudes since 2007 on high-impact economic, political, and security issues, including bilateral trade and investment, U.S. military presence in the Asia Pacific, and China's emergence as a military and economic global power.
* The Chinese public (58.4%) believes China will overtake the U.S. and become the world's leading superpower in twenty years. In contrast, Chinese business and opinion leaders are skeptical about China's global role, with only 37% and 23.1%, respectively, considering superpower status a likely scenario.
* While the Chinese elite and the U.S. public still believe the U.S. will be the leading superpower in twenty years, U.S. confidence in its global role since 2007 has dropped to 47% from 69% among U.S. business leaders, and 62% to 55% among U.S. opinion leaders.
* Chinese elites and the public are increasingly willing to criticize their own government openly, and feel much more negatively than they did in 2007. Chinese business leaders (54.3%) negatively rate the Chinese government's handling of bilateral relations with the U.S. - up from 19%, opinion leaders give a 74.5% negative rating - up from 37%, and the public gives a 36.3% rating - up from 27%.
* The U.S. is doing a fair to poor job of handling relations with China, according to the majority of both countries' publics and elites. Reaction is most negative among Chinese elites, with 71.8% of opinion leaders rating the U.S. as fair to poor - up from 66% in 2007 - while 66.5% of business leaders give a low rating - up from 50%.
* Over 80% of U.S. business and opinion leaders consider China's emergence as a military power a potential or serious threat. Roughly 40% of all Chinese respondents think the U.S. military presence in the Asia Pacific region will only create tension among stakeholders.
* Over 50% of the American public and elites believe the U.S. should trust China "little" or "not at all." Over 50% of the Chinese public and elite think the United States is not trustworthy.
* Approximately two-thirds of U.S. business and opinion leaders see China's emergence as a global economic power as a serious or potential threat to the U.S. In contrast, a similar proportion of China's elites has positive feelings and believes that China is an economic partner with the U.S. or no threat at all. Just under one-third of U.S. elites view China as an economic partner.
* Poor intellectual property rights protection ranks first among U.S. business leaders' top concerns about doing business in China (81% up from 69%). In contrast, less than half of China's business leaders consider intellectual property rights protection policy to have a negative impact on foreign investment.
* U.S. and Chinese elites each think the media of the other country does not report accurately on its counterpart, with over 55% of U.S. elites and 60% of China elites holding this belief. More than 50% of both countries' publics are also unconvinced they are getting accurate information.
The study concludes that improving international trust through greater public diplomacy, educational exchange, and leadership initiatives will be instrumental in effectively easing international tensions and nurturing common interests. Identification of actionable opportunities for collaboration and trust-building will continue at the C-100's 21st Annual Conference which begins today in Pasadena, California.
"We are very pleased to share this important survey with the world, our members, and friends today at our annual conference," concluded Mr. Ng.
For more information and to access an interactive version of the study, please visit: http://survey.committee100.org Follow us on Twitter:@Committee100. More information is available via our hashtag: #C100Survey.
1 The U.S. portion of this survey was conducted by phone within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of The Committee of 100 from December 14, 2011 and January 31, 2012 among 1,400 U.S. adults--1,000 among the general population and 400 across various business executives, opinion leaders, and Congressional staffers. Results were weighted to reflect the U.S. adult population. The margin of error for the U.S. general population is +/- 3.0, and between +/- 6.2 and 16.2 for the other U.S. participants.
The Chinese public portion of this survey was conducted through face-to-face interviews with a general population sample of 3,775 Chinese adults aged 18-60 within China by Horizon Research Consultancy between December 17 and December 27, 2011. The sample was constructed using a multistage random sampling method, including respondents from 12 prefectural-level cities, 12 towns, and 12 villages. Horizon Research conducted face-to-face and telephone interviews with 162 business elites in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhuo between December 12, 2011 and January 16, 2012. The sample was based on executives and senior level decision makers from corporations in different industries and of different types of ownership. In the same time period and cities, Horizon Research conducted 216 face-to-face interviews with opinion leaders. The margin of error for the Chinese general population is +/- 1.7 and not available for the business and opinion leaders.
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Mario Basdescu Rosewater Spray - DOES IT WORK?
You've seen the spray, you're tempted to join the hype - but you're not sure if it actually works. The Mario Badescu Facial Spray is packed with Aloe Herbs & Rosewater, it's supposedly a refreshing, hydrating mist for all skin types.It can be utilised as a primer mist or setting spray for make-up and to help revive dehydrated skin.
Incorporated into my new make-up routine, I use this spray before applying any form of make-up to my skin. I'd recommend 2-3 sprays on clean, dry skin. Allow the spray a few minutes to dry and begin to apply your make-up. Once your make-up has been applied, spritz your skin with the spray again, until your entire face has been kissed by it. Do not drown your face in this spray, hold the bottle 30cm from your face so it acts as a light mist.


The five highest performing cloud computing stocks year-to-date on the Cloud Computing Index are Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), Qualys (NASDAQ: QYLS), CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA), Workday (NYSE:WDAY), and NetSuite (NYSE:N).
A $10K investment in Workday shares made on January 2nd of this year is worth $15,509.00 as of the market close on Friday December 27th, and $10K invested in Amazon shares for the same time period is worth $15,471.00.
Please see the full Cloud Computing Index for market caps, average volumes, 52-week high and low share prices, Earnings per Share, Price/Earnings Ratio, and Beta. I am using the Google Finance Portfolio option to track the performance of these stocks. For information on how this index was created, see the description at the end of this post. I do not hold equity positions or work for any of the companies mentioned in this blog post or included in the Cloud Computing Index. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading.
Year-to-date performance of the Cloud Computing Index compared to NetSuite, Salesforce, IBM, Oracle and SAP is shown below. This index has been up 13.19% YTD, with NetSuite (NYSE:N) up 47.46%, Salesforce (NYSE:CRM) up 29.57%, IBM (NYSE:IBM) down 3.37%, Oracle (NYSE:ORCL) up 13.55% and SAP (NYSE:SAP) up 6.74%. Please click on the graphic to expand for easier reading.
I used The Cloud Times 100 as the basis of the index, selecting nineteen companies all of which are publically traded. The latest edition of the Cloud Computing Index is shown here. The filter applied to these companies is that 50% or more of their revenues are generated from cloud-based applications, infrastructure and services.


T here is a feeling of optimism surrounding the Lake Linden-Hubbell boys basketball team. That may be surprising, considering the Lakes are coming off their worst season since 2010-11.
Carter Crouch (pictured) and the Lakes return all five starters from last season. They are looking to take advantage of that experience.
The optimism, in part, can be credited to last season's failures. The Lakes started four sophomores and one junior, but found themselves competitive in several games. The added experience will help the Lakes to improve on a disappointing 4-17 record; especially since the conference has seen a lot of graduated talent.
The core group of returning players has seen their share of success. The junior group, led by Carter Crouch, Cole Gregoire, Caleb Gregoire, and Jessie Hill have been playing together since they were kids, with the exception of one year when Crouch played on the varsity team as a freshman. Ben Wilson, a senior, transferred into the district as an eighth grader, and has assimilated into the close-knit group rather seamlessly. This group won 15 games on the junior varsity, so the potential is there. Taking the next step, however, will prove crucial to just how successful the Lakes are this season.
On a typical summer morning, you could find the four juniors and one senior in the gym, along with some JV and junior high players. They ran through dribbling and shooting drills and finished with pickup games every day. Most players were there for every one of those days, preparing for the upcoming season well beforehand. The time to perform is here, and it is clear that this group is poised to make some big strides.
Crouch and Wilson have assumed the roles of leaders on the team, with both of them taking vocal roles at practice. They can both be heard giving their teammates instructions and criticisms during practice, and it is evident that the team respects their roles.
Leadership will be a key factor on a team that battled issues with communication early on this year. Kumpula has emphasized the importance of communicating with teammates both during practice and in game situations.
A ten win improvement from year to year sounds like a bold prediction, but Kumpula sees it as a real possibility.
A 10-win improvement from year to year sounds like a bold prediction, but Kumpula sees it as a real possibility.
It would appear to be a perfect storm in Lake Linden this year; an experienced team with a lot of talent, in a conference that has lost a lot of great players to graduation.
Whether or not the Lakes can bring it together will be key. However, Crouch and company feel like they have as good of a shot as anyone.


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Bass Zone, Northern || Bass Zone, Southern || Green Bay || Green Bay - Lake Michigan line || Lake Michigan || Lake Michigan Tributaries || Lake Winnebago System || Lower Wisconsin || Major Green Bay Tributaries || Mid Lake Reef Conplex || Panfish || Mississippi River || Rough Fish || Trout Streams ||Wisconsin-Iowa Boundary Waters || Wisconsin-Michigan Boundary Waters || Wisconsin-Minnesota Boundary Waters
Bass Zone, Northern - All waters north of a line following State Highway 77, from its bridge over the St. Croix river east to State Highway 27, south on State Highway 27 to State Highway 64, east on State Highway 64 to its terminus in the city of Marinette and continuing due east to the shore of Green Bay and all waters north of State Highway 29 from its bridge over the Fox river east to its terminus is the city of Kewaunee and continuing due east to the shore of Lake Michigan.
Bass Zone, Southern - All waters south of a line following State Highway 77, from its bridge over the St. Croix river east to State Highway 27, south on State Highway 27 to State Highway 64, east on State Highway 64 to its terminus in the city of Marinette and continuing due east to the shore of Green Bay and all waters north of State Highway 29 from its bridge over the Fox river east to its terminus is the city of Kewaunee and continuing due east to the shore of Lake Michigan.
Green Bay - means those waters of Lake Michigan located to the west of the Green Bay-Lake Michigan line. For the purposes of Wisconsin Administrative Code NR 20.20, Green Bay shall mean Green Bay, Sturgeon Bay, Sawyer's Harbor, the Sturgeon Bay ship canal from Sturgeon Bay to a line located in the NE 1/4 of the NW 1/4, section 22, T27N, R26E, Door county, commencing at a point on the southwest shore of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal directly beneath the center of the Wisconsin public service company power line and extending in a northeasterly direction beneath and parallel to the center of the power line to a point on the northeast shore of the ship canal and the Fox river from its mouth up to the dam at DePere. For purposes of this chapter, "Green Bay "does not include that portion of Green Bay bounded by the mouth of the Menominee river on the west, the "government pier "or breakwall on the south, the "lighthouse pier "or breakwall on the north, and a line connecting the eastern-most points of those breakwalls on the east.
Green Bay-Lake Michigan line - means a line commencing at the northwest side of the Northport dock where it joins the shoreline in section 33, T33N, R29E; then running northeasterly to the range light (signal light) on Plum island; then running along the north and west shore of Plum island to the U.S. coast guard station; then running northerly to the southwesterly point on Shellswick dock, which is located on Lobdell's point on Washington island; then running along Shellswick dock to the shoreline of Lobdell's point; then running along the west shore of Washington island to Boyer's Bluff light; then running north to its terminus at the Wisconsin-Michigan boundary line.
Lake Michigan - means those waters of Lake Michigan located east of the and those waters of the Sturgeon Bay ship canal east of a line located directly beneath the center of the Wisconsin public service company power lines.
Lake Michigan tributaries - means the Pike river and its tributaries, Kenosha and Racine counties; Kewaunee river and its tributaries excluding Little Scarboro, Scarboro, Roger and Casco creeks, Kewaunee county; Milwaukee river upstream to the Grafton dam in the village of Grafton and tributaries to the Milwaukee river upstream to the first dam or lake; Menomonee river upstream to the Lepper dam in the village of Menomonee Falls and tributaries to the Menomonee river upstream to the first dam or lake; and all other tributaries to Lake Michigan upstream to the first dam or lake.
Lake Winnebago system - means Lakes Buttes des Morts, Winneconne, Poygan, Winnebago and all their tributaries from their mouths upstream to the first dam including the Fox river from Lake Winnebago upstream to the dam above Princeton and all its tributaries from their mouths upstream to the first dam and the Wolf river from its mouth upstream to the dam in the city of Shawano and all its tributaries from their mouths upstream to the first dam including Cincoe lake, Partridge Crop lake and Partridge lake in Calumet, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Marquette, Outagamie, Shawano, Waupaca, Waushara and Winnebago counties.
Lower Wisconsin - means the Wisconsin river including all sloughs, bayous, flowages and tributaries from their mouths upstream to the first highway bridge in Columbia, Sauk, Dane, Iowa, Richland, Grant and Crawford counties upstream from the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe railroad tracks in Grant and Crawford counties.
Major Green Bay tributaries - means Duck creek upstream to the first dam above the Pamperin park foot bridge in the village of Howard excluding its tributaries, Suamico river upstream to CTH HS, East river upstream to Hoffman road (CTH XX) excluding its tributaries, Brown county; Peshtigo river upstream to the Peshtigo dam, Little river upstream to Radar road, Marinette county; Little Suamico river upstream to CTH J excluding tributaries, Pensaukee river upstream to CTH J excluding tributaries, Oconto river upstream to Stiles dam excluding tributaries except Little river, Little river upstream to state highway 141 excluding tributaries, Oconto county.
Mid lake reef complex - means those waters of Lake Michigan within the following area: All waters bounded by a line beginning at a point where 43 degrees 7 minutes north latitude and 87 degrees 40 minutes west longitude intersect, northerly to 43 degrees 20 minutes north latitude, easterly to 87 degrees 20 minutes west longitude, northerly to 43 degrees 30 minutes north latitude, easterly to the Wisconsin-Michigan state line, southerly to 43 degrees north latitude, westerly to 87 degrees 14 minutes west longitude, northerly to 43 degrees 3 minutes north latitude, westerly to 87 degrees 18 minutes west longitude, southerly to 43 degrees north latitude, westerly to 87 degrees 23 minutes west longitude, northwesterly to 43 degrees 7 minutes north latitude, and westerly to 87 degrees 40 minutes west latitude. This area encompasses the elevated areas of the lake bed commonly known as the Sheboygan reef, the Northeast reef, the Milwaukee reef, and the East reef.
Mississippi river - means all waters from the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe railroad main tracks on the east side of the Mississippi river extending west from the railroad tracks to that part of the river following the boundary between the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota. Mississippi river includes Lake Onalaska and Lake Pepin.
Panfish - means the following fish species: yellow perch, bluegill, black crappie, white crappie, pumpkinseed, green sunfish, warmouth and orangespotted sunfish.
Rough fish - includes suckers, not listed as endangered threatened under s. 29.604 (3), common carp, goldfish, freshwater drum, burbot, bowfin, garfish, sea lamprey, alewife, gizzard shad, rainbow smelt and
Trout Streams - in Wisconsin are defined in the publication, Wisconsin Trout Streams, PUB-FH-806-202 , sometimes known as the "Blue Book".
Wisconsin-Iowa boundary waters - means all waters from the Burlington Northern and Sante Fe railroad tracks on the east side of the Mississippi river extending west from the railroad tracks to that part of the river following the boundaries between the states of Wisconsin and Iowa.
Wisconsin-Michigan boundary waters - means the following waters that form the interstate boundary water between the states of Wisconsin and Michigan:
BASIN LAKE T45N, R43W, Sec. 34 - Gogebic County, Mich.
T44N, R7E, Sec. 30 - Vilas County, Wis.
BIG LAKE T44N, R41W, Secs. 16 and 17 - Gogebic County, Mich.
T43N, R8E, Secs. 13, 14, 23 and 24 - Vilas County, Wis.
BIG BAD WATER LAKE Dickenson County, Mich.
Florence County, Wisconsin
BIG BATEAU LAKE T44N, R40W, Secs. 26 and 27 - Gogebic County, Mich.
T43N, R10E, Sec. 30 - Vilas County, Wis.
BRULE RIVER Iron County, Michigan
Florence and Forest Counties, Wisconsin
CRAMPTON LAKE T44N, R41W, Sec. 18 - Gogebic County, Mich.
T43N, R8E, Secs. 10, 14 and 15 - Vilas County, Wis.
CRYSTAL LAKE T43N, R39W, Secs. 3 and 4 - Gogebic County, Mich.
T43N, R10 and 11E, Secs. 36 and 31 - Vilas County, Wis.
CYRUS LAKE T45N, R43W, Sec. 35 - Gogebic County, Mich.
LAC VIEUX DESERT T43N, R38 and 39W - Gogebic County, Mich.
T42N, R11E, Secs. 4, 10, 11, 12 and 15 - Vilas County, Wis.
LITTLE PRESQUE ISLE LAKE T44N, R42W, Sec. 6 - Gogebic County, Mich.
T43N, R7E, Sec. 3 - Vilas County, Wis.
MAMIE LAKE T44N, R41W, Sec. 23 - Gogebic County, Mich.
MENOMINEE RIVER Menominee, Dickinson and Iron Counties - Michigan
Florence and Marinette Counties - Wisconsin
MILL LAKE T44N, R40W, Sec. 36 - Gogebic County, Mich.
MONTREAL RIVER (Including the
East Fork up to the mouth of Layman Creek) Gogebic County, Mich.
Iron County, Wis.
NORWOOD LAKE T43N, R38W, Secs. 23 and 24 - Gogebic County, Mich.
PLUM LAKE T44N, R42W, Secs. 11, 12 and 13 - Gogebic County, Mich.
ROACH LAKE T44N, R42W, Secs. 3, 4, 9 and 10 - Gogebic County, Mich.
SMOKY LAKE T43N, R37W, Secs. 21, 28, 29, 32 and 33 - Gogebic County, Mich.
T42N, R12E, Secs. 35 and 36 - Vilas County, Wis.
STATE LINE LAKE T45N, R43W, Secs. 29 and 32 - Gogebic County, Mich.
TENDERFOOT LAKE T44N, R42W, Secs. 10 and 11 - Gogebic County, Mich.
T43N, R8E, Secs. 7 and 8 - Vilas County, Wis.
WEST BAY LAKE T44N, R41, Secs. 15, 16 and 22 - Gogebic County, Mich.
T43N, R8 and 9E, Secs. 13 and 18 - Vilas County, Wis.
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SmileDirectClub said it plans to expand its reach into the oral-care and teen-oriented markets. SmileDirect will stop operations in Mexico and other countries due to the current economic conditions. It will also halt its expansion in Australia, Canada, and the UK. The company said it expected to save about 120M dollars this year due to the changes. It booked $23 million in costs in the fourth quarter and another $10 million in the first half of 2009. The company said it would focus on its partner network and developing its presence in income bringing households.
In Mexico, SmileDirectClub will also stop its operations. It will also halt its expansion in other countries, including Spain, France, and the UK. The company did not provide details about the number of jobs affected by the changes. However, Katzman noted that the company's actions were made to enable it to remain focused on its core business and improve the oral-care industry. It is estimated that it would save about $120 million this year due to the changes. The company booked $23 million in costs in the fourth quarter and another $10 million in 2009.
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Also, yesterday was a spend day. DS is sick still has been for a week so I paid our new insurance co pay for him to go, and then went and bought meds, and a new humidifier for him. Turns out he has got a nasty virus going around that mimics pneumonia, and just developed an ear infection on top of that . Also found a cute bath toy in the christmas section at walmart for 1.22 to put up for his birthday in a few months.
Well, I got a good deal yesterday for some socks. Had a $10.00 coupon from Kohls and after doing much looking and looking found some large girls socks that are longer for this cold weather on sale, 5 pairs for $11.00. By redeeming my $10 coupon it made the socks 5 pairs for $1.00. That's 0.20 a pair and all I did was dig around for a dollar in my purse. Yay for me and socks that I will not need to buy for years.
Today, was a planned spend; I needed a haircut and I used my Great Clips discount card. You normally pay $16 or $17 for a haircut, but with the discount card it is $10.99. So I got my much-needed trim that was planned in my budget.
My not-so-great spend was for two ink cartridges for my printer I updated my work history on my computer and when I wanted a copy printed out found that the cartridges were bone dry. Darn it, had to go to Bi-Mart and buy two ink cartridges, they had a small sale on them ($2.00 off each) but it wasn't something I wanted to do. I have tried taking them to Walgreens in the past so they could re-fill them for half the price but the last half dozen times I have tried it they leak and fail. I think the manufacturers have gotten wise to folks doing this to save a buck so they deliberately sabotage them to blow up like that so you are forced to pay $20 to 40 a piece depending on which cartridge you need. Bleh!
I think I am going to get creative and make a meatless meal for dinner, along with some garlic bread and a salad. I promised myself that I would start making one meatless dinner each week to help cut the costs of meat in the house and I have a small set of recipes that look hearty enough with no meat, or I could at least use very, very little meat in them. I will let you know if my meat-eater husband notices.
Other than having to dump money on ink cartridges, my low/no spend is going ok for the 3rd day of January 2018. I try not to beat myself up over the cartridges, things happen, and I have a budgeted amount set aside for miscellaneous and unknown expenses that pop up. Well, going to keep moving forward, take care everyone!
I think the manufacturers have gotten wise to folks doing this to save a buck so they deliberately sabotage them to blow up like that so you are forced to pay $20 to 40 a piece depending on which cartridge you need.
I so agree with you NoisyPC. Experience tells me not to try that again. I don't want to deal with that mess. I try hard not to print in colour, but sometimes unavoidable.
It's day 3 of 2018 and not a nickel has left my hands. The only spending was the allowable condo free for January which came out of my acct yesterday.
I spent no money today! Yay!
No spend yesterday and today unless you count DH buying lottery tickets yesterday. He is not in the challenge but he did spend "our" money.
I had free bagels yesterday and today for breakfast, one with butter and one with cream cheese, free coffee and soda too. I brought leftovers to work both days to heat up in the microwave and there are cookies everywhere, so I had dessert.
I bought gas in 2017, before the challenge started, so I am working off last year's gas money right now. I do not go out of my way when driving, basically I drive back and forth to work, $35-40 a week, no getting around that except checking for the cheapest station on my route.
Good luck NoisyPorkchop on your meatless meal.
While today was a no-spend day, I did find a partial cucumber in the crisper drawer that had to be tossed. I really hate to waste food. I have a couple of more cucumbers to use soon, but did some research and found out that cucumber is safe for rabbits to eat, so I will give them some of those over the next couple of days and save the carrots and celery for afterwards as those are not in danger of going bad. My rabbits get fresh veggies daily in addition to their daily food pellets and hay.
I plan on making waffles for breakfast tomorrow. I made white gravy today (still have some in the fridge) along with homemade biscuits and scrambled eggs. It was so good, especially with the cold weather we are having. My yogurt I made came out kind of thin, so I used some in the biscuits and will use a large amount in tomorrow's waffles. Other than waffles and a pitcher of tea, we are having left-overs for both lunch and dinner. I used some of the left-overs, along with fresh veggies in the soup we had for dinner. I also made a couple of loaves of French bread to go with the soup. Since we had a cold day (at least for us here in Florida) soup and fresh bread was a nice dinner. I also used a couple of apples and some celery for a Waldorf salad we had along with the soup and bread.
I do not plan on leaving home tomorrow, so it should be a no-spend day too. Rm and I do plan on checking on and working on my car tomorrow- hopefully no money will need to be spent on it for now. It is going to still be colder, but not raining which it has been the last 3 or 4 days- seems like forever since it was sunny out.


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The Corpse Queen (Hardcover)
By Heather M. Herrman
"Deliciously macabre and utterly decadent." —Kerri Maniscalco, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stalking Jack the Ripper
In this dark and twisty feminist historical mystery, a teenage girl starts a new life as a grave robber but quickly becomes entangled in a murderer's plans.
Soon after her best friend Kitty mysteriously dies, orphaned seventeen-year-old Molly Green is sent away to live with her "aunt." With no relations that she knows of, Molly assumes she has been sold as a maid for the price of an extra donation in the church orphanage's coffers. Such a thing is not unheard of. There are only so many options for an unmarried girl in 1850s Philadelphia. Only, when Molly arrives, she discovers her aunt is very much real, exceedingly wealthy, and with secrets of her own. Secrets and wealth she intends to share—for a price.
Molly's estranged aunt Ava, has built her empire by robbing graves and selling the corpses to medical students who need bodies to practice surgical procedures. And she wants Molly to help her procure the corpses. As Molly learns her aunt's trade in the dead of night and explores the mansion by day, she is both horrified and deeply intrigued by the anatomy lessons held at the old church on her aunt's property. Enigmatic Doctor LaValle's lessons are a heady mixture of knowledge and power and Molly has never wanted anything more than to join his male-only group of students. But the cost of inclusion is steep and with a murderer loose in the city, the pursuit of power and opportunity becomes a deadly dance.
Heather Herrman's fiction blends beauty and the macabre. Her obsession with horror began with a sixth-grade slumber party viewing of Night of the Demons. She loves prairie winds, tales of wicked women, and landscapes that look like they could eat you. Her debut horror novel, Consumption, is available through Random House/Hydra. She holds an MFA in fiction from New Mexico State University and is an active member of The Horror Writer's Association. Her work has received support from The Prague Writer's Program and The Nebraska Arts Council. Heather currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Praise for The Corpse Queen:
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"This historical thriller is dark, twisty, and perfect for a spooky fall read." —Buzzfeed
"Dark. Glittering. Dangerous. The Corpse Queen is deliciously macabre and utterly decadent. Like a well-placed scalpel, Molly's sharp mind and cool determination in a male-dominated world will slip under your skin and snip at your heartstrings. A cinematic story cleverly plotted and intoxicatingly addictive; I gulped it down in one sitting." —Kerri Maniscalco, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stalking Jack the Ripper
"The plot rockets along, greased by the rot of the dead, to a satisfying, and somewhat surprising, conclusion. If Poe's daughter told a story, this might be it." —Kirkus Reviews
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"A historical mystery that will give you goosebumps." —Pop Sugar
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"A wonderfully macabre thriller that mines considerable tension and chills from the grotesqueries and disturbing lack of ethics in nineteenth-century medical inquiry, leaning as much on various characters' utter lack of compassion as on blood and guts for its horror. Molly is appealing in her complexity . . . [and] as taken by new science as any clever girl would be. . . A winner for fans of Bray's Diviner series." —The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
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Barcelona GSE Recognition of Research Program VII
Researchers working in universities and research institutions in Catalonia have until October 20 to submit their 2006-2008 publications for inclusion in the seventh edition of the Barcelona GSE Recognition of Research Program.
Financed by the Catalan government through the Xarxa de Referència d'R+D+I en Economia Analítica / Barcelona GSE Research Network contract, the objective of the Recognition of Research Program is to identify, stimulate, and publicize the high-quality research emerging from the Barcelona economics community; to consolidate high-impact research taking place in Barcelona and Catalonia at large; and to reward researchers for their successful efforts.
The program is open to all researchers in Catalan universities and institutions. In order to participate, researchers must submit a list of papers published in a pre-determined set of economics journals, selected for their international impact and scope of reach. Researchers are then rewarded according to the calculated impact of their submitted work.
This calculation is made by the Network's Council, directed by Prof. Enriqueta Aragonès (IAE-CSIC and Barcelona GSE) and comprised of Barcelona GSE affiliated professors who are representatives of the School's four founding academic bodies.
Participating researchers receive an invitation to become members of the Barcelona Research Network. GSE affiliated professors who qualify for the Recognition Program are giving the condition of Barcelona GSE Research Fellow, and those who are not affiliated professors are considered External Research Fellows. As of September 2009 there were 128 research fellows and 68 external research fellows in the Network.
Works submitted to the program may be included in events, lectures, seminars and conferences of the Barcelona Economics community, making the Recognition Program an excellent opportunity for the Barcelona Economics community at large to stay on top of the latest research going on in Catalonia.
Since the program began in 2004, more than 300 publications have been submitted to it. These publications cover many fields of economics, including Macroeconomics and Growth, Microeconomics, Financial Economics, Public Economics, Labor Economics, Sustainability Economics, Decisions and Games, and Quantitative and Experimental Methods in Economics.
Download the 2009 Recognition of Research presentation [pdf].
Deadline for submission: October 20, 2009
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